Samsung Galaxy Nexus Unboxing & Hands-On - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ne8eaaGTdg
My unboxing of the Galaxy Nexus. Really liking this phone so far! Coming from an iPhone 4S and Nexus S, the GNex is unlike anything I've ever used. It definitely has the best display I've seen so far, slightly beating out the iPhone 4S. Hope you guys enjoy! If you want to see any specific videos let me know on here or on the video comments!

nice vid!.
thanks for posting

Love to see some battery results, especially battery drain while idle over a few hours (simulate a work day, gmail going, wifi off, 3g connected)

I took the phone off the charger when it got to 100% about 45 minutes ago. Now its at 80% but I had force hardware acceleration on. I really hope the battery adjusts and gets better because a 20% drain that fast is a little ridiculous.
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Arcadia310 said:
I took the phone off the charger when it got to 100% about 45 minutes ago. Now its at 80% but I had force hardware acceleration on. I really hope the battery adjusts and gets better because a 20% drain that fast is a little ridiculous.
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The first few charges/discharges on Samsung batteries work wonders for battery life.
My Nexus S and SGSII had terrible battery life on the first few charges. Was concerning. After those initial cycles, the life was so much better. Got 2 days 16 hrs on my SGSII just prior to my GNEX arriving this Friday morning.
The GNEX is on 11 h 50m now and has 25 minutes left. Charged it when FedEx delivered it at 11am mountain today. I'd say that's pretty great as I've been using the hell out of it since it arrived. I expect subsequent charges to add to the life and am not worried one bit about getting a full day out of it (par for the course - it's not a flip-phone).

ericshmerick said:
The first few charges/discharges on Samsung batteries work wonders for battery life.
My Nexus S and SGSII had terrible battery life on the first few charges. Was concerning. After those initial cycles, the life was so much better. Got 2 days 16 hrs on my SGSII just prior to my GNEX arriving this Friday morning.
The GNEX is on 11 h 50m now and has 25 minutes left. Charged it when FedEx delivered it at 11am mountain today. I'd say that's pretty great as I've been using the hell out of it since it arrived. I expect subsequent charges to add to the life and am not worried one bit about getting a full day out of it (par for the course - it's not a flip-phone).
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Is your Galaxy S II on the stock kernel/rom? I can't wait to install a custom kernel on this bad boy. Developers are saying the stock kernel really isn't that good. I'm also noticing a good bit of heat generating from around the camera during normal usage.
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Haha! nice video, I'm actually subscribed to your channel and, saw it earlier. You said you had to manually turn on hardware acceleration, is that done in developer options in the settings?

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Is your Galaxy S II on the stock kernel/rom? I can't wait to install a custom kernel on this bad boy. Developers are saying the stock kernel really isn't that good. I'm also noticing a good bit of heat generating from around the camera during normal usage.
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@nikolaittt TI's spec says anything up to 83 (celsius) is okay for normal operation (according to commits in the kernel). These things run very hot.
http://twitter.com/#!/coolbho3k/status/140314936239849472
That's 181 degrees Fahrenheit!

qnet said:
Haha! nice video, I'm actually subscribed to your channel and, saw it earlier. You said you had to manually turn on hardware acceleration, is that done in developer options in the settings?
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Yup, it's in developer options.

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Yup, it's in developer options.
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Is it the "Force GPU rendering...Use 2D hardware acceleration in applications" setting? That doesn't sound like hardware acceleration...it sounds like a setting to force apps that aren't ICS coded to run faster. Or maybe the OS is hardware accelerated but apps aren't?
Why would hardware acceleration be disabled out of the box? That's one of the most anticipated features of ICS...

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Is it the "Force GPU rendering" setting? That doesn't sound like hardware acceleration...it sounds like a setting to force apps that aren't ICS coded to run faster.
Why would hardware acceleration be disabled out of the box? That's one of the most anticipated features of ICS...
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It isn't disabled by default. The entire OS and all ICS optimized apps are hardware accelerated by default. Older apps that haven't been optimized for ICS may not have hardware acceleration, so there's an option to force it until the developer optimizes the app for ICS.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ne8eaaGTdg
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You can`t even insert battery or put cover back, LOL Is this your first ever phone?

rbs_uk said:
You can`t even insert battery or put cover back, LOL Is this your first ever phone?
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Well the man does have a Nexus S! And I remember him over from the G2 forums

