Recent content by redstar427

The new Nexus 7 looks awesome! :)

Qualcomm continues to make great hardware, and the Snapdragon 800 could be the fastest mobile SoC on the planet. :) So, of course, I want one. :)

I don't know who "we" is, but it's not true in my case. Perhaps you mean the average person with a Smartphone. However, I do appreciate high resolution pictures, especially if they are very clear at 1:1. If the picture looks great in "whole" view, then I will want to see all the details in...

My Galaxy Nexus

Google Play store :)

Google Play has some nice apps. I look forward to sales during the holidays.

I am ready for a Nexus 7 :)

Doesn't everyone want to win a Nexus 7? :)

I want one. :)

I looked at the JB gapps zip I installed from, and they have July 2012 dates. In the zip from Kejar, they have 2008 dates. Hard to believe these are JB gapps. Thanks for your help, I will keep learning and trying. Now to search for the JB threads...

I installed the gnome archive manager, file-roller, and it will let me edit in zip. This solved my installation problems, and I got my first packaged rom to install. However, there are some problems with it, like the camera won't run, and the google now voice search is broken. Where do I find...

How do you edit within the zip? I am running Kubuntu 12.04 and ARK will not let me edit anything in the zip, I have to extract to a folder first, make edits and re-zip, and then the installation aborts from cwm.

1st, if you are not willing to root your phone, then you get only what the carrier gives you, like it or not. I do agree, generally, that a user shouldn't have to get some of these apps or services on the side or by hacking to get them, but all the carriers seem to care only for themselves, and...

First, this is only the Google Now text search and result card. Voice search does not work. While Samsung has stated JB will be released for the s3 in a few months, I think a custom JB rom will be much sooner as the dev community is building up fast for this very purpose.

I got the Google Wallet apk and side loaded it onto my Verizion Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Officially, it says it is not supported, but I activated it and used it. It works fine.