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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spinstorm:
what was the original setting for the phones band selection before i changed it to CDMA only?

I dont want to sound dramatic but even after setting it to that im still getting the volume dropping even though it us 3G only.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
from my experience, changing the settings doesn't work since it doesn't stay persistent:

to answer your question, the default setting is GSM/CDMA Auto PRL
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoddyUK:
I just received a message on my phone which read "Android is upgrading...". Lasted for about 30 seconds before the UI restarted itself. I'm still on 4.0.1, but I've rebooted my phone I'm about to test if this has made any impact on the volume bug.

EDIT: False alarm. Bug is still there. :/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SBS_:
Most likely means android crashed and restarted itself. As far as I've seen in videos it says "Android is upgrading" every time you start the phoone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
this happens every time you reboot the phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bleets:
i dont understand why people ever need to reboot a phone, especially very often...apart from OS upgrades, which obviously hasnt happened yet ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] helen_xxxx:
I've rebooted and mine has stuck with WDCDMA only.....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neovisage.HD2:
ok guys then what a android phone is the best at the moment on the market?after 4 years with apple I really wanna change,android is more friendly for everyday user.Dont really like build quality of htc phones.

At the moment I have GN without issue but really pis..... me off how the Samsung dealing with the customers mainly with lots of loyal ones like with new ones!

I think I will return my GN on Sunday to phone4u but before then would like to know by you guys what have much bigger experience with android handset,which of them is the best at the moment?htc sensation xe motorola razr,that the two handset what I think to get and as far as I know they will run 4.0 ice cream sandwich early 2012

Thank you guys for help
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
Hmm isn't this a bit the wrong place to ask?

I mean I would say the GN is far the best out there at least for me. And it would be a bit strange if the majority here doesn't have a similar opinion. Or do you always buy things which you don't like?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neovisage.HD2:
I like the feelings of GN and ice cream sandwich but... not sure know I funcy the phone with hardware software issue after lunch big bum vol bug what else will come after 2-3 months of use?i wanna be sure when I spend over £500 the handset will work properly for at least one year,don't have time to spend trying to sorting out things with like I read very poor samsung customer service.

When you spend this amount of money you expecting good build quality.This days smartphones they are like a third hand.

But how I can be sure even after some OTA for GN the handset will show some other major problems?maybe I'm wrong don't know but at the moment as much as I like the GN and I think this handset could be really iphone4s killer the screen size and quality is outstanding.But..... with this entry on this days market this phone can be kill by themselves but hardware issue.Shame really really shame :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
First of all it's a choice, clean Android directly from the source vs. skinned Android with nice additions.

Second you can't be sure that other phones won't have some problems too. I mean look at the iphone 4s. Battery problem, SIM card problem broken sound. Even Apple has problems with their devices and they advertise them with the slogan "It just works."

If you still have time then wait for the fix and see how it works. You can drop the phone still afterwards. Things like this are annoying yes. But Google said they will release a fix for it so we should give them the chance to prove themselves.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neovisage.HD2:
lol "it just works" but how works,mainly in any top 5 is a number one lol,people paying over £500 like I in GN case but they have much better build quality,from the other hand much less friendly software,I really like ice cream sandwich I think it's much better than iOS 5.

Android give it to much better user experience than iOS,but why no one can build that good handset like apple he is doing?why apple handset feels much more expensive than any other?they are mainly build in this same country china,India like GN.

Samsung,htc they have way bigger experience with mobile phones handset than apple.Why they can't made nice good phone to show other company's like apple they can do good smartphones,apple using lots of Samsung components ,don't really understand how all this things works.lol it's so confusing and not that simples lol :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bleets:
depends if you consider apple actually build good handsets.

the iphone4 had a terrible antenna design and they pretended to fix it by making people think the phone had more signal than it did. if you ignore the general shape of the handsets (which there's been 2 basic designs of in 4 years????)...they're just built like a brick. especially the 4/4s with the glass back and massive metal frame round the outside...personally i hate the iphone designs!

and apple handsets may feel more expensive but i've seen a fair few drop test videos (i love it when people test handsets by trying to destroy them! :)) between the iphone 4/4s and galaxy S2...and the S2 faired much better, the "more expensive" feel to the iphone is also a downside since the sides dent/scratch a lot easier and the glass back is just asking to smash.

and iOS...well, having the OS look exactly the same after 4 years...well done, really moving with the times. and on the subject of android being fragmented and iOS versions working across all 5 handsets...dont they manage that by disabling features in older handsets?

i think the build quality of samsung/motorola/SE handsets (yes, i said SE...i can't believe that myself) is much better than that of apple who prefer form over function. (i won't include nokia in that even though their build quality is good because elop is the spawn of beelzebub).

