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Phones Nexus 4 owners/discussion thread.

ChazUK said:
Yeah. I had fears it'd slip off of any uneven flat surface and the bumper gives it much more grip.
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Looks nice - I bought the Spigen Thin air but its pretty loose.....thinking about the bumper as an alternative....

My wife hates my case indecision 😛
 
jrswizzle said:
Looks nice - I bought the Spigen Thin air but its pretty loose.....thinking about the bumper as an alternative....

My wife hates my case indecision 😛
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Its not bad (if a little expensive). It does do the job of making it less slippery on smooth surfaces but I do love the size and feel of the Nexus without the bumper.

It does make an already large phone look a little bulkier but I'd rather have the little protection it offers than nothing! 🙂
 
onthecouchagain said:
My Nexus 4 has trouble keeping signal. But I don't know if that's Tmobile or the phone.
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The trouble I'm having is in the connection between my iPod Touch and the N7 with the N7 set up as a hotspot. The cellular data connection between the N7 and my local Tmobile tower is fine. I wasn't having any trouble with the hotspot connection before -- I used it all the time.
 
Sylon said:
I had the same problems with mine using AT&T for awhile until I found out that the 2 different APN settings I found online were wrong. I spoke with AT&T directly and it just happened to be with a guy that had a Nexus 4 himself. He gave me the correct settings straight from his phone, been working fine ever since.
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Can you post those settings?
 
ChazUK said:
I've done around 5 gigs today tethering via hotspot with no issues so far luckily!
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Will let you know if I come across any stability issues but all seems well so far.
I'd be lost without this phone and HSPA+ 😀
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5G a day! I have to try and hold myself to 5G a month🙁

I'm have to fire up my N7, and see if that's affected by the problem too.
 
knucklehead said:
5G a day! I have to try and hold myself to 5G a month🙁

I'm have to fire up my N7, and see if that's affected by the problem too.
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I only recently broke over 530gb in one month on my N4.

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Like I said, I'd be lost without my Nexus! 🙂
 
I get amazing speeds though when I do have service.

Tmobile's HSPA+ is awesome. Just that you don't consistently get signal, especially when you go into a building (and not even very deep).

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ChazUK said:
I only recently broke over 530gb in one month on my N4.

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Like I said, I'd be lost without my Nexus! 🙂
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Not sure how or why you do that. I never used even 1 GB a month on mine. Ive never tethered. Dont have a reason to that ive found. What do you do to use that much?
 
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Vegastouch said:
Not sure how or why you do that. I never used even i GB amonth on mine. Ive never tethered. Dont have a reason to that ive found. What do you do to use that much?
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That month I did a fresh install of Windows 8 (over 3g), re-instaled all of my Steam library and did a lot of streaming via LoveFilm, BBC iPlayer and Sky Player (my daughter streams on her XBOX and on the iPad a lot too).

The reason I prefer using 3G over our home broadband is firstly because my data plan is unlimited whereas my broadband has a 40GB cap and secondly:

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Our 3G is just over 10 times faster - at peak times our broadband can drop to as low as 512kbps. 🙁
 
ChazUK said:
That month I did a fresh install of Windows 8 (over 3g), re-instaled all of my Steam library and did a lot of streaming via LoveFilm, BBC iPlayer and Sky Player (my daughter streams on her XBOX and on the iPad a lot too).

The reason I prefer using 3G over our home broadband is firstly because my data plan is unlimited whereas my broadband has a 40GB cap and secondly:

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Our 3G is just over 10 times faster - at peak times our broadband can drop to as low as 512kbps. 🙁
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Ouch....even if I got full bars on LTE in my home, our home wifi is still just about as fast as LTE (roughly 20 mbps download)
 
onthecouchagain said:
Good lord the Nexus 4 camera is embarrassingly bad:

http://gizmodo.com/5982478/the-best-smartphone-camera
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Why are some pitures zoomed while others aren't? Also the sun shots clearly show the clouds moving, so for some shots it was taken with the sun clouded and others with other cameras the sun started to come out from the clouds.

Seems like the test was far from controlled. But yeah the Nexus 4 is not known to have a great camera.

Complete amature test IMO.
 
Google’s Vic Gundotra: Future Nexus phones will have ‘insanely great cameras’
http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/18/gundotra-nexus-phone-camers/

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Wonder if I shouldn't cancel my Nexus 4 order, the next Google I/O is in 2 1/2 months, maybe Google will propose a Nexus with 32Gb, a better camera, running on a Snapdragon S600..
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Sylon said:
I had the same problems with mine using AT&T for awhile until I found out that the 2 different APN settings I found online were wrong. I spoke with AT&T directly and it just happened to be with a guy that had a Nexus 4 himself. He gave me the correct settings straight from his phone, been working fine ever since.
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Could you share your current APN? I am getting ok speeds but I would like to try a different APN and see if it helps
 
Just wanted to share my 4.2.2 battery life:

Still not as good as my iP5 - but acceptable for my uses as I charge my phone every night anyway and only moderately use it during the day.
 

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jrswizzle said:
Just wanted to share my 4.2.2 battery life:

Still not as good as my iP5 - but acceptable for my uses as I charge my phone every night anyway and only moderately use it during the day.
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That seems pretty good with nearly 3 and a half hours of screen time.




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Tinmania said:
That seems pretty good with nearly 3 and a half hours of screen time.




Michael
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I'm quite happy with it, yes! 😀

I do also use juice defender on the balanced setting which (supposedly, according to the app) increases my battery life, on average, 1.4x.....so generally between 30%-50%. Its the free version and haven't found a need to upgrade to the paid pro versions.
 
ChazUK said:
Will let you know if I come across any stability issues but all seems well so far.
I'd be lost without this phone and HSPA+ 😀
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My phones cooler too. I hope other updates will further polish/improve this phone!

How do you know if your on hspa+?

I just have an H in my signal no +
 
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