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[Nexus S General] snowmanwithahat:
I agree with all of this. I'm having a hard time using this phone because of the RAM requirements. That seems to be the worst part about it. I'm currently idling at 70 - 80% RAM being used which makes maps, pandora and simple things like Chrome simply unbearable.

I'm probably going to be rolling back to CM7 or Pete's GPA19 build for GB... I think it's just time we cough up the cash for a new phone, but in the mean-time I'm going to run on GB.
[Nexus S General] antonio824:
And any two year old iPhone is also laggy or missing features from new iOS updates as well. Remember when they first introduced multitasking? Only the newest model at the time did it and the 3gs is crazy slow. Have fun on your LOCKED down, Google mapless phone. Don't come crying when you are trying to get to Starbucks and apple maps puts you in the middle of the lake!
[Nexus S General] styckx:
The only thing I find extremely slow with ICS and now JB is how damn long it takes to install apps. Gingerbread flew through the install process of even big apps..

FWIW though on ICS I complained about laggyness too and also said Gingerbread was 20x faster.. Until I formated the SDCard.. Formatting the SDCard made ICS perform the way it should. Apparently though all the flashing I had done over time etc there was some residual crap sitting on it hampering performance. And JB is better than ICS definitely. I'm pretty happy.
[Nexus S General] gascanieto:
In my case, GPS has never worked since upgrading from Gingerbread.

GPS works only when I have a custom ROM, but if I use stock ROMs from Google, the GPS chip never comes on.
[Nexus S General] Gambler_3:
The stock dialor app sucks yes I am using touchpal contacts and its working fast and also gives T9 so no point in using stock dialor anyways. This does not require root.

But whats the problem with search? Even on an iphone 4S going to the search homescreen sometimes there is a second of stutter before the keyboard loads up. It does NOT take "several seconds" for the keyboard to load up for me so something is wrong with you there. Dont swipe away the google app in the multi-tasking windows and it would happen even faster. Also turn off google now for maximum search speed.

How about speed of opening up menus like settings? It's instant in JB it never was in GB. How about not rebooting the phone for 10 days? I can do that in JB without any lag but on GB it always became worse and worse as more days went by without reboot. Long list scrolling is smoother in JB as well. Have you used the browser in GB? It was atrocious. In JB and ICS its silky smooth.

How about screen tearing? There is lots and lots of it in GB and ICS but none in JB, this is what you call polish. How about the speed of taking pics? Again so much faster in JB. I am sorry but to say that GB is faster than JB is simply ridiculous. I am right now running matrix kernel but I remember very well totally stock JB was very smooth as well, only problem can be ram but what can google do about it?

The 2 legitimate complaints are that yes installing apps takes alot of time but again it's not completely connected to the user experience. Another thing is the keyboard lag which has remained that way since the GB days.

Have you even used an iphone 4 in iOS 5? Whenever I exit a heavy game there is a serious homescreen lag if I start swiping immediately, if this isnt the same thing as an android launcher restarting than what is? You really think apple single core phones never hiccup? You have an old phone understand that. Jelly bean on the nexus S is not a beta product, it's a damn fine OS and is one of the most significant things that has happened in the android development cycle. Your standards are just way too high for a single core 512MB Ram phone to satisfy.
[Nexus S General] lvnatic:
Its very easy guys:

Settings > Developer options > max background processes allowed: set to 4

Satisfaction guaranteed.
[Nexus S General] towelboy:
All you guys need a little of the marmite kernel..
[Nexus S General] z0s0:
scorched tpuncie

Sure - it was the stock Nexus S one from here: developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

GRK39F
[Nexus S General] doc_v15:
ICS maybe a bit slower than GB, but JB??!

Heck no!!!

Its even better than GB! Using MIUI US JB 2.9.21 with Marmite 4.7 kernel, super smooth and got 1 day 2hrs battery life~!

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yesss!
[Nexus S General] akabadnews:
I saw a big difference running a CM10 Nightly and then flashing MIUI GB (just for kicks).

MIUI GB was blazing fast. No lag at all... but then again, the ROM I used was the latest GB build, pretty much at the peak of development for the ROM. I wouldn't expect the same from experimental/nightly versions of JB just yet.
[Nexus S General] snarf.snarf:
First post!!!

