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Ok I have never rooted my phone, and never deviated from the stock android ROM. About a week ago my wifi randomly stopped working.
When I go to turn it on it simply says error, and rebooting it does not help.
I tried a factory reset and it did help, temporarily, but after powering the phone off and back on the next day it stopped working again!
This makes me think it is in fact a hardware problem. I also just recently upgraded to 2.3.4, but I'm almost certain this was happening before then. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Anyone know if Verizon will help me if I take it in? I do not have insurance (big mistake!)
Any help is greatly appreciated, I have read TONS of threads and cant find any info on this, besides from people who had modified roms.
Thanks in advanced!
On a vanilla (virgin) dInc, I'd say you are in fact facing a hardware issue. Have you tested with another WIFI connection manager app?
Search for "Wifi Manager" in the market, it's worked well for me in the past.
Awesome! Thanks so much man, Wifi manager did the trick! Very strange that it wouldn't work with the default wifi app, but I'm happy either way.
You made my day!
Looks like I spoke too soon...
It worked for about three minutes then it shut off. This seems so strange!
Any other ideas?
Are you running any sort of power management apps? Many of those will auto shut off your WiFi to save power.
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No I'm not, but funny you mention that because when I was (before my factory reset) I think thats when these issues first started.
I'm definitely not running any right now though.
Probably just a coincidence, but yea. Any ideas from anyone? I just bought the Seidio 3500mah battery! Would be a shame if the wifi is broken
Try rolling back to 2.2 via htc sync and the 2.2 ruu package. See if you still get the problem on 2.2, if not, stick with 2.2 or invoke the 2.3.4 update again (dialer *#*#checkin#*#*) and test again after the update. This should without further question determine whether there is a hardware problem or not.
Also, although unlikely, maybe your new battery is causing interference.
Try your best to test all of the basic variables before giving up.
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mindlessacts said:
Looks like I spoke too soon...
It worked for about three minutes then it shut off. This seems so strange!
Any other ideas?
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Settings>Wireless &Networks> Wifi Settings>Menu>Andvanced>Sleep Policy
What is it set to?
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Unholyfire said:
Try rolling back to 2.2 via htc sync and the 2.2 ruu package.
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You can't downgrade from 2.3.4 to 2.2. If what you say is true, then some rooted users who unrooted for the update with s-on need to know about this.
Not to be off topic, but do you someone who successfully did this?
how long have you had it if it is less than a year then htc will take care of you if it is over a year verizon might be talked into giving you an upgrade early. only way to know for sure is to go into verizon and see...
mindlessacts said:
Looks like I spoke too soon...
It worked for about three minutes then it shut off. This seems so strange!
Any other ideas?
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Is it showing an error right after you turn it on, or when attempting to connect to a WAP?
Have you tried long pressing to forget the wifi access point then readding/reconnecting it?
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Have you tried long pressing to forget the wifi access point then readding/reconnecting it?
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That's what I was getting at. Trying to tell if it's failing at the connect or at simply turning on the WiFi chip itself.
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Thank you very much everyone for your suggestions. I tried everything but downgrading to 2.2 since I didn't know how. However I'm happy to report that my WiFi is now working again and I did nothing.
Well besides buying a new battery! I replaced my oem battery that I bought off amazon with a siedo 3500mah so not only am I getting insane battery life, but it made ky WiFi work!
I should have mentioned that my charge was averaging just three to four hours on my old battery. Maybe it was defective and not powerful enough to run WiFi?
I really don't know, but do hope that if someone is on my same position they find this thread helpful. Thanks again to everyone, these are very kind forums!
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mindlessacts said:
Thank you very much everyone for your suggestions. I tried everything but downgrading to 2.2 since I didn't know how. However I'm happy to report that my WiFi is now working again and I did nothing.
Well besides buying a new battery! I replaced my oem battery that I bought off amazon with a siedo 3500mah so not only am I getting insane battery life, but it made ky WiFi work!
I should have mentioned that my charge was averaging just three to four hours on my old battery. Maybe it was defective and not powerful enough to run WiFi?
I really don't know, but do hope that if someone is on my same position they find this thread helpful. Thanks again to everyone, these are very kind forums!
