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JuiceDefender on Nexus

Has anyone tried this out? I just put it on and have not gone through a battery cycle. Trying to see if it will help with battery life.
Running leaked radio on ARHD 2.1.2
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Some people swear by it, but then again some people believe a supernatural being exists because someone said so.

Yeah I've used it since I got the Nexus and it works great. Does what it's supposed to do. I don't believe in supernatural beings though.
Full disclosure; I have had this bug which manifests about once every week where the touch screen becomes completely unresponsive in the lock screen and there is no way to unlock the screen or turn the phone off unless I pull the battery. I have this nagging feeling that it might have something to do with JuiceDefender but I haven't confirmed it.
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I purchased JuiceDefender and also Green Power Premium and never really noticed a big difference in battery life against leaving them off and changing wireless profiles.
Getting almost 2 days out of my Nexus so may give them a go once they both fully support ICS just to test.

Chrono_Tata said:
Yeah I've used it since I got the Nexus and it works great. Does what it's supposed to do. I don't believe in supernatural beings though.
Full disclosure; I have had this bug which manifests about once every week where the touch screen becomes completely unresponsive in the lock screen and there is no way to unlock the screen or turn the phone off unless I pull the battery. I have this nagging feeling that it might have something to do with JuiceDefender but I haven't confirmed it.
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Disable JuiceDefender for a week and see if that bug still exists. If not, problem solved. You can do the same as juice defender by pushing the multitask button and swipping away any apps you don't want.
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JuiceDefender is not only great for a little energy saving, but also for featured like WLAN by localization and display Brightness configuration.
I used it on the S2 and now on the GN.
On Ics it has some little bugs yet, but it also does seem great job here.
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I have the basic version of JuiceDefender running on my GN and I swear its making a noticeable difference in battery life.
I have it set to disable my Data connection whenever the phone is locked. It re-enables it when I unlock it, so it doesn't come on when I'm just checking the time. The effect is immediate too so data is there when you need it.
It also comes on once every 30min just to let apps/email sync briefly.
According to JuiceDefender its improved my battery life by 1.7x. I'd be inclined to say its about right...

Star Shadow said:
Disable JuiceDefender for a week and see if that bug still exists. If not, problem solved. You can do the same as juice defender by pushing the multitask button and swipping away any apps you don't want.
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Lol it does a bit more than that mate. It's the radio function management I need since I'm always too lazy to toggle them manually. I've been meaning to disable it to test if the lock screen bug would go away but I find it hard to use my phone without it now that I've got so used to it. Now that's it's the Christmas holiday though I might give it a go.
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It made a big difference in battery life but it takes way too long for the device to reconnect to the mobile network when i wake it up. Likewise, it will not allow me to get my emails throughout the day unless I wake it up.

Star Shadow said:
Disable JuiceDefender for a week and see if that bug still exists. If not, problem solved. You can do the same as juice defender by pushing the multitask button and swipping away any apps you don't want.
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The multitask button doesn't kill apps - swiping just removes them from the list. Its more like a recent used apps list - like long pressing the home button on Android 2.x use to be - than a multi task manager showing running apps.
As for juice defender, I bought ultimate, and it was just horrible. Very laggy UI, and felt like it was causing more battery usage itself than saving. The comments for 'ultimate' on the market seem to say the same thing. The free version seems much better, although you don't have as many options. There's also another paid version which is cheaper, but I havent tried it.
Put it this way, I uninstalled it Waste of £4.99 which is a ridiculously hefty price for something that cant even get its UI right.

Chrono_Tata said:
Yeah I've used it since I got the Nexus and it works great. Does what it's supposed to do. I don't believe in supernatural beings though.
Full disclosure; I have had this bug which manifests about once every week where the touch screen becomes completely unresponsive in the lock screen and there is no way to unlock the screen or turn the phone off unless I pull the battery. I have this nagging feeling that it might have something to do with JuiceDefender but I haven't confirmed it.
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I can confirm the same behavior on my phone with JD, forcing a battery pull a few times a day. after uninstalling it, I get no more unresponsive screen. I can only conclude that it wasn't playing nice with ics
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I hope Juice Defenders Team will optimize JD for Android ICS, because I loved the program for its features.
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i have this on my GNEX and it is awesome.
yeah some little quirks BUT, definitely prolonging my battery due to wifi/mobile data management.
i'm not experiencing the unresponsive issues and stuff you guys are reporting..
maybe its another app????
i'm getting more than 16hrs on my phone.
as for ultimate. no need for that unless you have a rooted phone.
pro is very good.
i picked up th pro version for $0.99 when it was on sale.

