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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gonucks:
My messaging app keeps crashing after the update to 4.0.4, not sure what's happening there. Have reboot to get it to work again once it crashes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
I moved from wiped aokp b28 to wiped b29, just to be able to perceive the difference in speed. I'm telling you people, it's almost non existant. One exception though : the button glow effect in settings, phone app, etc is gone which is a good thing (the effect was really laggy).

If I take the phone of half the people on this forum, change the window and transition animation to .5x and tell them I overclocked their phone to 3ghz and then hand it back, they would forever praise me for "magically" speeding up their phone.

This is mainly the reason why some roms are famous for "smoothness", while in fact the only difference in that the dev tweaked the animation durations and a few other cosmetic stuff to give it a snappy feel. Under the hood, it's 99% the same: gummy, aokp, cna, axiom, ...

About the battery life:

autobrightness, 2h music, 4h data, rest of wifi, stock kernel, interactive 350-1200

This is pretty good for stock kernel compared to 4.0.2 . It's slightly better than what I usually get with imo's kernel on 4.0.2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
Thats pretty good battery life......can't wait till GummyNex/Franco kernel. Hoping I can eke out close to 5 hours throughout the day with no music usage and just using the phone/browsing/few games.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zapek666:
Both GPU are pretty similar. I just did some tests with GLBenchmark (version 2.1.3 allows to set the resolution which is very important to be able to compare properly). So I set the resolution to 800x480 on both phones and can check. Funny little square on the GN :)

Fill test

GN: 219194640 texels/sec

GS2: 487411968 texels/sec

Triangle test

GN: 28288666 triangles/sec

GS2: 11667634 triangles/sec

As you can see, the fill rate of the Mali-400 is 2.2x faster than the SGX540. On the other hand, the triangle rate of the SGX540 is 2.4x faster than the Mali-400.

So in the end, it depends what you do. For complex geometry, the SGX540 has an edge but when it comes to fill rates (textures), the Mali-400 wins.

The "Egypt" scene of GLBenchmark is quite faster on the Mali-400 but it has rendering issues as you can see on the screenshots. The Mali-400 has troubles with environment mapping which makes the whole scene look ugly and pixelated, and is something Anandtech missed in their offscreen rendering "review".

This is a pretty important issue because I did notice a few differences in other games as well. For example Wind up Knight has flickering textures on the Mali-400. I remember back in the Quake 3 times how Nvidia was cheating by having completely broken compressed texture support (the sky in Q3 looked really ugly on an Nvidia card) but it was fast and many reviewers missed that, just looking at the raw FPS numbers. Same story which anisotropic filtering which was horrible on Nvidia cards too (but fast).

In my opinion, the claim that the Mali-400 is much better than the SGX540 is vastly exaggerated. It has a faster fill rate and many games are indeed fill rate bound (simple geometric structures with bigger textures). On the other hand, the rendering quality is worse and the smaller screen of the GS2 definitely gives it an edge.

And please forget that Anandtech review. It was a poorly made one :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
Yeah yeah i know, the mali is a powerhouse. But that thread topic DOES exist over there! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DaLoona:
Overall its better, but as many, I didnt have any issues with 4.0.2. Batterylife is better, but data takes a bit longer to reconnect on 4.0.4, is my experience, its just a few secs, but still..

