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[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
[MENTION=3076718]Molitro[/MENTION] is 100% correct. ON the GNEX screen, the blacks do not turn off completely. They due in fact stay lit but just barely. The reason for this is to save time when going from black to another color. If it completely turned off and had not power then their would be a slight delay to turn the light on to produce another color.

Since there is such a low level of power to the black pixels it will appear that they are actually turned off, especially in a lighted room or when another color is lit up against the black but you can surely tell there is power to the blacks in a completely dark room with only black showing if you were to compare it to when the screen is actually off.

I do believe black pixels have the ability to actually turn itself off but more times then not it won't.

You also have to deal with those ugly blotches that Amoled screens produce on blacks. Not sure if they have been able to fix that on the S4 but it was present on my GNEX and S3.

Anyway, LCD displays have a sharper picture then the blurriness of Amoled displays. Also, LCDs handle sunlight much better. You also don't have to worry about keeping everything on your screen black and dreary to save battery life on LCD's. You can go as colorful as you want. No need to always run blacked out GAPPS to make it through a day with the battery.
[Nexus 5 General] pfmiller:
I tested with an LCD checker app and it's true, the GN does have a faint light from the blacks. But this doesn't change my doubts about the original assertion that the N5 has better blacks. The fact that the light can't be captured on a camera and that many people who've had the phone for two years never noticed it makes that obvious. I've never seen an lcd where the glow wasn't immediately obvious.
[Nexus 5 General] Molitro:
Oh I'd never say N5 's lcd has better blacks than the GNexus. Thinking that is plain delusional

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] SithL0rd:
I had a Nexus One for 20months(still miss my trackball) Got the Galaxy Nexus when they did the price drop to $350 cause the new Nexus phone was gonna be $600 again right? Jokes on me. Had I waited two months I coulda got the N4 for the same price. FML.

I've never been happy with the GNEX it didnt seem much faster than the N1 and the battery seemed worse and now I can go through two batteries a day. It gets really hot when using some apps. So much so I had to take it out of the case because I was worried about it overheating. I decided to give it a chance but by the time I made a choice it was already too late to return it.

Now in the last three months I've cracked the screen and dropped it in the toilet and its still working so I guess theres that.

Patiently waiting on my 32gb Black.
[Nexus 5 General] pfmiller:
Right, you didn't but the OP did.
[Nexus 5 General] iNaruX:
That is physically impossible as there is a backlight running on an LCD Screen and not on an AMOLED...this is simply not true!.

As a genuine Gnex User:

- Nexus5 has the worse Display in regards to vibrant colors and blacks - attributable to the Super Amoled + HD Screen on the Gnex.

- Nexus5 is definetly faster and has a higher build quality

- Speaker are ON PAR! (NOT(!!!) louder than on the Gnex)

Overall: The Gnex is still a great device..

OP is clearly biased by how "new and shiny" his Nexus 5 is..
[Nexus 5 General] relax24:
You must have had a special addition gnex
[Nexus 5 General] iNaruX:
International GSM Model...nothing special, just the way it is...speaker was on par with the nexus5 and the screen regarding colors etc. was better, but that is because of the AMOLED technology delivering super-vibrant colors...some may not like it...Pixel density was of course lower than the Nexus 5 ! :D

But overall, I am still impressed with how well the Gnex is, I would never trade it for a Nexus 4, a Nexus 5, however, is just awesome in terms of Hardware and Build Quality :)
[Nexus 5 General] caseybea:
I moved from a Gnex to a Nexus 5. Overall, I think a lot of the comments and observations are well, over analyzing this.... . Are the screens different? Of course-- they're different display technology. Is the Gnex display really good? Of course! I was *very* happy to use that device for all sorts of things, including watching full-length movies on nights laying in bed when I couldn't sleep. And I was very happy with the display.

The nexus 5? ALSO an awesome display. Is it better than a gnex? in terms of resolution, chrispness, size, clarity, and all that- I think so. Are the colors better? Oh hell, everyone can argue both ways. The bottom line for me is, "am *I* happy with my nexus 5 display?". Answer is, hell yes.

