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GN "Official words" about yakju and yakjuxw differences

OK, mid you that the answers I got from Samsung Romania customer support where over the telephone not mail so......
According to the support ppl there are no differences between yakju and yakjuxw. They both get updates from Google not one from Google (yakju) and the other one from Samsung (yakjuxw). They also said that yakjuxw is for more specific countries or zones as well as for certain carriers, thus some phones with yakjuxw may have some personalized software, ring tones or wallpapers that other yakjuxw don't have. The yakju version is the, let's say universal version with no specific crap in it so the updates come first and quicker to this version then the yakjuxw.
I can confirm that the service support for GN phones of Vodafone Romania told me that I will not loose my warranty if I install yakju version on the phone, of course they official Google version found on their site. They also told me that if I unlock my phone via code from any other source except Vodafone that will void the warranty, so bummer there.
The fact of the matter is that there are ppl that flashed yakju to a yakjuxw Gn and still didn't get the 4.0.2 update while other got it.
The are ppl with yakju by stock that didn't get 4.0.2 yet.
Again this was over the phone with a customer support person, although I have sent Samsung an email about 11 days ago I have still yet to receive an answer from them.
For those of us with yakjuxw all that remains for us to do is wait and see how long will it take for 4.0.2 to get to us or flash to yakju and hope OTA updates will be on their marry way to our GN and that flashing yakju will actually mean getting the updates as quick as the ones with stock yakju.
One question for those who flashed yakju over yakjuxw:
After flashing yakju in Android System info does it still say Samsung in Brand? Or does it say Google? We all know that yakjuxw have Brand: Samsung while yakju have Brand: Google.
Cheers

I changed from yakjuxw to yakju and Android System Info says Brand: google. It was samsung before..
But still no update to 4.0.2, but I guess that Google stopped the updates for some reason. Many people with original yakju devices don't have the update yet, too..

My verizon galaxy nexus (mysid) shows google as the brand as well. can someone with a gsm galaxy nexus post a screenshot of android system info for comparison?

It's good to know that the brand also changes from samsung to google.
Here is the screenshot

Here's a shot of mine.
What does the host line mean?

In most phones, at Brand section apears the name of the carrier, like T-Mobile, Vodafone or any other company, In this case is Samsung.
Samung Kies is incompatible with GN so the question remains: who is responsable with deploying updates for these phones and how?

The support person from samsung told me that if I try to update GN with Kies, it won't work. I haven't tried it yet to see if it's true.
Like I sayd in my first post, according to samsung all GN are supported and updated via OTA by google and only by google as it's a full google phone. If this is true or not, remains to be seen with future updates.

As mentioned in other threads, Samsung made the region/carrier changes to original yakju build to support different regions/carriers, thus the various yakju** variants. Ideally they should send these changes back to Google to be incorporated into the main AOSP branch. So hopefully with a major future OTA release, Google will bring all GSM GN's into a single OTA profile.

Scovik said:
The fact of the matter is that there are ppl that flashed yakju to a yakjuxw Gn and still didn't get the 4.0.2 update while other got it.
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I've flashed yakju over yakjuxw and did get the 4.0.2 the 2nd day after it was officially released, so it goes to say that there are people who flashed yakju and got the update.
Scovik said:
They also said that yakjuxw is for more specific countries or zones as well as for certain carriers, thus some phones with yakjuxw may have some personalized software, ring tones or wallpapers that other yakjuxw don't have.
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I think the rep wasn't lying about what he said above, because 1 of the differences between yakju and yakjuxw that I've seen is that Samsung's build, yakjuxw had 30-40 more ringtones than the official Google build. Also maybe some more wallpapers. Other than that, I didn't see any changes.
My question on this problem is the following: is there some IMPORTANT part of the firmware that is different ? Something like the baseband or settings missing or etc. ? That kind of important. Ringtones are not that important, so it doesn't really matter that they are missing from Google build, I can live with that. But if a baseband is different and it affects the reception, now that is something very important. So, are there any important differences like that ?
Scovik said:
I can confirm that the service support for GN phones of Vodafone Romania told me that I will not loose my warranty if I install yakju version on the phone
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That's really good to know. So if I check in the service store with my phone with unlocked bootloader and yakju build, everything's fine ?
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They also told me that if I unlock my phone via code from any other source except Vodafone that will void the warranty,
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That was obvious. What isn't necessarily obvious is the fact that the phone came locked on Vodafone. Is it true, did you check ?

