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For those with concerns about getting a Galaxy Nexus

Well, i took the plunge today, and went out and got one sim free. I had concerns that the gps would be a bit naff, and that there may be screen defects, or sluggishness and all the other commonly complained about things on here. However, in reality, non of these things were evident. It just goes to show that sometimes you can read too much and put yourself off buying a device on these fora. Which I nearly did. So, i'm really pleased with mine, screen is just great, gps is very good, not noticed a great deal of lag, just little hiccups here or there maybe, but that's it. Certainly nothing more than i got from my iphone 4 when it's ram was a bit pushed. So, if you think you might be put off, don't be, it's just great

+1 i have the same experience with my VZW GN. A hickup here and there, the AMOLED screen has the linen appearance with whites on low brightness, but overall I'm happy with it.
My colleague's did burn through a lot of battery this morning, but I just unlocked and rooted it for him so we will see if this was something he installed.

+1 excellent device
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I disagree with the OP.
My Nexus while at first seemed great actually has a few issues that are making me second guess my decision to return my Razr.
1. When switching from Wifi to 3g/4g my data stops working. I have to switch to airplane mode then back to restore it.
2. The speaker phone is aweful. While in the car its completley useless. I spend half of my conversation repeating myself becuase the other person can't hear me. I did a comparison with my wife Incredible and it was night and day.
3. When typing on the keyboard I notice that they keys being registered are not the keys I am pressing. Not all the time but on average its worse than the razr. The upside of this is that the autocorrection of ICS fixes the mistakes so its a wash in the end but still annoying.
4. MTP file transfer fail often when transfering files. I ended up using a wifi ftp server to get my titanium backup files.
5. Audio breaks up when trying to stream over bluetooth. Worked flawlessly on my Razr.
The last two are not so much bugs as design limitations.
6. No SD slot...I mean really... why can't nexus phones have sd cards.
7. No voice search button with the rest of the "buttons"

This is kinda what i meant, these problems seem to be device specific. Generally, they are ok, but as was the case with the sgs2, the early batches seemed dubious and the software was full of bugs. If you are lucky tho, (as the majority will be). All will be fine.

Forgot about the bluetooth audio streaming issues. Updated my post with that as well.

So far I've had no problems with Bluetooth audio either. Although I have not tested it extensively. Only tried it out to check it.

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Forgot about the bluetooth audio streaming issues. Updated my post with that as well.
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Ooooh Please can you elaborate on this. BT/A2DP Streaming is essential for me.

Seems like ICS gets faster as you use it more. Also, most apps are not totally designed for ICS; Yet.

I would say I am more likely to share a bad experience post on the internet than a good one. I am sure there are a lot of people who are happy with their device that just don't feel the need to say so online.
I agree with the OP. You should always give something a go and if it don't work out there is usually a warranty.
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I agree with the OP, most of my fears about the phone have not come to life. No problems with the signal, although if there is a fix, I hope that it will help when I am at work. zero ****ing bars..why is every place I work at built like a bomb shelter with no signals coming thru???
i have faith someone will make a bigger battery for this thing...

cenwesi said:
Ooooh Please can you elaborate on this. BT/A2DP Streaming is essential for me.
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I tried streaming spotify over the bluetooth audio link in my Ford Sync and the audio stream kept breaking up as if the phone was really far away or something. I had seen this before with my Incredible when it first came out but a reboot usually fixed it. I rebooted the nexus and the problem remained.

I also agree with OP, this phone has been perfect before. I was espeically surprised with the GPS lock i was getting. with my Charge i had to go outside and stand still for like 30 seconds to a minute to get it to lock on, the Nexus locked on almost instantly sitting in my chair inside my house...

