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[Q] Question for Canadian Users who switched to yakju

This has probably been answered before by one or two people, but I'd rather know from the whole lot of you brave souls who have switched from yakjuux to yakju.
I'm specifically wondering from those of you that have done the COMPLETE switchover to the yakju build... that includes ALL things that come with it, including it's radio.
I know we can flash the KL1 radio on top, but I'm not looking to do that. I want the entire thing to be from Google, and keep it as such. From what I understand, when you have the yakju build, and the KL1 radio, you will not get OTA updates automatically, thus having to flash manually. On the flip side, if its a complete yakju, including the radio that comes with it, you will get the OTA updates automatically.
So here's the questions:
1. Have any of you flashed the yakju build on your phones KEEPING THE RADIO that is a part of that build? If so, what are your experiences with reception/data specifically on the Bell Network? Any difference that you've noticed?
2. Am I wrong in my thinking? If you did flash yakju, then the KL1 radio, will you definitely receive OTA updates automatically? As in no real user intervention other than clicking "update"?
I want to be sure before I do this, because I cannot find a complete image of the yakjuux build that includes everything including the bootloader in case something goes wrong/or doesn't update the way a true Google experience should.
Please let me now.
Thanks

I am running stock 4.0.2 with everything from the official image. No problem with signal. What is your worry?
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superlj said:
I am running stock 4.0.2 with everything from the official image. No problem with signal. What is your worry?
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Just want to make sure the radio from the official build works properly with Bell.
Don't really want to create a Frankenstein build so too speak by adding different radios
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I changed mine to yakju shortly after I got the phone, about two weeks ago.
I haven't noticed any difference with the radio, good or bad. Still no issues with reception or anything dropping out.
Can't tell you about the OTA updates though, haven't received anything yet to go past 4.0.2. If/when I do, I'll update my reply to help everyone else out.

torradan said:
I changed mine to yakju shortly after I got the phone, about two weeks ago.
I haven't noticed any difference with the radio, good or bad. Still no issues with reception or anything dropping out.
Can't tell you about the OTA updates though, haven't received anything yet to go past 4.0.2. If/when I do, I'll update my reply to help everyone else out.
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Thank you for your reply. Just to clarify, you are using the stock radio that came with yakju? I think its KK or something? Or did you change over to KL1?

greeced said:
Thank you for your reply. Just to clarify, you are using the stock radio that came with yakju? I think its KK or something? Or did you change over to KL1?
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bump. bump.

why are you so worried about receiving ota automatically? since you are on xda and know how to flash you will always have the latest build. Being in canada we usually are slow to get updates(Galaxy Nexus is still on 4.0.1 here) so whats the point in waiting for ota. if you are planning to flash an update now why not do it again when a new one comes out.
btw to answer your questions about the radio, the stock one,XXKK6, will work fine with bell although UGKL1 seems to work better for me on Fido. UGKL1 is probably the radio that your phone has now. it was on my stock fido GN.

I flashed the entire package, including the xxkk6 radio.. Works perfectly fine on Rogers, no comment for Bell but should be fine. Just try it, flash it back if you don't like it. Takes all of 2 minutes.

From what I understand (and I'm still new to this as well) you need to use the radio that comes with the official image otherwise you won't get OTA updates associated with that rom.
Newbie account so I can't post links yet but search "galaxy nexus upgrade to official roms yakju build" and its the leemn wordpress blog that says:
"After flashing to yakju build, you can still receive notification of the OTA updates.If you have flashed the radio, system, userdata and boot partitions, and you still have the stock recovery (or have flashed it) from the 4.0.2 image, you will be able to install the updates. However, if you flash a different radio, or different kernel , or a custom recovery, you will need to flash back the stock ones first before being able to install the update."

That's the whole thing.
When I was on the SGS, I tried a while slew of custom roms as well as the European beta builds.
I wasn't worried about doing that because there was always a way to go back to KG3, by spoofing the firmware to make KIES think it was on JL2. KIES would download KG3 officially back to the phone.
I always seemed to revert back to stock because none of the beta or custom roms seemed to work efficiently for me the way the stock one did.
I know, I'm strange.
So that experience brings me here. Without an official download of the yakjuux build available (bootloader image), there really is no going back if something just doesn't work as intended. (remember, we all use our phones differently).
That's why the fright. I just don't want to get to the point that this Canadian incarnation starts having an identity crisis.
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I flashed it all.
Works great. No issues. I also wanted 100% stock and so far, i am very happy with it.

greeced said:
Thank you for your reply. Just to clarify, you are using the stock radio that came with yakju? I think its KK or something? Or did you change over to KL1?
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Sorry missed your question, but I'm using the KL1 radio.

