the fact is we dont know. they will no doubt be trying and we shall see, if not im sure a recall will be sorted.
at the end of the day software fixes will be tried first to avoid further embarrassment
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the fact is we dont know. they will no doubt be trying and we shall see, if not im sure a recall will be sorted.
at the end of the day software fixes will be tried first to avoid further embarrassment
Some of the people on xda are pretty smart. Remember they diagnosed the fault. Samsung missed that in their QC.
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I'll bet you that there are loads of electronic products out there with hardware issues being masked by software tweaks that we never even knew about! This one just slipped out of the door before Samsung had a chance to patch it.
Indeed.
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I'm sure they will do absolutely everything possible to avoid a recall. Because in it's current state it is unusable on half the networks in the UK and without a fix a recall is inevitable. Some sort of fix will be coming I am sure.
I'm going to be strong and resist the temptation to order one until things are a little clearer
I'm going to be strong and resist the temptation to order one until things are a little clearer
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You would need to Join the contacts in the People app. Just use FriendCaster,you can always go back to Facebook app once its been updated.
Thanks, that worked great!
Sorry, only saw that after posting my reply, but thanks for the heads up anyway!
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I would feel a lot happier keeping this phone beyond my 7 days return period if Samsung/Google would release a statment to confirm the problem and that they will have the issue sorted.
I'm going to speak to Phones4U tomorrow as I'm not to happy being on an 18 month contrat with a faulty phone. When Samsung haven't even confirmed there is an issue.
I'm going to speak to Phones4U tomorrow as I'm not to happy being on an 18 month contrat with a faulty phone. When Samsung haven't even confirmed there is an issue.
Well I ended up buying one of these today but I honestly have mixed feelings about the handset.
Obviously, the display is brilliant but suffers from the same graininess at lower brightness levels that other AMOLED screens I've come across. It's probably even more noticeable on the Galaxy Nexus as the auto brightness levels are set relatively low in comparison to the Galaxy SII. I'm not fussed about this though because no screen technology is perfect and as I said, it's apparent on the Galaxy SII as well.
The user interface is definitely very nice and a lot more uniform across the whole phone and the new Google applications look fantastic, especially Gmail and YouTube. For most part the UI is very slick but I still came across certain applications which were definitely not as smooth as the counter part applications on the Galaxy SII.
The browser is one such example when visiting the mobile version of Androidandme.com. Flicking my thumb from the bottom of the screen to the top on that Galaxy SII had the page scrolling down to the bottom in a fluid and insanely fast manner where as the Galaxy Nexus was no where near as smooth. The difference really is night and day, the best way to describe it is like scrolling a web page on your desktop PC with and without smooth scrolling enabled.
I'm not sure why this is the case, seeing as every application compiled with the ICS SDK as the Browser on this phone would have been; should be GPU accelerated.
The speaker is pretty shocking both in its placement and in its sound. I find my fingers covering the speaker when holding the handset so both of my thumbs are free to control the screen; just as you would hold it when gaming. I had the same issue on the Galaxy SII but because the speaker was offset, simply turning the phone 180 degrees so that the Samsung logo was under the other hand meant the speaker was not covered. I can barely hear the notifications at full sound settings in a fairly quiet room and I'm so concerned about the alarm not waking me tomorrow that I've kept my SII alarm on as well.
Some of the UI changes are actually a step backwards, such as the recent applications list. Before you had a grid of icons 4 x 2 in size, allowing you access to the latest 8 applications without having to scroll. The new method allows 4 to be seen, just so it can be a little bit fancy and show a window preview.
Pretty sure I read that Google had finally got around to allowing the device to sync contact profile pictures greater than 96px x 96px in size but bringing up a contact's details in the People application still shows a blotchy low resolution photo from Google+. This is another annoyance, it appears the latest Nexus S Gingerbread update and ICS has taken away Facebook's contact sync privileges as before, Google allowed Facebook contact sync outside of the Google contact API. This means most of my contact's don't have display pictures because Google+ is about as popular as the smelly ginger child at school.
Friendcaster is a way around but again, the contact pictures look awful despite checking the high resolution option.
The gaming performance has been surprising, Shadowgun appears to run as smooth as it did on my Galaxy SII but I've only had limited testing due to a bug. After interacting with the first dead enemy in the game, where you send a tissue sample off, the ability to run whilst aiming disappears; almost as if multi-touch completely falls over.
Google have done a great job with giving Android the polish it's been screaming out for since it was first released but again, between them and Samsung; they've missed a trick or two on some of the basics in my opinion. Most applications in Android are not full screen apart from games, which leaves the notification bar to be accessed most times; so why on earth haven't Google implemented the quick settings toggles that you see in TouchWiz/Sense?
