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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] daneurysm:
****ty craftsmen blame their tools.

I've got an ET4G SGS2 until tomorrow. From the pics I've seen here and round the web I'm sure I'll get the same quality (if not better) pictures from this camera...they'll just be slightly smaller.

Also people think they are "tipped off" by their "superior intellect" that the camera must suck because it has 3mp less than most cameras. I see it as having 3mp less noise in the image. I have a 16mp digital camera....that doesn't mean that it necessarily takes better pictures--zoom in the 1:1 pixel-for-pixel and tell me that you really need all 8mp when--even on a good well focused steady shot in great lighting--you see noticeable noise in every shot. Show me a phone camera (or even ANY digital camera) that consistently doesn't do this at all.

I'm not worried at all. I'm a musician....I've been in bands....played out for more than half of my life (I'm 32). Other musicians and band guys will likely know exactly what I'm talking about....lots of people are just about to start a band, project, song, video, production company, etc....but they just need that one last key piece of equipment to get them started. An artist wants to create art with whatever they have, everyone else will blame their tools for not making them great.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mentose457:
Apparently you didn't read my post. I simply suggested he admire the great photos taken with the phone by others. Please refer to the OPs post below yours.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Smokeey:
The camera on this is great. Just because it has less pixels than most other cameras it doesn't take horrible pictures. I still consider it an upgrade from my 8mp DINC.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jimmyhook:
I like it too. I installed Camera FV-5 and it has dSLR controls. Good for casual shooting :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kgbeezr1:
Agreed. And I don't see it pointed out very often that the HTC Rezound is 100% plastic, the RAZR which claims to be aluminum feels a hell of a lot like plastic to me, the Thunderbolt, Revolution, X, X2, Bionic, Charge, Evo, Evo 3D, Evo LTE and 50 other high end phones over the last couple years - plastic. Even Casio's rugged phones are plastic. It's an illogical complaint, that's my point.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zAlbee:
You guys are kidding right? The camera is simply not that good. It's not terrible, but just very disappointing for such a new flagship phone.

It has nothing to do with megapixels. If I read a review that compares cameras solely based on megapixels, I walk away. With the Nexus, it looks great in the viewfinder, but after I take a picture, I zoom in and it's usually blurry. I have gotten into the habit of taking 3 pictures and discarding the two worst ones and almost always the first pic is blurry as hell. I came from a 5mp Sony Ericsson Hazel feature phone with dedicated shutter button and I kinda miss it. I rarely needed to retake pictures like this. I'm only on 4.0.2 right now, so hopefully they did fix it in software.

The sensor is just weak, especially in low light. Annoyingly, our phone also loses to the iPhone 4s in picture quality. :( will try to find the link later.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] maverickrulz:
It's pretty decent for the phone. You obviously can't expect SLR kind of quality but in good light it's very good.

The ICS improvements have made it very snappy too. Love the panaroma feature if that makes you tick... :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kba712:
I believe they did fix the focusing problems with the 4.0.4 update. Give it a go and see.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Smokeey:
Its not a flagship phone. The Galaxy S III is a flagship phone. The HTC One X is a flagship phone. The GALAXY Nexus is a REFERENCE device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zapek666:
And that is why the GN's camera has a bad reputation. People stuck with old firmwares giving their impression even though many camera problems were fixed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] danielvago:
This picture was taken inside a dark hall (concert) and with flash. Can other phones do better here, and is this saying of pictures in that environment on the Nexus?

It can also take pictures like the one below, which I think is just fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jesusice:
^This. I've seen great pictures taken with a Polaroid. If you can't take great pictures with the Galaxy Nexus you're doing it wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kgbkny:
I bet that one of the main reasons why so many people complain about the GNex's camera is because it's 5MP. If it had a higher MP number, there would be considerably less complaints. Before getting the GNex, I had an HTC Sensation. Although that phone was equipped with an 8MP camera, it was nowhere nearly as good as the camera on the GNex. It's all psychological.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Konceptz804:
Yeah man , I was going to invest in a 12MP digi cam to snap pics of my 3 year old, but after getting my Gnex its pointless, in the right lighting, the Gnex pics are crisp and clean.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kaushikd:
True! 'This goes true for DSLR's also. A person buys a entry level DSLR and thinks that he can shoot excellent shots overnight. And then he finds his shots to be very basic. Then the first thing that comes to his mind that images are not coming good as his DSLR is entry level. Then he upgrades to a higher model and still gets the same quality of shots! :P'

