[SOLVED] Mods please lock this - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Hello everyone around, today I exchanged devices, got my 2nd Nexus and joined the GNex community Hope I can be of any help to you later, but now I need some help:
Both GNex and Nexus 4 have indicator LEDs that can handle "breathe" actions. However, GNex doesn't come with native battery charging indication while Nexus 4 does (Samsung, why?). What I want is that the LED "breathes" when on low battery, charging or full, and (optional but much needed) these LED behaviors should persist even when the screen is unlocked, just like what I got on a standard Nexus 4. I've searched around the web and:
1) Light Flow is said to work, but won't even light up my LED in test mode.
2) Light Manager does its job when screen is first locked, but the LED will turn off once I unlock the screen. Furthermore, if I unlock the screen, pull down the notification drawer and then unlock, the LED won't light up even though I'm still plugged in
3) A third app (I forgot its name) is said to work well, but is reported to fail since 4.3.
Now I'm outta ideas... I am an active flasher and GNex is a secondary device so it has to be on the latest CM - I can't downgrade to 4.2.x just for this LED. I'll definitely appreciate it if you have any app to suggest that can realize what I described above (I can stand having no LEDs when screen on, but it has to work perfectly when screen off).
Thanks for reading this and have a nice day.
SOLVED: LATEST CM10.2 INCORPORATES NATIVE BATTERY LIGHT THAT WORKS EVEN AS SCREEN ON.
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Carbon ROM has this. As I'm sure a lot of other ROMs
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Esteway.619 said:
Carbon ROM has this. As I'm sure a lot of other ROMs
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Can I have it with a third party app instead of a ROM? Not trying to sound stubborn, but I don't flash anything other than official CM and AOSPA.
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Never mind, looks like the app Galaxy Nexus LED works just fine on 4.3, although not when screen unlocked.
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AndyYan said:
Never mind, looks like the app Galaxy Nexus LED works just fine on 4.3, although not when screen unlocked.
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Light flow does
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mrgnex said:
Light flow does
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Thanks for the heads-up! I gave another go at Light Flow and after careful settings, it sure works better than Galaxy Nexus LED. More customization and the ability to make LED stay on rather than "breathing".
However, I've searched around in the app but didn't find the place where I can set the LEDs to light even when screen is on - could you kindly point out what option and where it is? I'm on the latest version of the app.
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AndyYan said:
Thanks for the heads-up! I gave another go at Light Flow and after careful settings, it sure works better than Galaxy Nexus LED. More customization and the ability to make LED stay on rather than "breathing".
However, I've searched around in the app but didn't find the place where I can set the LEDs to light even when screen is on - could you kindly point out what option and where it is? I'm on the latest version of the app.
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Uh, bump this issue? Google told me that the LED couldn't be on because of a restriction in the OS, but then how is it done?
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It is a restriction because they made it so, that's how.
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It is a restriction because they made it so, that's how.
a maguro sent this.
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...But why @mrgnex claim it so? And from what I heard, this is an OS-level restriction instead of a hardware one, but on a Nexus 4, the charging lights persist when screen on, indicating that this restriction isn't hardcoded into the OS... I'm confused :what:
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AndyYan said:
...But why @mrgnex claim it so? And from what I heard, this is an OS-level restriction instead of a hardware one, but on a Nexus 4, the charging lights persist when screen on, indicating that this restriction isn't hardcoded into the OS... I'm confused :what:
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The API is there, vanilla Android doesn't have the options to do it. Think, how could lightflow work if the support wasn't there?

AndyYan said:
...But why @mrgnex claim it so? And from what I heard, this is an OS-level restriction instead of a hardware one, but on a Nexus 4, the charging lights persist when screen on, indicating that this restriction isn't hardcoded into the OS... I'm confused :what:
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Sorry I was wrong. I thought I saw it somewhere but when I searched around I found out it can't be done.
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mrgnex said:
Sorry I was wrong. I thought I saw it somewhere but when I searched around I found out it can't be done.
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Never mind then, I am already quite satisfied that Light Flow could actually work better than my previous solution (albeit costing more RAM). Thank you
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@beekay201 @mrgnex FYI, latest CM10.2 nightlies finally incorporated Battery Light (under Settings-Display&Lights) and this works even when screen is on. Thank you both for all previous answers :thumbup:
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[Q]Galaxy Nexus Burn-In