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Glad you got it worked out!!
guys im fixing to buy a white galaxy s2, what should i be concern about? is the root method easy, kernels, roms, is there anything hiding from samsung? like im coming from the amaze, htc havent released the wifi drivers for it and have no s-off, just wondering if you guys has had any problems with this phone, and how is the development here is, is it dead or alive?
Well look around lol. Rooting is easy as pie, everything else is based on your preference. Many solid gingerbread roms and kernels here
Were on the brink of some great releases...thanks to a recent ics leak there are all kinds of rooms being cooked up. I'd say its a great time to buy one within a few weeks we should have some great ics roms.
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gypsy214 said:
Guys, I'm fixing to buy a white Galaxy S2; what should I be concerned about? Is the root method easy, kernels, roms? Is there anything hiding from samsung? I'm coming from the Amaze, and HTC hasn't released the wifi drivers or (an engineering?) s-off; furthermore, I am wondering if you guys have had any problems with this phone? How is the development here, is it dead or alive?
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You don't need to worry about s-off like HTC phones. Just put the phone in download mode and flash clockworkmod, then install whatever ROM you want. It is much to root easier than any HTC phone I have rooted. Samsung also has released all source code up to the latest update. No one has had problems besides the same that exist with all phones. As for development with the skyrocket leak of ICS it is heating up faster than a junkies spoon (see thread below)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1577041
thank you guys i just got the phone, love it so far, i think more than the amaze..
im new to samsung though, i know its totally different on rooting and such,
ill start downloading drivers and start rooting!
As someone previously said, development is on the cusp of being current with every other major device. The ICS leak for the AT&T SkyRocket is very crucial for us because the phones are nearly identical.
With that said, the GB roms are all solid but not AOSP with the exception of a couple Kanged CM7's. Not sure if they're working entirely however. There is an AOSP ICS which is what we all crave, but it's only partially working. The TouchWiz (Samsung stock/themed) ICS leak is almost perfect. We just need a native kernel to fix auto-rotation and the little bugs.
The phone's specs are among the best in the world right now lol. YOU WILL LOVE THIS PHONE, I have no doubt about it.
Also, feel free to PM me about any other questions you may have that aren't being answered.
gypsy214 said:
thank you guys i just got the phone, love it so far, i think more than the amaze..
im new to samsung though, i know its totally different on rooting and such,
ill start downloading drivers and start rooting!
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to start..check youtube... how to root tmobile galaxy s2[sgh] T989 galaxy s2 root...enjoy your new phone..
or just look at the stickies in the general section
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Flashing Kernels
is there a guide somewhere to flashing kernels for SGS2?
gypsy214 said:
guys im fixing to buy a white galaxy s2, what should i be concern about? is the root method easy, kernels, roms, is there anything hiding from samsung? like im coming from the amaze, htc havent released the wifi drivers for it and have no s-off, just wondering if you guys has had any problems with this phone, and how is the development here is, is it dead or alive?
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Root and ROMs are great. However we don't have any good ICS kernels because we're still waiting on samsung
ok guys been playing around with some roms and stuff, like some of you said rooting this device was a peace of cake,
loved the megamix ICS rom, the only problem was roration and the calling echo witch you already know.
some of the fixes that i seen for the echo issue dont seen to help mine though,
now i have a question, why do we need a blaze modem?
this phone suppost to be one of the 42mgp of tmobile, if i recall the amaze, the galaxy s2, and now the blaze.
gypsy214 said:
ok guys been playing around with some roms and stuff, like some of you said rooting this device was a peace of cake,
loved the megamix ICS rom, the only problem was roration and the calling echo witch you already know.
some of the fixes that i seen for the echo issue dont seen to help mine though,
now i have a question, why do we need a blaze modem?
this phone suppost to be one of the 42mgp of tmobile, if i recall the amaze, the galaxy s2, and now the blaze.
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not sure if this has been said, but only flash t989 and i727 skyrocket stuff.
the blaze's modem is just another modem.... rado for HTC that may or may not strengthen your phone's signal. It all depends on your phone and location. I got spotty service here in socal with but when I do have reception.. it is faster. Just too spotty.
Are you a real gypsy?
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Are you a real gypsy?
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yes i am
Cool welcome
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Ever since flashing to JB my GPS is not working properly anymore...even tried going back to stock ICS and still no go. I know this is a known issue apparently, I've done plenty of research, tried a few fixes and nothing.
