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...from Android 5.0.2 to Version 4.3 or 4.4 as the intermittent freezes, slugs, and restarts are really getting on my nerves. When it works, it's fine - but the rest of the time it sits there and does nothing at all (other than tempt me to throw it at a wall). Google: you dropped the ball on this one for the Nexus 7...
So, it's not too bad to change the OS back, but it wipes the device, as you would expect. I want to back it up first, just to make sure. A look round the internet says that Helium is the best of the "Free" backups, so I go for it. PITA to get working with PC software and drivers needed that don't seem to communicate at all, but finally I get it working.
And it'll back up fine...but I need to "buy the full version in order to restore". 
Is it just me that thinks that makes this rather useless? It's got ad support anyway, so why make it a waste of time as a free version? Stupid, stupid...because it makes me less likely to buy the full product, rather than more.
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We make backup daily, but never restore it - so why should you 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: .from Android 5.0.2 to Version 4.3 or 4.4 as the intermittent freezes, slugs, and restarts are really getting on my nerves.
And I no longer wonder why you haven't started learning Android programming 
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Android is a damn good tablet / phone OS: it's just the latest version is so poor that's it's unusable in practice. I'm sure Google will sort it out - eventually - but in the meantime I'm going back to a version that works (if I can backup what I have...I'd hate to lose my Carmageddon car collection  )
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I have one myself, and I have never updated anything, so its probably under surveillance by Edward Snowden lookalikes. Never did try to program on it though.
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Carmageddon car collection Laugh |
that's a strange way of saying sheep pron
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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This one in particular[^] - it's a PITA to steal, and just sooooo destructive to play with!
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OriginalGriff wrote: latest version is so poor that's it's unusable in practice
I have the original Nexus 7 too and I wondered when they'd finally release a version which was worse than previous.
It often seems this is every software's destination: to continue adding functionality that is so fantastic that it is unusable. 
Anyways, I'm in the US and I have never been notified of the 5.x version and am just lucky that way. I'm still on 4.4.4.
Honestly, sorry to hear you had to go through these pains.
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The problem with making back-ups of app info and config is that some of the settings are based on the android version, so the apps won't work with those settings if you downgrade.
For non-app files, I'd just use ES3 or total commander to upload the files to a PC.
OriginalGriff wrote: Is it just me that thinks that makes this rather useless? It's got ad support anyway, so why make it a waste of time as a free version? Stupid, stupid...because it makes me less likely to buy the full product, rather than more.
Good developers and good businessmen. Never the twain shall mix.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My solution for this is to not put anything worth backing up on my Android device.
And frankly, based on my experience with Android so far, there's no valuable information I'd *want* to even give it in the first place.
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Disinfect the wounded current and take the poem by the beginner ace to the sixth bearing. (11)
The wounded are dyeing to be clean
modified 10-Feb-15 7:17am.
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"Capacitate"?
Sorry, my bad. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
modified 10-Feb-15 5:14am.
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Codeproject?
poem - ode
ace - pro
clutching at straws - Pompeyboy.
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You feel that CodeProject is wounded and needs cleansing?
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He's clearly been to QA...
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That's more a cesspit than a wound.
I know you know what the answer is. Just trying to avoid setting one for tomorrow?
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I did one yesterday!
Somebody else's turn...
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I worry that I might have made this one a little too difficult.
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Why? it only means you get to do it again tomorrow... :evilGrinSmiley:
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Yeah, you never knew it. 
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Is it: Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru? 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru
Heh.
That's twenty people, and forty sheep in men's clothing.
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Bah. That's not true, but we have put WiFi's on the sheep just in case.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
All your boyhood stories make you so damn lovable.
Which movie?
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Definitely not "One Night In Paris"
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