The Official LG Nexus 4 Thread

lamboman · 23 Jan 2013 at 14:28

I've had four N4s, all have had the problem equally. I'd say it's a shielding issue that is a fault by design that is causing the problem. It doesn't really bother me as it isn't that noticeable during day-to-day phone calls, only really hear it clearly when on the phone at home where everything is silent.

As for custom kernels, I personally don't bother. I've not seen any evidence that the tweaks make a huge difference to battery life. People claim to see a difference, however battery meters reading incorrectly (and thus shutting the phone off before the battery is truly depleted) and different types of usage will count for the differences. I'm getting similar battery life to those claims with the stock kernel anyway. The performance sacrifice is annoying as well - installing franco's kernel lead to jittery scrolling everywhere (I know why), and I really cannot be bothered to faff about under the hood to sort it. Why should I why when the stock kernel works perfectly from the get-go?

Psycho Sonny, care to elaborate on your usage? Sounds like something is going on in the background that is causing it to plummet.

Psycho Sonny · 23 Jan 2013 at 14:53

texts, blue tooth,Wi-fi , a few calls, and apps like app sale, sky sports, weather and email running constantly. Like any normal person I would think apart from blue tooth in the car and 5G wi fi in the house

Bleek · 23 Jan 2013 at 15:03

What's your battery like when locked?

I'm currently sat around 1% drain every 70 minutes which is really very good? I'm a bit surprised actually.

I'll take a screenshot once I'm down to 10% or so.

unwashed potato! · 23 Jan 2013 at 15:18

is nova really the best? i'm finding so so so many features missing from go, can't even be bothered to name them all there's just so many, but none extra this has to offer, plus nova is paid for where as go is free.

go announcements etc annoy me but at least it offers so much more. before i put go on this please convince me to try something new

Psycho Sonny · 23 Jan 2013 at 15:39

Before it would drain quickly, now it doesn't. Anyway I have noticed huge improvements but I switched rom and kernel at the same time so I don't know if its a combination of both or one of them

The Asgard · 23 Jan 2013 at 15:52

Cheers for the input guys, looks like I will just have to live with it.

A point to note about battery life. My 2nd phone is much, much better. I'm currently at 61% with 1 Day 22hrs on the clock with the screen on auto. Previosly I would have had to recharge the phone by now. Using Battery Monitor Pro the capacity looks similiar so I can only conclude the cpu/screen is drawing less power than the previous device. This is one reason I don't want to RMA this device.

lamboman · 23 Jan 2013 at 16:54

Psycho Sonny said:
Before it would drain quickly, now it doesn't. Anyway I have noticed huge improvements but I switched rom and kernel at the same time so I don't know if its a combination of both or one of them

Don't know how you are finding franco.Kernel, but you may want to try the stock kernel that comes with PA. You'll likely have smoother performance and similar battery life, though of course there is nothing wrong with franco's.

The Asgard said:
Cheers for the input guys, looks like I will just have to live with it.

A point to note about battery life. My 2nd phone is much, much better. I'm currently at 61% with 1 Day 22hrs on the clock with the screen on auto. Previosly I would have had to recharge the phone by now. Using Battery Monitor Pro the capacity looks similiar so I can only conclude the cpu/screen is drawing less power than the previous device. This is one reason I don't want to RMA this device.

There won't be anything different between the two devices. Can't explain the difference other than it being in software. However, if you aren't having any problems (aside from the buzzing), I wouldn't bother RMAing it. Sounds like your device is fine.

Psycho Sonny · 23 Jan 2013 at 22:22

lamboman said:
Don't know how you are finding franco.Kernel, but you may want to try the stock kernel that comes with PA. You'll likely have smoother performance and similar battery life, though of course there is nothing wrong with franco's.

There won't be anything different between the two devices. Can't explain the difference other than it being in software. However, if you aren't having any problems (aside from the buzzing), I wouldn't bother RMAing it. Sounds like your device is fine.

well i flashed franco kernel then i flashed PA, so does that mean i have the PA kernel? i have also updated PA (re-flashed a newer version), so this would definetely mean i am on the PA kernel if so, even if i did flash franco after, but i'm sure i didn't

or do you need to install the PA kernel separately?

smokedog · 23 Jan 2013 at 22:32

You flash the ROM first, then kernel after.

