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[Nexus 4 General] FISKER_Q:
Not considering their benchmarking techniques in general, they did very specifically mention, in regards to the the Nexus 4 preview, that the Optimus G "performed better" than the Nexus 4 because the Optimus G couldn't finish the GLBenchmark suite due to running out of texture memory.

Yet they have posted benchmark scores which are, according to their own words, invalid.

There were people who discovered that there were better runs uploaded by Anandtech from the Nexus 4 yet those numbers were not used in the preview.

With the LG Optimus G preview they made specific efforts to contact and get an update from LG regarding some of the browser performance issues they had, yet in their Nexus 4 review it's like they simply expect people to take it face value when they say the device is overheating and performing poorly with no regards for trying to find out why that is.

There's even conflicting numbers on the benchmarks, and while i would usually trust Anandtech over the random sites that did contradict them, i'm not so sure this time around.

They may not be wrong, but there's definitely something not adding up here.
[Nexus 4 General] blackhand1001:
I am just dissapointed that google insists on shipping chrome with the new nexus devices instead of the stock browser. It not only benchmarks much faster its way smoother. Who the heck made this decision.
[Nexus 4 General] venturizhou:
I don't think it's that surprising that Google wants to ship Chrome with their flagship device. Chrome is their baby and they want to create a tighter ecosystem, granted some of it probably has something to do with data mining. I mean currently it may perform worse than the stock browser but I would believe that overtime it will be smoothed over. In the meantime if it's such a great bother then there are a variety of apps to download in the Play Store.

Currently there are a lot of speculation about the current poor performances of the Nexus 4 in benchmarks and battery life could be due to a software issue that can be fixed overtime. I would apply that same logic to the Chrome app. I mean iOS uses Safari and Windows Phone uses Internet Explorer, it only seems logical that Google would want to use Chrome.
[Nexus 4 General] Jayrod1980:
Sounds like a real European engineer! Haha jk you guys! Spent two summers in Spain and bank hours were the worst! Good luck finding one of those open

... but the nightlife was amazing!
[Nexus 4 General] Chad_Petree:
Hopefully they will update chrome before the launch of the phone with some major performance gains, the features of chrome beat the stock browser but the speed is not there, it's just choppy :/
[Nexus 4 General] brooon:
uff,...that´s interesting AND some hard stuff at the same time! :D ´cause this is THE hardcore stereotype people have on their minds when it comes to the spanish or the greek work mentality (i repeat: a *stereotype*! so don´t burn me down folks ;)), especially when somebody is searching for a reson that there countries suffer that much under the financial crisis. Just drive a few miles in other directions - france, swirtzerland, germany - other stereotypes can be tested on their substance (which are more the opposite of the above)...

:silly:
[Nexus 4 General] James.UBC:
Doesn't matter, I'm sure they'll have polished up by year's end. Chrome will probably get a ton of regular updates just like regular chrome.
[Nexus 4 General] Kojaes:
yet statistics show Greece work 2 hours per week more than Germany / Switzerland .
[Nexus 4 General] brooon:
Hmm,..what statistics do you refer to? Eurostat is THE source for statistics...and they tell otherwise ;) But that´s OT and, as I said before, nobody wants to drawn in a serious discussion here :D Stereotypes are always in some way misleading, so just forget about it and let´s talk about the strange anandtech review again ;) :D
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alharethi:
Hello everyone. I hope someone can help.

This is my first Android device and I am loving it.

Last night I unmounted my 64Gb microSD card and plugged it into my PC. I created a folder (at the root level) and copied all my audio files. I must say that since now I am at work I may fix it later but I named this audio folder in non-Unicode characters (Arabic)

Somehow right after I mounted the card again, the folder is not recognized (while everything else works, including a PDF book library that I copied couple of days earlier).

Instead of the "folder" icon next to this folder, it basically shows me a "white" folder-like with 0 files count.

Any idea/fix?

As I said, I will try to rename the folder to something in English and try again but I am afraid the folders inside are all in Arabic... BTW, I can read/write do everything on the phone in both English/Arabic just fine...

Many thanks for your help in advance
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chungchungip:
I have same issue, In N7100 or N7105.

Now I'm using directory bind to mount the Music in Music folder in Internal Storage path
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alharethi:
I've the N7100.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alharethi:
For anyone who has my same issue, I solved the issue by renaming the folders and files to English! It works flawlessly!

