Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

[BlueBiker]

Nope. The only thing I did was sign out of GTalk on the phone. I don't think it has been specifically identified as to what part of GTalk (if it is even GTalk....I can only speak from what my phone is doing) is affecting the battery life/Android OS so much.

Whatever it is, I'd consider it a bug that needs to be fixed.

Problem is, I can never remember to turn it back on when I leave for home, or work, etc....I hope the NFC Tags may help with that later....

I know it's been said before, but something like Tasker can help with that. Add a rule that whenever you arrive or leave a certain location, start or stop an app.

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Several of the suggestions that I saw, listed the GTalk as a duplicate app...which kind of makes sense to me, if you have a computer logged in on GTalk at work, and its logged in on your phone, and it may be logged in at home on a computer workstation, although asleep (Which all of that is true for me), every computer is not receiving every IM, but your phone is receiving ALL IMs in GTalk. . So, when I am in front of my computer at work, then I should only be using the GTalk on that computer, and not have it signed in on my phone......But, that is the part that is amazing to me....a Google app????

If you're carrying on long conversations on a PC and your phone is constantly receiving the messages notifications and reacting to them, yeah I could see it consuming some juice.

But AFAICT that's not how it works on my Rez, where after my Rez is woken up from sleeping there's a flurry of activity as GTalk displays all of the messages that came in since it was last awake.

 

[BlueBiker]

that is the awake bug that google is working on and why we have not see an update 4.0.3 yet

Ohhhhhhhhhh, I'd heard of that but didn't realize what it was. Wow you guys should be psyched -- as soon as it gets fixed you should see, what, 20% more battery life?

 

[SHIVA77]

For those who may be interested, here are 3 comparison shots with 3 different camera apps on the Galaxy Nexus. No post production on the images, they have only been resized.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Stock Camera
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus CameraZoom FX
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus HDR Camera+
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The CameraZoom doesn't alter the image, so the overall quality is similar to the stock camera. However, CameraZoom has a nice feature called Steady Shot, that will waits until the camera is steady before taking the shot. So, it works as an stabilizing effect.

HDR Camera with all settings in Normal, creates more vibrancy and enhance contrast. Also with HDR you can choose to shoot in 16:9, which is a nice touch.

 

[eddieruko]

anyone running into BugMailer auto generated reports/emails?

i know it's not ROM specific (it's happened to me on Rootzboat and AOKP, can't recall if it did on stock). i've found a solution in renaming the system file, but i've been unable to find a cause...

i think what's weird is that the bugreport title shows mysid 4.0.2 ICL53F... i'm definitely running 4.0.3 IML74K

 

[eddieruko]

Here are 3 comparison shots with the Galaxy Nexus. No post production on the images, they have only been resized.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Stock Camera
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus CameraZoom FX
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus HDR Camera+
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The CameraZoom doesn't alter the image, so the overall quality is similar to the stock camera. However, CameraZoom has a nice feature called Steady Shot, that will waits until the camera is steady before taking the shot. So, it works as an stabilizing effect.

HDR Camera with all settings in Normal, creates more vibrancy and enhance contrast. Also with HDR you can choose to shoot in 16:9, which is a nice touch.

neat camera apps. it sounds like you like camerazoom. of the three... it's my least favorite. and appears to be the least sharp. was the stablizing feature enabled when you took that picture?

 

[SHIVA77]

neat camera apps. it sounds like you like camerazoom. of the three... it's my least favorite. and appears to be the least sharp. was the stablizing feature enabled when you took that picture?

Yes, I had Steady Shot on. CameraZoom is a really nice program, but it doesn't enhance the image automatically, the way HDR does. I set the CameraZoom steady shot to shoot at 1/2 second steady spot, you can set it to shoot until there is 1 second of steady spot.

 

[ryancmatchett]

that is the awake bug that google is working on and why we have not see an update 4.0.3 yet

And that is why I waited so long to root...I was actually hoping for .3 and some of the fixes that will come with it. As of now, I know I need some other solution.

