***The Official LG Nexus 4 Thread***

Simian said:
Yep!, You can swap and choose 5 devices for life!, not once a phone is dead and you replace, that's 1 less 'slot' :)

I've got Cerberus too, 1 of only 2 app I've actually bought!! :D
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cheers.

hope i never need to use it but good to have imo, in fact i'm thinking £2.60 is too cheap, 5 devices average price of say £200, that's £1K worth of equipment being protected, I know it isn't full proof protection but imo very good quality protection provided.

a lot of people have top end devices costing £500 each, so you can see how cheap the protection is in comparison.

imo £5 would be a very fair price for their software, since it covers 5 devices, £1 each is really really cheap. bargain at £2.60 anybody who has an android device, there really is no reason why they aren't running this already tbh.
 
reading through the thread and i have gotten to this post

"Cerberus survives a wipe if its installed as a system app, so luck doesn't really have anything to do with it."


anyone know how to do this step by step on the nexus 4?
 
thep02 said:
@Psycho, sorry for the spoiler dude, as the thread was quite old I thought I was the only one not to have read it, OCUK FTW!!!!!:D
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it's cool.

right well i have decided to install the hidden version of cerberus as well as go into nova prime launcher and hide all rooted apps which can wipe the phone, install new ROM's, kernel's, etc.

basically i have made the phone harder to wipe or install new rom's on and by installing the hidden system version even if they do a factory reset it should still be installed.

i have also hidden dropbox, which means if my phone is stolen and the new owner takes pictures, i still get them auto-uploaded to my dropbox account.

the only problem now is, since i have the hidden version of cerberus how can i get into it to fiddle with the settings? or can it no longer be accessed on the phone?

how does this version get updated? etc?


edit:

managed to get into it through the play store, it cannot be uninstalled but it can be accessed from there, but you need the username and password.

so it should be updated as normal.

think i have it running as optimally as possible.

i advise others to "hide" apps which could help you in retrieving your phone as i have done, such as dropbox, and most rooted apps which can clear the phone, install new ROM's, etc.
 
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I haven't rooted my phone but I have hidden the app. If someone stole my phone to get through the lock do they need to wipe the phone thereby clearing cereberus, if so it sounds like I need to root the phone :(
 
Why are the prices of these so outrageous when buying anywhere else other than the play store? I was thinking I could pick one up from CPW tomorrow but they are selling them for £400 :eek:

If I order tonight, reckon it will be here by Friday?
 
Egon said:
Why are the prices of these so outrageous when buying anywhere else other than the play store? I was thinking I could pick one up from CPW tomorrow but they are selling them for £400 :eek:

If I order tonight, reckon it will be here by Friday?
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I reckon so - others here have mentioned superfast delivery (i.e. nextday)

Price is subsided by Google.
 
Egon said:
Why are the prices of these so outrageous when buying anywhere else other than the play store? I was thinking I could pick one up from CPW tomorrow but they are selling them for £400 :eek:

If I order tonight, reckon it will be here by Friday?
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google are not selling them for profit, cpw are.

therefore google will make zero money from the transaction, whereas cpw will make £100 i would imagine after costs.
 
tals said:
I haven't rooted my phone but I have hidden the app. If someone stole my phone to get through the lock do they need to wipe the phone thereby clearing cereberus, if so it sounds like I need to root the phone :(
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even rooting will not stop it from being wiped.

you need to install it into the system itself so it remains there even after a ROM is changed, the easiest way to do that is by installing the flashable zip in recovery.

therefore un-install and install through recovery.
 
Thought I had bricked my phone :(

Rooting phone all went ok, then decided I wanted to see what Paranoid Android was like. Flashed

pa_mako-3.15-26APR2013-222559
pa_gapps-full-4.2-20130530-signed

Onto it and it then got stuck on the loading screen of Parandoid Android. I don't know if I was too impatient - I gave it about 5 minutes then shut the phone down. After that I couldn't get it to boot beyond the loading screen.

Luckily the Nexus toolkit allowed me to flash back to stock (boot locked option!)

I want to try this again, should I use the toolkit to flash the ROM's or is their a better way. Should I flash both the PA and the Google Apps at the same time?

Are those the right files/versions I have. How long should the initial PA boot take?

Any assistance would be appreciated.
 
tals said:
Thought I had bricked my phone :(

Rooting phone all went ok, then decided I wanted to see what Paranoid Android was like. Flashed

pa_mako-3.15-26APR2013-222559
pa_gapps-full-4.2-20130530-signed

Onto it and it then got stuck on the loading screen of Parandoid Android. I don't know if I was too impatient - I gave it about 5 minutes then shut the phone down. After that I couldn't get it to boot beyond the loading screen.

Luckily the Nexus toolkit allowed me to flash back to stock (boot locked option!)

I want to try this again, should I use the toolkit to flash the ROM's or is their a better way. Should I flash both the PA and the Google Apps at the same time?

Are those the right files/versions I have. How long should the initial PA boot take?

Any assistance would be appreciated.
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If its the first time you have flashed a custom ROM you need to full wipe :)
 
How good/bad is the camera on this?

I use the camera on my gs2 a lot and I am not particularly pleased with the results. I would like my next phone to be an upgrade on the gs2's camera quality.
 
tals said:
I did the factory reset (from settings) prior to flashing. Is that enough?
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OK I think I was too reliant on the nexus toolkit. I am going to use the ROM Manager which I have and follow through this process which seems more sensible and gives the wipe options etc

 
tals said:
Thought I had bricked my phone :(

Rooting phone all went ok, then decided I wanted to see what Paranoid Android was like. Flashed

pa_mako-3.15-26APR2013-222559
pa_gapps-full-4.2-20130530-signed

Onto it and it then got stuck on the loading screen of Parandoid Android. I don't know if I was too impatient - I gave it about 5 minutes then shut the phone down. After that I couldn't get it to boot beyond the loading screen.

Luckily the Nexus toolkit allowed me to flash back to stock (boot locked option!)

I want to try this again, should I use the toolkit to flash the ROM's or is their a better way. Should I flash both the PA and the Google Apps at the same time?

Are those the right files/versions I have. How long should the initial PA boot take?

Any assistance would be appreciated.
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before flashing a custom rom you need to wipe the phone completely.

it's like setting a stage, it needs to be completely wiped before a new stage can be made for the next production or something along those lines, that's how it was described to me.

basically

1. unlock boot loader
2. root phone
3. factory reset, wipe caches, data, everything before flashing custom rom
4. flash gapps (although some recommend booting into android and then back into recovery before flashing gapps, i have never done so)


if you boot into android after factory resetting and wiping all the caches and data but before flashing the custom ROM, you will need to wipe them again.

basically the custom ROM has to start from nothing apart from radio baseband and firmware on the phone.

i did this wrong too on the nexus 4 and got bootloop forever, even though this is the umpteenth phone i have rooted and custom rom'ed.

try again, the toolkit makes it very easy to do.
 
Snax said:
How good/bad is the camera on this?

I use the camera on my gs2 a lot and I am not particularly pleased with the results. I would like my next phone to be an upgrade on the gs2's camera quality.
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i would say it is terrible tbh, but i have came from a HOX and an N8 before that.

it's probably on par with a GS2 however, to upgrade on the camera of a GS2 you would need to go for something else made in the past year or two but top end of the price scale when launched.
 
I really don't have an issue with the camera. In low level light it is awful but for everything else I have taken some good pics, however I am not a camera buff so won't know if the photo is good or not. I have a Powershot G10 for real photos. For a phone it serves it's purpose, quick random photos.
 
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