[Q] So is the 4.2 so bad? - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

I'm currently on 4.1 and it is great. However I was considering moving to 4.2 for the new features but judging by many threads with problems on 4.2 I'm starting to reconsider. Is it really as bad as it looks (the battery dying quickly, problems with updating from 4.1, other stuff), or is it worth to update my Gnex?

I'm getting my GNex today. Hope this thread gets answers

There are numerous threads on this subject. Instead of being lazy and having someone answer your question, why don't you actually read the threads? Hell, you've already answered some of your own questions.
Read, read, read and then just when you think you have the answer, read some more. Ultimately, it comes down to your own judgements and opinions.

Yes but what I can see are some individual cases of those things. Or are they? I just want to know if all those things are common in 4.2.
Basically, my question: does anyone who moved from 4.1 to 4.2 regret it in any way?

That question is also answered in all the "i'm going back to 4.1" threads..
As for whether this is a general thing, it is definitely more common with problems than other updates, but as several of us have had no problems at all, it cannot be a problem with 4.2 as such, so it would have to be either
1. a problem with the update process(i made a clean install)
2. a problem with certain hw/sw combinations(there have been reports of a certain error in the latest hw, which has coincided with the update itself)

I dont have any problems with 4.2. Question for u is are u rooted? Stock?
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Compared my nexus with a friend's and experience is different.
Same exactly clean installation and my phone after 1 day starts lagging but my friend's is smooth as ever..
Maybe slight variation in hardware causes this difference...
Don't know what else to assume..
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I've tried CM10.1 which is 4.2 and after awhile the phone will stop responding and the screen will turn off. Only way to get it back on is to battery pull, reverted back to 4.1 for now.

I ran stock 4.2 from release to about a week ago, had a few problems at first but after a factory reset I was happy. Only issue was occasionally, maybe after a day, maybe a week, screen would go black right after waking and have to battery pull. But as is not an everyday occurrence I'll stay with 4.2.1 (rasbean) and wait for Google to fix.
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I suggest get a decent Kernel as many issues are Kernel related. I'm running LeanKernel for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus and everything runs perfect. I have used LeanKernel since the Thunderbolt days and have tried Trinity and Franco. I always end up coming back to Lean Kernel. No SODs, weird lags, rebooting or other issues. The only think I tweaked was bump the GPU to 384, and over clock to 1350 MHz. Plus force the GPU for 2D in the developer settings which have always used since 4.1.

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Possibly buying SGS III today

