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The perfect device

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I just got in my extended battery for my nexus and now its absolutely the perfect device running miui and francos kernel! This is the one im going to keep, I just know it. I now call the nexus my soulmate phone.
My previous devices were the rezound and the bionic...both of which had nearly the same flaws....battery life and crappy kernels....lol

devilsrogue said:
So
I just got in my extended battery for my nexus and now its absolutely the perfect device running miui and francos kernel! This is the one im going to keep, I just know it. I now call the nexus my soulmate phone.
My previous devices were the rezound and the bionic...both of which had nearly the same flaws....battery life and crappy kernels....lol
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I am running the exact same set up and couldnt happier. All i need now is to figure out how to bring back the voice key on the keyboard.

The GPS, battery, and camera could be better.
The GPS completely blows.
Best phone on the market but I wouldn't call it perfect.

What gps problem? It locks so fast on me

Perfect device? When a product needs you to buy something extra to make it perfect, it's not perfect already.
Plus the camera literally blows.
While we complain about threads of other phones in this forum, yet we get this kind of worship threads and it's okay. What an irony.
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Can you post the link to the miui rom you're using? Is it 2.5.4? Trying to look for a good stable base for my daily driver

kingofthebraves said:
Can you post the link to the miui rom you're using? Is it 2.5.4? Trying to look for a good stable base for my daily driver
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Gesendet von meinem Galaxy Nexus

The perfect phone has a better than RGBG pentile screen.

I am running Liquid 1.3, Trexcell 3800 battery, and Franco kernel. Getting 5 1/2 hours screen time, about 18 hours total with very heavy use (4g, wifi, no power management, 3d games etc). I love the camera after putting in the high quality mods, it's no standard point and shoot but it's good enough for me!
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devilsrogue said:
What gps problem? It locks so fast on me
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Mine doesn't. And when it does it's often wrong. Like it thinks I'm on the next street.
Does it matter where I live? I'm in Houston.

Meets34 said:
Mine doesn't. And when it does it's often wrong. Like it thinks I'm on the next street.
Does it matter where I live? I'm in Houston.
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everything is bigger in Texas.
And so are your problems.

hbkmog said:
Perfect device? When a product needs you to buy something extra to make it perfect, it's not perfect already.
Plus the camera literally blows.
While we complain about threads of other phones in this forum, yet we get this kind of worship threads and it's okay. What an irony.
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Literally blows?
Thats a small opening...but hey go for it.
PS--There is nothing wrong with people liking their device...on the correct forum.

adrynalyne said:
Literally blows?
Thats a small opening...but hey go for it.
PS--There is nothing wrong with people liking their device...on the correct forum.
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Will someone please give ^this man more thanks for me? Damn XDA only lets me give him one.

Meets34 said:
Mine doesn't. And when it does it's often wrong. Like it thinks I'm on the next street.
Does it matter where I live? I'm in Houston.
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I'm in Houston and my GPS is great. Occasionally it goes wack but usually it corrects itself quickly. Atrix was best GPS phone I ever had. And then occasionally any GPS is susceptible to less optimal conditions but that is rare.
...of the people, by the people, for the people...

@rbiter said:
I'm in Houston and my GPS is great. Occasionally it goes wack but usually it corrects itself quickly. Atrix was best GPS phone I ever had. And then occasionally any GPS is susceptible to less optimal conditions but that is rare.
...of the people, by the people, for the people...
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I guess its my phone. One time I drove all the way to my destination and it never connected. It just kept searching for GPS.
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devilsrogue said:
So
I just got in my extended battery for my nexus and now its absolutely the perfect device running miui and francos kernel! This is the one im going to keep, I just know it. I now call the nexus my soulmate phone.
My previous devices were the rezound and the bionic...both of which had nearly the same flaws....battery life and crappy kernels....lol
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What size extended battery did you buy? I was thinking about getting one for my GSM gnex. I get decent battery life now, but I could always use more
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no amount of extended batteries will fix the camera and somewhat dodgy screen on the galaxy nexus... My HSPA+ version on tmobile gets great battery life tho