Clearly all of these issues are luck of the draw. My phone has had no such issues. I suppose some phones having these issues and others not might indicate lesser build quality, but even iPhones have hit and miss problems like this.
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[Q] Sprint Galaxy Nexus Problems

I bought my SPH-L700 through wirefly.com b/c it was $50 cheaper than getting it directly through Sprint. It arrived last week, and I couldn't have been more excited.
Unfortunately I'm now extremely anxious, and am second guessing whether I even want this phone.
The audio is so low, and would vary from one app to the next, even one minute to the next. After browsing the forums and Google, I installed Volume+. The volume problem is better, but I'm not happy that I have to install a 3rd party app for something like this.
The TTS voice changes sporadically when I'm using Google Navigation. The voice sounds all nice and pretty most of the time, but then will switch to a basic computerized voice.
The battery life sucks - but I don't need to say anything more about that, we're all aware of that.
I've had really crappy experiences with bluetooth headsets. I talk on the phone often when I'm driving, so I really want a solid experience. I'm on my 3rd headset now, and all 3 have had popping, and audio fading in and out. My latest, a BlueAnt Q2, sounds great when streaming Pandora or listening to Google Navigation directions, but as soon as I get a call it sounds like crap. I just got off a call and the other party was griping about how bad I sounded to him too.
I'm 100% stock, unrooted at the moment. Is there a ROM that addresses these issues? Any other suggestions to improve this stuff? I really want to love this phone, but it's making it difficult...
TIA

Most custom ROMs will fix the audio issue for you. I'm not sure if the TTS problem is related to the audio volume or not, but I know that I have fewer issues understanding what the navigation is telling me to do now that the volume issue is fixed.
For battery life, what do you consider terrible? What is your average screen on time, and total time on a single charge? Good/bad signal strength? Have you looked to see if you're phone is entering deep sleep?
As for the bluetooth headset, I've got nothing there as I don't use one.

Thanks for the quick reply!
Luckily I'm at my desk most of the day while I'm at the office, and have my phone plugged into my computer - if I weren't, I wouldn't make it through a full day.
Oh and another thing I forgot to mention in my first post - when I use the camera, my phone gets REALLY hot. Just one or two pics, then I back out to the home screen, and turn off the screen - but the battery starts to go really fast at that point, unless I turn the phone off and back on.
Signal strength is usually around 3 bars during the day (that's another thing - I miss the 4G I had on my Epic. Wish we could get 4G on this bad boy sometimesoon...). I'm on wifi at home.
I'd never heard of Deep Sleep until I read your post. I just installed CPU Spy to see if it enters that state... and it says 46% Deep Sleep.

Heating up from taking pictures is not normal. You might want to get WF to replace it.

Nobody else is having the issues with bluetooth audio quality during calls?

DFWDraco76 said:
Nobody else is having the issues with bluetooth audio quality during calls?
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Wish I could help but don't have a Bluetooth headset.

For the phone getting hot when using the camera issue, do you have instant upload enabled on Google+? If not, do you have a similar auto-share service enabled? I had instant upload enabled for G+ initially, and when I started taking a bunch of pictures, my phone would get hot. Not because of the camera, but because the phone was uploading a bunch of pictures. All the radio usage caused the phone to get warm. Turned off instant upload, and haven't had the problem since.

Yes, I did have instant upload enabled. I've disabled it...
But the bluetooth issues are a big deal for me. I'm in the process of exchanging the phone for a new one through Wirefly. For the record, their "standard" exchange policy is to have you send your phone in, THEN they send you the new one. For a mere $400 deposit, they'll send you the new one up front, then refund the deposit when they receive the returned unit. This is SO much fun.

DFWDraco76 said:
Yes, I did have instant upload enabled. I've disabled it...
But the bluetooth issues are a big deal for me. I'm in the process of exchanging the phone for a new one through Wirefly. For the record, their "standard" exchange policy is to have you send your phone in, THEN they send you the new one. For a mere $400 deposit, they'll send you the new one up front, then refund the deposit when they receive the returned unit. This is SO much fun.
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As a suggestion, should've gotten it through Sprint. They send you a replacement model, and if you don't ship back your old phone in like 2-3 weeks, they charge your account. Much easier, but I understand the frustration, don't blame the Gnex for that.
Anyways, try either SlimICS for a basic ICS rom, or AOKP. Haven't had a single problem with it on my GSM Nexus, or my gf with her Sprint Gnex. Hope this helps.

