Android 4.0.4 - Page 3

dcx_badass · 06-16-2012, 01:46 | posts: 9,547 | Location: Leeds [UK]

After talking to the Touchpads CM9 dev, they have no plans to make the status bar movable, so I've finally caved and moved from CM7 to CM9, with no current plans to add the option and the absolutely massive battery improvements (doubled), and wifi (rock solid instead of flakey). And then the ICS improvements I've switched over. Soft bricked the touchpad during the process as I decided to wipe back to webos and then setup from scratch, managed to make it unbootable, however could still get into usb recovery mode so managed to fix it through the webos dev terminal, was a dodgy few hours though!

However:

LifeInferno · 06-18-2012, 22:02 | posts: 370 | Location: Athens

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Originally Posted by dcx_badass

After talking to the Touchpads CM9 dev, they have no plans to make the status bar movable, so I've finally caved and moved from CM7 to CM9, with no current plans to add the option and the absolutely massive battery improvements (doubled), and wifi (rock solid instead of flakey). And then the ICS improvements I've switched over. Soft bricked the touchpad during the process as I decided to wipe back to webos and then setup from scratch, managed to make it unbootable, however could still get into usb recovery mode so managed to fix it through the webos dev terminal, was a dodgy few hours though!

However:

I see a paranoid rom here nice one mate but i love the AOKP work cause of stability and new improvments everytime!

dcx_badass · 06-19-2012, 01:08 | posts: 9,547 | Location: Leeds [UK]

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Originally Posted by LifeInferno

I see a paranoid rom here nice one mate but i love the AOKP work cause of stability and new improvments everytime!

Nah is just a CM9 nightly, they're the only ones doing original development on the touchpad, well properly anyway, the others are just branching off or lagging behind.

UZ7 · 06-19-2012, 01:30 | posts: 5,020 | Location: Everyday Rain Florida

Love CM9, been using various ROMs but whenever I get a favorite one they end up putting more bloat in after they run out of updates to do

so I went with CM9 and so far its been running smooth on a nightly build.

kanej2007 · 06-19-2012, 05:58 | posts: 5,701 | Location: Dubai, UAE / London, UK

I received an update to Ice Cream Sandwich a few days back for my Samsung Galaxy Note which has made drastic improvements!

1 - Phone boots and shuts off considerably quicker.
2 - Android market place is now smooth & no longer jerky.
3 - Internet browsing speed is at least 50% faster and runs smooth.
4 - Overall functionality of the phone is a great deal faster & much more fluid.
5 - UI & graphics/icons are of much higher quality.
6 - Flash sites now run butter smooth.
7 - Battery life - Not applicable, not much different than it used to be!

P.s. The upgrade was done over the air via wi-fi (approximately 400mb in size) which took no more than 18-20 mins to do.

I did not backup any software, messages or saved games & after performing the upgrade EVERYTHING was as it used to be, even call logs and icons remained intact.

That said, should you perform the upgrade via a rom download then you will lose all data which is why I'd rather wait for the official update to come event though I've waited months for Ice Cream Sandwich...

UZ7 · 06-19-2012, 06:44 | posts: 5,020 | Location: Everyday Rain Florida

Theres up and downs to waiting for the official, of course official will have less bugs which is good since more devs can work with better kernels/modems/radios etc... but the thing I don't like much about official ones from lets say ATT is the bloat they keep on there. So many useless programs that I dont need so if your carrier doesnt put bloat then it would be good but for now I'll stick to custom roms so I'll have a fresh phone to start with

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CM9 (130mb) + gapps (50mb) = 180mb, some ROMs I see are anywhere from 400-600mb

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Neo Cyrus · **Memory**: 6GB DDR3-2000 9-9-9-24-1T

I'm completely new to Android, just recently I got a Galaxy Nexus (i9250m) from the provider Fido (parent company Rogers) and it came with ICS 4.0.2. I searched around for instructions on how to update it to 4.0.4 and there are conflicting reports.

From what I've gathered the individual providers can have different update methods and are responsible from releasing updates themselves. Is that correct? If so should I just use any method to update considering Fido have not released an update themselves?

