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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rener78:
I know how you feel I have the Nexus S was suppose to get the 4.0 first after Gnex and that didn't happend. Just asking like that in a friendly way. But could Google or Samsung be mad at you cause you modified their device and their rom ?

I'm not pretty sure but I'm pretty sure somewhere there's a word or 2 about not modifying anything of Samsung or Google. Just saying don't want any problem or start a fight ;)

Goes both ways I guess. No offense
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] speedyink:
Canadian here, but dont care. I'd rather flash my own firmwares.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Although I agree with you FoxholeAtheist, I don't think a forum like xda-developers is the right place to champion your cause, as most of the folks here will have the same response that speedyink just posted above. Maybe go to the Rogers/Bell/Telus forums and post it there. Just sayin'.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] raziel73:
I could have swore that Google marketed the nexus line as a developer phone since its conception. I don't see you getting much support for your cause on a forum for developers. Most here have flashed their ROM and moved on.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
They marketed the Nexus One as such, and never again. People just ASSumed. It is a consumer device with development abilities.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] greeced:
You have no right to complain, nor will the Competition Bureau do anything about it.

The Nexus is marketed as a Pure Google phone. This much you are correct about... However 4.0.2 ICS is still a "pure google experience". They never made any guarantees as to when you'd be receiving updates, if you receive them at all. This is all based on what you believe they should do, not what they told you they would do.

Beyond this, flashing to Yakju/Takju is as easy as pie if you follow efrants thread... you don't even have to flash the regional radio... you can keep it completely 100% stock "Pure Google/Updated by Google" experience like I did and be happy.

Your efforts in complaining will be fruitless. The competition bureau will not investigate this claim based on what you believe, they will look at what you were told, which was basically nothing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
At the end of the day, if it makes him feel better, I say don't discourage him. It won't help but people need to lay off him some. Everyone is beating the hell out of him, but not everyone bought the device to unlock and perform more advanced functions on. And no, the device was not marketed to be specifically for that, or even mainly for that purpose.

I can see a reason for frustration. Google never said before launch, "Watch out for them yakjuxx variants!"

There was no warning whatsoever.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FoxholeAtheist:
Thanks for the replies.

Phazerorg:

Thanks for the JBQ post.

A Samsung rep stated that it was Google's job to update the GNex phones on Samsung Mobile Canada's Facebook page. I can't find the post now, as it's been a while. Similarly, in response to someone stating that they had flashed their phone to yakju, SMC said...

"Samsung Mobile Canada

Hey Steve Daigneault, definitely not ignoring the post. Just appreciating watching members of our community help one another out. Just a note for all, whether it matters to you or not, but as Jason Folkers mentioned, doing so will void your warranty -- but again this is a personal decision.

Tuesday at 9:29am"

Rener78: Yah, at this point I have not modified the phone from stock yet, but I'm leaning that way. Still going to harass them into perhaps doing something about this.

Matridom: If this is not a phone for novices, then perhaps they shouldn't have advertised the hell out of it as the latest and greatest Android phone, great for the whole family! when it came out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
I agree. But I think the point here is that there is nothing wrong at all with ITL41F, and the majority of the population would be happy with it. Those of us "enthusiasts" that are not happy with it have the means (or at least the support here at XDA) to rectify our unhappiness.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
I agree as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FoxholeAtheist:
I'm still on 4.0.1. I might be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that later versions fixed the random reboot problem (which I would definitely count as "something wrong"), the low volume issue, and the laggy portrait/landscape switch. Is that incorrect?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
That is incorrect.

The random reboots are likely due to an app installed.

The transition to portrait from landscape and vice versa is by design.

The low volume issue is still a low volume issue in other builds, although not as bad. So there is an improvement here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] greeced:
Pure scare tactic. Two of my friends recently had to get warranty work done on their phones (switched from yakjuxx to yakju)... They both had hardware related issues.. they warrantied them no problem.

I guess its who you get at the end of the day, but they will have a hard time proving a stock certified ROM from Google caused the issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matridom:
Agreed, they missed the market target, advertising to the wrong group is not false advertising but bad advertising. I support 40 smartphones in my company, I've turned down every request for a nexus as I know the trouble they can cause. I buy HTC phones for them as the screen is cheap to fix, and I know the software is fairly bug free. for a business, this is critical, "it just needs to work" and the nexus does not fit that bill.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Not only that. We can return our devices back to original "out-of-the-box" condition so that no one would be even able to tell it was flashed...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matthewr87:
I'm about to make the jump to yakju. Regarding flashing back to stock yakjuux for warranty, are those images available anywhere? I suppose I could try to back up my own but I was just wondering if they were out there, just in case. All I've seen are incrementals.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
There is a yakjuux ICL53F backup posted in the dev section, and I posted an ITL41F backup in the general section. Or you could do your own backup.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
mispost
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] greeced:
The way I see it:

1. All these GSM/HSPA+ phones are identical.

2. Flashing a "Maguro" ROM from Google's servers on any GSM/HSPA+ variant works perfectly fine.

3. If you flash incorrectly or "brick" your phone, 99.9% of the time a person here will get you running properly again with no need for warranty submission.