I got it through Wirefly b/c it was $50 cheaper. In the end, the deposit (for an "advance exchange") is refunded, so it's a moot point - just annoying. (I never blamed GNex for that part Just the battery life, audio levels, bluetooth audio quality, etc.)
Thanks for the ROM suggestions, I'm probably going to take the plunge and root the new phone when it gets here. I usually wait a year or so before rooting a new phone, but we'll see.

DFWDraco76 said:
I got it through Wirefly b/c it was $50 cheaper. In the end, the deposit (for an "advance exchange") is refunded, so it's a moot point - just annoying. (I never blamed GNex for that part Just the battery life, audio levels, bluetooth audio quality, etc.)
Thanks for the ROM suggestions, I'm probably going to take the plunge and root the new phone when it gets here. I usually wait a year or so before rooting a new phone, but we'll see.
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Oh as for the battery life, same thing I told her, turn connections off when you don't need them, such as Data, GPS, Bluetooth, etc. Lasts her like 2 days now on a single charge.

Tired of guessing, requesting help

I have been reading everyday since the day it came out... the same day I bought it.
Hope you all don't mind but I have quite a few questions/frustrations
1st, Battery life is killing me... cannot make it through a day, I have put my screen on auto which seems a lot dimmer than set to 40 or 60%. All I do is play some solitaire, check mail a lot, a little bit of net, maybe 30 minutes of calls (tops) a few txt msgs, with maybe 2 hours or slightly more of screen time.
External speaker is embarrassing... tried showing a video to a friend with an iphone and felt like flushing the damn phone after he did the same.
Data connectivity is still hit and miss... one minute I have 4 bars of 4G and the next I have none.
I am on (details in sig) 4.0.4 (Craig Gomez version) with the newest radios. The device is a serious work tool for me so I really don't have the time to try different ROMS or kernels all the time... I need it always ready for calls, emails and occasional RDP or Logmein sessions .
For those of you have actually tried many/experienced in the world of various ROMs & kernels... do you have a suggestion of what to do with my setup?
Between the battery and data connectivity I feel the phone is close to crap... my friends with Razors have none of these problems and I feel like I am ready to snap.
BTW... if you could be even more kind... if you have a suggestion on what to run, could you suggest a brief set of instructions... i.e. nandriod, full wipe, install this first that second...
Thanks for any and all help... I sure would like to come up with or remember a reason why I have this and not a razor max.

Do you have the latest radios? That will make a difference. I do know the speaker is weak. There's not much to do but for a volume hack, some roms have it enabled.
Id ask for a replacement phone if battery is that bad and you can't get a decent signal anywhere but other phones can. Sounds like a defective phone.

I've been using Android Revolution for about 2 weeks, and as for today, I don't think there's anything as good as it. It's just like stock, just a little bit faster. I have great battery life, 5 to 6 Hours of screen on time, AutoBrightness, sync on, wifi always on, etc, it's pretty good, you should give it a try.
I've also used AOKP (with FrancoKernel and with stock kernel), and even tho I liked all extra features, in my experience, with screen off, it drains battery a looot faster that stock/ARHD.
I used an app called equalizer to fix the speaker

