iphone 4 to nexus 4 or why i threw my nexus 4 last night

[Ronnie2]

With a temper like that, I suggest getting an Otterbox Defender for your Nexus 4

 

[anon(847090)]

my dad figured out how to answer a phone call on his Nexus. he is a real noob.

 

[oberkc]

Red to hang up..........green to answer...simples.

Yes, pretty simple. Unfortunately, the red and green options don't display until you actually touch it. There is an amazingly large number of us who are afraid to touch and explore their technology for fear of breaking it. If the options are not obvious by sight, those types tend to stare at their devices, unsure of how to proceed, frozen until someone comes along and helps them out. Or they just give up.

 

[Jennifer Stough]

I read revolutionary and stopped reading!!! My arse the iphone is revolutionary!!!! Hahahahahaha mate you must be joking the iphone is a piece of made for dumb ***

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If you would have continued reading you would have seen that his post was actually helpful. All of your posts are negative, full of ignorant insulting language, and biased. I don't see where you have helped the OP solve his issue in any way other than to try instigating arguments.

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[Fairclough]

Thats ok, I am used to many things being thrown out of difficulty. Particularly megaphones when they fail to work.

 

[PhxBlue]

This is a no feeding the troll zone. Please dont feed the troll. Thank you.

 

[anon(883913)]

At first I chuckled but not at the original poster....I chuckled at myself because this is the exact feeling I get when loading up different ROMS (they all seem to have different answering patterns)! lol

 

[gnr_2]

At first I chuckled but not at the original poster....I chuckled at myself because this is the exact feeling I get when loading up different ROMS (they all seem to have different answering patterns)! lol

I seem to have this problem every time I get a new phone, and my last phone wasn't even a smartphone. It was a really weird LG made for texting. It was also pseudo-touch screen. I still remember two+ years ago walking out of the Sprint store with my new phone when it rang. Things popped up on the outside screen (actually similar to the way it is on Android but the options were there too), only touching the screen did nothing. You had to open the phone and use the INSIDE screen or the buttons. Call was long gone before I figured that out. I still don't know how to respond to a call with a text message on my GNex and I've had it now for 6 months.

Sent from my totally awesome Sprint Galaxy Nexus, even if I don't know all its secrets yet.

 

[return_0]

I don't understand how hard this is. When I got my first call on my Nexus 4, I immediately knew how to answer it or hang up. I had not read the manual. I had not previously owned any sort of smartphone. I guess the learning curve is just different among different people.


Oh, and sorry, but I can't help but to say the following.

Now Being a geek i dabbled into android around 2.0 time and it was rubbish comapred to iOS 3.0. Now at 4.0 its on par if not better.

Um? this isn't 2011. The latest Android version is 4.2.

 

[RyoSaeba]

As with many here, I was/am an iPhone user. I kept my iPhone 4 until recently because I wanted a bigger screen for so long. The iPhone 5 was a huge disappointment for me (and many others who are looking for a wider screen. And no android device came close to the smoothness of the iOS, until now. I'm a "techie" person if you will so I have done all my homework prior to purchasing the Nexus 4. Despite it's many flaws, I still went with the N4 because it is a Nexus device. I had seen my friend's SG3 and many other lower end Android phones and just not happy with them. I need an actual LCD and not some lame ass pentile ed screen. I need a "retina" screen as well since I'm really spoiled by the iP4. I need regular updates quickly and won't leave me hanging after a year.

To be really honest, it took me about a week to get used to all the settings that I was accustomed to on the iP4 (jailbroken with many awesome tweaks). Eventually, I was able to find what I was looking for and a lot more. For example, there are widgets for virtually everything! Every screen can be customized with widgets up the ying yang. Best of all, there are a lot to choose from. Some are , most are OK, and if you do some research, you will be able to find one perfect for your needs.

As for OP, everyone time you get a new "toy," whatever it may be, there will be a learning curve. I've seen people used an Android phone before so I knew how to answer the phone prior to getting my own. You just gotten used to using the iPhone, as I have, for 3+ years! But I'm mostly adjust. I'm still having a hard time on some things such as the calling app. Still takes me a while to edit a contact or find what I'm looking for. In the default SMS app, you can't insert a contact to send a message to. That's just stupid. But I guess there's an app for that...

