Hot answers tagged nexus-4
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Recommended lecture: Why did /sdcard/ turn into /sdcard/0/ with 4.2?.
In short: It has to do with the multi-user functionality introduced with Jelly Bean:
/storage/emulated/0/: to my knowledge, this refers to the "emulated MMC" ("owner part"). Usually this is the internal one. The "0" stands for the user here, "0" is the first user aka device-owner. If ...
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This does not necessarily mean your phone is dead. Your phone will flash the red LED light briefly when the battery is completely drained. When I got this I left the phone in the charger for a while, and eventually the white "charging battery" icon appeared again. Upon turning on the device it had 0% battery. It was in fact so drained that it died while on ...
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You can't, this is a current permission problem (bugreport here) of Android 4.0+'s /sdcard folder if it's not using FAT32 (but FUSE).
Reason: There's a transition away from FAT32 to unified user storage for both apps and media data (using ext4) on a single file system.
We got tired of seeing OEMs include many GB of internal storage for music, while ...
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Yes, it has HSPA+ which is what T-Mobile's "4G" actually stands for.
This article on AndroidAuthority should help you understanding why it doesn't have LTE.
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Some Android devices, mostly older ones, and CDMA2000 devices, will attempt to let you not use them without activation.
Usually the 'provision' application has a secret code that can bypass the 'mandatory' activation - e.g., on the Motorola Droid 2 Global it's upper left corner, upper right corner, lower right corner, lower left corner (the lower corners ...
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Check the EXIF data and see if there's a timestamp there.
If there is, Photo Date Correction will allow you to overwrite the botched file timestamp with the EXIF one, giving you back your proper sorting.
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It appears to be somewhat awkward in ICS and JB to get this functionality, several methods in order to achieve it are discussed here. I'll summarise/copy some of the better sounding ones (I added the links):
Try Audio Control, it's by far the best volume management app in the
Google Play store. There is both a notification and ringer volume for
ICS ...
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The Specs at GSMArena mention TV-out (via MHL A/V link), which suggests it should work.
On the other hand, ExpertsReview states:
The micro USB port also doubles up as a display output, though surprisingly it doesn't use the MHL standard that we've seen on numerous recent devices, such as the Samsung Galaxy S3. Instead it supports the new SlimPort ...
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It should be under your system settings (the Settings "app"), in the "Date & Time" subsection (which is near the bottom). Uncheck the "Automatic time zone" option and then select the correct one manually:
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Seeing a file name like Computer\Nexus 4\Internal storage\Music\Christina St眉rmer\Freier Fall\1 Geh nicht wenn du kommst.mp3 points to a special problem with "special characters" (such as German Umlauts) which got messed up on data transfer: While Windoze uses its own character set (MS-ANSI or wone of the WIN-12xx, depending on configuration), Android ...
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This menu button is a backwards compatibility feature. It's displayed on all apps that say they are designed for a version of Android from when Android devices had physical menu buttons. (That's Froyo or earlier.) The Android system can't tell whether such an app needs the menu button or not, so it has to display it to make sure the app is usable on newer ...
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If every app had to interpret the raw GPS input itself, it would be very silly. Different apps would duplicate the same effort of decoding and interpreting the GPS input to compute a location. Different apps would end up using different libraries to do it, so each app might end up with a different idea of your location.
Instead, the process of interpreting ...
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You can go to Settings > Display and then un-check Auto-Rotate. Since that's rather inconvenient, I installed an app called Power Toggles which makes it possible to force lock the screen orientation to landscape or portrait from the notification bar very easily.
I particularly liked this app since its very lightweight, only about 248kb. It also makes it ...
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This is a question which really trouble me a lot when come across with devices which only have MTP but not the Mass storage mode. I also have concerns about it with exactly the same reasons with Mahn.
After some testing, I have find a temp solution which maybe able to preserve the timestamp.
It makes use of the excternal sdcard / OTG card reader and also ...
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I've experienced random reboots on Android 4.2 on the Nexus 7. From my research it looks like there may be an issue with Google's location services, but that's not verified. I don't think it's unique to your device in any case.
Take a look at this article which goes a little more in depth.
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Rather than answering your question directly, I will point some things to you on which you should read and research yourself, and find out the answer.
OK, First of all, head over to gsmarena.com and check out the 2G and 3G network specs for your phone.It will have several frequencies listed. Now check which frequenc(y/ies) Vodafone India uses for its 2G and ...