veloslave said:
I have been reading everyday since the day it came out... the same day I bought it.
Hope you all don't mind but I have quite a few questions/frustrations
1st, Battery life is killing me... cannot make it through a day, I have put my screen on auto which seems a lot dimmer than set to 40 or 60%. All I do is play some solitaire, check mail a lot, a little bit of net, maybe 30 minutes of calls (tops) a few txt msgs, with maybe 2 hours or slightly more of screen time.
External speaker is embarrassing... tried showing a video to a friend with an iphone and felt like flushing the damn phone after he did the same.
Data connectivity is still hit and miss... one minute I have 4 bars of 4G and the next I have none.
I am on (details in sig) 4.0.4 (Craig Gomez version) with the newest radios. The device is a serious work tool for me so I really don't have the time to try different ROMS or kernels all the time... I need it always ready for calls, emails and occasional RDP or Logmein sessions .
For those of you have actually tried many/experienced in the world of various ROMs & kernels... do you have a suggestion of what to do with my setup?
Between the battery and data connectivity I feel the phone is close to crap... my friends with Razors have none of these problems and I feel like I am ready to snap.
BTW... if you could be even more kind... if you have a suggestion on what to run, could you suggest a brief set of instructions... i.e. nandriod, full wipe, install this first that second...
Thanks for any and all help... I sure would like to come up with or remember a reason why I have this and not a razor max.
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Autobrightness will kill your battery more than a static 40 or 60%.
2 hours of screen on time seems normal for the Verizon Nexus.
Try the volume + app for your speaker problems.
There are some kernels that have sound boosts built in.
Signal drops means you should exchange the phone. Use the insurance.
Honestly if you hate the phone as much as it sounds, just get a different phone.

joshnichols189 said:
Autobrightness will kill your battery more than a static 40 or 60%.
2 hours of screen on time seems normal for the Verizon Nexus.
Try the volume + app for your speaker problems.
There are some kernels that have sound boosts built in.
Signal drops means you should exchange the phone. Use the insurance.
Honestly if you hate the phone as much as it sounds, just get a different phone.
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Perfect response.

Don't get me wrong... I in no way "hate" phone, if I did I would have gotten rid of it.
I'm frustrated not stupid.
I am amazed that Verizon hasn't done something about it... most of the buyers of this phone are not IT savvy rooters... my phone works a lot better than stock, I cannot imagine how frustrated someone on 4.0.2 would be.
Anyway... I am going to take it back to stock and return it... guess I will try it (the new one) out stock but I know I will want it rooted. Guess I'll try some of the suggested software\ROMS.
I wonder what a stock one is coming with these days?

veloslave said:
Don't get me wrong... I in no way "hate" phone, if I did I would have gotten rid of it.
I'm frustrated not stupid.
I am amazed that Verizon hasn't done something about it... most of the buyers of this phone are not IT savvy rooters... my phone works a lot better than stock, I cannot imagine how frustrated someone on 4.0.2 would be.
Anyway... I am going to take it back to stock and return it... guess I will try it (the new one) out stock but I know I will want it rooted. Guess I'll try some of the suggested software\ROMS.
I wonder what a stock one is coming with these days?
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I never called you stupid.
Stock phones will 99% come with 4.0.2 but like I said, they don't all have the problems you have.. except low speaker volume.
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joshnichols189 said:
I never called you stupid.
Stock phones will 99% come with 4.0.2 but like I said, they don't all have the problems you have.. except low speaker volume.
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Anyone that would keep a phone they hate would have to be stupid
Well... things just changed again.
Just talked with Verizon and he asked if I installed the update pushed out on the 25th? I told him I will give it a shot and get back to them.
Anyone got instructions for reverting back to stock?

veloslave said:
Anyone that would keep a phone they hate would have to be stupid
Well... things just changed again.
Just talked with Verizon and he asked if I installed the update pushed out on the 25th? I told him I will give it a shot and get back to them.
Anyone got instructions for reverting back to stock?
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Check the stickies in the dev forum
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Throwing my phone across the room.. Help