Also I found the colors a bit less then before, white seems more beige now, but overall, im a happy camper.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mrbigshot:
No custom rom...might be to soon for that, I never flash roms. But what i mean is when i used to try to load web pages and twitter pics in the app, the phone would hang on 3G for a bit (no loading is done in 3G "mode" for me) then switch to 4G and start loading the items. On 4.0.4 its seems much faster, things a loading almost instantly. I am in an area where T-Mobile HSPA+ reception is great, so that might be helping too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mrbigshot:
Also scrolling in the browser has been tightened, it's not to loose where one finger flick will send you down the whole web page. I really like this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
funny, because i could've sworn that the mali was supposed one of the slower ones when it came to fill rates. if my memory serves me correctly, benchmarks really are poo poo.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DaLoona:
Never trust solely on a benchmark, just go with how it feels on every day use, would be my advice. Benches will stress the phone in such ways, you and I will never do so in reallife. There are a few games outthere that use a lot/all of your resources, but its a phone in the first place and never ment to be for gaming.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
Never? I think a lot of snake fans are going to put snakes under your pillow. God niiiiiiiiiight.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rayoubi:
nope 4.0.4 is way smoother it feels like my monitor jump from 60hz to 120hz. its now feels silky smooth. only lag they neeed to fix is when opening the app drawer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OniV2:
The '60hz' when it comes to your computer monitor has everything to do with the refresh rate of the display and nothing to do with 'speed'. Also, I doubt your eyes would be able to perceive 120Hz anyway. It'd just be placebo.

I personally didn't notice much of a difference other than the camera app. Since I take a lot of 'happy snaps', the improvements there (as well as in accessing it from the lockscreen) are very noticeable.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] braingravyuk:
Looks like the kernel now supports multi processors, would of thought this would of been done earlier though..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Phillmitchell:
My battery life has gotten worse with 4.04 which was brilliant on 4.02.its now on a par with the HTC evo averaging 8 % every half hour. Anyone else having the same problems ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ManMOuntain:
Applied the OTA 4.0.4 update first, then decided to just wipe and install the 4.0.4 factory image but still experiencing the same poor battery life. Hourly battery drain on 4.0.2 was around 3%, with 4.0.4 it's 7%. Mobile standby is the draining culprit, can anyone suggest a fix?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OniV2:
Had a go at turning off the phone and removing the battery for a few minutes, then putting the battery back in and charging the phone back up to 100%?

I generally do that after every update or freshly flashed ROM, and it seems to fix any battery problems I've had in the past.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Phillmitchell:
Thanks I've done the check it says WCDMA .preferred.does it need changing?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DaLoona:
No just leave it at that, or your radio might get messed up.

Read here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1573468
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
It has always supported them.

What you see now is just a cosmetic change, and it was compiled March 13th.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
I'm taking a guess, but I think it has to do with patching the hole that allowed us to root (with a locked bootloader), without giving us the newer build of the kernel which has it patched.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
I challenge you to do this: ask someone to flash 4.0.4 or 4.0.2 at random and try to guess which one is which just by noticing the "silky smoothness" you talked about. Then do the same with the other build.

If you can reliably tell the difference then good for you; you have superior observation skills than most of us.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Yellow C6:
I think I'm getting faster download/upload speeds with the new radio. Before the update I was averaging about 2-4 down/ 1 up on T-Mobile. Now I'm getting 7-9 down/ 3 up. I don't know how much that is due to the new radio but I never saw anything close to that before so I'm happy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
It's the radio if your getting faster speeds.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Yeah, that's what he said.

Gesendet von meinem Galaxy Nexus mit Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
There are quite a few commits, actually. I have been browsing over them today.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
He was more unsure if it was the radio or not.....I was merely confirming it was most likely the radio if he was getting such drastic speed increases.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
anything noteworthy adrynalyne?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rayoubi:
that's a myth, you can see over 60hz, that's why most professional gamer use old CRT monitor or the new LCD 120hz monitors. Even as simple as moving things on my desktop is alot smoother on my 120hz monitor then my old LCD 60hz. its no placebo affect, whenever I use my other computer monitor I notice the lag, which I never knew there was lag in the first place, until I started using my 120hz monitor. Before i had 4.0.4 I made a thread saying the scrolling in the app drawer was lagging. ever since the update i tried to make my phone lag by scrolling in the app drawer really fast and its still stable as silk. The lag is really noticeable when your scrolling in the widget section, but not anymore. :)

Here is a really good thread about the topic for most that don't understand the difference between 60hz vs 120hz.

http://www.overclock.net/t/662628/60hz-vs-120hz-explained
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
I guess folks with laptops are screwed then. They have built in lag!

:rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sjankis630:
Did 4.0.4 fix the volume bug? I have tried and even updated Volume+ but it still does almost nothing to help increase my sound.

My Galaxy Nexus speaker phone is almost useless outside in the real world.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Mine seems ok. Although I have good hearing and don't need hearing aides ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rayoubi:
thats exactly true. thats why there arent many pro gamers on a laptop or if any. but on non fast paste games like an first person shooter you will fine. but having 120hz will make everything smooth. personally i would never game on a laptop but ill do my homework on it :-\
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leche1982:
Ever since flashing the 4.0.4 update, I've been having consistent problems with the radio.

The radio signal seems to drop every time the phone sleeps, which results in RILJ wake locks and bad battery drain. This seems to be the same regardless of whether I force 2g or not.

Anybody else experiencing this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Just try a different radio.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
But you expect me to believe that you see lag when moving just desktop icons?

Maybe you do, but it aint the refresh rate ;)

Did you just say FPS are not fast paced?

Interesting.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
If you knew what you were talking about you'd be using a plasma for many other reasons than refresh rate. Like .3 second better response. When you don't have post processing getting in the way of visuals you can do your homework faster. :rolleyes:

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DaLoona:
Same here, Im on AOKP 29 and Franco r.116
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zapek666:
This has nothing to do with 60 Hz being "laggy". It's because LCD screens have a slight delay when refreshing pixels that CRT screens don't have. Fast moving objects have a tendency to blur on LCD screens.

CRT screens can also scale to any resolution and their color range is larger. On the other hand the image is not truly flat and they really take a lot of space. I still have a 21" Eizo monitor around. One of the best piece of hardware I owned.

120 Hz LCD monitors are used because of movies. Watching a 24 FPS movie cannot be done on a 60 Hz monitor without inserting a noticeable delay each 3 frames (jitter). This is explained in the very link you provided yourself. The author makes claim about possible future 120 Hz solutions but uses an NVidia 3D link for current 120 Hz monitors (which is needed to display 3D images, nothing else).

Anyway, most video games arcades since 1980 which were always considered smooth ran at 50 or 60 Hz. It is true that we can notice flickering (eg. CRT displays are not comfortable below 75 Hz or so) but when it comes to movements, the brain is happily fooled that an object is moving smoothly from 50 Hz without any problems.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rayoubi:
haha i mean FPS is faste paced sorry. but no trust me if you ever used a 120hz monitor its hard going back.

Exactly at first I always thought my 60hz was super smooth, like you said my brain was fooled. but when you switch to 120hz you realize the choppiness. 120hz is more smooth then 60hz. if you're getting 200fps and your monitor is only 60hz your only seeing 60fps the extra fps means nothing. When people tell me anything above 60hz is not noticeable, that's not true. In fact many human can se over 60hz, My friends that gets on my pc think I have a fast computer but in reality its the monitor being 120hz.

Now back to the galaxy nexus, its now super smooth with 4.0.4 there's no lag when I scroll really fast in the app drawer. I'm really glad.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
just imagine how much better it would look at 121hz. :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sgioskos:
Just a quick question, does the ability to send an SMS to a group now exist with 4.0.4 using the stock sms app or do we wait for another version for that? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rayoubi:
lol i dont think anyone can see over 100hz. or maybe someone can :cool:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SerialExpat:
Hey XDA!

My first post here.

About a week ago I upgraded my GS2 to a Galaxy Nexus as I wanted the pure Google experience on my phone. But as it turns out every GN sold in Canada does not come with yakjuk and thus Samsung pushes the OTAs meaning you are stuck on 4.0.1 at least for now.

Being on 4.0.1 is nothing short of horrible. I would be lucky if my battery would last me 12 hours and that was with WIFI turned off and any other imaginable tweak which was a dealbreaker for me given on my SG2 I'd easily get 1.5 day with heavy usage.

So yesterday I gathered the nerve to unlock it and load on 4.0.4 (yakjuk) and wow what a change.

