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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] G0belet:
I know, but they still give a timeframe for fixes IIRC.

Well someone earlier said s/he saw 4.0.4 on a GSM device, from a Google employee. It's not too far fetched to think the rollout will happen soon, and who knows, maybe a 4.0.5 build will pop out in the very near future :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ZeroBarrier:
Either flash a 4.0.2 Stock image, or find a stock/unmodded SystemUI.apk to replace the modded one.

Edit: Actually, if you used Metamorph, then you should have a backup of the original stock SystemUI.apk somewhere on your "SD Card". Find it and replace the modded one.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tberman333:
I am having a problem with this update. When I first got my Nexus, I immediatly removed the Verizon Bloat (using Titanium Backup), but did not actually back it up first). Now when I try to install this I am getting an error message that says:

asset failed: apply patch check ("/system/app/VZWBackupAssistant.apk"

I read through this thread and someone had the same issue with Google Books (and needed two files to fix it, the apk and another one that I can't remember).

Does anyone know if there is a way around this or do I need to reinstall the Verizon crapware? If I need to reinstall, does anyone know where I can get the files I need?

Thanks in advance for the help!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kangxi:
You should just flash stock and disable the apps you don't want. No need to uninstall them.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] speedxxxracer:
I have no idea how update. If anybody wants to teach me how I will gladly PayPal $20 for their help upon complete update. I'm clueless to all the terminology. PM me. Thx
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Bhatch:
G-Talk update

Back on like page 20 LOL!!! Someone mentioned that "Talk" got updated with 4.0.4, can anyone elaborate on the changes?

Big fan of Talk, I would like to know if it's cosmetic, functional, or both.

THanks! Screenshots would be awesome if warranted.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ATnTdude:
Thank you for the numbers. Given that the draw of the screen itself is in the 300-400 mA range, 200-300 µA draws would fall under my definition of "marginal" and thus immaterial. So thank you for confirming my hypothesis, and more importantly, the work you put in to provide those numbers.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aostrom:
Updated performance change numbers

I did a little more testing. 1 mile down the road I got 17.94/8.34Mbps. 1/2 mile down the road, in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, I got 12.87/2.68Mbps. Sitting in the lot outside the office I got 4.66/2.62. I'm -110dBm 30asu here in the office, with 2 bars showing, and now got a test at 5.6/0.77Mbps. It seems that speed is more dependent on signal strength than it was with 4.0.2.

Does anyone who actually knows anything about how this works have any insight?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kaze06:
Bandwidth tests in general, and particularly mobile data, are not going to be consistent. You can stand in the same spot and get two astronomically different readings, such is the nature of the infrastructure.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tbrouwer:
Anybody have the stock one they can upload?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tberman333:
Thanks! That worked!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] doublea500:
for a few updates that i found

-when holding a button in the navigation bar in the homescreens, the buttons stay glowed up for as long as you keep your hand on it. (try it, the glowing stopped after a second in 4.0.2 and stays for 4.0.4)

-Signal shows more bars then i really have. (i now have 103 dbm and am getting 3 bars of 4g...)

-When your in settings you click on something to bring essentially a toggle screen up (one i saw was lte/cdma and cdma) its possible to get out of it by clicking outside the box. Similar to exiting a photo in facebook. Just click outside the photo.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] grigolla:
This file will get you working. Install it using CWR

It will restore "VZWBackupAssistant.apk" with the correct perms etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] grigolla:
This will install the default Mms.apk needed. Install using CWR
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tbrouwer:
any chance you have the systemui.apk and systemui.odex?:)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] autotkgrad:
Have you (has anyone) noticed a change in signal dBm?

Especially indoors?

(My stock 4.0.2 LTE GN loses all signal in large buildings.)

