Nexus 7 Owners Thread - apps, tips & tricks!

wingnut

What annoys me is that it did work the first time - so I know the potential is there! Maybe FireFox was updated??

balkieb2002

wingnut wrote: »

What annoys me is that it did work the first time - so I know the potential is there! Maybe FireFox was updated??

Just checked the play store there and Firefox beta is showing "Updated: August 2, 2012" so I think your right. That's why I make sure to manually update!

Your best bet would be to try find an older apk or use a different browser (ICS browser maybe?).

Patsy fyre

Seems like a silly decision to disable flash since alot of websites still use it, surely a few years too early. What was their thinking behind that.?

wingnut

The older version of Firefox worked a treat and flash is back to normal.

Mantel

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Seems like a silly decision to disable flash since alot of websites still use it, surely a few years too early. What was their thinking behind that.?

It's either security related or a move to get everyone to move away from flash a bit faster. If all android devices still ran flash then there would be less of a reason to move away from it and the process would drag on for years, if you have a large segment of your mobile and tablet audience incapable of viewing flash content then there's a pretty good reason for site owners to put in alternatives such as HTML5.

Professey Chin

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Seems like a silly decision to disable flash since alot of websites still use it, surely a few years too early. What was their thinking behind that.?

Because theres no point if Adobe arent going to keep supporting it. No point in beating a dead horse (and when its owner says its dead, its dead)

wingnut

Yeah they all want to kick the habit, but some websites using it mean we want one last fix.

For the longest time you had RTE player on Android and not Ipad. With the death of flash on Android it will the reverse unless RTE get the finger out.

thisguy145

I currently have the nexus 7 and am loving it. Regarding games that are optimized for the tegra 3 chipset just download Tegrazone from the play store and it will show games that are tegra 3 based. Some are free and some you pay for. But all are good anyways when we finally do get the full access to the play store will we get the free credit also? Or will that just get boycotted?

jonski

Concentrating on other aspects of the Nexus for the first few days so I didn't notice about the video player not playing Avi's and the like , seems it only supports a small few file formats . I was waiting for the Android version of XBMC but there is no sign of that yet that I can see so I am downloading MXPlayer atm ........ any other recomendations ?

balkieb2002

thisguy145 wrote: »

anyways when we finally do get the full access to the play store will we get the free credit also? Or will that just get boycotted?

But we already have the free credit

jonski wrote: »

I was waiting for the Android version of XBMC but there is no sign of that yet that I can see so I am downloading MXPlayer atm ........ any other recomendations ?

There's going to be a beta of XBMC soon enough and I'd say an apk of it would easy enough to source soon after, but MX Player would def be top of my list of video players (dice also decent) and it hasn't let me down for any source I've thrown at it. Hasn't really been a definitive list of must have apps for this yet only one I know of is a camera launcher (which i didn't even really use!)

jonski

balkieb2002 wrote: »

There's going to be a beta of XBMC soon enough and I'd say an apk of it would easy enough to source soon after, but MX Player would def be top of my list of video players (dice also decent) and it hasn't let me down for any source I've thrown at it. Hasn't really been a definitive list of must have apps for this yet only one I know of is a camera launcher (which i didn't even really use!)

I only want the XBMC player because the lads are constantly talking about it on teamspeak at night using it on their Apple TV and PC's and going on about how great it is .

I d/l'ed the camera Launcher , turned it on , saw myself and turned it off fast .........

Yeah the next relevant thread up will probably be " Must Have Apps for Nexus 7 " and we will probably start referring to it as the N7 aswell

af_thefragile

I ordered this case for my nexus 7: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/LuvTab-RED-Google-Nexus-7-Tablet-7-inch-GENIUS-Leather-Stand-Type-Case-/280910895298?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopAccessories_LaptopCasesBags&hash=item41679818c2#ht_1293wt_689

doctorg

Hi guys

I have gotten the credit but cannot download the movie, it says not available in my country. Magazine and books work fine without VPN but movie won,t load. Also I tried flash player and its very choppy and has graphical errors when I tried Dino run.

af_thefragile

Hey I can't seem to get the credit because when I log onto the google play store, it seems to recognise my google play/gmail account is in Ireland and directs me straight to the Irish store even when I used the USA vpn thing... You guys know how I may get the credit to work??

