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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

IHateMyTreo said:
Just had to share this with my Watering Hole friends...
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Hahaha. Oh man, I feel terrible, but I laughed really hard.
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Just finished watching season 2 finale of Boardwalk Empire.

I'm so pissed!!
 
I don't know if this sort of thread is appropriate in the forum or not. Mods, I hope this is ok?

Anyway, I wanted to try to explain myself and my posting style in some of the threads, as well as apologize if I have alienated or irritated some.

I'll try to make this brief, I promise. :D

Anyway, for anyone that wasn't active (either lurking or posting) in the pre-release thread, you know I was as excited for this phone as anyone! I think my activeness in the thread and dangling my own carrot for getting the device really hyped it up in my head to the point where anything short of absolute perfection wasn't going to cut it for me. So please understand (this is for those of you who think I'm trolling or just posting to be negative about the phone because I replaced it with a different phone), I was really excited for this phone and it was like being 10 again on Christmas morning when I walked out of the VZW store with my Nexus.

Another thing you need to understand about me is that my job and even a lot of my personal hobbies/time amount to supporting people. At work, I'm about 1/2 time coder, 1/2 time support person at a large silicon design company. The team I support actually makes devices that will (hopefully) some day go into an Android phone (who knows, maybe a Nexus!), but we're a ways off on that. I've used the demo phone a neighbor at work has and it's slick, but who knows if Atom will truly ever penetrate the cell phone market. Anyway, my point here is that I love my job and I love to help people. In some of my spare time (which is less now with 2 kids), I also help people out on irc with various things (Linux, FreeBSD, Cyanogenmod, miscellaneous Android, etc). I don't get paid for that. I often get berated for enforcing rules in the channels I'm an op in, etc. But I keep going back. Why? I like helping people. The other half of this equation is that due to the nature of my job and my personality, I absolutely love troubleshooting things, deducing a problem, debugging things, etc. This is important to remember and is key to my "style" of posting. More on that in a min.

So as I said, I built this thing up immensely in my mind. Fast forward to when I notice the video artifacts thing. My first inclination is to figure out what it is. Troubleshoot it. Debug it. See if it's just me. I posted a thread or two on it and I know it irritated people, but this was just me being me - trying to debug it and find a resolution. Or find out if it's "normal" for samoled and part ways. I'm truly sorry I was so blunt in that thread and so energetic (yeah, let's call it that. hehe). I really am, and I know I probably alienated people and pissed people off. That was not my intent. I was trying to figure out if the phone was for me or not and to help others who might be thinking of buying the phone in case they also happened to have a similar usage model in which they would notice the same thing.

I wanted to touch on another thing - my posts in various thread related to issues that people are reporting. I don't truly understand why I'm "trolling" by chiming into those threads and reiterating my experiences that matched the OP asking for help. I know many of these are probably not the norm, but people having the issue are like I was with the video thread - they want to know if it's just them, or something they can fix, or if it's prevalent or not. I had my two Nexuses for nearly 2 weeks and in that time I experienced a strong 4G area, a weak 4G area, some GPS use, etc etc. I felt I had some experience to comment in these threads. I think some people feel like I shouldn't contribute since I don't currently own the phone, but if I have relevant info or a "me too" to add, I think it's well within reason to reply. I know some people just think I'm trying to sabotage the phone somehow. I really am sorry if I come across that way. I'm simply trying to help with things I am able to help with, regardless of what phone I own or have owned. I hope those that I have irritated or alienated understand this.

Anyway, sorry for this being so long, I didn't intend it to be. I just wanted all you Nexus folks to understand where I was and am coming from and why I continue to try to help out here, even though I no longer am a Nexus owner.

Thanks for listening (those of you who got through all this! haha).
 
Help is always welcome here.

I've never thought your posts crossed the line. You wanted certain things that matterd to you to work they way you wanted them to. There's nothing wrong with that. If there was a perfect phone, everyone would be using it. That's why there are so many models with features that stand out to certain users.
 
RazorSharp said:
Hey, is anyone else having issues with random reboots? It's still happening to me every few days.
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I've only had one since I got mine :-) if your rooted make sure your using a newer kernel and not undervolting or have too low of a screen off setting.

I'm on cloud 8 with mine.. its got its faults which I'm willing to live with, but it still makes me smile :-)
 
Sounds like you were just being real. Anyone who thought this phone would be perfect out of the box was kidding themselves. What we do have is likely the best dev attention any device has seen so I think things will evolve into near perfection and the best android experience available.
 
I haven't been in the forums as much as I'd like to be but if you recognize/feel the need to step up and issue an apologize, and actually do. I give you credit. Need more people like that (that care). Keep on helping the best way you can.
 
I can't win. I was going to download Wug's one click and the public links have been temporarily disabled. I'm hoping by Sunday night they're back.
 
Okay, first off... THIS THING ROCKS! I have been stuck with original droid, which I actually love, but upgraded today. If anyone out there is considering getting this I just want to say that I am thoroughly pleased. I don't know if this nexus specific, but I feel like I have more customization options. I can change the font in my text messages. I used Font SMS (Pro) by starrlite.

Is it me or are there more apps available too?!

Rock it playas :D
 
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