Dear Friends,
I am a tourist in S.Korea and have recently purchased a used Galaxy Nexus.I hail from India therefore look to use the device with the GSM networks there. This particular version of the galaxy nexus is the one sold by KT Telecom, South Korea and has Android 4.0.4. i think the firmware name should be yakjukr. Can somebody please tell me about the possible Jellybean upgrade for this device and whether i will recieve the upgrade (whenever that is ) after i return to my country i.e India? i am clueless about who or when will the upgrade be available. Assistance appreciated!
Yes, that device will be fine to work on any GSM network.
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Thanks efrant!
efrant said:
Yes, that device will be fine to work on any GSM network.
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Thanks dude. as i understood from reading some of the threads here , google handles the OTA for only a few editions of the device, rest is serviced by samsung. does that mean i will have to wait for samsung's kindness regarding this?and will i be notified of the OTA as and when it is released , even in India?does it have to do anything with the country of origin of the device?
pritam_bhowal said:
Thanks dude. as i understood from reading some of the threads here , google handles the OTA for only a few editions of the device, rest is serviced by samsung. does that mean i will have to wait for samsung's kindness regarding this?
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If you don't do anything, yes, you will be waiting for Samsung. Or you can follow this to change your build to yakju, and all updates will come from Google.
pritam_bhowal said:
and will i be notified of the OTA as and when it is released , even in India?
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Yes.
pritam_bhowal said:
does it have to do anything with the country of origin of the device?
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No.
pritam_bhowal said:
Thanks dude. as i understood from reading some of the threads here , google handles the OTA for only a few editions of the device, rest is serviced by samsung. does that mean i will have to wait for samsung's kindness regarding this?and will i be notified of the OTA as and when it is released , even in India?does it have to do anything with the country of origin of the device?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728555
Any GSM gNex can flash a Google yakju / takju factory image & receive updates directly from Google, check the flash link in efrant's signature.
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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....
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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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I'm looking to buy a GNex but I want one with a “yakju,” build because I want updates from Google
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I'm looking to buy a GNex but I want one with a “yakju,” build because I want updates from Google
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I've purchased two from amazon. One was a yakju, the other was not. It seems to be a crapshoot to me?
It doesn't really matter where you buy it from. You can convert any non-yakju build to yakju. It's a matter of luck when it comes to buying a GSM Galaxy Nexus, you're not guaranteed a "yakju." Very simple to switch.
You can view this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387777&highlight=yakju -- use search next time :/
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I've purchased two from amazon. One was a yakju, the other was not. It seems to be a crapshoot to me?
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Same thing. Just flash it afterwards on the google android site.
I know you can flash it to yakju just wanted to avoid it if possible
Next phone: GNex GSM
Current phone: Nexus One CM7/Sidekick 4G stock
R.I.P: G1
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I know you can flash it to yakju just wanted to avoid it if possible
Next phone: GNex GSM
Current phone: Nexus One CM7/Sidekick 4G stock
R.I.P: G1
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Why avoid? Warranty purposes? Backups of other builds are available (look around) If you flash custom ROMs, yakju/yakjuxw won't even matter.
Like I said again, it's really based off luck. Some people have gotten yakju from Negri, Expansys. Some people have received other builds of yakju from them. It's completely random. It's not like you can go walk into a store in America (not many places I imagine sell this with a few exceptions) and check the build before leaving the store.
You can buy from www.clove.co.uk . thats were i picked up 2 G Nexus . both were yakju build and i picked them up on different dates.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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?
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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?
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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.
Do you think the Note 2 on Verizon might have possibility of running 4.2?
If not, when would it be released? I want all those features.
Never mind. A quick Google search shows Q1 2013 for Note 2 and S3.
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Do you think the Note 2 on Verizon might have possibility of running 4.2?
If not, when would it be released? I want all those features.
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As of right now the strong rumor is that it will be reased in the 1Q of 2013 for the Note 2 and the GS3 However this is for unlocked GSM phones. As always if you want the latest firmware get a Nexus device or get a internatiol version of a phone. If you buy your phone from a cellphone provider like VWZ or ATT etc........They will hold at the min the update for 6 months before they give it to you. Gives them time to add in all there bloatware.
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As of right now the strong rumor is that it will be reased in the 1Q of 2013 for the Note 2 and the GS3 However this is for unlocked GSM phones. As always if you want the latest firmware get a Nexus device or get a internatiol version of a phone. If you buy your phone from a cellphone provider like VWZ or ATT etc........They will hold at the min the update for 6 months before they give it to you. Gives them time to add in all there bloatware.
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That's if they give it to you at all.