Things that 4.0.4 brings to the table

- AMAZING battery life. (As of this post I've been unplugged for 14 hours and got 54% left and this is with WIFI on and heavy usage. This is already longer than I'd ever get on 1 charge with 4.0.1)

- No overheating near the camera anymore - Most definitely related to the improved battery.

- New Gtalk icon

- New better looking Google Calender widget.

All in all 4.0.4 has been an amazing upgrade and I'm now as happy with my GN as I was with my SG2. Im puzzled as to why Google would allow Samsung to push the OTAs because I can only imagine less savvy users not being able to upgrade on their own being frustrated with 4.0.1 and its poor performance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sgioskos:
I've got the nerve but can't find anything simple enough to show how to "unlock it and load on 4.0.4 (yakjuk)". Can you help with a pointers or point to the right direction?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
My sarcasm is to imply the 120hz is to minimize lcd's very inferior ability to produce smooth motion or reduce motion blur. That is to minimize the LCD poor response rate,and often times post processing is added which brings other problems. Like black and blue localized flashing, poor sync issues and my favorite, choppy frames. And its not that motion is choppy itself, its just black or blue frames are added in between and all the dweebs that aren't sensitive to >60 Hz refresh rates don't see it and will swear on their mothers graves that it looks better than crt or plasma. Those of us that can see it think you're stupid. And then unrelated, many consumers think LCD tech is superior because it is newer when in fact its older than plasma tech. But back to topic, serious gamers prefer plasma because of the lack of post processing and the much better input response. But LCD tech definitely has its place for some consumers. Bright viewing areas and portability. 120 Hz is a joke and even more so 240hz. That's why plasma manufacturers "made up" the 600hz rate. A low end plasma will smack down any LCD for motion smoothness and input response for games. Try watching very closely motion on these faster Hz monitors and then a plasma. Or even a crt. Heck compare it to dlp. You should really be amazed. If not, please try spewing that nonsense over on avsforum.com. you might get some sympathizers in the LCD display section but the rest will tell you to slow your role.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Early to tell but I'm liking the way the battery drain looks. They fixed the Android OS bug which is nice, although I'm not sure if it was just displaying improperly or was actually draining battery. Previously, my Android OS had a "keep awake" of something as high as 7 or 8 hours, now its less than 10 minutes at 50% battery.

50% battery: 9.5 hours total, 2 hours Screen On.

For comparison, my normal use on 4.0.2 drained the phone to 1% in about 12 - 14 hours with 2.5 - 3 hours screen on time.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] arzbhatia:
Is the button glow animation removed?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
it's faster and cleaner but not removed. much improved imho
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ManMOuntain:
Still experiencing high battery drain in 4.0.4, specifically due to mobile standby. I've flashed 4.0.2's radio and will see if the drain persists.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rayoubi:
First of all I would like to tell you I was talking about computer monitors not Television monitors. In fact I have an account on avsforum.com. Regardless, plasma will always be more smoother then a LCD. I used to have a CRT for my computer but it died, since CRT are non existent now, I'm forced to used LCD. I didn't want to use a 60hz monitor, so I bought the new 120hz LCD monitor which is amazing. In my living room I have a Panasonic 58 inch TV. Back to the phone topic, I was just pointing out that the phone feels very smooth after the 4.0.4 update which I was comparing to my smooth 120z monitor I have right now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tossero:
Me too !:(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leche1982:
I don't think the radio is the source of the issue either. I flashed the XXKK6 radio last night to test if the XXLA2 radio was indeed the source of the issue, and the signal dropping still persists.

I unplugged the phone at 100% charge right before going to bed last night (with 'Use only 2G networks' ticked), and woke up after 6.5 hours to the phone at 82% charge, and the signal having completely crapped out halfway through the night (see attached screenshots).

The night before, using the XXLA2 radio, I did the same things and ended up with a phone at 77% charge, with similar wakelock and signal problems as with the screenshot.

