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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sarkozy:
The US isn't the rest of the world, for better or worse. To understand why things are different here requires a lesson in our system of governance, and I'm too tired to delve into it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
While that is an admirable position, I like everyonne else will NOT choose a provider if they can't provide coverage. What do I look like? A Charity? LOL.:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crixley:
cdma is a dead horse....

just let it die already
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sucker4pa1n:
Because financially for a company spanning the entire US to switch to an older and relatively ****ty (though functional) technology is wasteful when newer technologies (ie. LTE) are the future and more fiscally responsible?

The US is HUGE compared to many other countries. That's why we suck compared to Japan - they're smaller, so the providers could cover the country faster. Once coverage is not a competitive market, they crank speeds and drop prices.

Technological roll outs for existing companies can be much more expensive than ones for startups as well, due to costs involved with installing backup redundancies for the switchover, new equipment costs, and removal of old equipment.

It's cheaper for companies that leads existing cell towers because they don't have the overhead associated with installing, expanding, and upgrading; the lease more than likely just helps offset the original carrier's costs for maintenance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sarkozy:
Then by all means donate 10% of your earnings to a proper GSM carrier in the hope they'll expand their service footprint to that of a certain CDMA equine.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dandroid13:
What is the concept of "coverage" in the US? I mean, here where I live I have 3G, but in other neighborhoods I get no signal at all.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Part of it has to do with CDMA technology being cheaper to roll out because the towers have a greater range. The US isn't like some places where everyone in the country is living on top of each other. So far coverage purposes alone, CDMA is superior to GSM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Concept of coverage:

When I can make a call without the fear of a drifting fart dropping it.

Concept of no coverage:

No signal.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dandroid13:
lol that's a major issue here. As the economy grows more people have money to buy smartphones... so it's getting "crowded". Carriers blame the law which doesn't allow many antennas close to each other and the government blames carriers for lack of investment in infrastructure.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Thats my fear of GSM.

As it stands right now, I haven't had a dropped call in at least 5 years.

That doesn't mean that I am looking at my options for the N4. I just know that Tmo has dead zones once you leave town and I live on the outskirts. However, I have an ATT tower approx 300 feet away from my home, but its so close that we have had people on ATT complain they can't make calls here because they are too close.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SwiftLegend:
The Nexus 4 may not be coming, but that rumored HTC phone (is it the DNA or something like that) looks pretty dope. I can sacrifice having Sense until an AOSP build comes on it. HTC phones have nearly as much dev support as Nexus phones, if not more.

Honestly, the Nexus 4 was sort of a let down for me. I honestly think it should've had a 5" screen, LTE, and LG's 13 MP camera. And the limited 16 GB is a killer for me too. I realize Google is trying to promote their cloud services, but for someone like me who lives in NYC, keeping my music on the cloud isn't very useful when I'm down in the subway.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
If I thought that HTC could keep the OS updated on a timely manner, I would be more stoked for it. However, I NEED to stay on the latest OS. The last thing I want to do is develop with an emulator.

I dunno. Maybe.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sucker4pa1n:
It is far more than just antennas when you're talking about population density. There is only so much bandwidth with a certain frequency spectrum depending on the technology. No matter how many towers or how large the underlying network... no technology can handle an infinite amount of simultaneous users. Not to mention possible interference between towers, cell phones not knowing who to talk to if there are a ton of towers in an area... bandwidth and power regulations, tower height restrictions, etc. If it was as simple as "build more towers" then the US would have 100% coverage for both GSM and CDMA, and people would ***** about something else, like "OMG that tower blocks my view of the mountain" or something.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SwiftLegend:
Use AOSP or CM then :/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dandroid13:
**** that's amazing. :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
You assume it will be unlocked. You further assume that it will work 100% with aosp. I've worked on a few roms ;)

Once again, CDMA hurts things.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SwiftLegend:
Well with HTC's track record with unlocked bootloaders, I'm sure it will be unlocked or at least locked but not encrypted.

But whatever, don't wanna go too off track/start a debate. You obviously know more than I do, seeing how I'm just a user :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sucker4pa1n:
Emulators suck. They have their uses but overhead mixed with the assumption it can emulate correctly for *every possible situation* is such a killer for me. Emulators led me to get a C+ in my Computer Organization class, because looking at the MIPS assembly code my program should've worked flawlessly, but the emulator didn't like it at all.

The professor looked the code over and couldn't tell me the problem either. Stupid emulators.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ualdayan:
If the only thing holding you to Verizon is the ETF and you're on an unlimited LTE plan then you should look into selling your plan right now. Not only can you get out of the ETF, but there are people out there who will PAY YOU for the privilege of taking over an unlimited data account. (TOL on Ebay are going for around $200+, for some people that use 5-10GB it's worth them paying you $200 or more to take over your unlimited data contract than it is for them to pay $50-100 a month for extra data).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Speaking of ETF's, Verizon needs to be hung out to dry by the FCC.

