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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackplague1347:
I got the N4 in the mail the Monday after it came out. I too am coming from the AT&T HTC One X. I used the N4 for about a week straight before deciding to break out the ol' One X (just for a change of pace). Quite frankly, it would be hard for me to give up the N4 for the HOX now.

The HOX is a great phone, but the N4 just makes it feel slow in comparison. Maybe I'm spoiled by the speed of the N4, but I just felt like I had to wait forever to do basic things on the One X (running the latest ViperROM, btw). The HOX has better battery life, for sure, and the camera is better. I miss those two things the most. The HOX still has the best screen out there (other than the Droid DNA), but the N4 really isn't far behind. Once a few color control apps come out for the N4, my guess is that I won't really miss the screen as much. For what it's worth, I forgot just how big the HOX's screen is. When they say 4.7", they mean it. The N4 has a 4.7" screen too, but it's probably more like a 4.5" once the on-screen buttons are considered. But the additional width is really nice and almost makes up for it. I don't have LTE anywhere near me where I live, so that's irrelevant to me. I don't travel much either.

Here's my summary.

HTC One X:

- slightly better, arguably bigger screen

- better battery

- better camera (in terms of picture quality; the software is on par with the N4)

- smaller development community, although they're doing a great job imo

- poor multitasking on Sense roms (works fine on AOSP roms)

N4:

- stock Android

- blazes through any task you throw at it

- AT&T doesn't control your phone

- easier to root, flash roms, kernels, etc.

- future proof with quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM

I am fully satisfied with my Nexus 4. I love my One X, but I will not be going back to it any time soon, most likely.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zaimojin:
I've actually been with the iPhone since the 3GS when I came into the smartphone world. I read up about this and decided to give it a try from the 4S I was using, and I'm really enjoying the Nexus 4.

I'm still a bit apprehensive to give up iOS since I've been with it for so long--still haven't sold my 4S--but I have a feeling I'll be sticking with this phone for a while. The larger screen real-estate is also much nicer to have in general. I'm torn!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrew.simon:
I feel like you and me are one in the same! The only thing I do miss is the amount of iPhone users. All my friends and family have one... Which makes me miss iMessage and group texting :/
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hung0702:
You are on the forums and mentioned your problems with the 1X community's lack of activity.

I like the screen, but other phones have better screens which are also better calibrated. I like the camera, but indoor photos have very inaccurate white balance.

Connectivity is good (I'm using a $10 MEdia Net plan from AT&T and have used over 2GB every month and one month even went over 12GB cause my Internet was out), and I'm getting 500KB/s average (~4Mbps). Battery life is also good; I get about a day of moderate use and 6-7 hours of literally constant, active use. I am really hurting from the lack of storage as I do a lot of reporting and don't always have time to transfer the interview recordings. I do a lot of work away from a PC and need to be able to quickly seek tracks, so I have to keep he audio on internal memory.

By most people's standard, I'm very careful with my phone. I consider my usage to be of common sense and responsible practice. The Gorilla Glass is very scratch resistant, but I'm sure a few encounters with silicate and a hard surface would leave a mark.

But really, all of these things pale in comparison to one criterion: the development community. I came from a Galaxy S and the community was amazing. Though the HP Touch Pad was well known, it apparently wasn't popular enough to garner a lot of dev support and those forums are fairly sparse.

By getting a Nexus phone, you know that the every dev is prioritizing your phone over any other model they might be working on as well. Cyanogen posted. AOKP posted. Moles posted. These are the respective heads of the three best teams this community has to offer. Check their post history. They don't appear in too many other phones' forums; they usually have teammates do that. But for the Nexus 4, they want to be the ones posting. That says a lot.

And a lot of other devs know this about the community heads' devotion to the newest Nexus model. They are locked in to a N4 for the major dev support, but will also provide their own amateur, but very valuable, contributions as well.

I'm sure the 1X is a great phone. I'm sure the 1X+ is a great phone. Same goes for the DNA, Optimus G, and other leading smartphones out there. But the N4 attracts the biggest development teams, and in turn attracts smaller developers. It kind of feeds on itself, with regard to popularity. None of these other phones have so much 3rd party support going on for them.

So, if you are looking for the absolute best hardware, maybe you should keep looking (keep the N4 in mind, though). If you're looking for flexibility, know that your stuck with one battery on the road and can't expand the meager storage provided. But if your looking for ROMs, kernels, and tweaks that let you customize the phone exactly how you want it, and maximize the potential of the hardware, then look no further.

The Nexus 4 subforums are truly the promised land.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wngmv:
Couldn't have said it better. The best devs are working on this phone (provided if they could get one) and that is the exciting part of Nexus4. Trumps all other phones out there.