Obviously, the display is brilliant but suffers from the same graininess at lower brightness levels that other AMOLED screens I've come across. It's probably even more noticeable on the Galaxy Nexus as the auto brightness levels are set relatively low in comparison to the Galaxy SII. I'm not fussed about this though because no screen technology is perfect and as I said, it's apparent on the Galaxy SII as well.
The user interface is definitely very nice and a lot more uniform across the whole phone and the new Google applications look fantastic, especially Gmail and YouTube. For most part the UI is very slick but I still came across certain applications which were definitely not as smooth as the counter part applications on the Galaxy SII.
The browser is one such example when visiting the mobile version of Androidandme.com. Flicking my thumb from the bottom of the screen to the top on that Galaxy SII had the page scrolling down to the bottom in a fluid and insanely fast manner where as the Galaxy Nexus was no where near as smooth. The difference really is night and day, the best way to describe it is like scrolling a web page on your desktop PC with and without smooth scrolling enabled.
I'm not sure why this is the case, seeing as every application compiled with the ICS SDK as the Browser on this phone would have been; should be GPU accelerated.
The speaker is pretty shocking both in its placement and in its sound. I find my fingers covering the speaker when holding the handset so both of my thumbs are free to control the screen; just as you would hold it when gaming. I had the same issue on the Galaxy SII but because the speaker was offset, simply turning the phone 180 degrees so that the Samsung logo was under the other hand meant the speaker was not covered. I can barely hear the notifications at full sound settings in a fairly quiet room and I'm so concerned about the alarm not waking me tomorrow that I've kept my SII alarm on as well.
Some of the UI changes are actually a step backwards, such as the recent applications list. Before you had a grid of icons 4 x 2 in size, allowing you access to the latest 8 applications without having to scroll. The new method allows 4 to be seen, just so it can be a little bit fancy and show a window preview.
Pretty sure I read that Google had finally got around to allowing the device to sync contact profile pictures greater than 96px x 96px in size but bringing up a contact's details in the People application still shows a blotchy low resolution photo from Google+. This is another annoyance, it appears the latest Nexus S Gingerbread update and ICS has taken away Facebook's contact sync privileges as before, Google allowed Facebook contact sync outside of the Google contact API. This means most of my contact's don't have display pictures because Google+ is about as popular as the smelly ginger child at school.
Friendcaster is a way around but again, the contact pictures look awful despite checking the high resolution option.
The gaming performance has been surprising, Shadowgun appears to run as smooth as it did on my Galaxy SII but I've only had limited testing due to a bug. After interacting with the first dead enemy in the game, where you send a tissue sample off, the ability to run whilst aiming disappears; almost as if multi-touch completely falls over.
Google have done a great job with giving Android the polish it's been screaming out for since it was first released but again, between them and Samsung; they've missed a trick or two on some of the basics in my opinion. Most applications in Android are not full screen apart from games, which leaves the notification bar to be accessed most times; so why on earth haven't Google implemented the quick settings toggles that you see in TouchWiz/Sense?
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anyone have dolphin browser hd running without problems?
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hmm time for a factory reset and root methinks haha.
BTW guys how do we link a contact, so a persons facebook contact and google contact with different names and numbers linked? like a form of synergy, my pre and my mum desire has this, but cant find it here
BTW guys how do we link a contact, so a persons facebook contact and google contact with different names and numbers linked? like a form of synergy, my pre and my mum desire has this, but cant find it here
You do it via the People app.
Select the contact you want to keep as the main contact for that person
Select the Menu button from the top and choose Edit
From this screen, select the Menu button from the top again and Choose Join
The phone will display the most relevant ones or you can choose to show all contacts
Just select the contact and it will be joined up for you.
Personally I much prefer the new ICS way, where it isn't limited to 8 and I can swipe away ones I wouldn't want again.
I never used it before, use it quite a lot now
Colour vibrancy is a personal thing on the GS2, I thought on my 2 the colours looked un natural and pretty much everyone I showed it agreed, for me they could have been toned down slightly so hopeufully this is what has happened on the Nexus.
My main gripe with the GS2 was the blurry text, and how things looked blurry so hoping the higher rez screen has made a big difference in that department, hell even this Atrix I am using now looks way sharper than the GS2 did.
My main gripe with the GS2 was the blurry text, and how things looked blurry so hoping the higher rez screen has made a big difference in that department, hell even this Atrix I am using now looks way sharper than the GS2 did.
Totally agree. While pretty much everyone said - "Wow, that's a nice screen", they also said the colour reproduction is way over the top and the iPhone/Sensation was better. The only thing I like about AMOLED really are the blacks, they're great.
Well, as long as it's actually fixed I don't think anyone will care.