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  • Re: Stiii Ticking

    From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to MajorLanGod on Wed May 22 03:13:05 2024
    On 2024-05-22 01:48, MajorLanGod wrote:
    I was looking for a cable and ran across my first tablet, a Nexus 7 2013. I got some juice into it and powered it up. Boy, is it SLOW! Not just in relation to my current tablet, but just really slow period. Does old
    hardware like this slow down as it ages?

    No.

    Machines get slower as they age and get updated, because software gets
    bigger with more features. Current software assumes current power
    processors and memory, it runs slow on old hardware.

    Another effect in a (android) machine that has not being used in a long
    time, is that it gets busy with updates and "house chores", so it runs
    slow for a while.


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    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Stan Brown@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Tue May 21 21:17:06 2024
    On Wed, 22 May 2024 03:13:05 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-05-22 01:48, MajorLanGod wrote:
    I was looking for a cable and ran across my first tablet, a Nexus 7 2013. I got some juice into it and powered it up. Boy, is it SLOW! Not just in relation to my current tablet, but just really slow period. Does old hardware like this slow down as it ages?

    No.

    Machines get slower as they age and get updated, because software gets
    bigger with more features. Current software assumes current power
    processors and memory, it runs slow on old hardware.

    Another effect in a (android) machine that has not being used in a long
    time, is that it gets busy with updates and "house chores", so it runs
    slow for a while.

    Also I think it's psychological. Newer equipment is typically faster
    than old equipment on the same tasks. When old equipment was all we
    had, it seemed good enough. Then we got new equipment, and we (or at
    least I) said "Dayum! This sucker _screams_!" But over time that
    became our new idea of a standard speed. If we then try out the old
    equipment, it seems very slow now even if its speed hasn't actually
    changed, because it was standing still while newer came along and
    raced ahead of it.


    --
    Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
    Shikata ga nai...

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  • From Dave Royal@21:1/5 to MajorLanGod on Wed May 22 08:02:29 2024
    MajorLanGod <[email protected]> Wrote in message:

    I was looking for a cable and ran across my first tablet, a Nexus 7 2013. I got some juice into it and powered it up. Boy, is it SLOW! Not just in relation to my current tablet, but just really slow period. Does old
    hardware like this slow down as it ages?

    My 2012 Nexus 7 still works. ISTR it got a lot slower when it was
    updated from Android 4 to 5. But mine was long ago reflashed with
    a 3rd-party version of Android - 7.1.2 from 2017 - and once it's
    booted up, which takes ages, it runs pretty quickly.


    I still use it for testing old apps. (It runs Firefox 68 which,
    until recently, was the only version on Android which would run
    Add-ons.)
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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to MajorLanGod on Wed May 22 11:09:02 2024
    MajorLanGod wrote:

    my first tablet, a Nexus 7 2013. I got some juice into it and powered
    it up. Boy, is it SLOW!

    I had a 2012 N7, at that time and that price it was a "must buy", it's
    in landfill due to becoming glacially slow.

    Not just in relation to my current tablet, but just really slow
    period. Does old hardware like this slow down as it ages?

    The eMMC storage was slow, even wiping and re-installing only helped for
    a few days. Current devices with UFS storage are better.

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  • From Bob Martin@21:1/5 to Dave Royal on Thu May 23 05:37:39 2024
    On 22 May 2024 at 07:02:29, Dave Royal <[email protected]> wrote:
    MajorLanGod <[email protected]> Wrote in message:

    I was looking for a cable and ran across my first tablet, a Nexus 7 2013. I >> got some juice into it and powered it up. Boy, is it SLOW! Not just in
    relation to my current tablet, but just really slow period. Does old
    hardware like this slow down as it ages?

    My 2012 Nexus 7 still works. ISTR it got a lot slower when it was
    updated from Android 4 to 5. But mine was long ago reflashed with
    a 3rd-party version of Android - 7.1.2 from 2017 - and once it's
    booted up, which takes ages, it runs pretty quickly.

    Is that still available? My old N7 could use a shot in the arm.

    I still use it for testing old apps. (It runs Firefox 68 which,
    until recently, was the only version on Android which would run
    Add-ons.)

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