Also won't say anything positive about HTC since my father owns a bollocksed desire that's been sent to HTC (regenersis?) to be repaired once and came back...with the exact same fault.

so anyways...i havent seen any abuse/drop tests off galaxy nexus yet and probably won't untill it's on general sale in the US but from the looks of other samsung handsets i dont think build quality should be a worry.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
Why do people define build quality always by the materials?

I owned a SGS II and the build quality was perfect. No gaps, no creaks if you put some pressure on the case. And what I read from the reviews the GN has the same quality.

IMO apple products don't feel more expensive they feel heavy. The iphone is like a stone compared to a SGS II or a Nexus.

If you want to have something which feels "expensive" like an iphone there are the moto Razr (carbon) and the HTC Sensation serie (alluminium). There screens though aren't as nice as on a Sammy phone.

Anyway that's quite a bit OT. Probably you should open a new thread, so you can ask for some more opinions.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
With all the fear-mongering and "OMG DEFECTIVE HARDWARE I'M AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER I SHOULD KNOW" posts, I was leery about buying the GNEX.

Mine arrived this AM and I tried everything possible to reproduce the infamous youtube video.

Nothing.

I'm in the states, so maybe we're just lucky. Whatever the deal, there is zero issue with my unit.

Don't believe every post on the internet and you'll have a much lower blood pressure level.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neovisage.HD2:


Is the moto razr ( carbon) and htc sensation availble in uk?i was today in carphonewarehouse beacuse i wanna see in real the moto xt9250 razr they dont even know what was that lol!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CJSnet:
GSM/CDMA auto.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nookcoloruser:
@ericshmerick

You probably are not on the 900mhz 2G frequency.

It's driving me mad, I can't even listen to music on my phone in bed because the volume keeps turning itself down. I ended up having to turn off mobile network - reducing my phone into a €600 mp3 player.

Whilst its great that not everyone is suffering, it doesn't placate those that are.

If Samsung and a google have a software fix for these, it should be released OTA immediately. Why delay? There is no reason to not do so.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bleets:
Motorola Razr

HTC Sensation XE Beats Audio

Personally i'd avoid anything HTC now. There's 3 different Sensation's. Sensation, Sensation XE and Sensation XL. XE is the best of the 3.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/search?q=Razr&searchBtn.x=0&searchBtn.y=0

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/search?q=sensation&searchBtn.x=0&searchBtn.y=0
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
I definitely believe there is an issue. Maybe I should have been more clear.

If you are in the US, the chances of this issue affecting you are much lower than Europe since use of the 900mhz network is not common here.

I agree on the fix. Just release it Google...this phone is red hot right now and bugs will scare potential customers off...might as well demonstrate an immediate remedy and OTA the bugfix that's been rumored to be "ready for release."
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
Unless you used a radio to generate 900 Mhz it's quite unlikely that you found this frequency in the USA.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
Key takeaway:

If you are in the US, you are good.

Works for me!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
another person who hasn't read the first post properly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
If you are in the US and happen to have a 900MHz cordless phone maybe you can try to see if using that nearby would induce it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Taggard:
Couldn't get it to reproduce. My details are in the ODIN thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
Whatever dude. I've seen you all over other forums going nuts about this issue.

I read everything and just wanted to do my own test. Not an issue for US residents.

What's wrong with that?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
lol. what other forums? please, list them.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
As you hit F5 repeatedly to witness the pwnage...here is my reply.

Maybe it's just that you post so much I am blinded by the frequency which makes it seem you are all over multiple forums.

So, here and the verge. Cool.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ptscon:
Few electrical engineer wonabe members here have dugg pretty deep holes for themselves in the last few days.

All I can do is laugh.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
while all I can do is laugh at those who continually refute what has been found in this thread, and what a Google engineer has corroborated.

A lot of ignorant people posting in here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justabrake:
from your prior post it showed you must of not read it or you just didn't read it correctly :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
This place is strange sometimes...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
let's point out where you went wrong, shall we?

it isn't fear mongering, it is fact - the Galaxy Nexus, in it's current state, is susceptible to interference from the 900MHz GSM band which causes the phone to be completely unusable as a phone when in a 2G coverage area that only supplies coverage on the 900MHz frequency.

as has already been made light multiple times in this thread and on the first post, 900MHz GSM is not used in the USA. You are in the USA. Now while it is extremely useful that you have tested it in the USA and can confirm that you have not been affected by it, your tone suggests that there is nothing for anyone to be concerned about here. If you had clarified in your original post that there is nothing for a US user to be concerned about, then that would've been fine. But you didn't.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
Since I'm in the US, everything I said was relevant to the US.

If someone in Europe read my posts and totally blew off this issue in their country where 2G 900 mhz networks are in use, they are doing it wrong.

<--- The giant flag to the left should also help people understand I do not live in Europe and my posts quite honestly are targeted towards other US users.

