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thisdude23 posted:Sweet, so what's a great ROM besides CM for this Nexus S? I actually have basically only been running CM9 since I received mine and unlocked and rooted it, ha. There's always MIUI, but I am pretty sure you need to flash an alternate kernel to get the Wi-fi working.
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I Dont Like You posted:I actually have basically only been running CM9 since I received mine and unlocked and rooted it, ha. There's always MIUI, but I am pretty sure you need to flash an alternate kernel to get the Wi-fi working. I like the feel of MIUI but we have 4g in my area so I guess I can give CM a spin. Thanks. 
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grack posted:Does the version of CWM you have installed have the mounts option? Mounting the internal memory will often force it to switch to the external SD card. I do have mount functions but there is no mount internal. Not sure what can be done now...
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I'm finding it difficult to find a good ROM for a CDMA (Verizon) Galaxy Nexus. I'm pretty sure I installed craigacgomez's 4.0.4 ROM, it now gets signal, but the signal is still pretty poo poo. My fiancee took my phone today to work by accident, so I took hers, and her signal was really drat good compared to mine (Droid 4, 2.3.6 vanilla). Is there a good rom that actually fixes the radio for the CDMA nexus? edit: Looks like there are a few people who are doing some CM9 nightlies, how hard is it to put that ROM and keep the nightlies updated? Gothmog1065 fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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Apr 20, 2012 03:50
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Gothmog1065 posted:I'm finding it difficult to find a good ROM for a CDMA (Verizon) Galaxy Nexus. The radio is still pretty poo poo on it, I'm pretty sure I installed craigacgomez's 4.0.4 ROM, it now gets signal, but the signal is still pretty poo poo. My fiancee took my phone today to work by accident, so I took hers, and her signal was really drat good compared to mine (Droid 4, 2.3.6 vanilla). Is there a good rom that actually fixes the radio for the CDMA nexus? I'd like to know this as well. I was running build 29 of AOKP with Franco's kernel, but would periodically get zero signal (-120 dBm). I've switched back to pure, locked stock for a couple days to see if it's a hardware or software problem, but I already miss notification toggles, a better DPI, etc. etc.
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Apr 20, 2012 03:56
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Gothmog1065 posted:I'm finding it difficult to find a good ROM for a CDMA (Verizon) Galaxy Nexus. The radio is still pretty poo poo on it, I'm pretty sure I installed craigacgomez's 4.0.4 ROM, it now gets signal, but the signal is still pretty poo poo. My fiancee took my phone today to work by accident, so I took hers, and her signal was really drat good compared to mine (Droid 4, 2.3.6 vanilla). Is there a good rom that actually fixes the radio for the CDMA nexus? Roms don't fix radio issues....radio updates fix radio issues and there's nothing any ROM can really do about that unfortunately. The Galaxy Nexus radios thus far just plain suck. Its on the side of the manufacturer/verizon. Have you tried Liquid Smooth yet?
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Apr 20, 2012 04:00
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Auron posted:Roms don't fix radio issues....radio updates fix radio issues and there's nothing any ROM can really do about that unfortunately. The Galaxy Nexus radios thus far just plain suck. Its on the side of the manufacturer/verizon. Have you tried Liquid Smooth yet? Unless there's another website, most of what I saw on liquidsmoothroms.com catered to Motorolas, and hasn't been updated since late January.
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Apr 20, 2012 04:09
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thisdude23 posted:Sweet, so what's a great ROM besides CM for this Nexus S? Not much. CM9 runs really drat well on the NS.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Not much. CM9 runs really drat well on the NS. The CM9 version I have on my NS4G owns. My only complaint is that it has this weird bug where after turning it off and putting it in my pocket it sometimes fires up the music player. It's annoying, but not enough to fix what ain't broke and flash a different stable release. e: For the record, I am also really happy with my new Kindle Fire. Rooted without a custom ROM it's a great budget tablet. If you're in this thread you're probably more than capable of making it do what you want it to, but it's not for mom and dad. I will flash to ICS once they get hardware acceleration working though. IRQ fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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IRQ posted:The CM9 version I have on my NS4G owns. My only complaint is that it has this weird bug where after turning it off and putting it in my pocket it sometimes fires up the music player. Which version do you use? I tried a bunch on mine but they wouldn't install.