Based on this very early test, I plan to exchange for a Rezound fairly soon if the actual reception does not improve. A phone is no good if you can't connect.

phonearena.com/news/Speed-test-showdown-Verizon-Galaxy-Nexus-vs-Motorola-DROID-RAZR-vs-HTC-Rezound_id24930

Thanks very much!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nory82688:
I don't know if its been brought up yet in the thread ( I couldn't find it) but I wanted to let everyone know that Paul O'Brien has a 4.0.4 rom for the GSM galaxy nexus and LTE galaxy nexus. I'm running it now on my GSM nexus and its awesome
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kangxi:
I'm getting better signal. A lot of people are reporting signal in places where they didn't get any previously.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] diverbelow:
I hear you there....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] abrenoch:
Would have been nice to mention in the OP that this breaks root
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] HarshReality:
Hows the battery looking after this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kangxi:
OP states in bold red letters, STOCK device. STOCK meaning no root or anything changed. If you were rooted and lost it clearly you weren't following directions in the first place. Others have had issues because they were not truly stock.

There are methods to get it back which have been posted in this thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mlwiii:
When will the official OTA be out

I have no idea how to root or boot load, so i have to depend on the OTA updates. does anyone know when it will be out from VZW?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] caslca:
Could someone please let me know if they fixed the pinlock timeout issue? (where no matter what timeout value has been chosen, pressing the powerbutton locks the screen immediately)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eddie_gordo:
That is not a bug, it's supposed to be that way.. The screen isn't locked for the time you have set if it turns off by itself, but if you deliberately press the power button it means that you have the intention to lock the screen, therefore the pinlock appears immediately.. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paulobrien:
Not sure about previous versions, but i'm running MCR Ir11 (4.0.4) and it gives me an option to change this in security settings (and it works as intended).

See below.

P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Yeah lets keep custom roms out of change logs. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mgear356:
does the update gives out less heat for the phone after prolonged usage?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Yes. It installed virtual fans.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crankerchick:
I agree with you except for this one sticking point for me.

When my Android OS was ranking second but still only like 12-14% of my usage and sometimes listing it as having been awake for longer than my phone had been off the battery, I suspected there was some kind of reporting error and nothing actually wrong. I didn't worry about it because my battery life still was "fine."

However, when my Android OS got out of control and was taking up 50% of my battery and my phone drained 45% in 7 hours on the nightstand overnight, I knew THAT was not normal and was not a reporting error. Nothing had changed on my phone such as app installations or anything, I just would have stretches where it would run afoul and truly drain my battery regardless of what was being reported.

I hope that is fixed, because that was real, not a reporting error.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EVA7699:
Anyone tried some screen lock apps from Market? Most of them cannot work in 4.0.4
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paulobrien:
The guy asked as question, which I answered. The inference was 'yes, this feature is in 4.0.4'.

P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jodekirk:
Bluetooth video/audio out of sync on 4.0.4

After upgrading to 4.0.4 I noticed when playing a video with bluetooth headphones or a car stereo the audio is delayed and out of sync. Very annoying! I'm considering going back to 4.0.2 since I use bluetooth headphones all day at work.

Any ideas how to fix this? I tried repairing and using 2 different video viewing apps. Same issue. Even Youtube videos have a very slight delay in the audio now. AVRCP does work fine though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Realistpm:
could someone go into calendar, add new event and start typing under Event Name and tell me if word wrap has been added... very annoying in 4.0.2 that it doesn't have it...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] paulobrien:
Still no wrap i'm afraid!

P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Yeah that was my bad. I forgot I had switched back to 4.0.3 a couple days ago, and hence didn't see it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdabbeb:
If the volume level of notifications and ringtones have been increased, it's only minimal at best and still far lower than most other phones I've used. The strange thing is that the speakerphone volume (on a call) has always been fine, so I've had hope that they could boost the ring/notification/media. Not in this update, unfortunately.

I've gotten slightly better 4g signal lock, and am still getting as good download speeds as I got on 4.0.2 (up to 40mb down 20mbit up).

Browser does seem more responsive and Android OS awake bug seems to be fixed for me as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] az_r2d1:
ok. so I had my nexus unlocked and rooted and I had cwm installed, stil on 4.0.2.

I copied the update to the sdcard.