while it's only $100 at best buy. How's the development for this one (AT&T)? It looks like 9/10 of the ROMs have been abandoned and not updated for a month or more, is there some reason for this?
Anyway, if I get the SGSIII I will NEED
GPS that locks within 30 seconds, I get lost A LOT.
Working audio (no skipping or weird issues) from the 3.5mm connector
stable and doesn't crash or go really slow
Camera working enough to at least take clear pictures quickly
Do any ROMs do this currently?
Also a couple other questions. What can I expect for battery life, does it last a whole day with moderately heavy use? Any known issues that just come with the device and can't be/aren't currently fixed, like crapple's camera flare or my Infuse's terrible GPS (that got fixed with a relaunch and silent recall)?
Wtf. Almost every cm10 or aokp rom has been updated nightly. Most touchwiz roms don't get updated since they are close to being finished since there are no bugs on stock roms.
If you want it to work good run touchwiz roms. With battery I get 15 to 25 hours and about 4 hours on screen time which is pretty heavy use. As for bugs none I know of on stock. Everything works flawlessly.
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you can use aokp, Its great!
While the International version has a ton of roms, the I747 has a good amount of solid builds. You can have your choice of stock ics touchwiz (ariel), jelly bean touchwiz leaks (aristodemos, serenity) and aosp jellybean hybrids (aokp, liquid smooth, paranoid android). All work perfectly with GPS locking on within 15 seconds max. Never had a problem.
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100$ outright or under contract? BB canada is 0$ on our crappy 3 year plan
Yea.... a lot of the TouchWiz ICS ROM's haven't had updates lately because there isn't really a whole lot for them to do with the ROM, since it was pretty much complete to begin with. Just about all they really did on them is remove bloat, add custom themes, and tweak some stuff here and there. The TouchWiz JB ROM's still get updated fairly regularly, since there are still tweaks to be made here and there, and things to be updated as new leaks arise. But stuff like Cyanogenmod and the different ROM's built off of it are updated daily or every other day or two.
Been using CM10 nightly and now on M2 stable build. I use it as daily driver and don't have any issues. You won't be disappointed OP
I'll give my two cents as I've had this phone for bout 4 days now and I am coming of iOS.
I am a fairly techy user. I I run Linux servers for fun. I am but never got jntk android because I figured I'd play with the phone more than use it and it would end up being broken half the time.
Immediately after getting it I rooted it and flashed the rom and have already tried CM10, two TW ROMs and whatever else I could get my hand on.
Ultimately for stability purposes I'm still on stock. The phone is really good in terms of use, and but be prepared to know that ROMing it is still an experimental thing and if you want it to work flawlessly, and you'll most probably sitting on stock (which is not a bad thing)
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not to hijack the thread..
but is Ariel the ATT equal of CleanRom for verizon?
I'm on SlimBean but battery isn't stellar... so going to try my luck at a touchwiz rom.
I have a international gs3 9300 and an ATT gs3 and I run my Att gs3 as my main phone because tasks aokp jellybean ROM is hands down the best ROM built for either phone. The 9300 has many more roms than the i747. I bought the 9300 for the increased development and I learned the expensive way that quality beats quantity in the ROM department. Get the Att gs3 and root and flash tasks aokp and I guarantee you will be very happy.
I hope you got the phone today and I hope you enjoy it. Personally, I'm so satisfied with the stock rooted ROM that I've almost kicked my flashing addiction.
Almost.
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You can look under the original development page for some good stable roms like SlimBean, PA, and Aokp. All function well enough to be a DD.
Jonnyredcorn said:
I have a international gs3 9300 and an ATT gs3 and I run my Att gs3 as my main phone because tasks aokp jellybean ROM is hands down the best ROM built for either phone. The 9300 has many more roms than the i747. I bought the 9300 for the increased development and I learned the expensive way that quality beats quantity in the ROM department. Get the Att gs3 and root and flash tasks aokp and I guarantee you will be very happy.
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I agree with Jonny here... I too am running JB AOKP and everything works perfect. Task650 is always adding new commits and is constantly updating the ROM. Another point to consider... every phone is NOT created equal. The same ROM and kernel can run better/worse on one SGS3 to the next. You have to flash and try a ROM out to see how it runs for you because it won't be the same on another phone of the same model. Besides, what's stopping YOU from going through the development area and reading the threads like the rest of us have to do to learn what we need to? First suggestion.... don't be lazy and expect others to spoon feed you answers because you WILL receive backlash and grief. Do yourself a favor and SEARCH and READ anything and everything you feel is pertinent to your query. Spare yourself the frustration. This is just a word to the wise. No disrespect intended.
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t3chn0s1s said:
I agree with Jonny here... I too am running JB AOKP and everything works perfect. Task650 is always adding new commits and is constantly updating the ROM. Another point to consider... every phone is NOT created equal. The same ROM and kernel can run better/worse on one SGS3 to the next. You have to flash and try a ROM out to see how it runs for you because it won't be the same on another phone of the same model. Besides, what's stopping YOU from going through the development area and reading the threads like the rest of us have to do to learn what we need to? First suggestion.... don't be lazy and expect others to spoon feed you answers because you WILL receive backlash and grief. Do yourself a favor and SEARCH and READ anything and everything you feel is pertinent to your query. Spare yourself the frustration. This is just a word to the wise. No disrespect intended.
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This.
Task and ktoonzes are rocking this phone and Cyanogen himself is heading up CM development. Enough said.
thacounty said:
This.
Task and ktoonzes are rocking this phone and Cyanogen himself is heading up CM development. Enough said.
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Exactly.
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TheNetwork said:
while it's only $100 at best buy. How's the development for this one (AT&T)? It looks like 9/10 of the ROMs have been abandoned and not updated for a month or more, is there some reason for this?
Anyway, if I get the SGSIII I will NEED
GPS that locks within 30 seconds, I get lost A LOT.
Working audio (no skipping or weird issues) from the 3.5mm connector
stable and doesn't crash or go really slow
Camera working enough to at least take clear pictures quickly
Do any ROMs do this currently?
Also a couple other questions. What can I expect for battery life, does it last a whole day with moderately heavy use? Any known issues that just come with the device and can't be/aren't currently fixed, like crapple's camera flare or my Infuse's terrible GPS (that got fixed with a relaunch and silent recall)?
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The GPS and Navigation is AMAZING on any Android phone.
Their Music app could use some work, however i do use the app PlayerPro
TouchWiz is pretty stable but i find gets slower with time and i think thats due to the fact that its running ICS. I would recommend flashing a custom ROM such as CM10 for JB which makes the OS run ALOT smoother.
The stock camera is also very good with alot of features.
Hopes this helps.