I am with Fido and have complete 4.0.2 stock rom. I had some strange issues with signals but everything is fine after I changed to a new SIM.
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greeced said:
That's the whole thing.
When I was on the SGS, I tried a while slew of custom roms as well as the European beta builds.
I wasn't worried about doing that because there was always a way to go back to KG3, by spoofing the firmware to make KIES think it was on JL2. KIES would download KG3 officially back to the phone.
I always seemed to revert back to stock because none of the beta or custom roms seemed to work efficiently for me the way the stock one did.
I know, I'm strange.
So that experience brings me here. Without an official download of the yakjuux build available (bootloader image), there really is no going back if something just doesn't work as intended. (remember, we all use our phones differently).
That's why the fright. I just don't want to get to the point that this Canadian incarnation starts having an identity crisis.
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I'm not sure what the problem is. When you unlock your bootloader, you just do a nandroid backup, and it backups up your system, data, recovery and boot partitions. The radio is already available. So you can always go back to "stock" yakjuux in case yakju doesn't work (which it obviously does for Canadian users). I've even posted a nandroid backup of my yakjuux build before I flashed yakju. There is a thread in the general section. And to address your concern about "always reverting to stock", yakju IS the stock ROM, it is not a beta or a custom ROM.
The bootloader has nothing to do with yakju or yakjuux or whatever. It will not affect anything related to getting an OTA update or installing an OTA update. Keep your current bootloader if you are worried about not having a backup, and go ahead and flash all of the other images (after backing up your originals of course). That way, you can always return to your yakjuxx if you think there is a problem. Just because you didn't flash the bootloader that came with the latest yakju image does not at all mean you are not using yakju, and I would not call it a "frankenbuild" -- think of the bootloader as the BIOS in a computer. You computer is running Windows regardless if you are using an ASUS P5Q motherboard, or an ABIT IP5 motherboard -- both have different BIOS, but the OS is still Windows. Same with a GN -- you are running yakju regardless of whether you bootloader is 10, 14, 15, etc.
EDIT: To specifically address your question number 2 -- if you flash the system, data and boot images from yakju, you are running yakju, and you will receive the notification for an OTA update when it is available. However, you will not be able to have it install automatically if you don't have the radio image that came with the yakju build and a stock recovery (they are all the same). You can, however, flash those back as soon as you receive the OTA update notification and it will install automatically. Bootloader has no relevance whatsoever.

Great explanation. Thank you efrant. You've answered everything I've needed to know
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Well finally took the plunge and went to yakju from yakjuux. Although my experience wasn't as seemless as everyone elses, so I thought I'd tell everyone just in case someone else runs in to the same problem.
For starters: I followed efrants excellent procedure from this exact post. However it also must be noted that I decided to use the 41F (4.0.1) firmware from Google's images instead of the 53F (4.0.2) image. I did this because I wanted to experience an update. lol
Now, at first I had to try several drivers in order for my Windows 7 laptop to even see the phone with the "fastboot devices" command. I finally found one that works. Coincidentally, one driver will work on one machine, but won't on the next, I have no idea why. After finally getting the right one, I proceeded:
I did all steps to the letter, but skipped steps 4,5 and 12, as the post says they were optional and I didn't really want to lose my bootloader and recovery in case I wanted to revert back to yakjuux.
After completing all steps but those, I did the final "fastboot reboot" and the phone restarted.
Here's where the ride began:
When it restarted, it seemed like everything was fine. It took a while to find Bell's settings, but it was ok. It then said an update to 4.0.2. was available.
Upon the reboot and install, the phone shut off, and rebooted twice, after the second time, I had an android on the ground with its chest open and a RED exclamationed triangle above it. My thoughts were "uh oh". I waited and waited, and nothing was happening. Pressing power and holding it down, wouldn't help.... After approx 5 mins I was about to do a battery pull, and it restarted itself, but remained on the 41F update.
Each restart would say it was upgrading, but never did.. always stayed on 41F.
So I went back and did everything in the procedure, not omitting anything this time (goodbye yakjuux bootloader!) and it went off without a hitch... This time my android figure was standing up, very much alive and getting a heart transplant.
So here I am.. Yakju configured and using the yakju KK6 radio. All seems well. Haven't decided if I'm going to put the KL1 radio on as yet, but thats for another day.
Thanks again efrant for all your help and patience with me.

