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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] michel-slm:
Well, I pre-cached the music I want when I have wifi -- my data plan is unlimited, but the T-mo Nexus One's 3G doesn't work so well with German carriers! So it doesn't necessarily cost money, if some planning goes into it. It's the same constraint faced by iPod users who have more music than would fit on their devices.

But I agree w.r.t. Samsung being able to charge whatever they want for the extra 16GB -- it's like buying a laptop; the manufacturer-provided upgrades are more expensive than the street price. And a phone is much less user-serviceable than a laptop!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kanalcommander:
Sure you could consider every evening again what you might want to listen/see/use next day and load it into the storage but its a great loss of comfort if you have to do this.

At the moment my 16gb are enough, have about 1gb free storage, but heard about some new games which consume up to 1,5gb.

In my opinion the onyl reason to exlude a card reader is that some people will buy because of this the 32gb version, so you can make some easy dollars for nearly nothing.

But selling no 32gb version in Germany kills this bonus profit and angers the customers even more.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
+1

E.Warriors (MMO)

Dungeon Defeners (MMO)

just to name a few

both are great games!

all the ones from Gameloft uses at least 500 Mb each, usually more

i have more than 10 of them installed

and they regularly comes out with additional addons and updates so the size grows even larger
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BeerChameleon:
One thing i will miss about no sd card, is what if i completly brick my phone from a rom or something and i mean a hard brick!!

I can't take out the sd card and put it in a replacement phone. :eek::eek:

Thats the only difference and concern i have.

I will probaly enjoy the nand better cause its faster. But that one thing is the thing im worried about. I guess i will have to make a titanium backup daily and post it on my computer daily. Before flashing roms. :eek: Kinda irritating... :mad:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] esincho:
Good point. But I had 2 sdcards go bad on me within a yr. So I learned to backup everything anyway
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BeerChameleon:
Ive had the same 16gb sd card that came with my epic since August 31, 2010 and its still works.

Plus to people filling up that much space your crazy!!!

I fill up about 6 gbs of mine. But then again i dont use my phone for music unless its pandora or grooveshark. I use ipod touch 64gb for all my music needs as battery life is so much better for that compared to playing music on my epic... :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KWKSLVR:
The point is that the Nexus line is aimed at the consumer that wants the full "Google Experience". ICS is designed for that screen. For what ever reasons (as I explained in my earlier post) Google feels that certain features hinder that experience, and starting with the Nexus S they removed the SD card.

The average consumer has a choice of many devices. The Nexus is one of them. For the hardcore developer looking to develop for Android, the hands down option is a Nexus device, so why give them one that is subpar for developing (like every other Android phone)? Google is going to "make" ONE phone. It makes sense for them to aim it at the developer crowd. Not liking it or agreeing with it is pointless.

All the complaining about the Galaxy Nexus on an internet forum is growing redundant, pointless and tiresome. The device is what it is. If it doesn't work for someone, then there are dozens of other ones to choose from. No device is completely perfect. I'm not exactly excited about the size of the device, but I'm going to give it a chance. I thought the Vibrant was going to be to big for me, after a month I got used to it.

Reserve judgements for when you actually get it in your hands. I used to think the microSD, the Samsung Widgets (yes, you read that right), etc were all things I needed. Turns out they weren't. I used to think that not having a real FFC sucked. Then I added one, and realized that it was a pointless feature for what I use a phone for. I use to think I couldn't live without functioning GPS in my Vibrant and I was MAD about it, then I realized that it wasn't really that big of a deal (although it is a requirement for future devices).

Point: The grass is always greener.

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Also, back up your data, back up your data, back up your data, back up your data. You never know when your phone might crap out on you, get stolen, etc. I'm not saying do it every day. But about once every few weeks I'll back up my entire Internal SD including the Nandroids/TB backups, etc. Then every quarter I go back and delete the majority of the really old backups I don't need anymore.

People back up their computers (at least they should) so backing up a smartphone is a good idea too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Pinshooter:
Need More Duct Tape!

Yeah, to wrap my skull in, so when it explodes I can find all the pieces! You winers are going to die with your phone in your hand, and no mourners to remember you. GET A LIFE! I started in computers when all we had was an IBM PC with a single 360k floppy drive! The ORIGINAL PC! It took two weeks to fill one up with database files! Modern day = I have a phone with 16 G I G A B Y T E S of memory! In two years I have managed to fill 4gigs of that with useless drivel that I don't even use..... just to have it with me in case I need it! And my wife still asks "Why are you always looking at your phone"?

