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

kona786 said:
Cheers Mattey. I wish my S4 had onscreen buttons.

Nexus phones are cool.

In a dream world I'd wish for a Galaxy Nexus design (my fav) with GS4 hardware!
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Nexus phones are too cool, I dream for Nexus18's photoshop of the HTC one without the nav buttons but on screen, I think that'd be my dream phone if anything. Although the S4 hardware/SAMOLED is sweet, Shame about the rest of it.

Only problem is I'd have to install PA right away :S
 
Have to say I really dislike the on screen buttons. I wish they would auto-hide or something then it wouldn't be so bad. My upgrade comes up in November and I think I will be going for a S4 or HTC One or Note 3 if they are about.
 
Determined not to root as I am very happy with everything apart from that. I have rooted all my other android devices and never been able to settle on any rom's. There was always something that I didn't like.
 
MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Determined not to root as I am very happy with everything apart from that. I have rooted all my other android devices and never been able to settle on any rom's. There was always something that I didn't like.
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That is fair enough, Those two can be fairly close to stock in terms of looks, But they just have some added features. One being able to hide the navigation buttons.
 
Agreed, you really wouldn't know the difference between CM/PA and stock. Just when you notice no buttons, pie interface etc. PA I didn't really 'get' as a ROM. Love CM though - awesome.
 
Flashed MIUI v5 for the sake of it, fancied a change and I'm fairly impressed.

Some great features.

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for everyone complaining about battery life look at this thread

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155495

i am using franco kernel along with the paid for app version which has undervolting options.


anyway depending on the cpu you have got, everybody should safely be able to undervolt by 100mv across all frequencies regardless. so everyone can use that as a starting point but i didnt.

i have underclocked mine by 150mv so far and there has been zero stability issues.

basically i clicked one button in franco kernel app which decreases all voltages by 25mv, i then used the phone for a week, if i have zero issues, i then i decrease by another 25mv and repeat the one week's useage.

now i have hit 150mv i do not want to keep repeating the process as there is a point where it will become unstable and i may end up bricking it and having to reset everything and the whole restore process becomes tiresome, so i am happy with 150mv across all frequencies.

battery life is now stupendously good compared to before, i wont bother going into actual figures as everyone usage is different but mine is night and day difference.

here is the OP from that thread's setup

My surrent setup:
mhz - mv (difference)
384 - 700 (-150)
486 - 700 (-175)
594 - 720 (-180)
702 - 740 (-185)
1026 - 825 (-200)
1188 - 875 (-225)
1350 - 940 (-185)
1512 - 1000 (-150)

he has obviously went one step further and customised each and every frequency, obviously this is a better solution, but imo very time consuming, some of you may wish to do this, but as you can see he has been able to undervolt by as much as 225mv in one occasion and the minimum is 150mv.

therefore even if you are a noob 100mv across all frequencies should be stable and still make a considerable difference to your battery life.
 
re the Undervolting, fantastic post, I have set mine to -150 but not had it reboot to this. Will monitor over next week but this sounds like it should make a big difference on battery life,
 
Do I have to get the paid version to tweak the volts or will the free one allow me to do it too?? :)

Currently getting bad battery life - 62% after 9 hours of not much usage! (approx 10 minutes Twitter, 10 minutes Facebook, 1x 15 minute phone call, Teeny bit of t'interweb)
 
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Simian said:
Do I have to get the paid version to tweak the volts or will the free one allow me to do it too?? :)

Currently getting bad battery life - 62% after 9 hours of not much usage! (approx 10 minutes Twitter, 10 minutes Facebook, 1x 15 minute phone call, Teeny bit of t'interweb)
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I think only the paid for version has this functionality enabled. You could try the full version out for free using 3rd party app stores, but imo it's worth paying for
 
tals said:
re the Undervolting, fantastic post, I have set mine to -150 but not had it reboot to this. Will monitor over next week but this sounds like it should make a big difference on battery life,
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You need to select the voltage on startup option but if it's unstable your risking a brick. So it's safer to manually select the undervolt every time you restart the phone, but you have to remember to do this otherwise the phone will be using normal voltages and you will see zero difference.
 
Crysalis said:
Still best bang for the buck phone atm or something else i should be looking at?
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i would hold off personally, get a y300 for £70 until the next nexus is released in a few months time.

you should be able to sell the y300 for around £70 at auction when the next one is released.

whereas with the nexus 4 it has dropped in price a lot since launch in the second hand market.

smartfonestore has the nexus 4 second hand for cheap if it's definitely what you want, cheaper than ebay and they grade the phones so you know what you are getting, grade a is practically brand new condition.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
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here is the OP from that thread's setup

My surrent setup:
mhz - mv (difference)
384 - 700 (-150)
486 - 700 (-175)
594 - 720 (-180)
702 - 740 (-185)
1026 - 825 (-200)
1188 - 875 (-225)
1350 - 940 (-185)
1512 - 1000 (-150)

he has obviously went one step further and customised each and every frequency, obviously this is a better solution, but imo very time consuming, some of you may wish to do this, but as you can see he has been able to undervolt by as much as 225mv in one occasion and the minimum is 150mv.

therefore even if you are a noob 100mv across all frequencies should be stable and still make a considerable difference to your battery life.
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Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

What you could do is use CPU Spy to see which three MHz states are most used and just tweak those ones further.
 
Antony101 said:
Flashed MIUI v5 for the sake of it, fancied a change and I'm fairly impressed.

Some great features.
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I really don't know why do many people seem to hate MIUI. Maybe it's the whole "cool to hate iPhone" sad geek thing, but it is a great looking skin with a level of fit and finish that is rarely seen with other custom ROMs.

Decided to wipe and reinstall PA (little reason other than to start fresh), bloody Helium refused to restore my backups. No idea where it went , however needless to say that I'm going back to TiBu, it's just a much better app overall.
 
Simian said:
Currently getting bad battery life - 62% after 9 hours of not much usage! (approx 10 minutes Twitter, 10 minutes Facebook, 1x 15 minute phone call, Teeny bit of t'interweb)
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Undervolting will only save you a bit of battery at best

You poor battery life is probably due to Facebook and Twitter polling too much.
 
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