Official ICS & Galaxy Nexus Launch Thread

[YoungGun21]

Do you mean I wouldn't have to reconfigure everything? My screens, accounts, twitter logins, etc would be preserved?

If you are just rooting then you typically don't have to. All it does is find an exploit to give you system permissions.

You are thinking about installing a custom ROM. This would wipe what you had and make you start from scratch basically.

 

[Demo24]

Do you mean I wouldn't have to reconfigure everything? My screens, accounts, twitter logins, etc would be preserved?

Not on the GNex, in order to root it's going to do a full system wipe

 

[AnMig]

Do you mean I wouldn't have to reconfigure everything? My screens, accounts, twitter logins, etc would be preserved?

Rooting should not reset your phone. All aps and settings should be the same.

Now if you are installing a new rom or a rooted rom that usually requires a reset and wipe of the phone.

I am waiting for things to settle down and the ics roms to mature.

Just want to root to be able to install aps that require root access like titanium backup and wireless tether

Edit: my bad I guess for now rooting the GNEX wipes your data, I guess the onclick root method is still in the works, it is anew phone after all.


Are there any roms out there that are fully functional for this phone? downloaded all the necessary files and might do this this weekend. Thanks for the link by the way.

 

[Spoooon]

Bugless is pretty nice. Using 4.03, so some of the UI lag fixes are there.

 

[bucwylde23]

It's not actually the rooting part that wipes your phone on the Gnex. When you unlock the bootloader it wipes the phone, there's no way around it. (at least not currently)

It's not like on other phones where the bootloader is unlocked and root is gained via exploits of some kind and you don't lose any of your system data.

 

[sygyzy]

Thanks for the info guys. Obviously, I didn't know any of this so it's really good to learn about this. Thanks again.

 

[abaez]

Yeah, in order to root you have to unlock the bootloader which wipes everything. But you only have to do that once and that's it.

 

[trmiv]

So would I be a fool buying this phone on ebay? There seems to be a ton of them available, and I can get one for around $600, so $50 cheaper (plus no tax) than retail. I'm just worried about if the phone has issues, what would I do with it? Can't exactly return it or take it to Verizon then can I?

 

[sygyzy]

No, just buy it from a reputable source. Why risk it for < 10&#37; savings?

 

[prism]

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/12/2...ce-cream-sandwich-keyboard-in-landscape-mode/

Ah good. This was pissing me off.

Yay! I was just gonna post my thoughts and the lag while typing was gonna be my only negative, but turning that off completely fixed it and (like the article says) the auto-correct still works.

I loved the reliability and smoothness of my iPhone 4 that I bought when it came out for Verizon this year, but this puppy is just as smooth if you leave the UI settings basic. Battery life on 3G seems only slightly worse than my iPhone, but the screen blows it away. Colors are so much more vibrant and blacks are deeper. I couldn't care less if the colors are "over-saturated;" 99% of the time I'm not looking at real-life pictures on the thing, so if it's pleasing to the eye (which it is) then saturation accuracy means nothing to me.

Yes, I can tell it's PenTile, but only if I hold it up within a few inches of my eye, so that's a moot point. I'd much rather "deal" with PenTile at this resolution than have a lower resolution like the SGS2. I'm also definitely loving the size of it; browsing the web and reading text is much easier than on my iPhone, and much less scrolling back and forth is required.

Finally, and I know this may sound weird, the shape and design language of the device reminds me of the U.S.S. Excelsior from the Star Trek movies, which I always loved. Yes, I know I'm a nerd...and while this admittedly doesn't have quite the primo feel of the iPhone 4, it has a nice heft to it so it doesn't feel like a toy, as my friends' SGS1s do.

P.S. Bateleur, I know you're in the Phoenix area, what kind of LTE results are you getting? I ran Speedtest a couple times at work (Avondale, SW side of Phoenix) and pulled in about 6-7 MBps. Lightning-fast compared to 3G, so I guess I don't know what I'm missing compared to the others in this forum getting close to 20

 

[hans007]

No, just buy it from a reputable source. Why risk it for < 10% savings?

i bought on ebay. i mean there are occasionally some on there for $550 (theres one right now in fact) and most of these sellers are pretty reputable.

for me in store was $715 including tax. so i was willing to take a risk for $150+ in savings.

then again my local verizon corporate store (santa monica, not recommended by the way) also refused to sell me the phone outright (they said they can't do taht because people returned so many phones previously ... ) so given time to research the ebay cost difference i just went for it. i had money ready to go and wasted a lunch hour on it.

 

[sygyzy]

I am glad it worked out for you hans007. How is the performance in LA?

 

[trmiv]

Yea after taxes I'd save a little over $100 via the ebay route. Tempted to do it.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Picked up an extended battery in store today for $25. The manager didnt even know that he had it. Luckily I was surrounded by GN nerds today. One guy just bought one and another guy came in with a problem with his. Funny how we all saw each other pull out our phones and started talking.