Annoying galaxy nexus!!!!

So guys I created this thread because I am very angry! I have on my nexus the latest paranoid Android build and it is annoying as hell. It reboots often and gets so slow that u can't imagine. Can anyone explain that to me. I tried so many things to fix this but nothing really helped. -.- by the way I am on ak kernel purity v30
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Try a different kernel
Why don't you flash the stock 4.2.2 update. It's fantastic,very smooth, very responsive , and quick. A hell of a lot better then 4.1
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Why don't you flash the stock 4.2.2 update. It's fantastic,very smooth, very responsive , and quick. A hell of a lot better then 4.1
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It's more interesting in terms of new features indeed. Unfortunately is by far more sluggish and buggy than rock stable jzo54k. Scrolling lag that comes after a while take away all the joy of using 4.2.2. It actually made me downgrade to 4.1.2. I've never thought I would admit that but deodexed CNA_3.8.0 feels much smoother and lighter than odexed stock JDQ39 (that feels really smooth right after reboot)
Try latest ak v014 kernel, sounds kernel related, either way that's the best kernel currently for galaxy nexus an more dramatically improve your gnex speed an performance.
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Franco
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Franco
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That's what I'm using over clocked at 1.4GHZ running everything smoothly
Why do people keep suggesting switch kernels? With the quantity of people with lag issues, it's definitely AOSP related. All switching kernels will do is sometimes wipe cache and dalvik or the users usually wipe cache and dalvik which supposedly helps for a bit along with the reboot which definitely helps for a bit. Custom kernels may help performance a bit but they don't clear whatever's happening in the code that causes the issue for many?
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Why do people keep suggesting switch kernels? With the quantity of people with lag issues, it's definitely AOSP related. All switching kernels will do is sometimes wipe cache and dalvik or the users usually wipe cache and dalvik which supposedly helps for a bit along with the reboot which definitely helps for a bit. Custom kernels may help performance a bit but they don't clear whatever's happening in the code that causes the issue for many?
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Its probably not directly AOSP related or else every single android device would have the issue on an AOSP ROM.
If I had to guess I'd say that people just aren't maintaining their phone. They let garbage data build up in the internal storage, collect tons of apps that they almost never use and almost never reboot. With just a little upkeep I've had almost none of the issues people are complaining about and when I did it was gone as soon as I did some tidying up.
I mentioned it very often now in different thread as it seems a very common issue - did you try lagfix from PlayStore? This helped me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39273944&postcount=21
Not a final solution, but it works (for some time) and I hope Google fixes it in Android 5...
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I mentioned it very often now in different thread as it seems a very common issue - did you try lagfix from PlayStore? This helped me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39273944&postcount=21
Not a final solution, but it works (for some time) and I hope Google fixes it in Android 5...
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Actually it fixed my all problems related to performance
I had these slow down problem too for almost 2 months because my available storage was too low (around 1gb).
Then I realized that its related to trimming problem.
So far the combo of lagfix and seeder is working good.
No lag n other problems at all
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If I had to guess I'd say that people just aren't maintaining their phone. They let garbage data build up in the internal storage, collect tons of apps that they almost never use and almost never reboot. With just a little upkeep I've had almost none of the issues people are complaining about and when I did it was gone as soon as I did some tidying up.
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It can be very true. However I use my device in exactly the same way I used to do while running previous versions of JB. I have installed the almost exactly the same amount and sort of apps. I try to keep my gnex clean. I've never had less free memory than 4 GB. To be honest I don't remember when I had to reboot my nexus before 4.2.2 was released cos I've never had this low fps scrolling issue until JDQ39. I am not trying to advertise any rom. I've always been huge fan of stock due to its stability and smoothness, but Purity Rom was the only one I haven't noticed this bug so far.
No response from Thread creator, he is no care with our comments...lol..
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i'm using Rootbox, it's amazing!