So my Nexus has burn in. Nothing new there on an AMOLED based screen. However, the other four Nexus I've seen that are more than a month old have the same issues as mine.
My question is simply this: how many of you who have a Nexus have burn in? Please include age of Nexus and when you first noticed burn in, if possible, as I'm looking to put together an objective look at time between purchase and initial occurrence.
If you are using color mods, please mention that as well.
Thanks.
~Jase
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I'm like...mega OCD about screen-burn.
I don't even enable my nav bar %95 of the time.
It's only open when I'm going to need the back button repeatedly as I change settings or something.
So annoying having to do that to keep your screen looking decent =[
I also use the full-screen browser option to minimize status bar burn (as I'm primarily in my browser during use).
No burn yet though!
Phone is a few months old now.
And the only color mod that will hurt your screen is the color multipliers...
Which I leave at default.
Jubakuba said:
I'm like...mega OCD about screen-burn.
I don't even enable my nav bar %95 of the time.
It's only open when I'm going to need the back button repeatedly as I change settings or something.
So annoying having to do that to keep your screen looking decent =[
I also use the full-screen browser option to minimize status bar burn (as I'm primarily in my browser during use).
No burn yet though!
Phone is a few months old now.
And the only color mod that will hurt your screen is the color multipliers...
Which I leave at default.
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Thanks for the info. Exactly what I was looking for.
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I got no burn in at all - I've had the screen since launch but the internals are new-ish. (washed my first one on accident so bought a new one, swapped my original screen in since it was much better quality ) Stock everything except rooted and leaked 4.0.4 ROM. I don't leave my screen on unattended though.
I have major burn in, even from my keyboard being up.
Really sucks and makes me sad.
May try a burn in reversal app on the market, if it works i'll make a fullscreen version for us nexus users
If the burn-in is that bad, wouldn't you be able to have the phone replaced under warranty?
Is it really that bad? :O
I bought my Gnex three days ago and I use the phone quite a lot, so that'll probably happen soon.
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If the burn-in is that bad, wouldn't you be able to have the phone replaced under warranty?
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Yes. But if it's a universal thing....
Theshawty said:
Is it really that bad? :O
I bought my Gnex three days ago and I use the phone quite a lot, so that'll probably happen soon.
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Maybe, it depends on how you treat it...
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My nexus is now on its 2nd day and I noticed on low brightness if I make the whole screen white I can see faint burn in from the status bar and navigation bar.
Can this be reversed or should I consider returning it for replacement?
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MHHubris said:
My nexus is now on its 2nd day and I noticed on low brightness if I make the whole screen white I can see faint burn in from the status bar and navigation bar.
Can this be reversed or should I consider returning it for replacement?
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Ick.
No way.
Roll around in a white screen for 3 minutes at a higher brightness.
It'll go away.
Would a stuck pixel rgb alternating screen help if I were to run it overnight while charging?
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If and when my screen "burns-in", it would still be good for daily use, right? Is it something that would bother me much? I have this phone on a two-year contract and would hate having it fail me halfway.
Well it would be but it would definitely hurt the experience some.
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Well it would be but it would definitely hurt the experience some.
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Indeed it does. I've got a blacked out theme now, so I don't really notice it....but when it was stock/bright colored theme I noticed every bit of it.
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We already posted threads on the burn in issue. Why nor search them out to get the info already posted.
RogerPodacter said:
We already posted threads on the burn in issue. Why nor search them out to get the info already posted.
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Ummm....who are you?
No one said I didn't search, if you'll reread my OP I'm looking for specific information.
Pardon me for asking a question, in the right forum, about a device I own.
Sincerely,
Jase
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I've had my screen on 100 percent brightness since November and I don't have any burn in
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nbeebe24 said:
I've had my screen on 100 percent brightness since November and I don't have any burn in
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First relaxing comment on this thread.. I was starting to feel shaky..
omricn said:
First relaxing comment on this thread.. I was starting to feel shaky..
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Burn-in or no burn-in, nothing can scare me away from this phone.
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Burn-in or no burn-in, nothing can scare me away from this phone.
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Agreed getting one very soon

Weird.. vzw nexus unrooted messed up!

