Jelly Bean begins rollout to Verizon Galaxy Nexus

[s44]

One of the many great things about Bugless: native tethering is enabled (no cost/verification).

 

[Fingolfin269]

Is this still a phone worth buying? I thought about just buying one off contract since they're relatively cheap now. How is the battery life?

 

[dguy6789]

Good phone, pretty poor battery life

 

[Bateluer]

Is this still a phone worth buying? I thought about just buying one off contract since they're relatively cheap now. How is the battery life?

Good phone, pretty poor battery life

I assume Fingolfin is referring to the GSM GNex? My understanding is that the GSM Nexus has much better battery life than the LTE Verizon Nexus.

 

[basslover1]

I've had 4.1.1 for months

You don't say?

 

[Bateluer]

Hit my GNex at 5:15 this morning.

 

[waggy]

some sites are saying this is a test build adn not open to the public. at any rate i can't get it yet. but good to know its soon

 

[Bateluer]

some sites are saying this is a test build adn not open to the public. at any rate i can't get it yet. but good to know its soon

Shrug, I'm public. Seems to be rolling out across the board too.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I assume Fingolfin is referring to the GSM GNex? My understanding is that the GSM Nexus has much better battery life than the LTE Verizon Nexus.

Nope, VZX Nexus.

 

[Bateluer]

Nope, VZX Nexus.

Oh. On mine, with heavy use and continuous streaming video on LTE and Twitter, its dead in about 8 hours. Light use, with little streaming and only some Twitter, it pushes ~15 hours pretty consistently. If its on WiFi on my desk at home, not being touched, it'll last from dawn Saturday morning to about lunch on Monday.

^ Assuming ICS 4.0.4 stock. I haven't had any time to gain any impressions on JB 4.1.1 battery life yet. Its quite speedy in the UI though, on par with my N7 tablet for the most part.

The GNex is using the older generation LTE modems, and as a result, it consumes battery like a mofo. Its innards were never top of the line, even when it launched in December 2011.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

still running 4.04 on mine, i wont update to JB until AOKP puts out a final build

Ive been using Paranoid android on my GSM Gnex, and id say its just as good as AOKP is not better. They are both based on CM10 right?

I know the tricks man. I owned a Tbolt before. Might be more hesitant with the GNex though because I bought the phone at full retail price.

My Exhibit 4G is rooted and running CM9 though.

why not use your exhibit 4g while you work on your vzw gnex?

 

[Binky]

The GNex is using the older generation LTE modems, and as a result, it consumes battery like a mofo. Its innards were never top of the line, even when it launched in December 2011.

This obviously wont apply to everybody, but my gnex battery life goes DOWN when I disable the LTE modem. I didn't expect that. It must be the signal quality at my office where I spend most of my time.

 

[Demo24]

Finally forced mine into seizing the update this morning. Had a hell of a time with the Google services framework trick, and it appears it broke the market on the previous install. Waiting on it to complete jelly bean and see if its still broken. Only thing I'm not looking forward to is the keyboard, I preferred the way ICS handled things.

 

[thescreensavers]

My gnex was unlocked as soon as I got home from the store and shortly thereafter had a custom rom. I've had JB the day after it was announced and now on AOKP JB build 2 which is decent but currently having a Sleep of death issue which I believe is kernel related.

Otherwise everything Is great.

GSM gnex battery life is like 2x that of the lte gnex. The lte gnex has two separate radios so it sucks juice.

But it is manageable and is just "Ok" battery life. I can't wait for battery technology to improve in a few years we might be laughing at people charging everyday I hope

 

[basslover1]

Finally forced mine into seizing the update this morning. Had a hell of a time with the Google services framework trick, and it appears it broke the market on the previous install. Waiting on it to complete jelly bean and see if its still broken. Only thing I'm not looking forward to is the keyboard, I preferred the way ICS handled things.

You can revert it back to the ICS style keyboard.

Settings>Language & Input>Android Keyboard (Settings toggle)>Advanced Settings> Un-check next work prediction.

That sets it so it shows punctuation instead of predicted words.

 

[Anubis]

Ive been using Paranoid android on my GSM Gnex, and id say its just as good as AOKP is not better. They are both based on CM10 right?

yes AOKP pulls in things from CM, for JB they are doing a from the ground rewrite, and im used to it/like how AOKP does things and no longer casre about swapping roms every week