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[Nexus One General] lsxrx7:
the nexus s sounds totally like something i should skip

heck ... i imagine later on xda would get most all the Ns googles into all the galaxy line up except NFC ...
[Nexus One General] jamesfrom818:
Watching Amazon Video on Demand with my N1 was always choppy. Watching it on my OCed G2 is actually pretty smooth most of the time.
[Nexus One General] draugaz:
Here are some hard facts about NexusS performance:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4059/nexus-s-and-android-23-review-gingerbread-for-the-holidays/8
[Nexus One General] mrbkkt1:
I like to skip one generation at a time. To me the nexus s didn't advance far enough for me to abandon the 1. Besides. Mine is in flawless condition (although its my 3rd)
[Nexus One General] wondercoolguy:
by a slim margine but the benefits of a dual core far exceed a single core along with SD slot and should be on 4g.
[Nexus One General] ksc6000:
The multitouch is perfect. I've used the "yet another multi touch" testing app and it can notice 5-6 touch points (from what I've tried) and not have any problem distinguishing them or mixing them up during movement.

There really is no need for me to post any video of anything because like I said, except for the app drawer, I haven't noticed ANY performance increase in the phone.
[Nexus One General] SoberGuy:
Great link, man. It's nice to see the numbers like that. I think any individual test doesn't mean a whole lot, but looking at them in total... I'm glad I didn't get the S lol.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Your results from flash are pretty disheartening.

Can you try www.engadget.com/video ? Are there really no performance differences?
[Nexus One General] ksc6000:
Paul I will try that on my N1 and my NS when I get home and am on wifi and will report back here.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Hmm, you might not notice it, but that doesn't mean the performance increase isn't there necessarily. Perhaps it's subtle, or perhaps some apps take advantage and some don't.

Check out this new article from Anandtech:
[Nexus One General] ksc6000:
No I am sure that there are significant performance increases in terms of graphics for games and whatnot...but I'm saying that I haven't noticed any in daily use. Opening or closing apps, swiping between homescreens IS laggy once you put a lot of icons and stuff on there (unlike Launcher Pro..more on that next). Viewing websites, typing, scrolling is a little smoother in some places and some places it's the same...

Interestingly, once I installed launcher pro, the home screen swiping is now back to being as smooth as should be, but the app drawer on Launcher Pro is MORE laggy than it is on the N1 lol. If there was a way that when u hit the app drawer, LauncherPro would open the stock app drawer which is extremely buttery smooth, that would be awesome.
[Nexus One General] SoberGuy:
Thanks for that, Paul. When they say:

What are your thoughts on this? If we're GPU-bound, dual core Snapdragon's won't help much. If it's a memory issue...is that solvable with the Adreno 205? I don't the S as a decent upgrade (despite some advantages, which I admit exist). I was leaning towards the LG Star or the new Moto dual core, but I see some advantages to sticking with HTC and the Qualcomm chip sets. (First, I've only used HTC for the last 5 years, despite purchasing other handsets for family/backup. Second, I was told the Snapdragon is held back by the GPU, and actually posts better FPU than the Hummingbird. Now that the 205s are present, I was seriously considering waiting for a dual core HTC device...)

Anyway, let me ask it this way, as this is the bottom line for a lot of us (though feel free to address any of the technical specs and reasons why): Which manufacturer do you think is better suited to kick out a killer device over the next 4 to 6 months? Is it Samsung, should they go dual core Hummingbird? (and we'll leave cheap plastic out of it, speaking only of internals and performance.) Do you feel it would be HTC with dual core Snapdragons and the 205s? LG with the Nvidia Tegra2 (unsure of their GPU and respective performance)? Moto? Someone else?
[Nexus One General] uansari1:
Source please.
[Nexus One General] SoberGuy:
Everything I've found points to this:

http://smartphonebenchmarks.com/for...cessor-smartphones-are-they-going-to-be-fast/

Highlights are:

Possible reasons for scores:

There is, to my knowledge, no convincing evidence that the GPU is weaker, much less significantly so. There needs to be some better tests run, preferably by apps that can handle dual core processors.
[Nexus One General] charnsingh_online:
Tegra2 GPU is better than hummingbird. And IMO qualcomms snapdragon 3rd gen will be the ultimate winner in the early batch of dual cores
[Nexus One General] boodies:
who cares, the Orion will blow everything out of the water anyway. one thing I am concerned is the timing for the Nexus S. While I do agree with Engadget that it is the best android phone to get, with LG's dual core coming out, I don't think the timing was as good as it could have been. Oh well. The Nexus S is still one fine phone. And honestly, Samsung has one of the best designs right now aesthetically. I mean HTC is nice and all but it's too childish and toy like. For a lack of a better term, no sex appeal at all. It is damn sturdy tho I give it that. I dropped my old G1 from the third floor, and it was perfectly fine lol. Now that doesn't mean the Samsung is any less sturdy. It just might seem that way cause it's "plasticky" but I prefer that over weight.
[Nexus One General] cu_ninja:
Another 1 day Nexus S user here, I'm loving this phone personally. I know it's not leaps and bounds beyond N1 but it was a good enough improvement to make me switch. Main things I like: correct multitouch, amazing screen, and of course being one of only like 18 people in Austin to get the phone day one :)
[Nexus One General] SoberGuy:
Except the Orion dual core with the quad core Mali GPU is expected "in the next few years". So, in that timeframe I'm sure we'll see a lot of nice stuff. We're talking more within the next few months...
[Nexus One General] boodies:
yup yup. i don't know about you guys but Im really excited with all this tech advances made in the mobile world.
[Nexus One General] xpooz:
after reading I feel like cancelling my nexus s..

I have paid 529.99 + 59usd service charge to order this and ship to Malaysia.

and it seem not really a big improvement..
[Nexus One General] SBERG117:
Im interested in what the sales numbers are going to be like. Seeing how the model has changed as far as how google sells the phone i wonder if sales will reflect it?
[Nexus One General] SoberGuy:
Yes. They will.

Sent from my Sexy Nexy, courtesy of the fine developers of Tapatalk
[Nexus One General] ksc6000:
Paul just tried that website on both my nexus one and the nexus s and the playback seems to be the same. Don't see any increase in the performance. But what's worse is the lag in scrolling on that very page. It is TERRIBLE on the nexus s. The lag is unbelievable!!!! I mean while a video is playing its hard to scroll with the nexus one as well, it's really choppy but the nexus s just stops responding for a second or 2 and its really difficult to bear with
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
I actually just came back from Best Buy tonight and tried this. I got the same results unfortunately. Why the heck does it freeze like that?

Sad...

The ironic thing is that it was freezing like that so horribly, yet Flash wasn't even installed! Wtf...
[Nexus One General] irispen:
because samsung made them, lol
[Nexus One General] JHaste:
how does the screen resolution stack up against the N1's... by that i mean even though the N1 had an 800x480 screen, the way the pixels were setup it was more like a 534x352 or something like that... text on my N1 is very ridged and i can definitely notice the individual pixels where on a droid or IP4 it is much harder to see them or notice them at all... just curious if this is the case with the NS? Is it crystal clear with very high res or can u see a bit of choppiness?
[Nexus One General] tameracingdriver:
Interesting review OP, it looks to me like this Nexus S hasn't moved the game on at all. It's pretty much no better (arguably worse) than a Galaxy S (no 720 video, no SD card slot) and its bloody pricey at that. The only things for me that save it is its screen, which will undoubtedly make the device more pleasant to use than a Nexus One, and Gingerbread, which of course N1 owners will get anyway. That it performs worse in a lot of areas than the N1 is a joke TBH.

I do like the look of 2.3 though, the UI improvements are subtle but welcome, it looks like a more polished interface, although by all accounts, it still has a way to go before it can match the polish of its competitors IMO (iOS and WP7).

I'm afraid if I was to be tempted back to Android, this wouldn't be the device that would do it.

I wonder if the GPS works properly on it (it certainly does not work properly on the SGS, well, mine never did anyway).

IMO the Nexus S is always going to make more sense as a second hand buy, as its just too expensive for what it offers. On the bright side, with it being a Samsung, just wait a few months and it'll be half the price or less on the second hand market :D
[Nexus One General] tameracingdriver:
Well, it will pretty much be exactly the same screen as the SGS, and if anything, the "pentile" effect that you speak of is even more prominent due to the extra size and clarity of the screen. Text was never great on my SGS - a fact that another poster on here picked up, he wrote the "Voodoo" kernel for the SGS, which included a tweak to make the text better quality - it really did work too.
[Nexus One General] draugaz:
In this regard there is no improvement at all, the pixel grain is even worse due to the same resolution and a bigger 4" screen.