I really like this phone, but I also need a reliable GPS.
On CM10 I get a blinking icon and if I'm lucky get a lock after a minute, if not it will just blink forever.
On maddoggin I get no blinking icon at all and maybe get a lock after a reboot, otherwise nothing. On other ROMs it's pretty much the same thing. Before all this I was getting 3-4 second locks indoors.
Something is definitely wrong with it, missing files, wrong files , who knows...
Anybody have some suggestions on what to try? I'll give to this weekend, if I can't find a fix I'll just buy a different phone at this point.....
TIA!
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Tried flashing JB factory images for your device? Does logcat provide any clues?
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Petrovski80 said:
Tried flashing JB factory images for your device? Does logcat provide any clues?
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Where would I get JB factory images at? So far the only roms I've flashed are Maddoggin's, CM10 JellyBro, and BlackBean.
Thanks
AFAIK there are no Google factory inmages for the Sprint GN
Ah yes, I forgot. Google dropped support. How about suggestion #2 then (logcat)?
Same problem for me on gnex gsm tmobile. Gps was perfect before 4.1.1 now it has gotten pretty unreliable I thought it was that solar flare thing a few weeks ago but I'm still having the problem.
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phantasybm said:
Same problem for me on gnex gsm tmobile. Gps was perfect before 4.1.1 now it has gotten pretty unreliable I thought it was that solar flare thing a few weeks ago but I'm still having the problem.
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I did the ota update to JB and also had slow locks (like up to a minute, not as bad as some complained about). Different ROMs were about the same, until rasbean. Now my GPS performs as it did on ICS, coincidence? Perhaps. I may never know as I'm liable to stay on rasbean for a long long time.
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Maybe detective hardware? Go back to stop and take it to a repair store.
I finally caught the problem: GSM carrier (AT&T in my case)!
Actually all remedies barely work on my GSM Galaxy Nexus ordered from play store. I even flashed back to 4.1.2 factory image and it did not help either. If you are like me, simply take the SIM card out and see if it locates much faster (<1min for first lock and <10s thereon).
In terms of GPS first lock, "No SIM" better than "with SIM but airplane mode" better than "phone signal on". In some locations (e.g. Centre PA) GSM signal does not bother that much but in some other locations (e.g. Baltimore MD; Cape Cod, MA) the GSM signal is a real killer.
There is definitely some kernel/baseband problem! I am just providing as much information as I can to assist professional troubleshooting to this annoying problem.
I am thinking of getting an S III when the 64 gb one comes out. How's the GPS? My wife's S II GPS is lousy. I know Sammy has (had) that reputation. My Motorola Photon GPS is very good. Sorry if this is a duplicate. I couldn't find anything in a search
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I have found the GPS to be excellent on the gs3. I came from gs2 epic touch which had horrible GPS at times - completely wiping the phone and installing the ice cream sandwhich software helped a lot though.
nicholz said:
I have found the GPS to be excellent on the gs3. I came from gs2 epic touch which had horrible GPS at times - completely wiping the phone and installing the ice cream sandwhich software helped a lot though.
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Thanks! That's what my wife haas and it's unusable. My old Epic 4G had a terrible GPS as well. My Photon is stuck on Gingerbread but the GPS works well. I think the s3 looks like a winner. Now if only Sprint was......
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GPS is working well for me on my GS3.. Stock
My GPS works great. Even used it today when i had no cell signal, took a little extra time but got a lock and followed me in Google maps.
Sent from Pluto.
Yeah GPS is better on the gs3 than the epic touch which I had before
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Thanks! It seems that this phone has a good GPS. I hope the other radios are as good as the Photon. The GS II are definitely inferior to the photon...
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sndtubes said:
I am thinking of getting an S III when the 64 gb one comes out. How's the GPS? My wife's S II GPS is lousy. I know Sammy has (had) that reputation. My Motorola Photon GPS is very good. Sorry if this is a duplicate. I couldn't find anything in a search
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GPS is phenomenal. Domestic sattelites and GLONASS. Even has a damn barometer so it can use pressure to gauge height.
Samsung has fixed their traditional gps problem. This is the best location solution on the market.