[Q] Is my phone slowly deteriorating? (terrible performance)

Hello whoever is reading this,
I'm getting real tired of how slow my phone has consistently been slow for months now. I've tried a bunch of roms and kernels in combination, and while it seems to work smoothly after a clean flash, it slows back down to its usual laggy state within a few days (or even hours!)
I partially blame the age of the phone, as it's old processor probably can't handle all of the customizations being thrown at it that are really being developed for the Nexus 4. But aside from that, everyone in every rom or kernel thread is always raving about how "buttery smooth" or "lightning fast", or whatever else their phone is, claiming performance is awesome. It could just be that all those users are just used to some lag, but I'm really starting to feel like I'm the only one who has such performance issues.
For this reason I'm wondering if it's possible that something hardware-wise might be starting to die, similar to how "cheap memory is killing off Google Nexus 7". Is this possible?
Is there any app that can run hardware tests to check for things like that? I would love to see if my suspicions are correct or totally wrong. Is there anything else I should try?
I'm currently running the latest ak47 rom (AOKP Milestone 2 on top of VANIR (linaro), and using Fancy Kernel. I've found the performance is pretty good compared to other roms I've tried but I still find myself waiting seconds for the app drawer to open, to scroll through pages in the app drawer, etc.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Hmmm... if it is anything related to what was happening with the Nexus 7, then you've probably heard what Android 4.3 did for it. I'm writing this from my Galaxy Nexus, and it hasn't been faster since 4.1; whatever 4.3 did for the Nexus 7 has a similar effect on my GNexus. It took a couple days, but I have my butter back!
Before the update, I was in the same boat as you. Even the keyboard was ridiculously laggy. Now? Buttery. Not Nexus 4 buttery, but buttery.
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CWalkop said:
Hmmm... if it is anything related to what was happening with the Nexus 7, then you've probably heard what Android 4.3 did for it. I'm writing this from my Galaxy Nexus, and it hasn't been faster since 4.1; whatever 4.3 did for the Nexus 7 has a similar effect on my GNexus. It took a couple days, but I have my butter back!
Before the update, I was in the same boat as you. Even the keyboard was ridiculously laggy. Now? Buttery. Not Nexus 4 buttery, but buttery.
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I didn't hear what 4.3 did, but I gather that it improved the speed? Sweet, maybe I'll try that. My issue is I'm too addicted to AOKP
But I'll have to try a stock 4.3 rom or something and hopefully I'll find the same results as you. Thanks for your input!
My question about an app that runs hardware integrity tests still stands.
jakis39 said:
I didn't hear what 4.3 did, but I gather that it improved the speed? Sweet, maybe I'll try that. My issue is I'm too addicted to AOKP
But I'll have to try a stock 4.3 rom or something and hopefully I'll find the same results as you. Thanks for your input!
My question about an app that runs hardware integrity tests still stands.
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No problem! And it provided a lot of behind-the-scenes improvements for graphics processing. It also made FSTRIM turned on by default in the system; it will run whenever the battery is above ~70% and the device is idle. It basically stops the device from needing to perform multiple actions in the storage whenever it needs to read or write. You only notice the effects of it NOT being present over many write cycles, which is why performance may seem to have deteriorated over time.
And yeah, custom just gives you so many choices! But a few days with 4.3 should REALLY ramp up your performance. It takes a little while for FSTRIM to do it's magic. App drawer opens after 0.7 seconds or so, and swiping between pages is quite fluid and responsive.
Glad to be of service! Hope it helps out.
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Aside from 4.3, I've found that if you goto Developer options, and lower the Transition, Window, and Animator scales from 1x down to .5x things seem to move more smoothly. Albeit they only reduce animation times, the visual effect may be enough. I also use Nova Prime launcher and turn animations to "Nova" speed. Things like the app drawer open instantly. Absolutely zero lag. What I'm running is in my sig...
jakis39 said:
Hello whoever is reading this,
I'm getting real tired of how slow my phone has consistently been slow for months now. I've tried a bunch of roms and kernels in combination, and while it seems to work smoothly after a clean flash, it slows back down to its usual laggy state within a few days (or even hours!)
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Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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This frustrated me for a long time until I came across this app (root needed):
LagFix Free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmonkey.lagfix&hl=en
XDA thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2104326#fm
"Some Android users suffer from poor performance after some days/weeks of heavy usage. This is due to a well-known TRIM bug affecting these devices. The source of the problem is that internal storage is not properly TRIMmed when needed. It is also well-known fact that running fstrim Linux tool from time to time fixes the issue until internal memory runs out of free blocks. LagFix is a user-friendly implementation of fstrim utility. It allows you to select which partitions to trim (you should leave defaults unless you know what you are doing) and run the process easily."
Android 4.3 finally implements this fix, so if you go a 4.3 ROM, you won't need this.
Yep, like they all said, 4.3 fixes that with things like TRIM, and I can attest to that firsthand.
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I must say that the phone is faster on 4.3, but my battery life is horrible when comparing to 4.1.1 or even 4.2.2, especially when using the phone.
I don't know if it's true or I'm too bugged about it. Could someone please confirm it to me?
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I must say that the phone is faster on 4.3, but my battery life is horrible when comparing to 4.1.1 or even 4.2.2, especially when using the phone.
I don't know if it's true or I'm too bugged about it. Could someone please confirm it to me?
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infact my battery life is improved a lot after 4.3
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infact my battery life is improved a lot after 4.3
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^^^that^^^
and for some reason, one screen time was BETTER than 4.2
I guess it's just bad luck haha.
Gonna test it calmly to be sure.