The battery fits nice but the the back plate doesnt completely hug the camera. Not a big deal but im a bit OCD. Ill see how long it lasts tomorrow.

The guy who came in with a problem had something ive never seen before. He had weird lines on his screen and its really noticable with a grey scale image. I pulled the same image on mine and I didnt have it. Kinda sucks for him.

 

[halik]

Picked up an extended battery in store today for $25. The manager didnt even know that he had it. Luckily I was surrounded by GN nerds today. One guy just bought one and another guy came in with a problem with his. Funny how we all saw each other pull out our phones and started talking.

The battery fits nice but the the back plate doesnt completely hug the camera. Not a big deal but im a bit OCD. Ill see how long it lasts tomorrow.

The guy who came in with a problem had something ive never seen before. He had weird lines on his screen and its really noticable with a grey scale image. I pulled the same image on mine and I didnt have it. Kinda sucks for him.

Mine has the same issue - there's banding and splotchines (vertical lines of brighter/darket color) on gray images, amazon is sending me a replacement.

 

[Cattykit]

Guys, when you click on the icons on the wall paper, does it vibrate? Is it supposed to vibrate?

I was using the phone and all of the sudden, I noticed it does not vibrate. So I thought something must have gone wrong. But then again, I'm not even sure if it used to vibrate or not. Yeah, although I've been using the phone for weeks, I don't even know how it was just a few seconds ago.

p.s: when you click on the call/people/sms/whatever icon, does it vibrate? Mine doesn't except the apps one in the center.

 

[bucwylde23]

Guys, when you click on the icons on the wall paper, does it vibrate? Is it supposed to vibrate?

I was using the phone and all of the sudden, I noticed it does not vibrate. So I thought something must have gone wrong. But then again, I'm not even sure if it used to vibrate or not. Yeah, although I've been using the phone for weeks, I don't even know how it was just a few seconds ago.

p.s: when you click on the call/people/sms/whatever icon, does it vibrate? Mine doesn't except the apps one in the center.

It only vibrates when you press home/back/multi task buttons as well as the app drawer button. If it vibrated no matter what icon you pressed that would get annoying pretty fast.

 

[shortylickens]

No, just buy it from a reputable source. Why risk it for < 10% savings?

And if its an unreputable source with 50% savings, it aint smart either. You know theres gotta be something wrong.

 

[hans007]

Yea after taxes I'd save a little over $100 via the ebay route. Tempted to do it.

i do have to say having bought a lot of phones on ebay that its generally a pretty good way to go.

most of the time its just regular people who decided to keep their last phone, but use their upgrade immediately (if you don't use your upgrade immediately you are basically wasting money as it is backed into your monthly payment so smart people buy the most easy to resell phone they can get so as to not waste $15-20 a month ... example, i bought the nexus, my upgrade is in february, in february i plan to keep the nexus, buy an iphone 4s and ebay that off..)

the only drawback i can say that there is with buying it online on ebay vs say verizon corporate store, is if it say breaks down the line, you wont be able to walk into a verizon store and have them send you a refurb as a replacement (you'd have to call the manufacturer and the main difference is the manufacturer doesn't do rapid replacement, at least my experience with HTC phones has been like this). verizon stores will send you a replacement within 5 days with a credit card hold and then you send backt he bad phone, most manufacturers require you to send the phone in first...

 

[Cattykit]

It only vibrates when you press home/back/multi task buttons as well as the app drawer button. If it vibrated no matter what icon you pressed that would get annoying pretty fast.

Can anyone confirm it? Also, Does it also NOT vibrate when you're dialing up numbers?

Damn, if you're right. This must the most stupid thing I've done in this year. Major brain malfunction right here. Guess what? A few minutes before reading your reply, I did factory reset. Everything is gone for nothing.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I have a micro scratch on my screen. Ugh how annoying. Two years with my galaxy s wuth hard drops and never one.

 

[bucwylde23]

I have a micro scratch on my screen. Ugh how annoying. Two years with my galaxy s wuth hard drops and never one.

I've worried about that but I love using the screen without a protector so much that I'll probably deal with the scratches if I get any. I've had it since 9:00am on the 15th and nothing that I can see it.

If it's those that you can see with the screen off in the right light, then I can live with that. It sucks, but in the end it won't affect the daily use of the phone.

 

[Bateluer]

Mine has the same issue - there's banding and splotchines (vertical lines of brighter/darket color) on gray images, amazon is sending me a replacement.

Mine has that as well . . .doesn't really bother me that much and didn't really realize it was a defect.

 

[prism]

Mine has that as well . . .doesn't really bother me that much and didn't really realize it was a defect.

Same here

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

 

[Anubis]

Mine has the same issue - there's banding and splotchines (vertical lines of brighter/darket color) on gray images, amazon is sending me a replacement.

TBH i haven't seen a gnex that didn't have the dirty window effect when looking at grey. i had no idea it was a defect