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

smokedog said:
All devices have shortcomings. For example, I loved the iPhone 4 but jailbreaking it and customising made a good phone great.

Adding a customise Rom and tweaks is no different to downloading an App. You want a device to do something extra it didn't stock.
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I hold the exact same view when it comes to Jailbreaking the iPhone as it happens. Most people do it so they can get free apps though, whether they want to admit it or not. ;)

I think that changing the ROM/Kernel/etc of the phone is very, very different to installing an app. It really isn't the same thing.

As I said, I'm not saying people shouldn't do that if they want to, just that I personally wouldn't bother with it on the Nexus.

Most people seem to be doing it to fix shortcomings that shouldn't be there in the first place. I'd rather Google worked tirelessly to push out an update to fix these things instead of just leaving it to XDA developers.
 
glad contact sync is disabled, i gave all 200 contacts in my phone book a personal picture, mostly from my wedding snaps, it took me all day (at work :D) i was mortified last year when facebook synced its pictures, managed to stop it halfway! ) i know you can disable it, but in the first version it a year or so back it was on as default
 
shaffaaf27 said:
How does one chnage the default google music artwork? Everything for me comes up as bashy, and i only have 1 of his songs.
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Not answering your question but I would just use poweramp. Poweramp gets the artwork for all my music and is a really nice music player. Download the trial and are what you think :)
 
Robbo said:
Too easy? Am I not allowed an opinion or something?
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Really? Wow. Do you recall how this conversation started? You basically told us all we're silly for wanting to install a custom ROM, but we're the ones trying to quash people's freedom. Nice.

_Jimlad_ said:
but as for roms im staying 100% with google, as i said before so many roms have bugs you find out at awkward times, they corrupt or the devs stop working on them. The only reason i used roms was to get closer to stock, which i now have. The only roms i liked were CM7, but again happy with what google give me for now.
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Again, you guys seem to be missing the point of a Nexus device. CM was built for Nexus devices. Google give the code out to developers and show them how to unlock the bootloader with a command.

All other devices generally have problems as ROM's are based on leaks or are using CM who's code is only directly suited for a Nexus device.

Anyway, I wont bother trying to explain it any more, or defending my opinion because apparently in doing so I'm not allowing others their opinion... :confused:
 
AndyCr15 said:
Really? Wow. Do you recall how this conversation started? You basically told us all we're silly for wanting to install a custom ROM, but we're the ones trying to quash people's freedom. Nice.
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That isn't what I said at all.

I'm merely putting forward my opinion that, on a device such as this, for most people, there isn't much point in using a custom ROM - at least for the moment.

You've conveniently ignored those parts though and just selectively quoted things that are easier to reply to.

The Nexus devices are a development platform for apps within the latest version of the operating system. That is what they are, first and foremost.

I doubt in an ideal world Google would want stock ICS 'adjusted' so that it creates even more issues when testing apps.

Nexus phones are not about ROMs, they are about development within the OS as Google intended it, not hacking it. The fact they have an unlocked bootloader (pretty much) is just to keep everyone happy, which is fine, but it isn't the main point of the phone.

If you disagree then fine, we'll agree to disagree. :)
 
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Robbo said:
I'm merely putting forward my opinion that, on a device such as this, for most people, there isn't much point in using a custom ROM - at least for the moment.

You've conveniently ignored those parts though and just selectively quoted things that are easier to reply to.
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No I haven't. At least twice I've answered why I want custom ROM's. Have a look.

But yes, we will agree to disagree. The bootloader is easily unlocked to keep everyone happy. Okay...
 
@AndyCr15

I wonder if you can have a device (the GNex) which is both a developers phone and a flagship phone rather than just one. Seems to me that the GNex is both. Why a flagship? Because it gets ICS first and by a wide margin, shows other OEMs like Motorola, HTC, LG, Sony, etc what is possible before these OEMs customise their new phones. Motorola, which will soon be owned by Google issued an update yesterday on ICS which seems to point to the GNex being a flagship device and earlier comments on this Board about the many months it will take for older Android devices to receive ICS updates is substantiated in Motorola's release:

http://www.motorola.com/blog/2011/12/07/motorola-update-on-ice-cream-sandwich/
 
Robbo said:
And I have never once said you're wrong for wanting a custom ROM.
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Have to be honest, that's how it came across to me. You then called me a liar...

Robbo said:
Everyone is praising ICS saying it's brilliant and finally what Google needed, if you've said something like that yet you've put a custom ROM on your phone, you're a liar.
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But anyway. If you're saying it wasn't meant that way, fair enough.
 
shaffaaf27 said:
what advantage does having a custom recovery have over the stock?
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*abusive comments removed :p as I can't read*

I would add something I missed before though, I like having battery % visible instead of a battery symbol.

**Edit** Wait, sorry, my bad. You ask about custom recovery, not ROM. I apologise.

Tbh, I've never really looked through stock recovery options, but I believe it's rather limited and you can only flash authorised ROM's.

The biggest advantage is you can backup your entire device.
 
modelportfolio2 said:
@AndyCR15

I wonder if you can have a device (the GNex) which is both a developers phone and a flagship phone rather than just one. Seems to me that the GNex is both. Why a flagship? Because it gets ICS first and by a wide margin, shows other OEMs like Motorola, HTC, LG, Sony, etc what is possible before these OEMs customise their new phones.
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I guess this is based around what we think a 'flagship' device is. Most of the comments I'm referring to are people moaning the specs are not groundbreaking, therefor it's poor as a flagship device. I would agree with what you say about it being an example of the new OS... but this is nothing to do with phone specs, which seem to be what people have moaned about when relating to flagship.

The Nexus one was rather 'revolutionary' as far as specs. It was certainly the first 1ghz phone I had. The Nexus S far from pushing the boundaries, as has the Galaxy Nexus. I personally don't think Google aim to push hardware limits with their Nexus line. I wonder if they have to set specs quite a long while in advance, so they can spend a lot of time working on the new OS?
 
AndyCr15 said:
Have to be honest, that's how it came across to me. You then called me a liar...

But anyway. If you're saying it wasn't meant that way, fair enough.
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I didn't mean for it to come across as abrasively as it did - sorry.

Anyway, I consider the Nexus phone to be the Android flagship from a usability point of view at least, which is ultimately what is important.
 
I thought I do a little night test after Leonardo last night:

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Enjoy :D
 
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