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My Samsung is definitely slower than it was few OS upgrades ago. It's becoming an annoyance. My at-the-time-google-owned-Motorola did't receive any updates. My

by rplnt 9y ago

My Samsung is definitely slower than it was few OS upgrades ago. It's becoming an annoyance. My at-the-time-google-owned-Motorola did't receive any updates. My Google Nexus tablet became completely unusable (like, really, really unusable, not just slow). With older devices, Android 2.x was horrible from the go, so I don't know if it could get worse (and there were only minor updates anyway). A very small sample, I know. But part of my post was to point out that Apple users can consider themselves lucky at least in the regard that they do receive updates.

bufferoverflow 9y ago
You're confusing the slowness caused by the updates (which doesn't exist on Android) with the slowness caused by the flash storage degradation (which absolutely does exist). I too have an old Nexus 10, which died from that cause, a common problem. That's exactly why I think microSD support is so important. Your old card got slow? Buy a new one for $20, copy the files over, done.
- rplnt 9y ago
  Ah, I see. Well that might be the cause for the Samsung device. It has an SD card slot, but I don't think that will help much now (good to know for future I guess). As for this > which doesn't exist on Android it's simply not true. Google pushed updates[1] to old Nexus devices that extremely hindered the performance. Downgrade made them fine again. I'm fairly certain it isn't a unique case, and Google wasn't the only one forcing shit upgrades on their customers. 1. quick find, but should be enough https://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-tablet-2012/617740-why-does-my-first-generation-nexus-7-run-so-very-slowly.html https://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-tablet-2012...
  - bufferoverflow 9y ago
    There's absolutely no way updating a few dozen apps takes 6 hours because of the OS. It's the classic flash degradation symptom. My Nexus 10 is the same. It didn't get slow after the updates, it progressively slower over a couple of years.

by rplnt 9y ago

bufferoverflow 9y ago

You're confusing the slowness caused by the updates (which doesn't exist on Android) with the slowness caused by the flash storage degradation (which absolutely does exist). I too have an old Nexus 10, which died from that cause, a common problem. That's exactly why I think microSD support is so important. Your old card got slow? Buy a new one for $20, copy the files over, done.

rplnt 9y ago
Ah, I see. Well that might be the cause for the Samsung device. It has an SD card slot, but I don't think that will help much now (good to know for future I guess). As for this > which doesn't exist on Android it's simply not true. Google pushed updates[1] to old Nexus devices that extremely hindered the performance. Downgrade made them fine again. I'm fairly certain it isn't a unique case, and Google wasn't the only one forcing shit upgrades on their customers. 1. quick find, but should be enough https://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-tablet-2012/617740-why-does-my-first-generation-nexus-7-run-so-very-slowly.html https://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-tablet-2012...
- bufferoverflow 9y ago
  There's absolutely no way updating a few dozen apps takes 6 hours because of the OS. It's the classic flash degradation symptom. My Nexus 10 is the same. It didn't get slow after the updates, it progressively slower over a couple of years.