[slave2theaxe]

all the hype about fast updates from google is bull. this phone has been updated once, and as far as I can tell, the update didn't address major deficiencies the phone has.

What do you want...an update every month? Fast updates means it will be one of the first devices to get a new update WHEN AVAILABLE, not that it will get more frequent updates.

Tell me...Which (stock) devices out there are running newer versions of ICS than your Nexus? There are still new devices shipping with Gingerbread and most probably wont see ICS for weeks/months/at all.

When other devices are getting their updates sooner than you, then start complaining...until then, relax man.

As for your other issues, I'm not having any of those, so I can't comment there...

i forgot to mention that you are quite limited with ring tones as well.

Ringtones? Really? Connect it to a computer and put as many ringtones as you want on there.

People really pick the silliest things to complain about...
I understand people complaining about issues with the phone not actually working...I understand that and would complain too if I was experiencing the same issues...but to complain about lack of updates (when you have the only ICS phone out), ringtones, or the fact that they changed the name of the marketplace to the Play Store, or one of the other many ridiculous complaints I've heard lately.

Sorry to be so blunt, but I think with all the REAL issues that seem to be plaguing some of these phones, to complain about trivial stuff is a bit silly. It seems like people's expectations of phones these days is a little unrealistic...everytime something new/exciting comes out, its never enough and people need to pick it apart and complain about the slightest little things.

Meh, I'm done...I'm gonna go play with my awesome Nexus.

[yosteve]

Whoa. Someone failed statistics.

You are not a majority of users. You cannot generalize your experience to everyone else. I am on my original Nexus and have had no issues that needed an exchange. You will find (very quickly) that you are, by far, in a minority.

I have one of the good phones, but say 1% of the phone are bad, the chances off someone getting 4 of them should be really really small

[pauliphone5]

all the hype about fast updates from google is bull. this phone has been updated once, and as far as I can tell, the update didn't address major deficiencies the phone has.

this phone was hyped like crazy and while the newness factor did fulfil my desire for change, i'm finding that it's simply just another android phone. I probably would feel this way with most phones though. I came from a droid 3 which i thought was a pretty solid phone with decent features and a nice host of accessories.

as of late, I've been really in need to text message or email images for various reasons and the fact that this phone still will not do it is driving me crazy. i also really which that there was a good car dock withe charging solution available, which as of last time I checked there wasn't (a few months ago). low speaker volume is annoying, and when you put the speaker on max volume the sound quality takes a huge dive.

i get no 4g signal in my home which essentially makes this phone a 3g device that I rely on wifi.

the battery has been fine for me as long as I keep the screen brightness on auto.

bottom line for me, is that the newness factor has now worn off and the lack of updates, combined with the fact that one particular app I use a lot is still buggy, has left me somewhat disapointed with my experience. I understand that bad apps really aren't related to a devices quality, but I have nothing else to judge but my experience.

i jumped on this device when it became available because I'm locked into the unlimited 4g data which I think verizon will do away with sooner or later and I wanted to get grandfathered in. I also expected them to continue to expand their 4g network but I'm still waiting.

i forgot to mention that you are quite limited with ring tones as well.

Who said fast updates?

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[Droid800]

I have one of the good phones, but say 1% of the phone are bad, the chances off someone getting 4 of them should be really really small

Not necessarily. If they're all coming from the same store, it could be the batch of phones they got. Or something could have happened in shipping. There are about a thousand variables that would go into those stats.

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[Jodiuh]

How does the screen look at very low brightness levels? Specifically for reading web pages. I know earlier AMOLEDs either tinted blue or just looked dirty and washed out.

[jroc]

Only because April is next week...I would wait it out. Just to have another phone to choose from. I've been saying this...wait too long and you will start running into new phones coming out. But choice is never a bad thing in my book. At the same time dont try to chase the latest n greatest....thats a race you will never win.

Whoever didnt get the Bionic, Rezound, G Nex, RAZR, Maxx, LG Spectrum, Droid 4, iPhone 4S..yes I said it..lol... by now should just wait it out.

For me...if I dont see increases in battery life....I will probably get the Maxx or finally get an external battery for my RAZR. Like in the PC world...I got on the dual core bandwagon real late, have yet to have a quad core PC. I really cant see me needing or using quad core to its full potential on a phone...

Then the whole wants n needs thing. Depending on yours...the G Nex might be the only phone you will want.

[complexx]

It did, actually. 4.0.1 was buggier than all get out.


Another one bitten by the hype Beast!



Erm. Huh? I can text and email images just fine. What do you mean with this one?



This one confuses me. So you're complaining about the low speaker volume, but then you complain about the high volume too?

