I thought I’d report this even though it has literally almost nothing to do with lightning launcher,but I thought…
For those who don’t already know I’m running Android 4.1.1 and I can say that My tablet is used, it acts like it’s 80 years old when I only had it about 2 years. I’m very upset that a computer can last 15 years without needing to be replaced but I can’t keep a tablet 6 months without people telling me that it’s old and to upgrade. How can it be that old? My computer was at least 15 before it finally gave up. What upset me the most is that I wasn’t seeing features that I should be because nobody supports 4.1,which I think is just wrong. I don’t feel I should have to upgrade my device just to see the features when they should be available to me as well. My device isn’t that old. This is just how I always felt.
(Now here’s where it gets exciting) just a few weeks ago a friend of mine came acrossed a fortune and he decided to send quite allot of stuff in the mail. Well just 4 days ago my tablet was busted in a struggle with my browser. The volume up button doesn’t work anymore, this tablet acts like it’s 80 years old, I can’t get it to just work, I can’t root it….. It’s already pissed me off (and that’s saying it nicely by the way) to the point where I’m about to bust this goddamn thing over my knee, spit on it, and beat the hell out of a neighbor just so I can take his car and run this thing over a few times. It’s done, garbage, out of here…. I have had it with this piece of shit. It’s time I bought a new one. Note I’m starting to understand why nobody wants to support 4.1.
Well now I’m looking into a 5.2. But I can’t figure out what tablet to buy. One of the things I did like about this tablet is that it had 1 dedicated charger port and one micro USB port for otg. That’s kinda what I would like to get in my new tablet, though I doubt I’ll ever get that again because everything is on 1 port with these new devices.
This is how I made my decision : half of what I wanted to do required 4.3+ and /or root access so I thought I I’ll look into 4.3 just to avoid a conflict. But then I realized everyone else is on a 5.0+already so there’s still going to be people telling me that I need to upgrade. So I think I’ll just avoid 4.3. But I refuse to go with 4.4 just because I shouldn’t have to root my device just to get the only app in the play store that would write to my external storage on 4.1 to also write on 4.4 (by the way 100million apps in the play store swearing that they can write to my external storage yet only one was able to actually do it?), but I don’t think I’d be happy with 5.0 or 5.1 because too many people were having problems. So I’ll just hit 5.2 (or the absolute latest that’s out right now).
I know I need 2 cameras (1 for video chat and 1 for pictures)
10 inch screen minimum (if I can go 12 that will be even better)
Otg (optional)
I’m thinking maybe a 4 or 5gb of ram because 1gb wasn’t doing the job)
16 – 32gb internal storage (though I hear they have 64gb which would be better)
I wanna be able to root the damn thing just in case (I don’t feel I should have to, I just want to do I’ll need a tablet I can root)
The only problem I’m facing is that I’ve found only 1 store that will even sell a 5.0 and I don’t even want a 5.0. The highest any other store carries is 4.4 and like I said I refuse to get one.
Corey Spell maybe you can help me out here since you’re the only one I know in the community who lives near me (anyone else live in USA?) .
But there’s my story. I have some money coming in and I need a new tablet. I’m looking for help with what tablet to get and what store would sell it. I have until 6 days from the exact time of this post to find one. =-(
(it’s a help request but I’ll post this in discussion since it has almost nothing to do with lightning launcher)
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Almost nothing to do with Lightning Launcher?
Maybe we need an Off Topic area around here.
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Chris Chastain the only thing it might actually do with lightning launcher is that I need a new tablet to put the launcher on because this one is garbage.
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Josh Gray nexus 9 might actually work.
