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Just download the lightflow app. Will solve all your concerns.

Regarding Lightflow, it's a great app but I did run into a deal-breaking problem with it:

If you have Lightflow installed, then ONLY the apps you have enabled in the app will blink the LED. Apps that aren't in the Lightflow app (of if you choose not to use Lightflow for certain apps) will not blink the LED even if they are enabled.

Here are the two specific problems I ran into:

1) Google Voice. I use Google Voice just for Voicemail, but I don't see an option in Lightflow for it. And the regular "Voicemail" control in Lightflow does not work for Google Voice. Now of course Google Voice has it's own setting for LED notification, but if does not work while Lightflow is installed. If I uninstall Lightflow, then the LED will light again for Google Voice.

2) K-9 Mail. Now there IS a setting in Lightflow for K-9 but I don't want to use it because it doesn't appear that you can change the color of the LED for different accounts in Lightflow like you can within the K-9 app itself. But if I turn off the K-9 control in Lightflow, then the LED will not light up when K-9 gets an e-mail (even though it is set to light up in K-9 itself).

In summary, it appears that Lightflow takes complete control of all of your LED notifications even if a certain app is not supported of if you choose not to use Lightflow for certain apps.

Anyone else run into this?
 
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I don't have it turned on right now so I'm not sure. I may play with it later on just to see if anything changes.




Basically a graphic accelerator is a type of video adapter that has its own processor to boost performance. They assist in drawing graphics and allow the CPU to do its own thing while it more or less takes on the graphics.

The setting I was referring to will force graphic acceleration in some apps. Which could make things move a little faster and smoother than it normally would. You would probably see the results with some games that are pretty graphically intense like some of the Glu or Gameloft games.

OTD, so if I'm not gaming on my phone I probably don't need to worry about this option much? Thanks again!
 
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Contact Management

This was one the herp derps at vzw were totally stumped on (surprised?):

When syncing your contacts, to remove the garbage contacts that gmail pulls through, simply tap at the very top to choose which contacts to display. If this option isn't at the top of your contacts screen, you probably are set to "all contacts". Open up how you normally would in your display contacts options, and select whatever you have synced up (gmail) then try again.

For some reason, I believe the phone after time, sorts out your contacts for you, only displaying those with numbers. I cannot seem to get mine to display all the loose data as well as solid contacts.
 
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Drag and Drop

Granted your drivers installed correctly (mine tried to find 3 different drivers and failed one), your Nexus should read on Windows 7 like a media device. You can open it up and drag and drop files, just like you would if your SD card was mounted. Don't know why people are having so many issues with this, but I've put it here to let you know it IS possible. I've already sideloaded a few apps this way, as well as transferred my picture albums.
 
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You may or may not know this, but I just did this by accident, and was amazed.

Drag an app to the quick launch bar at the bottom of the screen. Now drag another app to the same location. It creates a folder there with both apps. Click the folder and both apps pop up just like on the home screen.

No idea if this will actually be useful or not. Just thought it was cool. You can have access to more than 5 common apps from any home screen page.

Joe
 
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4- Under Settings > Developer options you can also turn on/off graphic acceleration.

I've noticed something weird with this when I was testing this with quadrant. With the 2d graphic acceleration off the fps is much lower on the 2d graphic test, however the overall quadrant score was about 200 higher than it was with the graphics acceleration on.
 
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I've noticed something weird with this when I was testing this with quadrant. With the 2d graphic acceleration off the fps is much lower on the 2d graphic test, however the overall quadrant score was about 200 higher than it was with the graphics acceleration on.

It's because tests are completely rubbish. Stop testing your phone and use it. ;)
 
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Drag and Drop

Granted your drivers installed correctly (mine tried to find 3 different drivers and failed one), your Nexus should read on Windows 7 like a media device. You can open it up and drag and drop files, just like you would if your SD card was mounted. Don't know why people are having so many issues with this, but I've put it here to let you know it IS possible. I've already sideloaded a few apps this way, as well as transferred my picture albums.

People are encountering the problem because they are not using the USB cable that came with the Nexus. I had this problem when I first attempted it as well. I used my old Motorola Droid X USB cable and it would not recognize the Nexus. I switched USB cables, and it worked flawlessly.

Good luck!
 
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People are encountering the problem because they are not using the USB cable that came with the Nexus. I had this problem when I first attempted it as well. I used my old Motorola Droid X USB cable and it would not recognize the Nexus. I switched USB cables, and it worked flawlessly.

Good luck!

That is so strange. I took your advice and switched from my Incredible usb cable to the Samsung cable, and boom. It works - whereas, before, I got nada.

Many thanks!
 
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OTD, so if I'm not gaming on my phone I probably don't need to worry about this option much? Thanks again!

It's my understanding that it actually helps in a lot of apps - for one I've noticed that scrolling is much smoother in the official Twitter app with this setting turned on. For now I'm leaving "force GPU rendering" enabled. Anyone else?
 
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People are encountering the problem because they are not using the USB cable that came with the Nexus. I had this problem when I first attempted it as well. I used my old Motorola Droid X USB cable and it would not recognize the Nexus. I switched USB cables, and it worked flawlessly.

Good luck!

I used the cable from my X and it worked just fine.
 
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Anyone figure out how to change the way People are displayed in the People Tab of the Phone App?

Mine displays 6 people per screen... really big. I prefer a List type display of my "Favorites" or a smaller version of the way it is doing it...

I haven't been able to find a way to change it.

Anyone else?

Thanks!

I'm not a big fan of that either. Wish they could just have a heading "Favorites" with the list of your favorites below it kind of like they have a heading "frequently called" with a list of people there.

Also, does anyone know how to show contacts with phone numbers only?
 
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