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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lblacklol:
What version of ICS are you running? I had this same problem, specifically and most frequently the one where the audio cuts out of a call, sometimes it'd do it and force me to re-call my girlfriend as many as 3 or 4 times in an hour.

What fixed it was flashing ICS 4.0.4 released from Google themselves (if I waited for Verizon to do it I'd probably be single by now). This fixed it for me immediately right out of the gate. I've had the other issues you spoke of every so often but the audio cut out was constant. This fixed everything. Been running for a while without problems (month or so maybe?).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Eh...you didn't flash it straight from Google. At best, you flashed it straight from the Verizon/Google ota server the test ota is on :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lblacklol:
I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1481044

Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
From here?

http://android.clients.google.com/p....signed-mysid-IMM30B-from-ICL53F.659e0a8f.zip
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] IINexusII:
try a different SIM/Network. you'd be suprised :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
What network do you suppose he would try? ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KWKSLVR:
Sounds like the phone is doing you a favor. If I had to talk to my girlfriend for an hour a day I'd want my phone to kill itself. :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wookaru:
Did not fix the microphone going out issue for me :-( I just flashed the 4.0.4 leak on Tuesday hoping it would alleviate this problem, but I had the mic go out about 15 mins into a call last night. Same story as with stock, had to hang up and re-dial to continue the conversation.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
couldnt you just take the LTE SIM out of the phones and swap them? i think thats how VZW tells the phone the number now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JewRican:
This has happened to me twice before. I rebooted and it went away. Absolutely ear piercing screeches and stuff. And this was before this ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] inc_jack:
Is it always when calling the same people? Back in the dumbphone days, my best friend and I always had these problem when calling each other. It doesn't make sense to me, but our phones didn't get along. As soon as one of us changed phones, it never happened again. (That was on Suncom, pre-Cingular, pre-AT&T.)

If it always happens with the same people, try calling them from your wife's phone and see if it does it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Land Master:
I posted a review of my experience HERE. Sounds like some of the same issues.

As you will see the Nexus "fanboys" didn't like what I had to say but I was only telling it like it is. I wanted to love and keep this phone but I have no choice but to get something different.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] total360:
Possibly an application causing the issue? Might be worth leaving the phone stock apart from your contacts and seeing if the issue is the same. Also ask your network provider to check their HLR's to see if there is a fault with the network card that your number routes through. As other users have said, getting 4 phones with the same fault, would point to something going wrong with something your doing, or a network side fault. I'd put money on one of your apps is causing an issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Land Master:
Issues happened for me on a dead stock device. Fresh after factory reset with Google Backup disabled. Same issue on 4.02 & 4.04. While the later helped the 3G/4G handoff and I have been able to keep a lock to 4G much better, the call quality is still terrible.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ATnTdude:
Nexuses (Nexi) have never been amazing phones. At least, not yet. The N1 had pretty bad reception. They've all been on the quiet side and the camera hasn't really changed since they stuck the 5Mp shooter on the N1. A least the GN has pretty good reception.

However, as mobile computers...second to none. I'll be buying either the next Nexus or the one after that if the pull another Nexus S and sidegrade rather than upgrade from the previous generation. But I expect it will have so-so call quality and a meh camera.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] murtezahu:
are you making calls while you are on lte or 3g?

and

if you are on lte, is the phone trying to drop down to 3g while you are on the call?

have you tried: *22899?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Land Master:
This is a good question and one that I have wondered about. From what I can tell YES the phone tries to drop down from LTE but not to 3G. It seems like it tries to go all the way to 1xRTT.

Regarding *22899 ..