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Curtis Sylvester Jr. Remember the nexus 9 is 4:3 I hated it couldnt get use to it, what you need is a Galaxy tab S 8.4 😉
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Jay M I have seen quite a few galaxy s tabs at frys.com, best buy, and I think I found a few on the RC WILLEY website. They all had 4.4 though. Hmmm
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Curtis Sylvester Jr. I know how you feel lol but honestly you might end up regretting going above kk I can’t stand lollipop mostly and its for the most part ugly as pure sin but personally, I would go with kk and a model easy to root and flash and build on that but text me shortly I got a few ideas youll like
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Aye out the box there KK im guessing your not planning on rooting it and that? Corey Spell I sort of agree I love KK I think light lolipop is fugly in certain areas but darken it up and its lush.
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Jay M I was going to root anyway, I just didn’t feel I should have to just to get write access for my external storage.
Corey Spell I passed out. If you’re still awake I’ll text you after I grab a cigarette.
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Jay M now I do really like some of the dark material stuff is good and icons with some 3d realism to them like the black pop, rewun, materialistik etc. Icons ..too many bright flat fake toddler looking jus weird shit in lollipop lol I like old school gb when Android looked robotic like a well Android 😀
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I’ve heard the Samsung Note series tablets are good. Really depends on your price range.
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1. There is no 5.2 yet. The new version (Android M) is currently in developer preview. It will probably be 5.2, but it could also be 6.0.
2. Regarding your API level: over 20% of the devices in use have Honeycomb or below running.
3. Developer standpoint: I always try to keep the minimum API level of my apps as low as possible, but certainly not above 14 (ICS). There are some nice features in API 21, but it wouldn’t be worth to write an app only about 5% of all Android users could download.
4. Don’t go for 5.0, it’s too buggy. 5.1 would be OK I guess. 4.4 is great, but should be rooted for sdcard usage.
5. Definitely buy only rootable devices. You can extend the period of usability by at least a year if you root a device and perform a system cleanup, maybe install a custom ROM. I’ve done that to 6 phones in the past two years of people in my social environment, who said their devices where unusable. And they’re all still in use by now.
6. Don’t buy a new device just because people say so. Buy a new device because you feel like your old one doesn’t do it’s job anymore.
7. It’s often cheaper to buy a device with low internal storage and an sd-slot. You can then extend it to your needs with a sdcard.
8. 15 year old PC? Wow, I couldn’t stand that. That’s almost as old as me…
9. A bigger RAM (especially for a tablet) seems like a good choice to me.
10. That’s all for the moment 😉
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Lukas Morawietz my mom’s friend bought a dell pc back when I was in my early 20s. They finally decided to buy a new one when I was 30. I’m going on 33 in a few months and the computer finally quit working 2 years ago so it was about 15 years old at least.
I was thinking a 16gb internal anyway but I figured a 32 would be better for the extra storage. It’s not important to get a 32 but it looks like a good idea.
I thought the latest out right now was 5.2 but hmm I couldn’t find anyone who would sell a 5.1 and Amazon was the only place that sold a 5.0.
If I get stuck with a stock 4.4 then whatever. I’m just going to root it anyway so the external storage issue won’t be an issue.
As for the ram my response is YES PLEASE. 1gb of ram is bullshit and I’m a moron for even allowing myself to think it wasn’t. I guess I just wanted a tablet so bad that I didn’t think that it would be an issue. At the time though it was either this or a zeki with only 500mb ram.
This tablet still works but it acts like it needs a walker just to do 1 simple thing and the volume control is gone.
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Curtis Sylvester Jr. Personally I’d look for a Note Pro 12.2 on 4.4.4. We haven’t really had any big tablet releases recently so I doubt you will find any running lollipop but most 4.4.4 devices should have an update.
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James Coyle I just looked into the note pro and it looks nice. I did see that it had a resistive touchscreen as opposed to capacitive. And with my experience with resistive I’m not sure I like that. Anything that touches the screen can set it off and my first “smart phone” would accidently dial numbers while in my pocket. I tried putting a case on it and even that was setting the thing off. Plus if you press hard enough you can Crack the screen.
Of course I was 28 when I had my list resistive touchscreen so they may have fixed issues like that since.
In today’s day and age it may actually benefit. I don’t know yet but it is something I’ll consider.
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