But I'm certain there were be many replies to this pointing out my faults, blabla all in an attempt to 'win.'

Let me help you. You win. The volume bug is a complete hardware defect. You're all screwed, unless you live in the US.

Or unless you have installed the patch which fixes it.

I'm out of this parallel universe. Off to enjoy 0 volume issues. Sucks to be you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gogol:
Yupe, including you :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fpad77:
What ever you do just make sure that you never go abroad on holiday!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dai_griff:
Hi, got mine yesterday and I have seen the volume issue once. I have switched between wifi, 3g and 2g so far, off to try it in town in a bit where I should get a H network.

Like I said it's happened once. In the UK here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
And when I do, I will have the patch installed and life will be good.

And this thread will be internet ashes. Can't wait.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Maramaldo:
I've been followin' this thread from the beginning, I think it's evident that is a HW issue, but I don't care, I think it's not important now.

It's also very stupid try to find a scientific-electric- tecnic explanation (bouncin' & pull-up..) Only a Google engeneer who has worked for that phone in that specific section of the industry knows. (maybe)

The very important problem now is that a lot of people has bought this phone..and they have got a faulty handset, with a really boring problem.

And I'm also very bored of this situation, because I really wanted this phone and I'm thinkin to buy another device.

On the 1st of December this GN will be out here in Italy, and I really don't want to buy a faulty handset, dreaming of a future (SW fix/ SW workaround). If I spend a lot of money I want a good device. I don't mean that I don't want any bugs, it's impossible and stupid to want with these new devices, but this is a really incredible issue and I think has to have a solution in the immediate. Google&Samsung are behaving bad with their "first-hour" clients.This is the truth.:mad:

Anyway, does anyone know if:

1)On the 1st of dec , buying a Gn here in italy,is there the risk of buying a faulty phone?

2) Samsung is really recalling back faulty phones in order to substitute them? If is a Sw workaround why they want to annoy customers with this recall?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
I don't want to win or anything. But it would be indeed useful if you could write from where you are. People who are using the XDA App can't see it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
yes?

10 character limit

Edit. New rule. Everyone post their country of origin in every XDA post.

Sorry about that.

-sent from USA
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
I think there's nothing wrong if you want to understand a problem properly. You can never know enough is my moto.

IIRC there where two people from Italy which said they don't expired the bug but I'm not sure.

My theory is that they don't want to sell more devices with a bug. They don't annoy customers they help them to receive a good device. Not everyone is so interested in technology as we are and can help themselves.

Give them a chance to fix this problem. Failures happen.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
Oh come on. You know exactly how I meant it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] davej777:
"My unit is not experiencing the issue in my environment" is not equivalent to "my unit is not defective".

You are (luckily) in an area where you will likely never encounter 900Mhz GSM. However, if you happened to travel overseas, you could quickly get issues - which is why we need to hope that Google's fix works.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neovisage.HD2:
So guys is anyone get this OTA?when we can expect this patch to cover the problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dai_griff:
Just used mine in a 2G area and I have the fault. Phoned P4U reported it, have 7 days for Samsung/Google to fix it or it's going back......
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neovisage.HD2:
Did you get sim free or on contract? In worthing they say i cant return in 14 days but i have 28 days for return faulty item.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Atreus:
I find the "I have the fault"-reports quite funny. Why don't people realise, that it's a hardware-fault (with software involvement ;-) ) ? So _absolutely everybody_ has the fault, but not everybody experiences/notices it. All of you have phones from the same batch, with the same software build, which means they are all _identical_!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gho57:
i have no problem with my ne
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MatthewPL:
Hello.

I would like to ask which shop is the best for ordering and deliver to Poland (Samsung Poland says that _maybe_ after new year will be any deliver) fixed Galaxy Nexus in EU? UK seems to be a little expensive (beucase of GBP), but what about DE or NL?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] grizlore:
#galaxy #nexus being ‘flashed’ to fix any issues – deliveries to commence wc28th. Samsung Distribution not Samsung http://goo.gl/4Nzf5
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dai_griff:
Upgrade online on O2 but it is a sim free handset.

Shame really, have also seen it happen on wifi with mobile data turned off whilst coming out of messages.....

Bloody nice phone though, well bloody nice attempt at a phone at the moment is a better description!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kristovaher:
If they are already updating the stock, why isn't the update available yet?!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dai_griff:
Errrrr I just placed my phone on charge for the 2nd time as it was 1%, it turned itself off and now will not turn on. Charger is working fine. Nothing showing on the screen at all. Idea's??? (took the battery out and put back in).....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neovisage.HD2:
they dont care about us!they have us Money and that's bolloooooks for them
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] UnlimitedN20:
And what about the 900 Mhz

3G

network?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] saquib:
Just posted on twitter

"PaulOBrien: Samsung I9250 firmware I9250XXKK5 volume bug fix."