@greeced Welcome to yakju. I doubt you will ever go back to yakjuux.
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Well, I have been on yakju for a few days now and I can say no problems whatsoever.
At first I felt as if it was slightly Laggy, but that seemed to correct itself after a day or so. Not sure why, but the phone is just as quick as before now.
As for the radio, I wanted to stay completely stock, and that included the radio. So my phone is running the stock KK6 that came with the update, and I noticed my DBM levels are just as good as before if not better. So I don't feel the need to flash KL1.
Overall very happy that I'm now Pure Google.
One thing to note:
When I was on my SGS, I always factory reset after every flash, which always seemed to speed up the experience of the new ROM.
I think that should be the case for all firmware updates, including googles.
It's a painful process to redo everything, but well worth it in my opinion.
I mean think about it, installing a fresh copy of windows always performs better than doing an upgrade of windows, so that should be the same here.
We are dealing with computers after all.
At any rate. Just thought I'd update my experience in case anyone else who is on bell felt apprehensive like me.
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greeced said:
Well, I have been on yakju for a few days now and I can say no problems whatsoever.
At first I felt as if it was slightly Laggy, but that seemed to correct itself after a day or so. Not sure why, but the phone is just as quick as before now.
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I think the general consensus is that ICL53F is more laggy that ITL41F or ITL41D, so it is not a yakju vs yakjuux issue, it is a 4.0.1 vs 4.0.2 issue.
greeced said:
As for the radio, I wanted to stay completely stock, and that included the radio. So my phone is running the stock KK6 that came with the update, and I noticed my DBM levels are just as good as before if not better. So I don't feel the need to flash KL1.
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Radio performance varies with a huge number of factors. If you are happy with how one radio works, use it. If you want to see if another one is better, try it. If you don't like it, flash back. It takes all of 30 secs to flash a radio.
greeced said:
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When I was on my SGS, I always factory reset after every flash, which always seemed to speed up the experience of the new ROM.
I think that should be the case for all firmware updates, including googles.
It's a painful process to redo everything, but well worth it in my opinion.
I mean think about it, installing a fresh copy of windows always performs better than doing an upgrade of windows, so that should be the same here.
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If you believe this, then I suggest that you do not flash older builds and OTA update to a newer ones. This process adds more files to your ROM, and is not as clean as flashing the latest build from Google's factory image site.
When the next version of Android is released, the full version will likely be available on Google's factory image site shortly before OTA's for yakju start rolling out.* If you don't mind redoing your settings, apps, etc., it is better (and faster) to flash the full build, instead of updating your current build.
*My assumption based on release dates for previous versions.

Question efrant.
I relocked my bootloader purposely.
If I wanted to test other radios does the bootloader need to be unlocked?
If it does, no big deal, I just won't do it
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Factory images and flashing

Hey guys,
I recently got a Galaxy Nexus, and wanted to play around with it. It's still on the 4.0.1 stock ROM (yakjuux build). Haven't made any tweaks to it beyond the basics (removed vibration, disabled data since I don't have a data plan, etc).
Basically, what are the benefits of flashing the 4.0.2 factory image (from Google, can't link it yet)? And how would I go about it? My guess is, I'll need to place the files on the phone, then flash it using flash-all.sh. Or would it be better to just pick a custom ROM and go with that instead of flashing the yakju build?

The benefits of straight yakju are that you should get updates first (faster than yakju** people anyways).
Custom ROMs offer more than stock but bring their own issues/tweaking. Go read every one of the 1000000 threads on "stock vs. custom ROM" (think there's one going on in Q&A right now, actually).
If you want to switch from yakjuux to yakju, follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21113773&postcount=195
I personally used this one to flash my Canadian model to yakju and it works great. It uses your PC (or Mac) + fastboot to flash the items in order. Be sure to follow all of the steps and flash all of the items. In order to receive OTAs (if that's important to you) you need them to all be flashed. Changing one (like recovery or radio) will stop OTAs.
If you need more info, the guide is pulled from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1464881

Sweet, thanks. That worked great.
I did notice a weird thing after rooting where my phone remained awake constantly even with the screen turned off. Not sure if it fixed itself though. I'll check again to see if the problem persists.
edit: It seems to be fixed now. Awesome.