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Wow. I am considering migrating to the S3 from the epic 4G. The GPS was always a sore spot with me. The S3 sounds better and better. Now if it only had the slide out keyboard....
labumm said:
Wow. I am considering migrating to the S3 from the epic 4G. The GPS was always a sore spot with me. The S3 sounds better and better. Now if it only had the slide out keyboard....
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When I left my Touch Pro 2 for the Evo 4G I really thought I would miss the physical keyboard. I do miss it every one in a while but with the bigger screen and Swype I really do not miss the keyboard much.
Poor GPS reception on GS3 - - Please help...
I have been having problems out of my GS3's gps reception. Navigation will not lock on satellites. Telenav isn't much better. Sometimes, Navigation will revert to cell tower triangulation and give me a general location, but forget it when it comes to navigating with it.
I was rooted, but I have reverted back to stock with QBKing77's method and sextape's all in one stock rom. The problem started after reverting to stock so I think this might be the culprit. I am going to take it to a repair center and act like there has been no modification and see what they say.
But I wanted to check here first.
Thanks
I came from photon. Had issues where the phone has to be rebooted to get a GPS lock. No issues on the gs3. Stock jb and ics for a couple of weeks.
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Bdozier said:
I have been having problems out of my GS3's gps reception. Navigation will not lock on satellites. Telenav isn't much better. Sometimes, Navigation will revert to cell tower triangulation and give me a general location, but forget it when it comes to navigating with it.
I was rooted, but I have reverted back to stock with QBKing77's method and sextape's all in one stock rom. The problem started after reverting to stock so I think this might be the culprit. I am going to take it to a repair center and act like there has been no modification and see what they say.
But I wanted to check here first.
Thanks
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You could try installing GPS Status from the Play Store and use it to clear and refresh your GPS data. That may require root, though. This was how a lot of people used to fix GPS on the Evo 4G when using GB and ICS AOSP ROMs.
EndlessDissent said:
You could try installing GPS Status from the Play Store and use it to clear and refresh your GPS data. That may require root, though. This was how a lot of people used to fix GPS on the Evo 4G when using GB and ICS AOSP ROMs.
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The app does not require root. Great program. Still had GPS issues though. Swapped it out since I have insurance. Now, every other day or so, I have to restart my new phone to get it to connect to satellites. Weird. I wish I knew what was going on or at least that someone else was having the same problems.
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The app does not require root. Great program. Still had GPS issues though. Swapped it out since I have insurance. Now, every other day or so, I have to restart my new phone to get it to connect to satellites. Weird. I wish I knew what was going on or at least that someone else was having the same problems.
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I have the very same issues with my S3 which is only less than a month old. Didn't why at first, and took it to Sprint Store and they said it was the bad antenna and will give me a refurbish phone. I didn't understand??? Kind of like, I bought a brand new car and take in for a fix and dealer took me to the use car lot for a certificated vehicle. They refused to give me a new phone, so I contact Samsung for repair.
Just my phone and the same problem reoccurring.
Please if someone can help? I always come here for advices...search all over the net, but no luck.
Help...
I've suspected for a long time that custom ROMs have been the source of all my frustrations with the Gnex. I unlocked and rooted on the first day and even though there wasn't much in the way of custom Roms with 4.0 I was excited to try all the different mods that were slowly flooding XDA and RootzWiki.
This wasn't my 1st experience with root either. I owned the Dinc and loved the idea of tinkering with my device. I learned a lot. Mainly that you should ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP. and take the extra minute to wipe everything. I don't even use TI backup anymore because I wanted to start over from scratch any time I flashed a new ROM.
I say this because I know there are ppl in the forums that are smarter than I when it comes to Android. There are also some of those same ppl that will assume that I made some sort of noob mistake and I should try "wiping data" or something. Trust me, I've tried that and it doesn't fix it.
My main issues have been:
*losing data connection for no reason and eventually having to reboot in order to restore data.
*Weak network/WiFi.
Now I know there is a thread on rootz that addresses the bars and how inaccurate they are. But when two identical devices sit down in the same place and run speed test. My Gnex can slow to a snails pace at times. The wierdest thing about this is that it only seems to do it sporadically, which makes recreating it almost impossible. Although it seems most frequent at work, but that maybe because I spend an ungodly amount of time at my office.
*Lag/freezes
I know its not gonna work perfectly all the time and sometimes you have to reboot your phone just to give it a chance to reset itself and that's cool but when you do that and it doesn't fix the sluggishness of the phone then I feel there is a problem.
