Galaxy Nexus Workarounds, Tips, and Tricks

[vivek615]

I have noticed something cool about face unlock...
What REALLY seems to help along with" improve face matching" is blinking when it seems like its not recognizing you on unlock. I heard rumors they would make blinking mandatory to keep it safe from using a pic (blink to unlock has a nice ring to it) well it seems that blinking already helps quite a bit!

 

[sordanny]

Hi and thanks for this wonderful guide!!

 

[dustrho]

does anyone know how I turn off the retro locking? where the screen closes like an old tv

Settings > Developers options

Change the first three items to 0.5 from 1.0.

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[Inishatr]

If you long-press the account title header in an Exchange mail account, it will open up a menu showing the two most recent mail folders you looked at (i.e. "Drafts" and "Sent" ) and a third menu option to "Show all folders". Your Inbox is always at the top of this menu no matter what folder you are in.

If you do the same thing in G-mail, it opens an identical menu showing the three most recent "labels" and an option to "Show all labels".

 

[lets_go_android]

The stock Android contacts app, People, is missing the birthday field.

I tried installing an alternate contacts app, like Contacts+, which says it handles birthdays, but there still isn't a birthday field. When I edit a contact's info, the screen just looks like the default stock People app, so it appears the Contacts+ app is limited by the stock contacts system not supporting a birthday field. Can someone suggest a solution/workaround? Thanks.

 

[Wicket]

The stock Android contacts app, People, is missing the birthday field.

I tried installing an alternate contacts app, like Contacts+, which says it handles birthdays, but there still isn't a birthday field. When I edit a contact's info, the screen just looks like the default stock People app, so it appears the Contacts+ app is limited by the stock contacts system not supporting a birthday field. Can someone suggest a solution/workaround? Thanks.

Contacts>Name>Edit>Add Another Field>Event>Pick Date>Done!

 

[lets_go_android]

Ah, I see! Thanks for the screenshots, that made it really clear!

So, Google's Contacts has the birthday field, but my contacts had been set to sync with the VZW Backup Assistant, and that made some of those additional fields (e.g. Events) not show up in that menu. Don't know what that should be, since I can look at my contacts on vzw.com and it does have a birthday field there and I've synched/backedup the two many times. Odd. Thanks again for you quick and very clear answer, Wicket!

 

[Wicket]

Ah, I see! Thanks for the screenshots, that made it really clear!

So, Google's Contacts has the birthday field, but my contacts had been set to sync with the VZW Backup Assistant, and that made some of those additional fields (e.g. Events) not show up in that menu. Don't know what that should be, since I can look at my contacts on vzw.com and it does have a birthday field there and I've synched/backedup the two many times. Odd. Thanks again for you quick and very clear answer, Wicket!

no problem, glad it helped!
best thing you can do for yourself and everyone should do this IMHO, is export all your contacts from vzw backup assistant and import them into GMail and manage all them there. they live update back and forth between device and gmail and you never have to worry about losing your contacts. Anyways, unless you just really don't want to do this for some reason it is the best option I think.

 

[lets_go_android]

no problem, glad it helped!
best thing you can do for yourself and everyone should do this IMHO, is export all your contacts from vzw backup assistant and import them into GMail and manage all them there. they live update back and forth between device and gmail and you never have to worry about losing your contacts. Anyways, unless you just really don't want to do this for some reason it is the best option I think.

Yep, you're right. Sticking with the Google system sounds like the way to go. Thanks again.

 

[booboolala2000]

Anyone besides me getting signed out if their Google account? Very strange. Getting a message in NY notification bar. A triangle with an exclamation point. Saying to try again later.
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[booboolala2000]

So what is this anyway ? Never happened on other androids besides my OG Droid.

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