I have had this phone a total of 3 days. I am coming from a iPhone 6 and previously had a Galaxy s4 and 5 before this.
This phone is annoying me. Its sad because its so beautiful and if it functioned normally, we wouldn't have a problem. Sometimes I want to throw this thing across the room.
Someone please help me with these issues. I rely on wifi and wifi calling.
Issue 1: When I am home and connected to wifi and wifi calling, my messages and alerts do not come to me when I leave the phone down for a while and it goes to sleep. I will pick my phone up and suddenly I will get all my text messages and alerts. Wifi sleeping is on NEVER already. My iPhone never had this issue, nor did the previous samsung phones.
Issue 2: When I leave my house, the internet connection does not work all the time. Today I left my house and drove somewhere and needed to use my gps. I had full LTE service, and it was telling me I am not connected. This also happened with my apps that also did not work because it was acting as if I was not connected. Issue was fixed with a phone restart. I do not want to restart my phone everytime I leave wifi.
Issue 3: MMS does not receive or send on wifi. I had this issue with prior galaxy, but I am shocked this still has not been adressed.
I also keep LTE voice OFF because like with other phones that have VOLTE, for some reason it just does not work that well. I am in NYC so its not a reception thing.
Those are my MAIN issues and would like some help with them.
The only other thing apple has samsung beat on is that with headphones connected, the apple blows away the samsung in terms of volume and sound quality. Its sad because I have expensive headphones that I would love to use all the time, so I guess I will have to buy an iPod touch when and if I sell the iPhone
Also the screen is very sensitive. I see myself accidentally opening apps when all I want to do is swipe across my menu screens. Not to mention it keeps telling me that hangouts stopped working, when I have it disabled already!
I am stock btw. Latest version, and battery has been good surprisingly. I do not want to root
Anyway, thanks everyone and please help and address the top two issues

Turning Wifi calling off will help drastically with those issues have you tried it without yet?

NexVision said:
Turning Wifi calling off will help drastically with those issues have you tried it without yet?
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As I said, I rely on wifi and wifi calling. I live in a basement apartment with zero service. Who would buy a phone that is almost 1000 dollars, and have to turn off services you pay for to make it work the right way? There is no way wifi could be turned off while I am home

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As I said, I rely on wifi and wifi calling. I live in a basement apartment with zero service. Who would buy a phone that is almost 1000 dollars, and have to turn off services you pay for to make it work the right way? There is no way wifi could be turned off while I am home
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Try doing a factory wipe, that usually solves issues like that.

Factory reset a brand new phone? Sweet.

Contact your carrier and request a signal booster, no charge to you. Then you can rely on data instead of wifi. Also start a complaint ticket for the phone, after a while they will send you to tmobile store and replace phone. Maybe it's buggy, maybe it's not.
But if you really have to throw it I'll come over and catch it.
Our phones must be total opposites because this is the best Samsung phone I have had, this makes # 4, Captivate, GS2, SG4 and now the S6e.
But you never know, visit the Tmobile store, remember that you have 14 days to be totally satisfied, that means replacement with another NEW phone if necessary.
Pp.

I know your pain. The fact that you're on t-mobile for wifi calling and this garbage device just not cutting it huh. I had almost all flagship samsung phone and this one right here is the most frustrating and expensive one of all. This device out of box is just terrible. Memory management, wifi issues, battery leak, FC left and right is just what I experience. Honestly this phone is making me understand why apple is better. Not because the people are stupid. But because they don't deal with half of the broken process we do here in Android. Yea I agree apple is like 2 years behind android but wtf. Now with Jump on demand I am thinking to make the switch to Apple or continue to toss my phone on the table when upset that the device once again is not responding. But lesson learned. Not jumping on new Android devices on release. This phone is a testament why.

Actually the phone works great right now. Maybe it needed a few days to become normal. Battery life is better then my iPhone 6. The text issue seems to ha e gone away. I still from time to time have the issue of leaving my house from WiFi and the phone acting like it has no connection, which requires a restart. I wonder what is causing that. Overall I'm happy with this device.