4. For that 0.1% that can't be fixed because no one in here can get into it? Then Samsung won't be able to get into it either. So warranty will go through no problem.

5. The variants are only different region specific stuff like radios, languages, etc, which are all flashable if you so choose, but its not required. The factory Google image works perfectly here in Canada.

And finally:

6. Its a Nexus. It was google's design, hardware spec'd etc. The certified stock images they put on their site is specifically that - certified... Not even samsung knows how to make that phone run as fluidly as Google can.

So why flash yakju? I say why not.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ikeny:
No need to complain. If you want things to work out of the box, and updates available on the same day to all variants? Get an iPhone. That's the only way.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigwillis:
I've read a couple of posts on google plus where JBQ mentions there are subtle hardware differences on some gsm versions.....what's up with that?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matthewr87:
I just freed myself from the tyranny of Samsung Canada's ****ty yakjuux. I was hesitant to do this for a long time and simply stewed in my bitterness of being shackled with this non-google build. However, today I decided to finally enjoy my phone and switched to yakju. It was quite simple. I just re-read the instructions about 10 times to make sure.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] greeced:
Can you point me to those posts?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArclightX:
Yeah I gotta say I tend to agree with both of these points whole heartily. Some time ago I learned to pick my fights or at the very least take a moment, reflect and ask myself "Is this really the hill I want to die on?" I'm sure you catch my drift.

Yeah again, Matridom here is taking the words right out of my mouth. I appreciate that you don't agree with this and feel that the GNEX was marketed as an "everyone" phone for people who wanted a "Pure Google Experience". That being said I'm willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that if you were to ask some one who wasn't in the know what a "Pure Google Experience" actually meant they most likely wouldn't have a clue.

Yeah, Bam right there. That's basically what I did shortly after my purchase and once I got up off my lazy ass. I'm suspecting most every GNEX owner on here has a similar story.

You know it's funny you say that. I was just thinking how relatively polite and "willing to hear out" everyone responding has been whereas this could have been very easily targeted as flamebait-du-jour. Score +1 for Canadian manners :good:

Yeah I remember back in Dec '10 when Bell/Virgin was pushing the Gnex hot and heavy with billboard signs, bus/transit ads etc.. etc.. Made me scratch my head to be honest wondering wtf are they doing? for the reasons Matridom eluded to.

And so began the "Bring Your Own Device" phenomenon. I totally hear the "it just needs to work" argument.

Yeah it's tough to word the "Just STFU and buy an iphone you nub" message without sounding rude and dismissive. That being said, when my co-workers see the "cool tech" I have running on my phone and ask how they can play too, I don't pull punches. I let them know "ok, so before you buy a nexus you should hit up xda, spend a month or so studying, then when you have a moderate level of comfort you can play. Sounds like a bit more than you're wanting to invest in? np, iphone counter is to the left there."
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FoxholeAtheist:
none dehhw

Well, I hope you guys are happy. Just flashed yakju, got Jelly Bean right away. Still pissed at Samsung.

For Ikeny: Incidentally, I don't think it's too much to ask to buy a Nexus phone and expect it to get updates as Google releases them, as that's exactly what happened when I got my Nexus One. The point was that nobody told us Canadians that we were buying a variant. I totally wouldn't expect the S3, Note, One X, etc to all get updates as soon as they're released, but yes, that's exactly what I expect when I buy a farkin' Nexus phone, and I don't have to buy an iPhone to get that.

Anyway, thanks to those that have been helpful in this thread, and especially efrant for the tutorial.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] greeced:
Congratulations... and its not us that should be happy... You should be..

I'll bet you don't notice any difference on your phone whatsoever.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
He did post that there may be differences, but he couldn't say for sure. In any case, he is commenting on things outside of his field of knowledge. From what we have seen, there are no differences between the i9250, i9250M, i9250T, SC-04D, and the M420, except one: play store devices do not wipe when the bootloader is unlocked (and we haven't fully determined its hardware yet).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArclightX:
Hey! Congrats! And welcome to today! I chose to flash the takju variant so I could play with Google wallet a little but once you're up to JB it doesn't really matter.