upgrading from Yakju to Jelly bean... how?

hey all, I noticed that jelly bean is out, sort of.
i would like to put it on my nexus but am sofar unable to make sense of the development forums pertaining to this so hopefully someone here can help me understand this.
I used the efrant's post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21113773#post21113773
to take my yakjuux nexus to yakju (4.0.4) using fastboot and the stock image provided from google...
I would like to upgrade further, though from what i can figure out JB is only available on takju (yakju with google wallet (works in US only)).
can someone here help me?

batkinson001 said:
hey all, I noticed that jelly bean is out, sort of.
i would like to put it on my nexus but am sofar unable to make sense of the development forums pertaining to this so hopefully someone here can help me understand this.
I used the efrant's post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21113773#post21113773
to take my yakjuux nexus to yakju (4.0.4) using fastboot and the stock image provided from google...
I would like to upgrade further, though from what i can figure out JB is only available on takju (yakju with google wallet (works in US only)).
can someone here help me?
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If you're running stock yakju you don't really need to switch to takju. Just install CWM (The Galaxy Nexus Toolkit is an awesome tool to help you do that) and flash this.

You can go from any rom (custom or stock) to jb as far as you have cwm and xxla2 radios..
Cheers
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Camazza said:
If you're running stock yakju you don't really need to switch to takju. Just install CWM (The Galaxy Nexus Toolkit is an awesome tool to help you do that) and flash this.
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got some troubleshooting to do... phone wont show up in fastboot... cant use the toolkit until i figure this out.
edit: reinstalled the naked universal driver... shows up in fastboot now.

Does this method wipe everything?

Camazza said:
If you're running stock yakju you don't really need to switch to takju. Just install CWM (The Galaxy Nexus Toolkit is an awesome tool to help you do that) and flash this.
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i think it worked, used option 6 for my build of android, then selectedthe option to install cwm touch, followed the instructions in section 3 on:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1614827
Hopefully this will fix the issue i was having with my nexus where the radio would lose all connection to the network... usually have to reboot the phone to get it to work again... a minor annoyance for an awesome phone. Atleast it doesn't take 3-5 min to boot up like my blackberry playbook tablet (that's not cool RIM, please fix)...

nipcarlover said:
Does this method wipe everything?
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it didn't on my nexus... though i didn't use the 7th option which does steps 3-6 (unlock bootloader, root phone, flash recovery) which would wipe the phone.
I just hope i can still send messages on it, last time i flashed it i had to get telus to resend the info to the phone.

another question, I don't think I got the full JB os, as my phone is still using the xxla2 radio... if i wanted to go back to yakju for the full stock OTA update, supposedly coming next month sometime, and keep my warranty, I would just reflash everything back to yakju, including recovery (CWM - stock)?
I assume I would have to do this with the fastboot in the DOS window since I don't think that I can revert everything back to 4.0.4 with the toolkit.
also how do I tell if the phone is rooted? I don't think i did this but would like to know anyways.

batkinson001 said:
another question, I don't think I got the full JB os, as my phone is still using the xxla2 radio... if i wanted to go back to yakju for the full stock OTA update, supposedly coming next month sometime, and keep my warranty, I would just reflash everything back to yakju, including recovery (CWM - stock)?
I assume I would have to do this with the fastboot in the DOS window since I don't think that I can revert everything back to 4.0.4 with the toolkit.
also how do I tell if the phone is rooted? I don't think i did this but would like to know anyways.
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Yes, for stock, use adb+fastboot and Nexus Factory Images for everything stock 100%. And to check for superuser, just download an app that requires it and see if you get a command prompt. But even easier than that, SuperUser or SuperSU should be in your app drawer if you have it installed, and also in your /system/app

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Yes, for stock, use adb+fastboot and Nexus Factory Images for everything stock 100%. And to check for superuser, just download an app that requires it and see if you get a command prompt. But even easier than that, SuperUser or SuperSU should be in your app drawer if you have it installed, and also in your /system/app
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I don't have those apps installed, guess I am not rooted. Good to know.
Also it should be noted that I no longer have any input lag using poweramp, with ICS 4.0.4 there was always a 1 second (seemed like it anyways) delay between the button press and the phone doing what I want. I hope this extends to using my bluetooth headset as well.

hmmm figured i would try downgrading to takju using the toolkit... it did everything which is nice however i noticed that it still uses the radio from yakju...
is there a way to check what it didn't add to the phone when it downgraded?
edit: I should add that it wiped my phone when I loaded takju...
looking forward to getting the official JB update next month...