Then I booted into the cwm recovery (more on that below) and selected to install the update. This took a while (got several messages saying the back-button was enabled/disabled, my guess is that it was still busy installing?) but then I rebooted and voila I was on 4.0.4

I no longer had root access but the root toolkit quickly took care of that.

All works well, except for 1 thing that's not directly related I think.

Every time I want to go into cwm recovery I first have to flash it from within cwm, then reboot into recovery. If I don't flash it first I get the stock recovery. How do I make it permanent ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ZeroBarrier:
I'm about to make a lot of people very, very happy. I've been playing with contact pictures for hours now, and I'm incredibly happy to report that setting a contact picture directly from the phone and letting contacts sync with Gmail no longer results in pixelated, low quality contact pics!!!

It's been hours now since I've changed over a dozen contact pics and have synced well over half a dozen times and not one contact pic has been downsized and blown up after syncing.

Try it out yourself. Download a few HQ pics for your contacts from anywhere and put them on your phone; edit contact and change pic, choose select from gallery and find the HQ pic, choose the crop size that best suits your tastes and hit crop then done. Now go ahead and sync and go back to contacts app. You'll notice those pics are still the same exact quality that you left them as before syncing!

Enjoy!

Hit thanks if you liked this. ;-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] veloslave:
Just "Thanks"??? Shouldn't we send you money instead?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] s2d4:
Now, wipe your phone.

Then set your phone up again..

Guess what, it will sync the low quality pic again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xxprodigyxx11:
Your phone is still using the HQ pics on your "SD card".
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ZeroBarrier:
I didn't fix it, Google did. Why would I take money for just finding it?

That's your problem, set them up again and stop wiping like a mad man.

No, it's not. I deleted the pics off my phone before syncing. Still HD.

But seriously though, did you even check or are you trying to get your post count up.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] s2d4:
The real problem here is the limitation of the contacts pics on Google's servers..

You've just posted a band aid fix for the time being. Re-doing the entire contacts list also seems... umm.. ridiculous.

The reason to wipe is because you won't introduce problems of conflicting system data, posting the eventual bug reports that the developers just can not reproduce, let alone fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xxprodigyxx11:
My point is the HQ pics aren't coming from the Google sync servers. There in the cache in your phone. That's why wiping the phone then syncing contacts from the Google servers still loads low Res pics. Thus the problem still exists.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evangelion01:
The main issue that I have with the current 'high resolution' contact pics is that they're not very high resolution. Looks like they're only about 250px wide, resulting in greatly reduced quality when compared to the source image.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Realistpm:
Originally Posted by Realistpm

could someone go into calendar, add new event and start typing under Event Name and tell me if word wrap has been added... very annoying in 4.0.2 that it doesn't have it...

do you know if there is a fix for this floating around?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] texstar420:
This worked for me. Thanks very much.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdanryan:
If anyone is still wondering about battery life for 4.0.4, I'm loving it.

I was having awake issues, etc with 4.0.2- occasionally waking up and finding my phone dead after going to sleep with 75%, etc. Random times where my phone would lose 20% battery per hour, etc.

With the 4.0.4 update posted on this thread, my phone has been on for about 45 hours. It has 35% battery. Talk time: about 1 hour. Pandora: about 1 hour. Music: about 2 hours. Screen is set to low. WiFi off. Bluetooth off. Location services off. JuiceDefender installed. I'm a bit of a battery nut to give you an idea of my settings.

I know it's only been about 48 hours or so but all in all, a huge improvement from my experiences before.

At this pace, I'll probably end up getting 72 hours out of a single charge.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] myfinalheaven:
thats great to hear. i'm currently only getting about 14 hours with 4 hour awake times and can barely last a day.

very keen to get 4.0.4 on my GSM now
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ritize:
Can this be reverted back to 4.0.2?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] doubleojon:
Coming from AOKP with Franco's Nightlies, I've seen quite a jump in battery life. Typically, I never turned on LTE. NEVER. After upgrading to 4.0.4, I leave it on all day, and I'm still getting slightly better battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kangxi:
You can use the factory images provided by Google to get back to 4.0.2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 4278:
I'm noticing a lot more random reboots with this update. Like, a lot. Two or three in the past few hours alone.