How do I get a native non-English UI?

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jamal Ahmed:
I think settings>language and input>system language ( or whatever that option is called)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jbadboy2007:
I always remove apps from roms i dont use with estrongs. It makes a backup of the app that you remove. I have always been able to copy the backup and paste it back to system/app if i needed it back. Well lately on jb lj7 that has not been working. Is tb a better solution or is there a step in the process i am missing?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrgnRebrn:
I use TB to freeze my system apks, rather than uninstall them. If I want/need them at a later time I just unfreeze.

ROM - OdexedBlue

Baseband - LJ7

Kernel - Stock LI3

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jwitt418:
I've found ROM toolbox to be very useful. Even better than TB in my opinion. You have to buy the pro version to freeze apps but it will be the one app you can't live without

Riding the Uni on the GSIII
[Nokia Lumia 820] BigwaveMx:
Any one in spanish?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 20twins10:
Just got my s2 a couple days ago. went ahead and rooted it, threw on a Jedi Knight. I wound up switching recoveries to twrp as well. i like to flash roms alot till i find what i like best (dont we all). I wanted to try pa 2.52 but was unable to get it to bootup so I restored Jedi Knight.. I hit up the pa thread and people mentioned formatting internal storage. So I did that, and managed to get pa 2.52 on without any problems.. In the reboot options bootloader is not there.. So I started with my battery pull options to get there and nothing seems to be working..

some battery pull scenarios:

volume + & power = 1 vibe, samsung logo, let go >> boot back to rom. If I hold past 1 vibe, more continous vibes and no boot up at all

volume - & power = same as above

volume +- & power = 1vibe, samsung logo, let go >> recovery. If i continue to hold past the logo and then let go >> boot back to rom.

I'm trying to get to hboot just so I can see my s-off status & radio versions.. Much thanks..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] truckerdewd:
Boot loader and s-off are for HTC phones not Samsung phones

Sent from my wickedly awesome Galaxy S2 using my fingers. Duh!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pyfviperx:
I can see someone is coming from an HTC phone haha... If you are on the the T989 booting in download is volume down+volume up + power, or recovery mode its volume down + power.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 20twins10:
That would be why I am familiar with them.. I left my incredible and got the s2. Is their anything similar to that for us or no? Not that it makes a difference..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] truckerdewd:
Nope

Sent from my wickedly awesome Galaxy S2 using my fingers. Duh!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 20twins10:
Hrmph.... guess I don't have a problem after all..:thumbup:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] w1ll1am23:
Wait...so there is not bootloader

Hello I was attempting to get into my bootloader and I can't. If I am in the phone and press the power button I get the option to reboot if I click that I have the option to reboot into recovery, reboot into bootloader, or just reboot. Why have the option to reboot into bootloader if there isn't one?

I thought I booted into the bootloader to factory rest my SGH-T989 when I purchased it from someone was that not the case? was I booting into some sort of recovery?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] namanjr:
Yes, you booted into Download mode which is the mode needed to flash your phone over usb with a tool called odin. In most cases it doesn't wipe the /data or /emmc partitions though so the best thing to do is to use the factory restore in android or your installed recovery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] w1ll1am23:
Oh okay I am coming from an HTC as well so kinda new to this samsung thing. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rymanh:
This website will tell you everything you need to know

http://galaxys2root.com/category/t-mobile-galaxy-s2/
[Nexus 4 General] gideonMorrison:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/2/3589280/google-nexus-4-review

Enjoy!
[Nexus 4 General] munkustrap:
Thanks.

They are cute to keep the notification LED on when photographing.
[Nexus 4 General] spencer88:
I'm anxiously waiting for Android Police's review.
[Nexus 4 General] Nimche:
I live in the US and I don't care for LTE. If you have to pay lots and lots of money for internet service on your phone, you wouldn't care. I am mostly on WIFI and many places where I live has Wifi hotspots. and HSPA+ gives me about 1MBps which is more than enough for my non-WiFi Connection.
[Nexus 4 General] spencer88:
Yeah, like wtf. So when Apple had glass on their phone for 2 years straight it wasn't a problem but a design of a sleek phone. Now when a Nexus has it, it's a problem because the moron dropped it? Really?
[Nexus 4 General] estallings15:
His giving the screen a score of 8, but giving the screen on the Optimus G a 9 seems a little odd.
[Nexus 4 General] Venekor:
Disappointing.

