This Nexus 7 has been a workhorse for me in so much as it has continued to work with not much difficulty even though it is many years old. It has not been without its issues, however, it was always there for me to grab it when I needed it. It’s not that I push it, rather it’s that I’ve used it for a long time as my portable device for taking notes and looking things up. I use it also for things like Termux (a great terminal shell, and much more), playing cards on break, etc.
Well it is dying. One issue is that for a long time it would not auto-rotate, and sometimes I would have issues with it reacting to touch. The solution was either to “tap” it on the back a few times or press the power button to turn the screen on and off. Sometimes it took a combination of that tapping and switching the screen on and off. Though it is still working I can tell it’s end is near.
Today I was trying to do something and the tablet automatically rebooted. Then it was stuck at the Google screen.
What I did was tap it on the back a couple times and turn the power switch off and then back on (forcing a power off). This brought it up.
It’s dying. It has served me well. I still reach for it even though I have another tablet that I got to replace it. The other works fine too, but it is bigger and requires more space when I set it down. It doesn’t have QI charging so I’m not pleased with that. Everyone should have support for this by now, but nah they just want to eek as much profit as they can.
Anyway, it’s dying and I don’t expect this trusty device to last much longer.