Now go hunt down your mates and bring them up to 4.1.1 so they can enjoy the benefit of your mad skillz with Jelly Bean. =)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jayrod1980:
It may be a pain but as I have had the international version for the last 7 months... don't worry about getting ota. Just flash latest and greatest. In fact, if its not available now, 4.1.1 will be available as a download off Google directly. I know its cool to get an ota notification but just do the easy thing and unlock the bootloader and flash the direct update. Youlle never be waiting around for an ota again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] subxero123:
Well I'm glad you got it

I'm still on fkin 4.0.1 though

NO IM NOT GONNA FLASH YAKJU, got too much stuff on my phone and of I flash yakju everything will be gone

This is the stupidest nexus ever and I regret every penny I spent on this trashy phone, I bought this for the sole reason of being updated from Google, what happens? Samsung gives the updates (which they say the don't)

So if this isn't Googles build, and Samsung says its not theirs, who's is it? Is anyone even updating the phone or am I stuck on 4.0.1 forever? Seriously, fk this phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Do you normally go through life this stubborn? Refusing to help yourself even if you have the ability?

Must be a miserable existence.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] subxero123:
do u always stalk me here?

You're life must be even more miserable, nothing better to do than to wait for me to post
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
OR you could just back up your userapps using adb (the command is adb backup -apk -noshared -all -nosystem), then flash yakju, then adb restore backup.ab, then stop whining.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
I've been posting in this thread longer than you have bud.

Not only are you stubborn, but you are paranoid. No way to live life.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] subxero123:
LOL yeah you know all about my life

Keep jumping to conclusions, good luck with your "life advice" goals of 2012
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
I shall.

Happily married, beautiful daughter....and on Android 4.1.1.

How bout you?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] subxero123:
Still young, having fun, aesthetic as f*** ;)

And about to be on iOS which is better than android, there, I said it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
iOS works better for those who want to be spoon fed. Might be a better fit for ya.

I am sure you will be happy with an iPhone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
Why are you so against helping yourself?

You sure are buttmad over a phone.

You could backup your apps and data with the method I posted above, backup your texts with something like SMS Backup & Restore, make a nandroid with CWM, then flash the latest and greatest. But no, you'd rather sit here and complain.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] subxero123:
Lmao I could say something right now, but you'll probably actually end up crying so whatever, keep dissing me, I don't care
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matridom:
Wow, talk about stubburness, i guess some Canadians don't fit the stereotype. anyway... You are obviously posting here on the forums, so i have to ASSume you do not need to be spoon fed. Now your first post was April 29th (Joined in august of last year), I would assume that's when you purchased your phone. If you had spent 5 minutes researching the phone before going out and buying it, you would have known the issues that are present on the devices. This leads me to two conclusions.

1. You bought the device, knowing full well the issues present on it, and also knowing full well that you would do nothing to work around said issues, then proceed to spend time complaining about those issues. Conclusion: you are a Troll.

2. You bought the device doing no research, ASSuming that it got it's updates from Google, believing blindly what the Internet says, then when you do encounter problems that CAN be fixed, you refuse to do so and whine about it. Conclusion, you are a self-righteous whiner.

Now, you could prove me wrong by fixing the problems yourself, become a self reliant, mature adult and move on or accept the problems and don't complain.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArclightX:
Now Now... Children Children..

Play Nice... :victory:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] greeced:
Then don't flash it. Continue thinking your phone is garbage.

We who did flash yakju or takju will enjoy Jelly bean and think it's a vast improvement over anything we've ever used.

As for losing your stuff? There are backup capabilities you know.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] android01:
Lol i been doing this with my pc for the last 20 years. Aokp overclocked to 1.6 ghz , complaining is for girls. Be a man and fix it eh.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Hehehe, you said "eh". :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Kinda makes you feel at home.

Eh?

/me runs away.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] elvish:
I love that and know all aboot it eh!

Seriously though Im an idiot when it comes to Smartphones and even i decided to flash it took me 10-15 mins or so! I have no regrets buying this phone best Smartphone i ever owned and now that im on yaku not Samsungs yakuxw or w/e they called it I got JB and smooth as butter. I couldnt stand Samsung saying Google updates it and Google saying samsung so i took the plunge and now im so happy i did! No regrets what so ever on this cell!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
adrynalyne & efrant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XdLheUC7kA

...

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WhRWRrjC1Y

:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
BWahahahahaha!!!

Those are hilarious!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] asb123:
I flashed my phone to change it, but there is people like my father who are not going to be doing that!

It really is embarrassing that Canadians are still at 4.0.2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] greeced:
That argument has too many holes in the bucket.

You flashed yours great. Does your father even know there is an update available that he's not getting?

Chances are most people out there that are "stuck" on 4.0.2 wouldn't notice the difference any way. They are just phone buyers that buy and use what the phone currently has and are happy with it.

For those that know there is an update available, but are not getting it will also do minimal internet searches and find out that they can do the update themselves.