On a totally different note, someone was asking a few days ago about comparing, close up, the size differences. There's a few sites out there for visualizing that, but I think this is the best one by far: mobiledevicesize.com Both the gnex aand N5 are in there, and you can compare them side by side EVERY way-- front, back, side.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Vibrant and over saturated colors does not equal better. That would be considered an opinion. What is not an opinion is how close the N5 screen color calibration comes to matching reference and from tests it shows it is closer then most of the other devices out right now.
[Nexus 5 General] jeff5347:
I agree I'm glad this thread was started. There are the g2 vs n5 and s4 and such but for us gnex owners I was curious on if batt life is better, screen size compared to n5, speed(obviously). I can say that my gnex has a good speaker. Is it better than x, y, z?...not sure as I have nothing to compare it to. I have been on the fence for a few reasons...gf unl. data w vzw, lg g2 (would get from swappa, eBay, ect) to keep unl. If I stay on vzw. A few reasons I've been waiting is the n5 will get major dev attention and that being said I have flashed tons of ROMs, kernels, mods and I don't see the g2 getting that ATTN. plus the bootloader is locked down. The discussion on colors is partially a mute point for me as I would assume w kernels the colors can be adjusted to each users likes.

On the batt. I have on occasion gotten 3-4 hr's sot but that is due to sync off, GPS, location, push notifs., ect off. I don't need them on unless I need them then I turn them on. I can say using GPS w/o a charger will kill my batt in less than 2 hrs from a full charge.

I want a bigger phone than the gnex ( was looking at the note 2) but even a bit bigger is fine.

My def wants for my new phone is customizable, better batt, bigger, faster, stronger...lol.

Also would assume w new kernels batt life would be taken into acct to lengthen it.

This is all just my thoughts and opinion. So if u were me, would you even consider the g2, ..or would u say.. drop the unl. data and jump to art and grab the n5. Another pro is the n5 won't cost as much as the g2 outright.

Oh for reference my data per month on mobile data is avg.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Unlimited should not even be a factor in your decision if you use less then 2gigs a month. Unless you are using over 8gigs then it might way in. So just from that you have absolutley no reason to stay with Verizon.

You can go to Aio Wireless, Straight Talk, Go Phone or T-Mobile and that ends that. You can even try each one for the next few months to see which you like best. lol

As far as the phone, I owned a GNEX on Verizon back in the day. It is almost an embaressment to the N5 to even compare the 2. They are not even in the same catagory of phones.

As for battery life, I had the extended battery on the GNEX and it was still the worst performing phone I have used in the past years. With the N5 and everything turned on you can expect to get between 3-4 hours on screen time with about 15 hours unplugged and that is just an average I am seeing. Is it the best on battey, no but no where like the GNEX.

As for the screen, this should not even be discussed. There is nothing about the GNEX screen that comes close to looking anywhere near as good as the N5. The GNEX screen was mediocre at best.

The camera on the GNEX was terrible. Actually even a little worse then that. The N5 has the ability to take great pics but need a software update to get rid of the shutter lag. That is the only thing really effecting the N5 camera.

The speaker, um who cares. I am sure we will see something that might make it louder in an update. The GNEX volume was pretty bad also. Don't really need the best sound quality of of an external speaker. I just need to hear it.

The N5 overall is one simple, modern, sleek looking device that is so sexy due to it's simplicity.

So you can obvious see where on stand on carriers and devices. I am sure the G2 is a nice device but I prefer to be running the latest updates from Google and not waiting for devs to try and port it to the device. If you are into custom Roms then no other device will be as stable as a Nexus device on the latest OS versions. Every non Nexus phone is always plagued with one issue or another.....