The best way to adjust to the best Android phone right now, find a friend who's been using one for awhile and throw whatever questions you may have at him/her. Even though the hardware may be fragmented, the software aspect is pretty much the same. I have already fallen in love with my Nexus 4. If you give it a chance, you will too.

 

[howie]

That's funny - my N4 arrived yesterday, and I got my first call this morning, and like you, couldn't answer it. I think I just swiped up to turn on the phone, and never saw the phone icons...

That's what I did, too. Actually, still do that once in awhile.

 

[KwietStorm]

Yes, pretty simple. Unfortunately, the red and green options don't display until you actually touch it. There is an amazingly large number of us who are afraid to touch and explore their technology for fear of breaking it. If the options are not obvious by sight, those types tend to stare at their devices, unsure of how to proceed, frozen until someone comes along and helps them out. Or they just give up.

That's actually pretty sad..and depressing.

 

[anon(5719825)]

Yes, pretty simple. Unfortunately, the red and green options don't display until you actually touch it. There is an amazingly large number of us who are afraid to touch and explore their technology for fear of breaking it. If the options are not obvious by sight, those types tend to stare at their devices, unsure of how to proceed, frozen until someone comes along and helps them out. Or they just give up.

Camera settings work the same way. Touch and the settings appear.

 

[sharpinator]

That's pretty funny but It's got to be said nexus devices are still for the android geeks in my opinion even if there is nothing stating that they are there is still an association with android geeks and nexus devices and it's true. I guarantee a good 80% of nexus owners are android geeks or have been informed about them by android geeks. They aren't exactly advertised! If you're coming from an iphone and you aren't an andriod geek you should of got a samsung or HTC phone because pure android isn't for the average joe but that's just my opinion.

 

[oberkc]

The best way to adjust to the best Android phone right now, find a friend who's been using one for awhile and throw whatever questions you may have at him/her.

I agree that this is a good way to adjust to any new device. However, I cannot help but mention that there IS a users manual that explains most of these things a beginning user. Call me out-of-touch, but I believe the best way is to read the user manual that comes with the devices and/or can be downloaded from the manufacturers web page. More people should do this.

That's pretty funny but It's got to be said nexus devices are still for the android geeks in my opinion even if there is nothing stating that they are there is still an association with android geeks and nexus devices and it's true.

While I don't disagree that android may be a little less intuitive to some compared to other OS, I do not believe the gap is that wide and cannot be easily bridged by the non-geek. There are many in my extended family that use android and are not overly technically minded. I think, as others have suggested, that it is unrealistic to expect that an operating system that you have recently moved to will be as familiar or comfortable as one you have been using for several years.

 

[sp4444]

So how did you answer the call on your google nexus 4? Touching the screen certainly doesn't do it. Outgoing calls are fine and the phone rings fine to indicate incoming.

 

[Treknologist]

So how did you answer the call on your google nexus 4? Touching the screen certainly doesn't do it. Outgoing calls are fine and the phone rings fine to indicate incoming.

Essentially by using the same logic that is used for unlocking the screen. You touch the white phone symbol that appears on the screen during a call and a ring appears. You can then slide your finger to the green phone to answer, the red phone to hang up, or the SMS logo to send a text message reply while diverting the call.

https://support.google.com/nexus/4/answer/2811746?hl=en

 

[Pollster]

it just WORKS...

Damn has this statement been drummed into permanence by the iTalking Points.
Is there a specific place I could start debating this at a root level? I have two iPhones and an iPad in my house and since I am the resident tech support, I hear every time they don't "Just Work".

My Nexus devices "Just Work" about the exact same ratio as the iOS devices.

 

[omniusovermind]

I know how you feel. I bought one of these:

I was furious at not knowing how to make it work because they didn't even give me a freakin' user manual with it so I whipped it across the room. Luckily it was made out of rubber.