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If you're not sure if you need Root, you don't need Root.
There are any number of alternative Launchers you can install that will give your device a custom look-and-feel and add/adjust functionality from Vanilla Android. Heck, there are Launchers that can simulate the look-and-feel of iPhone and Windows Phone.
Have a look on the Play Store for "Launchers" ...
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It would be a wast of time (and money). The phone is not compatible with Verizon's network.
Verizon is a CDMA network, and the Nexus 4 from Google is GSM phone.
In the past Google has met-in-the-middle with Verizon and released the CDMA compatible Galaxy Nexus - this time there appear to be no plans on releasing a CDMA compatible Nexus 4 (possibly due to ...
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No device can have all of its internal storage free for user. The Operating System (and pre-installed apps) needs some space for itself. So Nexus 4 doesn't give you 16 GB free either.
The 16 GB version of Nexus 4 gives user an approximate of 12.92 GB free. Whereas, the 8 GB version of Nexus 4 gives you an approximate of 5.67 GB free space to use.
I don't ...
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In the stock ROM the Nexus 4 default music player should be "Play Music" with an icon that looks like yellow headphones, never heard of Apollo but it's possible this is something your custom ROM's changed.
Most music players on Android get their "media library" from the built-in media scanner service, this should pick up MP3 files stored in any ...
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Press the right-hand Power button & left-hand Volume Down button at the same time.
This will take a screenshot which will show in your slide-down notifications area. It will automatically be saved in the Screenshot folder in your Gallery.
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USB OTG compatibility is more dependant on the kernel, then the actual operating system.
If the stock kernel doesn't support it, then it will (most likely), only be a matter of time until a custom kernel is released that has this functionality.
If you were to purchase it, remember that the tablet can only give 5V of power to the device - this stops you ...
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This isn't a miracle solution, but:
When taking pictures indoor, keep in mind that Android's auto white-balance might make the wrong choice. Look at the image on the screen, and if it feels unnatural, try manually selecting the incandescent or fluorescent settings.
Be aware that, at least currently, the Nexus 4 camera doesn't compare favorably to the ...
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I have the exact same issue. It seems that it's being blocked by fuse on the Nexus 4 running Stock JellyBean 4.2.1.
SYMLINKS:
/sdcard -> /storage/emulated/legacy
/storage/emulated/legacy -> /mnt/shell/emulated/0
MOUNT POINT:
/mnt/shell /dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse \
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Sync should take care of contacts and most settings on your phone.
Download SMS Backup and Restore on both phones, backup on Nexus S and send the backup xml file to N4 (via Bluetooth or wifi hotspot) for restoration.
For transferring files between the devices, you can use the wifi hotspot functionality. Works real fast. I'm not sure if it is available on ...
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99% of the time the LED means "new, dismissable notification". I am unsure exactly how the LED color is chosen, but it seems to be based off the homescreen icon of the app; IMO has a blue icon/LED, Messanging (texts) has a green icon/LED, and Gmail has a while icon/LED. The color is consistent each notification from the app, so you will learn which color ...
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I just had the same issue with my nexus 4, phone suddenly died, press the power button and it would flash the white google then turn off. I tried several times use the power button and even hold both volume buttons and power at the same time, nothing. So I plugged it in the charger and saw the blinking red light, thought oh no this is not good.
Then I ...
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I just saw it. It was a simple case of 100% discharged. To fix it use the power socket charger and not the usb charger from your laptop or desktop. The red light first goes down, then it will blink and then the white charging icon comes. Let it charge at least 10 minutes after that before you switch it on, otherwise it would shutdown again (but won't go to ...
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The image transfer from S3 uses S Beam, which is a proprietary technology used by Samsung. It doesn't use NFC for the actual data transfer, but instead creates a WiFi Direct (ad-hoc) network between the devices and sends the image over WiFi. NFC is just used for "pairing" the devices. Since Nexus 4 is a vanilla Android, it doesn't have the necessary ...
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I suspect the Sound recorder could be just a component that is used by several apps, such as Google Now and Voice Search. If you take a look at the list of apps, there are also others that can't be run directly, such as MusicFX, NFC Service, Search Applications Provider etc., most of which take exactly the same amount of space, 12.00KB.
Note that this is ...
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