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Originally Posted by Gazella
Why are you hesitating? I'm getting excellent battery life on my N7 ever since I updated and I haven't experienced any bugs so far.
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I agree. I even went for the
full KitKat look like on the
Nexus 5 by installing the
GoogleHome.apk. By installing this one small apk it gave me the complete Google Experience Launcher as seen on the Nexus 5. I had to read a little and I watched one quick YouTube video on the launcher so I could set it up the way I wanted but it looks and operates great (YMMV). You also get the search voice activation if you are not in an app. Say OK Google and search pops up waiting for input.
Use the following at your own risk. I'm not sure the risk vs reward is large enough to mess with this unless you like mucking with things and do not mind killing everything and starting over from scratch.
I went one step further. Android packaged a new experimental Android Runtime called ART. You can go to Development Options (google how to unlock this feature if you haven't done so yet, a 3 second operation) and Select runtime and change from Dalvik to ART. Keep in mind
this is experimental.
The difference between the two is Dalvik uses Just in Time (JIT) compiling to compile the app into an executable when you run the app. ART will compile the app ahead of time. This means when I go to launch Scrabble it starts quite a bit faster than it previously did because the lengthy compiling has already completed. I specifically mention Scrabble because it is quite large and was my absolutely slowest, as far as startup was concerned, app. I can say without hesitation that this single app does start-up noticeably faster under ART.
Most of the other apps I use regularly I run from a widget so I think they are already running when I go to start them up.
As a matter of fact if you switch to ART it will immediately take the time and compile all of your Apps, this could take a few minutes. Since it is experimental it also means some apps might not run. I have not run into any apps yet that do not work. I have tested the following apps:
All Google Apps
AVG Antivirus Free for tablets
Flipboard
Feedly
Calibre Companion
Moon+ Reader Pro
Color Dict
Plex
Justin TV
Twit.tv
Vettle
Netflix
HuluPlus
WFMY Radar
WFMY News
Yahoo Weather
Dropbox
iHeartRadio
Amazon App Store
TweetCaster
Twitter
Facebook
Tapatalk 4
File Manager HD (by Rhythm Software)
I also use the following Widgets
Flipboard
Calendar
Gmail
Uptime
Clock
Battery HD (by smalltech)
FlashLight HD LED (by smalltech)