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Apr 20, 2012 12:33
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Gothmog1065 posted:Unless there's another website, most of what I saw on liquidsmoothroms.com catered to Motorolas, and hasn't been updated since late January. Yeah I don't even think that website is updated ever. Check out RootzWiki. The latest build of liquid is from 3/30/12. It is very stable and fast. http://rootzwiki.com/topic/15793-aospliquidsmooth-ics-v125-rom033012/
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Hey so what advice do I give my android smartphone owning friends who want ICS? One owns a Samsung Galaxy S 4G (T-Mobile) an the other owns a Razr Droid Maxx. For the T-Mobile guy I guess the only thing he can do is get the HTC One S whenever it comes out, because he isn't getting an unlocked phone. Also there is no ICS rom available for the SGS4G. And the guy on VZW is kinda pissed that he doesn't have ICS. He tried the Gnex but I guess the battery didn't last long enough for him that's why he got the Razr Maxx. pretty much all my friends who don't own an iPhone come to me for advice about getting phones or ask me why they don't have ICS when I had it on my phone for a few months now. They say they want to learn how to root but most of them are too scared to sit down and learn how to do it.
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Apr 20, 2012 14:38
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LastInLine posted:CM9 Galaxy Nexus users: Is this wakelock from wlan_ctrl_wake something to worry about? According to the xda thread it happens in all 3.0.27/28 kernels and I'm not sure I'm ready to constantly work around something like that. I run CM9, but not with the CM9 kernel. I run it with Franco.kernel, which is updated frequently and fast as gently caress.
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So I was able to fix my asus transformer. I updated to a newer CWM, flashed the default rom. It booted up fine and everything was working. I had lost root so I used the viper method 1 to reroot it. I was able to get root back, however I cannot access the CWM. When loading the CWM, the android with the warning triangle appears.
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Apr 20, 2012 16:12
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b0nes posted:They say they want to learn how to root but most of them are too scared to sit down and learn how to do it. Your TMo friend needs to pick up a One S. Your Verizon friend needs to suck it up and wait for Moto/Verizon or pick up a used GNex.
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Alright, I feel retarded for asking this, but the amount of information, possible methods and combinations of software/hardware on the Galaxy Nexus is making me wary. I have a GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus on the UK carrier "O2" with 4.0.2 and: Build: ICL53F Product: Yakju Device: Maguro Board: Tuna Processor: ARMv7 Processor rev 10 (v7I) Bootloader: PRIMEKK15 What's the easiest method to root my phone? Should I just hammer away with SuperOneClickRoot or Superboot or whatever the gently caress, or does anyone have any suggestions for a more targeted approach?
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Xachariah posted:Alright, I feel retarded for asking this, but the amount of information, possible methods and combinations of software/hardware on the Galaxy Nexus is making me wary. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23229558&postcount=1
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Thanks, I might try that. My friend pointed out that rooting may be an issue for me 'cause my phone randomly restarts, if that's caused by a hardware issue then I could run the risk of bricking my phone.
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I recently rooted my LG Revolution. The week after I do that Verizon EOLs the thing then releases one last update. That fails every single day since it's rooted. Is there any way to get the thing to stop loving pestering me every 24 hours and rebooting to attempt to install it yet again or do I just have to go through the voodoo to get it update and still have root?
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Apr 20, 2012 22:40
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Xachariah posted:Thanks, I might try that. My friend pointed out that rooting may be an issue for me 'cause my phone randomly restarts, if that's caused by a hardware issue then I could run the risk of bricking my phone. All Galaxy Nexuses randomly restart as far as I can tell. How often are you seeing it? I'd say it happens maybe once every three weeks for me. But no, there's no risk of bricking your phone if you get the occasional kernel panic. I'd yours is rebooting twice a day well maybe he has a point.