Random reboots were happening some, but nowhere near this often, before the update. It, unfortunately, appears that this issue isn't fixed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ryguy5254:
Hey guys! I had an unlocked, rooted CDMA Gnex running 4.0.2. I finally updated to 4.0.4 using the link in the original post. I just finished a couple of minutes ago, so far everything is good.

My question is, what is the difference between the 29.8 MB 4.0.4 update from XDA, and the 189 MB 4.0.4 update from craigacgomez/rootzwiki?

I know the large update says :

"Rooted,De-odexed,Zip-aligned ROM With Stock Insecure Boot Image And New Radios & Bootloader [e26ccc9d7722eff8ace158779e1e8519] (Mirror)

- Complete standalone update with mentioned modifications

- Includes the new FA02 radios and PRIMELA03 bootloader

- No downgrade/upgrade required

- Do not use to multi-boot (example Boot Manager)"

Does this mean, the smaller update doesn't have any of those thing listed? (ie: new FA02 radios?)

---------- Post added at 04:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:16 PM ----------

I just read the OP again, and it turns out that it does have new radios and what not.

The question is now, why is the other update relatively larger than the other one?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 4278:
I'm guessing because the smaller one is a differential update and the large one is everything?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ZeroBarrier:
The large one is a full ROM. The small one is only an update.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] naimtime69:
I have android revolution hd 2.1.3 on my galaxy nexus and i wanted to update it to the new android 4.0.4. can i just update it even though i have this custom rom, or do i have to get stock rom for this to work? will it cause any problems?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 4278:
Pretty sure you can't use a Galaxy Nexus update on your phone. Even if you butchered it to even update, your phone would likely not even power on or be remotely functional.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] naimtime69:
ok thanks for the information, probably saved me from bricking my phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] krazie1:
You can also add this in OP

*Faster Battery Charging

I noticed that the battery charges way faster now then it did on 4.0.1 or 4.0.2.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
I am not sure if this is new but google search shows "new searchable items" when you install an app that has search integeration.

And the led flashes once even if screen is on.

Again, I am not sure these are new compared to 4.0.3
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] itch808:
I'm on AOKP and I don't know if I can hold out much longer...4.0.4 sounds like everything I wanted in 4.0.3/4.0.2

AH!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nkemp79:
Updated to 4.0.4 and I am trying to get my root back, but getting error messages

My Galaxy Nexus was unlocked, rooted, and I was able to install the 4.0.4 update which obiviously broke my root, but I am very happy with the update. What I am having problems with now is trying to get my root back. I went through the root process again, but now when I try to go into recovery mode I get the error message of the Android on his back with the ! in the red triangle. The other issue is I am also a Mac user, so I don't have access to the tool kit. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdanryan:
Just quoting my post with updated screenshots concerning battery life on 4.0.4.

2 days 17 hours, 10% left.

JuiceDefender installed.

Talk time: about 1.5 hours

Pandora: about 1 hour

Music: about 2 hours

Text: about ~50 texts

Internet Browsing: about 15 minutes

Wifi Off, Screen brightness very low, location services off, Verizon junk disabled, stock 4.0.4 update, unrooted.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] abjexstallion:
Is this flashable for GSM?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Look at literally the second sentence of the first post.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pheitmeyer:
My update is failing at the build.prop check. I had a volume+ mod that I reversed out prior to trying the update.

i can't post my screencap due to restrictions here but my build.prop sig is google/mysid/toro

Anyone else having this issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kr.puneet:
i find trouble in transition from 3g to 4g and other way around on 4.0.4. the transition is not smooth and the phone losses the signal. i have checked it multiple time. is anybody else have the same problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Guardsix:
I need clarification.

Do the steps in your instructions in the first post unlock the bootloader or do I have to do that prior to running your instructions?

If your answer is, "NO. You have to unlock the bootloader first.", then can I do that using the toolkit?