It also uses the same pentile "hacks".
[Nexus One General] mkrmec:
Modified ROM vs Stock NS ROM?

Be fair next time and do a stock VS stock comparison... that's what I say. Most N1 users don't have custom ROMs.. and when modded ROMs come to NS, I know that speed and stuff will improve atleast 1x!!

So please.. do a fair comparison. When N1 get's 2.3 then you can compare side by side.

As for the Flash in browser I take it Adobe is more to blame than Google's browser, hardware acceleration working yet?
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
You need to search some of the nexus s threads about browser scrolling and why it is so bad. There's a very specific reason why its actually worse than the nexus one. It should be fixed in the future.
[Nexus One General] Mokurex:
Where did you order it from?
[Nexus One General] lpasq:
like my n1 = very much (best phone ever owned)

like my nS better = no

keeping nS = yes

why = ****ing amazing touch screen in every way (screen is the primary interface and is starting to compensate for metal-envy and trackball-withdrawal)

compromises = using NoLed for notifications and 16gb max storage

unknowns = gbread dev-hacks and cm goodness and a hopeful car dock accessory allowing landscape viewing
[Nexus One General] Matterhorn:
NS positive points:

Very sensitive screen

Better battery life than N1

Gingerbread 2.3 already installed

Possibly the NS will be the phone that gets future updates and N1 is left out

Better speakerphone speaker, much better

I can return it within 30 days!

N1 positive points:

I already own it! :-)

*CALL SOUND QUALITY VASTLY SUPERIOR TO NS (sound and noise canceling)

Built like a tank

Track ball LED light

Micro SD slot with possible 32 gb storage

Battery charges faster than NS

N1 fits in my jeans pocket

The N1 is just enough smaller than the NS that it fits much better in my pocket while I'm sitting down, the NS binds when I sit. The N1 call sound quality is a lot better than the NS and on top of that the noise canceling really works, for instance I'm outside in a crowded loud place and with the NS all of the background noise is blasting in my ear, not so with the N1. Perhaps the N1 will be the only phone featuring noise canceling...too bad if that is true.

The NS screen is nice and the battery life is better than the N1, but I need good sound quality in a phone too. I think I'm going to keep my N1 a little bit longer and see what else comes along. I'm almost sure I'll be returning the NS before the 30 days are up. If the call sound quality was better I could probably get used to the bigger lump in my pocket.
[Nexus One General] twflys:
Okay, this phone is growing on me quickly. The screen is perfect, perfect colors, perfect size, perfect feel. The .3 extra inches of real estate makes a huge difference, especially when using the keyboard. I know that the processor speed is the same, but the 's' feels about 300 mhz faster. I haven't noticed any hiccups, except with a few web pages.

I know you guys hate the look of this phone, but you got it wrong. It's the best lokking phone I have seen... but that's subjective.

I really, really hate not having an SD card slot. 16 gig on board with sd card slot to grow more, ditch the front camera and stupid NFC chip and about an extra 300 mhz processor a trackball and 4G- I would be keeping this phone for a very long time. I have 30 days for something better to come out... gingerbread is beautiful and awesome.
[Nexus One General] Androidfreakz:
Figure it would be so much hate on the Nexus S in this section. If you can't beat'em hate'em can we all just get alone.
[Epic 4G General] bitbang3r:
I have my Epic set to not roam for data ("Data roaming" is un-checked), and have Data Roaming Guard enabled. Every now and then, I'll end up someplace where the phone warns me every 30 seconds or so that data roaming might incur charges if I click "OK". I click "cancel", and get asked the exact same question again ~30 seconds later. There's a checkbox for "don't ask me again".

The $3,000 question: if you check "don't ask me again", does the phone interpret that as:

a) automatically apply 'ok' or 'cancel', depending on which one you click to dismiss the warning after selecting the checkbox

b) don't bother to ask whether or not you want to let the phone data-roam, just do it silently and insidiously, regardless of whether or not "Data roaming" is (supposedly) enabled with a checkmark?