Meets34 said:
Mine doesn't. And when it does it's often wrong. Like it thinks I'm on the next street.
Does it matter where I live? I'm in Houston.
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That's weird cause I get a fast lock too. About 5 seconds to fully pinpoint me with 8 satellites. Sometimes 10 seconds.

jajaofopobo said:
no amount of extended batteries will fix the camera
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What are the problems u're facing with ur camera?
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No problem here with GPS and camera takes great pictures for what I use it for (Have a DSLR camera for when I need high quality shots). I agree though this, for me, is a perfect phone (Although its not perfect and I will admit it, but for ME this phone is perfect).
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Galaxy Nexus battery Vs Nexus S battery

Hey guys,
I currently have a Nexus S however after 1 year I'm thinking of upgrading. My first choice would be the Galaxy Nexus because I prefer the pure Google experience and getting the updates first.
However there's some pretty decent phones on the horizon right now, such as HTC's latest offerings.
One thing that I want to make sure is that if I go for the Galaxy Nexus that I won't have worse battery life than my Nexus S right now.
I have the i9023 Nexus S (LCD version) running the latest ICS 4.0.4 and at the moment I get about 24 hours of battery life (that's with around 1.5 hours screen on time). I've seen some screenshots around here from the Galaxy Nexus showing a not so good battery life... but I don't know if it will be actually worse, better or the same (everyone uses the phone differently).
If you have upped from a Nexus S to a Galaxy Nexus, what's your opinion on this ?
One thing is certain, between the Galaxy SIII, HTC X and HTC S and the Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus seems to have the worst battery life. Although the other ones do not offer a pure Google experience... hmmmm

I'd say if you want an aosp experience, go with the nexus, if hats not as important to you as specs, get the s3 or one x. As for battery life, I recently got the sprint version and without lte, I get pretty poor battery life. Stock, I can barely get through an 8 hour day. With AOKP and Franco kernel, I can make it through the day with 20-30% left.
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I get usually between 4-5hrs screen on time and between 12 and 16 hours battery life.
Was on holidays for the last month and didn't use my phone to that extent and got almost 3 days on battery and an hour screen on time. (Data, wifi off)
Aokp b35 and Franco's latest nightly.

well I'd be using the phone in Europe so no LTE for now (just good old 3G).
4-5 hours on screen time is pretty good. On a normal day's work I don't even use it that much
I would probably try avoid having a heavily modded custom kernel because at least from my Nexus S' experience, the battery gain you get (mostly marginal) doesn't pay off the added instability and random reboots.

mindwalkr said:
well I'd be using the phone in Europe so no LTE for now (just good old 3G).
4-5 hours on screen time is pretty good. On a normal day's work I don't even use it that much
I would probably try avoid having a heavily modded custom kernel because at least from my Nexus S' experience, the battery gain you get (mostly marginal) doesn't pay off the added instability and random reboots.
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I have never had a random reboot unless I undervolt dramatically.
All the kernels here are more stable than for the nexus s, I came from the nexus s.
And the battery gain is far from marginal! Trust me!

nodstuff said:
All the kernels here are more stable than for the nexus s, I came from the nexus s.
And the battery gain is far from marginal! Trust me!
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Hmm that's good to hear!
Looks like I will have a fun time playing around with kernels then! With the Nexus S the only real use I found for custom kernels (besides undervolting) was Voodoo Sound and Back Light Notifications. Have to do some home work here and see if these are still needed though!

mindwalkr said:
Hmm that's good to hear!
Looks like I will have a fun time playing around with kernels then! With the Nexus S the only real use I found for custom kernels (besides undervolting) was Voodoo Sound and Back Light Notifications. Have to do some home work here and see if these are still needed though!
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There is no voodoo sound and no need for BLN as the gnex has an L.E.D. notification light.
There is a high performance sound hack in some kernels but its no voodoo, that's one thing I miss from nexus s, the wolfson amp in it was the ****!