To all Verizon Galaxy Nexus peeps! on 4.3

I have read conflicting reports that some say 4.3 is GOOD on battery for our VZ nexus and some say it was horrible....
what are your findings? better? worse? same?
Most battery comments are subjective in nature.
If you perceive worse battery life then try a different kernel or get a new battery.
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I have read conflicting reports that some say 4.3 is GOOD on battery for our VZ nexus and some say it was horrible....
what are your findings? better? worse? same?
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Its always subjective. Try it yourself.
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I tried 4.3 and it was faster and with different kernel like mpokang it had good speed and battery life compared to 4.2.2. You just need to make sure you turn off wi-fi scanning even when off and something else in search or 4.3 will suck the battery down. My only complaint is my favorite ROM it's still 4.3 and the 3G to 4G tower switching doesn't work properly and as I travel allot this is a deal breaker for me as it drops calls so had to go back to 4.2.2 ROM. I heard the ROM's that are updated to 4.3.1 don't have the radio issues. This issue is also only on Verizon due to no new radio's yet from what I understand.
I've been using the Galaxy Nexus strictly on wifi for a while now. I recently updated it to 4.3, and while performance is GREAT, battery life is suffering, but I've felt no need to change anything because I'm always near a charger.
For me it's only been a bit of an improvement during regular every day use. Although If I try I can actually go almost a full day with one charge.
When i charge it peeps my phone
I was using 4.3.1 and battery seemed stellar. The radios is the big problem. It doesn't like bouncing between cells and 4G didn't seem to work.
http://droid-hive.com/index.php?/to...-aokp-sabermod-49-03-optimizations-11113-431/
His Rom was here but he recently moved.
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I revisited slim 4.3 build 2 seems to be working good will see Monday when I go to work and start jumping towers. Really want to be on PA but didn't work good for me and hasn't been updated in awhile. Hopefully Verizon releases 4.3 and they will revisit and fix it. I think us toro users are not going to get a good kit kat because of Verizon radio deal
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Lmao @4.3. Try 4.4 on ART. I've been on it all of a day but wow! You should have flashed 4.3 a long time ago. Its old news. Battery AND speed are crazy with ART. Could be placebo so I'm gonna wait a week or two to pass judgement but so far so good.
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Lmao @4.3. Try 4.4 on ART. I've been on it all of a day but wow! You should have flashed 4.3 a long time ago. Its old news. Battery AND speed are crazy with ART. Could be placebo so I'm gonna wait a week or two to pass judgement but so far so good.
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Is that a Verizon rom? Because it's the Verizon that was only updated to 4.2.2 and has issues with 4.3+
I looked through the Verizon Dev forums but nothing as you described. If a 4.3+ rom has a fully working non-wonky cellular radio, then please link.
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Is that a Verizon rom? Because it's the Verizon that was only updated to 4.2.2 and has issues with 4.3+
I looked through the Verizon Dev forums but nothing as you described. If a 4.3+ rom has a fully working non-wonky cellular radio, then please link.
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Yes its a Verizon ROM. I don't think any of the 4.3 ROMs had RADIO issues. The Verizon Nexus was Updated to 4.3 through asop including Binaries so there shouldn't be radio issues.
A couple people are reporting issues with 4.4 but it looks like they didn't flash new radios.
Maybe we aren't talking about the same thing? Could you link what you are talking about?
If you want me to link all the ROMs with working radios on 4.3+ that would be to many ROMs.
The problems I have is low signal areas if I have good signal I have no problems on 4.3
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The problems I have is low signal areas if I have good signal I have no problems on 4.3
