Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

[IndecisiveElle]

Missed this earlier. A not so common gift I've found is to have a star named in someone's honor. It's not 'official' but still very cool. And with Google sky map you can show them where the star is too!

Don't have the link handy, but google international star registry, should come up.

It can be a fun gift for kids too! There's a little Star Registry stuffed animal, I forget what it's called. But I got one for my former niece and my ex-hubby got me one too (a bunny I believe). The certificate, more adult ones, are beautiful if they're still the same as they were about 10+ years ago, my grandma has one.

 

[HanSolo]

@Han, dreadnatty08 - not sure if you've seen this, but there's a thread with all available mods:

http://androidforums.com/verizon-ga...msung-galaxy-nexus-rom-theme-kernel-list.html

Yeah, I've seen that. It links to Franco's kernel, but the actual link to the kernel download is dead.

Does anybody else have a faint "shadow" or blotchy dark spot on the screen?

I have this little area that almost looks like a smudge on the screen. It's barely noticeable, but I can see it when I'm scrolling text on a white background.

I asked about this on another forum and someone said it was a defect and I should take it back. But if this is a common thing with these screens, I'm not sure I want to bother. I feel pretty attached to this phone, and I really don't like the thought of starting over with another one (which might have its own problems).

On the other hand... having a perfect white screen would be nice...

I don't have any splotches. I think you might have a lemony screen.

Although be advices that you won't get a "perfect white" screen regardless. SAMOLED, apparently, is better with perfect blacks (which it is), than whites. LCD screens are made for better whites. To my eyes, the white on the Gnex is great. But if I compare it to the HTC device's whites, I will cry.

It is what it is.

 

[IndecisiveElle]

Does anybody else have a faint "shadow" or blotchy dark spot on the screen?

I have this little area that almost looks like a smudge on the screen. It's barely noticeable, but I can see it when I'm scrolling text on a white background.

I asked about this on another forum and someone said it was a defect and I should take it back. But if this is a common thing with these screens, I'm not sure I want to bother. I feel pretty attached to this phone, and I really don't like the thought of starting over with another one (which might have its own problems).

On the other hand... having a perfect white screen would be nice...

I'm having intermittent wi-fi connection problems. I was literally 2 feet away from my router, and my phone wouldn't connect. It said "out of range". But my laptop was working just fine. I haven't been able to connect to my work wi-fi all week, then magically today, I can. Aside from that, 4g and 3g have had intermittent connection problems. Maybe I should try to exchange?

I'd take them both back. Definitely hit up a store to compare those screens too, only you can know for sure.

 

[Member112085]

I would do it if I were you. I have no problems with wifi connectivity or 3G/4G issues.

I'd take them both back. Definitely hit up a store to compare those screens too, only you can know for sure.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna stop by the store near work when I leave today. Seems like short of a major outage, I should never NOT be able to get a data connection at all. I had that problem this morning - no 3g, no 4g, no wi-fi.

 

[RazorSharp]

Yeah, I've seen that. It links to Franco's kernel, but the actual link to the kernel download is dead.

Well, here's his thread on XDA:
[KERNEL][GPL][NIGHTLY][GSM/LTE][21 DEC] franco.Kernel | UV | CIFS/TUN | INIT.D - xda-developers
Looks like a download to the most recent version is at the bottom of the OP.

 

[RazorSharp]

Absolutely fascinating:
Music of the Hemispheres: Turning Brain Waves into Music | TheNextWeb

 

[jasaero]

I don't get this paragraph (from the link):

What's the difference between the two settings? I'd like to know instead of being told what to do. A lot of the movies I want to convert are dramas with action in it (Star Wars, etc.), so it's not all breakneck-fast scenes.

I don't want to use HQXT because I want the best quality possible.

I'm working on a process that will work with all free conversion utilities that have more ability to optimize quality at the cost of timely conversion. Have mostly everything figured out, but recently got curious why I couldn't get mp4 wrapped versions of the stuff I have been testing to play in the stock player until I found this.

Android Supported Media Formats | Android Developers

It seems even though Tegra2 and OMAP4 and other newer processors can play High Profile H.264 really well, it's still not supported in the stock player. It seems I had read other places it was since Android 3.0, but seems that only H.264 Baseline is available to the stock player so far. I'm not done experimenting with different specific settings and 3rd party players yet, but am getting closer and will update on what I feel ends up with the greatest quality.

As an extra question for my experimentation, what file size for the videos do you consider reasonable? I am still trying to decide this based on what kind of quality it seems I can get out of some extreme compression. Even 1mbps when converted at extreme placebo pace is looking really good and ends up under 1gb files size for most movies. I am doubting it will work for really low contrast color gradients though, but haven't got enough content converted yet at the placebo pace to know for sure.