JuiceDefender Ultimate
Hi,
I'm using it on my rooted GN 4.0.1, works well.
By using 3G/WLAN management I come up to 25 - 30 hours lasting battery power.
At home and in my office I told JDU (JuiceDefenderUltimate) to switch to those WLAN's and disable 3G there.
I'vnt tested all the other features like cpuspeedcontroll, or something else.
For me it works perfect.
regards
J.M.

kam187 said:
The multitask button doesn't kill apps - swiping just removes them from the list. Its more like a recent used apps list - like long pressing the home button on Android 2.x use to be - than a multi task manager showing running apps.
As for juice defender, I bought ultimate, and it was just horrible. Very laggy UI, and felt like it was causing more battery usage itself than saving. The comments for 'ultimate' on the market seem to say the same thing. The free version seems much better, although you don't have as many options. There's also another paid version which is cheaper, but I havent tried it.
Put it this way, I uninstalled it Waste of £4.99 which is a ridiculously hefty price for something that cant even get its UI right.
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Steps to prove yourself incorrect:
1) Install OSMonitor
2) Open GMail
3) Go to homescreen and open OSMonitor
4) In the process list, make sure GMail is listed (it should be!).
5) Press the Multitask soft button and swipe away GMail.
6) Check for GMail in OSMonitor and it will have disappeared as it is no longer running.
Magic!
Sorry I'm just on a personal mission to stop this misinformation from being spread.
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On-topic: I've used JuiceDefender Ultimate on all three Nexuses over the years and I certainly think that it makes a big difference by turning wifi off when not in use and turning mobile data off when the screen is off, although I have loads of other settings configured within the app also.

JD Works Great
I have been using JD Ultimate on my Nexus and it works great (I would estimate 1.5 - 2x battery life).
I used the Nexus for a little over a week without JD just to have a set expectations of what my battery life is without JD.
I have not seen any bugs with this up til now.

Chrono_Tata said:
Yeah I've used it since I got the Nexus and it works great. Does what it's supposed to do. I don't believe in supernatural beings though.
Full disclosure; I have had this bug which manifests about once every week where the touch screen becomes completely unresponsive in the lock screen and there is no way to unlock the screen or turn the phone off unless I pull the battery. I have this nagging feeling that it might have something to do with JuiceDefender but I haven't confirmed it.
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I get the same issue and I dont get it when I uninstalled Juice Defender
My phone also reboots randomly and I am wondering if its linked toJuice Defender. The reboots only started recently

I use JD free on my GN, although I haven't seen what battery would be like without JD on it. On my Incredible, JD made the difference between not getting though a single day to getting almost 2 days out of my battery. On my GN with JD I'm still only getting about one full day's worth out of it, sometimes not quite a full day.

I am using Juice Defender Plus and it is set to manage it self then WiFi and 3g network. I am using wifi at home and in the office,and the rest -3g
In my opinion....jd plus does worth the money spent.
14 hours and 20 minutes used - 46% of battery left
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Ice Cream Sandwich seems to do a lot of the things that JuiceDefender did on my old phone. For example, data is automatically turned off when you are connected to WiFi. I had it installed for a while, but when I looked at the list of apps that were using the battery (in the Android settings menu) JuiceDefender was listed as using a fair amount of battery. I'm not sure it is worth the hassle on this phone.

[APP] Battery Core Live Wallpaper

Just released another live wallpaper. This wallpaper is tells how much battery you have left, voltage, temp and status. The spinning core will spin faster when you have full battery and slow down when your battery level gets lower. Also included are some particle effects. There's a few customization on the free version and more in the paid version. Its been optimized to use as little ram as possible and update cycles were slowed down to drain less battery. Tested on nexus 4, nexus 7, galaxy s2, galaxy s3 and lg g2x. Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 were my primary test devices so it should work pretty good on them. Check it out.
8-16-2013: Updated to allow users on the free version to get all features of the paid version by completing simple free offers. Download it for more info. Also, some bug fixes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qk.batterycorelwfree

Looks cool, installing now.

angryGTS said:
Looks cool, installing now.
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Thanks.