It might seem very complicated at once if you are not familiar with Android, but it's actually quite simple. And people are always there to help. I'm looking forward to at least 1 great year with this phone.

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And the fact that I am the only one I know are using it makes it super cool. I have several friends who know of N4 but didn't purchase one all liked the phone after I showed them. Their impression was the speed and the screen.

A friend asked me to purchase an iPhone for him since I'm going back to China soon. While in Apple Store, I took out my phone and google talk'ed with him. I can't help but notice the "Genius" looking at me. :laugh: And signing on that 3.5' tiny screen is just ridiculous. I paid half the price for what he is gonna pay for that piece of gadget, but I don't even have the desire to try out the iPhone 5 in their store.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VoiD_Dweller:
When I got my N4 I was stunned at the slim look and mild colors. I wasn't sure if I'd like it after being on an SGS2 for over a year. I've gotten to where I really love everything about the phone, except the signal.. It sucks.

I can hold the phone next to my Nexus 7 or Galaxy Tab 10.1 and where I would normally get full bars of Wifi signal, I get 1 bar if I am lucky. The cellular signal is terrible as well. Living in Florida with hurricane glass and Double block walls - my SGS2 got really good signal, this thing is just garbage. If you rely on good signal, its not for you..

The touch sensitivity on the on-screen buttons at the lower portion of the phone seem to be not so great, other than that and the signal issues everything else is excellent..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SunSDK:
I'm very happy with my 8GB
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donkeybat64:
Like you, I previously owned a at&t htc one x as well. I ordered my nexus 4 on the 13th and have been using it for a couple of weeks now. Since then, I have sold my htc one x.

to be completely honest, i have to say i liked the camera and screen combination of the htc one x better. Colors on the htc one x were brilliant and vivid, while the nexus 4 screen seemed to look dull. this is all personal preference, but i prefer the 'over-saturated' look.

speed on the nexus 4 is a lot faster compared to sense, but when i had cm10 on my htc one x it wasnt a slouch either.

in terms of aesthetics, they are both beautiful in their own ways. i quite liked the htc's design, but i agree on the lack of support, with the nexus you are guaranteed at least a couple of updates, (just look at the nexus s, got 4.1)

here's my advice to you: as nice as the nexus 4 is, if there is nothing wrong with you htc one x, dont upgrade. If you want jellybean 4.2 and dont want to wait for the update, root your HOX and put cm10 on it.

I was able to sell my HOX for $260 and my nexus 4 was $340 after taxes/shipping.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alewis2k12:
I for one am very happy with my Gnex4...Ive had every phone that came out this year...just sold my note 2 which was a pure beast if I must say but this nexus have a more snappier feeling as far as speed and etc...plus development is going crazy for this phone which is a big +....but overall this is the best phone on the market hands down...with the note 2 very close behind...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockHead:
Interesting, I came from a TMO SGS2 and have quite the opposite experience. My N4 has notably better cellular and WiFi reception.

I'm very happy with my N4.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ceejay83:
i'm happy with the phone but build quality is sub-par.

first phone: chrome and rubber frames weren't put together properly, brightness would get stuck

second phone: red pixels would show up randomly in various parts of my screen

waiting on my third phone, hopefully it's fine
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] cubandevil:
guys would it be possible to take off the screens in each tablet and install the nexus 10 screen on the note 10.1 ?? Wouldnt that give us the resolution capabilities for it , and at the same time replace the battery and get the NFC ??
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
The Note has an inductive display to support the S-Pen and the N10's display is capacitive and the pen won't work. So, pick one.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] cubandevil:
so the screens are not separated like a digitizer and the actual screen ?? and sorry for these question im ignorant when it comes to things like these.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] thas5:
Pretty sure the Exynos 4 that's inside the Note 10.1 doesn't support the Nexus 10's screen resolution. So it won't work as far as I know.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] samir_a:
The screen wont work for mainly two reasons the wavecom chip wont work with a capacative screen and it does not support higher resolution then what we have on the note. That is why not has that resolution

The processor does not support that high resolution.

These are main two reason apart from many other. Its like fitting a trucks body on a cars chassies
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
Here's the difference between the two displays. An inductive display picks up an electro-magnetic signal from the pen where a capacitive display only can respond to physical contact. Based on the manufacturing complexity I'd guess the Note's display cost Samsung more than the FHD+ display on the N10.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] hoss_n2:
We have both capacitive and inductive digitizers as we have dual digitizers one from atmel and the other is wacom
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] cubandevil:
Thank you guys , just using my imagination :P

I didnt know that the screen resolution mattered to the cpu , but then again a computer monitor will go as far as the graphics in a pc allows it ..
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] samir_a:
Yes the same concept works over here, it depends on how much the mali gpu allows it go to. Secondly as the resolution increase the processing power requirement also increases.