nodstuff said:
There is a high performance sound hack in some kernels but its no voodoo, that's one thing I miss from nexus s, the wolfson amp in it was the ****!
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ahh I see! Cause right now the Voodoo patch is the only thing that can make my bass thin headphones sound any good with its bass boost. But that's not all.. hope the sound recording capabilities of the Galaxy Nexus are better than the Nexus S... cause I once had about 1 hour of ruined concert footage because the sound was like frying burguers... with the Voodoo patch you can fix the sound sensitivity profile

We'll as far as recording goes I have no idea because I haven't used it to record stuff like that.
As for the headphones well I use sennheiser cx300's so I never have a problem with bass or sound on the gnex but I would still love to have voodoo but unfortunately it doesn't have the hardware and supercurio can't do anything with it.

mindwalkr said:
Hey guys,
I currently have a Nexus S however after 1 year I'm thinking of upgrading. My first choice would be the Galaxy Nexus because I prefer the pure Google experience and getting the updates first.
However there's some pretty decent phones on the horizon right now, such as HTC's latest offerings.
One thing that I want to make sure is that if I go for the Galaxy Nexus that I won't have worse battery life than my Nexus S right now.
I have the i9023 Nexus S (LCD version) running the latest ICS 4.0.4 and at the moment I get about 24 hours of battery life (that's with around 1.5 hours screen on time). I've seen some screenshots around here from the Galaxy Nexus showing a not so good battery life... but I don't know if it will be actually worse, better or the same (everyone uses the phone differently).
If you have upped from a Nexus S to a Galaxy Nexus, what's your opinion on this ?
One thing is certain, between the Galaxy SIII, HTC X and HTC S and the Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus seems to have the worst battery life. Although the other ones do not offer a pure Google experience... hmmmm
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Hi, I had a HTC one X recently, and being a bit of a phone geek that I am I like to have a second phone as a spare. So I bought a second hand nexus s. Started setting it up and began to realise how much I missed the pure Google experience, so I ended up using it in preference to my one X. Only two things kept making me switch back occasionally, and they were the speed and the poor battery life of the nexus s. I found the nexus was fine when on Wi-Fi but bad when using the cellular connection. The HTC was good on standby but astonishingly bad when in use.
So I sold the HTC and bought a Galaxy nexus, this was by far the best phone purchase I've made in ages,as although slower in terms of speed it's actually smoother in operation than both the HTC and nexus s, its camera is also good enough for my needs but best of all, on 4.0.4 now, my battery life is just excellent. Bearing in mind I've had all 3 phones set up the same, syncing the same email accounts and other accounts in the same environments, using the same sim card and everything I can say without doubt that the galaxy nexus has almost double the battery life of the nexus s, both on 4.0.4 and both on completely stock, unrooted, boot loader locked roms.
My advice, get a Gnex, and don't look back, lesson for me was that specs aren't everything, user experience counts for more.

I get atleast 5 hours of screen on time per charge, this includes constant wifi usage and music playing.
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mindwalkr said:
well I'd be using the phone in Europe so no LTE for now (just good old 3G).
4-5 hours on screen time is pretty good. On a normal day's work I don't even use it that much
I would probably try avoid having a heavily modded custom kernel because at least from my Nexus S' experience, the battery gain you get (mostly marginal) doesn't pay off the added instability and random reboots.
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Franco's kernel is very stable. The omap in the galaxy nexus is a lot developer friendly. Samsung/Google really went all out to make this thing as open as possible.
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Volume+

One of you guys recommended me to download this(thanks) im using it at +10 and its louder but
Should i worry about it damaging my speaker?
Has one of u guys run into any problems with this?
Should i lower the value to be safe?
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There is always the chance of damaging your speaker.
Are you using free or paid?
I use the paid version and I use a setting of +15. The EQ setting will have an effect also.
Adjust up by 1, test, until you hear the speaker breaking up or sounding like you are pushing it too far then drop back 1.
You will know it when you are pushing that so called speaker too far!!!

