Nexus 7 and Lollipop

The Lamas Nexus was seriously lagging just before the update to 5 came out so I was waiting quite impatiently for the release.

I think I was among the last of the Nexus users to get the update, or so it seemed,  which when it arrived was 5.0.2. 

I set the upgrade off and waited quite excitedly for it to finish.

When it did, I thought my Nexus was done for!!

It was even slower than before the upgrade.  I tried all the tricks I could find to sort it out but to no avail.

In the end, I backed it up and restored it to factory settings.  It restarted with the new OS – not the original OS from when it was first delivered.

I put in my details and it downloaded all my apps.

 

It was much better, although it still has its moments I can work around that (terminating a certain social media app helps).

It seems that installing the apps on to the new operating system works better than putting the operating system over the existing apps.

KitKat and Flash.

I know,  the title sounds like Lamas has acquired 2 kittens, but that is not the case.  In any case Lamas Dog would not approve.  She is most definitely anti-cat!

Android 4.3 KitKat and Adobe Flash player probably should have been my title.

A good few web sites use Flash player.  There are also quite a few people that use Android devices.

There are many sites out there that will explain why these 2 technologies don't immediately play nice together and that Adobe stopped supporting Android a couple of versions ago, so if necessary, I will wait while you Google it.

Lamas Dog

There are several Android devices here at Lamas HQ.  The phones are not a problem.  However, the recent Android upgrade of the Nexus to 4.3 caused some head scratching.

But someone else has come up with a solution to make Flash work on Android, once again.

XDA developers member, Surviveland, has sorted out a solution.

The post, which explains it, is here at XDA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47961238

Great job, Surviveland!

Enjoy your Sunday.

Nexus 7

There seems to be a minor rebellion with the Lamas Devices at the moment.  A Lamas PC was giving me grief a few weeks ago and now my Nexus 7 is getting in on the act. 

While I was getting the Lamas Juniors ready for school this morning we were talking about Nocturnal animals, badgers, hedgehogs, owls and bats.  They are learning this at school.  They are both in the same year at school and therefore, are learning the same thing.  Well, you would think they are learning.  Lamas M told me that a Hedgehog is 3 times smaller than an average cat and Lamas S told me it was 3 times bigger. 

So I decided, that to settle the differing opinions of the Junior Lamas, I would turn to my constant companion, my Nexus 7, to show them who was correct.  I knew that the battery was low and had already plugged it in.  I switched it on and carried on with the usual routine.  

I came back to it a few minutes later and it had not switched on so I pressed the on button again.  It did the usual Google and then the X on the screen.  Then horror of horrors, the screen went all fuzzy and pixelated, and switched itself off again.

Oh. My. Stars.

After they were safely in school I came home to wrestle with it.  I checked the usual sources online and it did not look promising.  So I tried a factory reset. Still nothing.  But this did clear all my own data from the Nexus.  

I phoned the tech dept of the store it came from.  I had not rooted it and it was still within its warantee period. 

They asked me some basic questions - they don't know that I fix PCs.  I told them what I had done already.  

They suggested that I should just take it back to the store I got it from and once it was confirmed that there was no damage to the screen, they would replace it. 

In the store they checked it and replaced it with really very little fuss.

On returning home I entered my email address and within a short period of time there it was as always with my picture of the Junior Lamas on the home screen.

Crisis over.

Back to repairing the laptop waiting for me in the workshop!!