I'm buying a galaxy nexus gsm version off of somebody on craigslist, and I wanted to ask is there anything in specific I should be looking for? I will be checking both speakers, back speaker and earpiece, gps lock on, and overall hardware condition. Now I've read about the screen issues with the galaxy nexus but I just wanted some insight on how I can spot them, for example where do I have to look at and at what brightness level, in certain types, responsiveness, graininess, etc
Thank you very much guys, all advice and suggestions are appreciated
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Nothing guys?
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Just make sure everything (hardware wise) seems to be working. Assuming the owner did some modding, majority of the things you listed could also be software related.
Yes, this includes the screen, speaker volume, GPS lock, etc.
twomix9900 said:
Just make sure everything (hardware wise) seems to be working. Assuming the owner did some modding, majority of the things you listed could also be software related.
Yes, this includes the screen, speaker volume, GPS lock, etc.
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Ok cool, how do I look for purple tint & blotches? Is it noticeable only in certain apps or how can I detect.them?
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Look at the settings menus with the lowest brightness level, you will notice any banding, blotches.
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Also reboot into recovery. Just in case he did some modding. If you want it stock that is...
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On my nexus, my auto brightness is not working right. If I take my phone in bright light, the screen brightness goes up. However, if I move away to a dim place or cover the light sensor, it doesn't dim the screen. Its like its stuck on that higher setting till I turn the screen off and on. Of course we have the very low brightness issue also, but this is different. Can anyone try this on theirs' and see what happens?
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Same here. Minor inconvenience. Last phone did it also.
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I've never had a phone other than an iphone 2g that did this. Its very bad for battery life. I mean, you would be using your phone in bright light and then move away to a dim place and expect the screen to go down in brightness to save battery. But its but working here this way.
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if you unlocked, there are a couple of patches in development section.
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Im using a myTouch 4G and its always done that. My mothers MT4GS does the same thing. I think its just something that isnt accounted for
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if you unlocked, there are a couple of patches in development section.
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yes pach it
guys, especially the new Verizon owners, do you all notice the same thing on your phones?
Please can someone test this out? I need to see whether its a defect on just my phone or whether its normal behavior with the Nexus . Thanks.
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Its not just yours. Patch it or move on.
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All you have to do is lock and unlock the phone. It will adjust
Edit: Didn't see that that's what you already do
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kangxi said:
All you have to do is lock and unlock the phone. It will adjust
Edit: Didn't see that that's what you already do
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Great, but it shouldn't do that. It should auto adjust on the fly. I saw it functioning fine on the Note I had. After the patch, does this work normal now?
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OMG I've just tested my iPod Touch 4th Gen with my LED torch.
It behaves exact same as the Galaxy Nexus
Once the screen brightness has been boosted up, it won't go down until I switch the screen off and on again.
What the hell is this? Is it a kind of function but not a bug?
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OMG I've just tested my iPod Touch 4th Gen with my LED torch.
It behaves exact same as the Galaxy Nexus
Once the screen brightness has been boosted up, it won't go down until I switch the screen off and on again.
What the hell is this? Is it a kind of function but not a bug?
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Yea, my old iphone 2g had worked the same way. Once it goes up, it doesnt come down. I've never had a android phone that works that way. All of them go up or down dynamically as needed. I'm sure the change is something new on ICS. Gingerbread & older OS did not do this, example: The Galaxy Note I had before Nexus would dynamically shift. But not the Nexus. On the Nexus, I have to turn the phone off then on for it "sense" the dimmer lighting to decrease the brightness.
Or simply not use auto-brightness.
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Or simply not use auto-brightness.
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You could do that, but the intent of this thread was to highlight an obvious flaw with ICS. Im sure thats how google wanted it, but why?
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Did anybody find the patch and does it work?? I searched the dev section and all I could find was patches to increase the light levels of the auto brightness, couldn't find the patch or a fix for the auto brightness not dimming. If someone could link it or point me in the right direction that would be awesome
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Nobody was ably to fix the issue of the screen not dimming???
Same here on 4.0.4, I find it very annoying. A friend of mine now uses AOKP MS5 on his device, which dims correctly (as I think of what "correct" is).
