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New user here, I'd just like to say Hi. I'm usually on the Moto Droid forums. Just got my Nexus S 4g today and I LOVE it.
Rooted running CM7 Nightlies.
I just had a few questions
I understand this phone cant do 720p. Is there a hack that can?
Does RenderFX help battery life? if so, which setting?
What are some roms/kernels you suggest?
Also, ill be working on some Themes for the Nexus S, (I'm a theme designer).
I usually make themes that make the phone look like another phone (iPhone, x10, Atrix 4G)
I'd also like to thank XDA for providing such an active user-base.
Think of a theme and ill try to make it, Thanks

Best battery life rom I found was oxygen. I thought I was going crazy because the battery life was so good. Its great plus you can download voodoo and it has netarchy kernel. Plus its aosp more than stock. Miui is most beautiful theme rich rom but battery life sucks. Cm7 was OK for me just kind of buggy. So I stuck with oxygen. Oh and nope...no camera hacks yet. No HD video or zoom. Sorry.
Hope this helps
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Jorge330823 said:
Best battery life rom I found was oxygen. I thought I was going crazy because the battery life was so good. Its great plus you can download voodoo and it has netarchy kernel. Plus its aosp more than stock. Miui is most beautiful theme rich rom but battery life sucks. Cm7 was OK for me just kind of buggy. So I stuck with oxygen. Oh and nope...no camera hacks yet. No HD video or zoom. Sorry.
Hope this helps
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helps a lot, thanks

tylerwatt12 said:
helps a lot, thanks
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No problem. I've had time to play with it and those were my results. Check out "zedomax" channel on YouTube he just got a ns4g so he'll start reviewing Roms shortly
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Another question, does this phone require Cell service for GPS?

tylerwatt12 said:
Another question, does this phone require Cell service for GPS?
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That's one thing I'm completely unsure of I know I've been in the middle of a call and all of a sudden it announces a turn ahead. Turn data off (settings then wireless and networks and then mobile data click off) and try to get a direction
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tylerwatt12 said:
New user here, I'd just like to say Hi. I'm usually on the Moto Droid forums. Just got my Nexus S 4g today and I LOVE it.
Rooted running CM7 Nightlies.
I just had a few questions
I understand this phone cant do 720p. Is there a hack that can?
Does RenderFX help battery life? if so, which setting?
What are some roms/kernels you suggest?
Also, ill be working on some Themes for the Nexus S, (I'm a theme designer).
I usually make themes that make the phone look like another phone (iPhone, x10, Atrix 4G)
I'd also like to thank XDA for providing such an active user-base.
Think of a theme and ill try to make it, Thanks
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I got mine on Friday! There will never be 720p video as its a hardware limitation. In order to fit the nfc chip, Google opted to use a smaller camera without an HD encoder.
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Rem3Dy said:
I got mine on Friday!
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Congrats on joining the family
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For my TASTE, I like decks 1.3d since I had the least amount of issues with, none really. The kernel I have had the best luck with is Matr1x 6.0 cfs. I like the fact that it has voodoo if needed, bln and bld now. Since I updated to 6.0 I have had no lockups or reboots period. I don't change the speed or volting just the govenor (sp). They are smooth together. But for what its worth phones might not like the same thing as another.
I have tried just about every rom on xda for the ns4g.
Decks
Miui
Ice and fire
Stock rooted
Oyxgen
Kings
But I don't want to try cm7 as to battery life when I get well over 12hrs of use daily and no nightlys cause it seems like something is always broke. No offense to either or anyone, just what I prefer.
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bigtoysrock said:
For my TASTE, I like decks 1.3d since I had the least amount of issues with, none really. The kernel I have had the best luck with is Matr1x 6.0 cfs. I like the fact that it has voodoo if needed, bln and bld now. Since I updated to 6.0 I have had no lockups or reboots period. I don't change the speed or volting just the govenor (sp). They are smooth together. But for what its worth phones might not like the same thing as another.
I have tried just about every rom on xda for the ns4g.
Decks
Miui
Ice and fire
Stock rooted
Oyxgen
Kings
But I don't want to try cm7 as to battery life when I get well over 12hrs of use daily and no nightlys cause it seems like something is always broke. No offense to either or anyone, just what I prefer.
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My home button didn't work with deck. Does yours?
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Your talking about the one next to the search button? Yes it does.
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bigtoysrock said:
Your talking about the one next to the search button? Yes it does.
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Yeah when I use deck mine doesn't work. At all.
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Did you try reflashing it? What all did you wipe? Did you flash a kernel also?
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Used stock kernel wiped dalvik and data 3 times it didn't work so I restored my backup and tried again and still nothinh
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Maybe try again with a different kernel. I wipe cache once, factory reset once and write dalvik 3 times. Install decks 1.3D with matr1x 6.0.
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bigtoysrock said:
Maybe try again with a different kernel. I wipe cache once, factory reset once and write dalvik 3 times. Install decks 1.3D with matr1x 6.0.
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I'm gonna try matrix but I'm kinda in a bind. I need stock nexus s 4g kernel. I flashed netarchy and backed it up then when I went to delete my miui backup I accidentally deleted my completely stock (besides super user) backup and now I have no stock kernel.
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What's the most stable rom?

