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***Official Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release speculation thread**

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lickwidravr said:
1 bit=one entry in binary, either a 0 or a 1 so a bit would be either "0" or "1"

1byte= 8 entries or 8 bits, either bit being 0 or 1 so a byte would be 0000 0000 or any combination of 1's and 0's

a Kilobit would be 1024 bits

a kilobyte would be 1024 bytes or (1024 x 8Bits)

and so on and so forth.

also half of a byte or four bits is a nibble/nyble
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But what about during leap years?
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AntimonyER said:
Mine is horrific at work, constantly cycling. I actually switch to 3G some days because I have had enough of it. But I know mine is low signal due to the building. Outside, it is very reliable. I am hopeful as the LTE radio tech progresses, this goes away. We will see.
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Yep. That's my point though, saying it had connectivity issue when first hand reports from BMX and P3 and probably others suggest it was pretty darned good makes me skeptical of whether those issues were above or below the norm of the Charge and other early devices. Or even if it was worse than RAZR and Rezound which I doubt are 100% either as it seems to be a bit of a work in progress as far as when and how to do CDMA/LTE handoffs.
 
jbdan said:
Funny! Wonder if OTD, or others who jumped to the Rez (brad?) has experienced this.
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I have not experienced this at all. I don't use the included headphones, I have my own headphones and Beats works with them as well.

The area where I live does NOT have 4G at all, so I am always on 3G/1X.
All my music is stored on the phone.
Between Treadmill and driving, I listen to at least 90 minutes of music on my ReZound every day.

Actually, the only reason I haven't sold my Beats headphones on Ebay for $50 + is just in case I hit that 0.0000001% chance that I would ever want to return the ReZound, although I cant imagine that ever happening...... :rolleyes:
 
vespadaddy said:
Under what circumstances would it be worth the effort to find saidroot exploit that doesn't use the bootloader unlock feature of a Nexus device? OEMfastboot unlock or whatever it is, seems so easy. What's the benefit of rooting without just unlocking the bootloader?

I'm fairly new to this ROM flashing business. I followed a detailed guide to root and run CM7 on my OG Droid just a few months ago.
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With an unlocked bootloader you have full control over every part of your phone's firmware, including radio update installation and so forth.

All bootloaders are locked to prevent casual screw-ups by curious users. The ones that become difficult are where they require an encryption key (fancy name for password if that's a new term) to unlock it - and the maker holds the encryption key as a big dark secret. So, an exploit is a way to fool the encryption long enough to provide the freedom to fully unlock the phone.

The Nexus bootloader isn't encrypted - you just send the simple unlock command and that's that.

Folks with root and locked bootloaders end up with fewer choices when it comes time to flash things but can still get many rooting benefits in any case.
 
djcs219 said:
Does anyone think best buy well carry the nexus the same day as Verizon does? I've got over hundred dollars in credit that I want to use.
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Everything I have heard about Best Buy on the Nexus indicates that they will have it the day of release. That's where I'm planning on getting it too. Can't pass up that Black Tie protection (gotten 2 free phones through it so far, cha-ching!)
 
jasaero said:
My question is were the connectivity issues better or worse than EVERY other LTE phone release prior to RAZR and ReZound. Wouldn't be surprised if even they have their own little connectivity quirks, but my experience with Droid Charge and understanding of other LTE phones so far has been that VZW LTE is awesome, but there are still quirks when it comes to holding a data connection to it 100% of the time. Wouldn't be surprised if such issues aren't even fully devices fault as infrastructure could be a bit glitchy still also in this regard.

Don't think any have been totally unreliable, just not 100%.
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This is totally experience based so take it as you will. My company has 4 4G LTE hotspots that we use to make mobile connections for "away teams" on the weekends. We started with the Samsung hotspots because they were first to the market and quite frankly they were the absolute most frustrating devices I've ever dealt with in my life. They were completely unreliable in all ways, both in connection quality and the ability to hold a connection. After a few complaints to Verizon and a chat with an Engineer they swapped them with the Novatel 4g Hotspots. They are better but still not really functioning as well as tethering to my phone has performed.

It _seems_ like building penetration is worse on LTE and speed is greatly affected by signal. In my office (inside concrete/metal roof/etc) I get 2-3 bars of LTE which reads as about -88 db. Speed tests through my phone and through the hotspot come with results of around 2-3 mbits down and ~1.5mbits up.

If I step outside the building, roughly 15 feet away, it immediately jumps to about 17 mbits down and 6 mbits up.

We've tried to stream video conferences through the devices and while they are fast, they just won't seem to hold a connection consistently enough to do that. They work fine for browsing the internet its hard to even notice the disruptions but when broadcasting footage or video conferencing its easy to see. It also seems to have a pattern when we were streaming live footage in places they fail after about 29-31 minutes for about 30 seconds for the first 4 hours and then it becomes more frequent after that. So far no one has really been able to help us with "why" this happens.

We can broadcast streams on Clearwire just fine, we have to broadcast at lower quality obviously but we don't get the service interruptions.
 
ThorWantNexus said:
Everything I have heard about Best Buy on the Nexus indicates that they will have it the day of release. That's where I'm planning on getting it too. Can't pass up that Black Tie protection (gotten 2 free phones through it so far, cha-ching!)
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How does the protection plan work? How much is it, and does it cover water damage or other accidental (e.g. non-defect) damages?
 
Poking around on Verizon's Testman site I discovered this, We gotta be close!!!

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