Arcadia310, I really liked your video! I just got my galaxy note like a week ago, and love it. I was deciding between this and the nexus as they were about the same in price. Anyways, you mentioned toward the end of your video a comment about the hue you noticed on whites on the display. My note has this slightly greenish hue when looking at whites anything but straight on. Is that what you noticed?
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You can`t even insert battery or put cover back, LOL Is this your first ever phone?
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Its not very easy to operate a phone while looking through a 2 inch display on a camcorder.
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mike2518 said:
Arcadia310, I really liked your video! I just got my galaxy note like a week ago, and love it. I was deciding between this and the nexus as they were about the same in price. Anyways, you mentioned toward the end of your video a comment about the hue you noticed on whites on the display. My note has this slightly greenish hue when looking at whites anything but straight on. Is that what you noticed?
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Thanks! On medium to high brightness, whites look okay. I want to say mine have a slight reddish tint but its so faint that it won't bother me. All displays have some kind of tint. On low brightness whites tend to look a little grainy but its nothing to stress about.
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Arcadia what u prefer the nexus or iPhone 4s in our opinion that u have booths

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Arcadia what u prefer the nexus or iPhone 4s in our opinion that u have booths
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Right now the Galaxy Nexus, mainly because of the screen and ICS. It'll come down to battery life though. If I can't make it through a full day on the GNex I'll have to use the iPhone 4S.

