Mine hung during boot, too, after I tried the update.  I got mine to complete booting after entering recovery and erasing/resetting userdata.  I removed 4.3 a day later, but reinstalled it following this procedure, and rooted it following this one.

And how is it running now?
There have been reports of problems after the update: apps not working because developers have not yet updated, nexus 7 running slower than before, etc. Have you noticed any of these?
Any improvements? Was it worth updating?
Thanks.

Sounds great.

But he does mention concerns about the "slouch" or slowing down many of us have noticed in the previous nexus 7.

What causes the nexus 7 to slow down after months of use and many installed apps? Is it the loss of available memory, memory corruption, or something else? How can one restore the speed of the nexus when new? Uninstall apps, reflash, or something else?

That's good to know. I have never un installed and reinstalled because I didn't want to risk losing all my screen setups -  even with Nova's backup. But that will have to be my next step.

Thanks for the help.

I think it may be a memory or capacity bug in nova. I've downloaded and installed several apps from amazon and the shortcut always appears on the home screen in nova. But the last 2 apps I installed have not. And, what is worse, the apps do not even appear in Nova's list of apps so I can't find them to manually create a shortcut!
 
I have nova prime and in it's settings, add a shortcut is already selected. See image.

I have a lot of apps installed on my nexus so maybe nova can only handle so many?

Previously nova got confused with shortcuts to the screen and then straightened out after an update. At that time, both Apex and adw did  not have the same problem. Only nova.

This time, I rebooted but things remained the same. Then when I switched to adw launcher I was able to find the apps and create shortcuts fine on adw. Then, when I returned to Nova, problem persisted. I emailed the authors several times with no response. Can't find a forum for nova. I'm ready to give up on nova. It is definitely a bug and only happens in nova.

Nexus 7 running android 4.2.2. Nova launcher.

I purchased "piano melody pro" from Amazon's free day app and it works fine. But when the app installed, it didn't create an icon on the home screen (or any other screen) as usually happens when I install an app and yes there is room and no error message. 

Also I can't find it in the Nova's list of installed apps to  create a screen shortcut for it. (It does appear in the android /settings and /apps). So the only way I can start it is to go to amazon where it is shown as purchased and open it from there. That is really weird!

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Jeff

Thank you. Interesting.

Sent from my Nexus 7

Thank you both.

Sent from my Nexus 7