I need to change the rom in my mother's kindle but want it to be stable so she won't have too much problems with it
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Hmmm if video does not matter than a ICS ROM...They all seem to be pretty stable.. If she is going to be watching videos then a cyanogenmod 7 ROM... Again all are pretty stable.

CM7 SoS or Barebones I'd say so she can still watch flash vids and what not.

thx for the help

Energy CM9 Kang. I use it. No problems.
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hells cm7. outstanding.
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lovejoy777 said:
hells cm7. outstanding.
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+1 Hellfire is really stable
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use CM9 Reloaded

Hellfire is awesome.
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cm9(ics) rooms are much more beautiful, and gapps are much cooler than cm7. But in cm7 you have flash and HD video. If you like to be able to have flash in your browser go to cm7.
For stability, both are stable enough. I use kang energy themed.
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for me barebone with adam'kernel. quanrant core result means nothing. it's so smooth and baterry life drain so slowly. thanks

the official ROM~

What can enable more than 2 point multitouch in rom ROM CM 7????
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In CM9 Reloaded, i just can use 2 point multitouch..
How to multitouch point can more than 2 ?
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uvaio said:
In CM9 Reloaded, i just can use 2 point multitouch..
How to multitouch point can more than 2 ?
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You can't. It's a limitation in the hardware, firmware, or both. You've gotten the same answer in the other thread. Please stop cross-posting and thread-jacking.

I advise you to try CM9 Reloaded. + latest gapps ICS. I tried some other releases and "Reloaded"- is the only one, which installed correctly on my device and Android Market finally works!! Other installed roms-had connection problems in "market". I also tried to install it manually, correctly following the instructions, but it didn't help((

MoDaCo is very stable.
My wife doesn't notice anything different other than the fact that she can get programs from the google store and can do more things.

kinfauns said:
You can't. It's a limitation in the hardware, firmware, or both. You've gotten the same answer in the other thread. Please stop cross-posting and thread-jacking.
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ok thank for the answer..

So...How Do You Like the 4.0.4 OTA on Your VZW Xoom?