batkinson001 said:
hmmm figured i would try downgrading to takju using the toolkit... it did everything which is nice however i noticed that it still uses the radio from yakju...
is there a way to check what it didn't add to the phone when it downgraded?
edit: I should add that it wiped my phone when I loaded takju...
looking forward to getting the official JB update next month...
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I already had bootloader unlocked, so I just had to install CWM recovery and flash the jb-takju image mentioned earlier. Once the phone has rebooted the CWM was gone, so had to reflash that. Afterwards I downloaded the XLFF1 radios (you can search for radio-i9250-xxlf1.zip) and flashed them as well. Now my phone shows all the same versions as the takju phones passed out at Google I/O. All my settings, etc. were preserved.

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I already had bootloader unlocked, so I just had to install CWM recovery and flash the jb-takju image mentioned earlier. Once the phone has rebooted the CWM was gone, so had to reflash that. Afterwards I downloaded the XLFF1 radios (you can search for radio-i9250-xxlf1.zip) and flashed them as well. Now my phone shows all the same versions as the takju phones passed out at Google I/O. All my settings, etc. were preserved.
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i really would like to remain stock but get JB as well, what would I need besides that radio to make the takju image from the google site to be prompted to dl the OTA JB update if it is still available to download from google...?
edit: screw that, found efrant's post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28178320&postcount=2
hopefully the jb-takju.zip linked earlier in this thread is the same as the one in efrants' post....
if not, is it possible to reflash with the newer zip without setting everything up again?

batkinson001 said:
i really would like to remain stock but get JB as well, what would I need besides that radio to make the takju image from the google site to be prompted to dl the OTA JB update if it is still available to download from google...?
edit: screw that, found efrant's post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28178320&postcount=2
hopefully the jb-takju.zip linked earlier in this thread is the same as the one in efrants' post....
if not, is it possible to reflash with the newer zip without setting everything up again?
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The linked one produced the same build number (JRN84D) on my phone as the one on the phone that came from Google I/O, which is the same as the one in efrants' post.

dmapr said:
The linked one produced the same build number (JRN84D) on my phone as the one on the phone that came from Google I/O, which is the same as the one in efrants' post.
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good to know, i compared the url's for both links, the one in efrant's post is missing the ) at the end. I ended up wiping the cache's (except for the one that sounds like some guys name) and flashed the zip from it. working great so far.
at the moment I am reinstalling my apps, and i do not think that all of the apps that were in the google folder last time i reinstalled the os, are there. anyone know what the default apps that are supposed to come with the OS are in that folder? I can only remember Layer which I installed manually...

batkinson001 said:
good to know, i compared the url's for both links, the one in efrant's post is missing the ) at the end. I ended up wiping the cache's (except for the one that sounds like some guys name) and flashed the zip from it. working great so far.
at the moment I am reinstalling my apps, and i do not think that all of the apps that were in the google folder last time i reinstalled the os, are there. anyone know what the default apps that are supposed to come with the OS are in that folder? I can only remember Layer which I installed manually...
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Sorry, I didn't have to reinstall anything, so the apps in my Google folder are the same as before the update. I do however have Currents in the main app drawer which I don't remember having before.

Which Phone do I have? IMM76K: no 4.1.1 updates working)

Hi all,
I just received a new GNex from Vodafone Australia. Can someone please help me figure out which version I have so I can update it?
I am running 4.0.4 (rooted)
The Baseband is:
I9250TDVLE1
The build is:
IMM76K.I9250TDVLE1
I could not find an update on google anywhere...
I found reference to my build pertaining to Toro, Magro and Verizon.
I can't see how all of these could be simultaneously true...
I thought '**** it' I ll roll back to a yakju 'official' 4.0.4 IMM76I ROM from here and then flash the Update to 4.1.1 JRO03C
But When I booted into CWM and tried to flash the imm76i, it would not let me. Is there something I am doing wrong or do not understand about swapping roms...?
(I cleared the cache / factory reset)
Am I stuck with IMM76I until google makes an 4.1.1 update, or can I flash another google rom somehow and get the update that way?
Cheers