(oh, and the fix for low volume has been talked about ad nauseum in the form of Volume+)



Do you otherwise have 4G on your property? Are you in a full or extended signal area?



Your choice of phone is unrelated to a developer's inability to update their apps for ICS. You should separate that from the overall experience, because the phone has nothing to do with it.



They're expanding it monthly. They just don't make big announcements about it anymore because there isn't a need to.


...what?

Adding more ringtones, notification tones, and alarm tones, is as easy as creating three folders on the phone and dragging and dropping them into it. Its about as easy as you can get.

Ok. Regarding the ring tones, you cannot simply go into Settings -> Sound -> and then set ringtones for emails, text, mms, voice calls, voice mails, etc. Thats why I meant. My use of the word limited was wrong. For voice calls, i can set it in the settings menu, for email, i have to go into the email client, for mms and text gotta go their respective settings menus, etc. just isn't efficient for me. I would have liked to have it all in one place.

I'm glad you can text images just fine. I can't. I send a pic to my wife and the phone constantly says "Sending" and she never gets it, whether I'm on wifi, 3g, or 4g. I can receive pics just fine. Same thing with emailing pictures, I would expect when you attach a few pics to an email and your on wifi, that message should get sent pronto! but my gmail client hangs and hangs and hangs, and my emails are never sent if they have picture attachments. As a matter of fact, if I attach a picture to an email and send it, the message is lost forever, it doesn't even store the message in drafts while its sending.

speaker volume / quality on this phone is lousy. I think this is generally known. Yes, the stock speaker volume is quite quiet, however if you are using the earpiece speaker or the speaker phone speaker in conjunction with the volume+, you simply cannot use the phone on max volume because the sound is very tinny and distorted. Its difficult for me to understand the person speaking. I do have the speaker volume app (volume+) installed which seems to magically close itself all the time, or the phone is killing it. Regarding Volume+, louder does not imply clearer.

Regarding apps, yes I understand, they are third party software, and unrelated to the phone. However, when your talking about user experience, and an App works perfectly on one phone, and not on your new one, it definately affects your experience. Correct me if I'm wrong, but big developers did have this phone available prior to release didn't they?

I do not have 4g on my property. I don't really understand what you mean by Full or Extended service. I live 35 mins outside one of the first cities to have 4g. Its a major city.

[JDub313]

I own both the Droid Razr and the Galaxy Nexus. I had the Razr and liked it quite a bit. I damaged the phone (my fault I dropped it - no case) - and while I am waiting for the exchange unit I purchased the Galaxy Nexus. Both are stock OS by the way.

My honest opinion (and it is only my opinion) is that the Razr is the much better phone. I like the form factor of the GN better, but other than that I will be back to using the Razr ASAP.

First, the reception (on both LTE and WiFi) is substantially better on the Razr. In areas where I was getting 4G on the Razr, I am frequently getting only 3G on the GN. In my bedroom, I was able to connect to the WiFi in my house on the Razr - but cannot on the GN.

Second, the battery life on the Razr is MUCH better than on the GN. Not even close. I'm not sure if it's because of ...

Third, smart actions do wonders for battery life on the Razr. I downloaded Tasker for the GN, and have started to play with it, but the smart actions make the process much simpler on the Razr.

For my purposes, I would definitely choose the better reception and better battery life of the Razr over the fact that the GN has ICS. For day to day usage the operating system doesn't make that big of a difference to me (yes ICS is nice, but not that functionally different that GB) - and certainly doesn't make up for the bad reception and battery life of the GN.

Good luck whatever you decide.

[complexx]

but to complain about lack of updates (when you have the only ICS phone out)

So its unrealistic that they haven't ironed out basic bugs when it's the only phone of its kind? Cell phones aren't evolving like they used to. They aren't changing sooo much that the software has to be radically different when you release a new product. I DO expect less bugs and better fit and finish on new devices. That's just me.

[panerai7]

Whoa. Someone failed statistics.

You are not a majority of users. You cannot generalize your experience to everyone else. I am on my original Nexus and have had no issues that needed an exchange. You will find (very quickly) that you are, by far, in a minority.

Actually i haven't failed statistics. My sample size albeit small only 4 phones, but 4 out of 4 were garbage, that's not random buddy, it's actually pretty sad.
Stop drinking koolaid, you're starting to sound like an apple fanboy. Go look at Razr Maxx forum, their little problems and nitpickings are kindergarten compared to problems we have here on GN forum.
Sitting next to a person with a regular Razr and he has -76DB and I have -110DB is not fun.

This phone needs to be recalled and when updated re-released.