NO... I tried *228 on my first device (since returned) and received an updated PRL which did nothing. I realized that the PRL was stored on the SIM card and requested a new SIM when I got the 2nd device. My wife is on the original PRL and her Razr works fine. Guess I have nothing to lose at this point.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
if you're on LTE and make a phone call, it should not be dropping down to anything. you should still see the 4g symbol.

if you're on 3g, it will go to 1x, which is fine since thats the voice system for vzw.

during all the devices you have had, did you keep the same LTE sim card?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] murtezahu:
so my experience with verizon lte has been pretty crappy. it drops very often. i basically keep the phone on 3g most of the day, and only switch to lte when i need to download something. i have the suspicion your phone (and a lot of other people's phones) is dropping your lte connection mid call, and that is causing your issues. try to stay on 3g and make calls that way if you care to.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Land Master:
Iv'e tried turning data completely OFF and still have the issue.

I believe this may be true. I vaguely remember seeing the 4G icon mid-call but I have tried so many different things my memory is hazy. I will pay closer attention now though. Thanks!

No. Two devices, two Sim's.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
So when you had the issue on your phone, did you get a replacement phone and keep the same SIM?

the SIM on VZW is what is authenicating your phone to the network, its not MEID or ESN. if the SIM is bad, the auth might be getting rejecting and killing your calls maybe.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Land Master:
No.. When returning the first phone I requested (and received) a new sim.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ATnTdude:
Your suspicion is misplaced. LTE has nothing to do with voice calls, not yet at least. All calls and SMS go over CDMA1x right now.

During a phone call, the CDMA radio goes from standby (where it's just sitting there monitoring nearby towers) to active and holds the call. LTE radio is independent, and you can drop 4G during a call and it will affect nothing. You will stay on 1x, even if you reconnect with LTE by moving to better coverage. There are plans to move voice to LTE (Google "VoLTE"), but we may not even see it before the GN is obsolete.

Android 4.0 shows the data connection on the status bar, so if you have an LTE data connection, you'll see the 4G symbol regardless of what you're doing on the voice side. Since the Nexus doesn't support SVDO (which is two redundant CDMA radios), when you're in a 3G EVDO area and place a call, it will drop to CDMA1x voice since 1x can't do voice and data simultaneously.

Do NOT tell people to dial that code on a LTE phone. It won't fix anything, and could cause problems. There's a reason why they block you from dialing it from the dialpad.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jav_:
To be honest, I'm on Verizon and have a Nexus, my brother is on Verizon and has a Nexus, and my roommate is on Verizon and has a Nexus and I've never heard of any of these problems. I actually think the call quality on the Nexus is pretty stellar

I can only imagine that this has something to do with the tower you're calling from or something you've configured/installed on the phone. But that's just my two cents
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Land Master:
I'm glad you are all thrilled and since we are being "honest" I wish I could say the same. I really do.

This has NOTHING to do with anything installed on my phone because as I stated above it happens after a fresh "factory reset with Google Backup turned OFF".

It furthermore has nothing to do with the towers unless they are all bad. Again, I have traveled all around my City so I would assume I hit MANY different towers. Same Crap.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] charlescom:
For many of the Verizon CDMA Galaxy Nexus Users who got this phone as the 4G LTE Phone,

the main issues are tofold: the 4G+Voice Connection Drop and the One-way-microphone-cut-off.

There is an extensive discussion about these two main issues on google as well.

Just for everyone's information sake, here are the links

4G connection drop (the grey triangle and no data+voice until it reconnects for 30sec-1min):

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24345

One-way-microphone-cut-off:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24019

There are currently no way to solve these issues. And many of our galaxy nexus CDMA versions

have a lot of variations between the devices as far as these two issues go.

If you have never faced this issue, good for you for not picking any lemon.

As far as verizon, google, and samsung goes, I am patiently waiting for their approach to resolving

these two issues as they advertised this as the best 4G LTE Phone....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Land Master:
Thanks for this information. Glad to know these "issues" have been cataloged, Hopefully Google will provide fixes but unfortunately it will be too late for me. It behooves me to return under the 14 day grace even though I really "WANT" this device.