* problems with certain system functions like Bluetooth or GPS
Now this may be only an issue with particular Roms which may be known to have problems with certain aspects of the system. For instance, it seems pretty common from what I've seen on the forums that GPS is an issue for some on 4.2. I was actually on 4.2 this morning until I went to punch in an address from a text msg to Navigation and it wouldn't lock on my location. I got frustrated and decided to wipe and install the AOKP milestone I had saved and when I set everything back up guess what? Navigation still wouldn't lock on. I ended up having to bail out on some guys because I could find there house. I got home and found a stock ROM online. I wiped, flashed and setup my phone for the second time today. I downloaded Maps and immediately went to find the address and it was insane how fast it locked on a location.
There are other issues but I'm becoming long winded so I'll try to wrap it up.
Now I'm not one to dismiss my own part in my problems. I've certainly tried to address them when/if they arise with what little knowledge I have and the ability to learn what I can. I e emailed devs amd talked to others and sometimes it helps, but sometimes like this morning you just want things to work when you need them to without wasting your time having to revert to a nandroid or doing some other wizardry.
"Well, why don't you just go buy an iPhone then?" you might say
I've actually contemplated it but I do really like android, Google Maps are the **** (I depend on Navigation a lot )and I like to be able to customize. And I also don't really want to pay the money to terminate my contract so I'm kinda just stuck. But I thought about doing one thing.
A couple weeks ago, I unrooted and relocked my phone and flashed stock images for JB on CDMA and from there all I did was unlock and root keeping it stock and I tell you I glad I did because all my problems no longer seem to exist. My battery life might not be what I was getting on 4.2 these last couple days but I think I'm willing to stick with this for now until Verizon gets off their ass and pushes an update to us.
I'm not trying to rant to the Dev community or complain that y'all aren't living up to my satisfaction. Hell, maybe somebody might have a solution I haven't tried yet. I'm just putting this out there in case someone was having the same trouble and could get some help.
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On ParanoidAndroid 2.54 + franco.kernel r300. None of the problems you mentioned are present or has ever happened with me. Perhaps if you didn't mod your phone so much as to NOT be able to pinpoint a problem is where you went wrong.
Who knows? I surely don't. Don't know you but I don't think I'll be noticing your absence. Good luck with everything!
automaddux said:
I've suspected for a long time that custom ROMs have been the source of all my frustrations with the Gnex. I unlocked and rooted on the first day and even though there wasn't much in the way of custom Roms with 4.0 I was excited to try all the different mods that were slowly flooding XDA and RootzWiki.
This wasn't my 1st experience with root either. I owned the Dinc and loved the idea of tinkering with my device. I learned a lot. Mainly that you should ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP. and take the extra minute to wipe everything. I don't even use TI backup anymore because I wanted to start over from scratch any time I flashed a new ROM.
I say this because I know there are ppl in the forums that are smarter than I when it comes to Android. There are also some of those same ppl that will assume that I made some sort of noob mistake and I should try "wiping data" or something. Trust me, I've tried that and it doesn't fix it.
My main issues have been:
*losing data connection for no reason and eventually having to reboot in order to restore data.
*Weak network/WiFi.
Now I know there is a thread on rootz that addresses the bars and how inaccurate they are. But when two identical devices sit down in the same place and run speed test. My Gnex can slow to a snails pace at times. The wierdest thing about this is that it only seems to do it sporadically, which makes recreating it almost impossible. Although it seems most frequent at work, but that maybe because I spend an ungodly amount of time at my office.
*Lag/freezes
I know its not gonna work perfectly all the time and sometimes you have to reboot your phone just to give it a chance to reset itself and that's cool but when you do that and it doesn't fix the sluggishness of the phone then I feel there is a problem.
* problems with certain system functions like Bluetooth or GPS
Now this may be only an issue with particular Roms which may be known to have problems with certain aspects of the system. For instance, it seems pretty common from what I've seen on the forums that GPS is an issue for some on 4.2. I was actually on 4.2 this morning until I went to punch in an address from a text msg to Navigation and it wouldn't lock on my location. I got frustrated and decided to wipe and install the AOKP milestone I had saved and when I set everything back up guess what? Navigation still wouldn't lock on. I ended up having to bail out on some guys because I could find there house. I got home and found a stock ROM online. I wiped, flashed and setup my phone for the second time today. I downloaded Maps and immediately went to find the address and it was insane how fast it locked on a location.