You can have insane resolutions but how pratical are they since most of the apps are developed for a 5inch screen.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
This was posted in the N10 forum and sort of describes the challenges of inking on a capacitive display by someone who tried to solve them. To me, either inking works well or why bother. Using a kluge might get the job done but would be very frustrating. I'd rather live with the 720P display (which is still better in contrast and brightness than the N10's).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Markhypnosis:
You have posted a comparison between a RESISTIVE display and a capacitive/inductive one. The top picture is resistive which is old technology now, it's what the old smart phones and pocket PC's used and had a thin layer of plasticky material for sensing pressure. The note 10.1 uses both capacitive (for fingers) and inductive (for the pen).....and the nexus 10 just uses capacitive, not the screen in the 1st pic in your diagram. As far as I know, no screens use resistive tech anymore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] tybowski:
Hi there. Changed my build prop to use softkeys, which I have done many times. Soft keys are great. But until there is a permanent soft key for menu I like turning off hardkeys but using the menu hardkey. Some reason now they have stopped workin except home key. Anyone have any idea's.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dayloooo:
Not sure if you have solved the problem but....

There is a thread in the Android Development forums

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In the second post, you can see where you can enable/disable keys. Check those values if they are commented out or removed. If so, uncomment or add them back in.

Hope this helps!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mjhay19:
Anyone having problem using MTP on windows 8? I installed KIES and Samsung driver.I can see at the bottom right of the screen that windows 8 recognized my s3 but I can't/access it to transfer files.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nanabozho:
I found with windows 8 you need to install the additional programs that oddly enough don't present itself.

The Media Feature Pack for Windows 8 is needed. Because the MTP is a media player so just having the driver isn't enough.

So go to the Windows Media Player site and get the downloads for Windows 8.

I found with the Media Player add-ons I didn't need to install KIES - be sure to reboot after install.

I know this thread hasn't had a reply in... EVER however I found this thread from a search so it should prove useful to others in the future.
[General Questions and Answers] daddyguru:
I am running clockworldmod and am trying to format the system and data. System formats fine, but when I format data it gives me an error. I recently ran manualnooter but had not discovered the cyanogenmod. I want to get the cyanogenmod running on my nook color, but I cannot get the memory cleared to do so. HELP?!?!?!?!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] XxCrockxX:
Looking to get Google wallet up and running on my phone. I have it installed, but when it asks me to enable my NFC, and I go to check it, it stays greyed out. Is this normal for AOKP? Is there a fix? Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
make a nandroic, flash a stock rom, check NFC to the on position, restore nandroid. win

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also, if you had done a search for "NFC Greyed out" youll find a zip file that may work too.

remember to search, this gets asked each week it seems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] XxCrockxX:
Thank you, I appreciate the reply. Sorry for not searching :/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
no problem, just tryin to help.

its quicker and easier than waiting for an answer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Erazo1986:
2 times I have encountered an issue where when I restore a back up and reboot all I get is a black screen, I hear sound of the screen responding to touch but no response from the screen and booting into recovery from that does not work. I haft to pull the battery in order to get the device to respond again. Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
Are you doing a full wipe prior to restoring? Assuming you are, it could just be a corrupt backup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Erazo1986:
I didnt do a full wipe , I wasn't aware you had to wipe prior to restoring my back up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
Hehe yep. So did it work after you wiped?

Edit: Errrr I guess it did seeing that you posted from your GNII :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Erazo1986:
I wiped dalvik and cache and it booted up. Thank you for your help, I will keep that in mind for future refrence.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jknakes:
my phone is unrooted running the jb. i've been having issues with play music and tried doing a factory restore on it. before the restore i was unable to log into media hub to download the avengers movie but could after. my play music still stops playing after a couple songs which is annoying and since the restore my batter life has been terrible. media server is using up 34% or or more of the battery. i searched and read that it may be a corrupt file on the sd card. so i formatted the card, which seemed to have slowed it down a bit. it's gone through several restarts and charge cycles and hasn't worked itself out. there's nothing running left running and i've gone into application manager and stopped anything that looked media related. before did the restore i could go almost a day and half without charging now i can barely make 12 hours and i'm not a heavy user. could it be the avengers file on the phone doing this?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pennycake:
A solution that works for many people is to back-up their data and re-format the card.