The camera of Nexus is quite good and captures a lot of details when shot at proper light.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] z06mike:
There are a few apps out there that will fix the "focus problem" for you. I posted about FV-5 camera and it is pretty decent. It will autofocus before the shot if it needs to and is a pretty nifty little app. Vignette and Camera360 are also worth taking a look at.

The fact of the matter is that the person has just as much to do as the hardware. I have seen people take bad pics (myself included) with ACTUAL cameras much less with a phone.

The 4s hype does not fly with me. I posted a link to check out the pictures and you will see that there are some good pics just like there are bad ones. Here it is if you want to look for yourself.

If the majority of the pics were all amazing then I would definitely agree that the GNex camera sucks and the iphone's is the BESSSSSTTTEEESSSSTTTT CCAAMMEMRRAAAAEEAAEAA EVERRERRRERERERERE!!! This is simply not the case though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zeke1988:
No
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gahh Its Lee:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lord-Anubis:
I currently run a Canon 50D and T2i, I have 2 L-Series lenses, 24-105 and 100-400mm. I have been shooting for 4 years with DSLRs.

I am impressed with the quality of the GN's camera, it is great in the daylight and decent enough for night pics. Contrast and saturation are of good quality, and it's got a very decent autofocus.

Too many people zoom in all the way into a photo and see that every single pixel is not perfect, and judge their photo on that basis alone. They forget that when they zoom back out, they've got a great photo sitting there.

Also, while 5mp may sound small to the layman, once you explain how fitting more pixels on the same size sensor reduces quality, they look at their 8-12mp phones differently.

Would I say the GN is some photo-god that replaces DSLRs? No. Photographers would not use this for published work, and even a crop-frame sensor will out perform any point and shoot or cell phone.

Would I say it is exceedingly magnificent for what people will actually use it for? (Facebook postings, on-the-spot stuff, emergency photos for accidents, etc.)

Yes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] miketoasty:
Maybe?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gahh Its Lee:
We can talk about it when your older.
[HTC EVO 3D] Sypris:
Does anyone know how to get the FroYo smilies on these ROMs?

Is it a simple file replacement?
[HTC EVO 3D] Goose0121:
Use an alternative keyboard from the market
[HTC EVO 3D] Sypris:
That has nothing to do with it. I use Swype.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitang:
Hi there, I was given a company's iPhone 4S.

Will appreciate any help how to transfer all my contacts to the Apples phone. I clouded all contacts to dropbox, but after that 4S did not accepted such a file...FYI have more than thousant contacts... Thanks in advance.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harbb:
Attach the 4S to your google account, which should have your contacts synced from any android?

Also, this is better suited in the iPhone forums (iphone-developers or something).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitang:
Alll my contact cynced to my gmail acct too. No results - stupid Apple problems... Thank you for the quick reply.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harbb:
You have to attach the gmail account through itunes i believe. Took me an age to figure out how to do that on my dads stupid thing.. itunes will never be welcome again on my 'puter.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitang:
Thanks. Will try today aftrnoon to do something with iTunes... Will inform after that the result. Later...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charchuck:
If your contacts are in Google, it should be as simple as creating a Google Exchange account on your phone.

I haven't done this in a long time, but it worked great a few years ago when I used an iPhone.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitang:
Hi, both of you,

Thank you very much indeed.

The procedure is:

1. Backing up all android phone contacts to gmail.

2. Download Apple iTunes on PC.

3. Connect iPhone to the PC.

4. Syncs google contacts with the device connected to the PC.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shark_On_Land:
I did it manually to my iPhone.

The hardcore way. The non lazy extreme way. The 90s way.
[Android Apps and Games] x3maniac:
Story:

I've been stuck plenty of time where I get pulled instantly to repair a computer and not having the tools/programs I need and stuck trying to download it on my phone to transfer it to the computer that's stuck in safemode without internet access. This is where this program came into play! Hope you guys enjoy!

