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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

India wants to name the next version of Android... lassi — a thick, yogurt-based drink popular in southeast Asia.

A group from IIT Kharagpur has written an open letter to Google’s Sundar Pichai, arguing that India’s consumer support of the Android operating system warrants the use of a name familiar with locals. They are also hoping to appeal to Pichai on a personal level. He is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur.
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So Droid-Life has the story on the DNA update that Verizon has published a coming soon page for. DL calls it 4.2 but I believe this will be 4.3, as the US President of HTC started the DNA would get it by end of September. Now I know most of you have been running a 4.3 ROM for a while, but what does it say that the first phone with 4.3 on Verizon isn't the GNex, or the Moto X? I gotta give some major props to HTC I think.
 
AntimonyER said:
So Droid-Life has the story on the DNA update that Verizon has published a coming soon page for. DL calls it 4.2 but I believe this will be 4.3, as the US President of HTC started the DNA would get it by end of September. Now I know most of you have been running a 4.3 ROM for a while, but what does it say that the first phone with 4.3 on Verizon isn't the GNex, or the Moto X? I gotta give some major props to HTC I think.
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Any phone running 4.3 on Verizon will be a huge deal because than the data connectivity will be 10000000x better in custom ROMs because the APN application that Verizon uses will be updated to work (hopefully better) with 4.3 ROMs.
 
Believe it when you see it, Anti. ;)
But have to say, I'm not surprised about the Moto X and Gnex being left behind.

Any phone running 4.3 on Verizon will be a huge deal because than the data connectivity will be 10000000x better in custom ROMs because the APN application that Verizon uses will be updated to work (hopefully better) with 4.3 ROMs.
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I'm on a custom 4.3 ROM and can't say I notice a huge difference with connectivity. Care to elaborate?
 
breadnatty08 said:
Believe it when you see it, Anti. ;)
But have to say, I'm not surprised about the Moto X and Gnex being left behind.



I'm on a custom 4.3 ROM and can't say I notice a huge difference with connectivity. Care to elaborate?
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This post is from baldwinguy (of the "Shiny" ROM):

I'm sure that most everyone knows, Android 4.3 has brought with it some serious problems with 3G data on toro. Through research, I've found that there are actually 3G and MMS problems happening with several devices that updated to Android 4.3, including the Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus "maguro". It seems like a lot of this is related to each device's APNs. I've heard some success stories from N4 and GNex "maguro" users who have removed certain APNs and reset them to a given value. Now, most carriers allow APNs to be changed manually. On Android, this happens in the Settings menu under the advanced networking settings. Verizon doesn't allow APNs to be manually changed like this, and instead we have VZWAPNLib.apk and VZWAPNService.apk in the proprietary files. I don't know exactly how these work, but I assume they handle the APNs at all times (in addition to apns-conf.xml, which all devices have, but that's just where APNs are read from). I don't think we will have a permanent, 100% fix until a VZW device is updated to 4.3 and we get updated APN apps. I believe the apns-conf.xml styling and format was updated in 4.3, and that's why I think this release isn't working well with the old VZW APN apps.

That being said, I think this latest build has definitely improved 4G->3G handoff and switching, at least for some users in testing. Another thing to consider is that in Android 4.3, the APN failure refresh rate was bumped up from 5 seconds to 20 seconds to prevent battery drain. So if your device loses 4G and is attempting to find 3G, it may be without data for up to 20 seconds before it starts working. If this outage lasts for a minute or more, there's a good chance that the handoff failed altogether as it has been since 4.3 debuted.

I hope that explanation helps to relieve some confusion, and I hope this build helps with the problem at least a little bit. Thanks for the continued support and for understanding and bearing with me!
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[ROM][AOSP][4.3](9/2/13) "Shiny", OTA-Like, Stock Android 4.3 JWR66Y - No bugs! - Page 593 - [VZW] Galaxy Nexus Development - RootzWiki
 
jhawkkw said:
I have my doubts that it really has a fair chance of winning. One of the official reasons they went with kit kat over key lime pie is because klp is a regional dessert without much global knowledge of it. If they went with lassi, it would be the same problem.
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Lol, while that's the official line from Google, instead it all had to do with money.

Guarantee it.
 
wyndslash said:
Well, I've never had key lime pie in my life, but I sure do know how a kit kat bar tastes :D
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What a tragedy. Never had key lime pie. I wish I could send you some, but I fear that it would not be very palatable after the trip :p

Folks, this week has just flat worn me out and it's not over. Full plate again tomorrow, starting with a 9 AM meeting and ending with a 6 PM dinner meeting. I hope your weekend is actually the end of your week!
 
Hi BBK! Great to see you too! With all the new phone releases it's been busy around here - and admittedly a bit mundane with BB and Capt away... but we missed you and it's great to have you back online!

:)
 
halon said:
LG G2 has one-click root on Verizon and At&t.
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Well, its a couple more steps than just 1 click.

Install LG drivers
Make sure phone is connected through adb
Set up phone settings and USB debugging
Install Chinese 1 click root and figure out what to click (unless you read Chinese)
Phone reboots
Install English superuser from play store and grant root access.
Freeze Chinese superuser with Titanium.
Run Superuser again, and reboot.
Remove Chinese superuser
Profit?

Took about 15 minutes start to finish. Most of that was in stalling the drivers and figuring out that I had an old version of adb.
 
I've seen I think 3 (at least 2) different ones in the past week or so.

They're pretty funny, and I'm glad to see the device getting the marketing weight it should get.
 
jhawkkw said:
I have my doubts that it really has a fair chance of winning. One of the official reasons they went with kit kat over key lime pie is because klp is a regional dessert without much global knowledge of it. If they went with lassi, it would be the same problem.
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Hey what about Android Lollipop? I think that's pretty catchy.
 
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