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Yea, my old iphone 2g had worked the same way. Once it goes up, it doesnt come down. I've never had a android phone that works that way. All of them go up or down dynamically as needed. I'm sure the change is something new on ICS. Gingerbread & older OS did not do this, example: The Galaxy Note I had before Nexus would dynamically shift. But not the Nexus. On the Nexus, I have to turn the phone off then on for it "sense" the dimmer lighting to decrease the brightness.
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Stock android has always been in this way iirc...
Only phones not running an aop Roms (like samsung) lower the dimm...
CM9 has a specific option to enable backlight dimming and always had (yes, in gingerbread too)
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Stock android has always been in this way iirc...
Only phones not running an aop Roms (like samsung) lower the dimm...
CM9 has a specific option to enable backlight dimming and always had (yes, in gingerbread too)
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Im the OP of this post, turns out most of the custom roms have an option under display settings called decrease hysteresis that allows the screen to dim. I am completely satisfied now.
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Since there isn't an LED light specifically for notifications, is there a way to make the LEDs for menu, home, back, and search light up for said notifications? It would be even better if each one lit up for specific apps so I could know why it's lighting up before I even turn on the screen.
Thanks for any help!
My suggestion would be NoLED.
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My suggestion would be NoLED.
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Yeah, that's what I'm doing, but was hoping one could take advantage of the buttons' LEDs.
shanepardue said:
Yeah, that's what I'm doing, but was hoping one could take advantage of the buttons' LEDs.
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The closest we can get to LED notifications is BLN. You need to use a BLN compatible kernel and use the app BLN Control.
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The closest we can get to LED notifications is BLN. You need to use a BLN compatible kernel and use the app BLN Control.
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Perfect, thanks!
I'm trying to tweak some things on system tuner and my phone rebooted (but took a bit to turn on) my blood pressure dropped, I thought I killed my phone!
But after some reading.. it pretty much means the phone does not like those settings, change them.. right? Phone works fine now though, but I was wondering for future reference
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I'm trying to tweak some things on system tuner and my phone rebooted (but took a bit to turn on) my blood pressure dropped, I thought I killed my phone!
But after some reading.. it pretty much means the phone does not like those settings, change them.. right? Phone works fine now though, but I was wondering for future reference
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Yeah, basically. If you are undervolting, you need to take tiny increments to make sure the phone is stable before going any further.
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Thank you
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That would ve awesome i was using my softkeys in my g2x for text message notifications i yet to find something similar for this phone
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It would ve great to have that. Loved that about my G1
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I recently cracked my screen just one hairline across the screen. I put my phone next to my friends s3 and not only does his screen look brighter but there is colors look better and clearer on his phone. My phone feels foggy almost. I'm getting it fixed by samsung but do u think the repair will fix this color issue I'm having? Never noticed and I'm kinda jealous of his device and the way things look. Any insight is appreciated.
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Can you tell if you cracked just the glass or the touchscreen part, etc?
It might just be he has brightness or something turned up
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It cant be his screen settings I tried now on mulitple s3s and my screen looks foggy and less bright.. my screen works fine but this color thing bothers me. I tried it on full brightness with bith devices.. does anyone know if a cracked screen repair from sammy would fix this?
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You sure you have checked in "brightness" AND "Screen mode" settings ?
But if Samsung are repairing it then why worry as you should get it back all sorted out.
This version of the s3 does not have screen mode settings.. ita forsure a problem with my screen.
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How do the rest of you feel? I can see why they can be useful to people but to me they are too much trouble, even if the slowdowns and security issues get fixed.
You really have lots of stuff to complain about.
Anyways I find the widgets very useful. Glad they added them finally.
What security issues do you encounter? Besides someone reading part of a text message or email?
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No lock screen
CADude said:
How do the rest of you feel? I can see why they can be useful to people but to me they are too much trouble, even if the slowdowns and security issues get fixed.
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My phone never leaves my side so i disabled the lock screen completely. Super fast access
msavic6 said:
You really have lots of stuff to complain about.
Anyways I find the widgets very useful. Glad they added them finally.
What security issues do you encounter? Besides someone reading part of a text message or email?
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Every phone and OS has its issues that need to be resolved. No complaints = no progress.
Yes, the reading part of a message thing is the big issue.
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How do the rest of you feel? I can see why they can be useful to people but to me they are too much trouble, even if the slowdowns and security issues get fixed.