Oh, and if you are going to get a G2 and pay full price, I wouldn't get that on Verizon either. I will still get it unlocked and go to a pre-paid. You can still save money on your monthly bill and get 2GB of data. Plus you will then be ready for a Nexus device at any time and won't have to worry about swithcing carriers anymore or contracts or whatever BS these carriers throw at you.
[Nexus 5 General] jeff5347:
^^^ agree. The gnex camera is OK in premium conditions but in low light, dusk, night it just plan is unusable. Grainy and blurry. That's what I'm thinking. The n5 is prob my best bet as I want the freedom to do what I want and flash what I like and not be stifled by locked software.

So if you get 3-4 hrs w everything on...if I setup the 5 like my nex w sync, GPS, local off then longer than 3-4 can be expected. I mostly use it for games, browsing, apps like xda and g+ and fb. Mostly use WiFi 3/4 of the time. Thanks all for this page. It is definitely swaying me back to before the n5 was introduced when all I could think of was the release and details.

One more ? With all the gripes, ...speaker, cam, ect should I wait a bit til the first run is depleted and get the second batch. Assuming the next batches will b fine tuned and any newly found problems will be worked out?....
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
The issues look to be more software related. There is nothing physically wrong with the camera, they just need to fix the auto focus and shutter speeds.

The speaker is fine, it could just use a volume boost but again that is software. They aren't going to throw any HTC speakers in this phone in later builds.
[Nexus 5 General] iNaruX:
That´s why I said that some may not like it...I meant, that I personally like these over-saturated colors :)

But still, this is not a n5 oder gnex bashing :D I would never trade my n5 for the gnex for several reasons ;)

The Gnex however is still a superb device if you´re on a tight budget...
[Nexus 5 General] samagon:
Compared to my gnex, the speaker is amazing.
[Nexus 5 General] jeff5347:
No i wasnt meaning they would change speakers.

Just maybe a software upgrade here and there from the reviews they get back

Havent even touched a n5 but I really do still like the gnex. Just need some upgraded hardware

If it is better than the gnex speaker that's a definite plus. Mine seems loud but I may just have become accustomed to a lower volume
[Nexus 5 General] f1ip:
Can someone with a Gnex do an Android beam with the N5?

I cant seem to get mine to work, even on the replacement one i just got.

edit: working now. on the replacement. woot!
[Nexus 5 General] babalonius508:
I'm confused why everyone is comparing the Gnex to the N5. This seems a bit pointless... N5 is worlds better than the Gnex. What was the point of this thread?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] jeff5347:
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[Nexus 5 General] licht77:
Well it seems that some users still own the GNEX and are wondering if the upgrade is worth it. To judge this there are several individual / subjective points which are/were not clear as the G5 is brand new.

There is no other thread with similar information, the first posting tells the reason for the post.

This is not really hard to understand so whats the point of your posting except critizising the thread?
[Nexus 5 General] babalonius508:
I completely understand people wondering what the Nexus 5 has to offer. I too wondered that.

I'm just curious why everyone is making a point to pit the Gnex up against the Nexus 5. The Gnex is a much older phone. The Nexus 5 is a pretty substantial hardware upgrade from phones like the Gnex. If that's what people are looking for then its worth the upgrade. Any other points attempting to compare these phones is merely a waste of time.

Lastly this is a Nexus 5 forum. The fact that a "vs" thread hasn't been locked yet is beyond me.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] ChazzMatt:
Because many people including myself and my wife have Galaxy Nexus. We did NOT upgrade to the Nexus 4 for various reasons (we had just recently bought the Galaxy Nexus and accessories, including official 2000 mAh battery. Plus, the Nexus 4 was 4.7" 720p vs our 4.65" 720p. Not enough of an upgrade). So, many people have the Galaxy Nexus, skipped the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 5 is the next big upgrade for available. They are curious. I've been tracking the Nexus 5 developments for MONTHS now and knew I was going to get it.

I have the Nexus 5 for a week now, going to sell my Galaxy Nexus. My wife still loves her Galaxy Nexus, says it's still "new" to her (bought July 2012, running custom ROM and kernel). But I just ordered a 32GB White for her as a Christmas present.

It's a valid topic to discuss.

