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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

Stigy said:
So Bluetooth Low Energy is confirmed to be working on all variations of Galaxy Nexus (with a code change) on 4.3 ROMs.
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Awesome! Why was this not enabled from get get-go! :mad: This is why I do not want a Nexus in the future.

AntimonyER said:
Screen is better, text is so sharp. Seems quite a bit snappier. The profile change will definitely help smaller hands hold it, but that combined with the thinness makes it seem a little less secure in my hand... Need to get a case for it. Haven't got a chance to test speakers yet. Back Camera is nothing to write home about. But I suppose it's better than nothing.

Overall it's not groundbreaking, but it's a nice improvement.
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Nice. After loading 4.3 on mine it seems to be a bit snappier too. I'm sure the hardware upgrade makes it even better on the new one. I debated selling mine and upgrading, but I'll just wait. A new phone is in my near future and I don't use my tablet near as much as my phone...so I'll be happy when I get that upgraded.
 
MSUgEEk said:
Awesome! Why was this not enabled from get get-go! :mad: This is why I do not want a Nexus in the future.
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I believe the Nexus was only BT3.0 certified, but had BT4.0 hardware so they had to disable the code for BLE in the Android 4.3 release, but it was in the main branch. So with some poking around people re-enabled it and confirmed it works on the Galaxy Nexus running 4.3, which rocks.

Samsung did some proprietary BLE stuff in TouchWiz to allow for it prior to 4.3 and that is what Fitbit was using to sync, but now it can be an Android standard.
 
Big oops for sure. Sorry N4 folks. :( on the bright side is not like it's lost in the hands of Google, just means you have to work a little harder to get it. :o
 
jhawkkw said:
I'm not sure, but it is pretty dumb. Not to mention there were plenty of people that ended up bootlooped flashing the factory image through the bootloader, and flashing back to 4.2.2 didn't fix it.
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They put an older version of Android on the site. haha, Google, making mistakes. Silly, hope they realized it by now.
 
Since 4.3 seems to have improved file i/o, I wonder if that will fix a lot of lag on my TF Infinity, assuming it gets an update to it.
 
Me neither ;)
 

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Stigy said:
I believe the Nexus was only BT3.0 certified, but had BT4.0 hardware so they had to disable the code for BLE in the Android 4.3 release, but it was in the main branch. So with some poking around people re-enabled it and confirmed it works on the Galaxy Nexus running 4.3, which rocks.

Samsung did some proprietary BLE stuff in TouchWiz to allow for it prior to 4.3 and that is what Fitbit was using to sync, but now it can be an Android standard.
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Yeah, I discovered a while back it had 4.0 hardware but knew it wasn't supported in the code. If it had the hardware to begin with, why not certify it and make it working.

Same thing with the text message access on the MyFord Touch system. It's just another bluetooth access protocol that just needs a software update to manage it. Wife's Rezound handles it fine, my phone won't work at all.
 
I know I shouldn't be just because I shouldn't get my hopes up...but I'm getting excited about the X Phone event today. If they put as much work into the computer architecture as they claim they have, this thing could be amazing. Could mean great battery life AND great performance. Off-loading menial tasks like detecting input and letting really low power chips handle that should free up more resources for the main CPU and not let it get bogged down during use. Same thing applies when the phone is in sleep mode. Should keep the main CPU in a low power idle while the external chips determine what is important enough to "wake up" the main chip.
 
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