The phone is locked on Vodafone.
I really can't say what would happen if you would go to vodafone service with the bootloader unlocked and yakju instead of yakjuxw. Let's hope it wont come to that....

melterx12 said:
Here's a shot of mine.
What does the host line mean?
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But that's the CDMA version...not what these guys are talking about. Ours is different anyway (since we're using Toro).

I was just pointing out that even though the phone is on Verizon, the brand is still shown as Google.
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Anbody in Canada receive 4.02 update?

Anybody with a bell/virgin galaxy nexus in Canada receive the 4.02 update?
Im assuming all devices sold in Canada are yakjuux.
EDIT: As soon as i powered on my nexus the first time it received an update, but the version number didn't change, stayed on 4.01.

Got a yakjuux from Pac Mall but it's still on 4.01 as well. Got that same initial update.

I have a yakju and still dont have a update

If we're to rely on Bell or Virgin to push updates (or even Samsung for that matter) then good luck lol.
I also recieved that update when I first turned mine on, I have a feeling that might have just been the volume patch quick fix? It would make sense as it was likely that issue came to light JUST as the phones for Bell and Virgin were shipping out.
I'm using mine on WIND anyway so I went straight to Google stock yakju 4.0.2 and haven't looked back... LOVING the GN (except a few font glitches that I'm assuming and hoping are only software) and getting about a 7mb down connection with WIND so I can't complain.
Sometimes (especially with Android VS the carriers) we need to take matters into our own hands! (as i type this out on an HP touchpad lol).
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Edit: I should also note that data tethering works fantastic with it, in fact the laptop was getting a better connection than the phone (and of most basic Rogers cable net connections). I had no problem connecting a few laptops, a tablet and another phone to it with strong signals.

I'm still on 4.0.1 as well.
Received an update upon firing up my GN for the first time.
However, I don't think it was the 4.0.2 update.

4.0.2 Updates in Canada

Hello everyone,
I was wondering how many of my fellow Canucks have received the 4.0.2 update. My cousin in Toronto received the OTA update last week. I am in London and have yet to receive the update. Also, do they roll it out based on IMEI number, phone number, location, etc? Thanks!

I haven't gotten it yet, I have a feeling it's been pulled because it broke the Market somehow, and NFC was also reported to be missing.

I heard of people receiving the OTA notification in early March and then apparently it was pulled because, as you say, it was inactivating NFC and the Market. However, my cousin received his update just last week and I assumed that they had begun to release it again. The Google Play update fixed the market issue anyway, but I have not asked him if his NFC works.
It seems to me that they should just forget about 4.0.2 at this point and just wait until the next revision. Might be another several months for us Canucks though lol

With Bell and got the phone release date.
I got the update when if first appeard in Canada (early March). But had to fix the NFC issue with a patch and is working fine now.
My wife's gnex on Rogers (bought on Rogers official rls date ~ mid Jan) has not received the update however.

Sammy Canada confirmed it had pulled the update due to "issues"
I didn't have it about 2 weeks after the update first went live, so I gave up and flashed a 4.0.3 ROM.

Same here, I didn't get it on Telus Vancouver so I flashed AOKP.
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I have limited experience in this regard, but I may just flash to CM9 once it is released. I'm disappointed that Canada is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to these updates.
Even if they had not encountered any problems, we would have officially received 4.0.2 several months after the rest of the world right?