If you run into any bug or F/C please email me novaspirit@novaspirit.com or tweet me @novaspirit2k thanks!

Portable Tool Kit on Google Play:

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.novaspirit.portabletoolkit

Portable tool kit allows you to download PC programs ranging from spyware detection and removal to file recovery tools on your SD Card. Most of the application are portable which means no need to be installed to be used!

Scenario

Ever been stuck trying to fix a computer stuck in Safemode without network access to download the program you need to repair the PC. Download the programs you need with Portable tool kit and "Turn on USB Storage" to access it.

Features

*HTTP File server, transfer files wirelessly

*Download spyware detection removal programs along with definition updates!

*Portable applications, no need to install to be used!

What's in this version:

1.2 - complete overhaul!

*Rewrote 90% of application

*complete UI change

*added repair log function

*added http file server

*included more error handling

*now supports 4.0.3+

*use new directory /sdcard/portable_toolkit

1.1 - updates

*fix minor F/C issues

*added new backgrounds

1.0 - Initial Release.
[Android Apps and Games] R.A.G.E:
Will try:)
[Android Apps and Games] okmijnlp:
Very nice, would have came in handy a few weeks ago. My laptops are beyond repair now :(.
[Android Apps and Games] julle131:
Seems useful ;)
[Android Apps and Games] x3maniac:
Thanks, same for me. that's how this app came to be. :D
[Android Apps and Games] zsibisi:
went to market and d/l v1.1.... did not work, won't find internet connection and does f/c if you tap on the " no applications found"

I'm guessing that doesn't support ics? if not, any plans for that in the future?

thanx,

Z.

(set up in sig)
[Android Apps and Games] x3maniac:
yes there will be ics support in the future. further more I am currently reconstructing a lot of the code to support ICS and HTTP file transfer for those who forgets to bring USB cable like me :D
[Android Apps and Games] x3maniac:
version 1.2

the new version is up on android market now. version 1.2 a complete overhaul. recoded the entire project!
[Android Apps and Games] zsibisi:
Thanx for updating!! Looking forward to trying this out!

I also appreciate the rebuild for ICS as well. Will come in handy as I don't wish to d/grade back to gingerbread.

I do have a quick question, are you going to integrate any security tools? IE: wireless, lan, packet type stuff and what not... ? If so, that would be really great. But anyways, looking forward to trying this out and about to d/l the latest version now. Thanx again and your work is appreciated!

Z.
[Android Apps and Games] Intellectua1:
Thank you for updating the app and the prompt email response... Great app...
[Android Apps and Games] x3maniac:
yes, if you don't mind supplying me with some tool names, i'll also convert it to portable edition too. i know a few off hand like "wireshare / ettereal" "cain and able" don't know if that the name of that tool but i'll try to come up with some off hand. if your interested in stuff like that check out my USB Cleaver tool(in my sig).

your welcome. i always think communication is key!
[Android Apps and Games] ThePrinceDefy:
lemme try this ..
[HTC One X] nd42:
I see very Tiny little horizontal lines trough all of the display. They are not colored and almost unoticeable, in fact, if you dont pay attention you wouldnt be able to see them.

But for me its obvious since I have a very crityc eye.

Could this be a downside of the ips technology? Do i have a faulty unit?

Am i the only One going trough this?

Sorry for my bad english
[HTC One X] skr_xd:
Your HOX is not faulty. The pixel grid are normal. In some it is more visible and some not much visible. But, IT IS there.

Few have mentioned like here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25411024&postcount=3517

that the warmer screen have more visible pixels grids than a colder screen. may be you have a colder one like me and i do have visible grids but, at an angle when the screen is not lit.
[HTC One X] brent8577:
i only just saw it with screen off in direct sunlight. it doesnt bother me.
[HTC One X] Stuart.upton666:
That would be the touch sensitive grid.
[HTC One X] nd42:
ok though I was the only one, just for the record the grid became more noticeable when I moved from 1.28 to 1.29, and its much more visible from a certain angle.

but oh well, not gonna die, still loving my HOX
[HTC One X] TommUK:
It didn't become more visible from 1.28 to 1.29, It's the Pixel 'grid' It's not software related.