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Lockscreen Policy
isnt the whole idea of a lock screen that someone else can not use our devices or access data?
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CADude said:
How do the rest of you feel? I can see why they can be useful to people but to me they are too much trouble, even if the slowdowns and security issues get fixed.
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well hopefully Google makes the next update completely tailored to what you want since you seem to feel they owe it to you
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grognaz said:
isnt the whole idea of a lock screen that someone else can not use our devices or access data?
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They also can help prevent accidental pocket-dials (or whatever else). As it takes a bit more effort to drag to a target, opposed to just tapping on a direct dial shortcut on your home screen.
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well hopefully Google makes the next update completely tailored to what you want since you seem to feel they owe it to you
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Because having options means the same thing as having something tailored specifically for me, right?
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CADude said:
Because having options means the same thing as having something tailored specifically for me, right?
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that's why there's an app for that, aka options...
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Yes like people have said above I think you are complaining too much... If you are gonna whine that much and not wait for stuff to slowly fix by their self you could just go to iOS... And stay "locked" down and then you could feel safe
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CADude said:
How do the rest of you feel? I can see why they can be useful to people but to me they are too much trouble, even if the slowdowns and security issues get fixed.
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Lock screen policy
It's in the market and will fix all of your problems
jxr94 said:
Lock screen policy
It's in the market and will fix all of your problems
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not all, as u can still accidently unlock into clock app...
CADude said:
Every phone and OS has its issues that need to be resolved. No complaints = no progress.
Yes, the reading part of a message thing is the big issue.
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Solution: Don't use the message/email widget on lock screen.
Seriously, it's one thing to complain about issues that affect the performance of a phone and how it's used and another to complain about completely trivial matters that are purely personal taste. Your complaints seem to be the latter.
You don't have to use the lock screen widgets. Sure, you'll get the screen edge reminders that there are pages on either side(for about a second), but they fade away.
I personally don't care for the lock screen widgets. I usually forget they're there. Would I want them completely removed? Nah, Google might have something in mind for them later down the road.
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Custom ROMs will probably have the option of no lock screen widgets.
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CADude said:
How do the rest of you feel? I can see why they can be useful to people but to me they are too much trouble, even if the slowdowns and security issues get fixed.
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I vote you king ***** a lot......... congratulations
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vbauer86 said:
not all, as u can still accidently unlock into clock app...
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If you have root, he's got a hack in the settings that will disable even that.
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DirgeExtinction said:
Solution: Don't use the message/email widget on lock screen.
Seriously, it's one thing to complain about issues that affect the performance of a phone and how it's used and another to complain about completely trivial matters that are purely personal taste. Your complaints seem to be the latter.
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There's no reason not to disable them completely except your issues with me complaining. Get over your bias and see that this OS should be about having lots of options. If we don't want to use lockscreen widgets, we should be allowed to disable them entirely, simply because we don't need them enabled if we don't use them at all to begin with.
What we need is a single widget with clock weather missed calls etc. It should be here soon. If not then use widgetlocker or a ROM with 4.1 style lockscreen. This is android device there are always going to be options.
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This is android device there are always going to be options.
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Unless you do what certain people say and keep Android as a base with very few or no options and having to depend on 3rd party developers to give you something else to do with your phone.
Android shouldn't follow this iPhone model when doing things. It should have plenty of built-in options as well as 3rd party options, not a lack of the former.
Not sure if this is the right place to post it, so sorry if it's not.
Is LightFlow safe? I've read the permissions and they make me.... uncomfortable. How safe is it? Can it access credit card info etc?
Yes its safe.
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Yes and it's an awesome app!
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I felt I should add more here. All the permissions are so that lightflow knows when to turn on the lights you assign to the apps. That's all. The Dev is stand up and extent helpful. No need to worry.
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See a full explanation of the permissions from the dev, at the bottom of
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37637429
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Yes it is safe. Been in your shoes before and decided to give it a try.
Awesome app! Cool to have colors light notification though rather than plain white light
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Been running it since getting my GNex almost a year ago and haven't had an issue. The Dev is on here and is super communicative. Its a must have for anyone with a phone that has a multicolor LED.
I love being able to come up to my phone and immediately knowing it's status without even picking up. My screen time of battery use has probably dropped 20% because of this app.