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Favourite feature of Galaxy Nexus/Ice Cream Sandwich

What's your single most favourite feature of the Galaxy Nexus or Ice Cream Sandwich?
Mine has to be Face Unlock. It works brilliantly and it doesn't seem to be fooled by pictures of me which is great!
I only have one issue with it being that sometimes I get a message stating "Couldn't find your face" but then when I turn the screen off and back on Face Unlock immediately unlocks the phone after identifying me. Has anyone else had this minor issue?

Hardware acceleration. Finally. And the bigger screen without a humongous phone attached to it.
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the lock screen
LAMO!

Sarg92 said:
I only have one issue with it being that sometimes I get a message stating "Couldn't find your face" but then when I turn the screen off and back on Face Unlock immediately unlocks the phone after identifying me. Has anyone else had this minor issue?
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I just wanted to add that I have noticed this EXACT behavior. It does not happen all the time, but often enough to notice. The lighting is good and my face is clear, but I get "Couldn't find your face" message. Without moving the phone or changing the angle I just turn the screen off and then back on... and it instantly unlocks.
I can't be certain, but I think it has something to do with the phone being dormant for a while... when I come back to the phone I see this issue, but if I am using it often then it does not happen as much. I'm wondering if it has to do with a memory issue or something. Perhaps the Face Unlock feature is not actively in memory and it takes some time... and then just times out the first time.

There's a subtle feature that I read about in the user guide for the GNex, and it's one that I really like - When you are connected to a WiFI network, ICS will monitor your signal and reliability. If the network you are on is very unreliable or has a very poor signal, the phone will disconnect from it in order to use your 3G/4G signal instead.
When I leave work, this used to be a problem, as my HTC Incredible would hang on to the poor WiFi signal from the building, and I'd have to turn WiFi off in order to do anything network related. Now, the phone disconnects from the WiFi long before I even have to think about there being a problem.

Task manager
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Having a settings shortcut in the notification bar.
Runner up would be the goofy effects in the camera. Great way to pass time.

Screen and design.

Being able to swipe away notifications individually, as sometimes I like to keep reminders in the notification bar if I'm running late on a task, but don't need other stuff like the market update notifier.

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Being able to swipe away notifications individually, as sometimes I like to keep reminders in the notification bar if I'm running late on a task, but don't need other stuff like the market update notifier.
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I love the whole swipe to delete in general. I love the usability of ICS. Everything is so crisp fast and intuitive.

Scrolling. That's it. Being able to scroll, flick, etc. without having to guess what the phone is actually doing after an input is paramount. That was my biggest issue with gingerbread and I'm glad they've tweaked it in ICS.

i also like the animation from vertical to horizontal and vice versa, very matrix like

Screenshots!!!
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Screenshots!!!
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+1 this.
However I love the redesigned core apps. Messaging, People, Dialer, etc. These look clean, perform so efficiently, and make using 3rd party apps a stupid thing to do.
Oh! And the ability to increase font size universally in the settings. My grandpa is jealous of this.
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The keyboard.
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So many features of the phone AND ICS...multi tasking going from texting to browsing back to reading something..super quick. Also closing the apps, the dev support!!!
And let's not forget the gorgeous screen
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HW acc + in combo with the specs of the Nexus it's blazing fast
Using CM9 build with HW acc on my old SGS1 and I loved the difference in speed when I got my Nexus
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I like the soft key buttons, led notification, and beautiful HD screen.
Everything else is more or less the same. I like the settings quick shortcut in the drop down menu also. Feels good in hand too.
LTE EX Galaxy Nexus - AOSP KANG
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I like the improvements to the browser, Gmail, and Email apps.

I really do like the Gmail apps too. I also like the fact it is used for dual core
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[Q] [Jelly Bean] Hacks/Mods for Voice Search?

I've got a few questions, but my primary question is this...
Now that Android has a killer "virtual assistant" application, will we be able to expect modified versions of it? I'm not sure if it runs client side or server side (and I'd assume this would be a major determining factor), but is it possible/practical to believe that it might be capable of doing real assistant things? I'm imagining things like having it open new tabs (and executing a search or going to webpage) on my desktop, or having it make notes/put things in my calendar, really being able to interface with my desktop in any way would be awesome. Is this kind of thing possible?
Next question is, for some reason my Voice search isn't talking back to me. It's fully functional, but having it talk back is nice. I've got a VZW gnex running Jelly Belly v2.2. A few days ago I flashed Vicious V3. When I was on vicious it talked back to me a few times, then at some point, it stopped. I checked all the settings but I couldn't make it work again. I decided to flash a new ROM, can't get it to talk on this one either. Anybody know what might be causing this?
Lastly, does anybody know of a way to get CM9 style drop down toggles (in the status bar)? Or a JB rom with it baked it? I tried the Notification Toggle app by one of the XDA members here, some of the buttons worked, some didn't, and the NT Icon downloader wasn't working right either, so I couldn't get CM9 style toggles anyways.
TL;DR
Possible to have JB voice search modded in the future?
Any reason Voice Search not talking back to me any more?
JB CM9-style drop down toggles baked into any roms?

