[hellmet]

Anyone using a Nexus7 2012 and fed up with lags and slowness should give Dirty Unicorns ROM a try. It is still Lollipop but it runs very very fast and lag-free. There was an occasional crash the first few hours of setting up but it is quite stable now. I'm so glad I can have Lollipop on such an "old" device without having to suffer the lags.

[civic-sense]

My nexus 7 2012 was extremely slow and laggy. I searched around amd found a rom which makes use of f2fs. I rooted, installed recovery, installed the rom, gapps, and to my it didnt boot. I rebooted to recovey, but it refused to move beyond the bootloader. Tried flashing recovery again, but ended with error. Tried flashing a stock rom, but it failed while writing to boot. Finally the power drained and it stopped charging too. So I have my own brick now. My first brick in more than a 100 rom flashings. Sigh!

[mercedised]

Originally Posted by civic-sense

My nexus 7 2012 was extremely slow and laggy. I searched around amd found a rom which makes use of f2fs. I rooted, installed recovery, installed the rom, gapps, and to my it didnt boot. I rebooted to recovey, but it refused to move beyond the bootloader. Tried flashing recovery again, but ended with error. Tried flashing a stock rom, but it failed while writing to boot. Finally the power drained and it stopped charging too. So I have my own brick now. My first brick in more than a 100 rom flashings. Sigh!

Did you try spflash tools for flashing the stock ROM? It should do the task. You can charge battery after removing it from phone in a DOG charger.

[civic-sense]

Originally Posted by mercedised

Did you try spflash tools for flashing the stock ROM? It should do the task. You can charge battery after removing it from phone in a DOG charger.

Well, the nexus has a non-removable battery. But maybe I'd try to pry it open. BTW, what is DOG charger?

[mercedised]

Originally Posted by civic-sense

Well, the nexus has a non-removable battery. But maybe I'd try to pry it open. BTW, what is DOG charger?

That external charger in which we remove the battery from mobile and charge through this charger. It is known by many names, Universal mobile battery charger/Dog charger/Jadoo charger.

BTW, you did'nt answered if you tried flashing via spflash tools?

[hellmet]

Originally Posted by civic-sense

My nexus 7 2012 was extremely slow and laggy. I searched around amd found a rom which makes use of f2fs. I rooted, installed recovery, installed the rom, gapps, and to my it didnt boot. I rebooted to recovey, but it refused to move beyond the bootloader. Tried flashing recovery again, but ended with error. Tried flashing a stock rom, but it failed while writing to boot. Finally the power drained and it stopped charging too. So I have my own brick now. My first brick in more than a 100 rom flashings. Sigh!

Strange. To me, Nexus devices are almost unbrickable. Would you mind if I gave it a try? If you know someone who's heading to Hyderabad, I'd be happy to pick it up and try bringing it back to life, as a challenge.

I tried F2FS and went back to EXT4 for Dirty Unicorns ROM. Did you also format /system as F2FS ?

(I've had my fair share of bricked devices in my history, ranging from a Moto G to a Kindle Fire)

[civic-sense]

Originally Posted by mercedised

That external charger in which we remove the battery from mobile and charge through this charger. It is known by many names, Universal mobile battery charger/Dog charger/Jadoo charger.

BTW, you did'nt answered if you tried flashing via spflash tools?

No. I used the flash_all script that came with the stock rom. Since the nexus came without a removable battery, I doubt whether there would be any external battery chargers available for it.

Originally Posted by hellmet

Strange. To me, Nexus devices are almost unbrickable. Would you mind if I gave it a try? If you know someone who's heading to Hyderabad, I'd be happy to pick it up and try bringing it back to life, as a challenge.

I tried F2FS and went back to EXT4 for Dirty Unicorns ROM. Did you also format /system as F2FS ?

(I've had my fair share of bricked devices in my history, ranging from a Moto G to a Kindle Fire)

Yes, I used TWRP to convert the data and cache partitions to f2fs. After flasing the custom rom (optipop), on booting, it sat at the boot animation for quite long. I connected to comp to see the logcat but it showed "waiting for device". So I reset it. After that it wudnt move beyond the bootloader.

Let me see if I can find somebody traveling to hyd.