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Thinking about getting it

I currently have the galaxy s2. Hows the battery life on the nitro? Cause I had the LG thrill and it sucked and so did the camera. How is that on the nitro?
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Stock, the battery life of the Nitro isn't so great. About in the neighborhood of 8hrs with medium usage. If you don't mind rooting, debloating and tweaking than you can get better results.
The 8mp camera on the Nitro is decent to good. Sharpness, saturation and white balance are about on par with any other higher-end phone. The negative though is it can take up to 6 seconds from 1st shot before you can take the next shot...So this is NOT an action capable camera.
There's another thread with literally the EXACT same subject line as this new thread created, with the last word being the only difference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422642
Have a look around first, you'll notice many of your questions have already been addressed
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Stock, the battery life of the Nitro isn't so great. About in the neighborhood of 8hrs with medium usage. If you don't mind rooting, debloating and tweaking than you can get better results.
The 8mp camera on the Nitro is decent to good. Sharpness, saturation and white balance are about on par with any other higher-end phone. The negative though is it can take up to 6 seconds from 1st shot before you can take the next shot...So this is NOT an action capable camera.
There's another thread with literally the EXACT same subject line as this new thread created, with the last word being the only difference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422642
Have a look around first, you'll notice many of your questions have already been addressed
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I wouldn't say 6 seconds, dat's a little steep, but definitely not instantaneous; ballpark i say is somewhere around 3 seconds shutter lag, but that might be due to the crappy 16GB class 2 SD Card that comes with most of the P930.
No lag on Class 4 sdcard, rooted, hard reset and debloated.
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No lag on Class 4 sdcard, rooted, hard reset and debloated.
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are you referring to the camera?
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are you referring to the camera?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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what does that cut the shutter lag to? have you tried a faster card than class 4?
I have a class 4 and it takes 2-3 seconds between pictures.
sounds like the class 4 takes a little more than a second off the process. i'm getting ~4 seconds shutter refresh on indoor well-lit snaps, maybe a bit quicker outdoors in full sun.
anyone tried a class 10? usually overkill for a p&s but maybe with this device........
Processing lag is about 2 seconds with class 4 but then I havent seen a phone that was faster. Is class 10 on the market? I saw class 6 but the reviews said that they write speed gain was barely noticable.
Btw this is my second day without recharging mid day so the baterry is not near as bad as evo 4g or any mobile on wimax.
Also for anyone that caress, the touchscreen is a bit different than on sg2 or skyrocket (a bit different response wise). I definitely noticed that I am making less mistakes while typing. It seems way more precise than anything before.
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It's probably related to finger-to-finger difference. My typing on Nitro is way worse then on Atrix 4g, with keyboard buttons smaller then on Nitro.
My typing on my galaxy s2 sucks lol
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The keyboard on this phone actually drives me nuts sometimes. When posting for example, it's incredibly slow to register my inputs. But, over texting it's almost too sensitive. I don't know why but it also registers the first letter twice sometimes. I guess I just have to get more used to it. Wish it can be iPhone keyboard smooth.
just fine
At first I was skeptical of this phone.
Now, it works just well. I can stream music for an easy 6 hrs. I can do the same task I've done on any other phone with pretty much the same battery usage. If I'm having a slow day at work and I know I'm using my phone heavy I will plug it in and use it. Or if i'm driving I will have in charging. it's exactly the same way I treated my iphone or other phones in the past.
The soft keyboard is a bit touch and it does lag pretty good at times..
The phone is fair. There is really nothing out there that my provider can offer (BELL)
It's got the HTC RAIDER (even worse battery life) and the Nexus (no expandable storage) - which was actually the deal breaker. I do not like being restricted to 16gb max. I like to know I can carry another one with me or have a 32gb. I like to carry movies and music..
I still wish there were more phones with FM tuner built in.. That would be perfect!
Just my 2 cents I guess.
I bought the sgs2 skyrocket, exchanged it for the nitro HD, and then returned the device 2 days later. The battery life, even with little use, is bad. I would seriously think long and hard about making the switch.
It doesn't matter to me which phone folks get but 2 days with this phone is simply not enough time to accurately gauge this battery. Hell, I don't think a week is enough
This phone needs a fair bit of set-up, including full drains/charges and bloat cleared out, etc. but after more than a month with this phone I can say the battery is performing entirely different than it did on day 2 and it is not an issue (other than my trying to make it one).
The fact of the matter boils down to this for me:
I wanted the screen and I wanted the LTE. Those features are part of what defines this phone and those 2 features are the top battery drains and would be on any phone.
I agree with what Scott mentioned regarding the battery. A little over a month and now the battery can last much much longer even with gaming and all. Somehow the phone adapts to your usage and becomes more efficient. Not much more, but better than when it was fresh out the box.
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It doesn't matter to me which phone folks get but 2 days with this phone is simply not enough time to accurately gauge this battery. Hell, I don't think a week is enough
This phone needs a fair bit of set-up, including full drains/charges and bloat cleared out, etc. but after more than a month with this phone I can say the battery is performing entirely different than it did on day 2 and it is not an issue (other than my trying to make it one).
The fact of the matter boils down to this for me:
I wanted the screen and I wanted the LTE. Those features are part of what defines this phone and those 2 features are the top battery drains and would be on any phone.
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aquariuz23 said:
I agree with what Scott mentioned regarding the battery. A little over a month and now the battery can last much much longer even with gaming and all. Somehow the phone adapts to your usage and becomes more efficient. Not much more, but better than when it was fresh out the box.
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I'm glad to hear that your experience is similar, says a lot about this device.
Another thing about the battery, it charges fast IMO. I like to let mine go to full drain before charging up and I just did a full charge in 1 hour ~40 minutes and that reflects most charge times for me.
I don't have much experience charging other smart phones but that's a very acceptable time for me.
scott0 said:
I'm glad to hear that your experience is similar, says a lot about this device.
Another thing about the battery, it charges fast IMO. I like to let mine go to full drain before charging up and I just did a full charge in 1 hour ~40 minutes and that reflects most charge times for me.
I don't have much experience charging other smart phones but that's a very acceptable time for me.
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Yup, indeed this phone's battery charges really fast, fastest of course with chargers that give out higher amps. Using the stock charger (1.2 amps) I can fully charge the phone at about the same time u mention, sometimes even faster. Using blackberry chargers (0.8 amps), it takes a bit longer, but still fast. It's nice to see a phone charge that fast. The atrix took a long time to fully charge, and that's not from a full drain too.

New GN owner feedback.

