Got my Gnex! TS please add me to the owners list

Just got it rooted and now thinking of trying AOKP.

droid13579, great review for the BSE skin! Btw do you know what's the difference between "Screen Skin" and "Case Optimized Screen Skin" ? I'm thinking of getting the BSE but not sure which one to get.

Thanks for clarifying on the Case Optimised vs Screen Skin

Hope to achieve the almost glass + "naked" feel. Just ordered 2 pieces (and 1 more piece for my old Nexus One) from BSE. Now gotta put my Gnex aside first until I get the SP. Just realised one tiny tiny tiny scratch on my screen!

I tried and so far my phone makes a sound with: Visa card with the "wave" symbol and MyKad. Can download NFC reader app and see the content also (although the content is encrypted I think, so you'll see mostly junk)

You also need to sure NFC is on. Go to Settings --> More --> NFC (Yes)

If the NFC is grayed out and cannot be enabled, then there might be a problem...

To check vibrate, just press on the [back][home][tasks] buttons, it will vibrate.

Check NFC, try to use touch and go on the back of the phone, screen switched on, try to hear it make a sound.

If possible, check the screen also. Otherwise go home and try to check it as soon as possible:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394358

Wow... if I'm trying to sell you something... I think I will go insane.... hahahahahaha

There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding running apps, multitasking, background tasks and such.

When you launch an Android app, the task is active/running. You use the app, play with the app, etc.

When you exit back to the home screen (or go to a different app), the app is stopped. This means that the app is frozen and will not run/take up battery/etc. It also means the Android OS can freely kill that task if the Android OS needs more memory for other things (i.e. you opened up a really heavy game, you haven't gone back to that app in a while, etc).

So how does multitasking work? How does your app check for email in the background? This is done by something called services. Services run in the background, you don't really see it anywhere on your screen. Even when you quit your app, it still has a service running in the background. It checks your mail even if you're not in the app, it checks for new messages when you're not in the app. If you're busy downloading something using your browser, and you go to a different app, your download still continues, because the browser is running it's own download service in the background.

An example to this would be WhatsApp. If you don't open the app, how does it check for new messages for you? It runs the WhatsApp background service to check for messages for you. You don't have to open the app to keep checking for new messages, it already runs by itself in the background. The Android OS takes care of what services to run, kill, etc automatically for you. That's why if you use a manual task killer (you shouldn't, btw), after a few minutes you'll notice the WhatsApp service running again.

This, of course, does not apply to ALL apps. It depends on whether the app developer has made such a feature available or not. Let's take Draw Something as another example. It doesn't have a background service, therefore it doesn't notify you if you have new drawings to guess.

tl;dr, to answer your question, you don't have to open viber/yahoo/gmail/gtalk to get notifications. The notification part of these apps are running in the background and are checking for new messages for you.

Also, regarding the ICS tasks button, all the tasks listed there are "frozen" apps... the apps themselves aren't running and aren't taking any CPU resources.

For better understanding, you can also read up on the Android Activity Lifecycle, but it's more technical and more for programmers: http://developer.android.com/reference/and...tivityLifecycle

Hotel doors and access cards, I don't think they use NFC technology. I tried scanning my access cards and seems like nothing happen.

As for TnG... I don't think they're that stupid hahaha. The balance is probably stored on the server... and your TnG card probably stores the serial no only or something.