[bluevolt]

Every now and then I am suffering from insufficient storage problem on by HTC Desire 816. Though I have 16GB SD card, the 4GB internal memory fills up so fast that even updating normal apps triggers the insufficient storage error. I havent installed any games. most of the apps are moved to sd card. All data, music, photos, movies are on sd card. I don't understand how 4gb space is being used up so quickly that I have to factory reset the phone deleting all apps to make space again.

Any pointers?

[Rajeevraj]

Originally Posted by bluevolt

Every now and then I am suffering from insufficient storage problem on by HTC Desire 816. Though I have 16GB SD card, the 4GB internal memory fills up so fast that even updating normal apps triggers the insufficient storage error. I havent installed any games. most of the apps are moved to sd card. All data, music, photos, movies are on sd card. I don't understand how 4gb space is being used up so quickly that I have to factory reset the phone deleting all apps to make space again.

Any pointers?

I had a similar problem on my nexus 4. Although I cleaned and deleted a lot of stuff, I was always short on memory. Tried cleaning apps like clean master. Did not really help. Then I tried an app File Manager by cheetah mobile. This had a storage analyzer and threw up a lot of Google folders taking gb's of space. Could not figure how important they were, but went ahead and deleted. Did not face any issues and was able to recover 4gb of space.

[bluevolt]

Originally Posted by Rajeevraj

I had a similar problem on my nexus 4. Although I cleaned and deleted a lot of stuff, I was always short on memory. Tried cleaning apps like clean master. Did not really help. Then I tried an app File Manager by cheetah mobile. This had a storage analyzer and threw up a lot of Google folders taking gb's of space. Could not figure how important they were, but went ahead and deleted. Did not face any issues and was able to recover 4gb of space.

Installed that app and analysed the space. have a look at the screenshot. The maximum sized folder is around 170+ mb. Still unable to make out how 4 gb is almost occupied.

[tbppjpr]

Originally Posted by bluevolt

Installed that app and analysed the space. have a look at the screenshot. The maximum sized folder is around 170+ mb. Still unable to make out how 4 gb is almost occupied.

Follow these steps:

Go in Settings>Storage (steps in plain android, may differ in HTC interface)
It will take few seconds to show up which part of the phone has occupied how much space. Scroll down and note how much space 'cache' has occupied. If you tap on 'cache', it will warn to clear it, click yes/ok. It should free up significant space for you if you haven't done it in the recent past.

You can also give a try to formatting the cache. Try to google steps for accessing boot menu and cache formatting options for your device.

Also look out if you have imported data via Bluetooth, that usually comes and stores in the internal memory.

[landcruiser123]

Does anyone know an app that can play my music (which on the SD card) through FM Radio so that I can share with others and car's Radio? ( This is similar to what my old Nokias used to have)

Yes, dad's 2007 Innova has no BT/AUX in the stock system and my FM transmitter is dead.

[rajivr1612]

Originally Posted by tbppjpr

.

Hi, quoting to get your attention.

I had asked this query earlier but didn't get any reply.

Whenever I download books from Google playbooks on my galaxy tab s, I am able to read it offline.

But on my new Lenovo A6000+ I am not able to read offline.

Could you throw some light please?

[Rajeevraj]

Originally Posted by bluevolt

Installed that app and analysed the space. have a look at the screenshot. The maximum sized folder is around 170+ mb. Still unable to make out how 4 gb is almost occupied.

Sorry that was not helpful for you. In my case that Android folder showed several gb's and I was able to clear up from it. Another culprit was the forumrunnerteambhp folder which showed cached images worth 1.5 gb.

Not sure if the fact that the nexus 4 runs stock Android makes a difference as to how the storage analysis is done.

[tbppjpr]

Originally Posted by rajivr1612

Whenever I download books from Google playbooks on my galaxy tab s, I am able to read it offline.

But on my new Lenovo A6000+ I am not able to read offline.

I don't use google books so NIL experience on that topic but as per my understanding, you will have to finish up downloading on the device you want to to read on.

Make sure full downloading of the book has finished up on your Lenovo, if its partially downloaded then might be you face issues in accessing offline.

Another reason I can guess maybe the troubling content is the one which is DRM locked or licensed one. In that case maybe it supports downloading only on one device?

Maybe someone else having experience with books can help on this topic more precisely.

Anyone?