Anyone still using a Nexus 7 2013 2nd gen

[holden j caufield]

Is this still the best 7" tablet out there? I'd like to experiment with multiple roms on 1 device and heard this can do it. Also will be getting into android app development.

Thanks

 

[Megatomic]

My wife uses my N7 2013 WiFi every single day still. I hear absolutely no complaints from her about it and if there were problems I would know about them. It's great really.

 

[sweenish]

Recently repaired mine after some idiot family water damaged it. Still going strong, and a great tablet.

However, for the price, my recommendation goes to the Shield Tablet K1. I don't know what kind of community support it has, but it's a fairly open device.

 

[Red Storm]

Best 7" tablet ever.

 

[jdoggg12]

I hate mine.

The touch input often doesn't work unless I'm holding it in a certain way or plugged in. It's some sort of grounding issue (it's a known issue with them). Sometimes it's just certain areas of the screen that don't register. Sometimes if I use 2 fingers to zoom, it registers 3-10 touches. (I turned on "show touches" in developer options)

The volume+ button doesn't work at all.

The power button sometimes doesn't work... which is extremely frustrating because I KNOW the button works. Press it once, nothing. Press it 50 times nothing. Double tap it? Camera app pops right up. Press it again to turn screen off? Nothing.

Sometimes (often, actually) the volume just goes to maximum like someones holding the volume+ button down. If I press the volume+ button, nothing. If I press the volume- button, it goes down for a few seconds but then shoots back up. This is annoying, but not a big deal... except for the fact that the device is registering that as input so it keeps the screen awake; often for the entire life of a 100% charged battery. Oh, and this is usually in conjunction with the power button not working a F-ing Android doesn't have any way to turn of/reboot the device without using the power button.

I want to love this thing. If it weren't for these issues, I'd never consider another tablet... it's a great form factor, good specs, feels good in the hand, etc.

EDIT - this all started within a month or 2 of owning it. It's never been dropped or damaged.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Mine stopped turning on... I know it's a software/boot problem cuz it freezes at startup on the Google screen. I love the tablet.

 

[zerocool84]

I still use mine everyday. Unfortunately there has not been a worthy successor but this may be the last year it gets updates so I hope they make something similar this year as 10" tablets are too large for my tastes.

 

[Apex]

Love mine, use it practically every day since I bought it used from Cowboom for $59.99.

 

[Lyfer]

Best 7" tablet of all time. Had to replace the battery but runs like a champ.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Love mine. Posting with it right now. Feels smoother with 6.0 than my M8.

 

[openwheel]

One of the best tech purchase ever. Loving this 7 inch tablet still.

 

[Evilviking]

Still rocking mine as well.

 

[MarkizSchnitzel]

Too bad I jumped the gun and bought POS 2012 edition, seeing how people are still satisfied with the 2nd gen.

 

[shortylickens]

ME!


I like it. Use it for casual stuff.

 

[sweenish]

I still use mine everyday. Unfortunately there has not been a worthy successor but this may be the last year it gets updates so I hope they make something similar this year as 10" tablets are too large for my tastes.

I think it's already done getting major OS updates. It gets a year of security updates, but I don't think it's officially going past Marshmallow.

 

[NutBucket]

I like mine. Very impressive considering our iPad of similar age feels slow.

 

[fluffmonster]

Love mine, but the screen rotation has recently locked in portrait a couple time which required a factory reset.

 

[jhansman]

Every day. In fact, I love mine so much, I just put a new battery in and paid to have a new USB port microsoldered in. Runs like new, and I don't know what I would replace it with. On Marshmallow it just rocks.

 

[vbuggy]

I rely on the N7 2013 - it's a huge part of my life while being largely invisible, which is actually the biggest credit I can give it.

I have the touch problem but it's not a big deal since all I have to be doing is holding them for touch to register. I have quite a lot lying around that I use as a general purpose thing pretty much every day. e.g. I have one pretty much dedicated to some Tasker stuff and Pushbullet notifications. I have another that I use mainly in the bath. There's another I use in the study as an all-purpose reference notepad. I have a couple of others that I use specifically as disposable / high risk (of droppage, etc) situation use tablets. Then there's ones for minimalist-work use that I keep in a not-banged-up-to-hell state... etc.

Of course, that "I don't care if they get damaged or whatever" mentality leads to them taking all kinds of knocks and still working fine while the Surfaces and Macbooks I case up like a newborn die on a regular basis

I've not been able to find a suitable replacement that ticks all the boxes - I wanted to move to Windows at one point for more for-work versatility but upgrading my HP 608's to Windows 10 have been an effedupfest and the OS is no longer pure-tablet-friendly in either case (and sticking with 8.1 means lack of access to universal apps), and other 7-8" Android tabs I've tried have either been too low-spec, too heavy or too large in one or more axis... and power-wise the SD600 seems to be perfectly OK for what I do with'em for now.

 

[Platypus]

I still use mine.

Be careful loading the 5.x factory images on it though, word is Google made it so you cannot downgrade down to 4.4.4 again. The bootloader will not downgrade past a certain version and loading 4.4.4 on it will result in a nonboot until you put 5.x back on.

Probably a good move for security since 4.4 has some horrible bugs, but for something labeled a developer device it's a pretty dick move.

 

[sbpromania]

I'm still using my N7 2012 edition however I'm on Android 4.2 because with this version of Android I'm having the best experience. Once I'm starting to update the tablet it starting working like crap.

For my daily use (Soundcloud, read some emails and light gaming) is awesome

 

[balloonshark]

I like my 2013 N7 but mine has a horrible battery drain issue if I leave the wifi on. I'm on android 6.0.1 but it doesn't look like everyone has the problem.

 

[holden j caufield]

I like my 2013 N7 but mine has a horrible battery drain issue if I leave the wifi on. I'm on android 6.0.1 but it doesn't look like everyone has the problem.

Either your wifi is constantly scanning or you've some some setting that is causing a wakelock. I'd download wakelock detector and make sure it's the wlan or some program using the wlan. I had textnow or textplus as a throwaway craigslist number running on my phone and it kept the wakelock on preventing it from entering sleep properly and heating up the phone and draining battery.

 

[yh125d]

I don't use mine all that often, but it's still running great. Certainly doesn't feel its age. I still have an OG 2012 N7 too that works fine but isn't being used currently

 

[balloonshark]

Either your wifi is constantly scanning or you've some some setting that is causing a wakelock. I'd download wakelock detector and make sure it's the wlan or some program using the wlan. I had textnow or textplus as a throwaway craigslist number running on my phone and it kept the wakelock on preventing it from entering sleep properly and heating up the phone and draining battery.

I bought it brand new, updated it and have had the problem ever since. I/we have to disable wifi completely. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...ttery-drain-android-6-0-update-using-t3230409