Oh, and the best 3rd party player on ICS I have found is MX Video. It will play some pretty extremely compressed files really well even in software mode when something with my file isn't working with whatever hardware accelerated regime it's trying and it's really quick and simple with it's UI to switch from hardware to software rendering. Also does the best I have found at going TRUE full screen smoothly after ui interactions.

 

[Stigy]

I feel like a hacker trying to get my girlfriends old music from her corrupter hard drive in a Linux live CD.

 

[RazorSharp]

I'm working on a process that will work with all free conversion utilities that have more ability to optimize quality at the cost of timely conversion. Have mostly everything figured out, but recently got curious why I couldn't get mp4 wrapped versions of the stuff I have been testing to play in the stock player until I found this.

Android Supported Media Formats | Android Developers

It seems even though Tegra2 and OMAP4 and other newer processors can play High Profile H.264 really well, it's still not supported in the stock player. It seems I had read other places it was since Android 3.0, but seems that only H.264 Baseline is available to the stock player so far. I'm not done experimenting with different specific settings and 3rd party players yet, but am getting closer and will update on what I feel ends up with the greatest quality.

As an extra question for my experimentation, what file size for the videos do you consider reasonable? I am still trying to decide this based on what kind of quality it seems I can get out of some extreme compression. Even 1mbps when converted at extreme placebo pace is looking really good and ends up under 1gb files size for most movies. I am doubting it will work for really low contrast color gradients though, but haven't got enough content converted yet at the placebo pace to know for sure.

Oh, and the best 3rd party player on ICS I have found is MX Video. It will play some pretty extremely compressed files really well even in software mode when something with my file isn't working with whatever hardware accelerated regime it's trying and it's really quick and simple with it's UI to switch from hardware to software rendering. Also does the best I have found at going TRUE full screen smoothly after ui interactions.

As an alternative solution, I was fiddling with Zumocast this morning and was delighted to discover that the phone played my movies stored on my computer and accessed through Zumocast, even though they're not formatted for mobile playback.

 

[woodstorm]

At the DMV. Tempted to flash something just to say I did it. Lol

 

[HanSolo]

Yeah, I think I'm gonna stop by the store near work when I leave today. Seems like short of a major outage, I should never NOT be able to get a data connection at all. I had that problem this morning - no 3g, no 4g, no wi-fi.

I just hope Verizon lets you exchange at a different store than where you got it.

Otherwise you'll have to do the customer service/shipping route.

But just sweet talk them and blink those eyelashes a few times. You'll get it done.

 

[breadnatty08]

As an alternative solution, I was fiddling with Zumocast this morning and was delighted to discover that the phone played my movies stored on my computer and accessed through Zumocast, even though they're not formatted for mobile playback.

Must be an idiot, but Zumocast works with the Nexus? Came stock on my Bionic and was pretty slick. Thought it was a Moto only app (though I guess they have Motocast or whatever they call it now with the Razr)

 

[KSToto]

It's HERE IT'S HERE!!!!!! HAPPY DANCE!!!

 

[zedster]

I feel like a hacker trying to get my girlfriends old music from her corrupter hard drive in a Linux live CD.

No hacker would allow things like carrie underwood and fallout boy, come on now

 

[RazorSharp]

Must be an idiot, but Zumocast works with the Nexus? Came stock on my Bionic and was pretty slick. Thought it was a Moto only app (though I guess they have Motocast or whatever they call it now with the Razr)

Phandroid was able to isolate the APK, and there's a download link in the story about it. Works great!

Stream All Your Media From Your Computer To Your Device With Zumocast [Download] | Phandroid

 

[zedster]

hey, if anyone has any input on removing the door from the extra battery charger please give me your input!

http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/469139-extra-battery-charger-door-removal.html

 

[chanop]

I've been watching Terriers on netflix. I can't believe this only had one season. The show is amazing.

 

[breadnatty08]

Nothing big, but FWIW 4G finally got back on my phone now. Hope this isn't a daily occurrence.

 

[HanSolo]

Nothing big, but FWIW 4G finally got back on my phone now. Hope this isn't a daily occurrence.

Maybe Verizon is keeping with its control-freak nature and is doing a totalitarian-rationing of 4G?

I think my window is 6am through 12pm. Better get my downloading in.

 

[BabyBlues]

Phandroid was able to isolate the APK, and there's a download link in the story about it. Works great!

Stream All Your Media From Your Computer To Your Device With Zumocast [Download] | Phandroid

Saved for later. Thanks!