Sent from my super Note 2
4.2 does not have any juicy things like 4.1 has so I don't need it now. If it comes then it is fine otherwise I don't need it. The toggles are already there and I have continuous input already available so nothing much required. This is me and others might want something from features of 4.2
Thx, but new to droids...
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As of right now the strong rumor is that it will be reased in the 1Q of 2013 for the Note 2 and the GS3 However this is for unlocked GSM phones. As always if you want the latest firmware get a Nexus device or get a internatiol version of a phone. If you buy your phone from a cellphone provider like VWZ or ATT etc........They will hold at the min the update for 6 months before they give it to you. Gives them time to add in all there bloatware:
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So I just purchased a GSM Note II from Thailand, and I have it working here in Nepal with a local sim. Will I get a notification that there is an update to 4.2 from 4.1 from google? Thx for your input!
herojig said:
So I just purchased a GSM Note II from Thailand, and I have it working here in Nepal with a local sim. Will I get a notification that there is an update to 4.2 from 4.1 from google? Thx for your input!
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Only Nexus devices get updates direct from Google.
For the Note 2 they will come from Samsung, or if you're unlucky, from the carrier.
Best thing to do is keep checking on XDA.
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Only Nexus devices get updates direct from Google.
For the Note 2 they will come from Samsung, or if you're unlucky, from the carrier.
Best thing to do is keep checking on XDA.
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thx, citizen! I guess it would be from Samsung then, as we don't have carriers here, just porters
Could someone please tell me which version to side load on the Verizon purchased Google 6 Pro
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Could someone please tell me which version to side load on the Verizon purchased Google 6 Pro
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The one labeled US carriers
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The one labeled US carriers
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Are you sure? What about the Google Store unlocked? Which version should have flash on this one?
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The one labeled US carriers
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Also, do you know if you can flash the US carrier one over the A1 version? Would that break your phone or can you just use the US carrier version instead?
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Are you sure? What about the Google Store unlocked? Which version should have flash on this one?
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Yes, US carriers. .017
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Also, do you know if you can flash the US carrier one over the A1 version? Would that break your phone or can you just use the US carrier version instead?
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Yes, no, yes
I know this is already answered, but if you're using the phone on a carrier in the United States, use the US Carrier image.
Debate: A4 is for all European countries or just the ones where P6P is officially sold?
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Debate: A4 is for all European countries or just the ones where P6P is officially sold?
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I would suggest that the firmware variant you want to use is always in relation to where you're going to use it, and nothing else. EMEA (A4) for anyone in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. A repeated question is whether folks in the United States should still use the U.S. Carrier version even if they have a factory unlocked Pixel. The answer is always, if you're on a U.S. Carrier, use the U.S. Carrier version, so I would proceed with the same logic for A4 or the others.
Why is anyone in the us not getting the ota? I have been checking everyday. I have had multiple pixels and never had to wait for a ota
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Why is anyone in the us not getting the ota? I have been checking everyday. I have had multiple pixels and never had to wait for a ota
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I've heard rumors that they stopped pushing the update. Just rumors, though, so no idea if it's true. I haven't noticed articles confirming this, so I'm not much help.
I'm still waiting too. I'm in the US purchased unlocked from Google store using Google Fi.
dwkick said:
I'm still waiting too. I'm in the US purchased unlocked from Google store using Google Fi.
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Your not alone... there's a large group of us waiting at the xda Pub
Yeah I sideloaded because I was getting annoyed with the battery drain and other annoying issues, after I got sick of constantly doing checks and nothing
Unlocked regular 6 from Google store US just arrived with November build.
Tried several times, no December update available
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Unlocked regular 6 from Google store US just arrived with November build.
Tried several times, no December update available
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It seems to have been pulled by Google due to bug's!
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It seems to have been pulled by Google due to bug's!
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I'm thinking it's just a very, slow rollout. Both the factory images and the full OTA images are still up so I don't think they would pull the rollout via GMS and leave the images up (unless there was a problem with that particular way of updating). But hey, you never know with Google
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I'm thinking it's just a very, slow rollout. Both the factory images and the full OTA images are still up so I don't think they would pull the rollout via GMS and leave the images up (unless there was a problem with that particular way of updating). But hey, you never know with Google
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Bingo
Lughnasadh said:
I'm thinking it's just a very, slow rollout.
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Or they pulled it after admitting bugs
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Lughnasadh said:
I'm thinking it's just a very, slow rollout. Both the factory images and the full OTA images are still up so I don't think they would pull the rollout via GMS and leave the images up (unless there was a problem with that particular way of updating). But hey, you never know with Google
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I think the update push to Google store unlocked purchases is broke.