Since last update I have to reboot my nexus 7 every couple days to (temporarily) fix extreme slowness/freezes. It used to run literally months without ever turning it off and would only reboot itself after an update.
what version of Android is it up to? Some of the 5.x releases had a nasty memory leak bug which is fixed in the very latest.
Huh, I thought that was the one that fixed it. If you go to Settings > Apps > Running while it's slowing down is the System taking up a lot of RAM? It's about 400MB on my phone.
I'd recently been having massive issues with 5.x on my Nexus 5. If I was on WiFi it would grind to a halt and freeze, needing a hard restart (press and hold power button) very often.
I partly blamed it on the 5.x issues and me not going through the 4.x to 5.x upgrade process properly. I'd used various Custom ROMs and not flashed a stock image to get all the correct partition sizes etc (because I didn't want to have to do an SD card backup and restore).
Ended up starting from scratch last week with full factory image flash and factory reset and things have improved massively. Only occasional slow downs compared to all the bloody time on WiFi.
Need to try and check the RAM when it's having a slow down.
Mine's been great even with the memory leak versions of 5. My only annoyance is that now it's getting rather venerable the battery is beginning to show signs of wearing out, and the screen's a bit of a mess. I really hope there's a New N5 this autumn, I don't want a bigger phone and most of the third party ones don't appeal anyway even if they are smaller due to stupid software overlay nonsense.
I think my issue was doing dirty flashes of custom ROMs to save myself the boring process of backing up and restoring. I was happy with a certain ROM developer but then they didn't make a 5.x ROM for ages so moved.
But yeah, a new N5 would be ideal. Mine died in October about a week before the 12 month warranty was up so I've had a new/refurb handset since then. Definitely don't need anything bigger. It really doesn't even need a higher res screen.
I have an old IPod thingy. I think it's a Nano. A 2GB 1st gen Nano.
Anyway. The database is still intact but I deleted the music folder and now I've confused it. The Nano still thinks it has all the music but they don't work. Apart from one which I added with.. some software I can't remember. The Frozen soundtrack. My daughter will be the new user of this device.
How can I fix the database or just clear everything so I can start again?
If it shows up in iTunes you can restore it from there.
Haha. iTunes? No I don't have that.
Just delete any database looking files from it when you plug it into the computer.
Or install iTunes
Write an interpreter on an arduino and use that to rebuild the database?
I just tried that now. I deleted the iTunes folder and now there's no music showing up but also I song aeem to be able to add music with Winamp.
Possibly not the easiest solution. Not sure what is yet though. Could I also add LEDs to it?
Don't see why not. LEDs are cool.
I installed iTunes this morning to sort it out. I'm glad I did, had a 7 hour journey to Hawkhurst for a wedding. Couldn't quite figure out iTunes so used Yamipod to copy the music across. Actually I used that for the first, Frozen, then it crashed, and I dragged the other folders straight to the IPod in iTunes.
As long as you turn off automatic syncing then iTunes is the easiest way to do it.
I've ended up corrupting my brothers ipod too many times trying to use 3rd party software.
What doea auto syncing do? I haven't used my iPod for years. I think the last time I used it I used Winamp to copy stuff across.
What doea auto syncing do?
It syncs automatically. HTH.
Not sure if this is still the case now but when you plug in the ipod it will sync the iTunes library, that means that if the library is empty it wipes the ipod.
There's a setting in iTunes to prevent that.