Disappointments with Gnex

[john248]

I agree that the oem extended battery was pathetic in how much extra juice it offered. I had to jump to a 3rd party extended battery from amazon. I ended up using a 3800mAh battery from hyperion, and that made a world of difference. That gives almost 2000extra mAh effectively doubling capacity from the original battery. With that, I had no problem getting through the day often with 4.5-6 hours of screen time depending how much of it was on wifi versus lte.

Of course, that is pretty much what I average now with my Nexus 4 and it's non removable 2100mAh battery. Just goes to show you how much better things have gotten tech wise.

I ended up doing the same thing with the Hyperion battery. The only negative with that was it made the phone much bulkier than I would've liked. I only tolerated it because I didn't want to continue carrying around an extra battery.

 

[Demache]

I think I have the same complaints as others: Bad battery life and low speaker volume.

I overcame the battery life by using greenify and getting spare batteries.

I overcame low speaker volume by using my tablet to watch tv shows/movies.

I still love this phone. My wife has it now and I still flash ROMs and tinker with it when she's not looking

Somehow, flashing ROMs fixed the speaker volume issue. Its loud enough that I could hear ring in a loud shop at least. I'm probably not going to get a phone with an OLED screen though. Not worth the massive battery drain because your on a white webpage. I'll still with IPS displays, which look pretty good anyway.

 

[tube517]

Somehow, flashing ROMs fixed the speaker volume issue. Its loud enough that I could hear ring in a loud shop at least. I'm probably not going to get a phone with an OLED screen though. Not worth the massive battery drain because your on a white webpage. I'll still with IPS displays, which look pretty good anyway.

Never had an issue with ringtones. But, when I tried to watch netflix or any other similar app, the sound was so low in the speakers.

 

[Demache]

Never had an issue with ringtones. But, when I tried to watch netflix or any other similar app, the sound was so low in the speakers.

TV show and movie audio is mixed to have a very high dynamic range. In other words, sound can go from loud to quiet depending on the scene and the way they mixed the audio in the studio. Great for headphones/surround sound speakers. Not good for mobile devices where you have very limited speaker capabilities. So they are going to be much quieter than a phone call or ringtone which are supposed to be as loud as possible. Even your music will be louder due to loudness compression on most music nowadays for the sake of make it "louder".

My mom has this problem with her laptop when she uses HBO Go. My solution? Use headphones or buy external powered speakers.

 

[tube517]

TV show and movie audio is mixed to have a very high dynamic range. In other words, sound can go from loud to quiet depending on the scene and the way they mixed the audio in the studio. Great for headphones/surround sound speakers. Not good for mobile devices where you have very limited speaker capabilities. So they are going to be much quieter than a phone call or ringtone which are supposed to be as loud as possible. Even your music will be louder due to loudness compression on most music nowadays for the sake of make it "louder".

My mom has this problem with her laptop when she uses HBO Go. My solution? Use headphones or buy external powered speakers.

Yeah, I had headphones but I don't carry them everywhere I go. My HTC Amaze's speakers were incredible. TV or ringtones were clear and loud.