They have a max 350 etf, that goes down TO A MAX of 120. You could have a week left on your contract, and ETF would still be 120 bucks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sucker4pa1n:
Makes me wish I had kept the unlimited data air card plan I had. Offered it out even to VzW employees but no one was willing to go through with it, although many showed interest. >_>
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dragn4rce:
The only options we(VZW SUB) have is ditch and join T-M or At&t or buy the N⁴ and just tether to our GNex(«my only option :()

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If I have helped you.... hit that sexy thanks button. ^_^
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jimmyco2008:
I thought the 16GB thing was a typo, but it's for real? Damn Verizon, damn....

The GSM version is EOL, however 95% of Verizon customers that walk into a store to use an upgrade need help from an associate to make the decision, they don't know the difference between the Nexus and the iPhone. So why would greedy Verizon fire sale just because of the Nexus 4 that they allegedly won't be getting?

Either Verizon plans on a CDMA/LTE N4, or they're conning with the 16GB thing, but then it's not EOL, because they're moving to 16GB Gakaxy Nexuses...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zerocool79346:
Unfortunately, I'm one of those 5-10GB users or that would be a great plan.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KennyG123:
Please discuss other devices in the sticky thread

Thanks

FNM
[Motorola Droid X2] pavpanchekha:
I was trying to install DKZ's CM10 rom onto my Droid X2, but something went wrong. As it stands, I can get into the stock Android Recovery screen, but I can't get into the BSR, or boot properly (it hangs at the MOTO screen). I also can't seem to get RSD Lite to SBF my phone.

I have a MicroSD reader, so if there's any way to get a signed zip that the stock Android Recovery screen will install, that might unbrick it. Is this possible? Is there any other way to unbrick it?
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
phone needs to be in starting rsd lite support

to flash .sbf with rsd lite or ezSBF

have you tried wiping cache and or data in android recovery?

---------- Post added at 06:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:00 PM ----------

have you read HowTo: Perform a SBF ("factory restore") of your Motorola Droid X2
[Motorola Droid X2] pavpanchekha:
I've tried to use the RSD protocol (I can start RSD on the phone side, and I have RSD Lite on my laptop), but RSD Lite just says there are errors for every SBF I've tried.

Yes; didn't help

Yep. I've done that once (I was upgrading from CM7 to CM10).
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
did you try ezSBF (Linux solution to your Windows/RSD lite problems)

what rsd lite errors?

did you compare .sbf checksums

these are .sbfs that you have used before?

moto drivers are installed?

factory usb data cable

different usb port

different pc
[Motorola Droid X2] pavpanchekha:
ezSBF (or, more precisely, sbf_flash) succeeded in flashing my Droid X2 to 2.3.4. It's booting now.

I'll try installing CM10 from scratch now. Correctly.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
is phone running cm10 now?
[Motorola Droid X2] pavpanchekha:
[SOLVED] [Q] Can I un(soft)brick my phone?

Yes. Thank you!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SebasC:
So now with Android 4.2 coming are we going to see custom Roms containing this awesome feature??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zaslamel42:
I just got my GN2 today and I noticed pretty fast that there's a constant faint black line that runs across the width of the screen and has one dead pixel on it.

I know I probably cannot fix this without sending the phone away to get repaid. I emailed in to get this seen to. But has anyone had this problem before, and possibly found a solution/cause for it? This is quite annoying, considering it's such an expensive phone.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RodriTihuana:
I don't have any dead pixels and my screen is excelent, but I have this exact same issue that I had with the Note 1. While I'm on my bed about to sleep (what I mean is.. you can only see this when on a dark room, almost pitch black) and I have a grey background I can see black lines on the screen, on my Note 1 they looked like stains, like little drops and on my Note 2 they are lines , 2 on the left corners (bottom and top). They never bottered me because you can't see them under normal use and they don't even seem to affect the screen in any way, but when I found my Note 2 had it too, I don't know, felt a bit dissapointed since it is such a great -and expensive- piece of work. I don't care about it but I though I was the only one. Clearly I'm not. But like I said it doesn't affect my screen in any possible way and you can't see it 99& of the time so I don't care =)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zaslamel42:
Yeah I seen a lot of people complaining about that on the original Note. The line doesn't cause any screen issues, it just really irritates me because now that I've seen it, I can't unsee it. That, and a dead pixel is just poor show! Once I return this I'm going to buy the UK LTE version, if possible. The UK LTE situation is terrible right now, though.
[General Questions and Answers] tateg:
From the article:

Want to play old school Nintendo games on your iPad? Download Google Play apps from foreign countries to your Galaxy Tab? If so, you'll have to break the law. That's because under new rules issued by the U.S. government, jailbreaking (or in the case of Android, rooting) tablets becomes a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Sunday, October 28.

http://readwrite.com/2012/10/28/yup-jailbreaking-your-ipad-is-illegal
[General Questions and Answers] lastdeadmouse:
The EFF challenged that and won. It's your device, do what you want with it.
[General Questions and Answers] tateg:
Considering that this went into effect yesterday, i don't think the EFF has had time to challenge it yet.
[HTC One X] date0:
Hello everyone,

I've been trying several different roms and I found my free space dropped to 1.7 gb on the internal memory. Is there any way to make sure I get the original free space back? Like formatting the partition and flashing a Rom or something like that? I've tried wiping caches and such, but I still think I've lost like 3gb out of nowhere. Although I would like to know what the average free storage space is first.

Please help a total noob!

Thanx
[HTC One X] peedub:
I assume you haven't deleted the old roms off your phone?

If you plug it in via usb you can view the storage that way (in mac [android file transfer]/linux/win). Just delete any roms you're not using etc.
[HTC One X] erwinpiero:
It seems that you need to erase your storage to get it back. When flashing rom we didn't do storage format, files and folder from old rom remain there. This folder could be your content like music and pictures, also some remaining app folder
[HTC One X] Chezbel:
If you use a Linux computer to delete files on your sdcard then check your sdcard for a .Trash directory (the name might be different, like .Trash-1000). Even though you thought you deleted some files they just got moved to .Trash and are still there taking up space. If you delete the .Trash directory it will really get rid of those files and give you more space.
[HTC One X] date0:
true

You're totally right. I just deleted some old files from games I don't even have like FIFA.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] tm1618:
Is anyone else noticing wakelocks from Google play services? As you can see its woken my phone over 650 times since this morning!

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[Off-topic] Garen21:
Should I get the TI 84 Silver edition or TI-Nspire Graphing Calculator Yellow Edition TI-84 Plus Keypad? Can't decide, heard they can both do all the same things but don't know for sure, and I want to use it all the way through college too so, it's gonna need to be able to do calculus+ stuff
[Off-topic] LoopDoGG79:
How bout this?
[Off-topic] Garen21:
that thing seems more complicated than the options i posted :\
[Off-topic] MissionImprobable:
The inspire is sick nasty. As to using it all the way through, if you go beyond Calc III & Diff EQ you can actually use even more advanced calcs, which I'm assuming you will because if all you're going to do is trig and such you probably wouldn't care enough to nerd out over your calculator choice =p
[Off-topic] n7GU22:
Not that they will allow you to use it on a test, but good for a backup...
[Off-topic] MissionImprobable:
Nice. I wanted to use the real TI-emulator but I can't find my old cable to download the Rom from my 86.

Dagnabit, looks like I'm still going to have to dig the thing up.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ently:
I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and I have been very eagerly awaiting a new nexus phone however upon the announcement release and noting that this is made by LG it left me feeling a bit strange.

The spec sheet of the Nexus 4 looks absolutely amazing and the price is incredible (the lack of LTE means nothing to me and I have never used a microSD card in my life) so it is pretty much perfect except for that fact that it is made by LG.

I have had a couple of LG phones in the past and their build quality/support were the worst things I have ever seen in a phone. My experience with their phone was so bad it put me off buying anything LG (minus my trusty air conditioner ;) heh).

The last LG phone I had was from 2009 so maybe the company has fixed up their act since then, I am really excited about a new Nexus just the LG factor is the only thing putting a maybe in my mind.

How does everyone else feel?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malibu_23:
Everyones just going by LGs track record, no1 has even touched the device yet. but watching the verge video on youtube, quality looks awesome, but like EVERY DEVICE it wont be perfect and will have some issues.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowbudge:
I think it will be fine. With the Nexus you won't be fighting the bad LG UI gig. S4 processor is in a lot of new devices. Gorilla Glass 2 us also a standard. Standard 2 gig memory. Plastic is plastic at the end of the day. So being its a Google phone the OS is in their control.