[Droid800]

Actually i haven't failed statistics. My sample size albeit small only 4 phones, but 4 out of 4 were garbage, that's not random buddy, it's actually pretty sad.
Stop drinking koolaid, you're starting to sound like an apple fanboy. Go look at Razr Maxx forum, their little problems and nitpickings are kindergarten compared to problems we have here on GN forum.
Sitting next to a person with a regular Razr and he has -76DB and I have -110DB is not fun.

This phone needs to be recalled and when updated re-released.

Read my post on the previous page. You did fail statistics if you think that your experience can be translated to the population at large. (Hint: it can't)


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[slave2theaxe]

So its unrealistic that they haven't ironed out basic bugs when it's the only phone of its kind? Cell phones aren't evolving like they used to. They aren't changing sooo much that the software has to be radically different when you release a new product. I DO expect less bugs and better fit and finish on new devices. That's just me.

In all honesty, seeing how some people have these problems and others dont makes me believe its a hardware problem, not software. All the updates in the world wont help you out if your handset it messed up.

I dont see how it could be a software issue if it only affects some phones.

[pauliphone5]

Ok. Regarding the ring tones, you cannot simply go into Settings -> Sound -> and then set ringtones for emails, text, mms, voice calls, voice mails, etc. Thats why I meant. My use of the word limited was wrong. For voice calls, i can set it in the settings menu, for email, i have to go into the email client, for mms and text gotta go their respective settings menus, etc. just isn't efficient for me. I would have liked to have it all in one place.

You can go into the settings for each of your gmail accounts and set a specific tone for an account. You can also set a specific ring tone for much the same way.

I'm glad you can text images just fine. I can't. I send a pic to my wife and the phone constantly says "Sending" and she never gets it, whether I'm on wifi, 3g, or 4g. I can receive pics just fine. Same thing with emailing pictures, I would expect when you attach a few pics to an email and your on wifi, that message should get sent pronto! but my gmail client hangs and hangs and hangs, and my emails are never sent if they have picture attachments. As a matter of fact, if I attach a picture to an email and send it, the message is lost forever, it doesn't even store the message in drafts while its sending.

It sounds like something is either wrong with your phone, or your service. I have zero problems attaching pics to emails, or text messages.

speaker volume / quality on this phone is lousy. I think this is generally known. Yes, the stock speaker volume is quite quiet, however if you are using the earpiece speaker or the speaker phone speaker in conjunction with the volume+, you simply cannot use the phone on max volume because the sound is very tinny and distorted. Its difficult for me to understand the person speaking. I do have the speaker volume app (volume+) installed which seems to magically close itself all the time, or the phone is killing it. Regarding Volume+, louder does not imply clearer.

Regarding apps, yes I understand, they are third party software, and unrelated to the phone. However, when your talking about user experience, and an App works perfectly on one phone, and not on your new one, it definately affects your experience. Correct me if I'm wrong, but big developers did have this phone available prior to release didn't they?

That is a problem with the app developers not the phone.

[panerai7]

Read my post on the previous page. You did fail statistics if you think that your experience can be translated to the population at large. (Hint: it can't)


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Hint: I'm not buying phones for the population at large.
I got the GN for myself and 4 out of 4 were defective. That's good enough statistics for me to conclude that GN has serious problems. I understand that in general 4 out of 100k is not a large enough sample size

[potatolover1102]

I personally really like my nexus. I got it on release day and have no issues. However when I went to Dallas, Texas last weekend my phone freaked out. 4g dropped every five minutes and I always had no data and grey bars and rebooting galore. It would screech and whine on calls and battery lasted for about 2 hours max!! I wanted to run it over. As soon as I left Dallas it was like nothing happened. I have no issues since and none beforehand so I am not sure what was happening but it seems like some of the issues on this phone are area specific.

[pauliphone5]

Hint: I'm not buying phones for the population at large.
I got the GN for myself and 4 out of 4 were defective. That's good enough statistics for me to conclude that GN has serious problems. I understand that in general 4 out of 100k is not a large enough sample size

Maybe you should try a different type of phone.

[rebelguy]

I have had my nexus for a little a month and I have decided to cut my losses and move on. I previously came from the Rezound (which had a hardware issue and had to be returned), but because of my lack of patience to wait for a replacement and the saleperson's pitch about the awesomeness of the GN I decided to give it a try. Others may be loving it but I consider it a huge step down from the Rezound and it it weren't for having ICS would be labeled as just another mediocre phone in Verizon's inventory.