Its a little bit slower but then a bit faster at the same time

Feels heavier than 2.3

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Sent from my Jelly Bean powered Nexus Snarf 4G
[Nexus S General] jrkeyboard:
ICS started off as a super huge improvement for me, but as time wore on, it seemed to get slower and slower. I recently just did a full wipe and loaded a JB rom, and it runs better, but still not great. Contemplating a new phone
[Nexus S General] snarf.snarf:
Me too

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Sent from my Jelly Bean powered Nexus Snarf 4G
[Nexus S General] MRsf27:
I downloaded 4.7, any word on if its smooth and fast? I'm about to flash it.
[Nexus S General] kwibis:
I'm running 4.5 marmite. That one is very smooth and great battery life. I've yet to try 4.7

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] cukdus:
i think gingerbread is the best android :D
[Nexus S General] MRsf27:
well ive been running 4.7 marmite and so far so good; I was already happy with air kernel but i wanna try some new things and see... so if i dont like this one, i still have air kernel on my SD storage so ill just flash back if im unhappy, but so far so good:cool:
[Nexus S General] mikkkg:
Being very disappointed with the performance of my nexus s lately, i decided to test many famous roms for my device:

1. Jelly Belly

2. Codename Android

3. Slim

4. CM10 nightlies

These were the last roms i tried, using various kernels like Matr1x, Air and Marmite.

Although CM10+Marmite was the best combination from the above, i still was not satisfied because i was experiencing problems with lags in general.

My last thought was to go back to basics and try for the first time the stock rooted 4.1.1 with the kernel of my preference(as i need bln and Voodoo). So i downloaded stock 4.1.1 with Simple Root and flashed Marmite 4.7.1. I restored all my apps+data using Titanium and i have been testing the result for the last 3 hours.

It's too early to express a safe opinion, but until now it seems that i get excellent performance with no lags and the whole response is great.

I can't go deep in details comparing all the combinations, but as a first thought, i believe that maybe nexus s is not the best phone for all the extra stuff each custom rom provides. Keeping it simple may be the road to success for our old hardware.
[Nexus S General] kwibis:
Try RasBeanjelly. It's from source with only very minimal tweaks. Very very fast. Find in in the trinity thread.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] Warren_Orange:
I've been a little bit disappointed with my stock Nexus S of late too. Google Now is off but the phone is lagging a bit here and there.

Seeing as I only want stock would it be best to flash a kernel and see how I go?

Do I need to root and reinstall 4.1.1.??

Cheers.
[Nexus S General] shadowx360:
I just apply a 1.4 ghz stable overclock. Very smooth on CM10
[Nexus S General] z0s0:
3520 ndesoue

The problem appears - to me - to be a shortage of RAM, hence apps and other resources are swapped out of RAM. So the poor performance is page faults when those resources have to be swapped back into RAM.

No amount of overclocking would fix this. Basically I contend that Android >= 4 needs more than the 512MB available in the Nexus S.
[Nexus S General] Killasmoke:
I'm on Rasbean ROM with Thalamus kernel & this combo is Great I always have 140MB or more of free Ram try it out both Rasbean ROM & thalamus kernel set your phone up after got everything set up reboot & enjoy
[Nexus S General] jiro-kun:
Personally, for me I think its still fast and responsive with Jellybean.. I've used codename android, which for me is good, but currently using JellyB-TSM and it feels more fast and smooth, even without turning up overclock to 1400..

Bought my Nexus S nearly a year ago.. haven't regretted it so far :)
[Nexus S General] MRsf27:
I've been running AOKP jelly bean build 2 with marmite 4.7 kernel and this thing is flyyyying. I turned off all animations which i could care less for and everything is so fast. things are opening up quickly, apps open on a dime. If you're having lagging problems, get AOKP JB build 2 with marmite kernel:cool:
[Nexus S General] Iuliano:
Pretty much my Nexus S runs fast and smooth, menu fast, search fast, Youtube HD fast, keyboard fast etc. I can't ask for more then this.

Stock 4.1 Jelly.
[Nexus S General] continuum51:
Do you guys think that stock 4.1 is smoother or a custom rom?
[Nexus S General] mikkkg:
Up to now I am comparing stock with marmite kernel vs rasbeanjelly with the same kernel.

I believe that stock is smother in general and I believe the same comparing stock with cm10, slim and other popular roms.

I will try rasbeanjelly all day but I am almost sure that I will come back to my stock via Cwm.
[Nexus S General] michalurban:
Weird. Apart from 4.0.3, I find Gingerbread, ICS 4.0.4 and JellyBean to be pretty snappy. After a lot of changing phones during last say 6 years, Im content at last. Maybe even happy. PS: Im using 4.0.4 at the present time as two of my widgets keep disappearing in JellyBean. But I find the speed to be ok + Jellybean is even faster.
[Nexus S General] snowmanwithahat:
I agree. This is the biggest issue with the phone right now is our low amount of RAM for roms like this. I don't think swapping ROMs much wilil help... I'm still debating going back to Gingerbread, haven't bit the bullet yet though.