Hello all,
First off thanks to everyone in the community for all of the great articles and information. I struggled with which device to get but settled on the GN. When it arrived I kind of paniced because it wouldn't update from 4.0.1. Thanks to all of you I ended up finding out that I received a YAKJUDV version. With a little research I found out how to change to YAKJU and now all is well.
Not only is "all well" but "all is great"! I am running straight stock 4.0.4, no root, no custom kernel, nada. I do not have any issues with wake from sleep as some have reported, and my battery life is fantastic. As of right now I am on 1 Day 16 Hours and I still have 36% battery remaining. I know that battery life is very subjective but I have browsed some websites, downloaded 10-15 apps. Played a little angry birds. Connected to my job's Cisco VPN and did some RDP work. I have 3 Gmail accounts set to push with calendar & contact sync. I have had Wifi and Bluetooth enabled the whole time. I also have my google voice and google plus account active. I keep the screen on auto brightness. Lastly, I have about an hour or so of talk time during this period. Ohh, I forgot I also have had the Jawbone Companion app installed and connected to my Era, I read a few comments on some sites where users reported the app caused noticeable battery drain, this was not my experience.
In closing, thanks again for all of the info!
Greate battery life
nice....
that sounds like incredible battery life. what was the screen on time? i take it on WiFi the entire time?
either way, its refreshing to hear/see a thread praising this phone.. i am in the same boat as you, i am completely happy with my nexus...absolutely love it. however i had to root/ROM to get to this point but still very happy (i was going to root/ROM anyway)
For me crap battery life at 4.0.1 (and probably battery wasn't calibrated). Once updated to yakju 4.0.4 battery life was much much better. Other than the "screen at low brightness look crap issue" and not too loud speaker (Nokia phones which I came from was DAMN loud), overall very happy with this phone. The ROMs and kernels for most of the cases JUST WORK. And the fact people ask me what phone am I holding is an epic thing when you see people around you having iPhones and S2. May send mine in for a replacement as the top part of the screen has this weird greenish colour. Noticeable when keyboard is in landscape.
the screen on time is 4hrs 2min.
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the screen on time is 4hrs 2min.
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sfagundes said:
the screen on time is 4hrs 2min.
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holy ****...how did you get a 1 day and 16 hours with a 4 hours 2 min.......
im getting the 4 hours screen time but with a day (24 hours)........
lol i wish i could tell you.......
I am not running any widgets, most of my browsing was done over wifi.
I ordered a GNex about 2 weeks ago and used it for about 36 hours and returned it. That one had abysmal battery life. In hind sight, I wish I would have looked closer at the firmware/version type with that one so I would have some sort of reference.
I am kind of pissed that I ordered the extended battery thinking my battery life was going to be ****. I honestly dont think i need it.
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lol i wish i could tell you.......
I am not running any widgets, most of my browsing was done over wifi.
I ordered a GNex about 2 weeks ago and used it for about 36 hours and returned it. That one had abysmal battery life. In hind sight, I wish I would have looked closer at the firmware/version type with that one so I would have some sort of reference.
I am kind of pissed that I ordered the extended battery thinking my battery life was going to be ****. I honestly dont think i need it.
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When you use the charger does a green light come up to tell you that the battery is charging?
My Nexus One shows a green light, not my Galaxy Nexus.
gunner1937 said:
When you use the charger does a green light come up to tell you that the battery is charging?
My Nexus One shows a green light, not my Galaxy Nexus.
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LOL, i don't know! I am still trying to drain the battery for the first time, I dont want to plug it in yet!
I'll check next time i charge it.
did you put it in the charger for short periods of time? if it doesn't get a full charge at once it doesn't reset the timer. you can tell when you are looking at the battery option and the map goes down back up then down again lol... I'm honestly thinking that's the case
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GSM Nexus Battery Life. Worth leaving SGS with CM9 for it?