You only see it with the screen off and at an angle..
[HTC One X] nd42:
As far as i know 1.29 has a different color temp and whites are actually more white than on 1.28 where they are more yellow, probably its related, maybe im mistaken but its more visible to me now
[HTC One X] Dynomutt:
please delete posted in wrong forum
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EniGmA1987:
So I have the Kindle app on my phone and am trying to copy some ebooks I have on my computer to my Galaxy Nexus to read with the Kindle app. I never had any problems before on my old phone that have SD cards, but with the Galaxy nexus I cannot see any files inside the \Android\data\ directory, which is where I need to copy the files to in order for the Kindle app to read the files. Anyone have any ideas for how I can copy the ebooks to my phone? They are all in .mobi files if that matters
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] brandonyoung:
The Kindle app reads the books from the Kindle folder on the faked sd card, not the /android/data folder.

put your mobi files in /mnt/sdcard/kindle
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nvrMind:
Or you can just email them to your @kindle.com address... If you have a Kindle.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EniGmA1987:
Thanks. The "kindle" folder seems to be hidden as well. I can see it in ES File Explorer, but it is not viewable in any way on my computer. I would do the email way, but that costs money and it gives a new attached email address every time I install a new ROM so I dont know if the files I upload would even properly carry over to a new ROM.

When I browse the kindle directory in ES file explorer, it simply says no items are there when viewing the folder. On my computer, nothing in \Android\data is there and the kindle folder on the sd card root is not there either. Many app folders are not there actually, just user stuff and things I created. I really hate how Samsung mounts the phone to the computer. This would be so much simpler if it just mounted as a proper removable device instead of a dumb "media device"
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ddgarcia05:
Not hard to find at all on my device look at the attached pic. Use calibre program if your having trouble. Its an awesome ebook manager and its completely free. Google it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] brandonyoung:
I use File manager from Rhythm Software. It is a free app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...lt#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5yaG1zb2Z0LmZtIl0.

Once you open the app, the home folder should be the fake SD card with a path of /mnt/sdcard. the Kindle folder should be in there. See my screenshot.

I am running the stock 4.0.4 ROM. Assuming you are also running stock, it should be in the same location for you.

As a plus, File Manager can also access windows shared folders, so it is easy to copy files from the computer onto the phone over my home wifi network.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vegeta1892:
Yes this is fine. I am using Nexus 5, android 4.4. The kindle folder is visible while checking from file managers on the device. But it is not visible when I connect my nexus to a PC as a USB.
[HTC EVO 3D] mingolianbeef:
Thread says it all, with chad.goodman gone, development will like almost completely die here... SO to avoid ANOTHER one of my threads being deleted by a mod because it has chad's name in it, what phone do you all recommend.

NOTE TO MODS: This is simply Q&A about my upgrading to a different phone, we won't turn this into some "Save chad.goodman" thread, I just want input, please dont delete this people!

I am open to all suggestions of phones (android of course) but it needs to have a good screen, camera, good developer support, 1 GHz+ processor, etc. Basically, it needs to equate to/beat the specs of our once beloved 3vo!

Thanks in advance for suggestions
[HTC EVO 3D] brandenk:
As a person that just upgraded like 2 days ago to the EVO 3D from the EVO 4G, I would say maybe wait a month or 2 until the next wave of EVOs are released. That or any of the Nexus phones.
[HTC EVO 3D] coal686:
There are a lot of awesome devs working on the 3d still so I plan to keep mine until next year. I'm avoiding the coming evo because of the non removable battery and no lte coverage (I currently have wimax at work and don't want to lose that while I wait for lte.). Maybe next year, lte will come to my area and make next year's evo worth the upgrade for me.

Sent from my PG86100
[HTC EVO 3D] Bizarre1:
Preorder the EVO 4G LTE! That phone seems amazing (1.5 GHz), or wait for whatever new phones Sprint will carry next.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] accordex:
Hi...my gf got a kf and I put an ics rom on it but some games won't play and it doesn't show charge plus other bugs...