It is definitely possible for voice search to be modded. I'm currently trying to develop an app that allows you to add your own commands to search. Ex. Say 'launch pulse' would open the pulse app
As far as the other things I have no idea.
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suggestions for dialer issues

ok I just moved from a HTC sensation to the S III, I am really disliking the dialer. Now I am trying out GO DailerEx and it seems pretty good...BUT, when I am in a call it goes back to the samsung dialer until i end the call and hit the back button. Anyone know of a goo0d dailer that completely replaces the samsung junky one? Or know how to replace with Go SMS fully?

I think they all must do that. Same thing happens to me on exDialer

I think this is built into ICS+. I just upgraded from an OG Evo 4G and IIRC GoDialer was completely skinnable, it let me choose the answer/hangup button style, position, etc. Maybe we must wait for an update?
Non sequitur: Is it just me or does XDA have some of the most difficult image verifcations on the internet? I have to click refresh like fifteen times to get something that even resembles words.

The dialers are just that, dialers. They dial the number then let the built-in phone application handle the phone call. You would have to replace the system phone app completely.
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Okay... Is that possible? Can they go dialer be cooked in to a rom and loose the Samsung crap completely or is there another all in one dialer/app?
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You know, I did set GoContacts, GoSMS, and the other Go apps as system apps using Titanium Backup. That was on Gingerbread though, so I make no guarantees. I haven't done it on ICS because there's been no issues with the Go apps dismissing notifications. The only way to remove them was the system remove dialog then a reboot after that.

I don't think setting them as system apps will do what you want. The best bet is to try to replace the samsung dialer with an AOSP one, but I'm not certain how you would do that.

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Dialers on AOKP do the same. So no escape.
Just wonder why do you hate Samsung dialer? It's better than stock Android or AOKP.

Samsung keyboard auto correct broken.

So I noticed recently that the samsung keyboard auto correct no longer functions.
I noticed this on ICS and now JB.
Does anyone know why this happened? I have searched the net but no solid answers.
And please before you respond with telling me to try another keyboard like every other thread that I have found I do not care and I am in no way interested in any kbs but the samsung one.
I am trying to get a solid answer if this has affected everyone or just some. Did samsung change the kb or is this just a bug that affects all or maybe just some?
Please if you have good info post. This is driving me insane and I hope to find a resolution.
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No one is having this issue?
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I have forever. I'm one of the people who has made serval threads. You are forced to another keyboard. Samsung will help you in no way, they claim its a 3rd party app that they don't support when it's their own ****. Once I updated to li3 the Samsung keyboard along with the swype added in, are both broken and won't auto correct. It followed through to lj7 (jb). In the end I gave up because devs don't know any software tweak to fix it, Samsung support is worthless, their only excuse is it will be fixed in the next update from some reps, and yet wasn't.
In the end I was forced to use SwiftKey 3 =/ sorry to say it but go give the free version a try. There's no frustration due to no auto correct. It has 0 lag, 200% better than the Samsung keyboard, auto corrects much better, and ya. Try it out, if you hate it then un install, if you love it, thank me and buy the full version XD. I belive the free version is a 14 day trial

Yeah the stock keyboard sucks big time so I switched to Swiftkey 3 also.

I noticed the problem about the time that I upgraded to ICS as well and still having problems on JB so at this point it is a useless keyboard.
It is such a shame that it seems no one cares. I went and looked at a note 2 at BB today and it seems those as well are not auto correcting either. I wonder if they for some reason removed the feature when they added new options to the keyboard in ICS.
I wish we could just get a straight answer from someone even if it is just telling us they do not plan to bring it back.
I wish there was source available for the keyboard as we could fix it but it that is not going to happen. And I really don't enjoy using smali lol.
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Using apps that replace stock ones

One thing in particular is the messaging app. I've used GoSMS for quite a while, but realized that the Direct Call function and Smart Notifications don't work with it. Tried Handcent as well.
Is this something that can be addressed from a developer standpoint or are we forced to pick and choose?
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if its a touchwiz feature it means more than likely it wont work with anything but stock. This is because it does not have the proper framework to use those features.