--http://twitter.com/PaulOBrien/status/140471495288823808
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dai_griff:
Had a great 8 hours with my Nexus. Sadly it appears to be dead on its 2nd charge and now is on the way back for a replacement!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hkoutso:
Got my Galaxy Nexus yesterday from Clove. Had to add a post to this thread as I am facing the same problem.

I live in Greece and well 3G networks aren't as strong as in rest of Europe. Thus the phone works a great deal of time on 2G (and that is the on 900Mhz).

It was funny cause today I was taking the elevator down in the hotel i am staying and there is another guy playing with his nokia phone. I was checking my messages as he is trying to make a phone call. Suddenly my volume starts going up and down.

Also i have to say that on the majority of phone calls (only when on 2G) I make I hear a lot of radio interf. coming out of the speaker. Well in the beginning I thought it was a bad speaker but it only happens on 2G and not all the time. A bad speaker would be bad all of the time.

Just wanted to add my experience.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] emorej:
fix is on samfirmware according to their twitter post:

SamFirmware SamFirmware

Samsung I9250 firmware I9250XXKK5 volume bug fix.

45 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

http://twitter.com/#!/SamFirmware
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Moleculor:
Ok, so IF the 'halting shipment' thing is to do any sort of hardware alteration to the phones (doubtful, but lets pretend), from whom would I purchase the phone to insure I got one of these phones that are already fixed?

(Importing to the USA, would like as little hassle with returns as possible.)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BiGMERF:
Just recieved mines today.. no issues in florida
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
Your issue has nothing to do with this thread. I would suggest you search the forum to see if a thread already exists regarding your problem and if not, create a new thread.

As far as I'm aware, only O2 are trialling 900MHz 3G networks at the moment in limited areas in the UK. I could be wrong on this though. If you could test to see if you're having trouble there on 3G, that would be useful.

This adds more credence to the theory that poor shielding has been implemented on the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fpad77:
In saying that, I had mine from Clove and the only issue I've found is the erratic volume. In terms of audible call quality it's always very crisp, so no issues on that front from me so it seems like a secondary issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
Well, something like that is always going to be situational and conditional.

In any case, the software patch is looking like it's almost here so I'm sure those of us who have an interest in this (and who own the phone) shall be on the look out for any updates that come through.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nookcoloruser:
Of course as you don't have the 900mhz 2G frequency in the USA so it obviously will work in Florida, and any other state.....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ErGo_404:
Anyone got that firmware and want to share the results with us? Or am I the only one staying home on a saturday night :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kerberos7:
forever alone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ErGo_404:
Lol I was just thinking about it ;-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neovisage.HD2:
no updates yet in uk .And big suprise my GN battery status! 17h 56m on 52% screen usage and quite havy use of the phone.But i still considering to swap my GN for motorola razr,first more memory can use sd card thinner faster and what more ice cream sandwich early 2012
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deadlast28:
I thought the Razr had an earlier chipset than the Nexus and slower GPU?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bleets:
yup.

razr has an omap 4430 compared to the nexus 4460...think same GPU but razr is clocked slower
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MysteriousDiary:
Don't trust Motorola's announcements about updates :) Still waiting for 2.3 for my Milestone 2 :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dr Doom:
I'm glad someone else is getting radio interference during calls. Posted a thread about it but nobody replied. Told Samsung about it and they just told me to wait for the update which i was told would be coming tomorrow.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bobbysixkiller:
So how will we flash the firmware ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gambiting:
This was posted several times in many different threads on this forum....this update will arrive as an Over The Air update,so your phone will automatically download and install it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DDRFAN:
Yup, on top of all this, the razr had to be overclocked to reach 1.2ghz, while the Gnex was underclocked. so essentially less room for overclocking the razr.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bobbysixkiller:
Dont be a ****, i just asked
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Duddyroar:
They said the OTA update would be coming Sunday?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justabrake:
So are you going to be the first to get rid of it ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tom Servo:
Stranger things have happened.

---------- Post added at 04:54 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:48 AM ----------

So yeah, a new baseband essentially. When I suggested an updated version of it a few days ago, some people called me crazy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
I'm curious to see if the fault still occurs while in bootloader mode after this baseband update.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dnlsmy:
It won't matter though :D

The main problem is the ratcheting volume when in call, as a result of using the 2G radio. In the bootloader, the radio is not active at all so your only worry is having a phone on 900mHz making a call while touching your Nexus on the Volume rocker side of it. This is highly unlikely :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
There is nothing wrong about being thorough about gathering facts.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tom Servo:
Bootloader mode is unimportant. It'll be active just a moment when you reboot a phone, or when messing about with custom ROM flashing, which should also be not that often.