Thread title says it all. What do you like? What do you hate?
For me, I'm generally very happy with it. I love the speed and responsiveness as compared to Honeycomb. I love the ICS user interface as well. It isn't all that different from Honeycomb, granted, but it's the little things. I love the page transition effect on the app drawer, the Roboto font is much more readable, and I love being able to swipe away notifications. Honestly, the notification swipe is one of the only things I truly missed about running CyanogenMod in years past. Did I mention I love being able to run Chrome finally?!
As for things I don't like...mainly aesthetics. I'm annoyed that it didn't come with the default ICS "Phase Beam" live wallpaper, but it's alright. I just ganked it from a deodexed stock Galaxy Nexus ROM and it installed fine on the Xoom. Ditto for the "Adara" notification sound.
How about you?
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Meh so far. To me battery is worse, 3g signal seems worse, pulse lags just as much.
Need to root and go to an OC'd ics rom.
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Pulse lag is most likely the app. At first, I actually thought battery life was better but now that a week has gone by, it actually seems the same for me as it was on Honeycomb...and for me, the new radio seems better, though admittedly I live in a 4G market so I'm not sure how the 3G reception is vs. Honeycomb.
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Radio is definitely better for me. Batt life seems marginally better, too, though I'm back on EOS nightly since they have the new radios... def improved batt, with all the addtl features and smoothness EOS brings.

I wish it didn't try to launch an app every time I put it in a dock. There are dock controls in Settings on my Galaxy Nexus but not this?
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3devious said:
I wish it didn't try to launch an app every time I put it in a dock. There are dock controls in Settings on my Galaxy Nexus but not this?
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Do you ever sleep? I've seen you post at all hours of the day and night! LOL
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nice update all around

Unrooted to check it out but ended up rerooting , going back to EOS nightly. Because of the EOS extra settings and customization.
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Stock browser crashes all the time if I request desktop version of websites, or if I use google image search desktop version and open more than 4 tabs.
Otherwise, runs good, better 4g connection, and I am a little more than pissed Verizon didnt include SMS/MMS with the ICS upgrade.

I still haven't gotten it. Wth?
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What is your current Android version and build #?
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3devious said:
I wish it didn't try to launch an app every time I put it in a dock. There are dock controls in Settings on my Galaxy Nexus but not this?
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I just installed this app called Docktor, which cancels the launching of an app every time your dock your Xoom, since it bugged me too!
Instead it just gives you a little pop-up so that your default is overridden.
Hope this helps; it certainly got rid of my annoyances

I eventually came back to stock because I wanted to be able to watch google play movies. Plus the app I Ned to use no longer required root to work. I am enjoying the ota quite a bit and have noticed my battery life extended quite a bit from EOS 2.0
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oldblue910 said:
What is your current Android version and build #?
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3.2.2 HLK75D
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That would be why. Are you rooted?
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I am liking my stock xoom way more than I thought. Honestly with ice cream sandwich I am needing less and less to try out new roms. And with stock I am getting better battery life than with EOS or cm9. Please don't think I am taking anything away from those two groups of developers. They have my upmost respect.
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oldblue910 said:
That would be why. Are you rooted?
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No I'm not, what should I be on to get the update?
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You have to be running Android 3.2.6 HLK75H in order to update to 4.0.4. It's odd that you didn't get an update to 3.2.4 or 3.2.6...Is your boot loader unlocked? Do you have a custom recovery installed?
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oldblue910 said:
You have to be running Android 3.2.6 HLK75H in order to update to 4.0.4. It's odd that you didn't get an update to 3.2.4 or 3.2.6...Is your boot loader unlocked? Do you have a custom recovery installed?
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I was on CM9 but completely restored my Xoom to stock because non of the 4.0 custom roms would work with my Xoom. Its like no matter what rom I was on something hardware related would always malfunction. As of now it is locked and back to stock but aprently stuck at 3.2.2.
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eljoker402 said:
I was on CM9 but completely restored my Xoom to stock because non of the 4.0 custom roms would work with my Xoom. Its like no matter what rom I was on something hardware related would always malfunction. As of now it is locked and back to stock but aprently stuck at 3.2.2.
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Just to make sure, you ARE using a Verizon 4G LTE Xoom and not a Verizon 3G CDMA or non-Verizon model right?

Best Rom.?