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This is probably true. I don't have any problems in my home town but in was in another big city and I had great signal but often kept finding my phone unable to grab a data connection. I had to keep resetting to restore it. Toggling airplane mode wouldn't resolve it.
The only I could think of is I was going through a nonserviced area and dropping data and it never reconnecting.
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Mandelbrot.Benoit said:
Lmao @4.3. Try 4.4 on ART. I've been on it all of a day but wow! You should have flashed 4.3 a long time ago. Its old news. Battery AND speed are crazy with ART. Could be placebo so I'm gonna wait a week or two to pass judgement but so far so good.
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Not sure where the 4.4 comment came from...especially since there aren't any stable 4.4 Roms for the GNex yet.
I have bad battery on 4.2 and 4.3. Performance is better though.
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Mpokang with nephelims seem to give me better battery life on 4.3 vs 4.2.2 might be that you can only use 1080 version on 4.2.2 I use cm version on 4.3
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Not sure where the 4.4 comment came from...especially since there aren't any stable 4.4 Roms for the GNex yet.
I have bad battery on 4.2 and 4.3. Performance is better though.
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There are some slight graphical issues and reboots but for being dropped by Google the 4.4 ROMs aren't bad. Hopefully with the new GPU Binaries from TI those issues can get fixed.
The 4.4 comment came from the fact the OP is asking about 4.3 while 4.4 is being tested. I was pointing out he's a little late to the game and to get on it!! :silly:
Feels the same to me, same crappy GNex battery life lol
But it's not worse if that's what your wondering OP
Back on 4.2.2 4.3 still had some small data issues in low signal areas. Really the only thing I want is Bluetooth from 4.3 it works right and id tags come through to my stereo. Wonder if it can be back ported.
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I've had my Galaxy Nexus almost since the beginning, and I've tried a lot of roms.
You probably notice a lot of stuttering and general slowness on your Gnex. The Gnex was fine on 4.0. Something happened in 4.1, and it became slow as death. The only thing that ever seemed to fix this was doing a factory reset on your phone, wiping the data, and reinstalling your rom. People came up with varying ways to fix this slowness problem (root always required, of course), including modifying the dalvik heap growth limit and readahead sizes. Other people used a program called LagFix in the Play Store that basically was a manual TRIM, because there was a problem with certain Samsung phones where they refused to trim the filesystem.
Jelly Bean 4.3 fixed all of that. Google committed some changes to the source that built trim into Android. To put it in perspective, my random read speeds on my phone were 0.4 Mb/sec before installing 4.3. My speeds now are 1.6 Mb/sec. Sequential read/write improved by an order of magnitude.
If you're not on Android 4.3, yet, you really need to do it. Android 4.3 helped my battery life not necessarily because it inherently consumes less power, but because it dramatically improved my I/O speeds; when my phone wakes, it doesn't have to wake as long to access random pieces of storage.
On top of this, ever since I can remember, the radio switchoff between Wi-Fi, 1X, 3G, and 4G on the Verizon Galaxy Nexus has been atrocious. Ever since I got the phone, it would regularly take me 30 seconds to a minute for data to come back up as soon as the phone switched to a different wireless standard. The latest Shiny rom (10/11/13) finally was able to fix that, so my radio switches happen in less than 10 seconds, now.
Finally, I've tried random kernels, including Franco, Trinity, Lean, Tiny, Golden, and GLaDOS. All of them have affected battery life and speed marginally and in various ways (and some of them caused me a lot of reboots after a week, or so, of use), but the one that has really--actually--improved the snappiness of my phone has been the BIGMEM version of Fancy Kernel. Fancy Kernel's thread is here; I'm running on version pre44-3-big.

