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[Nexus 4 General] sy224048:
I never wanted to leave sense. Then I tried cm10.1 after getting tired of the laggy and bloated sense 4. I fell in love with aosp and I came to the nexus. I still have the sensation for sense though.
[Nexus 4 General] adamski123:
Booting the phone for the first time and seeing the Google logo that greeted me from then I knew I had made it.
[Nexus 4 General] jiayit:
Yeah, the glowing X logo kinda turned me on and contributed to my loving of this device too :p
[Nexus 4 General] XxVcVxX:
The moment I forgot to flash the boot.IMG from fastboot, in the middle of a bus ride, while flashing a ROM, and seeing the phone still boot.
[Nexus 4 General] Goku80:
You bought a nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] atulalvenkar:
I started with android with Galaxy mini and graduated to Optimus One.

Was waiting to buy galaxy nexus but it was not released in India. So went with S2.

After the whole Exynos fiasco, I decided my next phone would be nexus. No matter what. Even if i have to forego warranty.

So when nexus 4 was released, I imported it from US Play Store to my country and am very happy with my decision.

I will never ever buy or recommend samsung phones to anyone.

Sent from LG Google Nexus 4 using XDA Premium
[Nexus 4 General] snak3ater:
When i tried to Turn it on,It stayed dead..Red Led blinking Constantly..I had read here on xda about this Red led issue..I was like Wtf..I went into Coma.When i came back to the real world,Charged the phone & it booted after an Hour finally :D
[Nexus 4 General] ryan stewart:
HTC Evo, rooted and flashed to AOSP. Lost WiMax but every app worked. Previously apps would struggle with HTC music players, lock screens, etc. Bought a GNex after that and then the Nexus 10 and a Nexus 4. I probably wont be buying a non-Nexus for a while.
[Nexus 4 General] Aprate:
had many htc's tytn II, diamond, touch pro, blackstone, desire, sensation, one x, and i still love htc but i tried cm/aosp on the desire and i always wanted to have a minimal rom. BUT allways it wasn't as stable as the sense roms. Tried everything but stuck to cm/aosp/aokp etc. And now finaly i bought a nexus 4 from germany.

I'm so relieved now! Never having the same pressure anymore. It just WORKS. Nexus <3

P.S. I love pie :p
[Nexus 4 General] rrmzr1:
After owning soo many devices. G2,evo,epic,epic touch,moto photon,galaxy 3, and running cm with various bugs I bought the nexus 4. All I can say is this is how android is supposed to be period. F touchwiz, map, and sense period
[Nexus 4 General] Spl4tt:
Me too, never had a "real" nexus moment. my first droid was a htc magic, wich I sold after one single week because it was like a child compared to my winmo phone (the sammy omnia) at that time.

then I got the HD2, the best winmo phone ever, and flashed android on it to see if it got better.

That android ROM was rooted and vanilla from the start, so I never really experienced any UI overlays until I bought the OneX. I also had a N1 for a short period of time, and was amazed that it's so much moother than the HD2, but I thought that would be only because android was ported onto the HD2 and sold it because the small screen.

**** I hated sense on the OneX.

even flashing ROMs and rooting it was ****.

Almost a year later I got the N4. yes, everything is easy again, as it should be. Not gonna buy any other brand again.

Like I already read in this thread: after "fastboot oem unlock" I knew that the HD2 wasn't an exception and that android is only real on nexus devices.

Sent from my Nexus7.
[Nexus 4 General] otonbc:
It could be silly ,bit my first nexus moment was when a took a photosphere in a stadium minutes before a Paul McCartney show here, in brazil.
[Nexus 4 General] Cuzz1369:
My first 3 days. ROM was updated twice and so was my kernel. Came from an HTC one v which was a pain to unlock, let alone you had to wait a month for the devs to update a ROM and it still had a bunch of broken stuff. The development on this phone really is astonishing. We are spoiled when it comes to choice, and everything works as it should with a custom ROM (mostly)

