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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

lovebyte21 said:
Out of lurk mode to ask a question:

I've been researching usb car charger adapters to get one that works well for charging the Nexus with equivalent power to the AC adapter. From what I've read, most adapters will be treated the same as plugging your phone into your computer and therefore draw less current than the wall charger. There is a mod you can do which involves taking the thing apart and soldering the D+/D- pins together. I don't really want to do that. Has anyone had any luck finding an adapter that will let you draw 1 AMP?

I found the following thread on here that discusses this issue, but it doesn't seem to have any resolution: Charging: USB and AC differences - Android Forums
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been meaning to post this for a while. get one of these adapters: Amazon.com: motorola car charger

they are OEM motorola, they give you .95 AMP which is close enough to 1 amp and they cost $5 and no need to buy usb cables.

I have one, it works perfect with the GNEX, charges as fast as the AC.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind spending money on my new toy, I got a $50 otterbox to keep it safe and a $25 battery. But people overspending on car charges is a pet peeve of mine. The cellphone manufacturers have been scamming us with this since the beginning of cell phones.
 
svt_gEEk said:
I used Juice Defender on my Moto Droid and found it to be very confusing and not very effective for all the trouble it was. Havent touched it since. However, I could probably save a good bit of battery with it now because signal condition here has degraded over the last few months, not sure why. Even my Droid couldn't hold a good signal before I got rid of it, both spent most of their time searching for signal so I could probably do pretty good with it now.
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here's an easy to follow and indepth tutorial on juicedefender. without it, it is confusing. even if you don't follow all the settings, read the guys explanation of the big picture at the end. makes sense of JD.

http://androidforums.com/verizon-galaxy-nexus/477968-good-juice-defender-tutorial.html
 
So I got tired of Lydia in Skyrim. I took her out to an isolated frozen wasteland and killed her.

Now I'm married to Aela the Huntress!

Lol
 
Ninjak said:
Happy new year, everyone! Geez, what a past few weeks. First I had to return my Nexus and now I have to send back my (thankfully unopened) badly designed, bug-ridden 64GB Transformer Prime. Thanks to the brainiac engineers at Asus using a unibody aluminum enclosure with no plastic areas for wireless signals to pass through well, nothing does. Can't run bluetooth and wifi simultaneously. They disabled the 5GHz wifi the wireless chip would normally support. Wifi range is worse than anything else connecting at the same range. The GPS doesn't work because of the enclosure, unable to hold a satellite lock, so they decide to remove it from the feature list. Slow file transfer rates. Inserted microsd cards aren't flush with the chassis. And ICS, though coming on the 12th, won't fix all these things. If Han didn't end up getting one of these things, he's not missing anything but disappointment. Yes, it's fast. Yes, it has a great screen. Yes, the Tegra3 chip is amazing. But there's no excuse for basic functions just plain not working. Thankfully the upcoming Acer Iconia Tab A700/A701 and Lenovo's upcoming unit (both with Tegra3 and full 1080p displays!) will emerge soon. Time to put my Asus on eBay. With all the people waiting for Feb deliveries, I might as well make it available (without price-gouging) for those who can enjoy it despite the flaws.
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Wow I'm glad I didn't get it! I spent a part of my bonus on a new laptop that can finally play 2011 high end games.

Google is working on a nexus tablet for this year anyway. I forgot where I read it.

I will wait for that.

With my ski trip coming up in two weeks, I will be spent out anyway.
 
mistermojorizi said:
here's an easy to follow and indepth tutorial on juicedefender. without it, it is confusing. even if you don't follow all the settings, read the guys explanation of the big picture at the end. makes sense of JD.
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I would like to read the tutorial if you can try again to post it. :)
 
esmith818 said:
Using tapatalk for first time (it was free on getjar). Is there a way to have the app honor the HIDE tags?

Otherwise I love the interface. In fact, I think it makes browsing the forums even easier than using a browser on the laptop!
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Dang, I just tried getting it from GetJar but I get the message "No compatible version found for Google Galaxy Nexus". :confused:
 
BabyBlues said:
Nope, wifi at work is basically nonexistent unless you are right next to the router. But it seems to be the only place that no wifi connection causes all data to be lost.
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Make sure your phone isn't trying to connect anyway. One of my gripes about Android (though I suppose it might apply to other phones too) is that it will always try to use a Wi-Fi network it knows (that is, one it has connected to before) in preference to 3G/4G, even if the Wi-Fi signal is barely detectable. If it can see the network at all, it will try to connect, even if the connection is so bad it's useless.