I'll probably just stick with my GS2 and wait for my free upgrade in April.
[Nexus 4 General] ynrozturk:
That was a pretty bad review.
[Nexus 4 General] gideonMorrison:
The only thing I heard in the video review was: "It has no LTE, yada yada... So basically don't buy it because it DOES NOT HAVE LTE etc etc" The guy sounds like a complete moron only focusing on something idiotic like that.

What I also don't understand is that he gives the Optimus G screen a 9 and the Nex4 an 8. Aren't they identical!?
[Nexus 4 General] FISKER_Q:
Yeah i kinda lol'd, i do agree it would suck a lot, especially given you can't easily replace it(but atleast probably both easier and cheaper than the iphone), but still, this didn't seem to be a very huge point with either the iPhone 4 or the 4s.

LG Nexus 4:

iPhone 4s:

Oh, you!
[Nexus 4 General] wurzelsepp3:
Maybe the screen is calibrated differently, or there are quality fluctuations between the screens.

Camera is better than expected, which was pretty much my only concern with this device. :good:
[Nexus 4 General] NICEGYPT:
CRACK OMG :D I am going to get an otter box for this phone.
[Nexus 4 General] chrisjcks:
I read the whole thing, and its a crap review - so don't bother,

I constantly got the feeling that because this retard broke the back of his phone, it now 'breaks easily' and the fact of no LTE is a big no-no for this guy, so I got the feeling throughout the whole review, that he preferred other devices because of these 2 things.

Even stating its the fastest phone hes used, with super battery etc - the tone of the review all led back to his own stupidity of dropping it on a hard floor and the lack of LTE.

To Verge:

LTE is not the norm AT ALL!

UK has one network only offering it, and its only in selected cities - LTE also gives very little performance increase for browsing (only downloading)

This guy speaks like a typical American, sorry. (Generic)

He's arrogant enough to think America has it, so assumes everyone else has (or doesn't care that nobody else has it,but because he can get it and wants it - then it should have it or its crap), and because he wants to load websites a second longer and boast of speed test results, doesn't mean everyone is willing to double their monthly costs for LTE when most people use internet for just browsing, not to mention the crazy data caps, high battery drain etc that LTE brings - it also slows down software updates!

Im glad the review cleared up super performance & battery - but the rest just stunk of bitterness for his own stupidity.
[Nexus 4 General] r0cafella:
I'm not sure what to make of it lol.

In his unscientific battery life test he says it's good, but according to Anandtech and Engadget battery life is slightly better than the Galaxy Nexus but worse than the Optimus G.
[Nexus 4 General] yahyoh:
guys read endgadget review and forgot about the verge **** one : http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/02/nexus-4-review/
[Nexus 4 General] jsntrenkler:
I am currently running a Galaxy S3 and am considering this phone or the Optimus G .. 4.2 looks incredible, not sure how long it would take LG to update their flagship phone to the current software. Since they built the Nexus 4 you would think that they would have a head start.
[Nexus 4 General] chrisjcks:
Thanks,

Thats more like it, it should be similar to ONE X but of course, different colour reproductions always differ from screens, this is neither a good, or bad thing - some colours will look better than one x, whilst others will look better on one x - but a review saying on-par, is what we all expected - certainly the opposite of what verge said.
[Nexus 4 General] ynrozturk:
Thanks, I'd much rather read the Engadget review. The Verge guys are always a bunch of tools, I never take them seriously.
[Nexus 4 General] munkustrap:
:laugh: The baby crying for dropping his candies on the floor?

From time to time, some of them do forget they're also watched by the other 95% population on the planet.:laugh::laugh:
[Nexus 4 General] Pragmata:
I'm hoping mobilesyrup takes a bit less strict approach on LTE damning the whole thing since it's a Canadian based site and HSPA+ is from every carrier with major coverage and LTE is only in the major cities. I really want to see a review that isn't impacted and written under the influence of no LTE.

Either way, I'm going to be ordering this on day one.
[Nexus 4 General] Cusa:
If you are going to use a case then you have nothing to worry about.
[Nexus 4 General] chrisjcks:
The video review is even worse,

How many times does he say No LTE, no LTE, no LTE

Gawd!!!!!