And yeah...it would be great to see a 20% increase in battery!!!

 

[BlueBiker]

neat camera apps. it sounds like you like camerazoom. of the three... it's my least favorite. and appears to be the least sharp. was the stablizing feature enabled when you took that picture?

The stock one did appear to be the sharpest, although all three were highly compressed images around 128KB so maybe some detail was lost.

Thanks for taking the comparison pix Shiva.

 

[altimax98]

Nice comparison... I do notice alot of noise in the HDR one though. Probably because of the compression

 

[HanSolo]

I just flashed AOKP and the Nova Launcher (as well as iso's lean kernel). With my current combination is there any way to hide the notification bar? I'm messing around with my homescreen setup...

Long press on the home screen and select nova actions, then toggle notification bar. I then erase the name of the icon and edit it to be invisible, and stick it in the upper right hand corner.

Why he didn't add the ability to swipe to hide, is beyond me.

 

[RazorSharp]

Lots of stuff since the last RSRSS to go through! Here's today's items, distilled into a list:

Big news! Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Verizon receives full MIUI port | DroidDog

Quick First Look: Galaxy Nexus Portrait HDMI Docking Station

 

[blkbeltkid17]

Yep that is what we are hoping for

 

[SHIVA77]

altimax and hansolo, the HDR is not so much noisy as it blurry. it's just the way it shoots, it's not directly related to compression. because it superimposes a few images on top of another, unless the camera is on a tripod the images will get slightly blurry.

the Steady Shot feature on the Camera Zoom is nice.

 

[esmith818]

Anyone want to try? How To Calibrate Your Device's Battery and Achieve Longer Battery Life | Android Authority

I'm not sure if it was the exact same app, but there was a similar app back in the days of the OG Droid. As I recall, it was heavily criticized for doing the same thing as wiping your battery stats in CWM.

 

[clearym]

Question for the group...

My wife's charger for her Kindle Fire is a micro-usb, just like Nexxy's. But it seems to charge much faster, I'm guessing because its ?volted? to charge the larger battery in the tablet. Is using that charger likely to have a detriment effect on my battery's lifetime???

I'm talking about long term, not worried about if a trickle charge is able to charge the battery more fully or anything... thoughts?

 

[IHateMyTreo]

I wish. I've been flooded with work lately.

I get to leave for my skiing trip this Sunday coming up. I'm really excited about it.

OT

Do you ski like this guy? "Attack of La Ni

 

[halon]

Pissed off Steeler fan here. Screw you Tebow and your knee.


Hitler reacts to Tim Tebow beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC playoffs in OT - YouTube

 

[RazorSharp]

Pissed off Steeler fan here. Screw you Tebow and your knee.

Don't worry about it man. On Saturday, Tom Brady will show Tebow what a real quarterback looks like.

 

[blkbeltkid17]

Pissed off Steeler fan here. Screw you Tebow and your knee.


Hitler reacts to Tim Tebow beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC playoffs in OT - YouTube

Amen sir amen

 

[BabyBlues]

My new set up. Semi NSFW. Or at least not child friendly.

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[jbdan]

I'm so proud of my custom battery at uot kitchen lol. Still think the numbers are a little small but happy everything up there is ICS blue!

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[jbdan]

My new set up. Semi NSFW. Or at least not child friendly.

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[eddieruko]

I'm so proud of my custom battery at uot kitchen lol. Still think the numbers are a little small but happy everything up there is ICS blue!

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what's the weather widget and font? beautiful widgets skin?

 

[jbdan]

what's the weather widget and font? beautiful widgets skin?

Android weather, not very customizable at all, but I did the beautiful/fancy widget thing with the Inc wanted something different.

Speaking of, I have about 24 "purchased" apps that I no longer use or want to use

 

[jbdan]

My sister, on her own accord, got a GN today. Dropped by and set it up for her, beamed, google video talked, gave her a couple NFC stickers, etc... She said as I walked out her door, "next time you're over here I want you to jailbreak my GN like yours" (husband is an avid iFan)