There are other issues but I'm becoming long winded so I'll try to wrap it up.
Now I'm not one to dismiss my own part in my problems. I've certainly tried to address them when/if they arise with what little knowledge I have and the ability to learn what I can. I e emailed devs amd talked to others and sometimes it helps, but sometimes like this morning you just want things to work when you need them to without wasting your time having to revert to a nandroid or doing some other wizardry.
"Well, why don't you just go buy an iPhone then?" you might say
I've actually contemplated it but I do really like android, Google Maps are the **** (I depend on Navigation a lot )and I like to be able to customize. And I also don't really want to pay the money to terminate my contract so I'm kinda just stuck. But I thought about doing one thing.
A couple weeks ago, I unrooted and relocked my phone and flashed stock images for JB on CDMA and from there all I did was unlock and root keeping it stock and I tell you I glad I did because all my problems no longer seem to exist. My battery life might not be what I was getting on 4.2 these last couple days but I think I'm willing to stick with this for now until Verizon gets off their ass and pushes an update to us.
I'm not trying to rant to the Dev community or complain that y'all aren't living up to my satisfaction. Hell, maybe somebody might have a solution I haven't tried yet. I'm just putting this out there in case someone was having the same trouble and could get some help.
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Thats cool, you already tried your fair share of roms, if none of them worked for you the stock is the best with unsurpassed stability. Despite whats advertised about the nexus, the stock android firmware is excellent too, specially when you want something that just plain works.
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Great story brother. Thanks for sharing.
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Great story brother. Thanks for sharing.
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Keep coming..it works if you work it
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goodbye person ive never seen post before. hope you figure out your problems
Stock is the way to go, but you don't have to leave the xda because you no longer run a custom ROM. there is a lot of useful information that is shared here that doesn't necessarily apply to custom ROM.
I am also running stock rom from now on.
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automaddux said:
I've suspected for a long time that custom ROMs have been the source of all my frustrations with the Gnex. I unlocked and rooted on the first day and even though there wasn't much in the way of custom Roms with 4.0 I was excited to try all the different mods that were slowly flooding XDA and RootzWiki.
This wasn't my 1st experience with root either. I owned the Dinc and loved the idea of tinkering with my device. I learned a lot. Mainly that you should ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP. and take the extra minute to wipe everything. I don't even use TI backup anymore because I wanted to start over from scratch any time I flashed a new ROM.
I say this because I know there are ppl in the forums that are smarter than I when it comes to Android. There are also some of those same ppl that will assume that I made some sort of noob mistake and I should try "wiping data" or something. Trust me, I've tried that and it doesn't fix it.
My main issues have been:
*losing data connection for no reason and eventually having to reboot in order to restore data.
*Weak network/WiFi.
Now I know there is a thread on rootz that addresses the bars and how inaccurate they are. But when two identical devices sit down in the same place and run speed test. My Gnex can slow to a snails pace at times. The wierdest thing about this is that it only seems to do it sporadically, which makes recreating it almost impossible. Although it seems most frequent at work, but that maybe because I spend an ungodly amount of time at my office.
*Lag/freezes
I know its not gonna work perfectly all the time and sometimes you have to reboot your phone just to give it a chance to reset itself and that's cool but when you do that and it doesn't fix the sluggishness of the phone then I feel there is a problem.
* problems with certain system functions like Bluetooth or GPS
Now this may be only an issue with particular Roms which may be known to have problems with certain aspects of the system. For instance, it seems pretty common from what I've seen on the forums that GPS is an issue for some on 4.2. I was actually on 4.2 this morning until I went to punch in an address from a text msg to Navigation and it wouldn't lock on my location. I got frustrated and decided to wipe and install the AOKP milestone I had saved and when I set everything back up guess what? Navigation still wouldn't lock on. I ended up having to bail out on some guys because I could find there house. I got home and found a stock ROM online. I wiped, flashed and setup my phone for the second time today. I downloaded Maps and immediately went to find the address and it was insane how fast it locked on a location.
There are other issues but I'm becoming long winded so I'll try to wrap it up.
