How to find out the variant of my Galaxy Nexus?

Question

There have been some Jelly Bean updates for Galaxy Nexus, but most of these are specific to a certain variant of the Nexus. How can I easily find out which variant I have?

Answer 1

There used to be an app that did just this, but it's been pulled for some reason. You could also download a "system info" type app, but these often come with ads and other bloatware.

The easiest way is to download a terminal app such as Android Terminal Emulator, open it and run the command getprop ro.product.name and you'll get the variant.

Here's an example what the run looks like:

u0_a109@android:/ $ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
u0_a109@android:/ $ getprop ro.product.name
takju
u0_a109@android:/ $

... and there you have it, takju!

Another way would be to open adb shell and running getprop ro.product.name from there. This is more useful if you already have ADB installed. Otherwise, it's faster to just download the app.

Answer 2

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