How Does the Nexus 4 perform today?

[Slashyou]

It's been nearly two years since the Nexus 4 released and I wanted to ask how your phones we're performing, are they still lagless or have they bogged down?

My Galaxy nexus Runs fine so the nexus 4 should be still be a good phone!

 

[Ed Briggs]

The only thing I would like to have is lte i live right under a T-Mobile tower getting hspda+ is kinda slow comparing to my wife's lte capable phone!

If you root it and install a new radio on it, you can get lte. »All LTE Discussion« | Nexus 4 | XDA Forums

I put a custom rom on mine, and am still loving my nexus 4. Runs very smooth and quick. But I will eventually be getting the Nexus 6.

 

[anon5664829]

If you root it and install a new radio on it, you can get lte. »All LTE Discussion« | Nexus 4 | XDA Forums

I put a custom rom on mine, and am still loving my nexus 4. Runs very smooth and quick. But I will eventually be getting the Nexus 6.

It depend on what bands T-Mobile uses though.

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[BuffOrange]

Add another to the "good performance, lousy battery" column.

Not many options for upgrading to similar size + much better battery, huh? Just the G2 & Z3C I guess?

 

[ysbg]

Add another to the "good performance, lousy battery" column.

Not many options for upgrading to similar size + much better battery, huh? Just the G2 & Z3C I guess?

The Z3 compact has a slightly smaller screen (4.6 vs 4.7 inch) but seems like a great phone, with a killer battery life (more than 9 hours of SOT according to phone arena). and I really like what they did with the colors. I'd really consider it if I didn't want a bigger sized phone.

Edit : actually the z3 compact has ten hours of on screen time

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sony...us-to-the-era-of-two-day-battery-life_id60955

 

[vlee]

I've had mine for a year and a half now, and it is still going strong. I've had occasional reboots, but not very often (knock on wood). Battery life is pretty good, but to be fair, I'm not a power user. Biggest drain is using Waze when commuting to work, so I've just gotten into the habit of plugging in the car charger when I use that. When I'm at work, I'll sometimes plug it into the charger just on general principals (eg for in case I get home to discover my power is out, which happens occasionally), but if I don't I usually have a decent amt of battery left. I might consider getting the next one that comes out, although I really can't rationalize a reason to do that yet.

 

[SharkyNY]

I've had mine for nearly two years now (was able to order one on launch day). Still running really smooth. I've been running Paranoid Android for just about the entire time and I love it. The one problem I've had, as many have mentioned battery life isn't all that great though. Also just I had barely been managing to keep enough storage space for updates and such since I got the 8GB version.

I did a system restore and I'm using less apps now and so far the battery life seems to be better as well. Maybe I just had certain apps that were draining the battery more than usual, but I can't complain.

The fact that most flagships are much larger now is making me hesitate to upgrade from the N4. And I get a great discount on Verizon plans, but having to jump through less hoops to unlock the bootloader and root is also scaring me away.

 

[TauSigmaNova]

Honestly? Terribly. I love the phone for being by my side since November of 2012 when it came out and it's a definite looker. It's just been deteriorating slowly and slowly and even when the N5 came out it was already noticeably different than when it started but things got even worse the last few months.

The back camera is pretty bad, and it seems like it's gotten slower and worse as time went on.
Also, after having a repair done, my front camera has completely gone unoperational.
The bottom portion of the screen with the touch keys gave out two months ago and I have to use a separate app to have Floating Touch Keys.
My status bar hasn't been sliding down right the last week or so.
The battery life which is deteriorating is terrible, and even with rather light usage [occasional internet and music, no games, sometimes checking Snapchat or IG] I was lucky to leave with 35 percent. I carry around a portable charger now though.
The Headphone jack is busted to where only one ear works regardless of what earphones I'm using.
It's become laggy and sometimes crashes randomly once every rare while.
16GB isn't anywhere near enough especially for my music and most other things. I never have more than a gig of storage at any given time.

That's about it. Still, I've had this phone longer than any other and it was an amazing phone when it came out and I'm not annoyed to carry it around, even though it's slowly dieing. Planning on an N6 upgrade this/next month.

Also - LTE kernel is the best thing in the world.

 

[anon5664829]

Honestly? Terribly. I love the phone for being by my side since November of 2012 when it came out and it's a definite looker. It's just been deteriorating slowly and slowly and even when the N5 came out it was already noticeably different than when it started but things got even worse the last few months.

The back camera is pretty bad, and it seems like it's gotten slower and worse as time went on.
Also, after having a repair done, my front camera has completely gone unoperational.
The bottom portion of the screen with the touch keys gave out two months ago and I have to use a separate app to have Floating Touch Keys.
My status bar hasn't been sliding down right the last week or so.
The battery life which is deteriorating is terrible, and even with rather light usage [occasional internet and music, no games, sometimes checking Snapchat or IG] I was lucky to leave with 35 percent. I carry around a portable charger now though.
The Headphone jack is busted to where only one ear works regardless of what earphones I'm using.
It's become laggy and sometimes crashes randomly once every rare while.
16GB isn't anywhere near enough especially for my music and most other things. I never have more than a gig of storage at any given time.

That's about it. Still, I've had this phone longer than any other and it was an amazing phone when it came out and I'm not annoyed to carry it around, even though it's slowly dieing. Planning on an N6 upgrade this/next month.

Also - LTE kernel is the best thing in the world.

My experience is not the same. I've had no hardware issues. No broken ports etc

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[CoMoNexus]

Mine has started freezing up. For example, even with a full charge, I'll hit the power button to turn on the screen, and it stays dark. But I know the phone is on because the LED is slowly flashing to indicate messages or an app alert. The only solution is to hold down the power button for 15 or seconds until it shuts off, and then reboot.

Other times, it gets stuck at the four colored balls stage of startup. Sometimes that's after the aforementioned problem. Sometimes it's not.

Anyone else having these problems with a non-rooted phone?

 

[ysbg]

Mine has started freezing up. For example, even with a full charge, I'll hit the power button to turn on the screen, and it stays dark. But I know the phone is on because the LED is slowly flashing to indicate messages or an app alert. The only solution is to hold down the power button for 15 or seconds until it shuts off, and then reboot.

Other times, it gets stuck at the four colored balls stage of startup. Sometimes that's after the aforementioned problem. Sometimes it's not.

Anyone else having these problems with a non-rooted phone?

This actually did happen to me too a couple of months ago. I don't recall running into this issue recently though. I'm stock and non rooted.

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[SharkyNY]

Well I've had a similar problem but I think its more hardware related. Sometimes I'll press the power button to turn on the screen and it won't register the press so I have to press harder. Same thing is happening with the volume buttons.

 

[Citizen Coyote]

My headphone jack died quite a ways back but it wasn't a big deal for me as I use bluetooth headphones when I need to. Battery life is meh and oddly sporadic. Some days it's a trooper, other days it's begging for a charge by late afternoon. I find I have to keep an eye out for rogue apps that will suck the battery dry nowadays, but I don't pin the blame on the phone for that. Otherwise I've had no problems with it, still works just as well as when new (and still quite the looker).