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I still have the original Nexus 7 and it's unbelievable how unusable it has become. I use a slim ROM of KitKat (the Android version it came with) and it's still

I still have the original Nexus 7 and it's unbelievable how unusable it has become. I use a slim ROM of KitKat (the Android version it came with) and it's still so freaking sluggish. I only use it for watching videos now, it's unbearable for anything interactive. It used to be quite nice with the slim ROMs, but at this point nothing has helped to get it back to run like it used to. 4years of light use (99% of time sitting idle).

zlynx 9y ago
The biggest problem on some of these is the lack of TRIM support in the hardware and/or operating system. After the device has written its complete 32 GB or whatever, it drops into slow mode on the storage Flash. There are ways to get the storage performance back, just search for Nexus 7 and trim.
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- depressedpanda 9y ago
  I've had great success with ParrotMod[1] on one of my devices. But the dev doesn't have the device any longer, and the mod doesn't seem to work on Nougat. This Android 7 Nougat build[2] should have many of the ParrotMod optimizations out of the box, however. It works great on my other Nexus 7. [1]: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7/orig-development/parrotmod-speed-2012-nexus-7-emmc-fix-t3300416 https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7/orig-development/pa... [2]: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7/development/rom-android-7-aosp-grouper-t3467514 https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7/development/rom-and...