BTW.. in the Microphone link you provided there was at least one user explaining the symptoms that I am seeing which is I CANT HEAR the other party, not the other way around. I get like very third word which makes for some pretty interesting conversations. :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] srh21:
This was the email I got back from Verizon

This is just a follow up in regards to the conversation we had today. Thank you for speaking to me in regards to the concern that you have about the device issues that you are having. Today, I let you know, that there is a software update that is coming out for your device. I utilized another resource for researching your concern that you have. I was told that late this month, there will be a new software for this device. It will be distributed in batches, so I was unable to get an exact date. The good news is, that your issue will be part of this fix
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kit:
Another case of OCD which is naturally so common on an enthusiast forum?

Before you can deal with this you will need to accept you have a problem which is unlikely :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hotleadsingerguy:
I don't think you understand how chances work...

Good chance all 4 of the models he received were part of the same batch. In that case, the chances are pretty high that all of them would be affected by whatever it is that's causing this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gr8scott_o:
*SIGH* For me, this is Droid X2 all over again. A sizable sample of users report a problem, and the common forum responses could be categorized into three camps (listed in descending order of count):

1) "You are personally an idiot, as I have not seen this problem on my phone. Please go back to a dumb phone/iphone/landline."

2) "Root your phone and tweak the settings and all problems will magically go away."

3) "Holy crap! Other people have this problem, too? I thought I was the only one, and VZW keeps blowing me off or putting me through support hell!"

I went through two Droid X2s with a music lag/skip/stutter problem before deciding I was never getting a motorola product again (despite two good experiences with the OG Droid and the Droid X). I tried every possible solution (including rooting and going back to stock), and waited and waited for 2 separate software update pushes from VZW before I decided to just give up on the X2 completely.

So, when the shiny new Nexus came out, I was literally 3rd in line on opening day to get two of them.

Now, I too am on my 3rd GNEX. Same problems consistently as charlescom listed.

No, wait, I take that back. Between my wife and I, we are on our 3rd PAIR of GNEXs. For the little Mrs, her first GNEX had a severe battery drain problem, 2nd one had the garbled conversation issue, and the most recent one seems to be OK for her (but her phone usage may be too light to notice a problem on this one so far)

For me, all three have had garbled conversation and mic cut out issue, but this most recent one also has the "refuse to charge sometimes" issue and the LTE connection drop issue (otherwise known as the "grey triangle of death"). This last phone is so bad with mic cut-off and garbled conversations that I can't count on a call lasting longer than 10 minutes. Like Landmaster says, this problem occurs both ways.

All six of these were non-rooted, pretty much bone-stock. I think each time we swapped out devices we retained the same SIM card.

I think I will take the advice of someone else in this thread and swap out my GNEX with the wife's. See if it's just my latest device or if she just hasn't had enough usage to see a problem manifested.

Landmaster, is your profile listing of HR, CO correct? I am in Castle Rock. I wonder if that has any bearing on our common problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Land Master:
When people take the time to articulate their issues they should be commended. I thank you for taking the time to do so and hope you don't get "flamed" like I did in another "review" thread.

Yes I am in HR. My wife picked up a Razr the same day we signed up for Verizon and she loves her phone. I tried it and the call quality was stellar compared to the Nexus. We swapped out sim cards and mine worked just fine in her phone while hers left mine with the same issues.

I have been to Arvada, North Denver, Littleton and the Ken Caryl area over the last few days and the issue persisted in all of them. I will be in Monument tomorrow. The issue first came to light where it should, in our house. I ordered a Range Extender that should arrive on Saturday but honestly since the issue is NOT contained to the house, it really doesn't matter.

I have flashed all the radios found here on XDA and the leaked 4.0.4 Rom. While I will admit that the LTE speeds are great and I can even keep a lock in the black hole that is my house, I need a phone first and a "toy" second.