OK so everyone.. my galaxy nexus is scaring me.. my phone completely broke off with signal last night (had no connection what so ever. Resetted, battery removed and all troubleshooting) had to completely factory data resetted. Somewhat working now.. signal connection is weak, battery icon says its charging when not on charge, volume up button not working right, battery dying awhole ton faster.
I'm going nuts over this..
Help me.. should I flash a rom and root it? Or should I send it in and get a certified like new "phone" <whatever that is.
Helpsa me pleasea
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Uhhh if you're still stock and unrooted I'd say get it replaced. It shouldn'tdo that at all
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Getting it replaced thankfully. Talked to verizon this morning. Haliluyerd
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After another day waiting for galaxy nexus replacement to come. More bugs appear, phone won't stay locked after it Go's in lock mode. Auto light no longer works. Also apps aren't running right after full days use.. had to restart to get into xda along with YouTube, facebook, jackd ect.
Also what is "verizon wireless certified like new"?
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twistmycap said:
After another day waiting for galaxy nexus replacement to come. More bugs appear, phone won't stay locked after it Go's in lock mode. Auto light no longer works. Also apps aren't running right after full days use.. had to restart to get into xda along with YouTube, facebook, jackd ect.
Also what is "verizon wireless certified like new"?
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It is a 'refurb'. If you have had it less than 30 days, you should get 'new out of the box' as a replacement.
That's poppy. Well hopefully the refurb is good. Scared
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twistmycap said:
That's poppy. Well hopefully the refurb is good. Scared
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Is your phone its new why dont you just root and flash a rom /radios / kernel and after all that if still not working, well go back to stock /unroot /relock lol
Galaxy Nexus AOKP m5 Franco kernel m3
I'm with the guy over me... Just flash a different ROM, see if it helps... It it's really the radio, then OK, but you should always try :/ Imagine you have only had the wrong radio, or something like that; you didn't flash a different ROM, to check, you sent your phone in, for no reason what so ever...
Never flashed anything before. Just seems like if its doing this I matters well send it in under warranty
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Will do today
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You know android is not perfect yet and from time to time google releases updates, and sometimes things can go very wrong with OTA updates, so you gonna be returning your phone everytime it updates to something better?
Give a try to this.. Its really easy and well will prepare you for any future trouble
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23229558
If you never flashed anything before, well you better start now.. If you dont like doing this things im afraid android phones are not for you
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I know its not perfect, I've had android before and have flashed stuff before. But not on this device. Although my phone shouldn't be doing this at all
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twistmycap said:
I know its not perfect, I've had android before and have flashed stuff before. But not on this device. Although my phone shouldn't be doing this at all
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Doesn't mean is something wrong with the hardware.. Sounds more Like software issues.. Anyways its up to you..
Galaxy Nexus AOKP m5 Franco kernel m3
Woot woot got my replacement. But did a factory data reset on it a few times to see if anything wasn't wrong with it. Running like a dream now! Soon happy
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twistmycap said:
Woot woot got my replacement. But did a factory data reset on it a few times to see if anything wasn't wrong with it. Running like a dream now! Soon happy
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Lol good luck with it and read here just in case http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23229558
Galaxy Nexus AOKP m5 Franco kernel m3

Greetings all!!!

