#Fixing Nexus 7 with Lollipop Slowness
After upgrading my Nexus 7 tablet to Lolliop, my machine essentially became unusable. Everything was slow to start, if it started at all, and I began to wonder if my beloved tablet was channeling the ghosts of Windows 98.
There are many guides to fixing this problem on the web (probably the best one is here ), but none of the suggestions made a significant and lasting difference. That is, until I decided to do this.
Put the device into developer mode:
Settings -> About Tablet -> [Touch Build Number 7 times]
Once you've done this, a new entry ('Developer Options') will appear in settings. Go to:
Settings -> Developer Options -> Background Process Limit
Set this to "At most 3 processes".
And voila, magic! Nexus 7 works like a charm.
It's quite clear that that Lollipop has serious memory management problems and cannot run well on low-RAM devices. This appears to be a good work-around.
this is fine, as long as your storage doesn't die like everyone else's seems to have