If that doesn't work, I would search the forums because this is covered in-depth if that doesn't work.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] durps:
Theres a thread on her explaining what to do. I forgot if its in the general section or q and a's but its not too old. You have to be rooted though.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] kingston73:
Do you have an external SD card also? If you do and haven't formatted it you should try that.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jknakes:
as i said in my original post i have formatted the external card. i did another factory reset this morning and am waiting waiting for everything to finish installing. i took my sd card out and will leave it out just to make sure that's not the problem. i'm also not going to sign into any of the samsung thins. hopefully it is was one of those causing it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] kingston73:
Well, there's the internal SD card also, did you make sure that one is ok too?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jknakes:
i'm not sure how i would do that.

it's been a been 4 hours since i pulled my phone off the charger after and i'm at 73% with moderate usage. screen and internet being my main usage. so i'm betting that it it was either a corrupt avengers download and/or the samsung media hub.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] GiZZy:
Usually especially after a wipe or a reset the phone will have a high media server battery drain until it indexes everything and settles down. Give it a day.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tony yayo:
I get this problem at the least, whenever I unplug from the charger or swap out batteries. Usually kills about 10% of my battery right off the bat, every time. Seems to do it at random other times but don't know why. It even did it, although not to the same level, without the SD card inserted. I haven't yet tried reformatting the SD card because most people are saying it did nothing. Also, simply transferring my files to the computer, formatting the SD card, and transferring them back is not going to fix a corrupt file, right? So then... what's the point?

But back to my question, you say after a wipe or reset it will do this, so... is something telling my phone every time I reboot that it was just wiped and that is why it does it EVERY time? I was having this problem out of the blue while on FrostyJB10 so I updated to the latest 11.2 i think it is, and with a factory reset and all the wipes, still having this problem. For some reason media and media server are causing major battery drain. Back on ICS I would usually get 30-40 hours out of a stock battery and I USE my phone. I hope we can find a definitive fix for this because I really like all the features of JB. Honestly, I'm surprised one of our dev's hasn't already fixed this but oh well.

If anyone has experienced this problem before but switched to a custom rom and don't have the problem anymore, please let me know which one? Thanks.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] byron1985:
I had that same issue on every touch wiz ROM I ussed Im currently running black jelly and it started to do it. I first took out my external SD card and saw if that fixed the problem. It did not, but what did fix the problem was deleting all the cache from all the media apps. It was some rogue cache getting in the way now everything works peachy.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aznmode:
I'm having the same issue now after updating to 4 different JB custom roms. Didn't have the issue for the time I had ICS rom and dont have the issue when I nand restore my ICS so I don't trust the formatting card fix and I have a 64gb card thats almost full. Gonna start over and reinstall 1 app at a time.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tony yayo:
I tried all the fix's out there and nothing worked. It's finally settled down a bit now. It does seem to be awake as much as it always had but doesn't seem to use as much cpu so battery is lasting longer. The only things I HAVE been able to figure out is it is usually worse after unplugging it from the charger, freezing Google+ seemed to help quite a lot (although i may have done something else around the same time, just not sure what), and I did the suggestion of wiping the cache of all the programs mediaserver uses. I downloaded system tuner pro to help try to pinpoint it but not really sure how to use it yet, I'll try to keep ya posted!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aznmode:
Thanks. I also determined its not another app causing it by wiping data, cache, dalvik, and reflashed custom rom. Then I bypassed the initial setup (gmail, dropbox). Battery started off at 57%. When it went to 56% I pressed the power button to put it to sleep. 2 min later it went down to 55%. Checked battery stats and sure enough media is on top again at 39% usage and about 2 min running time.

I think I'll just have to go back to ICS for now. The only significant difference I really see with JB is its much smoother. I rather have my phone last longer. Ah well...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aznmode:
Just another FYI I Odin the root66 UVDLJA tar so went back to stock bootloader as well and still battery drain. Its stock rom just rooted. This has to be a JB thing.

Since I'm on stock rooted and stock recovery I'm going to factory reset within the settings to clean up my internal storage. This should be a clean slate and load CWM and will try another custom rom and see how it goes.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tony yayo:
So I unplugged my phone before work about 7 hours ago. Media server wasn't used at all which was unusual. That is until I listened to a couple songs on Google play. In fact their times used were almost identical. Did u try freezing Google+? That definitely helped for me although I like having my pictures uploaded automatically so freezing it kind of sucks. Gotta do what I gotta do to nail this thing down.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aznmode:
Maybe its settling in for you. Anyhow it seems what I've done made a some difference. Battery isn't draining as much and media doesn't stay on top anymore. Its only been half a day and ill have a better idea by tomorrow.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] durps:
Download media scanner root, install, disable the media scanner and thatll solve it. Only time itll come on is when listening to music. Also delete gsiff-deamon and qosmngr in the system bin for better battery life. Google where to find these.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aznmode:
Thanks might try this too. Do you seen any drawback to disabling media scanner such as queueing gallery pics or videos when in gallery or video player app?