I'm asking the nexus 7 community what is the beat stable rom? I'm rooting &now thinking about flashing a rom if stable will keep as a daily driver.....
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I'm running stock, but am rooted with Nova. I'm going to wait for some Milestones from AOKP. I've tried some Roms but none of them are as stable as stock at this point.
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just asking because when i was in the development section of this awesome n7 community i seen a feature to a rom and it was that flash support actually working on the stock browser the great google chrome lol as well with landscape mode working on the n7 ... awesome mannnn lolol
Nexus 7 of HELLBoy

The liquid jellybean alphas are the best I have used as of now, and I have used pretty much everything
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I'm a fan of the paranoid android ROM by Molesarecoming. He's building the thing blind and it's still phenomenal. App-by-app layout ui as well as most CM10 features.

I'm running EOS because they have a great standard dpi tablet mode.
Paranoid supposedly is great and Liquid is always a favorite...
Paranoid may work well for me but Liquid doesn't have tablet mode. EOS is just simple. It feels like stock with a few simple eye candy options for the navigation bar. It just works well.
Overall you should do a nandroid and just go crazy. Everyone has a different opinion and features they like that runs well with their unique setup.
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Team BAMF!
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My first vote goes to Kaos-Droid, just make sure to include the apex launcher on v 3.1 in Aroma, otherwise you have issues with superSU and have to manually input network id's, bit besides that, super smooth & stable,great ROM :thumbup::thumbup:
If you want something cm10 based, then my vote is glazed job by hyper runner.
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I have been running BAMF and very happy with it.
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I've flashed them all... BAMF all the way!

[Q] 4.2 True Tablet UI?

Is there a way to patch the true tablet UI back into 4.2? I'm LOVING the new features, enough so that I'd put up with the phablet UI, but, I still loved the old one. I know it JUST came out, but someone has to have some idea at the least. Would it be possible to import and merge the old UI somewhat? Taking the old tablet UI, and merging it(even manually) with the new phablet UI, to create something that looks and functions like the tablet UI, but is usable on 4.2. Any thoughts?

Breath and sit tight, someone will get it figured out
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No way so far?

Root
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No way on stock I don't think. Custom roms have had Tablet Mode as a select-able option in settings, for a while now. I've been running SmoothRom for MONTHS using Tablet Mode.
From my understanding, Google removed the Tablet UI mode from the newer versions. The old code is still there, supposedly, but it requires custom coding to remake the connections for it to work.
Just remember:
Stock + Modifications = Custom
Sounds like you are wanting to use a custom rom anyway.

In the Apps & Themes subforum there is a thread for a flashable way to add it. Requires root obviously.
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I just found a flashable zip for CM. But I'm on stock 4.2.2 with root.

xxLeoxx93 said:
I just found a flashable zip for CM. But I'm on stock 4.2.2 with root.
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A 2 second search in the subforum yields a thread with the title " [06/04/13][MOD+ROM][4.2.2][Stock Mods for odex and deodex][Reboot Menu and TabletUI]"
How much easier can it be?
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I have searched for an hour - I found nothing. Maybe I was just to stupid
But thanks a lot for your help.

I knew what I was looking for so searched for "tabletui" so perhaps that's why it was easy to find. But honestly there's tons of useful things over in that subforum just browse through the titles and don't stop after the first page. The Nexus has been out almost a year now and some of the apps and fixes just worked so the last post may have been awhile ago simply because there's nothing new to say.
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Or you guys could flash paranoid...
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spitfire2425 said:
Or you guys could flash paranoid...
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Or SmoothRom or AOKP or many of the several others that support Tablet UI out of the box. I've actually found PA's Tablet UI to be buggier.

Mine has always worked well. I don't see a difference in the two.
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Or check the date of original post, this was created last year
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BrianDigital said:
Or check the date of original post, this was created last year
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Well xxLeon aske earlier this week if it was possible and I responded to that.
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