Carbonized and francofied N4
[Nexus 4 General] bundi22:
Having a feel of true native AOSP on the Nexus 4 after running CM on a galaxy s1 and galaxy s2 for the past 3 years.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] raqball:
A few seconds after 1st boot when you realize there is NOT 14,723 bloatware / crapware apps pre-installed...
[Nexus 4 General] m4r0v3r:
I had sampled the android os on other peoples phones and thought it was ****e, at the time I was using an N900 a device much superior to what android seemed. It offered no real multitasking and left me thinking wtf, I always wanted my phone to feel like a computer really and any phone then but the n900 didn't. But a android version was released on the n900 gingerbread, it still didn't seem that great to me personally, there was still no realtime multitasking. After a while I'd moved onto the N9. A beautiful device yet it was crippled by one thing having Nokia as it's maker and it was quickly killed off by the Trojan horse Elop. Later an ICS build was made for the N9 and worked fairly well aside from things like camera, GPS and calls but I text way more than I actually ring people so it wasn't a big deal. I seemed to boot into android for much longer and went days without even booting into meego harmattan, and it was around then I knew I needed to get an actual android device, but it had to be as open as my n900 was and the nexus line made perfect sense
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
When i opened the box and just starred at it, then powering it on with the x logo, and then the purple live wallpaper.. hope this nexus 4 last awhile, been 5 months
[Nexus 4 General] SneakyGuyDavid:
Came from a mytouch 4G using a custom sense rom made by a team whos name starts with a V , anyways sense 3.5 was nice and all , but within the first 10 minutes of opening my nexus 4 box I was stunned on how nice a 100% stock ROM can be .... Then I went and flashed cm 10.1 nightlies and Franco kernel and now my phone is like a mobile performance package :thumbup:

EDIT: the team that made the really nice sense rom was the Virtuous team. Just felt like throwing that out there after I remembered :D

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] can6rxw:
I've been in love with Stock Android since my SGN. So much so, I rooted my Galaxy S and have the latest on it. Runs like a beast! :) I have, as you see in my sig, an S3 and I love that phone, but he N4 is sic fast! Plus once you go over to stock, I don't think you'll want to go back. I do miss the S Planner on the S3...that is the best calendar I've EVER used. Nothing comes close.
[Nexus 4 General] deadzombieseverywhere:
1. Getting a Nexus 4 the first batch around. That was insane.

2. Holding the non branded black beauty.

3. Not having to worry about a locked-down bootloader, like on my old HTC One XL. A month went by with me wanting to chuck my replacement phone out the window because the HTC One XL I had before was rooted already. I got my replacement and HTC decided to lock it down. I was without AOSP-like goodness. O.o

4. Having the best Android devs work on your phone's ROM and kernel, with less stability issues.

Sent from my Paranoid Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] thunderstorm654:
I literally just got my N4 today. I wanted one at Xmas, but they were out of stock, so I stupidly got a HTC One X+.

I get the Nexus, plug it in, fire up a cmd window and type...

fastboot oem unlock.

Boom. No stupid HTC unlock tokens, no stupid S-ON, no stupid HTC stuff meaning CM10.1 isn't as great.

Happy to be here and love the phone instantly. Should have been patient for stock :)
[Nexus 4 General] Goku80:
Am back on stock and you know what. Once am updated am rooting only and staying stock. This bad boy is flying
[Nexus 4 General] thunderstorm654:
That's just it... even stock is excellent :)
[Nexus 4 General] Me Gusta:
1.5 year ago,with my Nexus S! Still rocking my Nexus. Will be rocking a nexus for the next decade I guess :D

Me Gusta!
[Nexus 4 General] stremax:
first booting on my nexus S, gave to my sister and still work, she don't even know she's maybe the second or third person in my town running android 4.2.2, but who cares..

and then staring at my first nandroid, thinking finally I can do everything, this will be my legacy if something went wrong.. this is how android should be

I'm loving it..
[Nexus 4 General] Treggs:
I received my Galaxy Nexus the day after an android update and when I turned it on for the first time it updated on first boot. Had and recommended Nexus' ever since. After a Samsung Galaxy S it was a breath of fresh air.
[Nexus 4 General] Poecifer:
As I've mentioned in other threads, I'm a Windows Phone user first. I have, however owned all of the top tier android devices, most recently the GS3. Even with that, I was talking about the lag, the horrendous force closes, and the mashed up UI. A week ago, I got a Nexus 4 at a steal and thought, "Why not?" So, I used it and honestly, I can't really imagine using another Android device. It trumps the GS3 and even my friend's GS4. This is what an android device should be.
[Nexus 4 General] Gorjira:
I had a T-Mobile (USA) GS3 and I always found myself putting on CM10.1 or PACman over Touchwiz. I hated all the wasted screen space and animations on it. After I rooted I never went back to it. I sold it for this phone and the first moment I really felt that I finally had a Nexus was the first boot of stock 4.2.2. It was fast, fluid, and refreshing to look at. Clean and no bloat. This is the way I'm going from now on.
[Nexus 4 General] :
Like most others here, "fastboot oem unlock" however, I had a hox and the phone was broken/under contract. HTC wanted $250 to fix it when I paid $100 for it. I just decided to buy the nexus 4 for $359 at that point.. Now I refuse to leave nexus.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Goofbot:
Got a nexus 7, read about custom roms, tried paranoid android, was never going to be anything but a nexus 4 after that...
[Nexus 4 General] Nethojs29:
When I found that almost all roms have no bugs since Google gives us a stock image of android for mako.
[Nexus 4 General] bassitone:
That was exactly me, except with the Optimus G. AT&T and LG wouldn't touch it, local cell phone repair shop wanted $260 and waiting for a month to repair it. I got it for $50 and the contract renewal. At that point, I just jumped on the nexus and am not looking back
[Nexus 4 General] Mi|enko:
To date, I have one of each Nexus. . . even the Q, with how useless it is. Can't bear to part with any of them. My N1 was a day 1 order with my name engraved on it. Makes a damn nice trophy. lol

