Alright, here's the story..
I was RIM guy til the iPhone 3G was launched in Canada. Bought one on day one and never looked back. Picked up the 4 soon after it came out and was extremely satisfied with it.. Last year, I sold the 4 out of boredom and picked up a Nexus S. It was a neat phone but the terrible battery life (vs the iPhone) and generally worse display made me end up selling it and buying another iPhone 4..
When the GNEX launched here I became interested and went and picked one up. I was BLOWN away by how much more refined ICS is, I was also very impressed with the screen clarity (ppi much closer to iPhone) but the battery issue still existed.. whereas no matter how much I messed with my iPhone during the day I'd never have to charge until I decided to go to sleep (could be 2-3am). For this reason (and this reason alone) I decided to go back to the practicality of my iPhone and give up the beauty of android / ICS.
Someone then mentioned to me the SGSII would be a good solution to my dilemma. I picked one up and gingerbread seemed extremely antiquated so that experiment lasted three days.
I figured if I'm going to use an iPhone anyway may as well get the 4s, so picked one up and sold my 4. Here's the kicker.. 4S BATTERY IS TERRIBLE!!!! No where near as good as my 4 was! Doesn't look to be any solution in site so now I'm thinking if I have to deal with crappy battery life why not just get a Gnex again?
Now on to the questions:
I'm interested in custom roms etc but have never kept an android device long enough to exploit such ideas - my home PC is also a Mac so I'm wondering how much of a pain it is to do such things on a mac vs a windows based machine
Second, I've read about people using juice defender or under clocking their Gnex CPU to really drag out the battery life - how difficult is this? If the battery life on the Gnex could be improved it would definitely be my phone of choice.
Anyway, sorry for the long post (rant) but I'd like some opinions / advice on the Gnex battery so I can make an educated decision (and not buy and sell three more phones)
Thanks
I was RIM guy til the iPhone 3G was launched in Canada. Bought one on day one and never looked back. Picked up the 4 soon after it came out and was extremely satisfied with it.. Last year, I sold the 4 out of boredom and picked up a Nexus S. It was a neat phone but the terrible battery life (vs the iPhone) and generally worse display made me end up selling it and buying another iPhone 4..
When the GNEX launched here I became interested and went and picked one up. I was BLOWN away by how much more refined ICS is, I was also very impressed with the screen clarity (ppi much closer to iPhone) but the battery issue still existed.. whereas no matter how much I messed with my iPhone during the day I'd never have to charge until I decided to go to sleep (could be 2-3am). For this reason (and this reason alone) I decided to go back to the practicality of my iPhone and give up the beauty of android / ICS.
Someone then mentioned to me the SGSII would be a good solution to my dilemma. I picked one up and gingerbread seemed extremely antiquated so that experiment lasted three days.
I figured if I'm going to use an iPhone anyway may as well get the 4s, so picked one up and sold my 4. Here's the kicker.. 4S BATTERY IS TERRIBLE!!!! No where near as good as my 4 was! Doesn't look to be any solution in site so now I'm thinking if I have to deal with crappy battery life why not just get a Gnex again?
Now on to the questions:
I'm interested in custom roms etc but have never kept an android device long enough to exploit such ideas - my home PC is also a Mac so I'm wondering how much of a pain it is to do such things on a mac vs a windows based machine
Second, I've read about people using juice defender or under clocking their Gnex CPU to really drag out the battery life - how difficult is this? If the battery life on the Gnex could be improved it would definitely be my phone of choice.
Anyway, sorry for the long post (rant) but I'd like some opinions / advice on the Gnex battery so I can make an educated decision (and not buy and sell three more phones)
Thanks