So if you've ever connected to your work Wi-Fi in the past, I'd go into the settings and tell it to "forget" that network.
 
I am on the phone with Samsung about the battery charger and why does it go into flashing amber when you leave the battery in there.


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I have so far talked with 3 people with no resolve. I am on hold for another department.

The issue is this, every time I park the battery in there, the LED on the charger starts blinking amber which is not a good sign. Flashing amber is usually a warning.

OK, two agents now have said that flashing amber means "Standby." And if you park the battery in there for days there is no issue.
 
Question for you guys, what's a good Call Recorder App. I checked out a few and they all get lots of 1 stars. Thanks.
 
svt_gEEk said:
Just popping in to recommend something. If you really want to see how awesome the screen for our phones are...go to youtube and watch the 720p version of the Kia Soul commercial with the dancing hamsters. Very awesome.
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Looks awesome on my phone too, thanks for sharing!

Stigy said:
Good article about multi-tasking.

How multitasking really works on Android and iOS | ExtremeTech
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Good find. They repeat the same old line about task-managers being harmful without any qualifications. Just this morning I was forced to kill a newsreader app that had gotten confused and wouldn't fetch more reads. Without a task manager I would've had to reboot my phone -- not friendly.

brocktice said:
That griffin car charger requires soldering the data pins for 1A. I've done it to mine and it works great.
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Seems like an unfinished product if you have to fix it on arrival. :confused:

RazorSharp said:
Hmmm, interesting. So will Sprint's have a different chip? Or will it be the OMAP, just not underclocked?
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In theory it could be the higher end OMAP4470 that has a better GPU and is good for up to 1.8GHz, but IDK if that's out yet.
 
I don't know why, but all of a sudden my phone refuses to switch to 4G unless I toggle airplane mode after it has a 3G connection. Didn't give me any trouble the first three weeks.
 
Hey folks, question:

Is Volume+ only for rooted phones? I downloaded it and set it up... but for the life of me I can tell no difference.

I can find no settings in Accessibility to configure it :confused:

EDIT: NVM, Apparently I had to reboot. DUH
 
Uh oh... I think I'm in trouble! This might be an emergency.

I opened ROM Manager and scrolled down to "Backup current ROM" in the Backup and Restore section, hoping that was how to make a nandroid. The phone immediately went to the boot screen, then showed a picture of an Android lying with its chest open and a red triangle with an exclamation point.

EDIT: Okay, update, after letting it just sit for a few minutes, the screen went blank, then back to the boot screen, after which it successfully rebooted. Nothing appears to be missing. Did I do any damage to the phone? Uh, also, how do I make a nandroid?
 
RazorSharp said:
Uh oh... I think I'm in trouble! This might be an emergency.

I opened ROM Manager and scrolled down to "Backup current ROM" in the Backup and Restore section, hoping that was how to make a nandroid. The phone immediately went to the boot screen, then showed a picture of an Android lying with its chest open and a red triangle with an exclamation point.

EDIT: Okay, update, after letting it just sit for a few minutes, the screen went blank, then back to the boot screen, after which it successfully rebooted. Nothing appears to be missing. Did I do any damage to the phone? Uh, also, how do I make a nandroid?
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Mine did that once when I was trying to root? I was scared I killed it!
 
RazorSharp said:
Uh oh... I think I'm in trouble! This might be an emergency.

I opened ROM Manager and scrolled down to "Backup current ROM" in the Backup and Restore section, hoping that was how to make a nandroid. The phone immediately went to the boot screen, then showed a picture of an Android lying with its chest open and a red triangle with an exclamation point.

EDIT: Okay, update, after letting it just sit for a few minutes, the screen went blank, then back to the boot screen, after which it successfully rebooted. Nothing appears to be missing. Did I do any damage to the phone? Uh, also, how do I make a nandroid?
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That is fastboot, don't panic. Not sure why it didn't reboot into recovery though. Try trying into recovery and doing the backup from there.

EDIT: wait, with the red triangle it's not fastboot. Anyway, try going straight to recovery like I said.
 
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