With 4.0.2 yakju, and the XXKK6 radio, I'd always end up with a consistent 2G signal through the night, no wakelocks, and a 96-97% phone charge the following morning. This means that the issue I'm experiencing now most likely is specific to 4.0.4 yakju, and not with the radio.

I'll try going back to 4.0.2 tonight and see how things go.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pan466:
signal drop issue

people with that issue have you tried to increase minimum cpu frequency to 700mhz?. that was the problem with some builds
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
why is such a high frequency in idle needed???

The lowest is 384mhz which is already pretty high, and i see a bunch of people running like 784/1200 or something.

And yea, you have a crap ton of wakelocks and signal lost, you can expand the battery view to see how long there was no connection but you definitely have a problem.

Try reflashing or wiping data
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pan466:
i guess idle state has nothing to do with min cpu freq. so you can raise it without sacrificing idle state battery performance
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ManMOuntain:
Unfortunately the drain continues even with 4.0.2 radio flashed. I'm just going back to 4.0.2 until it's resolved.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] juliano_q:
Here is the opposite, battery is much better after 4.0.4. Going down only 3-4% a night. The phone is sleeping like a baby.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leche1982:
I actually tried flashing the 4.0.4 factory image last night just to see if my issue was caused by a faulty OTA.

Same result. Sigh.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] allio:
Think I'm getting the same thing. Look at this piece of ugly :(

I'm gutted, everything else about this update is fantastic.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leche1982:
On stock, this would mean installing Setcpu, right?

Also, I should be able to flash a 4.0.3 custom ROM without having to go back to 4.0.2, right?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
why 4.0.3 when there's 4.0.4 custom ROMs?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leche1982:
Just in case my phone really has an issue running 4.0.4.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ManMOuntain:
Unplugged from charge at midnight and up at 06:00 and with 4.0.2, battery drain is only 6%. With 4.0.4 it was 38%. Here's hoping it's fixed in 4.0.5.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
Today I couldn't use my phone at work. So left idle I was at 95% after 10 hours...aokp 29
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] juniorbattle:
Went to bed at 1am, woke up at 6:30. Battery was at 99% with data toggled off. Used the phone for 30 mins and dropped to 91%
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] micks_address:
early days on 4.04 since midnight last night, took off charge at 6.15 down to 80% now.. bit of browsing and listening to music on way to work.. doesnt seem significantly better yet.. but will see.. 4.02 battery life was decent enough for me..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leche1982:
Thanks for this advice. Set minimum cpu frequency to 700mhz yesterday, and the signal issue seems to have been resolved.

Is there a thread with details on this frequency issue? I'd like to find out more about it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sgioskos:
Leche1982 You're in the Philippines right, Can you send receive MMS with your galaxy nexus?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DutchBorg:
How are your findings with the GPS. So far I'm not really satisfied. My HTC Desire performed much better.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leche1982:
Haven't used it yet, and probably never will. My friends and I are just more used to shooting attachments at each other via Gmail than via MMS.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phonatrep:
When I got 4.0.4 OTA, which replaced my 4.0.2, I saw several changes :

-Several lags disappeared (app list for example).

-

One new lag appeared :

when I bring my phone out of standby and unlock it, most of the time a big lag shows the gadual appearance of the home screen, it's very annoying.

How do you remove this fade-lag ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
I never had it, but reports are that the problem goes away if you do not have on screen auto-brightness.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] allenkwc:
AOKP 4.0.4 vs 4.0.3

The battery life is brilliant after upgrading from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4. My phone ran out of battery on Saturday night, with Android OS used up 95% of the battery!!!

However, the GPS not working after upgrading. Don't know if it is problem on AOKP or 4.0.4. Have to roll back to AOKP 4.0.3 Build 28. Looking forward to upgrade again!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phonatrep:
Thank you.

Well, that's not a good news, as auto-brightness is very useful.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drizzt5:
I have cm9 on my CDMA galaxy nexus. Going from 4.0.2 to 4.0.4 I see obvious performance increases and I suspect better wifi connectivity.

I'm not sure how much of this has to do with cm or the actual update.