I upgraded my 2012 Nexus 7 to Lollipop and it is s-l-o-w. I mean, really really slow. 9 seconds for the home button to return me to the home screen. 7 seconds for screen rotation to occur after I physically rotate the device. 6 seconds to open Chrome. This device was already slow before, but Lollipop (or some glitch triggered by the Lollipop update) made it dramatically worse.
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You will get used for this
Mark Meyer 5GB free, so that’s not it. Mine felt pretty good on Jellybean, then felt slightly slower on KitKat and now awful on Lollipop, all with roughly similar free storage. Maybe I should try wiping it, as you suggest.
I do admit that my tolerance for slowness has gone down since I got the N7. I mainly use my Sony Z2 tablet which is super-fast.
I do suspect it’s storage related, because once an app is loaded, it’s performance seems tolerable — choppy, but tolerable considering it’s 2012 hardware.
My N7 is quite usable after the L update.
(a 2012, BTW)… So I think there is hope for yours!
I have a 2012 Nexus 7 which was so slow. Usable after I turned off Google Now but still slow in some areas.
Update: factory reset helped a lot. Still slow hardware for 2014, but usable again. Thanks Mark Meyer
Chris Dolan Chris, I did a factory data reset also and it made all the difference in the world. My tablet is now usable again!