 

[jasaero]

BTW, I REALLY wish there were more specific information out there on what all H.264 capabilities are supported by the stock player so one could optimize things accordingly and still get them to play in it. It's almost like such info is all guarded a bit by those that know as they are also the sorts of people that develop the device specific simplified converter programs and then try to make money off them. Most all of these utilities are using open source not so easy to use conversion utilities under the hood as far as I know and they are just packaging everything up into a simpler not too many settings to play with one click interface. I tend to like more settings, but also like the one click to start and complete the whole process, but there seems to be very few if any one click programs that give you any real specific control over exactly what sorta file you end up with. I have a two step free/mostly donate only process figured out that should work pretty well with MakeMKV to rip and then mediacoder to re-encode. I like mediacoder because it's lets you make about any and all settings available in the under the hood converter utilities in a pretty simple UI rather than picking most of them for you. You can then safe a profile for all the settings you make so that you only have to set them all once and can share that said setting regime. I am pretty sure what's going on with some of the more simple utilities is that they are trying to keep the speed up to a reasonable level even for some pretty marginal systems and you just aren't probably going to get the maximum possible quality in the end even if you SHOULD be able to if you are willing to do the waiting and have some extreme system to make it happen.

I have a quadcore 2.1ghz AMD Phenom I am testing this on and at what seems to be the best possible setting for a 1mbps file I still seems to go at 1/6-1/4 realtime speed of the movie most of the time. So that's 4-6x how long it would take to watch the movie, but the resulting quality KILLS the near realtime or faster conversion I get if I do the nVidia CUDA accelerated options that are available also. And Mediacoder will do a big batch of files all into the same format so once I you have all your BluRays into HUGE MKV files with MakeMKV you can add them all to MediaCoder and just set it on it's way to smaller files over a couple days or something.

 

[altimax98]

I feel like a hacker trying to get my girlfriends old music from her corrupter hard drive in a Linux live CD.

I see a blonde and one hot redhead ;-)


Han - Pete's build is very very stable and fast. None of the typical 4.0.3 issues are present

 

[jbdan]

I slide the bottom of the plate in and work my way up the sides, making sure everything is seated properly and snapped in

Yes thx for this!

Someone at XDA created a Swype to work on the GN. I'm loving this keyboard again.

Droid Forums - A working swype!

Gonna have to try!

Hey everyone! Coming to my last day in Florida. 4G has been a pretty big disappointment, supposed to have blanket coverage here but really intermittant. I was pretty annoyed with the article stating our signal issues were all in our head. Anyone know if those leaked radios are helping?

I use swiftkey mainly because the typing lag in landscape is very annoying with the stock keyboard, and swiftkey doesn't have that problem.

Hope you're having fun 4G is rock solid in the ATL with stock radio.

If anyone likes some nice classical/bluegrass fusion and haven't heard of this group, some nice morning listening. Picking up this album to get my parents for Christmas.
Attaboy (Live) - YouTube
Sorry about the ad at the beginning.

Edit: Wish I had HALF the talent of any of these guys.

Sweet!! Love it

Argh. Wiped data/cache/dalvik, flashed Kang's 4.0.3, wiped dalvik again, flashed soft key mod, rebooted, and no notification bar and no soft keys!!

What the frak!!

You should have booted up and signed in google before your 2nd dalvik wipe...

I have had that happen too often... that's why I'm sick of all those dang kangs..

And....

All 4.0.3 builds are NOT created equal... Grand theft auto will not run on any 4.0.3 build except Pete's... fwiw I think that's why there are do many issues with those mods

No they aren't agreed! And the kangs are just as, if some not more, stable then the non-kangs from my experience with them.

It's HERE IT'S HERE!!!!!! HAPPY DANCE!!!

A hearty congrats kstoto commence funtime now :thumbsup:



Hans were you looking for this?

The ImoseyON Lean Kernal that comes packaged with Gummy didn't play well with my phone. Some others reporting this as well. Franco's seemed similar. I'm using Fab's Apex and it's the bomb so far. Will I ever sleep with the madness!

 

[jasaero]

As an alternative solution, I was fiddling with Zumocast this morning and was delighted to discover that the phone played my movies stored on my computer and accessed through Zumocast, even though they're not formatted for mobile playback.

Yep. Lots of stuff like that and they will work pretty darn well, but not really going to get near the quality of the same file compressed optimally first and then just copied to the device. I have the Plex app to do this and it works really well in most cases even with my slow connection at home. My issue with doing things this way is that my home connection is only 1kbps or so up. That is part of why my goal is 1kbps for this file conversion. The other reason being that you can keep a lot more 1gb files on a device for travelling and such where you might not have a good internet connection all the time. I like the cloud idea, but it's just not going to always work and I tend to prefer managing my own cloud storage at my home and not have to rent the space anyhow.

 

[jmar]

Missed this earlier. A not so common gift I've found is to have a star named in someone's honor. It's not 'official' but still very cool. And with Google sky map you can show them where the star is too!

Don't have the link handy, but google international star registry, should come up.

I love this idea as well! Gotta say that I love hanging with you guys and gals! So cool and supportive! I will give this one a whirl as well! Thank you Khatmandu!

...and good morning Nexicans!

jmar