I kept volume plus on 12 the whole time. Its perfect but sadly it doesn't work with Jelly Bean yet!
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I use the free full version(from the forum) that goes up to +20
Im trying to measure if it works with ringtones but sometimes i feel it does, sometimes i feel it doesnt
Strong placebo
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It's amazing. And besides, if u feel it'll break ur phone, just set to Max (20) and use it when u feel a need to push the limit. Other wise just stay in the middle while on 20.

What's the most frustrating thing about your GNex?

For me, it's how if I press a navbar key while an app is lagging, it registers as a long press. Since I have my navbar super modded out with custom long press functions, it causes my phone to do random unintended things!

I think it would have to be that it refuses to get up and bring me coffee in the morning. I mean come on, I don't ask for much, just get me some damn coffee.

speedyink said:
I think it would have to be that it refuses to get up and bring me coffee in the morning. I mean come on, I don't ask for much, just get me some damn coffee.
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Me too oh and it won't Cook either lol :banghead:
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Wish the camera was quicker in capturing unexpected moments. No matter what ROM is installed, it's just not fast enough. I'm speaking about time from picking up the phone, unlocking it, launching the camera app, and then taking a picture.

dustrho said:
Wish the camera was quicker in capturing unexpected moments. No matter what ROM is installed, it's just not fast enough. I'm speaking about time from picking up the phone, unlocking it, launching the camera app, and then taking a picture.
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If you use the stock lock screen, just swipe from right to left. That'll launch the camera.

Lesicnik1 said:
If you use the stock lock screen, just swipe from right to left. That'll launch the camera.
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I've reverted from the latest 4.2.2 jelly bean ROMs (primarily MMuzzy) back to 4.0.4 ice cream sandwich, because I was getting horrible battery life. Back on ICS I'm getting almost a day of battery life with 2-4 hours onscreen time, and because of that odd backwards switch I lost that ability with the camera. Even then, there was still some lag getting the camera app running, and then it took a while to focus on the subject you were trying to capture.
Good suggestion to anyone who didn't know about that, though.

Probably the fact that I can't seem to find a good GLASS screen protector for it that will fit with my otterbox commuter case and that won't start to peel up after a few months.
Besides that with the phone itself....the radios. I've owned low end android devices with specs much worse than this phone and I always had better reception.
Oh and the USB port. Just got a insurance replacement and it has USB issues off the bat. Dealing with it as long as I can because I'm hearing asurion no longer offers the 32gb nexus.
Waiting for the next one.

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fredryk said:
For me, it's how if I press a navbar key while an app is lagging, it registers as a long press. Since I have my navbar super modded out with custom long press functions, it causes my phone to do random unintended things!
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laggy

horizontal banding and reception little below my expectations.

The battery life. I am definitely buying a zero lemon extended battery for my gsm when it gets released on May.
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Battery life for sure!
Verstuurd van mijn Galaxy Nexus

RoyJ said:
Probably the fact that I can't seem to find a good GLASS screen protector for it that will fit with my otterbox commuter case and that won't start to peel up after a few months.
Besides that with the phone itself....the radios. I've owned low end android devices with specs much worse than this phone and I always had better reception.
Oh and the USB port. Just got a insurance replacement and it has USB issues off the bat. Dealing with it as long as I can because I'm hearing asurion no longer offers the 32gb nexus.
Waiting for the next one.
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That's the only size that was ever made for Verizon. What phone are they giving out instead?
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LarsAussems said:
Battery life for sure!
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Well, you can really say that about almost every smartphone.

