***** The Official Galaxy Nexus Thread *****

[reflux]

Android noob here. What's the best way to find a rogue app?

Check your battery stats (settings>battery). This lists what parts of your phone are using most battery power, although it can miss things sometimes.

Android System Info is a good general indicator too, because it will show you how much time your CPU has spent at certain speeds. If it's a lot of time at full speed and you've barely used it, then something is acting up.

If you want to narrow it down a bit, download a CPU usage monitor from the Market and see what apps are using most power.

 

[Robbo]

Find the battery on this terrible. Full charge at 8am, now at 2:40pm battery is currently 17%.

Not even done that much on it. 30 minutes music and kindle. A few emails and sms.

My old iPhone 4 would still be on about 70% battery now.

Something is wrong there.

Seems to be real conflicting opinions on the battery life? I hope i can get a full day out of it. I can easily get a day from my iphone 4 currently.

Pretty much everyone says it's good, just on Android it doesn't take much for an app to be able to trash your battery life. So you have to be careful.

 

[Jeepo]

Check your battery stats (settings>battery). This lists what parts of your phone are using most battery power, although it can miss things sometimes.

Android System Info is a good general indicator too, because it will show you how much time your CPU has spent at certain speeds. If it's a lot of time at full speed and you've barely used it, then something is acting up.

If you want to narrow it down a bit, download a CPU usage monitor from the Market and see what apps are using most power.

Thanks. Battery drain is mostly the screen as expected. But it sure does drain fast when I play with it. CPU is <350MHz for over 70% of the time, and full speed for about 10% which figures as I play with it a lot. Shall keep watching this app for a heads up, thanks.

 

[McAdam]

Hey Everyone, thought i'd let you know that theres now a GN Owners Club on G+
https://plus.google.com/b/107675919808626036734/

Also Samsung really did mess up with the emails for the vouchers... Im awaiting a response from them

 

[reflux]

Thanks. Battery drain is mostly the screen as expected. But it sure does drain fast when I play with it. CPU is <350MHz for over 70% of the time, and full speed for about 10% which figures as I play with it a lot. Shall keep watching this app for a heads up, thanks.

Cool, glad you found it useful

 

[BaZ87]

I would check if Chitter Chatter have the nexus. I kept my half price flext tariff when I upgrade with them. Benefit is you get an unlocked phone and free gifts like a jabra arrow bt headset.

Thanks for that. I just gave them a call and they'll be getting it in stock in the next 10 days

 

[_Jimlad_]

what are these vouchers?

 

[Bloomfield]

The 250 quid media vouchers given to the first 100 people to purchase the phones I'm guessing.

 

[meths]

They're not for us normal folks, just the weirdos that queue all night to buy stuff.

 

[AndyCr15]

Don't forget the other £100 of retail vouchers we get too...

Still not sure how the £250 will work? Buying things on the market would be pretty awesome. There are a few books I would buy for starters.

 

[Robbo]

Don't forget the other £100 of retail vouchers we get too...

Still not sure how the £250 will work? Buying things on the market would be pretty awesome. There are a few books I would buy for starters.

Andrew! p)

How are you finding the battery? A chap over at XDA just complained he 'only' got 4.5 hours of screen-on time out of his, which I think is pretty good considering you won't get much more than that out of a small screen device.

Also, the idle times are meant to be excellent. You definitely prefer it to the Note then?

 

[dienamite]

Find the battery on this terrible. Full charge at 8am, now at 2:40pm battery is currently 17%.

Not even done that much on it. 30 minutes music and kindle. A few emails and sms.

My old iPhone 4 would still be on about 70% battery now.

Try turning off live wallpapers and using an image. I did that and saw my battery life shoot up. Madness!

 

[Robbo]

You shouldn't use live wallpapers, no, but it wouldn't have that much of an effect!

 

[smokedog]

Try turning off live wallpapers and using an image. I did that and saw my battery life shoot up. Madness!

Not using live wallpaper. Just installed CPU Usage Monitor but not finding it that helpful. Doesn't give you information what app is being used, just info of how hard the CPU is working.

In my battery readings, its showing that the Screen is using 44% (already on low brightness and short timeout) and Android OS is using 38%.

 

[reflux]

I often find that a reboot stops random battery drain. Clears whatever offending app it is from memory.

 

[Attu90]

My phone has been unplugged for about 9 hours and the battery is now on 76%, I've made a few calls, read some emails, checked out ocuk at lunch time and played about 10 mins on Shadowgun.

Personally I think the battery is great.

 

[AndyCr15]

How are you finding the battery? A chap over at XDA just complained he 'only' got 4.5 hours of screen-on time out of his, which I think is pretty good considering you won't get much more than that out of a small screen device.

It's really hard for me to comment as 1) you shouldn't judge a battery before 10 days use 2) I'm not using it in a normal way, as I'm on holiday in Cali, so I have nothing to compare it against. I've taken 345 photo's in 6 days for example. It's taking quite a beating but lasting 10 hours as a minimum s far.

You definitely prefer it to the Note then?

As soon as I got the Note, the SGSII went on sale. Great device. Not sure I would have done that if the Nexus wasn't due out, but I kinda decided, even if I didn't want the Nexus (very unlikely) that I would stick with the Note.

I should perhaps use the Note for one day again, having used the Nexus for two weeks, before making my final decision, but at the moment I'm leaning towards the Nexus.

 

[_Jimlad_]

guys can i ask, does anyone know why my tv connector cable from my SGS2 would not work? also is anything needed to add a usb drive? because again i have the connector from my sgs2

 

[Jabbs]

I am 21h 45 mins and mine still has 51% left, battery life is fantastic on this.

 

[jabokai]

Not using live wallpaper. Just installed CPU Usage Monitor but not finding it that helpful. Doesn't give you information what app is being used, just info of how hard the CPU is working.

Try System Tuner from 3c - it lists processes, etc. And you can set it to record an interval so you can see what's happening when the screen's off too.