So as not to totally hijack this thread feel free to PM me if you need more details or if you find out any additional information. Bottom line in my regard is ... I flashed the device back to stock and am waiting on delivery of a Razr Maxx. I know that will only Pi$$ off the fanboys but I hope they can see that I have tried everything.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] total360:
I'm not hot on LTE phones as we don't have them in the UK yet, but does the GNex have a SIM card on Verizon? Ask them to replace that if they haven't already.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
he tried that already.

land master, i personally dont have the issue, but ive tried to give you things to do and i'm out of ideas. unless there is some software update coming in the future, i'm not sure there's anything more i know how to do .
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ATnTdude:
Just wanted to correct my earlier post saying that 4G has nothing to do with calls. The ONLY time that wouldn't be right is if there's a bug in the baseband/RIL which causes a crash on the phone, which may well be the case here. It's still a phone issue and has nothing to do with LTE or CDMA, so my earlier post was still correct, but I don't want anyone to think I'm calling them a liar or that I'm ignoring evidence.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] charlescom:
I thought I purchased the best 4G LTE Phone..... and this happened....

4G is literally unusable due to the "grey triangle of death" And connection is being dropped almost every 5-10 minutes with full bar 4G at -75 dB with 25Mbps download speeds with me standing still in the same position.

(happened on my previous GNex as well as this replacement I got. Stopped trying to get a replacement because I'll settle with 3G for now because I am simply tired to re-configure my phone every other weekend.)

I cannot even use this as a business phone due to one-way-microphone cut off issue after SIM replacement and a phone replacement under stock and 4.0.4. The other party can't hear me as early as 45 sec into a call or anytime after that on 40% of my phone calls. I have been on the phone with verizon support & samsung support almost every other day in the month of January where I felt like I was an employee of VZW.

Do I keep want to get a replacement phone? No, because I believe many of these not only involves a hardware issue but software issue as well. I can't possibly go through all the re-install of the apps + configuration of the phone to my liking every other week. I am literally using my GNex as a WIFI-tablet at the moment not as a phone, not as a 4G device but a nifty WIFI-tablet with me making $80 donation to verizon every month ($50 for voice $30 for data which is claimed to be the most reliable network in the world. what good is the most reliable network if your phone can't hold on to the connection?).

Last thing I want to see is "You expected to face these issues when you got the latest and the greatest". And verizon pushing away this issue to samsung, and samsung tossing it back to verizon and google and waits till we all reach up a time for the next "latest and greatest". I wonder if they even know what it means to be the Great. I am not expecting a perfect phone. I am simply expecting them to perform somewhat normally of all the obvious catch phrases they used to sell this phone. "The 4G LTE Phone"
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] T4rd:
Yeah, that's pretty odd, OP. I've had 2 Galaxy Nexus phones (first one was returned due to random rebooting on totally stock/unrooted ROM and kernel) and I've been thoroughly impressed with the call quality on this phone. It's near land-line like a lot of times. Considerably better than my old Moto Droid and that was an excellent phone (when used as a phone) already. I've held countless 30+ min conversations on it over the past few months since launch.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshw0000:
Just wanted to post here so I can follow this thread. I've been having a similar issue. But my phone clicks during calls and the other party and I cant hear each other at all. 3 seconds later, its back, 3 seconds later, gone again...and so on. I can toggle speaker phone and we can hear each other. After about 5 seconds, it switches itself back to phone mic. If I watch the phone and swap it back every time it switches I can (frustratedly) carry on a conversation. I made a test call to a friend at work just now and I literally couldn't even hear the phone ring. He answered and we couldn't hear each other until I toggled speakerphone. As of the current moment, phone mic is 100% not functional, which is a totally new bug for me.

I've flashed countless roms, every radio, and every bootloader. I've spoke to customer support for Verizon who noted my issue and has approved a replacement phone if the issue persists.