Not once did he state the benefits of not having LTE, such as cheaper, higher data caps, much more battery life, quicker software updates etc

At least they gave some good images,

I'm glad to finally see the notification light.
[Nexus 4 General] raze599:
I was hoping to carry this bare but seeing that it is prone to cracking I might look for some kind of case. Probably a pouch.
[Nexus 4 General] r0cafella:
Great shot chris thanks....

Notification light looks awesome, Seems to RGB unlike HTC'S crappy notification light.

Also looks totally legible in daylight, Another thing which my One X can't do!
[Nexus 4 General] munkustrap:
Weird?
[Nexus 4 General] jader13254:
Oh My GOD this REVIEW SUCKS. No LTE is a big + for me, that would just make the device more expensive... seriously, here in germany we have LTE in maybe 40 BIG citys, and i pay 80€/month for LTE, so WTF who need LTE? useLTEss

god. OMG no LTE - no Prob

OMG Screen is blurry.. haha not sure if its all an Review by Steve Jobs ^^
[Nexus 4 General] yahyoh:
WTH , i'm not sure who we should believe -_-

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Gnex - GS3 - Gnote 2 has RGB led ( and maybe sony phones )
[Nexus 4 General] jak3z:
The moment I saw the iPhone5 on the desk, I was like :eek: Everything makes sense now!

As for the back crack it was kinda funny that he tried to justify himself as he THOUGHT that someone on google had a back crack aswell, like WTF can we ask how many iPhone 4 back cracks people had? :)
[Nexus 4 General] efan3719:
It's funny cuz every single iPhone 4 and up user I know has shattered the back glass. Not just a hairline crack. Shattered.
[Nexus 4 General] munkustrap:
Yes, the SONY has RGB led. But none of mentioned 3 devices can produce the 'right' colours the GNex does, all seem the R,G,and B are too far away from each other to mix. Not to mention only the GNex has the (visible) breathing effect and in Light Flow can give the exact colour as the app tells.
[Nexus 4 General] :
I've been reading reviews on various sites and they seem to be night and day on their viewpoints which is irritating, some say one feature is great, others say its lacking, speaker for example. Sites say its smoothest experience they've seen while engadget mentions hiccups, poor and great battery life. What I haven't heard too much about is video recording, though I rarely ever recorded 1080p videos on my S2 (always prefered 720p), engadget claims poor stuff

The main thing is the phone is great overall and I'll be buying the Nexus regardless, cause its too sweet a deal
[Nexus 4 General] munkustrap:
Fortunately I have none of those with my 4/4S, which gives me faith in Nexus 4.

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+1. It will be us the buyers will tell if it's the problem with those reviewers or LG's QC at the end of the day.

Funny seems Engadget got the worst piece.:cyclops:
[Nexus 4 General] jak3z:
I still don't understand how can engadget sample get a 4 hours battery life, and a the verge give it a 9/10 in battery lifetime. :silly:
[Nexus 4 General] supersain08:
All these reviewers are contradicting each other. Not sure what to believe
[Nexus 4 General] theoneofgod:
I don't get it either. Who to believe?
[Nexus 4 General] yahyoh:
LOL IMHO the verge and Engadget and cnet are ifanboys :eek:
[Nexus 4 General] KentuckyHouse:
I'm an American and I completely agree with you. I'm sick and tired of this "OMG it doesn't have LTE!!!" crap I've been reading. If you're in the US and you don't live in a big city, you don't have LTE anyway (at least when it comes to a GSM provider like AT&T), so what are you complaining about???

I feel like I've posted this a hundred times over the last few days, but I'm in central Kentucky...in Lexington...so I'm not out in the sticks. We don't have and won't have AT&T LTE anytime soon. I'm not crying over it. HSPA+ works just fine for me on my S3, so I'm not missing it at all.

The reviewer is in Brooklyn (NYC), so yeah, he's got and had LTE for a while now. I can understand that going "backwards" isn't any fun. But STFU about it already!

The one big nitpick I had with the review, other than the constant whining over a lack of LTE, is how he hammered AT&T's HSPA+ speeds in New York City. Um...dude...you just had a HURRICANE blow through! IIRC, AT&T and T-Mobile are now sharing towers in NYC and millions of people are still without power and you're *****ing over how slow your network is??? Maybe try getting out of a city where people are trying to use their cell phones for, um I don't know, ACTUAL EMERGENCIES???