That said, my nexus moment was when I got my N1. Not because of the unlocked nature. It was the hardware. At the time, no other device measured up. Not until 5 months later when the Galaxy S was released was there anything even remotely comparable. I had a G1 on launch day and, as great as I felt, it was nothing compared to that day I unboxed my N1. And don't even get me started on when lilhermit started making trackball alert.
[Nexus 4 General] Itswagz:
My first nexus moment was flashing stock firmware back onto the Galaxy S and selling it and loading up my Nexus 4 for the first time..

Damn sweet! The Nexus logo on boot up :cool:

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 General] Spl4tt:
OOOOH, THAT TRACKBALL

oooh and those colours... oooh..

I loved that one so much on the N1. The biggest thing I missed when I went back to the HD2 because the screensize (Oh well, and it's epicness) >.<

I'd still love a trackball like that on today's devices.. but it seems that time is over :(
[Nexus 4 General] darksora145:
Had the hd2 to mytouch4g to s3 to note 2 now n4

All I can say is that n4 is the epitome of buttery smooth experience.

I guess my nexus moment was when I unlocked and rooted my phone in just a few minutes and flashing a custom Rom right after. I always sweated allot on the others but this was the first time I that I didn't sweat!
[Nexus 4 General] Aerys:
Phasebeam wallpaper:victory::victory:
[Nexus 4 General] crazyjimbo:
I purchased my GSM Galaxy Nexus last year in June, right after Google I\O, because I decided that I wanted Jellybean. Bought off of Amazon because it was durning the sales ban, and Google wasn't selling it on the Play Store at the time. The first thing that struck me about my GNex is how gorgeous the front of it was - no logos, completely clean. So I guess that was my first Nexus Moment.

Others were also drawn to my phone, I was always getting compliments on it, getting comments like "Oooh, what phone is that", more so than I have with any other phone.

And, of course, the huge amount of development helps, too. I don't see myself leaving the Nexus brand anytime soon!
[Nexus 4 General] jcmaddox1:
I was in love with stock android when I had an iPhone, I flashed it to the iPhone and ran it, and eventually decided, well, time for an upgrade! I then go the HTC Inspire, but quickly realized it was not stock. I went on XDA, did some research rooted and unlocked and got Cm7, and eventually all the way up to 4.1, and then decided since HTC can't keep their phones supported like they promise for 8 months, I'd go with a nexus, at this point I had been envious of all nexus owners, and now, I am one. And I absolutely love it. :D
[Nexus 4 General] uploder:
Not an "aha" moment but when I realized stock is pretty darn awesome. you see, I used to have to flash custom roms to add features that should have been in stock, remove bloatware etc. Each time it'd be cool for awhile then random bugs would appear. Nothing crippling or anything but just the fact that I had to look for yet another rom to use as a stable daily. such a pain in my opinion. I've only rooted my N4 and havent tried a custom rom to this day. Stock really is awesome. Yup, Im pretty sold on the nexus line from here on out!
[Nexus 4 General] Carter0108:
upon purchases the nexus 10, looking at my s3 and thinking "I don't use any of the features Samsung have brought to this phone."
[Nexus 4 General] StevoMark10:
Update available