Common sense suggests that it would probably be 'a', but then again, common sense suggests that if you have "Data roaming" explicitly un-checked, it shouldn't be bothering you with "do you want to enable roaming?" in the first place -- it should just refuse to roam, and let the network connection fail. It's almost like they intentionally worded the options to leave you scratching your head screaming "WTF?!?" so you can't easily disable one of the few services left that isn't free, unlimited, and included with the normal billing amount.
[Epic 4G General] nerdtaco:
I turned the roam guard off and I had the same popup every 30 seconds. Soft reset and it went away. I suggest that.
[Epic 4G General] abrcrmdl23:
I don't know if you know this but I found this out last month if you are on one of the new sprint plans which if you have an epic I would assume you would have to be roaming data is free of charge so you don't need to have the roam guard on the plan includes unlimited roaming data usage.
[Epic 4G General] SantiMun:
Tried updating the PRL?

Have you tried going into settings>About Phone>System updates>Update PRL?

PRL stands for "Preferred Roaming List".

If you want to know more look it up on wikipedia. And no, it wont brick your phone :)
[Epic 4G General] bitbang3r:
I thought roaming was "free", but ONLY if you use <200 minutes or 200 megabytes. I'm not sure about the exact cut-off, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing it in Sprint's fine print somewhere.
[Epic 4G General] bitbang3r:
I tried updating the PRL, but got an internal unspecified error. :(
[Epic 4G General] Tortel1210:
You could just turn off roaming completely, until you actually need it.

I found that some places it would switch to roaming, but if I turned roaming off it would switch back to Sprint. Dont know why
[Epic 4G General] bitbang3r:
How? That's what I'm trying to *do* ;-)
[Epic 4G General] littlepr:
Guys,

Leave roaming on and disable the warning. Sprint roaming charges are not applicable if you are in the

$69.99 unlimited package for smart phones such as the Epic. The roam option is still there because its part of the legacy infrastructure and, as a result, they ended having to incorporate into the code. No worries. You will not be charged for roaming unless you travel outside of the US territories covered in the contract. WARNING: If you go on a cruise and you are caught in international water navigational routes, roaming charges might apply.
[Epic 4G General] bagelicious:
I second what littlepr just said. A month ago I was in the mountains of NC with almost no service and I kept having to roam in order to make calls. When I got home I talked to a Sprint Rep via Chat Support and they also said that with our plan roaming is free. It was at this point that I downloaded Roam Control so that if I am ever back in the mountains or somewhere else with crappy service, I can force the phone to roam so the signal is more reliable. Works like a charm!
[Nexus S General] hah2110:
It tells me I must be on WiFi. This is completely useless. Any way around it?
[Nexus S General] AndroidMilos:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831233
[Nexus S General] hah2110:
I know there are other apps. I'm looking to use my trixbox server.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XSafire:
Title is supposed to be 6.1.1

Has anyone been successful with updating to the new market on cyanogen 6.1.1?

I have heard of some success stories. One involved replacing the new vending.apk in the gapps zip with the old one and then flashing that. The person offered a link, but sadly it was for a different phone that didn't use the hdpi gapps.

So, does anyone has a 2.2.6 vending.apk for hdpi, or another solution? The new market is sexy.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknownrebelx:
bump - wanting the new market :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XSafire:
I'd also like to mention that I have tried tons of solutions I have found, most of which involve wiping market cache, cache partition, and dalvik cache, then flashing a .zip (sometimes gapps, sometimes just 2.2.6 update). All of which cause the market to force close. I've done a nandroid restore more times in the past hour then I can count.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xavier7:
from here?

Refer to here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=838077

I just flashed this (link from that thread) - 2010_12_16_with_new_market(flash with CAUTION).zip from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qn47py0cn8y3h

I did a wipe, flashed CM2.1.1, flash that GAPPs above.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clarkster:
Why is everyone in this thread calling it CM 2.1.1?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XSafire:
What exactly did you wipe? I already tried this and got a force close.

my bad, I get confused with 2.2.1 froyo and 6.1.1 cm
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
THis is what I did and it worked for me CM6.1 stable.