ac17 said:
Hi all,
I just received a new GNex from Vodafone Australia. Can someone please help me figure out which version I have so I can update it?
I am running 4.0.4 (rooted)
The Baseband is:
I9250TDVLE1
The build is:
IMM76K.I9250TDVLE1
I could not find an update on google anywhere...
I found reference to my build pertaining to Toro, Magro and Verizon.
I can't see how all of these could be simultaneously true...
I thought '**** it' I ll roll back to a yakju 'official' 4.0.4 IMM76I ROM from here and then flash the Update to 4.1.1 JRO03C
But When I booted into CWM and tried to flash the imm76i, it would not let me. Is there something I am doing wrong or do not understand about swapping roms...?
(I cleared the cache / factory reset)
Am I stuck with IMM76I until google makes an 4.1.1 update, or can I flash another google rom somehow and get the update that way?
Cheers
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That's because the package you downloaded on Google's Developers website needs to be flashed using fastboot, not CWM. Follow this thread to flash back to yakju, and you should be good to go.

Did this work for you? as i have the same phone and im tempted to do this but not if its going to mess the phone up. Damn you vodafone for having to be different

Rayzor76 said:
Did this work for you? as i have the same phone and im tempted to do this but not if its going to mess the phone up. Damn you vodafone for having to be different
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It would definitely work however if you even need to return your phone back to Vodafone, you may or may not run into some issues due to not being on their ROM. It's pretty hard to find random stock ROMs for places other than the main ones these days (or I just might be looking at the wrong places).

Rayzor76 said:
Did this work for you? as i have the same phone and im tempted to do this but not if its going to mess the phone up. Damn you vodafone for having to be different
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I'm sorry, I can't remember what I did, but I fixed it that night, which now feels like months ago.
I installed Nexus Root Toolkit v1.5.2, on a pc and I know that that helped me speed up the process.
You can't ruin anything unless you flash a rom not designed for the phone, or format the bios partition and then reboot (with out installing a new bios), but even then I'm sure you can install stuff from a pc over usb using that program.

ac17 said:
I'm sorry, I can't remember what I did, but I fixed it that night, which now feels like months ago.
I installed Nexus Root Toolkit v1.5.2, on a pc and I know that that helped me speed up the process.
You can't ruin anything unless you flash a rom not designed for the phone, or format the bios partition and then reboot (with out installing a new bios), but even then I'm sure you can install stuff from a pc over usb using that program.
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Thanks New to Android as I have been an avid iOS user and jailbreaker for a few years so just catching up on rooting and flashing ROMs n stuff. But good to know it can be done as i Have the exactly same phone from Vodafone Australia. Better to be safe than sorry and ruining a 2 day old phone.

Rayzor76 said:
Thanks New to Android as I have been an avid iOS user and jailbreaker for a few years so just catching up on rooting and flashing ROMs n stuff. But good to know it can be done as i Have the exactly same phone from Vodafone Australia. Better to be safe than sorry and ruining a 2 day old phone.
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No worries mate, this is my 2nd android phone (first was a nexus s).
I learned a lot by rooting and playing with custom roms on that ph, but I have been really happy with stock jelly Bean on this (albeit rooted) device. Battery life is great, and it's a snappy phone with great features.
FYI I just read an interesting article Why Apple Won't Divorce Samsung today that explained how Samsung make all the chips for Apple products. You can't go wrong with Samsung mate.
Android users on this forum are generally friendly and Damn knowledgeable too.
Enjoy your new phone!

ac17 said:
Hi all,
I just received a new GNex from Vodafone Australia. Can someone please help me figure out which version I have so I can update it?
I am running 4.0.4 (rooted)
The Baseband is:
I9250TDVLE1
The build is:
IMM76K.I9250TDVLE1
I could not find an update on google anywhere...
I found reference to my build pertaining to Toro, Magro and Verizon.
I can't see how all of these could be simultaneously true...
I thought '**** it' I ll roll back to a yakju 'official' 4.0.4 IMM76I ROM from here and then flash the Update to 4.1.1 JRO03C
But When I booted into CWM and tried to flash the imm76i, it would not let me. Is there something I am doing wrong or do not understand about swapping roms...?
(I cleared the cache / factory reset)
Am I stuck with IMM76I until google makes an 4.1.1 update, or can I flash another google rom somehow and get the update that way?
Cheers
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OK. The fact is that Vodafone and Telstra get all their updates later. This is because of the better 3g signals they have built in the phone. So due to this their updates come out a little while later. Also it depends where you are in the world (eg. UK, AU, USA) because the UK has already got the update as far as I know. So there is two options here to stay with Vodafone if something does go wrong so you have a backup. And referring to what Unlawful had said he is right you do need a stock Vodafone ROM or features and such can go wrong. BTW I am also with Vodafone but running a custom ROM.