Mimikyu

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srdb20

Anyone have an idea how to download the transformers movie, or too un freeze the google movie app, wont let me play or download it cause its saying i need to update the app....

af_thefragile

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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I did start with a fresh install, i also did a factory reset and tried again... Everytime I signed in with my gmail google account, it just directed me to the irish store...

Mimikyu

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bogman

if you have an existing google play/gmail account can it be used or do you have to create a new one it does not recognise ?

Mimikyu

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doctorg

Say if you bought two nexus's can the $25 be applied to the same account twice?

balkieb2002

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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Ah its not that bad using two accounts as its more or less a 2 tap move but it obviously would be easier on the one account.
To make things easier for myself though I just got the $25 on both accounts - all content available on either account

metalfest

Can't connect to the VPN, keeps saying unsuccesful... any thoughts?

balkieb2002

metalfest wrote: »

Can't connect to the VPN, keeps saying unsuccesful... any thoughts?

What VPN are you trying to use? And what method are you trying to do to get this working?

harney

Hi all

Is there any way to force the Nexus 7 to only use metric? The maps force imperial mesaurments and it is really starting to piss me off. If I plan a route in, say, France it uses Km, but in the UK (where I'm living) it forces miles. Alas I have no understanding of feet and yards, nor do I have any particular interest in learning.

Also, I downloaded a weather app and it forces farenheit as the temp

So, any ideas?

Patsy fyre

harney wrote: »

Hi all

Is there any way to force the Nexus 7 to only use metric? The maps force imperial mesaurments and it is really starting to piss me off. If I plan a route in, say, France it uses Km, but in the UK (where I'm living) it forces miles. Alas I have no understanding of feet and yards, nor do I have any particular interest in learning.

Also, I downloaded a weather app and it forces farenheit as the temp

So, any ideas?

What maps are you using and what weather app did you download?

harney

Patsy fyre wrote: »

What maps are you using and what weather app did you download?

Just the build-in google maps. It seems to pick the units based on the country you are planning a route in. No idea which weather app, I deleted it. I'd settle for metric only on google maps.

anyone reccommend a good photo slideshow app for the n7? one that plays music in the backround would be good.

af_thefragile

The WiFi seems to be painfully slow on my tab. Especially when it comes to watching YouTube videos. They take forever to load and stop every 5secs to keep buffering. Now I don't have a slow connection. My broadband speed is around 20mbps and I have a pretty good router. I keep getting only 2-3 bars of WiFi on the tab while on my iPhone I get full wifi network. And the videos load super fast on my laptop but YouTube is pretty much unwatchable on my nexus 7.

Anyone else having this same problem or is it only me? Does me device have faulty WiFi? I did the whole turning off WiFi and turning it back on, clearing YouTube cache, even did a factory reset and its still not loading YouTube videos fast enough to watch it without the video freezing every 5secs...

af_thefragile

af_thefragile wrote: »

The WiFi seems to be painfully slow on my tab. Especially when it comes to watching YouTube videos. They take forever to load and stop every 5secs to keep buffering. Now I don't have a slow connection. My broadband speed is around 20mbps and I have a pretty good router. I keep getting only 2-3 bars of WiFi on the tab while on my iPhone I get full wifi network. And the videos load super fast on my laptop but YouTube is pretty much unwatchable on my nexus 7.

Anyone else having this same problem or is it only me? Does me device have faulty WiFi? I did the whole turning off WiFi and turning it back on, clearing YouTube cache, even did a factory reset and its still not loading YouTube videos fast enough to watch it without the video freezing every 5secs...

My WiFi on n7 is fast enough, may by a problem with the actual tablet. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful in solving or problem.

af_thefragile

I'm getting pretty tired off this tablet now. The first one had serious screen separation issues and then suddenly the screen became completely unresponsive so I returned it for this one which doesn't seem to have as serious screen separation issue (although its still kinda there and getting wee bit worse everyday) but the WiFi seems to be super weak and you can'T properly watch even non-hd videos on it... Google or Asus really seemed to screwd this up with crap build quality which is probably why most people buy Apple because you don't get issues like this with their products!

jonski

Same as Droidman , my post isn't going to be that helpful other than to say my wifi is working perfectly , strong signal all over the house and no problems with Youtube .

mawk

harney wrote: »

Hi all

Is there any way to force the Nexus 7 to only use metric? The maps force imperial mesaurments and it is really starting to piss me off. If I plan a route in, say, France it uses Km, but in the UK (where I'm living) it forces miles. Alas I have no understanding of feet and yards, nor do I have any particular interest in learning.