Now I'm not one to dismiss my own part in my problems. I've certainly tried to address them when/if they arise with what little knowledge I have and the ability to learn what I can. I e emailed devs amd talked to others and sometimes it helps, but sometimes like this morning you just want things to work when you need them to without wasting your time having to revert to a nandroid or doing some other wizardry.
"Well, why don't you just go buy an iPhone then?" you might say
I've actually contemplated it but I do really like android, Google Maps are the **** (I depend on Navigation a lot )and I like to be able to customize. And I also don't really want to pay the money to terminate my contract so I'm kinda just stuck. But I thought about doing one thing.
A couple weeks ago, I unrooted and relocked my phone and flashed stock images for JB on CDMA and from there all I did was unlock and root keeping it stock and I tell you I glad I did because all my problems no longer seem to exist. My battery life might not be what I was getting on 4.2 these last couple days but I think I'm willing to stick with this for now until Verizon gets off their ass and pushes an update to us.
I'm not trying to rant to the Dev community or complain that y'all aren't living up to my satisfaction. Hell, maybe somebody might have a solution I haven't tried yet. I'm just putting this out there in case someone was having the same trouble and could get some help.
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I hope you really didn't write all of this from your nexus lol. But just go to stock...simple :thumbup:
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I see how you feel abouyt this. I have had issues as well. It really stems from what Roms are and what we expect from them. The term Night lies have lost a little bit of its worry recently because they are fairly bug free. But that doesn't mean that little tweaks and mods aren't killing battery life and deteriorate over time due to bad patches and coding.
That said I would highly recommend checking out BuglessBeast. They are not night lies by any means. They are highly stable AOSP Roms that perform much better then anything else on the market. He has few commits aside from under the hood tweaks. Reboot menu, emoji and a slight few other things are it. I have never had an issue with them and recommend checking them out. Also they are pretty much the only VZW app compatible ROM. Peter has been building BuglessBeast since Eclair on the Droid1 (almost 3 years now). Always providing an excellent experience.
spjetrovic said:
Keep coming..it works if you work it
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Flashaholics anonymous?
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Stock + root is the way to go for me on Nexus phones. On my last non Nexus (SGS3) I was always flashing new roms trying to look for something that just works, but I am tired of it. On my Nexus S and GNexus, stock rom is amazing, I don't need anything else.
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I've suspected for a long time that custom ROMs have been the source of all my frustrations with the Gnex. I unlocked and rooted on the first day and even though there wasn't much in the way of custom Roms with 4.0 I was excited to try all the different mods that were slowly flooding XDA and RootzWiki.
This wasn't my 1st experience with root either. I owned the Dinc and loved the idea of tinkering with my device. I learned a lot. Mainly that you should ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP. and take the extra minute to wipe everything. I don't even use TI backup anymore because I wanted to start over from scratch any time I flashed a new ROM.
I say this because I know there are ppl in the forums that are smarter than I when it comes to Android. There are also some of those same ppl that will assume that I made some sort of noob mistake and I should try "wiping data" or something. Trust me, I've tried that and it doesn't fix it.
My main issues have been:
*losing data connection for no reason and eventually having to reboot in order to restore data.
*Weak network/WiFi.
Now I know there is a thread on rootz that addresses the bars and how inaccurate they are. But when two identical devices sit down in the same place and run speed test. My Gnex can slow to a snails pace at times. The wierdest thing about this is that it only seems to do it sporadically, which makes recreating it almost impossible. Although it seems most frequent at work, but that maybe because I spend an ungodly amount of time at my office.
*Lag/freezes
I know its not gonna work perfectly all the time and sometimes you have to reboot your phone just to give it a chance to reset itself and that's cool but when you do that and it doesn't fix the sluggishness of the phone then I feel there is a problem.
* problems with certain system functions like Bluetooth or GPS
Now this may be only an issue with particular Roms which may be known to have problems with certain aspects of the system. For instance, it seems pretty common from what I've seen on the forums that GPS is an issue for some on 4.2. I was actually on 4.2 this morning until I went to punch in an address from a text msg to Navigation and it wouldn't lock on my location. I got frustrated and decided to wipe and install the AOKP milestone I had saved and when I set everything back up guess what? Navigation still wouldn't lock on. I ended up having to bail out on some guys because I could find there house. I got home and found a stock ROM online. I wiped, flashed and setup my phone for the second time today. I downloaded Maps and immediately went to find the address and it was insane how fast it locked on a location.