Installing also, love how it is themed to match the AOSP visually!
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Paid version uses almost a third of the RAM per "Running Apps" section in Settings... awesome!

It's awesome.. But it uses too much of the cpu. I was surprised to see that after a few minutes of using the lwp, I suddenly saw it in the battery usage settings and it says that it's using about 7% of the battery.
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wtfshouldidonow said:
It's awesome.. But it uses too much of the cpu. I was surprised to see that after a few minutes of using the lwp, I suddenly saw it in the battery usage settings and it says that it's using about 7% of the battery.
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That's weird. I've never seen it on my battery usage, not even on my nexus test devices. I truly put my test devices to the test when I develop on them. The only time I've ever noticed live wallpapers showing up on the battery use percent is when I just fully charged and rebooted or something like that. It probably only shows up cause I haven't done much on the phone

EPayne123 said:
Installing also, love how it is themed to match the AOSP visually!
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Paid version uses almost a third of the RAM per "Running Apps" section in Settings... awesome!
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This might be a problem with the free version...I may have forgotten to change some code around. I know I had some last minute code changes...hmm...I'll need to look into it in a few days. Kinda burned out right now and I really dont want to look at any code for a few days.

AW: [APP] Battery Core Live Wallpaper
Looks pretty cool!
Just bought it!
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qkhang said:
That's weird. I've never seen it on my battery usage, not even on my nexus test devices. I truly put my test devices to the test when I develop on them. The only time I've ever noticed live wallpapers showing up on the battery use percent is when I just fully charged and rebooted or something like that. It probably only shows up cause I haven't done much on the phone
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Update: After fully charging my phone again and set the live wallpaper, it doesn't appear anymore Guess it was just a bug or something, anyways, great wallpaper!
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I added the ability to change from Celsius to Fahrenheit. Just uploaded new apk files so it should be available in a couple of hours.

Loving it thanks
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I updated the app, thanks to some feedback. Should be available in a couple of hours. Heck, if anyone has any different core ideas, dont be afraid to tell me about. If its something I can create, I'll credit you with it.
New updated things:
* Move text to top of battery core
* Cleaned up settings menu
* Adjust glow effect color on battery core(paid version only)
* Glow effect of battery core changes color on low battery, user sets low battery point

Nice. It reminds me of iron man
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Cool wallpaper..:good:

the wallpapers looks a bit off to the right. if you can center it, then it'd be prefect.

nghj said:
the wallpapers looks a bit off to the right. if you can center it, then it'd be prefect.
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I updated the app. Its should be more centered now. Also added in 2 new basic cores, nothing fancy. I'm hoping to get in much better look cores in the future.

awesome!! installing soon :good:

Published another update. This time I think the 2 new cores, Core Type3 and Core Type 4 are pretty cool. Also added in some more particle shapes.

It went up as my wallpaper the day you posted it and it never came down. Sweet!!

Added another update. I dont know if anyone noticed, but I managed to fudge cake Core 2 with the Arc Reactor in my last update. There's also been a slight design change. It was a difficult decision, but I think in the end its a better design. Plus, doing it this way, has increased performance on phones 1 year or older, not that the nexus 4 has any problems with it. Heck, I still think its pretty powerful...running 60 fps even when flipping through the home screen really fast...unlike the Nexus 7, drops a few frames.

[App] Battery Core Live Wallpaper

Released a few days ago but there were some bugs for the Spring GS3 versions so I didn't post it here. I think I have the bugs have been worked out and should worked pretty good on the GS3 for sprint. This wallpaper tells you battery information. At full charge the core will spin the fastest, as your battery depletes, the core will spin slower. There are some particle effects but can be turned off. Its just a simple live wallpaper, nothing too flashy. Download and check it out.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qk.batterycorelwfree
Screen shots are from nexus 4, but should look pretty similar. I didn't get a chance to do a screen shot on the GS3 due to it not being mine and only had a certain amount of time with it.
8-16-2013: Updated. Now users can get all the features of the paid version by completing some simple free offers.

That is rad. Going to try it out now.
:good:

installed and using now! i usually dont go for live wallpapers as they drain your battery, but this is (as the previous post very adeptly stated) pretty damn rad!

Published another update. This time I think the 2 new cores, Core Type3 and Core Type 4 are pretty cool. Also added in some more particle shapes.