So why not?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K Rich:
There's a reason Google chose LG. This is Google's flagship phone, if there was any doubt about quality, Google would have used a different manufacture as far as I'm concerned. I'd say we don't have to worry anymore about this phone than we do with any other phone. All phones have "issues", and I'm sure this will have its own quirks.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CJHolderUK:
If your that worried don't pre-order it and wait for the reviews to start rolling in. The Verge's video made it look amazing. My only concern is the glass front and back.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ently:
That video did make the phone look amazing and I will wait for the reviews as I live in Austria anyway so who knows when we get it.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salty Wagyu:
That's not really true, just because Google chooses a particular brand doesn't mean they approve of the quality. The Nexus 7 from Asus had a lot of defects.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K Rich:
Yeah, good point, but then again the Nexus 7 was sold at cost, so QC was probably cut to a minimum. Hopefully the Nexus 4 is different, but I'm not holding my breathe with such a "cheap" price.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
The LG Optimus G looks to have pretty good build quality so I wouldnt be too worried. You could wait for a review first. Then decide?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] autophone:
The bad thing about LG phones has always been the software. Never owned an LG phone but I heard mixed reviews about the customer service. And o yeah, the camera has been mediocore if not bad on LG phones including those in Optimus G.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
As long as the camera is better than the one in the Galaxy Nexus its good enough for me. You don't have to worry about the software as its pure Google and updated directly from Google. I have heard mixed review about customer service for every major companies honestly, even if they do receive perfect review I'd still be skeptical.

I think the build quality will be fine, base on the reviews of the Optimus G it feel very solid and doesn't creek while being twisted, while the Galaxy Nexus definitely do.

I just hope I don't get any backlight leakage, I still think it likely have less issues than AMOLED screen which has banding and dark spots that pervades all AMOLED devices I've ever owned (people who claimed they don't have it just don't know how to look for it).
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Egotist:
After owning a LG G2x I'm very cautious about anything mobile made by them and will wait out for some reviews/feedback here on the forums. I'm going to start looking into problems with the LG Optimus and see what might be issues for the Nexus.

That said, I love my LG fridge and stove!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giant22000:
I'm not worried at all about it being an LG phone. Although I've never owned an LG smartphone, I've had a pile of LG dumbphones and they were the best IMO!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zaihanzainal:
LG makes good hw.... its the sw support that one should be worried about... but since this is a nexus, i dont think there shall be a problem... ive been using my ob for about a year and a half and have yet to encounter any hw problems.... granted 1.5 years is a pretty short time, but ive read hw issues for other brands surface within an even shorter period than that....

oh and no my phone is not encased in a shrine i work outdoors (shipyards/ construction sites etc) so its been dropped, near strong magnets, exposed to hot metals, fully drenched in sweat, stepped on, sat on etc... and all without a phone protector (just a cheap $10 screen protector) everything still works perfect and the phone is still in one piece (casing is about 6/10 tho) =P

and yes i flash experimental roms and stuff (i even flash stuff thats not meant for my phone) and yet the mainboard has yet to fail me (crosses fingers)

so yeah.... im pretty confident about the hw.... :fingers-crossed::highfive:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacklebott:
Not worried at all that it's made by LG. The only prominent issue I've heard of about LG is their terrible software support, which is a moot point on a Nexus.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mesho Arc:
I'm not worried, but hate the fact they used Gorilla Glass 2, phones that came with it are easily scratched compared to GG1, so going to put screen protectors in the front and back.

about OS updates, it will come from Google, so no worries
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vindikleuk:
Did you dislike the hardware or the software? As long as the build quality is fine, than we should all be fine, considering Google wil deal with the software.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ermacwins:
Software aside, Im worried about the camera, I got the Optimus 2X then SGS2 and the cameras both 8MP are worlds apart. In other words the camera on the O2X is garbage compare to the SGS2.

So does anyone know who made the camera for the Nexus 4?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timeslip1974:
im very happy its an LG phone as they make fantasic hardware - Ive had an Opimus x2 and current on an Optimus 3D - They just have the WORST record when it comes to updating the software - both those phones are still on Gingerbread for crying out loud. Obviously it being a Nexus device means it eliminates LG from the software updates so finally they`ll have a phone that`ll keep up with the times
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -juanito-:
it's have same Optimus G at&t camera .. it's from Sony

i really want to buy this phone but i think One X camera slot better
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BennyJr:
Well the one x is really made to be a great camera phone. The nexus most likely will have a good camera but nothing like the one x
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syzwn9:
Currently i'm using Optimus 2x almost 2 and half years

I'll make a simple review about lg devices

-solid hardware

-almost impossible to brick (flashable with ease)

-build quality is great

-support is crap (but this is nexus)

-camera is also crap (but nexus 4 using Sony camera)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbutandola:
Some say here that they're worried about LG camera quality. But could it be that the issue is in the camera software? The software makes a lot of difference in terms of photo quality. That can be verified when you compare stock camera and CyanogenMod camera on the Samsung Galaxy S II for instance.

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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michealtbh:
HOX owner here, the camera isn't that great on it. SGS2/3 have better cameras imo
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowmanwithahat:
Being a Nexus 7 owner I'm not aware of any real defects... What ones are you talking about?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michealtbh:
Early units had lots of defects - screen lifting, ghosting, light bleed etc
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ermacwins:
Thanks, how does it fair against the S3's camera?