I'm going to miss it for sure, but I need the battery life and I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit of functionality until I upgrade soon
[Nexus S General] jark99:
I'm on your boat as well. May downgrade soon to gingerbread

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] ohitspat:
I find stock JB to stutter sometimes when switching from screen to app but other than that it's smooth for me. Battery life could always be better though.
[Nexus S General] Nexus311:
Same here. It really seems like a RAM issue. Maps is real laggy, but of course, only when I really need to use it. Chrome is just all around slow always. I only use the stock browser. If I have Pandora running and try to use anything else intensive, forget it.

I'm going to try to save up and upgrade to the next Nexus. I really hope it has 2GB of RAM. That's the biggest selling point for me.
[Nexus S General] Athhar:
Jellibean is introduced to remove all lags...my phone is super fast in jellibean....just try a CM10 JELLIBEAN rom ....also try to flash a good kernel like marmite.

And do u full wipe...even dalvik... before any rom.

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Just be patient....try the rom that works for u....there are many other phones running ics with 512MB ram....even iPhone 4s have 512 MB ram....
[Nexus S General] homerograco:
I was very disappointed with JB, until I flashed a good combo ROM + Kernel. This week I found that Air Kernel #201 is the best kernel for me.

I installed MIUI 2.9.21 + Air #201 and things are working pretty good. There are no performance issues and apps are opening fast. One thing I noted at another JB ROMs are that Google Now introduce many lags to NS, I don´t know exactly why, but I think that Google Now service keeps running on background and this slowdown everything. I´m now happy with MIUI, but CM10 and Rascarlo are also fast with Air #201. I think custom ROMs / Kernels introduce a bunch of tweaks, but only a little of them really makes difference.
[Nexus S General] Athhar:
Yes..that's it...you have to select the one that work for u....use these comments just as a reference...
[Nexus S General] Muvolt:
I have tried all the popular JB roms and all of them (less or more) have some stuttering and lag. Sometimes I'm thinking of going back to CM 7, but I don't know...
[Nexus S General] bahmanup:
thanks bro:o
[Nexus S General] kwibis:
Did you include Rasbeanjelly in popular roms? As I've also tried many "popular" roms but they are just too full of features making the rom sluggish. Rasbeanjelly does not have this issue and is better than GB
[Nexus S General] mikkkg:
I tested rasbeanbelly with marmite kernel which i find one of the most responsive kernels until today. From my experience with this rom, i had lags in general and i was disappointed, because after all i had read about it i was expecting it to be much different than the others.
[Nexus S General] kwibis:
How do you flash your roms? If I come from a totally different rom, I wipe my phone completely including my sdcard.

then flash everything in the right order (rascarlo indicates how to for his rom). Even with CM10 nightly I get good results.
[Nexus S General] lurtis:
Tick force GPU rendering in developer options. I was having UI lag on rasbeanjelly with marmite 4.7.4 until this. Now its super smooth even under clocked too 800 MHz. Also seems to be helping battery life as its allowing normal CPU to idle more. Currently 1 day and 3 hours in with 16% battery as I type this. Phone has been on for 4 days now as well. No lag at all. Love my nexus s 4g
[Nexus S General] surferdude73:
Yes.

My phone has been laggy, freezing, etc. And it wasn't as fast or as cool as the latest offerings.

Yesterday I rooted and flashed rasbean + trinity kernel and it's fast as ****. Huge improvement in user experience, and saves me from having to renew my contract until I explore my options. I haven't flashed a custom ROM since trading my g1 out for a nexus one so I was a bit rusty, and it took one hr from start to finish, including research/reading.

Complaining about the slowness of a stock phone is a bit pointless as there are many fixes for this all over the xda. You could've "fixed" your phone in the time it took you to post.
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
SuperCharger seems to fix most lag issues this phone has with JB. Still struggles but definitely at least an 80% increase in performance
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] ic3tea:
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 do not have :

Reader Hub ( Update : will be out in October )

Learning Hub

S Voice

Google Now

Kno App

If you found more thing missing tell here . :)

Now I have all the answer all answer is in the other post . :)

But still anyone can upload a kno app ? I buy my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in Malaysia cuz I live in Malaysia . Thx
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] walidbang:
Learning hub is on app store.

Google now just for jelly bean.

Svoice why do u need it. Wait for google now.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] wingzero2085:
Kno App is definitely on my Note 10.1, so not sure what you're sayin' there. S-Voice? Gimmick. And Google Now is JB only, as has been said. Nothing terribly special, either -- I used it for awhile on my Galaxy Nexus and honestly found that it wasn't my cup of tea. I don't personally like having Google store my web search history, which is a requirement for Google Now to function properly.

As far as the Samsung "hubs" ... yeah. They are the first things I disable when I get a new Sammy device. No loss there for me.

