Is it worth upgrading to Kit Kat ?

[Deeko]

Which model? 2012, 2013, or 2103?

2013 16GB WiFi

 

[Eug]

Yeah, I think most of us complaining about Kit Kat on the Nexus 7 have the 2012 model.

I suspect it may be memory, because the 2012 has only 1 GB RAM, whereas the 2013 has 2 GB. 2 GB seems to be the sweet spot for Android. It could also be the CPU though.

I don't know what hardware the 2103 model has.

 

[sweenish]

Those complaining about the dialer could just get a new dialer. It's a replaceable part of the OS.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.contapps.android.dialer

There's one example.

Yeah, I think most of us complaining about Kit Kat on the Nexus 7 have the 2012 model.

I suspect it may be memory, because the 2012 has only 1 GB RAM, whereas the 2013 has 2 GB. 2 GB seems to be the sweet spot for Android. It could also be the CPU though.

I don't know what hardware the 2103 model has.

Part of it is the amount of memory, the bulk of the issue is the memory bandwidth and how it basically doesn't exist in the 2012 model.

 

[kmmatney]

Well - my LG Optimus Pro G on KitKat is behaving a lot better after a factory reset. Before the factory reset the phone was constantly warm and chewing up battery after the KitKat upgrade. I followed the instructions and cleared all caches, but apparently that was not enough. Now I'm finally a happy camper.

 

[MrSquished]

And being able to use ART.

I found the KitKat dialer a big improvement over jelly bean's as it finally supports T9 contact lookup from the numeric pad - i.e. type a couple of letters of a name, and a list of possible contacts appear. Sense and Touchwiz were doing this back in the days of gingerbread, so I've no idea why it took so long.

agreed. i like the kitkat dialer so much i finally stopped using DW Dialer and Contacts premium app after using it for the last 2-3 years exclusively.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

KitKat made a huge difference on my HTC sensation, a 3 year old phone with 768mb of ram.

 

[Raduque]

4.4 changes the way the SD cards work, making them more secure if slightly more annoying to use. Not a good enough reason to avoid the update, IMO.

It's not doing it to make it more secure, it's a stepping-stone towards remove support entirely, IMO.

You can get an sdfix app from the Play Store (unless Google has decided to remove it) that uses root to undo Google's breakage of the SD card.

 

[Red Storm]

It's not doing it to make it more secure, it's a stepping-stone towards remove support entirely, IMO.

Why then did all the major flagships have an mSD slot, which was not the case the year before? The security changes were needed and are welcome.