Thank mate. I updated it manually, months ago.
The Gnex is an awesome phone (I upgraded from a NEXUS S), and with stock jelly Bean (rooted) with stock kernel it runs smoothly and is stable.
I miss rge Wolfson audio chip of the nexus s though bc audio recordings are terrible and crackling with the gnex.
Fast charge is something that I now need and otherwise I'm satisfied!

OK enlighten me please :)

Oh where do I start...
eh hem, my last phone was HTC Desire, I know ancient now, but recently bought a used Galaxy Nexus and I like it so far. Cant beat Wind Mobile $29/month plan so I gave in
So here are my questions so if you can answer these for me, much appreciated.
1. Factory reset. Previous owner supposedly reset and erased all the data for me (was on start-up menu), but once I got home and started tinkering around, there were still some pictures, musics, downloaded apps (mostly empty folder), rar. files left in the storage. Isn't it suppose to wipe clean? I had to plug in the phone to the computer and had to manually delete them. Hmm...
2. The guy said it was a Bell phone, which they haven't released OTA update for Jelly Bean yet -at least to my knowledge- but it was running 4.1.1, kernel 3.0.31-g6fb96c9 build JRO03C dated June 28/2012. So obviously it was flashed...can someone explain which rom this is and is it good/stable/popular/outdated?
3. It also has SuperSu app so is my phone rooted as well?
4. Will I get the next OTA update if there will be one in the future with this rom?
PS: I am the third owner of this phone in the span on 3 months and last owner didn't seem very tech savvy and I have a feeling it was the first owner that did this.
Thanks in advance for any input!

smrtphusr said:
Oh where do I start...
eh hem, my last phone was HTC Desire, I know ancient now, but recently bought a used Galaxy Nexus and I like it so far. Cant beat Wind Mobile $29/month plan so I gave in
So here are my questions so if you can answer these for me, much appreciated.
1. Factory reset. Previous owner supposedly reset and erased all the data for me (was on start-up menu), but once I got home and started tinkering around, there were still some pictures, musics, downloaded apps (mostly empty folder), rar. files left in the storage. Isn't it suppose to wipe clean? I had to plug in the phone to the computer and had to manually delete them. Hmm...
2. The guy said it was a Bell phone, which they haven't released OTA update for Jelly Bean yet -at least to my knowledge- but it was running 4.1.1, kernel 3.0.31-g6fb96c9 build JRO03C dated June 28/2012. So obviously it was flashed...can someone explain which rom this is and is it good/stable/popular/outdated?
3. It also has SuperSu app so is my phone rooted as well?
4. Will I get the next OTA update if there will be one in the future with this rom?
PS: I am the third owner of this phone in the span on 3 months and last owner didn't seem very tech savvy and I have a feeling it was the first owner that did this.
Thanks in advance for any input!
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Follow the steps in the "flash" link in my signature, and you'll be sure to have a fully stock JRO03C build that will receive OTA updates.

First of all, welcome to Galaxy Nexus community!
1. The guy might have just used clockworkmod to factory reset/wipe. This means that it only clears the apps+data, and not the sdcard folder, which includes things like photos and musics.
2. We can't (At least I can't ) just tell you which ROM it is with kernels and infos that you gave us. If you're curious, check the system settings and see if you see any ROM controls, tweaks, performance tweaks or any of them. If you see them, it should be custom ROM. If there isn't any additional settings, I assume that it is stock ROM.
3. Yes, it is rooted. If you want to unroot, I believe there's a setting to unroot in the SuperSU app itself.
4. That depends, if it is on stock ROM, has stock recovery, has bootloader, and radio that came with the stock ROM, then yes, you will get and able to update the next OTA. What I recommend doing is, however, just follow Efrant's guide to flashing to stock and then root if you want to. Doing this can make sure that you are getting the next OTA!

Thank you guys for your replies.
I already had that step by step guide bookmarked
OK, I used to love to fiddle around with the phone but Ive gotten lazy
So what I am going to do is just use it and if I do miss the next OTA I will flash then haha
Cheers!

Follow efrants guide in his sig, and use takju 4.1.1 JRO03C(so you get to use Google Wallet) from the Google factory images webpage. flash that and youll be fully wiped clean and ready to go