The moment when I turned it on for the first time, and saw the notification; "There's an update available for your phone"! loved it!
[Nexus 4 General] jpeterson066:
Lg optimus v > att galaxy s2 > nexus 4 From my gs2 days when I realized the Intl versions of devices got all of the best dev talent, did a little research and turns out that nexus devices were even better.
[Nexus 4 General] :
Back in the day I had the t mobile mytouch 3g which was the same as the g1 minus the keyboard, so it was stock android and has tons of roms. I then had a couple non stock phones and realized how much bull crap it is to have to hack my way back to stock android. So now, I'll switch back to a dumb phone before I buy another non-nexus android.
[Nexus 4 General] L337L355:
My first moment was back with my HD2 and playing around on different ROMs. I enjoyed the level of customizability of the OS compared to WM 6.5.x. After my HD2 no longer charged the battery I went to an N4, and have been pleasantly surprised with the multitude of options available to me just through stock.
[Nexus 4 General] haelmchen:
Since HTC refused to create Updates for the DHD, I decided to only buy Nexus devices in the future. Never ever use a buggy, ported ROM again
[Nexus 4 General] d_phekt:
Was randomly browsing around at the cell phones at Best Buy back when I was rocking my Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant. They had a Nexus S on display and it blew me away. Bought one 2 days later and have been strictly a Nexus user ever since.
[Nexus 4 General] Johmama:
Nexus 4 is my first Nexus device, and I won't buy any other phone now. It's also my first Android phone. I've only had one smartphone besides this and it was an iPhone 4. I am very good with technology and hate how Apple restricts your device and won't let you do anything to it, plus it's overpriced.

I was debating for months whether to get the Nexus or wait for the S4, and during that time, I decided, what the heck, let's go with Nexus. The only reason I was even debating the S4 is because I was on Verizon and I didn't want to have to switch. Basically going from no knowledge of Android to flashing a new ROM and a kernel in a matter of a few hours after getting the device was probably my first "Nexus" moment. Download the SDK, and enter one line into the command prompt to unlock the bootloader? Are you kidding me?

I love how Google basically doesn't care and want you to mess with your phone. I hate it when I buy a piece of personal electronics and the manufacturer still tells me what I can and can't do with it, even after I spent my money on it. Heck, I'll almost wait for things to get custom firmware/ROMs before I'll buy them. Back when the PSP first got CFW and I flashed my first version onto my PSP, I've always looked at what my options are when it comes to customizing hardware. I guess I just don't like how after I've already purchased this device, the company still tries to dictate what I can and cannot do with it. I can spike it on the concrete and bust the thing and they don't care, but as soon as I want to increase the performance or tweak it's functionality, or even activate hardware that they purposely deactivated with software (Sony, I'm looking at you), they get all pissed and brick it on purpose if you try to run something that isn't signed by them. I hate that.

So I guess realizing the freedom I get with Nexus was my first Nexus moment. I wouldn't get nearly that freedom and awesomeness on another phone. I can't wait till I/O starts, I'm going to buy the newly vamped Nexus 7.
[Nexus 4 General] ChongoDroid:
I bought my nexus one and I was like "ohhhhhh thaaaaats what a phones supposed to be like."
[Nexus 4 General] AkshayHegde:
Well its isnt just one big moment

I went through a series of phones :D

1. Samsung Galaxy 5--Dont even need to explain why

2.Samsung galaxy pop-- The screen resolution made me cry

3.Samsung Galaxy Ace-- Was good for a while but realized it had way to less Ram. So moved on to

4.Samsung Galaxy S2--The ultimate phone of 2012 but it had its time and it showed its age when the next gen devices came. Plus i hated waiting for a stable rom with the latest and greatest of google.