Now for something I find totally odd.....I buy/sell/trade a lot of phones. Before anyone says anything, I purchased this G'Nex 100% brand new. After first having issues, I bought s used Spectrum and used it for about a week (with a sim card adapter) while I had it listed for sale. When I finally sold it, I switched back to the gnex, and my issue was 100% gone for about 3 or 4 days. It's now back and worse than ever.

Additional notes - I charge my phone twice a day on the OEM extended battery, so I'm a power user. I have excellent 4g in my area and have since the T-Bolt. My wife has a G'Nex as well and has 0 issues with calls.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jamor414:
Yep happened to me the other day.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jra4e:
I'm on my 3rd phone because of the issue and I think it happened 20 minutes after i got the phone activated.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] inktownlegend:
You're holding it wrong.... I noticed that sometimes when I hold the phone my pinky covers the microphone and I have the issues described. After I figured it out I have not had the issue in a couple months and my friends and coworkers with this phone have no more problems either.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] k.electron:
Please don't use your phone inside a microwave oven.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshw0000:
I got my "Certified Like New" Wednesday and so far no issues.

~~~knock on wood~~~
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MarcMaiden:
is there noise suppression somewhere on the galaxy nexus?

I dont really get much of an issue, but i know the noise suppression has caused many similar problems for other phones in the past, the one the comes to mind is the motorola atrix. I dont know if you can, but maybe try turning off noise suppression to see if it helps
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] charlescom:
Dear inktownlegend, just wanted to let you know, the one-way-microphone-outbound-cut-off issue happens with bluetooth, speakerphone as well. And, No, we are not holding it wrong.

If you don't have the issue nor your friends and coworkers, good for all of you, I am so glad!

Cause I sure am having this issue every single day via bluetooth, speakerphone, and no matter what way or direction I hold this phone :)

Do check out these threads if you really want to understand what we are facing:

4G connection drop (the grey triangle and no data+voice until it reconnects for 30sec-1min):

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24345

One-way-microphone-cut-off:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24019
[LG Nitro HD] marvinmartinez888:
Unable to take Outgoing calls on my LG Nitro.

When i start dialing, the screen goes blank

Anyone encountered this?
[LG Nitro HD] Fberry:
Does it also go blank when you receive a call? I had a screen protector that blocked the proximity sensor. Whenever I tried to make a call or receive a call the screen went blank. It was the Moshi iVisor AG screen protector that AT&T sells. Contact Moshi for a replacement or go to AT&T. However be warned that AT&T probably still has the defective ones.
[LG Nitro HD] liteon163:
I've noticed when dialing my Spectrum that I have to hold my fingers a specific way to not interfere with the proximity sensor. Once I figured it out, I had no more problems.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] michaelhaseth:
First, this is my first thread on xda, I have been using it for years, but only just registered today!

I have followed several different meathods to root the Transformers On ICS, and just recently rooted my original transformer using viper root.

I realize this isn't necessarily "needed", but using viper root, I have put together a simple gui to make it a one click root. This will work on both transformers running ice cream sandwich.

This wont flash CWM, but it will install Superuser and busybox.

Here's a link to viperboy's viperRoot, please support him before you support me! LINK

Here's the download for my root, its called tfRoot: View attachment 935167
[Eee Pad Transformer General] eminembdg:
So do you run this on the actual transformer or is it for the PC and you just made it look nicer?

Edit: I see its a very small exe file inside the zip. So its not for running on the tablet
[Eee Pad Transformer General] michaelhaseth:
Yeah, its for the PC, I just made it look nicer, and removed a couple of steps :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tedr44:
Make it wireless and you got a deal, we need root ota now! :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] eminembdg:
Wish I could root mine. I've rooted alot of android devices. But I can't get vipermod to work for me on my Ubuntu setup. And I'm not installing Windoze just to root this.

Wish I knew someone really good with Linux that could hold my hand and walk me thru step by step. I'm known as Mr Google since I can fins out anything with just searching the interwebs but for the life of me I can't get this thing rooted.