In other words, most out there that know there's an update are tech savvy enough to perform the update themselves or have heard about the update from someone who's already done it and will get pointers on how to do it.

So again, does your father know there's an update available? He does? Great! Glad he has his strapping young son that can do it for him. :cowboy:

It only takes the one time to help anyone... yakju will then take care of all updates for them hassle free.

---------- Post added at 09:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:30 AM ----------

There's also something that everyone may or may not be thinking of.

Although this is way out there in thinking, it's quite possible Samsung isn't updating the phones because they themselves realize their mistake in these regional offerings.

Yakju and Takju have no doubt gone viral to about 80% of all owners of the GN out there. Its only a matter of time that it resides on 100% of all phones (for those that care about updates anyway).

Although it's Samsung's fault to start with, these regional offerings don't offer much beyond a headache, and maybe Samsung is banking on everybody flashing takju/yakju and correcting their mistake.

The only area where I see an issue is if there is a language on a regional offering that isn't offered in yakju/takju. This takes a few extra steps to get going, more of a pain, but doable.

Whatever the case, I believe Google will learn from this debacle and the next Nexus will not have regional deviants the way they do now, have the same firmware for all phones, and anything that a certain region may need (language/radio) will be made available to them via an OTA download.

That's just a guess, but makes much more sense then it does currently.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArclightX:
Where's Your Pet Beaver???:laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leppo:
To the extent that this is a carrier issue (that's what I believe it is), the Competition Bureau doesn't give a flying f*** what carriers do. I tried to complain to them years ago about carrier-locked phones, and there's a statement on their page that basically says they don't deal with the wireless sector as there is enough competition (of course we know it is more along the lines of collusion). I hope you fare better.

As others have said earlier, yakju is the way to go. They would be up the creek if they try to say that a stock ROM caused hardware failure.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] circleofomega:
Hello All,

THis is going to be my debut porting of a ROM. As you all know I have been very vocal about my hate for MotoBla..I plan to port an absolute stock ICS ROM.

No AOKP or anything. Pure, barebones stock ICS for our Sexy RaZr...

But there are some questions first that need to be answered..

1. I have taken a clockwork backup of my own ROM, the 676.226.3.en.EU (For Retail EU) ICS Leak

(FROM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1755764)

and it has namely folders

.android_secure.vfat.tar

cache.ext3.tar

data.ext3.tar

pds.ext3.tar

preinstall.ext3.tar

system.ext3.tar

webtop.ext3.tar

Now if I want to make a flashable ROM, what all do I need out of this???

The other question, I have very much the stock ICS ROM, and it has all the folders I need to replace...

But how do I go about doing this..I believe I need an META-INF folder...haven't got one. ANd an boot.img. That too is missing.

WHat shall I do??

Can I use both the META-INF folder and the boot.img file from any other ICS/GSM 4.0.4 ROM??

Thanx a lot!
[Motorola Atrix 2] d1eharddan:
Well, i have 2gb sd card with the phone and its not enough. i have another 3 gb which im not using but i cant use it. Any way to get it or use it?

thanks
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
No, and you cannot use the internal storage for anything other than apps. It was never intended for anything other than that. it is not like a Samsung device which has internal SDcard storage space. And no there is not a way to format or in anyway make it work for anything other than app storage and installation.

This has been covered many times, please do a search before posting next time.
[Motorola Atrix 2] d1eharddan:
i did many searches but they were all a long time ago and i though maybe we came up with a way to get past it.
[Motorola Atrix 2] shamsud:
you can use internal storage in hk ics leak
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
you can still push stuff to it with adb (/data)

I have put some stuff there, the problem is many apps will not read anything but the sdcard. so the data may not be usable
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Yeah, that is the issue, it is really not a storage space like /sdcard is.

It is really not usable in a normal sense, and 4GB of app space and data is a total waste.

And from what I have seen in the HK ICS rom, it is still not the same as having an internal SDcard space like Samsung and other manufacturers do.
[Motorola Atrix 2] rdhoggattjr:
Could you symlink a folder on it to /sdcard-ext or something.
[Motorola Atrix 2] marcher233:
You have to wait ICS releases. I'm using the leak and it works fine.

Now there are several versions have ICS leak, it is sure that OTA will coming in a few weeks. (except the AT&T ones, sorry)
[General Topics] BigAustin:
Been a long time since I've been here, things have changed big time. Anyways i know this isn't an iPhone site but its the only site a trust. I have a girlfriend who currently lives in Brazil and everything there is over priced. A decent cell phone is $2000-$3000. I plan on getting a new phone here in the next month or so and will send my iPhone 4 to her. The iPhone is the att version and she has a gsm carrier so it should work if its unlocked (not sure which carrier she has but i can find out) Is there anything else i need to do besides unlocking it and changing the language? I don't want to send it and it be useless to her.

thanks