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I'm likely going to load it tonight. I expect we'll see it being rolled out to current Galaxy Nexus users in a week or two (just my guess, based on how long the rollout took on the last couple of upgrades).
A note for International users: Only the takju version has been released, so far, it will likely take a little longer for the yakju phones to update.
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A quick update, I decided to go ahead and load 4.2. I haven't had it long enough yet to let you know what I think, but I do have an important note for those that are upgrading:
IMPORTANT FOR THOSE WHO MANUALLY UPDATE TO 4.2: Once the upgrade is complete, you will not find the Developer Options in Settings anymore. To get Developer options back, go into About Phone and tap on Build Number seven times. After tapping three times, you will see a small message saying that you are four taps away from being a developer.
Apparently Google decided it would be a good idea to hide developer options from the average user, but left a way to still easily bring the options back for people who want them.
I'm likely going to load it tonight. I expect we'll see it being rolled out to current Galaxy Nexus users in a week or two (just my guess, based on how long the rollout took on the last couple of upgrades).
A note for International users: Only the takju version has been released, so far, it will likely take a little longer for the yakju phones to update.
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Did a little more homework.
4.1 JB was announced back around June. Verizon nexus got it rolling out as an official OTA on Sept 21. I'm not sure when the GSM phones got it... but lets just say it was a little over 2 months.
Now, I forgot the Verizon Gnex finally got added back into AOSP, so you guys should see a much faster update than last time.
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After playing with 4.2 a little, there are some interesting new features but nothing major. One interesting item is that there are new options for the lock screen. If you move the lock screen (much like switching between pages on the home screen) to the left, it brings up the camera. If you move it to the right it shows widgets you can add to the home screen: a calendar, digital clock, Gmail preview, messaging, and Sound Search.
When you pull down notifications, the settings button is now in the top right corner and, when you select it, it shows 8 boxes. These boxes are user information, brightness, settings, wifi, data usage, battery, airplane mode, and bluetooth.
As I've mentioned, developer options does not show up on the settings menu unless you enable it (by pressing "Build Options" in the About phone section seven times).
I'm not noticing much difference in speed, ymmv. I've also had problems with only one app so far; GrooveIP will not sign into Google Voice. Per the GrooveIP people, Google changed on of the libraries GrooveIP used for encryption, they hope to have an update out in a couple of days.
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I got it yesterday afternoon.
I started using the Nexus as my daily driver back a month ago when I just about destroyed my One S in a freak drop kick.
(literally, dropped the phone and kicked it in my attempts to catch it...)
There is one issue that is about to make me go mad...
Every email I get the phone vibrates no matter what I do.
I can't seem to turn that off...
After playing with 4.2 a little, there are some interesting new features but nothing major. One interesting item is that there are new options for the lock screen. If you move the lock screen (much like switching between pages on the home screen) to the left, it brings up the camera. If you move it to the right it shows widgets you can add to the home screen: a calendar, digital clock, Gmail preview, messaging, and Sound Search.
Anyone else finding the new lock screen generally quite buggy?
In particular, occasionally the clock widget expands to cover up the unlock ring...
Anyone else finding the new lock screen generally quite buggy?
In particular, occasionally the clock widget expands to cover up the unlock ring...
Its not a bug. If instead of the clock widget you had something like msgs on ur home lock screen you would see that touching the widget expands it displaying more of the info. If you click on the little padlock again it will go back to normal again. Of course the same thing will happen when you've swiped to either side and return to the home lock screen as it assumes ur already previewing the widgets...hope I made sense...
Also new is daydream in display options (like a screen saver for when ur charging or docked)
A two finger swipe will display the quick settings panel straight up instead of a regular swipe and a click in the icon.
Photo sphere and other enhancements in camera and gallery though I hate that horrible grey background when viewing pictures...enough of this already...gimme a simple black background please google! That goes for settings and anywhere else they have grey
Also as seen earlier new gmail allows pinch to zoom but has to be enabled in settings
Also supports triple tap to zoom like in ios. Has to be enabled in accessibility.
I believe it scans and warns before allowing downloads of potentially dangerous apps.
New clock with timer, stopwatch and world clock. Thanks Google. But have to scroll manually through cities list! No search function! REALLY!?
Edit: swipe gestures available on native keyboard.
Can have personalised msg on home lock screen
There's probably more but that's all I can remember.
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One interesting item is that there are new options for the lock screen. If you move the lock screen (much like switching between pages on the home screen) to the left, it brings up the camera. If you move it to the right it shows widgets you can add to the home screen: a calendar, digital clock, Gmail preview, messaging, and Sound Search
I dont have the option to have sound search on the lock screen! only see gmail, messaging, calender and clock...am I missing something?
Have you tried going to apps>All>Google Services Framework then clear data. If you go back to the check for update, it will show 12/31/1969. Hit check for update. It took me 3 tries doing that for it to finally show the update. Worked on both mine and my wifes.
Its not a bug. If instead of the clock widget you had something like msgs on ur home lock screen you would see that touching the widget expands it displaying more of the info. If you click on the little padlock again it will go back to normal again. Of course the same thing will happen when you've swiped to either side and return to the home lock screen as it assumes ur already previewing the widgets...hope I made sense...
Also new is daydream in display options (like a screen saver for when ur charging or docked)
A two finger swipe will display the quick settings panel straight up instead of a regular swipe and a click in the icon.
Photo sphere and other enhancements in camera and gallery though I hate that horrible grey background when viewing pictures...enough of this already...gimme a simple black background please google! That goes for settings and anywhere else they have grey
Also as seen earlier new gmail allows pinch to zoom but has to be enabled in settings
Also supports triple tap to zoom like in ios. Has to be enabled in accessibility.
I believe it scans and warns before allowing downloads of potentially dangerous apps.
New clock with timer, stopwatch and world clock. Thanks Google. But have to scroll manually through cities list! No search function! REALLY!?
Edit: swipe gestures available on native keyboard.
Can have personalised msg on home lock screen
There's probably more but that's all I can remember.
thanks for the info, very helpful.
any idea if its possible to make the personalized home screen message have multiple lines, instead of just the one line scrolling across the screen?
btw to everybody wondering, got my update OTA yesterday afternoon on unlocked GSM version.
I got it yesterday afternoon.
I started using the Nexus as my daily driver back a month ago when I just about destroyed my One S in a freak drop kick.
(literally, dropped the phone and kicked it in my attempts to catch it...)
There is one issue that is about to make me go mad...
Every email I get the phone vibrates no matter what I do.
I can't seem to turn that off...
Otherwise it's been fine.
If you're using Gmail go to Gmail > Settings > Email Address@gmail.com > Rington & Vibrate > Check Notify Once
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yakju??????????
Not yet.
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The Android 4.2 system update is still rolling out gradually to eligible Galaxy Nexus devices, but we haven't quite started it for yakju yet. We're working on it and hope to expand the rollout before long. There's no timeline I'm able to provide. Note that we're the ones updating yakju and takju, but not variants of yakju.
The Galaxy Nexus is the third official phone contracted by Google and the first phone to come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Specs include a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16/32GB of internal storage, a 4.65 inch 720p HD Super AMOLED... Read More
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4.2 is out?