Thanks. I just want to be sure before I mess with my GNex.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Turb0wned:
This is the best rom/kernel out of all, even the custom ones. Battery life is amazing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nory82688:
Paul O'Brien has a GSM 4.0.4 rom in the xda development thread. I'm running it right now and its great. You just install like any other rom , (wipe data, cache, and dalvik) and you're good to go!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1487056
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] droid2usr:
cant download

I am currently using the 4.0.2 stock version and when i attempt to download the 4.0.4 file it becomes unsuccessful....any reasons or something i am doing wrong?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lilmoe2002:
seems like all manufacturers were delaying their ics updates because google was still finalizing a more stable release... makes sense if you ask me... if i'm going to get an update for my galaxy s2 i'd prefer 4.0.4...

sorry i went off topic.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] az_r2d1:
You need a different version of su.zip.

I had the exact same thing.

It won't le tm epost a link in here but wugfresh is aware and a new version of his kit is coming out soon.

If you use wugfresh's toolkit, just replace the su.zip inside the data directory with this one. and run root again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gabster21:
I want 4.0.4 on my GNex GSM but I don't want to wipe all my data/configurations..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aelaster:
Total Noob

I was able to successfully update my 100% stock LTE GNex today, with a locked bootloader.

I used this guy's instructions to temporarily root my phone: http://androidforums.com/verizon-galaxy-nexus-all-things-root/499117-root-gnex-without-unlocking-bootloader-yep.html

(The only step missing, I came to find out, was "chmod 777 /data/local/mempodroid", which I found from this guy: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1461736)

I followed the first guy's suggestion of not fully rooting my device and just using the temporary privileges long enough to copy the update.zip into my cache directory.

Anyways, worked like a charm...now running 4.0.4.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] biggiestuff:
Did this just update the phone or did it wipe it out completely and then install 4.0.4?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aelaster:
It just updated the phone. I didn't lose any data or settings.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Santeno:
What about the speakerphone Has the Volume on that gotten any better?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TZAR@:
Upgraded to 4.0.4 used voodoo ota root keeper. All boxes were and still are checked. But I seem to still not have root.

And the audio is out of sync with the video on the native player. Back to 4.0.2 and waiting for CM9
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] diverbelow:
I was able to apply the 4.0.4 update without unlocking my bootloader or actual rooting my phone. Using adb and using a root exploit, I did the steps over at android forums.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] biggiestuff:
This is in the instructions but where do you get the superuser.apk?

c:\gnex\root-exp> adb push Superuser.apk /data/local/Superuser.apk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] diverbelow:
You can search for Superuser.apk or ask the scary alien where he got his.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aelaster:
I didn't. I only did the steps with mempodroid so I had root within the shell, copied the update into cache, and applied the update.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kylem:
Previously unlocked and rooted through wugfish's toolkit. Grabbed voodoo rootkeeper and set it. Saved 4.0.4 as update.zip and flashed through cwm recovery after backup.

Opened root keeper and reset root. Rooted 4.0.4 in <10mins

I now have solid 4G in my house which previously it bounced and dropped continually.

diggin it!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
Just want to make sure I got this straight. If I am rooted and unlocked on 4.0.2 I can flash this update through CWM. This file will update my radio as well? While root will be lost, will the bootloader also be re-locked or that will stay unlocked after the update?

Also, will you lose CWM after the update? If so, should you just unlock, re-root, and flash CWM in the root tool again?

Just want to make sure I have a full understanding before I jump in...Thanks guys!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mgear356:
I can confirm the multi touch issue is resolved.

played samurai vengeance II for like 1hr ++ and even with a warm phone, no sign of losing inputs..

when i was using any 4.0.3 rom, it occurs normally within 10+ mins
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TZAR@:
Downloaded the su.zip flashed it & I'm back on deck... GOOD stuff...

From my Sexii G Nexii
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
Can you please link to the zip and also after flashing 4.0.4 do you still have CWM or that needs to be re-flashed as well as unlocking the bootloader again?