I like it, I'll roll the free verison to get a idea about battery life, if all is good I'll be purchasing the paid app.
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I added another update. Somehow, in my last update I got Core 2 mixed up with the Arc Reactor. Dont know it anyone noticed. There's been a lot of complaints about home screen lagging. So with this update, I hope to fix some of it.

This looks sweet. Downloading it now
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I love it!
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Speedin07si said:
I like it, I'll roll the free verison to get a idea about battery life, if all is good I'll be purchasing the paid app.
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What ROM are you running for those Icons I love them. if you could link me to them please?

App updated.

CM10.2 M1 on my aging G Nex is an awesome overhaul !

Been running CM10.2 M1 on my G Nex with 4.3.1 for 3 days now and the experience as a daily driver is FANTASTIC !! It's a complete overhaul for the G Nex with it's aging dual core Ti OMAP and 1 Gb RAM. The customisation and tweakings are stellar, so much so that I've revived my old love for my G Nex. Perhasp, I've started to neglet my brand new Nexus 5 as it has been sitting on my desk, powered off for 3 days already. lol...
The N5 is a monster when it comes to performance, nothing can touch it ! Even the fluidity of the CM10.2 on my G Nex is no match. But the customisability of the mod is what wins my heart. Not going to root my N5 anytime soon as it's still brand new as hell hehehe...
Have any of you guys felt the same as me ?

kensim781 said:
Been running CM10.2 M1 on my G Nex with 4.3.1 for 3 days now and the experience as a daily driver is FANTASTIC !! It's a complete overhaul for the G Nex with it's aging dual core Ti OMAP and 1 Gb RAM. The customisation and tweakings are stellar, so much so that I've revived my old love for my G Nex. Perhasp, I've started to neglet my brand new Nexus 5 as it has been sitting on my desk, powered off for 3 days already. lol...
The N5 is a monster when it comes to performance, nothing can touch it ! Even the fluidity of the CM10.2 on my G Nex is no match. But the customisability of the mod is what wins my heart. Not going to root my N5 anytime soon as it's still brand new as hell hehehe...
Have any of you guys felt the same as me ?
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Of course the Nexus 5 feels/is faster.
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kensim781 said:
Been running CM10.2 M1 on my G Nex with 4.3.1 for 3 days now and the experience as a daily driver is FANTASTIC !! It's a complete overhaul for the G Nex with it's aging dual core Ti OMAP and 1 Gb RAM. The customisation and tweakings are stellar, so much so that I've revived my old love for my G Nex. Perhasp, I've started to neglet my brand new Nexus 5 as it has been sitting on my desk, powered off for 3 days already. lol...
The N5 is a monster when it comes to performance, nothing can touch it ! Even the fluidity of the CM10.2 on my G Nex is no match. But the customisability of the mod is what wins my heart. Not going to root my N5 anytime soon as it's still brand new as hell hehehe...
Have any of you guys felt the same as me ?
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And?

Btw what speed and did you guys set for the CPU, mine is 700 - 1200 mhz, Interactive. Not sure is it a good choice ?
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kensim781 said:
Btw what speed and did you guys set for the CPU, mine is 700 - 1200 mhz, Interactive. Not sure is it a good choice ?
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700 is very high. I bet your battery wont last long. Mine is 192-1228
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mrgnex said:
700 is very high. I bet your battery wont last long. Mine is 192-1228
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Will try 192 out...
I've always had mines set on 384-1228, it's what the ROM came with.
BTW
In trickster mod under "max screen off" its set to 576, will that also be okay to set to 192?

There's issues with 192mhz
Beamed from my Maguro

Mach3.2 said:
There's issues with 192mhz
Beamed from my Maguro
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What specifically are your issues?
Cause when I first set it to 192 the battery section under settings wasn't displaying correctly, but a simple reboot fixed that issue.
Running 4.1.2 PA ROM, zen 10 kernel.
Also previously CPU governor was set to interactiveX and I noticed a some lag/delay in certain apps but then(now) set it to performance and no lag more.
To early to tell if battery life has improved.

isajoo said:
What specifically are your issues?
Cause when I first set it to 192 the battery section under settings wasn't displaying correctly, but a simple reboot fixed that issue.
Running 4.1.2 PA ROM, zen 10 kernel.
Also previously CPU governor was set to interactiveX and I noticed a some lag/delay in certain apps but then(now) set it to performance and no lag more.
To early to tell if battery life has improved.
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It's something about losing mobile data iirc, it's been ages since anyone last talked about it. It dates back to the late ICS era I think..
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Mach3.2 said:
It's something about losing mobile data iirc, it's been ages since anyone last talked about it. It dates back to the late ICS era I think..
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Looks like your right, cause before push email notifications worked fine, even with the screen off and now it seems to be broken.
Will be back to confirm after restoring an older backup of ROM.
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Push email seems to be working again even with 192.
LOL

A Realization

Come to think of it, our phone is truly amazing.
It has far-exceeded its original shelf-life, and is still very capable to uphold itself in these upcoming years.
Three cheers for Android!

HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY
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Reinvented said:
Come to think of it, our phone is truly amazing.
It has far-exceeded its original shelf-life, and is still very capable to uphold itself in these upcoming years.
Three cheers for Android!
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yea, it's just sucks a little that Google/TI no longer support it.
and also apparently didn't do much of anything in the ways of optimizing code as per omapzoom and other things. I just feel like this thing still has a pretty nice amount of untapped potential in it and wish I knew how to do anything at all in order to pull it out. because while SURE it can perform nicely, there ARE times where you can tell it's strained. and it Just seems like with proper coding it shouldn't at all. Imho the cpu is plenty good enough to handle more than it does, but due to other factors that also put a damper on battery life, it has been held back just a bit from it's full power in order to squeeze that extra necessary juice out.
(which brings me to a side question here, not trying to thread hijack sorries. but, a lot of times you see kernels and roms that have descriptions for "battery tweaks". and in my experience, saving battery tweaks usually go in hand with a slight, even if minute, drop of performance. what I'm trying to find out is what specifically was changed for those "battery saving tweaks". I would personally like to play around with those values. one thing I came across was I believe kernel tweak for "random read/write wake threshold" in sysctl which a lot put to 128/256 respectively as a battery saving tweak. I'm still researching/testing into just exactly WHAT that is for, but I have lowered those values from anywhere of 64/128 to 8/16. but I'd like to couple that with any OTHER changes to see what can be squeezed so to speak lol...anyone let me know if you know of any that you used in the past so that I might look into them and see if were implemented in my setup and reverse them if possible....pm me IF OP would rather this not clog up the thread lol sorry)
but yeah I agree mostly as well, especially with the great devs who worked on & the newer guys who have been jumping on to keep things moving forward, it's just GREAT community for a solid device.
it's my first nexus and I'm extremely happy I got it within 4months of launch so that I could be around and grow WITH it, learning a ton and experiencing it's evolution. it's been fun and STILL is after so long. it is cool to see that even when development started to slow a bit, others jumped to the plate and started digging in, reviving all the excitement. cheers to all in this community!

I see it the other way:
That newer phones may have gotten better specs but Android OS has not changed enough to justify updating to the latest/greatest phones.
For the past 20 months I'm still enjoying using 4.1.2 ROM seeing as the GN was the official 4.1 Jellybean show piece.
I've personally found KitKat to be a dumbed down version of Android, especially since Google removed tablet mode.

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yea, it's just sucks a little that Google/TI no longer support it.
and also apparently didn't do much of anything in the ways of optimizing code as per omapzoom and other things. I just feel like this thing still has a pretty nice amount of untapped potential in it and wish I knew how to do anything at all in order to pull it out. because while SURE it can perform nicely, there ARE times where you can tell it's strained. and it Just seems like with proper coding it shouldn't at all. Imho the cpu is plenty good enough to handle more than it does, but due to other factors that also put a damper on battery life, it has been held back just a bit from it's full power in order to squeeze that extra necessary juice out.
(which brings me to a side question here, not trying to thread hijack sorries. but, a lot of times you see kernels and roms that have descriptions for "battery tweaks". and in my experience, saving battery tweaks usually go in hand with a slight, even if minute, drop of performance. what I'm trying to find out is what specifically was changed for those "battery saving tweaks". I would personally like to play around with those values. one thing I came across was I believe kernel tweak for "random read/write wake threshold" in sysctl which a lot put to 128/256 respectively as a battery saving tweak. I'm still researching/testing into just exactly WHAT that is for, but I have lowered those values from anywhere of 64/128 to 8/16. but I'd like to couple that with any OTHER changes to see what can be squeezed so to speak lol...anyone let me know if you know of any that you used in the past so that I might look into them and see if were implemented in my setup and reverse them if possible....pm me IF OP would rather this not clog up the thread lol sorry)
but yeah I agree mostly as well, especially with the great devs who worked on & the newer guys who have been jumping on to keep things moving forward, it's just GREAT community for a solid device.
it's my first nexus and I'm extremely happy I got it within 4months of launch so that I could be around and grow WITH it, learning a ton and experiencing it's evolution. it's been fun and STILL is after so long. it is cool to see that even when development started to slow a bit, others jumped to the plate and started digging in, reviving all the excitement. cheers to all in this community!
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But linaro,omapzoom,cyanogen and much others still support our phone
What we need to do?We need to update to 3.4 kernel and add all 3.4 new things,inprove trim support,fix power hall(fix deep sleep mostly)
i will try to fix those,its my mission

