Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

[BabyBlues]

Use Firefox with AirDroid.
MS Explorer has issues with AirDroid......

I use Firefox or Chrome at home. There is no wifi at work . Thanks for the tip.

 

[MSUgEEk]

My brother had my favorite response one time. He was doing something and when asked why he said it was because it was the fun thing to do. To which my mother gave the standard ''If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?"
In his infinite youth and smart ass ways he looked at her, without missing a beat and said "I wouldn't want to be left all by myself, I'd get lonely"

Hilarious!

 

[BabyBlues]

Hey everyone,

Been busy the past week (as I'm sure most of you were) so I haven't been able to keep up or contribute at all. But I do have a favor to ask. I'm really on the fence about switching the Nexus out for the Rezound. Here's my thinking (pros vs cons). Any additional insight/encouragement one way or the other would be helpful. And I'm only asking you guys because I trust you and know you're not all fanboys that blindly love the Nexus.

In my experience - the Cons of the Nexus listed by priority are: a little laggy, really bad pictures indoors (however outdoors the pictures are good), poor signal/wifi reception.

The Pros of the Nexus listed by priority are: the screen, NFC and ICS features...oh and if it hold true to the Nexus name, it will get updates quite often (which I always like/appreciate)

I've demoed the Rezound and it has a nice screen, good reception, a great camera and will eventually get ICS. (however it already takes panoramic pictures (easier to do than ICS BTW)

I think what is bothering me the most is the lag between switching from program to program. My DINC loaded browser pages faster AND when you'd click on a phone number in the browser to call the number would load AT LEAST 1-2 seconds faster. Almost no hesitation on the DINC. Something just feels wrong that my brand new device is slower than my old DINC. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks everyone!

Have you tried going to the store to get a new Nexus first? It sounds like some of the problems may be a lemon device rather than a either/or choice. My Dinc is definitely still a powerful phone but the Nexus is quicker in my experience.

 

[RazorSharp]

I use Chrome at home.

Have you tried going to the store to get a new Nexus first? It sounds like some of the problems may be a lemon device rather than a either/or choice. My Dinc is definitely still a powerful phone but the Nexus is quicker in my experience.

Hey, that's your 6000th post!

 

[BabyBlues]

I had to jump to Firefox last week. I was using Chrome and it wouldn't let me complete an order from a site I've used many times.

 

[Stigy]

I guess I will do AirDroid as well -- I love fitting in.

BTW played Monopoly (from Amazon free app yesterday) and it's really awesome. Totally shut out the computer player at work since nothing terribly exciting going on. Very enjoyable game -- honestly might even consider paying whatever the full price of it was.

 

[BabyBlues]

Hey, that's your 6000th post!

Yay!!!!!! I'm on the app so I didn't realize I was that close

 

[BabyBlues]

I guess I will do AirDroid as well -- I love fitting in.

BTW played Monopoly (from Amazon free app yesterday) and it's really awesome. Totally shut out the computer player at work since nothing terribly exciting going on. Very enjoyable game -- honestly might even consider paying whatever the full price of it was.

I have to look into this. I love Monopoly!

 

[vandyman]

Hey everyone,

Been busy the past week (as I'm sure most of you were) so I haven't been able to keep up or contribute at all. But I do have a favor to ask. I'm really on the fence about switching the Nexus out for the Rezound. Here's my thinking (pros vs cons). Any additional insight/encouragement one way or the other would be helpful. And I'm only asking you guys because I trust you and know you're not all fanboys that blindly love the Nexus.

In my experience - the Cons of the Nexus listed by priority are: a little laggy, really bad pictures indoors (however outdoors the pictures are good), poor signal/wifi reception.

The Pros of the Nexus listed by priority are: the screen, NFC and ICS features...oh and if it hold true to the Nexus name, it will get updates quite often (which I always like/appreciate)

I've demoed the Rezound and it has a nice screen, good reception, a great camera and will eventually get ICS. (however it already takes panoramic pictures (easier to do than ICS BTW)

I think what is bothering me the most is the lag between switching from program to program. My DINC loaded browser pages faster AND when you'd click on a phone number in the browser to call the number would load AT LEAST 1-2 seconds faster. Almost no hesitation on the DINC. Something just feels wrong that my brand new device is slower than my old DINC. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks everyone!

ICS is all new. So that makes the Nexus more of a developers device.
There will be some issues with the Nexus because of these facts.
The Nexus will start to shine more in about a month or two when bugs are ironed out. ICS will not be available for other phones until ICS is stable enough on the Nexus.

So if you are looking for a device that runs smooth out of the box, than you need a phone that has Gingerbread.

 

[cggorman]

Please forgive if ninja'd, but is there anyway the file transfer issue could be related to having the correct Samsung drivers?

I too, have had no issues and got the driver directly from Samsung.

Are there any "other" drivers available? Perhaps some accidentally got the drivers for a different Samsung phone?

Not in my experience. I've successfully transferred files on machines with no drivers, machines with verified good ADB and fastboot drivers, and machines with verified bad drivers.