So I currently have a Vibrant that has CM9 installed and the thing rocks! My battery life is pretty good for moderate to heavy use, and gets me through at least a full work day.
As we all know the Galaxy Nexus GSM is now on sale for $399 straight from google, and I am very tempted to get one. I have read ALL OVER the net that the battery life sucks, I have seen tests done that show it only gets 3 hrs MAX of surf time, gets a decent 8 hrs of talk, and about 6 hrs of video, each tested with a fully charged battery.
SO my question is, is it worth it? Is the battery life as bad as they say? Or will it be better than what I have on my SGS?
Also, how do the picture quality compare to say... and Iphone 4s, etc.
Thanks for your feedback, I am sure it will help more than just me
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So I currently have a Vibrant that has CM9 installed and the thing rocks! My battery life is pretty good for moderate to heavy use, and gets me through at least a full work day.
As we all know the Galaxy Nexus GSM is now on sale for $399 straight from google, and I am very tempted to get one. I have read ALL OVER the net that the battery life sucks, I have seen tests done that show it only gets 3 hrs MAX of surf time, gets a decent 8 hrs of talk, and about 6 hrs of video, each tested with a fully charged battery.
SO my question is, is it worth it? Is the battery life as bad as they say? Or will it be better than what I have on my SGS?
Also, how do the picture quality compare to say... and Iphone 4s, etc.
Thanks for your feedback, I am sure it will help more than just me
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Do you need a 4.6 inch screen or not? If so, you gotta deal with the consequences of powering such a screen.
For what it's worth, I went from Captivate > Nexus S > Galaxy Nexus and I feel as if the battery life were all the same ball park.
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Do you need a 4.6 inch screen or not? If so, you gotta deal with the consequences of powering such a screen.
For what it's worth, I went from Captivate > Nexus S > Galaxy Nexus and I feel as if the battery life were all the same ball park.
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True, it does seem I wouldn't see much of a difference either way I go. The bigger screen is nice, plus the HD display, and the better camera and added flash, front facing camera, and the major factor is the PRICE POINT!
That is a perfect price point for this phone, I have that itch!!
Standy by time is great. Better than my old sensation 4g. Which had decent battery life to begin with.
My battery can last more than a full day, with the screen on for 4+ hours with a couple hours of streaming music, email, etc.
I think most of the complaints are from the LTE version, and pre software updates that may have helped.
Compared to my sgs4g I get about the same on stock battery. With a qcell 2050 mAh battery I get about an extra 2 hours give or take.
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Standy by time is great. Better than my old sensation 4g. Which had decent battery life to begin with.
My battery can last more than a full day, with the screen on for 4+ hours with a couple hours of streaming music, email, etc.
I think most of the complaints are from the LTE version, and pre software updates that may have helped.
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Sweet because I just bought one XD
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i never considered the gsm gnex to have bad battery life even on stock
you can get much better battery life with a custom kernel installed. i can get 2 days of what i consider normal use (phone calls, losts of sms, some mms, facebook, twitter, games on the ****ter ... ) using GLaDOS kernel.
as previously mentioned the majority of the battery woes come from the battery sucking lte antennas ... all lte phones have this issue and really require new battery technology imo
I upgraded from SGS running CM7.1 to GSM GNex in November..
With my Galaxy S I rarely went a full day without having to plug it in for a charge.
With my GNex I have never plugged it in for a charge during the day, and usually have 40-50% battery left before bed (2h screen time). SGN rocks!
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i never considered the gsm gnex to have bad battery life even on stock
you can get much better battery life with a custom kernel installed. i can get 2 days of what i consider normal use (phone calls, losts of sms, some mms, facebook, twitter, games on the ****ter ... ) using GLaDOS kernel.
as previously mentioned the majority of the battery woes come from the battery sucking lte antennas ... all lte phones have this issue and really require new battery technology imo
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That's true too. I'll see how long I can go before I have to flash, whether I have to or not, I can't go long without a flash regardless
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I upgraded from SGS running CM7.1 to GSM GNex in November..
With my Galaxy S I rarely went a full day without having to plug it in for a charge.
With my GNex I have never plugged it in for a charge during the day, and usually have 40-50% battery left before bed (2h screen time). SGN rocks!
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That's good news for me then. Still waiting for my tracking number...
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Me too. Ordered an hour ago and can't wait to get it. The og epic has been great though. I'm going to miss it.
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I have a Vibrant with CM9 and a Galaxy Nexus GSM. I don't have complaints of battery life on either. Both get me through a full day. I definitely get more than 3 hours of web surfing time on the Galaxy Nexus. It's been good enough that I really don't pay attention to battery life.
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For what it's worth, I went from Captivate > Nexus S > Galaxy Nexus and I feel as if the battery life were all the same ball park.
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Almost my exact journey, I just had a different variant of the galaxy s. And I agree with overall battery life being the same. I got the 2000 mah OEM battery and it now outlasts all my previous phones
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Battery life for my friend is great and he got a gsm version personally sucks on sprint, camera is better in iPhone 4S for sure since I got both devices but it doesn't take such a bad pictures, is just mm idk for some reason the lense seems to be better on the iPhone 4S so far I'm undecided in which device should I stay with x
In my usage streaming audio seems to use less battery. Other uses use similar juice.
I had a SGS Captivate before with CM9.
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[Q] what is your Galaxy s3 average temperature

