The Official DF Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release Thread

[Trusstopher]

Oh, and another source wanting to call it the Nexus Prime... sort of...

Amazon Lists “Samsung Galaxy S II Nexus Prime 4G Android Phone” for Verizon Wireless

 

[INCREMENTAL]

While racing is huge into composites, I would say the number 1 industry to utilize CF would be the aviation industry.

True, forgot about that....

Oh, and another source wanting to call it the Nexus Prime... sort of...

Amazon Lists “Samsung Galaxy S II Nexus Prime 4G Android Phone” for Verizon Wireless

What the heck lol, I just don't see this being ture since the accsories at VZW say Galaxy Nexus... I remember when this forum use to call it Droid Prime and there was specualtions everyone elses would be a Nexus and ours would be a Droid Prime

Sent from my Moto Droid

 

[Trusstopher]

Thanks for clarifying.

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sent from my phone

This may be the thread you saw... the last post has a good answer to your question:

This is an explanation from Android Engineer, Dan Morrill. This is from DroidLife:

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And the last part of this mega-G-Nex post has to do with the lack of USB mass storage on the device. Shocked to hear that? You aren’t the only one. To explain his team’s move, Android engineer Dan Morrill took to reddit to discuss:

"ICS supports USB Mass Storage (UMS). The Galaxy Nexus does not. This is the same scenario as Honeycomb, as for instance HC supports USB Mass Storage while Xoom does not.

If a given device has a removable SD card it will support USB Mass Storage. If it has only built-in storage (like Xoom and Galaxy Nexus) it will (usually) support only MTP and PTP.

It isn’t physically possible to support UMS on devices that don’t have a dedicated partition for storage (like a removable SD card, or a separate partition like Nexus S.) This is because UMS is a block-level protocol that gives the host PC direct access to the physical blocks on the storage, so that Android cannot have it mounted at the same time.

With the unified storage model we introduced in Honeycomb, we share your full 32GB (or 16GB or whatever) between app data and media data. That is, no more staring sadly at your 5GB free on Nexus S when your internal app data partition has filled up — it’s all one big happy volume.

However the cost is that Android can no longer ever yield up the storage for the host PC to molest directly over USB. Instead we use MTP. On Windows (which the majority of users use), it has built-in MTP support in Explorer that makes it look exactly like a disk. On Linux and Mac it’s sadly not as easy, but I have confidence that we’ll see some work to make this better.

On the whole it’s a much better experience on the phone."

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And he didn’t stop there. If you cruise over to this reddit thread and search for user morrildl, you can find a variety of responses to questions from other reddit users. He talks file systems, SD cards, why some phones leave out external storage slots altogether, and more. Great reads.

I guess we won't notice much of a change on a windows machine, but those on other devices might have more of a headache...

 

[sbenson]

Anybody see this yet?

Via Phandroid:

Paul from Modaco has updated the community on his latest Galaxy Nexus developments. This UI patch would allow users to set their navigation bar up so that it always shows a search button, a menu button on the left, a menu button on the right, both or all of them at the same time.

I’m sure many of you wouldn’t mind being able to customize this and we’re happy the development community has created an easy way to do it. You’ll need ADB, but everything else is pretty much straight forward from there. Find the instructions (installation and uninstall) and download links here.

I know a lot of people were concerned about not having search functionality within certain apps so this should help. Also, the added menu button is a nice touch as well. Glad to see the virtual buttons are easily modified.

Notice the menu buttons below:

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[MrKleen]

When the developers get this phone there will be lots of amazing things happening. I can't wait! It's going to be like the OG all over again.... ONLY BETTER!

And that Google search bar on top will be the first thing to go.

 

[sbenson]

And that Google search bar on top will be the first thing to go.

Agreed, this really should be a widget. I wouldn't be surprised if Google changes this in an update.

 

[Trusstopher]

Notice how much calmer things got around here once we all agreed on the 8th as the release date?

 

[Chizzele]

Notice how much calmer things got around here once we all agreed on the 8th as the release date?

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It was like a tranquilizer :biggrin:

 

[tgyberg]

Anybody see this yet?

Via Phandroid:

I know a lot of people were concerned about not having search functionality within certain apps so this should help. Also, the added menu button is a nice touch as well. Glad to see the virtual buttons are easily modified.

Notice the menu buttons below:

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More winning!

 

[tgyberg]

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It was like a tranquilizer :biggrin:

Or a nice warm Bailey's and coffee!

 

[eagle1967]

Notice how much calmer things got around here once we all agreed on the 8th as the release date?

yeah but did it say dec 8th 2011 ?

 

[JSM9872]

yeah but did it say dec 8th 2011 ?

Are you trying to start a riot :icon_ pokeit kind of fits)

 

[eagle1967]

Are you trying to start a riot :icon_ pokeit kind of fits)

who meeeeeeeee??? :icon_ devil:

 

[just4747]

Um what??

Samsung Galaxy Nexus volume troubles are a feature | AndroidActivist

Great "article" and explanation..

 

[ice456789]

Kevlar was needed to make it so thin and water resistant.

Because plastic and/or metal are not thin and water resistant? :icon_eek:

Kevlar was added as a marketing tool, nothing else.