Not all who have rooted are happy. I am on 4.04 radios running Crossbreed, and my phone still sucks. Horrible reception, microphone cutout and the like. I have been offered a Certified Like Used device, and now I am actually on the fence about taking it, or switching to a Rezound. Blasphemy I know, but I for one am getting tired of waiting...
Official 4.0.4 release date and questions
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Not all who have rooted are happy. I am on 4.04 radios running Crossbreed, and my phone still sucks. Horrible reception, microphone cutout and the like. I have been offered a Certified Like Used device, and now I am actually on the fence about taking it, or switching to a Rezound. Blasphemy I know, but I for one am getting tired of waiting...
tony bag o donuts
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tony bag o donuts
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My CLN device is better then the first two brand new GN's I had....but I am rooted and staying on 4.02 for now.
Ha; I used my gn for a month before I had enough. Nice phone; I love android (had an X for the year prior) but it was apparent that ICS should never have been released at that point (4.0.2). Picked up an iPhone4 on CL and have been using it since mid January. It's....boring, but it's smooth and dead reliable with battery life which rivals my old Blackberry Curves.
Does iOS bore me to tears? Yes.
Do I miss Android terribly? Absolutely.
Will this iPhone be on Cl as soon as the GN receives a decent update? You betcha.
3 months to update a phone with this many bugs is nonsense. Really kinda soured me.
ps: Not unlocking/rooting. I shouldn't need to spend hours researching how to get a $700+ device to work properly. And it does not work properly.
Does iOS bore me to tears? Yes.
Do I miss Android terribly? Absolutely.
Will this iPhone be on Cl as soon as the GN receives a decent update? You betcha.
3 months to update a phone with this many bugs is nonsense. Really kinda soured me.
ps: Not unlocking/rooting. I shouldn't need to spend hours researching how to get a $700+ device to work properly. And it does not work properly.
Some factors:
There are still no ICS tablets on the market. iPad 3 comes out on Friday. The lead of Apple tablets over the dazed and confused Android tablet makers is becoming insurmountably large.
The next iPhone will surely have a bigger screen, 4G, and be very compelling in ways the 4S was not. People are snapping up the 4S while it is ho-hum. Imagine what would happen if they had a better phone.
There is still only one phone with ICS officially, despite an announcement about 5 months ago.
It's going to be a long time before Android settles down.
There are still no ICS tablets on the market. iPad 3 comes out on Friday. The lead of Apple tablets over the dazed and confused Android tablet makers is becoming insurmountably large.
The next iPhone will surely have a bigger screen, 4G, and be very compelling in ways the 4S was not. People are snapping up the 4S while it is ho-hum. Imagine what would happen if they had a better phone.
There is still only one phone with ICS officially, despite an announcement about 5 months ago.
It's going to be a long time before Android settles down.
If you do a survey of people who are rooted and flash Roms. I bet you the people who flash are alot happier with the galaxy nexus than the people who don't flash and root. Just saying...
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It only takes 2min to root this device,and 2 more to add the rom/kernel/radios of your choice. Look it up before you comment on hacking
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Im sure, but I'm also sure that this is also because this is the only way to get the latest android update on the Gnex right now.
dmmarck
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Not necessarily. There are updates/features roms have that will probably never be in official releases. For me, those are the features I love when rooting/romming.
BIG difference between getting updates 'every day' as you sarcastically put it and not getting one for 1/4 of a year.
Galaxy Nexus- Fast updates direct from Google. Uh huh.
You were never promised fast updates. Show me where on Google's, Samsung's, or Verizon's website it says anything about fast updates.
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Maybe true but.. even if it is true we still get the latest updates and features. I haven't had the problems others have spoke of yet…( × fingers) with stock. But I love changing the color values of my phone to make it look a lot crisp like my tv. Along with wifi booster. My aokp rom has features that stock android will never have on the galaxy nexus.
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People believe what they want to believe. The advantage of having a Nexus phone is that when a major OS update happens we're first in line. I'm not sure why people believe that the phone will receive bi-weekly updates.
boe
Well-known member
I'd settle for quarterly.
Exactly. Surely they have SOME fixes by now. I don't want to wait for them to fix 20 things - if you have 10 things fixed, give us those now and we'll wait for the next 10.
pauldroidr2d2
Well-known member
I wonder how Apple gets updates pushed out so quickly. Both of my parents recently purchased the Apple 4S. Both updates their phones have received have been OTA and not via iTunes.
dmmarck
Retired Moderator
One size fits all + cross-"platform"/universal features = much easier.
With Android, fragmentation + a lot more going on = much harder.
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