Just bought my galaxy nexus off of somebody on craigslist, and I absolutely love it coming from an htc amaze 4g. This phone is lightning quick and extremely responsive. I can see grain because of the pentile, and also have the purple issue when brightness is low as well as incredibly low speaker. I'm kinda worried about the limited 16Gb internal memory. Other than that, I prefer this phone over my friends S3!! I love this phone!!!!! My first Samsung! Nice to meet you all! Any suggestions and apps u guys would recommend? I
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Jellllyyybeeeeaaan!!!
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davidc23 said:
Jellllyyybeeeeaaan!!!
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I really didn't believe reviewers when they said it made a huge difference lol
Its incredible!!!
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Absolutely the best os for any electronic device. It's that good.
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AmericanCon said:
Absolutely the best os for any electronic device. It's that good.
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Hopefully battery isn't too bad on jellybean. My amaze on ics would last about 8 hours of light to intermediate usage and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of screen on time. Anything better than then I'll be happy lol
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Got mine not too long ago too... Jellybean is awesome!
Check out this thread --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803761
and say hello there too!
AnAm85 said:
Got mine not too long ago too... Jellybean is awesome!
Check out this thread --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803761
and say hello there too!
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Sorry I didn't see it. Was too excited to check
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fuego77 said:
Hopefully battery isn't too bad on jellybean. My amaze on ics would last about 8 hours of light to intermediate usage and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of screen on time. Anything better than then I'll be happy lol
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Only 1 hour?? Most people here get 3 to 4 hours screen on time, some I've seen even 5. You should go ahead and root it and install a custom kernel so you can adjust the color settings to fix that purple tint issue
fuego77 said:
Hopefully battery isn't too bad on jellybean. My amaze on ics would last about 8 hours of light to intermediate usage and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of screen on time. Anything better than then I'll be happy lol
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You should be able to get longer than that with the screen on. Are you switching everything on at the same time? e.g. GPS, wireless, LTE (perhaps?), or perhaps having emails sync every minute... Even if it's heavy gaming you're doing you should get longer than that.
jervine said:
You should be able to get longer than that with the screen on. Are you switching everything on at the same time? e.g. GPS, wireless, LTE (perhaps?), or perhaps having emails sync every minute... Even if it's heavy gaming you're doing you should get longer than that.
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Lol no guys. If anything I would probably get 90 minutes maximum screen on time on my HTC amaze. the battery life on that phone was the worst I've seen in my life. Auto sync off, brightness at 10% , mobile data off, and just some texting.
Also I was thinking of flashing a either kernel, but the phone is perfect the way it is lol. What are other benefits from custom kernel?
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fuego77 said:
Lol no guys. If anything I would probably get 90 minutes maximum screen on time on my HTC amaze. the battery life on that phone was the worst I've seen in my life. Auto sync off, brightness at 10% , mobile data off, and just some texting.
Also I was thinking of flashing a either kernel, but the phone is perfect the way it is lol. What are other benefits from custom kernel?
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You can change the color profile with a custom kernel to get rid of the purple tint. You can also undervolt and underclock for better battery life. You can overclock too, but the CPU is more than enough @stock for most tasks
First thing I'd check out is Jubakuba's sticky in the Q&A forum, all about unlocking boot loader, rooting, flashing ROMs, etc. Big timesaver is just flash bigxie's 4.1.1 ROM which is rooted, with busybox, gapps, and deodexed. Trinity kernel will let you adjust color, boost volume, and overclock (or underclock to save battery). People also like Franco's kernel. Another good flashable mod is Thyrus's Nav bar w/menu button, which also gives you expanded power-off menu with reboot and recovery options. (Does require deodexed ROM so won't work on stock). And you might want to try a replacement launcher like Nova or Apex.
Or you might just want to enjoy the stock Jellybean experience for a while before modding. Have fun.
Thanks for the responses guys!! I read around and I see I have to use Odin? I'm more of a fast boot command prompt type of guy lol . I'm scared to mess up nexus :/ is performance better with custom kernels? Oh boy I'm going to have do tons of reading!!! Lol.
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fuego77 said:
Thanks for the responses guys!! I read around and I see I have to use Odin? I'm more of a fast boot command prompt type of guy lol . I'm scared to mess up nexus :/ is performance better with custom kernels? Oh boy I'm going to have do tons of reading!!! Lol.
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fastboot works great with the GNex. I have had this phone for 4 months and I have never ever used Odin

[Q] Ghost in my phone?