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LastInLine posted:All Galaxy Nexuses randomly restart as far as I can tell. How often are you seeing it? I'd say it happens maybe once every three weeks for me. I've never had mine randomly restart, but I've only had it a few weeks. I also end up restarting it for various reasons manually every so often, so that might be why.
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Xachariah posted:or does anyone have any suggestions for a more targeted approach? Here's the 4.0.4 OTA update image you need. You should be able to install it by renaming it "update.zip" and pushing it to the /sdcard folder. Then reboot to (stock) recovery and select "Apply update from SD card" (or whatever the language is, I don't have a GNex to compare against). If for some reason that doesn't work, you can download the 4.0.4 factory flash image from Google and flash it through fastboot. According to the instructions on that page, you do have to unlock the bootloader to flash these images. That seems odd to me, I imagine these images are signed and, thus, should be installable without unlocking. But given that Google's own instructions say to do so, I don't think it would be harmful for warranty purposes. Either way, I'd give the OTA a go-around first.
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LastInLine posted:All Galaxy Nexuses randomly restart as far as I can tell. How often are you seeing it? I'd say it happens maybe once every three weeks for me. Mine restarted maybe once a week prior to 4.0.4. I haven't had it restart since upgrading awhile back. (Now that I've said that it will restart daily for the next week.) Of course, not everything is hunky-dorey. The wifi still sucks and irritates the poo poo out of me every day. In fact I'm going to rant about another problem with the WiFi that I don't think I mentioned in my last rant: It won't loving disconnect when the signal is too weak and since the WiFi reception is so terrible, you spend a lot of time with weak WiFi. It will be such a lovely signal that it can't maintain a connection to Google and you can't do anything related to the internet, but gently caress if it's going to switch over to 3G. Nooooo, it thinks WiFi is so loving special that it doesn't even care if it can actually send or receive data.
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big mean giraffe posted:I've never had mine randomly restart, but I've only had it a few weeks. I also end up restarting it for various reasons manually every so often, so that might be why. Had it restart on 4.0.2 or whatever Verizon sent it out with. As soon as I tried anything else (Energy, AOKP, CM9 Kangs, and finally CM9), no restarts. I have no radio issues except what the poster above me mentioned. It is very hesitant to disconnect from ranged wifi, to the point that if I am in my yard or my apt complex parking lot for any time I have to kill my wifi (for example, setting up music stream just after starting car) and use 4g
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Thermopyle posted:It won't loving disconnect when the signal is too weak and since the WiFi reception is so terrible, you spend a lot of time with weak WiFi. It will be such a lovely signal that it can't maintain a connection to Google and you can't do anything related to the internet, but gently caress if it's going to switch over to 3G. Nooooo, it thinks WiFi is so loving special that it doesn't even care if it can actually send or receive data. My 9020T does this too. /shrug
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Thermopyle posted:Nooooo, it thinks WiFi is so loving special that it doesn't even care if it can actually send or receive data.
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I moved from an Evo MIUI build to a Nexus S (wow, world of difference) and I want to save my data from a game, Word Farm. Where do I find this data to transfer it to my Nexus S? I've completed a lot of challenges and don't want to have to start over again. 
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thisdude23 posted:I moved from an Evo MIUI build to a Nexus S (wow, world of difference) and I want to save my data from a game, Word Farm. Where do I find this data to transfer it to my Nexus S? I've completed a lot of challenges and don't want to have to start over again. Titanium backup on current phone, back up to dropbox/sdcard then restore app+data on new phone.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:To be fair, with metered/bucketed data plans, some folks really don't want their devices flipping off WiFi unless absolutely necessary. Sounds like there's a threshold here that could be tweaked, but I can understand that behavior. Oh, I get the behavior. It's just that you'd think non-functioning internet service would mean it's absolutely necessary. Anyway, since MoS has the same problem with his 9020T, I wonder if it's just a lot more noticeable to me now since the WiFi reception is so much worse (ohgoditishorrible) than my N1, so I spend a lot more time in marginal reception areas.