If you absolutely, positively need more than 32 gigabytes of storage on YOUR PHONE, sign off the forum, go to a bar and find a willing partner. You have needs we can not answer here. I don't even have 32 gigabytes used on my home computer, and I run my business on it! God, I never envisioned my first post on xda to be this vile.... flame me if you must. I believe in KARMA and I'm sure I deserve the fire for something in my past....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mwilhelm:
I'm always amazed how people say "oh, you'll never need that much"...

To refer to an oft referred to quote often attributed to Bill Gates and discussed in an article excerpt below...

Gates himself has strenuously denied making the comment. In a newspaper column that he wrote in the mid-1990s, Gates responded to a student's question about the quote: "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time." Later in the column, he added, "I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again."

and again.:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pukemon:
Dang dude. You can barely be a dj with 16gigs worth of music. And in reality, probably ~11 gigs will be available to us. But on the real side, looks like we need to find you another business. Tried android developing? You need about ten gigs of hdd/sdd space for a starter kit. Hehe.

I voided my warranty and your nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chest3r:
The Price is an issue!

I thought about buying the Galaxy Nexus, but 11,5gb? come on, my (MOBILE) mp3 libary is 6GB big(screw google music, i'm from Europe, Google Music is Staates only).. what the ****?

Guess i have to buy the Motorola Droid Razr :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] android01:
cool story

I dont buy phones without an sd card slot for the same reason i dont buy all in one PC,s. Ive got dual drives in my asus laptop. Fully customizable. And if my laptop dies, i can still take the drives out.

If the phone goes in the toilet, so does your data. Not true with removable SD card.

Plus 32+32 = 3232 GB. which is more than 3TB. :D

Face it they nurfed us guys.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
Well I was struck down when the Nexus S lacked a SD card but not so much now that I've gotten some more experience with tablets and phones.

I know later CWM allows flashing from both internal and external memory but some don't like on my tablet (16g+16g) and sometimes I download something to flash and its on the wrong memory.

I figured it would be a bummer but I have 8gb in my G2x and a 16gb flash. I never use my internal and have half my SD empty. I have about 7gb of music and the rest is roms, backups, and apks. Unfortunately we have several Android phones around the house and its nice to throw a SD card around to move pics, apks, and stuff. I do this with my neighbors too. So this will be a bummer.

I figured a 32gb would be enough though

Also I saw a video of the SGSIII and specs said it was a 1.8 Exynos... not a quad... which was my plan D.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
Does anybody know if with ICS the internal memory is still going to be partitioned in a way such that the majority of the storage space is going to be mounted as an "external" partition that by default apps can't install onto (except through the encrypted external app storage mechanism provided by Android that seems to slow phones down...)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
1 or 2 GB will be partitioned internally, the rest 13.5GB or 29.5GB will be available as "external" storage

in Nexus S it was 1 GB

in the Galaxy I/II line it was 2 GB
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
Was there ever a time when Android phones with no SD card slot had the entire internal memory partitioned for system/data and didn't have any "external" storage partition mounted? I remember reading when the first Android phone without SD card came out (can't remember which model) people were complaining that apps that expected to store things on the SD card all stopped working.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] e-dub:
i'm a deejay. i carry records.

eric b
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luffyp:
Is Google going to include SD card slot in this phone because many people complain about it? I think not.

So you can either just GET ON WITH IT or CHOOSE ANOTHER PHONE. Simple as that :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] samomamo:
Well then Google is becoming Apple. Let them put the SD slot and we will decide if we want to use or not.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] esincho:
Do y'all understand the phone will not have a slot? Lol. Geez
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
Just read that they actually changed this in Honeycomb. Now the majority of the internal memory is one partition that's available for both apps and media storage, and it uses MTP and a FUSE daemon to expose this as a mountable USB device when connected to a computer. Pretty cool, now you no longer have to maintain separate partitions for apps and media and suffer wasted space. Hope this carries over into ICS.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bisquick24:
I'm hoping the Nexus will have an active dev community also.

For me, I have a jailbroken ipod touch 32GB and still not filled up yet (100+ apps, movies, music..)

I used to think I needed a removable card, but I believe maybe I can live without it.

I am paranoid about losing data, so making backups will not be a problem or hinderance for me..