ROMs already come with its own kernel so you need to overwrite with your own.

bastic · 23 Jan 2013 at 22:44

bastic said:
does anyone know, if N4's screen has some kind of coating on it ???

reason I am asking is that after a while of use, when screen gets 'dirty' from fingerprints, there is a 'stripe on the screen around 1inch from bottom that is not covered in it or just 'reacts' differently to 'sweat/dirt'
similar one starts slowly to appear on top part as well....

not sure what to think about it...might try to get photos of it....

when i clean the screen there is no difference in any part of the screen - at least it is not visible to the naked eye...

anyone else experienced anything similar ??

No one experienced anything like that????

lamboman · 23 Jan 2013 at 22:45

Psycho Sonny said:
well i flashed franco kernel then i flashed PA, so does that mean i have the PA kernel? i have also updated PA (re-flashed a newer version), so this would definetely mean i am on the PA kernel if so, even if i did flash franco after, but i'm sure i didn't

or do you need to install the PA kernel separately?

You'll be running the PA kernel now. As smokedog said above, ROMs will overwrite the kernel.

Lighters · 24 Jan 2013 at 02:58

Its late and I am seriously overlooking something here!

Device is stock and I have enabled usb debugging.

On LG Google Nexus toolkit I am unable to boot into fast mode, I hold the buttons and then press start but the program detects my nexus 4 as adb no matter what I do.

It seems like its locked and wont let me get into fast mode, how do I unlock this?

Skull · 24 Jan 2013 at 03:08

I would say stop and carry on tomorrow!

kitch9 · 24 Jan 2013 at 06:02

Psycho Sonny said:
Using Franco and pa has tripled my battery life over stock

No it hasn't.

AshD93 · 24 Jan 2013 at 07:20

bastic said:
No one experienced anything like that????

Looking at unboxings, it comes with a screen protector like most phones that you can peel off. Did you remove yours? If not, it's probably that. Though personally, I'd leave it on.

Rusty! · 24 Jan 2013 at 08:57

Lighters said:
Its late and I am seriously overlooking something here!

Device is stock and I have enabled usb debugging.

On LG Google Nexus toolkit I am unable to boot into fast mode, I hold the buttons and then press start but the program detects my nexus 4 as adb no matter what I do.

It seems like its locked and wont let me get into fast mode, how do I unlock this?

Tool kits are lame.

Power the phone off, hold both volume buttons and power it on with them held.

Or use 'adb reboot bootloader'

smokedog · 24 Jan 2013 at 10:16

AshD93 said:
Looking at unboxings, it comes with a screen protector like most phones that you can peel off. Did you remove yours? If not, it's probably that. Though personally, I'd leave it on.

He must be pretty dim witted to not know there is a protected film on. There are even marking on the protected film

Psycho Sonny said:
Using Franco and pa has tripled my battery life over stock

kitch9 said:
No it hasn't.

How would you know Sonny's battery hasn't tripled? Maybe he was only get 1 hour screen time prior.

Supercow · 24 Jan 2013 at 10:20

Anyone having Wifi issues at all?
The Wifi on this is Woeful - it sometimes shows as connected, but there's no internet connection (aka: the Wifi doesn;t show as blue, even though it states connected in the Wifi settings)

Lighters · 24 Jan 2013 at 10:31

That's what I was having the problem with. I could not get fast boot enabled. I would hold both volume buttons and the power button and it was give me options like start recovery and another mode. I would boot up and when connecting to PC it would still be recognised as Adb mode.

kitch9 · 24 Jan 2013 at 10:33

smokedog said:
He must be pretty dim witted to not know there is a protected film on. There are even marking on the protected film

How would you know Sonny's battery hasn't tripled? Maybe he was only get 1 hour screen time prior.

I'd RMA a phone that only got 1 hour.... Francos Kernel will net you around 8% less battery drain over 12 hours, and maybe an extra 30 mins screen on time if you are lucky and use the phone same as he does.

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