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Thermopyle posted:Oh, I get the behavior. It's just that you'd think non-functioning internet service would mean it's absolutely necessary. I feel that my N1 was better on WiFi than my 9020T but to be fair I'm not using the same router as I was back then either. In any case, it's forced me to repeatedly toggle WiFi on or off as the situation dictates (e.g. my front yard :-/). Edit: I might be biased though because if there was one thing my G2x was good at it was data speeds both on WiFi and cellular. Something this 9020T sucks at it seems.
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Thermopyle posted:Oh, I get the behavior. It's just that you'd think non-functioning internet service would mean it's absolutely necessary. Buy a $30 wifi repeater and get better coverage in your house.
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LastInLine posted:On both my Galaxy Nexus and the wife's Nexus S wifi reception is worse than my N1. 
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Maker Of Shoes posted:But if we did that we wouldn't have anything to complain about. I don't even know if my existing D-Link DIR-655 can do wifi repeating.
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LastInLine posted:On both my Galaxy Nexus and the wife's Nexus S wifi reception is worse than my N1. I've got two WiFi routers in my house already. The issue there is that the phone is poo poo at WiFi roaming/handoff. It will hang on to the weak signal from the other side of the house even when I'm 5 feet from the other router. When it finally disconnects from the router with weak signal, it reconnects to the same distant router instead of the one right next to it. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12649
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Random note: Dont use MUIU, its really bloated and using rom manager becomes a nightmare because of this "root permissions" program thats really loving lovely. Also MUIU v4 is apparently ICS, and on galaxy S that means mute/unmute problems with phone calls. I didnt know it was ICS so i tried to call someone and couldnt figure what the gently caress was going on. coolskillrex remix fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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I finally decided to root my Sensation and get a custom rom because I'm sick of waiting for ICS. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098849 Too bad it's all way, WAY above my head. I used to flash roms on my old Vibrant all the time, no problem....just give me something to download to root, something to download for a custom bootloader, and a rom file. Things are way more goddamn complicated now. I managed to S-OFF successfully after more than an hour of troubleshooting. Now I'm supposed to get a 4EXT Touch Recovery package and a Firmware package according to the XDA thread for the rom of my choice, and the links explain NOTHING to the average user, and they're throwing around download categories like checksums and firmware versions, with no simple guide to finding things or making it clear what to do. It's all just general steps, with no actual roadmap for getting from one place to another. I guess this is just me ranting. I'm a fairly educated enduser with previous rom experience, and it's loving Greek to me. I went from excited to pissed off and done with this process in 2 hours. I'll just wait for ICS like a good boy. I'm used to being a dyed-in-the-wool Android lover, but I sure don't feel like it right now.
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jiggaman0204 posted:I finally decided to root my Sensation and get a custom rom because I'm sick of waiting for ICS. If you have S-OFF, you probably also have a custom recovery. If not, CWM works fine. All you need after that is to update the firmware and flash ICS, all together because IIRC the new firmware isn't compatible with GB roms. Check out Virtuous Inquisition. It ran rock solid stable for me and I found the firmware I needed from there as well.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Since there's concern that your device might actually be suffering from a hardware issue, I would not root it right now. Just install the 4.0.4 update and see if the situation improves. If so, then consider rooting. If not, consider RMAing. I've tried to do this, but when going into recovery mode, it just has a picture of the android mascot on it's back with it's inside open and a red triangle with an exclamation mark inside. I can't do anything, but if I leave the phone for a bit it restarts as normal. Can't select any options or anything.
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Xachariah posted:I've tried to do this, but when going into recovery mode, it just has a picture of the android mascot on it's back with it's inside open and a red triangle with an exclamation mark inside. Guides I've seen for manually applying the 4.0.4 update suggest using ClockworkMod instead of the stock recovery, perhaps because nobody knows the trick for getting the menu to appear (I checked the source, it's supposed to be the home key, but who knows). The only problem with the CWM approach is that it requires unlocking the device, which we're trying to avoid right now.
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