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My wife's yakju got it last night (Feb 14). My takju got it same night after clearing the Google frameworks thing a few times.
Shocking to see so many people here with nexus devices running stock roms.
what are the negatives of rooting? I just want to stay in good standing with my carrier. People always talk about it but I just never took the leap.
Galaxy Nexus... still showing 4.1.1. Why didn't I even get 4.2? I'm on VZW. Says last checked this morning at 8am.
EDIT>> nvm, found this: http://androidcommunity.com/verizon-galaxy-nexus-is-now-four-updates-behind-20130212/
WTF Verizon?
Shocking to see so many people here with nexus devices running stock roms.
Well, a common desire for root is to remove carrier bloatware and manufacturer skins. Weaknesses the Nexii don't have. With a GSM Nexii, you get your OTAs pretty damn quick, often faster than the community roms can bake the new code into the ROM. Depends on whether Google uploads the new code into AOSP before or during the OTA rollouts. 4.2.2 went into AOSP right as the OTAs began.
Go to Play store and do a search of "root" or "[root]" and see what kind of works require root access.
Oh, and it voids warranty although there usually is a way to revert it (unroot).
Well, a common desire for root is to remove carrier bloatware and manufacturer skins. Weaknesses the Nexii don't have. With a GSM Nexii, you get your OTAs pretty damn quick, often faster than the community roms can bake the new code into the ROM. Depends on whether Google uploads the new code into AOSP before or during the OTA rollouts. 4.2.2 went into AOSP right as the OTAs began.
there's also all the additional customizations and features you can't get with stock.
things that i love about aokp.
volume up/down to skip/rewind tracks
proper notification toggles (no, 4.2.2 still doesn't do it right and 3rd party toggles have always been buggy)
brightness slider at top of screen
ability to underclock/undervolt, set cap on clock speed (battery savings)
aside from ROMs, rooting allows you to load custom kernels (better batt optimizations), ability to mount usb drives, TiBu and other apps that require root.
Neither my N4 nor N7 has gotten the notice yet. Ugh.
This dude goes an extreme length to find out what's changed. I admire his attention to details.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...ely-tiny-changes-and-an-androidhome-sighting/
The vibrate option in SMS actually gives more options, I think? According to the description it looks like vibration is no longer tied to sound in SMS.
System-level vibration control does make sense since when you're in a sensitive place and want to disable vibration you don't want to go through every single app that might vibrate.
No idea on what is being forced in notification area. But then again, I've seen your concept of "being forced," so I suppose it can be anything. ^^ (I'm being forced to choose!)