[Nexus 4 General] Tenji7:
At first I hated(maybe that hated word is causing all the troll hate response, I just didn't really like it although I am fine with it) pretty much everything about the nexus, the onscreen softkey, the google now spot(even when search bar is remove), power button, lockscreen, the stock 4.2 software. It was missing feature that I would like such as different wallpaper on lockscreen, vibrate setting, led, etc. I did not want the phone at all. But I am stuck with it for the next 2 month. I decide to change all the stuff I could. Reason I got a nexus was because my bro order it and have to go out of country before the nexus arrive. I gave my s3 for him to use.

First was the power button, it was not parallel to the volume up button. I had to adjust my hand everytime to turn on the screen and readjust it to unlock my phone. I remapped the power button to the volume up button, I also map the back key to the volume down and the home key to the power. I use GMD gesture app to adjust the volume.

The lockscreen also suck, you can't change wallpaper, etc. There's also the black navbar on the bottom which have no use. Now some will say it's for the google now. Even if you don't use the google now and disable it. The bar is still there. So what the heck. Android is no different then ios. In stock they are both limited to what they want you to change. Just that Android have some more feature. I use widgetlocker to remedy to lockscreen issue.

Next is the softkey or navigation bar. It was bigger then I like and taking up the screen. The actual usable screen was shrunk. It was only a bit taller then the iphone 5. One reason I don't like iphone is because of the screen size. I use hidebar app to disable both the navbar and the status bar. I use GMD gesture to map the home button as a swipe up motion from the middle bottom screen. Back at the bottom left.

And the homescreen, there was no unread dot on the message or phone application. Only on the status bar does it tell you. The home screen also have the stupid google now bar. Even when remove, the space is still there. You can't put icon or widget there. Which is stupid. I had to use apex launcher to fix the stock android home screen and give me my unread dot back.

See how limited stock android is. They made have the feature but not the option for those feature. For example if they have a feature for vibrate, then I want option to change the vibration. Feature to display subtitle on video, I want option to adjust subtitle size. Led notification feature, I want option to adjust it. Feels like apple to me except you can mod it which is why I like Android.

Other issue I have is the slow Led notification. I use lightflow to fix the slowness of it. One thing the hidebar does is prevent the screen when someone call to appear. What I did was use video caller id. It's better and it works perfectly, you can use 1080p music video as your ringtone. I crop up the video to portrait and the video shows fullscreen unstretch HD quality.

After all that, I'm really liking the nexus now. More then the s3, I just didn't like that I have to do all that to make me like it the nexus unlike my galaxy s3 which is basically stock.