Either flash the yakjuux 4.0.2 update yourself (see here), or flash the yakju 4.0.2 images yourself (see here). Problem solved.

matthewr87 said:
I have limited experience in this regard, but I may just flash to CM9 once it is released. I'm disappointed that Canada is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to these updates.
Even if they had not encountered any problems, we would have officially received 4.0.2 several months after the rest of the world right?
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Apart from being on the latest and greatest, which is why many of us bought Nexus phones, is there something in 4.0.2 you really really want? I'm still on stock yakjuux on 4.0.1 and have not yet received the OTA update either, but looking at the unofficial changelogs, I don't think there is anything in the update that would change my user experience

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Apart from being on the latest and greatest, which is why many of us bought Nexus phones, is there something in 4.0.2 you really really want? I'm still on stock yakjuux on 4.0.1 and have not yet received the OTA update either, but looking at the unofficial changelogs, I don't think there is anything in the update that would change my user experience
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USB host support and Google Wallet.
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ditto on google wallet

4.0.4 OTA for docomo GN SC-04D(received)

last night i got an update notification for my GN purchased from docomo japan
it was the first update in months since the 4.0.2 update (march) and it has got the
tethering and hot spot function
(which wasnt there on the docomo GN on 4.0.2 or)
a dock mode
build number: IMM76K.SC04D0MLE3
im a bit confused doesnt the "IMM76K" variant number belong to the verizon update
more info will be posted if anyone's intrested

all non yakju variants got the IMM76K build.

yubr said:
last night i got an update notification for my GN purchased from docomo japan
it was the first update in months since the 4.0.2 update (march) and it has got the
tethering and hot spot function
(which wasnt there on the docomo GN on 4.0.2 or)
a dock mode
build number: IMM76K.SC04D0MLE3
im a bit confused doesnt the "IMM76K" variant number belong to the verizon update
more info will be posted if anyone's intrested
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This was already reported here.

efrant said:
This was already reported here.
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my apologies i was under the impression that the IMM76K variant was only for the korean nexus and not the japan model.

yubr said:
my apologies i was under the impression that the IMM76K variant was only for the korean nexus and not the japan model.
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Sorry, you are right. I posted the wrong link. I'll post the right one when I get in front of a PC.
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yubr said:
my apologies i was under the impression that the IMM76K variant was only for the korean nexus and not the japan model.
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Look at post 520 in this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27093258
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I got the notification this morning and I noticed in docomo's website mentioning that this update has a fix for sim unlock.
I had my phone sim unlocked temporarily with the old version of F***Docomo. Could anyone pls confirm if this update can still be sim unlocked?

sindux said:
I got the notification this morning and I noticed in docomo's website mentioning that this update has a fix for sim unlock.
I had my phone sim unlocked temporarily with the old version of F***Docomo. Could anyone pls confirm if this update can still be sim unlocked?
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yes i can confirm it works just use the latest version of fuxk docomo (v3.1) it also keeps your original imei
here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1548210&page=24

what are the benefits of unlocking the Sim?

iDesire hTC said:
what are the benefits of unlocking the Sim?
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Means you can use any other gsm sim on it. this is useful specially those who buy a carrier locked phone and use it in another country with a different sim so as not to incur exorbitant roaming charges.

Just got the Gnex today, can somebody bring me up to speed?

I see JB roms, did this phone already get JB? If not, are there any fully working JB roms and is there a date the official update comes out? Thanks for the help.

JB has already been pushed out as an OTA from Google. Every device may not have received it yet, but it has been out for several weeks now.
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Does this also apply to the Verizon model? This is where I'm confused. If it's not, why wouldn't it be available if it is on the others?

buffnutz1 said:
Does this also apply to the Verizon model? This is where I'm confused. If it's not, why wouldn't it be available if it is on the others?
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as of right now jellybean is not available for the verizon model, there is a ported gsm version of jellybean that works on verizon gnex . click here

Considering the way Verizon treat the Galaxy Nexus, I don't expect them to release Jelly Bean for it in a couple months, but there is always custom rom.

buffnutz1 said:
I see JB roms, did this phone already get JB? If not, are there any fully working JB roms and is there a date the official update comes out? Thanks for the help.
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GSM models have 4.1.1 OTA if you're of the "takju" or "yakju" firmware variant, which are updated directly by Google. Other variants, such as yakjuxw and yakjujp have yet to be updated.
CDMA models have yet to receive an OTA.

Unfortunately Verizon is notorious for this when it comes to updates. Especially when it comes to the Nexus. It took forever to do any updates on the Nexus and it still has signal issues that were suppose to fixed months ago.