I can relate to you on T-Mobile LTE, and the screen. Although the reason the accidental app opening while swiping I think was happening because my hand was touching the side of the edge screen. Hold the phone differently or put a case on it and will notice this issue is decreased or gone completely.
There is still a screen issue with this phone and I've noticed it when typing out a fast message. Touch inputs do not register sometimes. That issue has some what been resolved with the case and my hand not being on the edge, but the issue is still there. My Note 3's screen is so much better in regards to accuracy and sensitivity.
For a $1000 phone, this thing should be close to flawless but it does have quite a few flaws, especially with Touchwiz and crappy lollipop. My main issue with TW is the way it manages memory. I just wanna throw this phone at the wall and stomp on it. I'll be in Chrome, go to reply to a text and make a note in Google keep, or whatever, come back to Chrome and it reloading the page I was just viewing a minute ago. So damn frustrating.
I haven't really been on XDA as much as I have in the past, but what ROMs can we flash for this phone because from the looks of it, the dev forum is a ghost town.
In regards to T-Mobile's crud network, just switch your phone into airplane mode, then off, a lot faster than rebooting the phone. This issue I've noticed only happens with LTE, what I do is just go to network settings and switch to WCDMA ONLY, which turns off LTE and connects to HSPA only, which is more reliable and FASTER in my area. Hope I helped someone out there cause I just typed this all on my S6 Edge.
Don't get me wrong, I love this damn phone and wouldn't trade it for any other phone, but better believe I'm gonna swap it out for the Note 5.

This phone has fantastic hardware and the worst software of any phone I've ever owned. I can make compressed twrp backups in like 10 minutes. The screen is the prettiest I've ever seen. The fingerprint reader is very good. The camera is damned fantastic. The software is a pile of dog ****. Samsung should be ashamed. They should be ashamed because I just bought a heavily discounted Fire Phone and loading CM11 on it because I just can't take this crappy phone any longer. I'll check back in on the next update to see if things have improved. Until then I'll be using a phone that cost around 4.5 times less and will somehow perform better.

Funny thing is I have to reboot it if that problem ever happens. Airplane mode doesn't reset it. Weird

Going to have to disagree politely with the OP on headphone output quality. I too have an iPhone 6 and while yes, it has more volume, they both have enough volume to drive proper headphones and I find the output on the S6 to be extremely clean and more lively than the iPhone 6 output. Check GSMArena's review and notice they say it has the cleanest output of any smartphone they've tested thanks to the onboard Wolfson DAC. To each their own with sound quality, but I find the S6 to be extremely good, especially after the 5.1.1 update.
-Collin-

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Going to have to disagree politely with the OP...
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Nonsense! That sort of behavior is not allowed here!

Yeah nothing wrong with disagreeing. In my opinion it's much lower then the iPhone 6. It went from being fun to listen to music on my vmoda m100s to me wishing I could make it louder on my gs6. Also affected the quality in my car via Bluetooth. Much lower output. I guess every one has their preference

Phone is now starting to exhibit glitches/problems

So I've had my XL2 for almost a month - original was RMA'd due to poor quality display at the beginning of the month. Anyways, everything has been great up to about the last 3-4 days. In that time I've noticed the following:
1. Phone would not stay on LTE. Only HSPA+ despite 3 other people(who were with me) with the same carrier all having LTE service all day. I restarted my phone 2 times. Toggled airplane mode several time. It only grabbed LTE for a few minutes then reverted back to HSPA+ when I would turn off cellular.
2. Android Auto. My vehicle detects the phone, in-car application launches, but either there is no sound from any song or when I hit play, song is automatically paused everytime. I have to unplug/plug phone for it to all start working. This doesn't happen everytime, but it's done this about a half dozen or so times now.
3. Last but by the far the most annoying and worst. Randomly, when I'm interacting with the Google keyboard or Swiftkey, the phone just starts to spaz out. Random apps open, incorrect text being entered(for example, I type "m" and instead "z" and 3 commas get entered in instead, and just total loss of control on the phone(can't keep anything open or incorrect actions happen).
So I'm the point where either I go for a factory reset(I hate doing this) or I contact support and see about getting an RMA.
FYI: I'm on the November update.

Went through 2 really blue displays to get what I thought was a keeper yesterday, my 3rd device. But now today I noticed the screen flashes bright white when going into always on display. Quality control must be non existent between Google & LG.