The Note 10.1 is great -- if you're passing on it just because of that short list of "missing" apps, you're the one missing out, imho.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] gronimo21:
my Kno app is on mine

Sent from my GT-N8013
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] ic3tea:
Finally someone answer my question .

* Need to ask question in another way . xD

BTW can you upload your kno app ? I dun have in my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 .

Thx for answering all my question . :)

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Update : Learning Hub is not in Play Store and Samsung App

I still cannot find Kno app even I search in Google .

Anyone can help me to upload this two app ?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrischoi:
This review is quick and dirty. I was lucky to receive a case from DBA Cases. I didn't think I'd like the case, but I was wrong. There is no bulk and the Thin Grip resolves the slippery phone issue. This case is now my daily. Keep an eye out for a chance to win a DBA Cases Just Like Glass Screen Protector! It's my next XDA exclusive giveaway.

For bigger pictures check out: chrismchoi.blogspot.com

The case is made with the same material found in bullet resistant glass and materials in a F22 Fighter Jet cockpit. I questioned this, but with a little bit of flexing, it was there. The cuts and finish are next to flawless. One of the best I've seen so far. The case does lock in place, so you don't have to worry about it falling offer like other cases.

There is enough room for the edges to keep the screen off the surface you put it down on. You can see that the button cut outs are very generous and easy to use. I would have prefer the logo be on the inside for a cleaner look, but that's just my preference. The soft finish seems to hold up. Hopefully it doesn't peel like other cases.

Using "Olympics" on your order will give you 20% off!

This is one case that I am adding to my personal collection. I'm really like how thin the case is. It's not as flimsy as the Feather cases. I don't see it cracking like they do.

The case is $21.99 at DBA Cases. It is available in Black, Blue Slate, Maroon, Silver and Snow.

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To win the DBA Cases Just Like Glass Screen protector, go to my blog and comment on the post. I will randomly select one winner. I did not post the giveaway anywhere else!

Hit thanks if you found this review useful.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] RebDovid:
How, if at all, does the case limit our choice of screen protectors?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrischoi:
I have a Curved Crystal on it now. Should be fine. The edges cover up right around the bezel. It may push up some wet application types depending on how close they are.

The Curved Crystal is a bit flimsy and covers up to the edge. So I feel most will fit fine.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] maniac2k:
Discount code isnt working.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrischoi:
Did you try it with a capital O?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] maniac2k:
Yes, Olympics. Says its no good. Did you try it?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SSHGuru:
Discount Code

It's still good, however one of our programmers broke the site and it's being restored from a back-up right now.

In order to use the code you do have to be registered in the system - buying as a guest won't work.

If you have any concerns or questions you can email support@dbacases.com.

Scott

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Literally after I posted that I was told it was back...

I tested it myself.

Thin Grip Black	Black	1	$21.99	$21.99

Sub-Total:	$21.99

Flat Rate Shipping:	$3.99

Coupon(Olympics):	$-4.40

Total:	$21.58

Scott

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Thanks for reviewing our case.

The paint should never peel. We used three layers on it and it covers the entire case - even the inside. I've tried to mark it with my fingernail and it doesn't even mark easily. If it does you can rub it out. We had them done at a special paint factory so get the best coating, they coat the entire case at once - so there are no ridges or inconsistencies.

Most screen protectors should work. We could not have cut the case any further from the glass without having it fall out. It does grab the bezel so there is no way it will fall off accidentally. In fact it takes a bit of effort to get it off (I recommend the bottom first).

It was a very expensive case to make but it's meant to cover a very expensive phone so we didn't take any shortcuts.

If you're interested in our Just Like Glass screen protector we just released a demonstration video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3oZvd1W5xw&feature=youtu.be

Scott
[Galaxy S III Accessories] htcsnap93:
I really like the look of this case, when laying flat on the table, will the camera hit the table ?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] maniac2k:
Sshguru,

Will this work with the oem wireless charging back cover?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrischoi:
Perfect thickness to keep the camera off the table. Just enough room to keep the screen lifted as well.

Key cut outs are way more than generous.

I love it!

Post a picture when you get it!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] RebDovid:
Thin Grip v. Ultra?

I'm inclining to the Ultra for greater protection. My wife is undecided between the Ultra and the Thin Grip. In addition to seeing photos with the blue S3, it would be helpful to (1) see side-by-side photos and (2) compare physical specifications.

Relatedly, if we order, when should we expect delivery (to Greater Boston)?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Teflon_:
Hi. I'm italian and i want to buy it. Can i buy from the site? And how mch it cost?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] chrischoi:
Shipping was quick! Only took mine 5 days or so. Not business days. Consecutive days.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] T3hBraveBoss:
Hey, I just ordered the DBA complete ultra; Ill post pictures and a review when I get it