Having a Samsung vibrant it's pretty much the same with ics there and 2.2 roms are very stable...so is there a 2.2 or 2.3 gb rom that I can put on that is bug free?

Also...on my vibrant if I want to go from ics to froyo I have to go back to stock....is this t e case here as well? Or can I just flash a gb rom

Thanks in advance
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinfauns:
You can flash right over ICS. Make sure to...

"Wipe -> Factory Reset" (You'll lose all your apps, settings, etc.)

or you might get some odd problems in your new ROM.

You'll also want to wipe the cache and dalvik cache before booting into your ROM for the first time.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] accordex:
Thanks...could someone recommended a stable rom?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinfauns:
I'd say most all of the CM7 ROMs are pretty stable at this point, so I think you'd be pretty safe whatever you happened to choose. I personally favor the ROMs that are simple/minimalistic over the ones with the fancy graphics.

I've been using this one for a while...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1540449

Pretty simple, but it has the ICS button arrangement... I figured I'd just get used to that layout for when I actually jump onto the ICS bandwagon.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] IDisposable:
I'm trying to start ALL over on my semi-bricked HTC Flyer WiFi edition. I'm got

INFOmodelid: PG4140000
INFOcidnum: BS_US001

current HBoot/Fastboot screen shows (after much shuffling to try to get this back)

FLYER PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.11.1111
MICROP-8950
RADIO-3022.10.08.07_M
eMMC-boot
Oct 25, 2011,16:55:07

What RUU optimally would get me back to a state where I can stay(get back) S-Off and eventually get past the HTC boot screen?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] DigitalMD:
Need a bit more information. How did you get to this state ?

You could use either if these if you are in a state where they will run.

RUU_Flyer_BrightstarUS_WWE_1.36.1540.32_R_Radio_20.3501.30.089BU_3809.05.04.10_M_release_191425_signed.exe

RUU_Flyer_BrightstarUS_WWE_2.27.1540.31_R_Radio_20.3504.30.089BU_3809.07.04.06_M_release_204116_signed.exe
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] IDisposable:
It started bootlooping for NO REASON after a simple power down. I'm currently dead and working toward a SquareTrade warranty.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] mcord11758:
Should be somewhate easy to fix. What have you tried
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nativestranger:
The one x lte trounces the international version in overall battery life but it looks like the international one has a more power efficient cellular radio.

Its quite amazing the snapdragon s4 manage to turn the tables around in the actual browsing test.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jeremyshaw:
To be fair, in lower CPU centric useage, the old 40nm Cortex A9 core (specifically, the companion core built on LP transistors) should draw less power vs even a 28nm Krait design could fully power/clock gate down to. However, as you mentioned, once the system is actually used, it all turns around.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mbroeders:
Great review and I have to say I agree with most. However, I just have to correct one thing. Yes, it would be easy to include a 'smart dialer' but as you know Android aims to be completely open source. This means that everyone should be able to build his or her own system. But smart dialing isn't open source! It's patented and can't be freely distributed. So Google have good reasons for not including that feature...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] akira02rex:
Great review, its like the rest of them.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ryjabo:
Can you share that wallpaper? :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ckoadiyn:
I must have got a really loud speaker set or something mine are loud. However I have to agree browsing the net on ics is awesome I love the feature where if it has multi pages n u click down by the numbers it will magnify it for you to click on easier without having to zoom in.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mythamp:
Thanks mbroeders for letting me know that about the smart dialer bit! I wasnt aware of it before. hmm..maybe will take it out of the review then.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mythamp:
Sure - download it from my mediafire link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?paooomlowmvdnj7

Its a slightly modified version of Galaxy NGC 3190 by `-kol (in deviantart)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AlkiDweller:
Re: File Transfer

Don't know anything about a Mac, but as for the file transfer thing, have you tried AirDroid in the Play Store? Should work. There's nothing on the computer to install.

It uses WiFi to talk to your router. On your computer you open a browser and go to the (local) ip that AirDroid displays, enter a pass code and it displays a nice looking interface to your phone. Transfer files, play music, send and receive texts, install and uninstall apps.