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Official ICS & Galaxy Nexus Launch Thread

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superxero044 said:
So on my old Gingerbread phone (Mesmerize / Fascinate) there was a page of contacts who were people I actually called. When I transfered my contacts over, all my GMAIL contacts are in one giant list. Not separate out into the people I EVER actually call.

Anyone know how to transfer this way.
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Perhaps that was list of frequently called people? AFAIK you can also star people. Both these options had additonal tabs in contacts on GB. I haven't used ICS so not sure what they did there, but at least favorites would be kept as they are stored as such on Google's servers.
 
superxero044 said:
So on my old Gingerbread phone (Mesmerize / Fascinate) there was a page of contacts who were people I actually called. When I transfered my contacts over, all my GMAIL contacts are in one giant list. Not separate out into the people I EVER actually call.

Anyone know how to transfer this way.
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You didn't transfer anything. Or at least you shouldn't have. Since Gingerbread is an Android OS build, you were syncing to the cloud. When you loaded your Google account into the Galaxy Nexus, it would have started sync-ing to the same contacts list. If you had a special setup on your Mesmerize to show only certain contacts, that was a custom setting. It has nothing to do with importing or transferring.

Here's one suggestion (this works on Gingerbread. I don't have ICS but it should be similar)

1. Go to you Google Contacts in a browser.
2. Create a new group called Favorites
3. Find the people you call the most and put them into that list.
4. On your phone, go to Contacts, Context Button, Display Options, then uncheck everything but Favorites. Now it only shows those people. You can check other lists you use often too like Family, Friends, etc.

On my Nexus One, the stock Contacts program supports Favorites. You probably have that on the GN too.
 
sygyzy said:
You didn't transfer anything. Or at least you shouldn't have. Since Gingerbread is an Android OS build, you were syncing to the cloud. When you loaded your Google account into the Galaxy Nexus, it would have started sync-ing to the same contacts list. If you had a special setup on your Mesmerize to show only certain contacts, that was a custom setting. It has nothing to do with importing or transferring.

Here's one suggestion (this works on Gingerbread. I don't have ICS but it should be similar)

1. Go to you Google Contacts in a browser.
2. Create a new group called Favorites
3. Find the people you call the most and put them into that list.
4. On your phone, go to Contacts, Context Button, Display Options, then uncheck everything but Favorites. Now it only shows those people. You can check other lists you use often too like Family, Friends, etc.

On my Nexus One, the stock Contacts program supports Favorites. You probably have that on the GN too.
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Yes the GN has "Starred" contacts or "Favorites" Mine synced fine as soon as I activated the phone.
 
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my OG Droid 1 has been dead for a while. until i bring up my grades, i wont be getting a phone 🙁 wanted the gn for christmas (my birthday as well) sobs
 
sygyzy said:
You didn't transfer anything. Or at least you shouldn't have. Since Gingerbread is an Android OS build, you were syncing to the cloud. When you loaded your Google account into the Galaxy Nexus, it would have started sync-ing to the same contacts list. If you had a special setup on your Mesmerize to show only certain contacts, that was a custom setting. It has nothing to do with importing or transferring.

Here's one suggestion (this works on Gingerbread. I don't have ICS but it should be similar)

1. Go to you Google Contacts in a browser.
2. Create a new group called Favorites
3. Find the people you call the most and put them into that list.
4. On your phone, go to Contacts, Context Button, Display Options, then uncheck everything but Favorites. Now it only shows those people. You can check other lists you use often too like Family, Friends, etc.

On my Nexus One, the stock Contacts program supports Favorites. You probably have that on the GN too.
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Yeah I think it worked slightly differently on my Mesmerize but I will definitely do it this way. Thanks 🙂
 
SAWYER said:
I personally do not see the appeal of watching video on such a small screen. I would prefer to use a tv of computer myself
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I have neither in a position where I can lay in bed and watch them. Phone solves that problem.


Also something new GN users might want to know. If you go into the developer options menu you can "Force hardware rendering" Which will attempt to run all 2D apps with GPU acceleration even if the dev doesn't have it enabled.

You can also enable Strict Mode which will let you know which apps are slowing themselves down by coding improperly
 
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SAWYER said:
An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Galaxy Nexus
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/14/iphone-galaxy-nexus-review/

This has started a flame war
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That guy is a douche. I love how he compares it to Mercedes vs Honda when the Nexus is the more expensive phone of the two. He also seems to blame Google for his inability to manage his contacts properly, I have no duplicates for any of my contacts that have multiple emails or phone numbers.
 
Glitchny said:
I have neither in a position where I can lay in bed and watch them. Phone solves that problem.


Also something new GN users might want to know. If you go into the developer options menu you can "Force hardware rendering" Which will attempt to run all 2D apps with GPU acceleration even if the dev doesn't have it enabled.

You can also enable Strict Mode which will let you know which apps are slowing themselves down by coding improperly
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Yep, in bed, not bothering the wife with the TV while she's asleep, or can watch whatever while she's watching Lifetimer. 😀
 
Puddle Jumper said:
That guy is a douche. I love how he compares it to Mercedes vs Honda when the Nexus is the more expensive phone of the two. He also seems to blame Google for his inability to manage his contacts properly, I have no duplicates for any of my contacts that have multiple emails or phone numbers.
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i also don't like how he says "websites failed to load, and apps were bad" but doesn't mention which websites or which apps.
 
Browser is damn good! I'm on wifi cause at the moment 3g is just too slow, and it loads fast and is smooth as silk! Actually the whole phone is smooth as silk and I find myself turning it on to just flip screens 😛


Heard that another update is in the works, 4.1, which might tweak the radios. My guess is there was some problem with that update and so we got the lesser 4.0.2 one for launch while the other one gets more work. No reason why my signal strength should be so low where I am.
 
I have to say the speaker volume is too low. I am actually concerned the alarm might not wake me up from my slumber. I wonder if it's something that can be easily fixed.
 
cecco said:
I have to say the speaker volume is too low. I am actually concerned the alarm might not wake me up from my slumber. I wonder if it's something that can be easily fixed.
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there is no cellphone alarm loud enough to wake me up from slumber, it coudl be taped to my head and it wouldn't wake me up
 
I went to my local Verizon store this morning and picked one up. Fantastic upgrade from my Droid 1. I'm pretty stoked with the performance and ICS is lovely.
 
Demo24 said:
Browser is damn good! I'm on wifi cause at the moment 3g is just too slow, and it loads fast and is smooth as silk! Actually the whole phone is smooth as silk and I find myself turning it on to just flip screens 😛


Heard that another update is in the works, 4.1, which might tweak the radios. My guess is there was some problem with that update and so we got the lesser 4.0.2 one for launch while the other one gets more work. No reason why my signal strength should be so low where I am.
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Yea I like the browser, have you turned on fullscreen mode? removes the address bar and adds a thumbable navigation wheel.
 
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