Off-Topic: Experience with Android Lollipop

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 15, 2015 at 02:24 AM

Jaslar, after many days of my tweeting in the wilderness I got a helpful response from @GoogleNexus, who suggested doing a save and reinstall. Luckily my tablet has been set to back up automatically to Google Drive, so just a couple of simple steps to launch the reinstall.

I’m glad to say that overall the tablet is working much closer to normal except, ironically, for Google Chrome, which continues to slow down to a crawl, of just stop for a while and, all too often, eventually crash. Sometimes it takes the user interface or processing system down with it. I have had to reboot twice since the reinstall - and that’s a sign that there’s still a problem.

After further tweeting to @GoogleNexus I was directed to a help page which lead to process for getting real time voice support. I haven’t had a chance to do that yet, but will do so tomorrow or next day.

I also plan to raise the issue that the failed sound output jacket, the second ASUS product on which that has occurred, has made my tablet significantly less useful than it was intended to be by both Google and myself.

Daly

jaslar wrote:
Update: although the tweaks I posted did help some, I finally bit the
>bullet and did a factory reset. (First I went through and made sure I
>had copies of any local files I wanted to keep. It took just 10 minutes
>to watch the system do the erasures and reboot. Then it took me about an
>hour to add back and configure all my apps.)
> >Was it worth it? Yes. I don’t know as Lollipop is really all that much
>better. But the reset and rebuild cleaned a lot of cruft out of my
>tablet, too, and now it seems back to its pre-upgrade stability and
>speed.
> >Some people reported happily taking this route:
>http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_tilapia. It’s a more purely
>open source OS version of Android. But that was just a little more
>trouble than I wanted to take.