There are other issues but I'm becoming long winded so I'll try to wrap it up.
Now I'm not one to dismiss my own part in my problems. I've certainly tried to address them when/if they arise with what little knowledge I have and the ability to learn what I can. I e emailed devs amd talked to others and sometimes it helps, but sometimes like this morning you just want things to work when you need them to without wasting your time having to revert to a nandroid or doing some other wizardry.
"Well, why don't you just go buy an iPhone then?" you might say
I've actually contemplated it but I do really like android, Google Maps are the **** (I depend on Navigation a lot )and I like to be able to customize. And I also don't really want to pay the money to terminate my contract so I'm kinda just stuck. But I thought about doing one thing.
A couple weeks ago, I unrooted and relocked my phone and flashed stock images for JB on CDMA and from there all I did was unlock and root keeping it stock and I tell you I glad I did because all my problems no longer seem to exist. My battery life might not be what I was getting on 4.2 these last couple days but I think I'm willing to stick with this for now until Verizon gets off their ass and pushes an update to us.
I'm not trying to rant to the Dev community or complain that y'all aren't living up to my satisfaction. Hell, maybe somebody might have a solution I haven't tried yet. I'm just putting this out there in case someone was having the same trouble and could get some help.
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I'm with this guy as well... I upgraded to a stock 4.2 rom (with root, but not a custom build).. and I have been smooth sailing since. It seems with all these custom roms and kernels there are nothing but issues. Sure, they're a TAD faster or offer little tweaks but when you need to use your device in the real world and it f*cking reboots while navigating somewhere because of a stupid tweak you made.. well, I can't see why it's even needed.
This phone runs very well with Stock+Root. I normally root devices because of different apps I like to use, and the ability to make custom backups...but I dont normally try anything bleeding edge...lol.
Partly because of my experience on an HTC phone...hated Sense and bought the GNex because of the AOSP.
akira02rex said:
I'm with this guy as well... I upgraded to a stock 4.2 rom (with root, but not a custom build).. and I have been smooth sailing since. It seems with all these custom roms and kernels there are nothing but issues. Sure, they're a TAD faster or offer little tweaks but when you need to use your device in the real world and it f*cking reboots while navigating somewhere because of a stupid tweak you made.. well, I can't see why it's even needed.
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No need to bash the custom roms that some devs here work so hard to make, i agree that stock is amazing but android would be a boring scene without the custom roms out there
We would just be like Ios, Wp and blackberry users, stuck with what we've got
Others wouldnt even have the chance to use a newer OS version because their phone has been abandoned by official support.
Or many of u guys would have crappy colors or other issues that custom roms and kernels DID fix
I use stock but i love the fact that there are custom roms around
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negrobembon said:
No need to bash the custom roms that some devs here work so hard to make, i agree that stock is amazing but android would be a boring scene without the custom roms out there
We would just be like Ios, Wp and blackberry users, stuck with what we've got
Others wouldnt even have the chance to use a newer OS version because their phone has been abandoned by official support.
Or many of u guys would have crappy colors or other issues that custom roms and kernels DID fix
I use stock but i love the fact that there are custom roms around
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No I get that, it's good to see support for older devices but c'mon have you counted the amount of 4.1.2 roms that are available for the gnex? If I build android I'm automatically called a developer? Because that's the way it seems here...
I don't know why people keep bringing up the so crappy colors. In reality, the crappy colors are the ones custom ROM offer.
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Soldier 2.0 said:
I don't know why people keep bringing up the so crappy colors. In reality, the crappy colors are the ones custom ROM offer.
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its the kernels that offer the colors(the kernels that the ROM developers include too). of all the kernels available, only a very few distinguish themselves from the stock crappy colors.
This is ridiculous... who obligated you to install a custom ROM? F*cking emos.
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automaddux said:
I've suspected for a long time that custom ROMs have been the source of all my...
Blah blah blah.....
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No, please stay! We'll never survive without you! [/SARCASM]
GhoXt said:
This is ridiculous... who obligated you to install a custom ROM? F*cking emos.
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Alright Captain, you keep Franco deep in your throat.
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