5.Nexus 4- 3 months of waiting and i finally got this precious!! The part where i never need to wait and i can grab the latest when i feel like yeah awesome feeling :P The part where i can look at everyone else and say oh your still on 4.2.2 really? :P :P /burn :D (im evil)
[Nexus 4 General] Traviizter:
Having a bloated Sony Ericsson phone that was limited in terms of software and hardware, and realising how open Nexus devices are.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] danyjohn:
htc nexus one:D
[Nexus 4 General] pak-stars:
when i bought my first one for 220 sold that for a profit and bought another for 130
[Nexus 4 General] phewizzo:
Going from pure Android. MyTouch3G to the Nexus One. Then buying a Galaxy S2 and realized pure android cant be touched and no one elses UI can even come close. Got rid of my GS2 fast for a Galaxy Nexus and now here I am with the N4.
[Nexus 4 General] Ethos Evoss:
Impressed it is better than optimus g
[Nexus 4 General] Firekostas:
When I turned on my nexus 4 for the very second time and noticed the little unlocked locker icon at the bottom :D only ten minutes since the first boot :)
[Nexus 4 General] DroidDavi:
I remember getting my g1 and was amazed . If we are talking nexus . I saved up the over 500 I believed for the Nexus 1. I was working OT picking up all the extra shifts . When I got it I was so hype. While it wasn't much different from my g1 having the nexus was cool
[Nexus 4 General] vikan:
Same with me. this unlocked icon looks very cool to me :D
[Nexus 4 General] 3xeno:
My first "Nexus Moment" would be flashing the first CM6 Nightly on my HTC Wildfire. I was instantly hooked onto stock AOSP, and have been on AOSP ROMs ever since. I couldn't upgrade really since the next Nexii were not officially available in India (Nexus S was for a short time, but it was way overpriced). For that, my next upgrade was to a Galaxy SII. While it still is an awesome phone and I love it to bits, the Exynos saga is a nightmare, and development for the device is literally at a standstill, thanks to proprietary bits. So, even though personally for me, the SGSII -> N4 is not exactly a huge upgrade, my desire for Stock AOSP and good support trumps the drawbacks of the N4. WIth the Nexus 4 finally officially arriving here at a decent price point (I am not comfortable with the "importing" route many have taken already), I can finally realize my dream of owning a Nexus.

I went for the Wildfire seeing the beauty of Sense then, and I had presumed I would never be able to live without Sense. How wrong I was. TW was even worse. For the limited time I was on a TW ROM, I was on an AOSP theme :P
[Nexus 4 General] ismethajametovic:
Mine was when I first watched porn on it. :laugh: :victory:
[Nexus 4 General] roytev:
that i got update!!!!
[Nexus 4 General] Toronadian:
When I unlocked the bootloader and rooted a phone in general for the first time with my Nexus 4. Tried doing the same with my girlfriend's Samsung Galaxy S2X (formerly mine) and wasn't able to do it, was much harder (probably just my own incompetence to be honest).

Seeing how clean the setup was, without all the bloatware compared to the Galaxy S2X I had temporarily.

In that case, I guess when my phone updated to 4.2.2 the day it came out. I mean actually getting a software update within a day it comes out was pretty cool.

All of this stuff I guess is the norm for some of you guys, but being a noob with tech and cellphones, those things are somewhat of a big deal to me. I know some of you may switch phones often, but I'll be sticking with this one for at least 2 years. I've stuck with other phones because I'm stuck on 3 year contracts
[Nexus 4 General] haikus.hiatus:
the time when i purchased my phone, an update came just before i leave the store :)
[Nexus 4 General] Tunderpimp:
Streaming Diablo 3 to my phone and playing it with a wireless display
[Nexus 4 General] stardusk:
After having a HTC Legend which was quite difficult to unlock and root. I got a Nexus S after it and the command fastboot oem unlock was like magic after the HTC. Since then only Nexus for me.
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
Back in 2010, I was using the iphone 3gs. Nice phone at the time but I had it unlocked for T-Mobile USA with Cydia and for some reason the signal was bad, kept loosing signal everywhere and it was very inconsistent. that was a blessing as I looked towards a new experience and ordered the Nexus 1 from google. Had it shipped at my job and one of my coworker unboxed it. Was speechless coming from an iphone at the time, seeing the live wallpaper. Eventually used the Gnexus and nexus 4. Been an android guy since.
[Nexus 4 General] jose13683:
Coming from a samsung galaxy s1 running cm 7/9/10/10.1 I was already used to the stock android interface. But my real "nexus moment" was when I saw the nexus bootloader with the unlocked "lock". A little voice was talking in my head:"now you can start playing!!" :):)
[Nexus 4 General] soumoks:
The nexus 4 is my first android device,just fell in love with the phone the moment i saw it,android as a eco-system is so damn awesome!!.The above statement comin from a guy who has used a symbian device previously..:p,the speed of the phone has just amazed me,the ability to run multiple apps without the fear of lag or crashes is just mindblowing and the notification system has blown me away.The nexus is my first android device and am sticking with the nexus series,go nexus!!,go pure android!!
[Nexus 4 General] trillo69:
Funny to see how most of you had your first nexus moment with another phone (the G1). :D

For my it was the moment I saw this on franco's thread (I didn't had the phone in that moment, but was ordered):

My previous phone was a HTC Desire, and such a thing was completely unthinkable, all roms (even stock) had flaws and bugs. That moment I knew this was different.
[Nexus 4 General] diggy_:
When my phone rebooted from a custom Rom glitch and it was at the home screen faster than I could imagine. I came from a Htc evo 4g