Download the 2 zip files from here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=838077

-Go into application>market and clear data

-flash traditional market open it and accept TOA

-reboot into recovery and flash new market

-now new market should be up and running

at least this method worked for me.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xavier7:
yea its CM6.1.1

typo :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XSafire:
Worked for me too. Thanks
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flipsidiaz:
Hello, just a quick question. What is a good app to resize d/l'ed icons? Since the icons I try to use are half the normal size when put on my screen.

Thanks for any help!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esincho:
Desktop visualizer
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimeonAS89:
My first question is this. I can not for the life of me figure out what Eugene's GB ROM is based off of. I know its based off of 2.2, but is it JK6, JK2, etc.?

My second question is, I'm looking for the Nexus One bootanimation and sounds. Any assistance in figuring out if I can change my animation would be helpful. I'm tired of the spinning android one thats included in the TW ones (no offense).
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
Fyi, the release of nero today includes the nexus boot. You could just download it and grab the bootanimation.zip
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimeonAS89:
So is Nero built off the same base as Eugene's clone??
[Nexus S General] Anderdroid:
It seems that the majority of people have absolutely no GPS issues. But I notice every time that I factory reset, I can't get a GPS lock, which is absolutely weird. I can't acquire location on GenieWidget either initially. If anyone else out there is having GPS issues or Location issues then try this.

How to fix for both:

1. Download GPS Test from the market (the free one)

Run it, and leave it running until the GPS On light turns green and it has satellites in use and tells you the meters accuracy. That means a lock. This can take a few minutes.

After this happens, GPS locks very quickly even after reboots, very weird.

Now even after this, GenieWidget still can't acquire location.

2. Turn on WiFi, but don't connect to anything, you don't have to.

When WiFi is on, go back to the GenieWidget and hit refresh.

It'll find your location even though you're not on a WiFi network.

Now disable WiFi and it'll be able to acquire your location every single time.

Weird stuff.
[Nexus S General] skinien:
damn... sounds like Samsung is STILL failing with LBS. It's very frustrating on my Captivate.
[Nexus S General] civicdrivr:
I turned it on before and got a fix in about 45 seconds. About the same time as my Slide.
[Nexus S General] Anderdroid:
It's a one time issue though it seems. I think actually it all depends on getting that 'first' lock. The phone will go to sleep if you wait on maps too long. So I just use that app, go into settings, and hit Keep Awake then leave it sit til it locks. After that, I can get a lock in 1-5 seconds every time after reboots upon reboots.
[Nexus S General] AdamHart612:
It locks just as quick as my Evo, 10-15 seconds for me. I use my GPS so much if its not getting a good lock I would return the damn thing over and over until it work how it should. Even 45 seconds is a stretch...my G1 locks faster than that...
[Nexus S General] shrivelfig:
Quite right. There's a big difference between "cold" and "warm" GPS startup.

When the phone is brand new, or after a hard reset, it will always be a "cold" start. The phone has no clue about where it is in the world, or even if it has the correct time. So the very first thing it does is to look around and try to spot any GPS satellites. Then it tries to download the almanac data.

For GPS to lock, quite a lot of data needs to be downloaded from the satellites. This takes between 30-60 seconds uninterrupted view of at least 3 satellites. If you're moving around, the view of the satellites may be interrupted, and the phone will have to start over again. This process can be speeded up a lot with A-GPS.

After the first lock, things go much faster. The almanac data is already on the phone, and the position of the last GPS fix is known.

The thing that confuses most people is that an Android phone will try to navigate by other means when there's no GPS lock. By cell tower, or by WiFi hotspot. Cell tower gives your location instantly, but with a very large margin of error. If your position is way off, then you're not navigating by GPS, but by other, less accurate means.
[Nexus S General] Anderdroid:
I actually can't get location from the cell towers >.< But yeah my GPS is locking in 1-5 seconds now.
[Nexus S General] Marmle:
Still no luck with above... will not turn green just stays yellow
[Gen8 General] lbhocky19:
so as we know we have to buy the codec pack to play ac3 audio.

im wondering why?

rockplayer decodes it just fine and its free... unfortunately rockplayer cant handle 720p videos. at least for me.

any solutions other than paying 40 bucks or whatever for the codec