Release Time & Backup Question.

ok google wallet says that my order went through for the 8GB and I have an order number. *wipes forehead

I checked my order status and it says "shipping estimate 11/15" Hopefully they mean it'll arrive that day and not get sent out that day.

JunBringer said:

ok google wallet says that my order went through for the 8GB and I have an order number. *wipes forehead

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Holy crap me too! Yay! 8gb for me (what I wanted anyways).

I also ordered my on the go cable for those times I need to plug my 8gb thumb drive in for those extra movies.

SWEET! I won't be too excited until it is in my hand, but at least I found my confirmation number and my chances of getting one is slightly higher.

JunBringer said:

ok google wallet says that my order went through for the 8GB and I have an order number. *wipes forehead

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Lucky cguru:

I've been casually hitting refresh on the Bumper page every 10 mins. or so and for a moment I got the Add To Cart but when I added it I got an error message and now back to Coming Soon, just like whats happening with the phone.

lunatic59 said:

The order system probably has some sort of threshold that shuts down the ordering process. If available inventory drops below a certain point or a certain number of orders are in queue to process it most likely is set to revert to the "coming soon" state.

I hear the frustration of everyone having problems, but since Google doesn't have brick and mortar stores, I can't think of a better way to do it.

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really? a better way, i can think of a few...

they knew yesterday it would o on sale at 9:00am this morning. They gave no indication for that until exactly 3:00am last night. They could have at least released that info at midnight but waited until 3:00am just to tell people it will be available at noon then they had enough stock for less than 10 minutes of sales. I say 10 minutes because 95% of the orders over a course of 30 minutes got errors so the total confirmed orders equal less than 10 minutes of real orders.

how about actually e-mailing when the phone is available like it said on the product page that everyone signed up for. There;'s many better ways to have done it then what google just did.

i'm just frustrated ... on the bright side, that droid dna is looking better and better (i'm like a child that's easily distracted by shiny objects)

I've tried calling Play Store support but they're too overwhelmed to even let me wait to talk to somebody. Just continual hang-ups after a pre-recorded "Sorry, we suck, call back later!"

I guessed they just charged my CC for the hell of it.

Finally just got my order through(8gig). I was getting a little worried.

JunBringer said:

I checked my order status and it says "shipping estimate 11/15" Hopefully they mean it'll arrive that day and not get sent out that day.

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How do you check your order status? I am not seeing that anywhere.

So I got a bumper case. No phone though

I've had the same problems as many of you; I was "watching" for page changes every 30 seconds since 00:00 EST, using a simple Linux shell script (below)running in a terminal window. At about 11:30 my "LOUD DC-3" notification flew by in stereo, and I commenced to have endless store problems, multiple carts being emptied, error message of 4 different kinds, etc. ... many of you experienced the same thing.

The last error occurred some 45 minutes later, after I was able to select a shipping address and credit card, and pressed the button to finalize the purchase, which had the rotating blue cursor for a while before reporting another error and emptying the cart with no purchase confirmation. New attempts met with "Coming soon."

Some 15 minutes later I did check the store "orders and settings" and saw the order had completed, but had to check gmail several more times before receiving the purchase confirmation, so I guess persistence saved me. For all I know I may have purchased the last one in stock at the time.

For those of you with a Linux machine with "lynx" text-based browser and "aplay" audio command, below is a script that you can easily edit and run in a terminal. Just change the number of seconds to how often you want to check for N4 availability (default 30 mins.), the sound file you want played, and the email address you want the link sent to so you can then make the purchase from your current phone.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
URL="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16gb"
new="/tmp/new_nexus4"
old="/tmp/old_nexus4"
every="1800" #number of seconds between comparisons
noise=~/Music/DC-3_stereo.wav #my LOUD DC-3 flyby
address="me@example.com" #email address to notify with link

while true
do
echo getting source ... $(date)
lynx -dump -force_html "$URL" > $new 2>/dev/null
if [ ! -f "$old" ]; then
\cp "$new" "$old"
fi
echo checking for differences ...
if [ x"$(diff $new $old)" != x"" ]; then
aplay -q "$noise"
echo "$URL" | mail -s "Nexus 4 page changed" $address
echo -e "\n$URL has changed:"
diff $old $new
exit 0
fi
echo -e "sleeping $every seconds ...\n"
sleep "$every"
done

When you get you're confirmation email it shows up on the bottom. Mine says 3-5 business days.

Gareatron said:

When you get you're confirmation email it shows up on the bottom. Mine says 3-5 business days.

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Me too..hoping it's only 3 though. That's the ONLY bad thing about the weekend, no shipping.

Gareatron said:

... Mine says 3-5 business days.

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Mine too, even though I paid for 2nd-day shipping.

Got a confirmation email, so I'm pretty much good to go, despite the error message on the processing screen. *whew*

Admiral Buster said:

How do you check your order status? I am not seeing that anywhere.

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bottom of the page, I think bottom right, the page with the nexus 4 details on it.


Also if you didn't get yours to go through keep refreshing the page. I got the 16GB to say "add to cart" just a minute ago.

We had better get them in 2 days, after all thats what we paid for. I think it's just a general time frame estimate. I'm just relieved that mines went through. Just today my Galaxy Nexus battery decided it would stop charging, so I had to order a new battery off ebay. So my mom might have to hold off a few days before she takes my GNex off my hands. Hopefully it can hold its own until the 4 comes.

I'd have paid for overnight if I could've figured out how to change it.

g_patrick15 said:

We had better get them in 2 days, after all thats what we paid for. I think it's just a general time frame estimate. ...

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From the Google Play Help Center:

"All packages are delivered via UPS two-day shipping. However, please note that it may take up to 2 business days for us to process your order for shipment. Once your order has been shipped, you will receive an email notification with a UPS tracking number. Your estimated time of delivery will be determined at the point that your order has been processed and shipped. It may take 24 hours for the UPS package tracking to return any information for your tracking number. If you have not received a package tracking number after 2 business days have passed, please contact our support team via phone or via email."

Does everyone's google wallet purchase say that it's "pending" or does it show completed for you guys? I wanna be sure that it went through cause if it shows completed for you guys then I have to keep trying.

JunBringer said:

Does everyone's google wallet purchase say that it's "pending" or does it show completed for you guys? I wanna be sure that it went through cause if it shows completed for you guys then I have to keep trying.

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Mines still says pending.

JunBringer said:

Does everyone's google wallet purchase say that it's "pending" or does it show completed for you guys? I wanna be sure that it went through cause if it shows completed for you guys then I have to keep trying.

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"Pending" here. I believe "Completed" is when it actually goes out the door with UPS.

JunBringer said:

Does everyone's google wallet purchase say that it's "pending" or does it show completed for you guys? I wanna be sure that it went through cause if it shows completed for you guys then I have to keep trying.

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How do you check? I was able to check my order status but I'm not sure how to look in my wallet.