It's just unbelievable to me that a $1000 device is so poorly made or passed off as ready to be sold. I've been sticking up for Google during most of the screen blue shift fiasco, but after this last string of incidents, I'm losing faith completely. This is especially apparent when I see that my wife's iPhone X has had nothing to this magnitude.

I've been having major, major problems with SwiftKey myself, to the point where I no longer even want to use this phone until the situation is resolved.
Everything was fine, even on the beta, and then suddenly about a week or so ago - as you mention - SwiftKey just starts going nuts. Incorrect predictions, mistaken input, slow/lag, etc.
I wonder if it's something with the November Security Patch Update or SwiftKey's cloud network or what.

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I've been having major, major problems with SwiftKey myself, to the point where I no longer even want to use this phone until the situation is resolved.
Everything was fine, even on the beta, and then suddenly about a week or so ago - as you mention - SwiftKey just starts going nuts. Incorrect predictions, mistaken input, slow/lag, etc.
I wonder if it's something with the November Security Patch Update or SwiftKey's cloud network or what.
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Im using an older version of swiftkey without a hiccup

onishchuk4 said:
So I've had my XL2 for almost a month - original was RMA'd due to poor quality display at the beginning of the month. Anyways, everything has been great up to about the last 3-4 days. In that time I've noticed the following:
1. Phone would not stay on LTE. Only HSPA+ despite 3 other people(who were with me) with the same carrier all having LTE service all day. I restarted my phone 2 times. Toggled airplane mode several time. It only grabbed LTE for a few minutes then reverted back to HSPA+ when I would turn off cellular.
2. Android Auto. My vehicle detects the phone, in-car application launches, but either there is no sound from any song or when I hit play, song is automatically paused everytime. I have to unplug/plug phone for it to all start working. This doesn't happen everytime, but it's done this about a half dozen or so times now.
3. Last but by the far the most annoying and worst. Randomly, when I'm interacting with the Google keyboard or Swiftkey, the phone just starts to spaz out. Random apps open, incorrect text being entered(for example, I type "m" and instead "z" and 3 commas get entered in instead, and just total loss of control on the phone(can't keep anything open or incorrect actions happen).
So I'm the point where either I go for a factory reset(I hate doing this) or I contact support and see about getting an RMA.
FYI: I'm on the November update.
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Seeing as you have to start from scratch anyway, I'd try a factory reset first. You can always RMA it if the problem persists. Why risk losing your "good" Pixel 2 XL for one that may have a crummy screen restarting the RMA cycle?
Also, was Swiftkey recently updated, like in the last 4 days or so?

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Seeing as you have to start from scratch anyway, I'd try a factory reset first. You can always RMA it if the problem persists. Why risk losing your "good" Pixel 2 XL for one that may have a crummy screen restarting the RMA cycle?
Also, was Swiftkey recently updated, like in the last 4 days or so?
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The RMA is a little better than the previous one in terms of how extreme the shift is, but overall it's not anything worth keeping. The bottom firing speaker buzzes like you wouldn't believe at 60% or higher volume. I don't recall the original one doing this although I did read in another thread that pretty much every phone is doing this.
If the replacement is worse, I'll send it back. It's not like it's a hassle for me. It's pretty much the same doing a factory reset.
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onishchuk4 said:
The RMA is a little better than the previous one in terms of how extreme the shift is, but overall it's not anything worth keeping. The bottom firing speaker buzzes like you wouldn't believe at 60% or higher volume. I don't recall the original one doing this although I did read in another thread that pretty much every phone is doing this.
If the replacement is worse, I'll send it back. It's not like it's a hassle for me. It's pretty much the same doing a factory reset.
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So, I guess the answer you wanted to hear for your either or situation is do an RMA... Good luck with it.

mlin said:
So, I guess the answer you wanted to hear for your either or situation is do an RMA... Good luck with it.
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I pretty much wanted to hear if anyone else is seeing these issues. Also, this replacement that I have now is a mid October build.
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