While I'm at it I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask my other questions... the battery life on this thing is abysmal to say the least. It seems it can sustain 720p video with MX Player (software renderer, hardware won't work) for only 2-3 hours on a full charge depending on the volume and screen brightness. Is that normal? I checked the battery and it only gives a model number, it doesn't list MAh. I ordered this today as a replacement: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/replace...-117791?item=8

It's probably garbage but I could find no better for a reasonable price, the only "good" one I found is the size of a dinosaur and costs $100. Any suggestions on how to increase battery life aside from lowering volume or brightness (which is auto by default)? I ran into a program which can adjust clock speed, but that requires the phone to be rooted which I haven't done yet.

My other concern is that it came with no tutorial as new Nexuses usually do, it makes me wonder if mine was previously used, though it seemed perfectly sealed. I forgot to mention, it came with no video player by default which seems unusual. Mine may not be the exact same model though, I'm not sure if the old ones were i9250m, it is different colour (grey rather than black). Any thoughts on that?

kitch9 · 06-19-2012, 07:34 | posts: 1,855 | Location: Doncaster, England

Quote:

Originally Posted by yelsewshane

My opinion android is not good and even though I don't like apple would take a iphone any day over a android. Fact is the android os is just not up to par. My opinion the best phones out right now are with windows mango 7.5.

Quit yo gibber jabber!

Windows phones have the power of one of my wet farts..... Its not rocket science is it? The less powerful the phone the easier they are on the battery.

Saying that the S3 gets good reports.

deltatux · 06-20-2012, 13:55 | posts: 18,785 | Location: Toronto, Canada

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neo Cyrus

I'm completely new to Android, just recently I got a Galaxy Nexus (i9250m) from the provider Fido (parent company Rogers) and it came with ICS 4.0.2. I searched around for instructions on how to update it to 4.0.4 and there are conflicting reports.

From what I've gathered the individual providers can have different update methods and are responsible from releasing updates themselves. Is that correct? If so should I just use any method to update considering Fido have not released an update themselves?

While I'm at it I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask my other questions... the battery life on this thing is abysmal to say the least. It seems it can sustain 720p video with MX Player (software renderer, hardware won't work) for only 2-3 hours on a full charge depending on the volume and screen brightness. Is that normal? I checked the battery and it only gives a model number, it doesn't list MAh. I ordered this today as a replacement: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/replace...-117791?item=8

It's probably garbage but I could find no better for a reasonable price, the only "good" one I found is the size of a dinosaur and costs $100. Any suggestions on how to increase battery life aside from lowering volume or brightness (which is auto by default)? I ran into a program which can adjust clock speed, but that requires the phone to be rooted which I haven't done yet.

My other concern is that it came with no tutorial as new Nexuses usually do, it makes me wonder if mine was previously used, though it seemed perfectly sealed. I forgot to mention, it came with no video player by default which seems unusual. Mine may not be the exact same model though, I'm not sure if the old ones were i9250m, it is different colour (grey rather than black). Any thoughts on that?

Personally, I would just flash a custom ROM on to your phone. Yes, it does void your warranty but the community has developed many ROMs that have faster kernels, supports overclocking (which isn't good for battery, duh lol) and better battery usage if you don't overclock.

I would recommend something like the Apex ROM 1.1.2 and the Air Kernel 1.8 for the Galaxy Nexus.

If you don't feel safe running custom ROMs, you can easily download the Android factory images for the Galaxy Nexus. All Canadian Galaxy Nexus are the same, just flash the "yakju" Android 4.0.4 factory image. You do need to unlock the bootloader and that does require a device wipe.

https://developers.google.com/androi...es#yakjuimm76i

deltatux

UZ7 · 06-20-2012, 20:59 | posts: 5,020 | Location: Everyday Rain Florida

Usually if the specs are the same but different carrier you could still flash the custom rom but will just have to edit the APN. For example my phone for on ATT is called the Skyrocket and the one from Roger is Samsung Galaxy SII LTE, they are exactly the same phone just different labels/APN so most custom rom devs take out the phone carrier label (ATT/Roger) and make a universal one with the ability to change the APN for that specific carrier. Being that galaxy nexus is google's phone they usually will have the latest release available.