If the USB Host OTG feature is true, I might prefer that over a SD slot anyway..
[Thunderbolt General] seabhac:
This may be a more general issue affecting other android phones as well but for a long time now I've had issues playing mp4 format videos. The sound is perfect but the video plays back abominable slow so they are completely out of sync. I wanted to post here to see if anyone else has any ideas on this. I've tried multiple players including rockplayer, moboplayer, stock player, vplayer and many others and I just can't get them to play right. All other formats play without any issues.. flv ..mov ..avi ..xvid..mkv.. all are great.. just not mp4. Please if anyone has any ideas I'd really appreciate a hand with this...thanx!
[Thunderbolt General] voxigenboy:
im not sure if its just because of the hardware on the Thunderbolt but I have the same issues aswell. my workaround is overclocking as well as using good apps like MX Video Player & if you are playing 720P videos check out Dice Player.
[Thunderbolt General] seabhac:
Appreciate the response. I'll try out those players as well. What are you overclocking to? I'm usually at about 368 low end and 1.2 high end I think right now using the bamf tools to do it on bamf forever cubed rom.
[Thunderbolt General] voxigenboy:
regardless of the rom, I always set low to 245 and high about 1.2 if its an aosp rom and 1.4 if its sense based. I don't like to go much higher as I've had my battery get very hot and battery life goes down a bit also.
[Thunderbolt General] Grnlantern79:
I can't go below 368 on mine or phone will do random shutdowns. I try to use my phone and it was powered off. As soon as I moved it back to 368 never happened again.

If I helped you in any way please use the thank you button
[Thunderbolt General] seabhac:
Bamf forever cubed settings won't allow me to overclock past 1ghz or very close.. going to look again... Are either of you using setcpu or some other app to overclock?
[Thunderbolt General] voxigenboy:
i use setcpu for all roms(even if they come with bamf settings, cyanogen settings, etc). if it's not letting you go past 1ghz then you'll have to install a kernal that will. i was recently using that bamf soab rom and they had an imogean(sp?) kernal for it in the same thread. you can either check bamf's thread for a specific kernal they recommend or check here on this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1249328
[Thunderbolt General] seabhac:
Eh just checked setcpu and it does the same... Neither are allowing me to go past 1024000 and minimum is 245768. Not being allowed to clock it past up to 1.4 which is weird because I know I've done so on past Roms.. maybe it's just this rom? I'm using Bamf Forever Cubed with the stock kernel it came with. Any suggestions on why I'm being locked down to a top end overclock of 1024000?..
[Thunderbolt General] seabhac:
Sorry just posted my response as you responded.. yeah I have the 3 optional variations of the Imoseyen kernel that works with his rom.. it was a stock, learn and 368 something... Maybe I'll switch and try them out instead...kinda odd being locked down to 1024000 when the phone can handle up to 1.4..
[Thunderbolt General] kierandill:
You are wasting your (cpu) time if you are playing anything more than 480p on it. In landscape mode you only have 480 pixels vertically, so playing a higher rez movie means you are making it scale on the fly and probably dealing with a higher bitrate on the source file as well.
[Thunderbolt General] voxigenboy:
personally, I download a lot of shows with my phone and watch them on the phone. Lots of times(especially lately) I will find stuff only available in 720P.

why no tv?... well, when you drive limos you can't always just go back home in between jobs & I don't want to get a big ol' inverter and bring my laptop.

;)
[Thunderbolt General] nrfitchett4:
Interesting. I convert a lot of dvds to mp4 format to watch on my phone and have never had any playback issues. Phone running the latest leak, rooted and debloated of coarse. Unfortunately, the AOSP roms don't have nfl network.

I also use system panel to kill all running tasks before playing any videos. All videos are played on Vplayer and I doubt any of them are 720p. Seems like overkill to me.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chiauyih:
does anyone know game that can

play by 4 or 2 people on a screen like 4 player reactor and glow hockey (non-online) for tablet and phone:)

pls share it here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melvinchng:
Boomberman Bluetooth (don't know how to spell). Available in market

Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA Premium
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dave2metz:
So I just rooted and I am wondering if this is considered S-OFF? I am new to Samsung phones. I have had all HTC in the past. Also, how do I go about checking if I do indeed have S-OFF?

Thanks:confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KLLSWITCH:
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...gdata_player&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13193492866851
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] movieaddict:
Samsung phones don't have s-off
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] senkulpa:
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA - we're the old man across the street yelling at peeps.

#RTFM! :D

(back to attempting to create a port & compile cm7 for sgh-t989 - will prob fail)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] |Melvin|:
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH! S-Off is only for HTC phones.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] senkulpa:
Not to be rude (the video does that for us already), but I don't think this [Q] thread should've been created in the dev section. [READ] the forum rules.

P.S.