Also, I downloaded a weather app and it forces farenheit as the temp

So, any ideas?

for the sake of estimating, a yard is a meter. but fixing the software.. dunno

irishgeo

anyone got a recommendation for a good cover with a stand for watching movies in bed?

benji2006

af_thefragile wrote: »

The WiFi seems to be painfully slow on my tab. Especially when it comes to watching YouTube videos. They take forever to load and stop every 5secs to keep buffering. Now I don't have a slow connection. My broadband speed is around 20mbps and I have a pretty good router. I keep getting only 2-3 bars of WiFi on the tab while on my iPhone I get full wifi network. And the videos load super fast on my laptop but YouTube is pretty much unwatchable on my nexus 7.

Anyone else having this same problem or is it only me? Does me device have faulty WiFi? I did the whole turning off WiFi and turning it back on, clearing YouTube cache, even did a factory reset and its still not loading YouTube videos fast enough to watch it without the video freezing every 5secs...

I wonder if there is a problem with the YouTube app? I noticed yesterday that I was having similar problems in the app, but when I viewed videos using the browser (Chrome), it worked fine...

kaimera

irishgeo wrote: »

anyone got a recommendation for a good cover with a stand for watching movies in bed?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=80018006&postcount=22

metalfest

balkieb2002 wrote: »

What VPN are you trying to use? And what method are you trying to do to get this working?

SuperFreeVPN
just using the Add VPN profile thing in settings

doctorg

metalfest wrote: »

SuperFreeVPN
just using the Add VPN profile thing in settings

Its password changes everyday so you need to go to their site and see whats the new password

irishgeo

doctorg wrote: »

Its password changes everyday so you need to go to their site and see whats the new password

thats quite annoying to be honest.

balkieb2002

irishgeo wrote: »

thats quite annoying to be honest.

Sorry the list view but it just made it easier to read like that!

1. Its a free service!!
   
2. There are many alternatives, a few free though most you need to pay. You can get a nice quick, reliable VPN for a few euro for the month.
   
3. Its not something you actually will need to use that often as you can download the applications for offline viewing.

dregin

benji2006 wrote: »

I wonder if there is a problem with the YouTube app? I noticed yesterday that I was having similar problems in the app, but when I viewed videos using the browser (Chrome), it worked fine...

I read somewhere that the android youtube app doesn't buffer anymore. There're mods floating around that have a fix for this.

metalfest

doctorg wrote: »

Its password changes everyday so you need to go to their site and see whats the new password

Sorry forgot to say that, no I have been changing the password to the current one whenever I try connect, just don't get why it doesn't work
Could it be my router blocking it?

EDIT: Also, I wasn't dissing the VPN, I'm almost 100% certain the fault is on my end

Does anyone know how I can get the $20 credit for play store that I'm supposed to receive when i bought the Nexus 7, I read somewhere that it was supposed to be added to y account when I logged in but don't see it there?

balkieb2002

brenbrady wrote: »

Does anyone know how I can get the $20 credit for play store that I'm supposed to receive when i bought the Nexus 7, I read somewhere that it was supposed to be added to y account when I logged in but don't see it there?

:eek:

ongarite

brenbrady wrote: »

Does anyone know how I can get the $20 credit for play store that I'm supposed to receive when i bought the Nexus 7, I read somewhere that it was supposed to be added to y account when I logged in but don't see it there?

2nd post of this thread. You need to use a US VPN and follow the instructions in the post. I used Cactus VPN for the 24h free VPN I needed to get my credit.

ongarite

ongarite wrote: »

2nd post of this thread. You need to use a US VPN and follow the instructions in the post. I used Cactus VPN for the 24h free VPN I needed to get my credit.

Previous post was about google music.

Mimikyu

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blastman

Hi all, I've unlocked the device but I'm having trouble rooting it, nothing seems to happen when I press Root and then OK. Can anyone advise what I should see, and how long it takes to root the device? Thanks.

ULMarc

blastman wrote: »

Hi all, I've unlocked the device but I'm having trouble rooting it, nothing seems to happen when I press Root and then OK. Can anyone advise what I should see, and how long it takes to root the device? Thanks.

What is your rooting method?

Are you accessing fastboot and sending the command "fastboot oem unlock"?
What operating system are you using. Windows/Mac.

Gran Hermano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCgvmvzqWAQ

USB OTG without the need to root