My problems with the phone:

1. Signal quality is terrible. (Yes this may be solved with an update but then again maybe it won't)
2. The 4G to 3G swap takes forever and often times results in no date without rebooting. (Yes this may be solved with an update but then again maybe it won't)
3. Call quality is average at best.
4. Speaker quality is terrible. Everything sounds muffled. (This will not be solved with an update)
5. Battery life is terrible. I get about 4-5 hours with little to moderate use.
6. The Camera is average at best.
7. The phone will not download any mp3 attachments. Whenever I try to do it it always fails at the end.
8. I can not search for a contact through the phone app. I can only find someone if going through contacts.

I honestly feel like Samsung purposely handicapped this phone so it would not interfere with it's GS3 sales.

Because of the wonders of Costco's return policy I am going to go with either the Rezound again or possibly the Razr. I do wish the had the Razr Maxx but since it is such a hit I don't see them getting it anytime soon as Verizon can't even keep them in stock.

[panerai7]

Maybe you should try a different type of phone.

I did, I went back to my Droid Charge and everything is back to normal, now I'm waiting for my nearest store to get some Razr Maxx's so I can pick one up.

[panerai7]

I have had my nexus for a little a month and I have decided to cut my losses and move on. I previously came from the Rezound (which had a hardware issue and had to be returned), but because of my lack of patience to wait for a replacement and the saleperson's pitch about the awesomeness of the GN I decided to give it a try. Others may be loving it but I consider it a huge step down from the Rezound and it it weren't for having ICS would be labeled as just another mediocre phone in Verizon's inventory.

My problems with the phone:

1. Signal quality is terrible. (Yes this may be solved with an update but then again maybe it won't)
2. The 4G to 3G swap takes forever and often times results in no date without rebooting. (Yes this may be solved with an update but then again maybe it won't)
3. Call quality is average at best.
4. Speaker quality is terrible. Everything sounds muffled. (This will not be solved with an update)
5. Battery life is terrible. I get about 4-5 hours with little to moderate use.
6. The Camera is average at best.
7. The phone will not download any mp3 attachments. Whenever I try to do it it always fails at the end.
8. I can not search for a contact through the phone app. I can only find someone if going through contacts.

I honestly feel like Samsung purposely handicapped this phone so it would not interfere with it's GS3 sales.

Because of the wonders of Costco's return policy I am going to go with either the Rezound again or possibly the Razr. I do wish the had the Razr Maxx but since it is such a hit I don't see them getting it anytime soon as Verizon can't even keep them in stock.

I have experienced all of the above with 4 GN I had.
So glad I am not the only one, seems like some fanboys around here make it sound like I'm crazy.
I will buy it again if they fix everything, I loved the idea of it being a Google Nexus product.

[daihard2008]

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I am considering switching from an iPhone 4 to an Android phone (GSM - I'm keeping my AT&T account). My original thought was to get a Galaxy Nexus, but after looking at the SII and GN, I feel that I would prefer a bit smaller form factor. With that in mind, do you guys have any recommendations? I'd prefer a high screen resolution, where 540 x 960 would be good enough.

TIA!

[dmmarck]

I have had my nexus for a little a month and I have decided to cut my losses and move on. I previously came from the Rezound (which had a hardware issue and had to be returned), but because of my lack of patience to wait for a replacement and the saleperson's pitch about the awesomeness of the GN I decided to give it a try. Others may be loving it but I consider it a huge step down from the Rezound and it it weren't for having ICS would be labeled as just another mediocre phone in Verizon's inventory.

My problems with the phone:

1. Signal quality is terrible. (Yes this may be solved with an update but then again maybe it won't)
2. The 4G to 3G swap takes forever and often times results in no date without rebooting. (Yes this may be solved with an update but then again maybe it won't)
3. Call quality is average at best.
4. Speaker quality is terrible. Everything sounds muffled. (This will not be solved with an update)
5. Battery life is terrible. I get about 4-5 hours with little to moderate use.
6. The Camera is average at best.
7. The phone will not download any mp3 attachments. Whenever I try to do it it always fails at the end.
8. I can not search for a contact through the phone app. I can only find someone if going through contacts.

I honestly feel like Samsung purposely handicapped this phone so it would not interfere with it's GS3 sales.

Because of the wonders of Costco's return policy I am going to go with either the Rezound again or possibly the Razr. I do wish the had the Razr Maxx but since it is such a hit I don't see them getting it anytime soon as Verizon can't even keep them in stock.

I've had 4 of these devices. The last 3 were due to Verizon's horrific Certified Like New Program. The first had a faulty volume rocker. With those issues, though:

(1) Agree. Not sure if the 4.0.4 radios truly fixed this, but I think it's more hardware than not.

(2) Much improved with the 4.0.4 radios.