The cheap plastic look of it compared to say an iPhone 5 which is well built ,even though gnex peferms better an has better features the build quality is crap.
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I say battery life as mentioned earlier but I love this phone I just came across an unlocked Motorola Droid Razr Hd ,battery life on it doubles my GneX and the camera is much better still running GneX as daily hoping to see a Moto GneX soon
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Roam Control doesn't work

Let's see, I hate 4.2.2, its buggy and the lock screen widgets are slow. The battery life sucks, the camera sucks in anything but sunlight. Besides that, I guess I'll be able to put up with it for another couple months, already had it for a year and 5 months.
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SirBindy said:
That's the only size that was ever made for Verizon. What phone are they giving out instead?
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It's a 16gb version. That's the only difference. There was a thread somewhere in these forums about it not too long ago. Someone got an asurion replacement and found out it was only 16gb and when he called they said that's what they had now....found it kinda odd because I just got a 32gb version from them maybe 4 days before the thread popped up. If you search you can find it I'm sure, but I'm getting ready to flash a ROM:thumbup: One of my favorite things about having a nexus

Battery life but I'm sure every android has that problem , except droid RAZR
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Agree the radios are terrible. When going to a different town I have to data toggle once I get to my destination. Which is lame but I've just lived with it.
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tcs.computergeek said:
Agree the radios are terrible. When going to a different town I have to data toggle once I get to my destination. Which is lame but I've just lived with it.
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Oh yeah I forgot how ****ty the radios are. This goes hand in hand with battery life, my school is practically a dead spot on the lower level with my nexus while other phone have no problem maintaining signal. The crap signal slaughters my battery, literally drops like 30%.
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Audio skips when the screen locks

I have found this issue on all kitkat roms.. The audio skips for a moment when screen is locked.. I know this is a minor issue but irritates me a lot since I listen to a lot of music.. I have seen that nobody talks about this bug.. Does anybody know the fix.. I am using PA rc2.. Great rom..
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I've got this as well.
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This is a known bug. Unfortunately,there's no fix as of now.If you increase min clock speed,there is no stuttering,but battery life takes a hit.

Any idea what introduced it since this was not present in 4.3
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aniketkuber said:
Any idea what introduced it since this was not present in 4.3
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Nope,not a clue . Maybe someone who is more knowledgeable can answer this question

OK.. Request some known Person to throw some light on this issue..
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Two things:
1. Make sure that the screen lock sound isn't enabled. On flashing a new rom, sometimes I'll forget to disable it and since I can't hear it or maybe it doesn't sound, especially when playing music, it'll almost definitely cause the stutter. Otherwise...
2. Like maschiosoosai said, turning up the clock speed will stop the problem altogether. If your kernel supports it, the "screen off max" frequency is the one you'd want to change first. I've found that around 700MHz (clock speeds vary by kernel) the problem goes from every time to about 50% of the time, and around 900MHz it's gone entirely. It's worth a shot, but you really have to be aware of processes keeping your phone awake and eating up your precious battery life if you choose this as a solution.
Honestly, I've found that my personal favorite solution is to not use my device when I'm listening to music. It keeps my battery going longer, and with my battery as used up as it is, it needs all the help it can get

Is this problem specific to 4.4 or just Galaxy Nexus?

Unluckily it also happens to me in all roms
It is a "click" and I'm used to deal with it...

Right now I m using slim 5.9 with fancy kernel .. What I observed was when I use poweramp the audio does not skip but with Apollo it skips
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Something to note is that this only seems to happen when listening through the headphone jack. Bluetooth and the phone's speaker don't seem to suffer from this issue.

PainFly23 said:
Something to note is that this only seems to happen when listening through the headphone jack. Bluetooth and the phone's speaker don't seem to suffer from this issue.
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For me it happens even through the speaker... Don't know about BT, I don't use it...

ILA said:
For me it happens even through the speaker... Don't know about BT, I don't use it...
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Happens with the speaker for sure. BT intermittently on my car - may vary depending on head unit.