Out of the 4 million+ members, someone's bound to still love you!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dave2metz:
oh so sorry im in the precious little dev area....just a question
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Babyj303:
What a newtard

Sent from my HercuBEAST!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KLLSWITCH:
well we all know how to read and post accordingly so you might to try the same you may get a better response other then whats happened in this thread just my .02
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Deleted member 2653512:
i've already hit up AllGamer in a PM asking for a Question & Answer forum. hopefully one is created soon before the DEV section gets flooded with these questions.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] HRodMusic:
no s-off here sir!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KillaHurtz:
I think there needs to be a reading comprehension test as well as search feature hunt to even gain membership. There is tooooo many people lacking these basic skills here.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] movieaddict:
+100 to that!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] R1ptide:
I've been with Sprint for 7 years, mainly because of cost (I'm on Sero) and phones. That and I've always considered CDMA to be superior to GSM with regards to coverage. (in the

US

) But tonight I second guessed myself.

In my apartment, which is half underground, I need an airwave to get a decent signal from sprint. My girlfriend is visiting and for ****s and giggles I did a speed test on her atnt HTC inspire. Now I had heard people mock atnt's 4G network for not being true "4G," but with one bar of signal this phone is pulling 25mbs down and 6mbs up. :eek: Most of the time in my area I only get 3G and when I travel to the city next to mine the 4G is around 2mbs down.

I went to atnt's website and priced a plan similar to mine and it would end up costing me around $100 per month to get from atnt what I get for $60 from sprint. And thats not technically accurate since sprint gives us unlimited data. For that price difference I can't justify switching yet.

This phone is awesome and looks like it will be enough to hold me over for some time. (time as defined by a cell phone addict) The upcoming galaxy nexus may have a nice screen, but its raw power seems lacking compared to the SGS2. Which makes sense. The galaxy S series is samsung's flagship, the nexus series is google's flagship provided by samsung, who would get the better hardware? The only phone I see on the horizon right now that is a challenger (besides the S3 ofc) would be the samsung note. Now if I was going to go through the trouble of importing a phone (note will be only international initially it seems) and getting it to work on one of the carriers here, atnt would be the easiest option. If they made a CDMA international version with the right radio I could probably figure out or find/pay someone with the appropriate knowledge of CMDA workshop to get it working on sprint, but the alternative would be easier. I am an admitted sprint fanboy, but tonight is the first time in a while I actually priced out other options. I will probably stick out the rest of this contract (about two years obviously) and see how network vision and the LTE rollout pans out; however if things aren't looking much better I'm jumping ship or getting a second phone.

Anyway I apologize for the extremely random rant. I was shocked by atnt's "4G" network performance. Thats something I would've expected from a verizon LTE phone, but apparently the stereotypes I've held onto about the different networks are incorrect. Or the tower her phone is connected to is extremely uncongested, who knows. Like I said, I'm a sprint fan and a share holder, but if something doesn't change, my opinion will.

/endrant

TL;DR

Sprint's network blows worse than I thought compared to others
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
25mbs down and 6mbs up? Amazing!

Nothing like downloading a movie in under ten minutes... better be a good movie though since that uses up a good chunk of the 2GB you get per month. :cool:

Sorry, but it has to be about more than just raw speed.

This is like saying "I have a Lamborghini! But I can only drive in 40 miles a month"

The real question is, does 2mbit/s do it for you?

Because I don't know one thing you can't do on a phone [from stream music to streaming video] at 2mbit/s.

These aren't servers, they're phones.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ipetloudog:
Win.

Sent from my SPH-D710 Galaxy S II [suck it]
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] R1ptide:
You are very correct. If I got a consistent 2mbit/s I'd be very content, but the only time I get that is on wimax when I make a trip to best buy in the city adjacent to me. If its night time, and I'm outside, I'll get 1.5mbit/s. Daytime outside 500-600kbit/s, most of the time I'm inside so that drops to 200-400. The building I work in has wifi and when I used my Evo it wasn't an issue, but with the epic touch's horrible wifi reception there are times when my 3G signal is present and the wifi isn't x.x

Furthermore when driving around I can't even use pandora without a good 20 seconds between songs due to lag. Now maybe the same thing would be true with atnt or verizon 4g, I can't be sure since my test was isolated to one spot, but I have a good idea it would be better.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] musclehead84:
What phone are u saying is international only?

Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] R1ptide:
samsung note, but it might be coming to atnt here
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
Never mock the marketing names. Only mock the actual experienced speeds.

How much would it cost to go family plan on your GFs account?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Overstew:
Verizon's got 20mbps LTE in my house, but I'm with Sprint because they pull 2500 kbps on 3G and it's unlimited. :)