(3) I agree, although I've never really cared b/c I barely make calls (ironically)

(4) I agree. Shoddy hardware. The speakerphone is unusable.

(5) You must have 4G on all the time. That being said, I haven't used it without a custom kernel in some time, but I can use it for about double that with a variety of kernels and roms, with decent usage (my best is 73% full after 5 hours of Spotify, texting, and browsing). While the battery is objectively "mediocre," so much personal usage goes into it that it's hard to truly say whether it's horrific or not. It's certainly better than the Thunderbolt's, that's for sure.

(6) I agree.

(7) No idea. Have you tried emailing? I had problems doing that with my DINC too. But nowadays, I just save and transfer via USB. Simplest solution for getting anything on the phone IMHO.

(8) How can you not do this? Go to Phone, then clink on the person looking thing to the right, then click on the search. OR, just click on the search/glass thing on the bottom left. I don't think I have a different Phone app than you, but I might if you can do neither of those.

That being said, every phone has its issues--regardless of what fans of any phone says. The RAZR has a terrible screen, while reports that the MAXX has a slightly better one. Some like the GN's look, some like the RAZR's. To a certain extent, it's about preferences.

For what I do--rooting, flashing, etc., there is no better phone out there. Combine that with a fantastic screen, 4G, and something I like, for me this phone has been great.

And I've been through four of them.

[rebelguy]

I've had 4 of these devices. The last 3 were due to Verizon's horrific Certified Like New Program. The first had a faulty volume rocker. With those issues, though:

(1) Agree. Not sure if the 4.0.4 radios truly fixed this, but I think it's more hardware than not.

(2) Much improved with the 4.0.4 radios.

(3) I agree, although I've never really cared b/c I barely make calls (ironically)

(4) I agree. Shoddy hardware. The speakerphone is unusable.

(5) You must have 4G on all the time. That being said, I haven't used it without a custom kernel in some time, but I can use it for about double that with a variety of kernels and roms, with decent usage (my best is 73% full after 5 hours of Spotify, texting, and browsing). While the battery is objectively "mediocre," so much personal usage goes into it that it's hard to truly say whether it's horrific or not. It's certainly better than the Thunderbolt's, that's for sure.

(6) I agree.

(7) No idea. Have you tried emailing? I had problems doing that with my DINC too. But nowadays, I just save and transfer via USB. Simplest solution for getting anything on the phone IMHO.

(8) How can you not do this? Go to Phone, then clink on the person looking thing to the right, then click on the search. OR, just click on the search/glass thing on the bottom left. I don't think I have a different Phone app than you, but I might if you can do neither of those.

That being said, every phone has its issues--regardless of what fans of any phone says. The RAZR has a terrible screen, while reports that the MAXX has a slightly better one. Some like the GN's look, some like the RAZR's. To a certain extent, it's about preferences.

For what I do--rooting, flashing, etc., there is no better phone out there. Combine that with a fantastic screen, 4G, and something I like, for me this phone has been great.

And I've been through four of them.

In regard to my battery issue, no I actually leave the phone on 3G most of the time now unless I need to download something quickly.

As far as the mp3 issue, I use my phone for my mobile DJ business and there are often times I need to download a song at an event. The inability to do this is a major problem for me.

I use this phone for my business and as much as i love the multimedia capabilities it is to much of a let down for day to day work use for me. I can deal with the lesser screen quality. I can watch movies on my computer if need be.

[dmmarck]

Re: battery, that's quite odd then. Even stock I remember getting more life than that, but there's so much going on underneath that there could be a variety of reasons. My only point is that unless you're going Maxx, battery life generally sucks all around, particularly when it comes to using basic stuff.

And that's completely understandable.

[davey11]

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I am considering switching from an iPhone 4 to an Android phone (GSM - I'm keeping my AT&T account). My original thought was to get a Galaxy Nexus, but after looking at the SII and GN, I feel that I would prefer a bit smaller form factor. With that in mind, do you guys have any recommendations? I'd prefer a high screen resolution, where 540 x 960 would be good enough.

TIA!

Try checking out the Galaxy Note. Yeah you said smaller and this thing is HUGE, but try playing around with one at the att store. I did and I could get used to it real easy. The ppl in the Note forum gush on this phone.

But yeah if smaller is your thing this is definitely not for you.

[Droid800]

Hint: I'm not buying phones for the population at large.
I got the GN for myself and 4 out of 4 were defective. That's good enough statistics for me to conclude that GN has serious problems. I understand that in general 4 out of 100k is not a large enough sample size

Yeah that isn't how these things work. Just because you have problems does not mean all Nexii do. It isn't 'good enough' for anything, let alone a recall.

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