For me, on my Galaxy Nexus I had louder sound modification and kernel that let me adjust gamma, blacks. Therefore while my Nexus 5 is fantastic, the sound seems LOW and the display seems washed out, compared to my Galaxy Nexus. I'm not saying the Galaxy Nexus had better speakers or better screen, I'm saying I was able to ADJUST it so it sounded louder and looked better (colors and blacks). I hope those mods become available for the Nexus 5 soon. Speaker needs help and display needs help.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
I thought the Nexus 4 was a huge upgrade from the GNEX in regards to battery, camera and also the screen quality and colors, especially in sunlight.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zettez:
I am going to buy the Nexus 5 when it is available in my country. I then want to make changes (mostly UI) to the Android source code and run it on my phone.

My question is: how do I fastest test the code I have modified? Do I need to compile and create a ROM and flash it after every change to my phone or may I use the emulator and "quick-build" to it?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HabueN:
Hi.

I am wondering if there is a way to delete everything before a stock rom flash via odin. Or is that done automatically when flashing rom via odin? Maybe a dumb question, but.. :P

The reason i ask, is because after i flashed a stock andrpid 4.3 rom, i cant flash the stock 4.2.2 rom on my phone.

This is what odin says:

<ID:0/008> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> I9505XXUDMH6_I9505TENDMH6_I9505XXUDMH6_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/008> Odin v.3 engine (ID:8)..

<ID:0/008> File analysis..

<ID:0/008> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/008> Initialzation..

<ID:0/008> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/008> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/008> sbl2.mbn

<ID:0/008> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/008> sbl3.mbn

<ID:0/008> rpm.mbn

<ID:0/008> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/008>

<ID:0/008> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

And one more if you dont mind:

After some searching on what nand erase all n odin does, i found basically no useful information. Is there anyone here that can explain simply but precise what that function does?

Thanks

Habuen :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsmyth:
Did your 4.3 ROM contain the new bootloader? If so then you won't be able to downgrade to 4.2.2, hence the error.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HabueN:
Thanks, dunno. Download from Sammobile.com . So i gues so :)

Than i need a older bootloader to flash 4.2.2 ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airuzzo:
im sorry to tell but....u cant flash Rom under the 4.3 :/ (if u r on rom whit new secure BL)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsmyth:
If its official stock 4.3 (unmodded), then you can't go back to official pre-knox bootloader stock ROM. It may be possible to flash a 4.2.2 ROM with knox bootloader but Im not 100% sure. It would be worth switching off first and checking your knox status in download mode. You can also find more knox info at the below thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2470635
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HabueN:
Thats to bad.. :P Flashed the wrong stock rom, so dont know if the OTA is working.. Will just have to wait for the next then :)

Thanks for answers :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noahk11:
To everyone having this error: Try a different USB cable! this worked for me! Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkRoot:
Ha, thank you. Different USB port + cable solved it for me too. Was flashing stock 4.4
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultraxmode:
HOW CAN I THANK YOU MAN!!! :) :good::good::good::good::good::good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NotSoSiniSter:
+1 with previous posts. Using a random usb cable, plugged into my keyboard, which is plugged into my USB 3.0 hub plugged into my laptop didn't work. Using the standard samsung cable plugged directly into my computer worked.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yasie2000:
Big, Big Thank You, It Works
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philipgiuliani:
Thanks! I really tried 4, the 4th one finally worked well :D With every cable i stuck in a different place :D
[HTC One X] karansinghraghav:
hello everyone, my phone started boot looping so i cleared cache (fastboot erase cache) on stock rom sense 5, after that again it started bootlooping and then gone completely dead!!:confused::crying:
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Keep it on main charger over night and check again after several hours. If it's not booting up or give signs of life you know my answer !