 

[BabyBlues]

Today's lunch - MacDonalds. Mmmmm. Chicken selects and fries. And coke.
The inner fat chick is happy.

 

[Stigy]

 

[Mr. Link]

Have you tried going to the store to get a new Nexus first? It sounds like some of the problems may be a lemon device rather than a either/or choice. My Dinc is definitely still a powerful phone but the Nexus is quicker in my experience.

I have contacted my account reps to get that ball rolling. I really do love the Nexus and understand it's a developers phone. I dabble in developing...so I'm comfortable with bugs. It just seemed like it was lacking some power. I'll see if a new phone fixes things. Thanks everyone!

 

[RazorSharp]

BTW played Monopoly (from Amazon free app yesterday) and it's really awesome. Totally shut out the computer player at work since nothing terribly exciting going on. Very enjoyable game -- honestly might even consider paying whatever the full price of it was.

Gah, I always forget to check the free app of the day - and now I've missed a good one.

 

[BabyBlues]

Gah, I always forget to check the free app of the day - and now I've missed a good one.

In the market it says its not compatible with Nyxie

 

[Stigy]

In the market it says its not compatible with Nyxie

That's strange -- I just played an entire game with it.

Here ya go, it's $0.99 on Amazon (much cheaper than Market): http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Ar...1?ie=UTF8&s=mobile-apps&qid=1325185018&sr=1-1

 

[EarlyMon]

So, AirDroid is very cool - but slow. If you want to wirelessly transfer files a bit quicker (usually much quicker), especially larger ones, use SwiFTP to put an FTP server on your phone.

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.swiftp

Nothing fancy - just tends to work. Don't know if it's fully supported for the Nexus, but some might find it worth a shot.

 

[BabyBlues]

That's strange -- I just played an entire game with it.

Here ya go, it's $0.99 on Amazon (much cheaper than Market): http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Ar...p;s=mobile-apps&qid=1325185018&sr=1-1

Thanks! Bought and waiting to download.

 

[mistermojorizi]

Good morning everyone! Egg whites and cheese on a roll w/ some hot chocolate to start off the morning.

BTW my Nexus has no problems copying files to/from my PC. No drivers needed, Windows just recognizes it as the Galaxy Nexus and I browse as if it were USB Mass Storage.

Not sure why people are having problems -- such a shame since Mass Storage worked so well, but that debate is for the regular SGN forum.

does it assign a drive letter to it? that was my problem a few days ago. you can't run file recovery services on it if there's no drive letter. nothing like mass storage.

even though "MTP" was fine and i could move files, i couldn't get a drive letter, and couldn't recover deleted files. idiotic decision to not have an SD card and not have mass storage mode.

 

[HanSolo]

I think what is bothering me the most is the lag between switching from program to program. My DINC loaded browser pages faster AND when you'd click on a phone number in the browser to call the number would load AT LEAST 1-2 seconds faster. Almost no hesitation on the DINC. Something just feels wrong that my brand new device is slower than my old DINC. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks everyone!

I just did the number/browser test. I googled one of my favorite restaurants in the area (I don't have the number in my contacts, btw), and clicked on it. It was pretty seamless switching to the dialer with the number filled in, and didn't notice a lag at all.

I think you might have a lemony phone. My first one certainly was, so it's within the realm of possibility.

The problem is that if you exchange it for another Nexus, that's it. You're stuck with whatever you have (they limit to 1 exchange) unless you call customer service and convince someone.

Have you tried flashing a ROM? Revolution 2.1.2 is pretty snappy, and Kang's CM9 ROM is even faster.

 

[BabyBlues]

I understand this!!! (Yeah, I'm still pretty happy about having finally watched Episode 4. )


The tag on the picture is 'Worst Toy Ever'

 

[Stigy]

BTW myColorscreen (Explore and Share Inspirational Home Screens - MyColorscreen, Where Technology Meets Art) is awesome for finding amazing & inspirational homescreen setups. The best part is you can see it directly on the device as well as their widgets and apps they are using.

Color My Nexus (Work in Progress) on Android | MyColorscreen, Where Technology Meets Art

 

[HanSolo]

BTW myColorscreen (Explore and Share Inspirational Home Screens - MyColorscreen, Where Technology Meets Art) is awesome for finding amazing & inspirational homescreen setups. The best part is you can see it directly on the device as well as their widgets and apps they are using.

Color My Nexus (Work in Progress) on Android | MyColorscreen, Where Technology Meets Art

Seems cool. Would I be able to download the wallpapers?

 

[gallandof]

I have to look into this. I love Monopoly!

one of the best monopoly programs ive played on anything (pc,PS2, ios etc...) the computer isn't completely stupid when it comes to trades. graphics are great and it plays wicked smooth. been playing between customers all day! top 10 apps from free app of the day so far

 

[AndroiDad75]

Good point I'm also using the official drivers from Sammy. click "software"

So I downloaded this, and ran the exe. It put a samsung folder on my computer. So now what am I supposed to do. I don't see a folder for the nexus inside, although there are a lot of folders, and there isn't a readme file or anything.

What did you do next?