My Galaxy s3 gets hot
My Normal Temprerature is 90 Fahrenheit
this is normal?
i´m only turned on a wifi, or watch a movie on youtube and my phone is already hot
and with the 4g turned on is more hot around 100 Fahrenheint
i have the t-mobile version. android 4.1.1 jelly bean stock rom
Yeah mine gets pretty hot too... I've seen it hit 105. Very bad for the battery :/
Have you checked for rogue processes? Get GSAM Battery Monitor or Watchdog Lite and see if anything is consuming a lot of CPU cycles.
Also, try CPU Sleeper - it shuts one of the cores off when the phone goes to sleep which gives huge battery savings.
I wouldn't do all that doing something that it wasn't intended to be, shutting down a core. Android does a good job with all that, if it gets really really hot
Buy a new battery or better yet start from scratch see if you get it stock. My s3 never been really hot, and I know what hot is coming from the g2x and the first galaxy now those phones will burn you.
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I wouldn't do all that doing something that it wasn't intended to be, shutting down a core. Android does a good job with all that, if it gets really really hot
Buy a new battery or better yet start from scratch see if you get it stock. My s3 never been really hot, and I know what hot is coming from the g2x and the first galaxy now those phones will burn you.
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The G2x was nothing compared to the Sensation! OUCH!
And it only shuts a core off when its asleep. You can uninstall the app and it reverts so no harm there.
I have a second battery and it runs on the hot side side as well. My roommate has a white GS3 and I have a titanium GS3 and his battery lasts a hell of a lot longer than mine. It may just be defective. I couldn't get his past 90 degrees.
My battery is running 83/84 degrees, but then I recently changed to a 3200 which fits the original compartment.
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The G2x was nothing compared to the Sensation! OUCH!
And it only shuts a core off when its asleep. You can uninstall the app and it reverts so no harm there.
I have a second battery and it runs on the hot side side as well. My roommate has a white GS3 and I have a titanium GS3 and his battery lasts a hell of a lot longer than mine. It may just be defective. I couldn't get his past 90 degrees.
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Yeah that's what I'm thinking, these phones are so random. Kinda like the thing with the dark dots dead pixel when screen is off some come in horrific shape from the box.
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How much on screen do you get with that battery and do you have a link? Also, is it NFC enabled? I don't need NFC just curious.
Mine was at about 95-98F when I was tethering and stayed pretty constant. The phone was a bit warm, but not worryingly so (it's gotten hotter).
Honestly, I don't think it's a big deal these temperatures seem within normal parameters.
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Mine was at about 95-98F when I was tethering and stayed pretty constant. The phone was a bit warm, but not worryingly so (it's gotten hotter).
Honestly, I don't think it's a big deal these temperatures seem within normal parameters.
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I guess for me the fact the screen gets so hot is what bothers me... and the heat on the back, it goes through my Incipio case (both the rubber and the plastic) and its hot at the bottom of the phone... the temp readings are battery only since it seems the processor doesn't have a temperature monitor - that or none of the kernels support it.
galaxy s3 high temp
10 mins of subway surfers and my s3 gets to 107-110 . Is this normal. I have hard reset the device and running on jelly beans 4.1.2 with minimum applications loaded. Normal temprature of the device when idle is 89 to 95. Only the bottom half of the screen gets hot. Took it to the service center they did nothing but reformat it.

How good is the nexus 5x?

