Android 4.3 Fixes First-Gen Nexus 7 Slowdown Issue

[exfileme]

Android 4.3 introduces fstrim which will help the eMMC controller take out the piled up trash.

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[house70]

This is progress. Happens all the time.

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

That still doesn't sound ideal, couldn't they do better than that?

 

[vmem]

That still doesn't sound ideal, couldn't they do better than that?

err, at least for now, it's supposed to work this way. if you have Trim enabled on your desktop SSD, it does something similar

OSes are evolving rapidly, and I think we'll see much better long-term solutions in the coming year or two

 

[house70]

That still doesn't sound ideal, couldn't they do better than that?

The tablets' users beg to differ.

 

[BranFlake5]

I'm having trouble with the notification light on my Nexus 4 after 4.3 update. Anyone else?

 

[ddpruitt]

I'm surprised that it took this long. Some sort of trim support should have been there from the beginning.

 

[jessterman21]

I can attest - my Nexus 7 has been an absolute joy for the past 3 days. Well, seems like it compared to the last 3 months of lagginess.

 

[teh_chem]

How does this fix problems? Wouldn't you only really benefit if (a) your device was never really near capacity, and (b) you did a clean install/update directly to 4.3. Otherwise, if it functions like SSDs in desktop OS's, you've lost most of the benefit of TRIM.

I have noticed zero perceptible performance improvements since I got the 4.3 update.

 

[kawininjazx]

I had this problem, then I put Cyanogenmod on it and it runs like a champ. I wish they had this option earlier, but at least someone got it working, only took Google a year to fix it.

 

[Mark Jacobson]

I beg to differ with your praise for 4.3.

My Nexus 7 has slowed to a crawl SINCE I upgraded to 4.3. Worse still, my screen now refuses to auto-rotate.

Am I the only person who finds the "upgrade" to be a big step backwards...or did I somehow simultaneously introduce a virus when I upgraded to 4.3?

 

[Mark Jacobson]

Allow me to revise my comment. I shut down and rebooted my Nexus 7 and it's auto-rotating again. However, it's still slower than before the 4.3 update.

 

[kujospam]

Shrugs, mine is faster now. I'm not sure if it will be faster while downloading or not though. I find that when my nexus 7 is downloading/updating something in the background, the whole system seems extremely slow.

 

[jessterman21]

You have to leave the 2012 Nexus 7 idle while charging over a 24-hour period for TRIM to kick in. I did that for three days after updating to 4.3 and it's back to its original smoothness.

Also, you do need some free space in storage so it has room to think - maybe 20% or so.