Send it for repair
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Echelonex:
You can see how battery suddenly stoped at around 90% and then jumped few hours later on 80%, and also suddenly on around 30% my phone turned off saying it had 0% when i turned it back on...-_-

Is this hardware or software problem...? Im using CyanogenMod 10.2 build 18/10 and Trinity kernel.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hamedunix:
Did you give it some full cycles?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Echelonex:
Like charging to 100% and emptying to 0%...? Yeah, when i bought the phone 3 weeks ago... Noticed this thing happening just now... Im just curious if this is hardware malfunction or just a software bug...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] filthykid:
Did u buy it from PlayStore? But they stopped offering it :s
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Echelonex:
No, no, from a local store, because Play store doesn't work in Serbia where i live...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rupsi24:
When you flash a new rom, or kernel, it's recommended to drain battery to 0% till phone wont start, then plug it in and wait 2h then unplug and start
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] clemson77on:
I'm rocking the NuSense ROM on my Verizon HTC One and love it but there's just one thing I'd like to change. Is there anyway to disable the volume wake mod that is baked into the ROM? I'd like to be able to skip songs by just long pressing the volume button and with the mod the screen wakes.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] andybones:
in android.policy.jar
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] aer0zer0:
How do we get to that
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] indiscriminant:
Hey guys, since switching to the 4.3 roms my voicemail has not been working. If I leave a vm from my work phone it never reaches my actual phone or shows up in VVM. Even when I try to dial 1 and connect to my vm normally, it says that is an incorrect number.

Is there something I need to do to re-associate my vm number to my phone?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] matinm90:
If for some reason even dialing your voicemail manually doesn't work, it sounds like there is a provisioning issue on your device, so you could try something. First try updating you profile: go to settings, system updates -all the way at the bottom-, and tap on update profile. If that doesn't work, I assume the option activate device doesn't work either since its a custom rom. So if that doesnt work, then try flashing the stock RUU, and run activate device, this will force your device to re download all the provisioning data for your account. Let me know if either of those methods works.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] indiscriminant:
When I try to update my prl it says "Unfortunately vDM Client has stopped." and the Activate is there but when doing it the message says "Sorry we experience a system problem during your task. Please dial *2 for psrint customer care."

The phone works in every other capacity fine.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] matinm90:
What rom are you using? you could try flashing the stock rooted rom and then try doing that:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2467607

Look at the second post for the stock rooted deodexed rom. Flash that, it has no modifications other than being rooted and deodexed. When you flash it then try running activate device. Let me know what happens
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] indiscriminant:
The first one I flashed was Venom, but it had some stability issues so I have swapped to Stock w/ Goodies earlier today. I will try to flash the complete stock later today. Is this like the old issues on the LTE Evo with provisioning where we had to occasionally call Sprint to do it?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] matinm90:
Honestly i have no idea. And i doubt it. I cant see why you would need to call sprint. See when you activste your device it downloads everything necessary for provisioning so unless your phone is doing something wacky i doubt activating the device will fail. So yeah just flash the full stock rom and reactivate. It should work.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] indiscriminant:
This did end up having to be resolved by Sprint, called into their support and they had to remove, refresh, and reapply my voicemail. Took about 5 minutes and everything worked again and all of my voicemailes I had missed showed up as well.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] natgould:
For future reference you can also try this. If you send a blank voice mail to activate@vvm.sprint.com through the VVM app it will usually fix the problem. Had to do this on a friends phone the other day.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlrose2:
I've had my phone for a few days now and all of a sudden the Mic icon in the google keyboard has been replaced by a comma. I have tried everything to fix it. Deleted data/cache for the Keyboard app, disabled/re-enabled the voice icon in settings, etc... Anyone else have this issue? Not having Speech to text help in the keyboard is a big drawback.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aznxk3vi17:
Are you connected to any Bluetooth devices?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MLAM:
Have you enabled "Google Voice Typing" in language and settings?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlrose2:
Sorry, I fixed it. Google Voice Typing was not enabled on the input screen
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvvilkins:
Mic Icon gone

Same thing is going on with me. I received my new Nexus 5 yesterday. The keyboard mic button was there in gmail. Now it's gone.

"Voice input key" is checked in the Settings > Google Keyboard.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Synyster06Gates:
You need to look a few spaces UNDER Google Keyboard. There will be Google Voice Typing. That needs to be checked.