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Official ICS & Galaxy Nexus Launch Thread

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Extended battery came in today, which I was surprised to see FedEx delivering today.

Hopefully this will be an improvement over the stock battery. On a normal work day, I'm down to less than 40% battery, where my iPhone 4 would have been at 70% easily.
 
Just ordered the extended battery. I can get about 20 hours on my standard with light usage. Much less obviously if I am on it constantly. I can't believe it's still half off on VerizonWireless.com
 
Ok, noob question in 3, 2, 1:

Can someone point me in the right direction to get started with modding my phone? rooting, roming, etc? I'm coming from an HTC incredible and while the Nexus is a big improvement, I feel like I'm missing out. It isn't quite as snappy as I'd like, so I imagine I might have better luck with some mods or overclocking or whatever?
 
slayer202 said:
Ok, noob question in 3, 2, 1:

Can someone point me in the right direction to get started with modding my phone? rooting, roming, etc? I'm coming from an HTC incredible and while the Nexus is a big improvement, I feel like I'm missing out. It isn't quite as snappy as I'd like, so I imagine I might have better luck with some mods or overclocking or whatever?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682

One Click Root
 
Yikes. Got my first Verizon bill and HOLY CRIZZAP, it's a lot. I got charged activation fee, pro-rated fees + one month advanced fees totalling over $200+. Ouch.

At least I am not on contract. Man, if Sprint's LTE network is compatible with this phone, I am jumping ship fast.
 
amdhunter said:
Yikes. Got my first Verizon bill and HOLY CRIZZAP, it's a lot. I got charged activation fee, pro-rated fees + one month advanced fees totalling over $200+. Ouch.

At least I am not on contract. Man, if Sprint's LTE network is compatible with this phone, I am jumping ship fast.
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You just listed exactly why your first month's bill was so high yet you seem upset about it. I am not sure if you are overreacting or what. Obviously your next month's bill will be back down to normal.
 
sygyzy said:
You just listed exactly why your first month's bill was so high yet you seem upset about it. I am not sure if you are overreacting or what. Obviously your next month's bill will be back down to normal.
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Its like this on every company. My first month of sprint was $150 + as well.
 
Indeed. Unless you got some special deal with the rep and got your activation fees waived, every single carrier now bills you in advanced so you get the prorated charges + next months charges. It would've been the same on any carrier.
 
sygyzy said:
Just ordered the extended battery. I can get about 20 hours on my standard with light usage. Much less obviously if I am on it constantly. I can't believe it's still half off on VerizonWireless.com
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50% off the extended battery for the GN? I am not seeing it... I see one similar but the description says it's for the Samsung Stratosphere: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/...ryDetails&archetypeId=12810&accessoryId=47856 for $25. When I filter by device, the GN doesn't have an extended battery. I also called VZW today and they said they don't have them available yet.
 
another noob question: I grabbed advanced task killer free and when I go to it, it shows a whole bunch of apps I never even start. Like Amazon Appstore, google+, VZ Backup Assistant, market, dropbox, etc. I kill them all and a few minutes later they're back. Is it because they're doing auto-updating? Leads me to believe this task killer app has no practical use. Does keeping apps up eat a lot of battery? I'd rather uninstall some if so.
 
rh71 said:
another noob question: I grabbed advanced task killer free and when I go to it, it shows a whole bunch of apps I never even start. Like Amazon Appstore, google+, VZ Backup Assistant, market, dropbox, etc. I kill them all and a few minutes later they're back. Is it because they're doing auto-updating? Leads me to believe this task killer app has no practical use. Does keeping apps up eat a lot of battery? I'd rather uninstall some if so.
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You don't need a task killer, just let android do its thing.
 
Spoooon said:
You don't need a task killer, just let android do its thing.
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exactly. You can press the recent app button and swipe away any app to close it or press on it to quickly switch to it. There's no need for task killer. Think of the recent app button as the task killer.
 
rh71 said:
another noob question: I grabbed advanced task killer free and when I go to it, it shows a whole bunch of apps I never even start. Like Amazon Appstore, google+, VZ Backup Assistant, market, dropbox, etc. I kill them all and a few minutes later they're back. Is it because they're doing auto-updating? Leads me to believe this task killer app has no practical use. Does keeping apps up eat a lot of battery? I'd rather uninstall some if so.
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some of that stuff you can disable so it never shows up anymore


go into settings - aps - click on ap - disable, it wont uninstall it but it will stop them from ever running, if you don't use amazon or VZ backup its worth doing
 
rh71 said:
50% off the extended battery for the GN? I am not seeing it... I see one similar but the description says it's for the Samsung Stratosphere: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/...ryDetails&archetypeId=12810&accessoryId=47856 for $25. When I filter by device, the GN doesn't have an extended battery. I also called VZW today and they said they don't have them available yet.
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http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/accessory?&&action=accessoryDetails&accessoryId=49870

I was able to order one earlier today. Whether it's in stock and ships or not is a different story.
 
rh71 said:
another noob question: I grabbed advanced task killer free and when I go to it, it shows a whole bunch of apps I never even start. Like Amazon Appstore, google+, VZ Backup Assistant, market, dropbox, etc. I kill them all and a few minutes later they're back. Is it because they're doing auto-updating? Leads me to believe this task killer app has no practical use. Does keeping apps up eat a lot of battery? I'd rather uninstall some if so.
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You can use ATK to kill an app that's not behaving right if you want(or what I do is just go to the icon in my app drawer, long press it, drag it to app info and selected force stop), but do not set it to autokill or kill everything, as you see. Android Pre-Caches things. Killing the cache makes the phone re-cache it = less battery life.
 
rh71 said:
another noob question: I grabbed advanced task killer free and when I go to it, it shows a whole bunch of apps I never even start. Like Amazon Appstore, google+, VZ Backup Assistant, market, dropbox, etc. I kill them all and a few minutes later they're back. Is it because they're doing auto-updating? Leads me to believe this task killer app has no practical use. Does keeping apps up eat a lot of battery? I'd rather uninstall some if so.
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The reason they keep showing up is because Android is starting them, they probably all have background processes that are running, thus you can't actually kill them. On older versions of Android, they were useful because Android's memory management wasn't that great but now as it has matured it isn't an issue. If you don't use the app at all, just uninstall it or do like was mentioned and disable the service in the settings menu. Otherwise, Android will just continue to reload them into memory every time you kill them, which eats CPU cycles to restart the app, that kills battery more so than just letting it sit in memory.
 
Task killers are still necessary because some apps are defective and do not have a working sleep/cached state; they will consume CPU time indefinitely once opened until either you close it with a task killer, reboot the phone, or uninstall the app. This is common enough that I would suggest using something like system panel just to see if any of your apps do this.
 
rh71 said:
Thanks - had to fix the URL (get rid of the double &&) for it to work.
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BTW, I did get a confirmation on mine, but it hasn't shipped. When I go to check the status I enter my order number and last name, and then get a "Page is not currently available" so I'm not sure what's up with that. I think someone had the same issue earlier in this thread. Not sure if Verizon really has these in stock or not.
 
dguy6789 said:
Task killers are still necessary because some apps are defective and do not have a working sleep/cached state; they will consume CPU time indefinitely once opened until either you close it with a task killer, reboot the phone, or uninstall the app. This is common enough that I would suggest using something like system panel just to see if any of your apps do this.
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It's not needed in ICS because swiping away the app after pushing recent app button closes the app.
 
Is there an app that lets me use my phone as a remote for my computers music player, like iTunes or winamp? Also, is there a setting to make incoming texts turn my screen on and show the notification, instead of just the notification light showing up?

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