I'll be buying this phone on November 13th and I won't be *****ing over a lack of LTE. Why? Because I don't freaking have LTE!
[Nexus 4 General] Galactic2:
The only thing brought up in this review that has me concerned is the glass back. Glass breaks and cracks. :\

DING DING DING!!!

I'm in NYC as well and my data speeds have been **** for the past week. I wish i could get 5mbits right now...
[Nexus 4 General] Razorblood:
I think I will upgrade eventually. I feel like there are some pre-release bugs that are causing all this inconsistency. If the battery life is better than my stock Galaxy Nexus I will get it. Everything else is better so why not go for it. And all these benchmarks... you just have to realize that this processor is so much better than dual core TI OMAP. I don't need benchmarks to know that. Think I will wait for the "Whats your stock battery life" thread.
[Nexus 4 General] Alpione:
I thought it was a pretty fair, honest review. He's not going to fawn over it like a lot of people here apparently expect. He's a US-based reviewer on a US-based website reviewing a US company's flagship phone. So yes, it's going to be a huge negative if you've had an LTE phone in the past, including the LAST Nexus. H'es dead-on that a lot of people in the US, including me, will probably pass so their data rates don't drop 75% compared to their existing phones.

He says multiple times that if you're in another country or an area of the US that doesn't have LTE, it's a great phone. Pretty balanced, if you ask me.
[Nexus 4 General] NICEGYPT:
Guys these reviewers gave their opinion based on what they are using right now. Everyone has his feeling about the device. Some will say it's amazing and some will say it's not that good as and as. So we need to chill out. I sold my GS3 for Nexus, GS3 was amazing with no single issue at all. I want to enjoy my Nexus in my way not the reviewers way. And so everyone in here ENJOY the phone in ur way. DO NOT LISTEN TO OTHER PPL.
[Nexus 4 General] Zorachus:
I used to think Josh was pretty open minded, but thinking he is a big Apple fan.

He loved the iPhone 4 and 4S, never *****ed or knocked the glass back on it, but now the Nexus 4 sucks for having a glass back ? Same with no LTE, the iPhone4S didn't have LTE, and last year almost all new high end Android phones had LTE and 4G options. Now all of a sudden that is a deal breaker, because the iPhone5 has it.

And a ton of other reviewers crying no sd/card, said all new phones in 2012 MUST have an sd/card option, but the iPhone has NEVER had that either, and never will, now that is a huge knock against the Nexus. Actually the Nexus hasn't had an sd/card for awhile now.

I am not dissing the iPhone5, I think it's a nice phone once a Jailbreak is available, but stock, no thanks. I will still take a Nexus 4 with no sd/card, and the glass back, and non removable battery, actually sounds a lot like a fruit branded device now, that gets rave reviews :)
[Nexus 4 General] Alpione:
Josh actually put "Glass and metal design is beautiful, but easy to shatter" on his "Bad Stuff" list in the 4s review. I think he's being pretty consistent there.

Same with LTE. Last year, the LTE footprint in the US was very small. This year, it's very prevalent and literally every flagship phone other than the Nexus supports it. Things change in a year.

I'm getting my wife a 4s soon and need to see how the HSPA+ is in our area. If it's 10mbps, it might be good enough for me. If it's 5, probably not.
[Nexus 4 General] Zorachus:
So if the Nexus 4 had an LTE option with 32GB this phone would be the biggest hit ever created ?

For me HSPA+ is just fine, with WiFi at Home and Office, and 16GB storage is more than enough for me. I have two 32GB Android phones, both have like 23GB free space, and I have a ton of ROM's on the sd/card, little bit of music, and few movies. I only use like 8GB at the very most, plus the OS itself is using like 3 or 4 GB. I can't even fill up a 16GB.
[Nexus 4 General] FISKER_Q:
If you look at the 2 quotes from the different reviews you can quite obviously see how little of an issue the glass back is made out to be in the iPhone 4s review vs. the Nexus 4 review.
[Nexus 4 General] Anubis007:
I felt like the guy that reviewed the phone on The Verge did a great job. i agree with all his cons, although he didn't stress the lack of LTE enough /sarcasm.

seriously though, he should've given points for its price tag but he didn't.

Edit: shouldn't carriers be blamed for the weak reception any way?