I like how light kit kat is. But I remember better battery life on JB ROMS. I thought it would be the other way around but it's still nice to be on the latest version of android
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In all honesty, I have found that my battery life has been about the same between JB and KK.

Whiteboy_cannon said:
I like how light kit kat is. But I remember better battery life on JB ROMS. I thought it would be the other way around but it's still nice to be on the latest version of android
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Newer Android is usually the best route.
I've never personally understood why people cling onto Android 4.1, or 4.2.2 (when theyre rooted and have this specific phone)

Reinvented said:
Newer Android is usually the best route.
I've never personally understood why people cling onto Android 4.1, or 4.2.2 (when theyre rooted and have this specific phone)
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I don't get it either. But to each his own
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Unless you play games you really don't need a new super powerful phone with a 2.5ghz quad core processor and 3gb of ram.
The Galaxy Nexus does an alight job for every day use, i do feel it could be quicker sometimes and wish i had better battery life, but as phone ive used daily for two and a half years i really cant complain too much.

it truly is a great device. It's all thanks to the great Devs working so hard for a device that has been forsaken by Google, itself lol.

InsaneNutter said:
Unless you play games you really don't need a new super powerful phone with a 2.5ghz quad core processor and 3gb of ram.
The Galaxy Nexus does an alight job for every day use, i do feel it could be quicker sometimes and wish i had better battery life, but as phone ive used daily for two and a half years i really cant complain too much.
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GN can run games just fine, problem is app builders don't support it so some great games don't even show up on the play store.
Eg.
Real Racing 3

isajoo said:
GN can run games just fine, problem is app builders don't support it so some great games don't even show up on the play store.
Eg.
Real Racing 3
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That game you mentioned shows up and lets me install on my Galaxy Nexus fine:
I dont really play many demanding games on my phone, the latest i have played is Trials Frontier which has never given me any problems.

InsaneNutter said:
That game you mentioned shows up and lets me install on my Galaxy Nexus fine:
I dont really play many demanding games on my phone, the latest i have played is Trials Frontier which has never given me any problems.
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Why would I need to make it up?
It may just be my ROM that's some how blocking certain games even though the example you gave is compatible with Android 2.3+.
The desktop play store version has always been weird.
Eg.
Electronic arts developer has 37 apps listed on desktop play store where on my GN via play store app there's only 17.
LOL

isajoo said:
Why would I need to make it up?
It may just be my ROM that's some how blocking certain games even though the example you gave is compatible with Android 2.3+.
The desktop play store version has always been weird.
Eg.
Electronic arts developer has 37 apps listed on desktop play store where on my GN via play store app there's only 17.
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I'm not saying you made it up, i believe you, i was simply showing at least on my Galaxy Nexus i had no problem with the game you mentioned.
Maybe its a regional thing? for example the Trials game i linked to was only out in Finland for a few weeks, then it got released to more countries after that.

Totally agree with the op.. Software wise it still runs great.... And hardware wise I still feel it one of the most beautifully designed phones ever..
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It's a beautiful phone indeed, if you don't use the 2100 mAh battery and the "assy" cover which makes it a little ugly.

Agree.. I have not added any extended batteries for the same reason .. I like it's slim and curvy profile... Just got an oem one as the original had worn out
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My guess is people tend to remember better battery life with JB because their battery was new back then Totally agree with OP, I've been using my GNex for 2 years now and thanks to continued support from developers I'm still excited and try new stuff to this day. I plan to change it in 2015, but as much as my next phone will be so much better in every department, I do have a feeling that I'll miss my good old GNex somehow

This is the most versatile phone I've ever used.
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