Okay so the title is misleading but please continue reading.
I have a sprint galaxy nexus and love it. The one thing is that when I have the brightness on half full or full I run into an issue. If I open an app like play store and for the quick second it loads on a gray screen I can see outlines of my home screen. When I ran kernels it was more visible but on stock I can still see the 4.2 clock widget outline. Its like a ghost image or bleed image.
Is this normal? Does anyone have any information of what this could be and solutions?
I tried searching but I don't know the correct term so its difficult.
Thanks.
(All helpful post will get a thanks click)
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Your screen has a burnt in image. Its fairly common with phones with OLED displays so don't worry.
this thread may help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394358
even though it says that image retention is "not OK" i would say that if the retention doesnt last for more than 5 seconds you should be ok, i sometimes get a bit of it too but it goes away fast
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Your screen has a burnt in image. Its fairly common with phones with OLED displays so don't worry.
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This. Image ghosting is just part of the SAMOLED display.
such gost image is mostly because of software issue but as u said u have tried custom rom as well as stock rom even though the problem is der...
so mostly its a hardware issue to be more specific, the ghost image is formed when ur processor is overheated..
have u tried overclocking ur processor ? dat might be the main reason..
if your phone is under warrenty den solution for that is flash the official stock firmware and go to service centre.
or else u r out of warrenty den just ignore it...but be sure not to overclock it ..
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I flashed Franco kernel over rasbean and left it untouched and the colors were more vivid but the burnt image was much more visible. But on stock its just the clock because its bright white and the faded image is less than 1 second.
I bought the phone off eBay. I got the original box with serial but idk if I can claim warranty.
I haven't over clocked the device because the 1.2 g dual core is blazing fast when coming from a 1 g single core.
Any other inputs? Im just confused if this is normal, hardware, software.
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Update: on half full and dim it shows the ghost but on full brightness nothing. Its beautiful on full but my battery?
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robogoflow said:
Update: on half full and dim it shows the ghost but on full brightness nothing. Its beautiful on full but my battery?
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That seems normal as long as its not showing when above like 30% brightness.
Sometimes vertical lines show up to some degree (banding) some of the custom ROMs including CyanogenMod have a feature that reduces the issue.
I myself have an issue with horizontal lines burned into the screen at any brightness. I think it was from turning the color values up to the max even though I didn't keep it high for that long. I've considered sending it into Samsung service center to get the screen replaced, except doesn't the repair process take weeks?
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Utkarsh-ezzo said:
such gost image is mostly because of software issue but as u said u have tried custom rom as well as stock rom even though the problem is der...
so mostly its a hardware issue to be more specific, the ghost image is formed when ur processor is overheated..
have u tried overclocking ur processor ? dat might be the main reason..
if your phone is under warrenty den solution for that is flash the official stock firmware and go to service centre.
or else u r out of warrenty den just ignore it...but be sure not to overclock it ..
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It has nothing to do with the processor lol..
biscuitownz said:
It has nothing to do with the processor lol..
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talk and laugh when u know the things...
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Utkarsh-ezzo said:
talk and laugh when u know the things...
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DAMNNN!!!!
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Utkarsh-ezzo said:
talk and laugh when u know the things...
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Please enlighten us? I've owned 4 SAMOLED devices and they have all displayed signs of image ghosting. I NEVER OC my headsets, so please tell us how exactly an "overheated" ARM processor will drastically affect the display.
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My Gnex always searching for GPS

Since I have upgraded to 4.2 the gnex alwaya trying to lock on GPS.. Is there any way to find if a certain app is the reason?
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bar_rodoy said:
Since I have upgraded to 4.2 the gnex alwaya trying to lock on GPS.. Is there any way to find if a certain app is the reason?
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Do you have a case on it? I have found my ebay case definitely blocks the GPS.
Had the same issue it was the weather channel app
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KevinAlbrecht said:
Do you have a case on it? I have found my ebay case definitely blocks the GPS.
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Is your case a plastic one or a rubber one?
KevinAlbrecht said:
Do you have a case on it? I have found my ebay case definitely blocks the GPS.
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I don't think he means that the GPS can't connect. He means that it I'd always searching fit no apparent reason. And yes I have this issue as well
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nnoble83 said:
Had the same issue it was the weather channel app
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I had the issue with the Beautiful Widgets weather clock widget. I found no other solution but to turn the widget off until the problem is fixed.
Was it working for you before 4.2? I find that the GPS for this phone is just plain brutal (or maybe mine is just defective). It usually takes a few min to lock on then when it does and I start driving, it starts jumping all over the map.
edit: Read the post again and sounds like he means it's trying to lock on randomly by itself.
The device is randomly trying to lock on GPS even I dont use any app who requires GPS location.
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I have noticed it too after updating to 4.2.
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bar_rodoy said:
The device is randomly trying to lock on GPS even I dont use any app who requires GPS location.
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It's probably not Android itself but one of the background apps/widgets that causes the issue due to incompatibility with 4.2. In my case it was Beautiful Widgets.
it is Samsungs thing.. Pretty sure! i've had 4 Samsung phones and all of them have this bug.
Droid Charge at the end of it's life 6 month Just Forgot out about GPS
S2 also also had Problems
S2 Skyrocket gave up on locking after ICS release
Galaxy Nexus stopped locking GPS after 4.2
First 3 phones started to have problems after recent updates. As well as Nexus// But i'm pretty sure carriers phones could have been messed up by Carrier software or Samsungs itself buy i'm not sure why Nexus is having this issue.
bar_rodoy said:
Since I have upgraded to 4.2 the gnex alwaya trying to lock on GPS.. Is there any way to find if a certain app is the reason?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34903894#post34903894
Spinz78,read again. This is bit the case.
I kinda silve the problem. I flashed a new rom and I had problems with MyBackup Pro on the restore process so I had to reinstall all my apps manualy. Of course I didn't install every app that I had and for now the problem is gone.
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