I am looking to get a new phone and for a while I've been using a windows phone. The Lumia 640(terrible) to be exact. I then got a galaxy s3 from my friend and forgot just how awesome android is. I was looking to get the s5 but then the nexus 5x caught my eye. Now I know the nexus 5x is mid range but with the newer snapdragon 808 chip and the hexacore processor does it beat the s5 in performance? Both phones have only 2GB of ram and although the s5 does have a higher clock speed i cant help but think the nexus could out perfom it. Has anyone had experience with the two phones? I don't know what I should do.
I would say performance will be similar. Do you care about getting official updates? GS5 is EOL, Nexus 5x is good till Sept of next year.
JJHunterx said:
I would say performance will be similar. Do you care about getting official updates? GS5 is EOL, Nexus 5x is good till Sept of next year.
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I do like the fact that the 5x receives updates faster and runs on stock android. If the performance should be similar than I might go with the 5x because of how fast it charges and because it also has the fingerprint scanner. I know the s5 has a scanner but i don't like how you have to swipe
JJHunterx said:
I would say performance will be similar. Do you care about getting official updates? GS5 is EOL, Nexus 5x is good till Sept of next year.
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Sigh, that's only like 15 more months of support/updates. I haven't been in this community long enough to know if devs for ROMs continue to take the latest Android source code and make builds for unsupported devices?
herBosaurus said:
Sigh, that's only like 15 more months of support/updates. I haven't been in this community long enough to know if devs for ROMs continue to take the latest Android source code and make builds for unsupported devices?
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They do, just check the Nexus 4 forums, that phone was released almost 4 years ago and has multiple Android 6 ROMs available. Even the Galaxy Nexus, released in November 2011, has a couple available.
Jacquestrapp said:
They do, just check the Nexus 4 forums, that phone was released almost 4 years ago and has multiple Android 6 ROMs available. Even the Galaxy Nexus, released in November 2011, has a couple available.
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even my old galaxy S1 is running MM thanks to xda
Broken303 said:
even my old galaxy S1 is running MM thanks to xda
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That's crazy!!
I own these two phones right now. nexus 5X is only better for camera and stock software experience and fingerprint scanner ....rest everything is better in s5( i.e display,battery, sound/speaker, waterproofing, storage options, camera is not bad either but slow focus) i dont see any difference in real life between snapdragon 801 or 808..Funny thing is i can charge s5 much faster with s6 charger as compare to charging speed of nexus 5x with type c cable
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Sigh, that's only like 15 more months of support/updates. I haven't been in this community long enough to know if devs for ROMs continue to take the latest Android source code and make builds for unsupported devices?
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that's the MINIMUM. Nexus 5 got Android M direct from Google and it was past it's EOL date
Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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I get about 5hrs SOT if I let my battery run to 0%-5% which I rarely do. Projecting based off of 12+ hrs on battery with 50% left with 2hrs+ SOT. 15% brightness, location off and WiFi on for 85% of the time. BT for 45 mins with music streaming. So, it's solid battery life for me.
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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I'm a pretty light user so I get over a day on a charge. GSAM battery monitor says my averages are 1d 5h average per charge with 6h 15m active. It also says my average SOT is about 4h. Those stats are from about 2 weeks ago when I got the phone. I suspect this is the best I will get and as it ages the life will diminish. Compared to the old S3 I came from this is great. For charging I was at about 14% this morning and with the stock charger went from 15% to 85% in one hour of charging. To me that's pretty fast charge.
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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Battery life lasts a day quite easily, 2 days with lighter usage. It charges very quickly, 25% in just 15 minutes.
More accurate colours than the similar panel used in the iPhone 6s as shown by Anandtech.
You get high end features on this device for a mid range price.
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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About battery life, i'm a heavy user, everything always on (wifi, GPS, bluetooth, data) and I get 3h - 3h30 with 10 % battery left.
About the screen, I own a Galaxy Note II, and I'm really very happy to leave the flashy amoled screen, Nexus 5X's screen is much better for my eyes and the colors are more accurate. I just miss the deep dark of the amoled
Full charge from 10 % takes about 1 - 1h30, it's really fast.
So the battery life is not so good, not enough to last a day for my use, but I charge it on my car going to work and coming back home with a 2A charger and it's also fast.
It is definitely a solid device. I just picked up the Moto X Pure from Best Buy as a Deal Of The Day for $160 off and the camera is quite similar telling me the X does really have a phenomenal camera. The Marshmallow on the MXP is pretty dang stock as well so can't claim anything for either there but would say that the camera is great on 5X personally and the updates are a huge thing for me as well. Screen is phenomenally accurate on 5X but battery is a huge difference. I get around 5H bone stock on MXP and about 3H on Nexus 5X. They both have to be charged at around 8-10% every night and that is all so just telling you through the full day I'll get around those numbers on each device from normal heavy texting and FB Messenger alongside a lot of Bluetooth Audio from GP Music and maybe 30m each day for calls and not much gaming nor anything over 15m of video playing on FB or YT. I'll tell you as well that the signal seems to be slightly stronger keeping LTE in a tiny bit of more places on the MXP as well. The battery life on N5X is terrible compared to what you'd get BUT you also adapt and don't quite use your phone for the useless junk to compensate for it as well. Hopefully it helps SOMEHOW.

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