Galaxy Nexus lagging immensely.

Hey guys. I borrowed my brother's old Galaxy Nexus while my HTC One is being repaired and I couldn't help noticing it lags. Immensely. I flashed SlimKat build 3 on it and before that I ran LiquidSmooth. I was under the impression that KitKat was supposed to be less resource hungry.
Is it because it's not "official" (from Google)? Would 4.3 run better, say in the form of CM10.2.1 stable?
Theshawty said:
Hey guys. I borrowed my brother's old Galaxy Nexus while my HTC One is being repaired and I couldn't help noticing it lags. Immensely. I flashed SlimKat build 3 on it and before that I ran LiquidSmooth. I was under the impression that KitKat was supposed to be less resource hungry.
Is it because it's not "official" (from Google)? Would 4.3 run better, say in the form of CM10.2.1 stable?
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Try Deleting The (Google +) and if its Build in App try deleting it with Root Permission.
this Should Fix that Lag. It did For mine ^.^
The unfortunate reality is that most Galaxy Nexus units have sluggish internal storage, and any background processes that are trying to write to it while you interact with the phone can create lag in processing and the UI. It was such a relief to switch to the Nexus 5.
Mine is not lagging but not fast too.. But with the right rom and kernel and some tweaking its pretty fast for its age
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I flashed back to 4.3. CM10.2 stable and now it runs better but still lagging. Not as much, though.
lets try cm11 remix .....
Let me know how it is.running slimkat right now and I'm getting pretty much decent performance. We all have to remember this phone is older. I've been trying to justify getting the nexus 5. Will wait until the price comes down a little bit
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Theshawty said:
Hey guys. I borrowed my brother's old Galaxy Nexus while my HTC One is being repaired and I couldn't help noticing it lags. Immensely. I flashed SlimKat build 3 on it and before that I ran LiquidSmooth. I was under the impression that KitKat was supposed to be less resource hungry.
Is it because it's not "official" (from Google)? Would 4.3 run better, say in the form of CM10.2.1 stable?
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It's just the phone. My work phone is a gnex bone stock. And it lags horribly.
Mine is very fast, no lag at all, even after more than 1700 hours without rebooting :good:
Vanir 4.3.1 (final version)
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This thread is active again. I thought I could get my One yesterday but Telecare messed up and sent me one that had even more tint than before, so I'm stuck with this until after May 9th because my carrier store closes for renovation between April 22nd and May 9th..
C'est la vie.
Since someone already opened a topic on this, I would like to chime in. This started happening too to me two days ago and it's driving me nuts. I must have done something somewhere but I just couldn't find any solutions.
As of two days ago, my Gnex started to lag since I flashed Fancy kernel r50. Serious f-ing lag. Nothing I do seems to help. I've dirty flashed my current rom (OmniMetal), I tried reflashing a previous version of the kernel like I've always done, I tried clean flashing everything again, I tried installing another rom (Paranoid Saberdroid) and whatever option available. The lag won't go away. This ain't your average lag. Even TWRP is lagging. Any suggestions?
SOLVED: It was a rewrite problem, what i did was i ran lagfix(fstrim) app and voila! Fast and speedy again.
Really happy with cm 11 remix, almost no lag.
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As mentioned before some of the nexus's suffer from the degrading EMMC performance. Refer to this thread to make sure which side you are on...
hope that helps :good:
I think cm remix is the most stabile/fast ROM now
Keep in mind you came from a HTC One to a Galaxy Nexus.. That's a big loss of processing power. Another thing is if he's had it OC'd a lot the processor may be in it's final days.
My Thunderbolt gave me the same issues while I waited to get my Gnex.

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