In my situation, most friends switched to Android/iPhone in the past 12 months. Those who changed earlier went for S2 or Single Core Samsung/HTC. Those who changed more recently all went for Note 2 and S3. These phones are still quite capable. I think most of them will get stucked with S3, won't go higher for at least another 12 months. Who knows?

After another 12 months, I'll be working or continuing my master. Things may be different from what I thought.

Anyway, it's just to say... Not everyone will upgrade. At least some of us here still find GNex very capable. Maybe can't catch up in Graphic and Camera performance but UI smoothness, it's hell a lot better than all the phones from same generation.

Well... Unless you got a deep pocket or you got a lot of free time, you can switch phone whenever you like.

What I mean "you got a lot of free time" means you can monitor the sales thread and look for those who is selling their newest smartphone (don't like or wanna try another flagship- eg: Bought S4, used for 2 weeks, tried HTC One, find HTC One better, Sell S4 buy HTC One), you can just take their unit and keep on trading. Maybe just 2k++ at the beginning. But you can only do so with a spare phone. Monitor market price and sell it out before it starts dropping. This takes a lot of time but it entitles you to play phone-hopping without losing money. Some ppl can even earn a little by doing so.
Like a trader, but don't trade to earn a lot. Spending time in the second hand market, a lot of time.

Sometimes you can get a phone and sell it out the next second for 50 to 100 higher. Sometimes you miss the time to let out and probably lose 50 to 100. Really takes a lot of time. No time to do so and no own car for COD else it should be enjoyable to have this kind of hobby

I probably won't sell it. Just let my bro have it or something. Next time I may start trading if I got the time

Btw, the homescreen thing, actually can be done by all phones. Just whether they wanted to do it. If you go for popular devices, they'll have just as much ROM as a Nexus can have. They have them based on AOSP and some based on manufacturer's ROM. However, most of the users chose to stay with stock. It's their choice, don't blame the phone

Nexus is just easier, and meant to be flashed

This post has been edited by IwanAGP: May 11 2013, 10:16 AM

There are ppl that use it fully stock without unlocking bootloader. They don't need it.
We need it

Lot of features offered in custom ROM I can't live without. Ask me going back to stock ROM, I'll suffer for quite a long period of time.

Mine


Never trigger my phone in my pocket with this setting.

Wake: Swipe bottom up from center
Sleep: Swype right to left on the navbar. But I got my Recents button Longpress as power. Normally use that one instead of PGM to sleep.

This setting is sifu springfall teach one. Then I pandai pandai go modify to suit my own needs.
Enjoy!

Mxplayer

I'm using this combo.

Bugs found:
1) 2G Toggle still won't stay after reboot. Apply the build.prop fix.
2) Transparency settings not stable too. Sometimes it follow setting sometimes it follow random value.

Dedicated camera button is normally a two step button. Half press for focus and full press for shutter.

It still makes sense if it's included. This button is like something optional. It's not like they will be removing the on screen shutter button pun. haha

This post has been edited by IwanAGP: May 12 2013, 07:33 PM

For the nexus 8, no way it can be so square with 1080p resolution. That in the pic definitely not wide screen

Nope. Only import set. around 1600 right?

The power button cost just around RM30 to fix. Don't worry.

GNex power button is a separate module, no soldering involved.

Just abuse it as you like

Wireless charging

Any problems with 246? Doing fine with 243. Should I update?

I think I'll flash together with Orca nightly

Sounds wrong...

Someone put a clock on their navbar? Besides in Tablet UI. Lol...

Since he's using stock deodexed, he should really just go for custom ROM. Since his GNex's cherry is popped

I'm now using Bigfoot.

Nice ROM with all features you can think of! Erm.. Except Halo (not implemented yet). Erm... Not sure what else. Got most of the features d.

No lead for 5.0. Just 4.3.

Good enough to serve us

We just love to troll in this thread. Hi-Five

Sorry but I need caption for what you just said. I understand nothing from these words.

Anything is stopping you from going to custom ROM?

May I know the reason? Since you already tried flashing those MOD.

I suggest you just go straight to Custom ROM. You'll be amazed and it's no way for you to return

Really? Never try. But I know iPhone one is smoother when scrolling. Android version is not fully smooth even with Note 2. Nexus 4 is also a little laggy when scrolling, not 100% smooth.

Lite? Slim bean. Nothing is lighter than Slim Bean.

Nandroid will do the job in any situation except when you move from 4.1 to 4.2 then from 4.2 back to 4.1 since the file system is a little different.

Troll??

You're saying iPhone 5 is outdated. But it's still the newest in line as a phone with iOS. How can it be outdated? It compares against nothing

Btw, the chipset in iPhone 5 is a very very good one. Custom designed, hand-drawn by Apple, nothing extra. Just right what it takes to be an efficient and high performance chipset.

Got hybrid settings?

Tell her your phone cost just half of hers. Depends on when you bought yours.