**The Official Galaxy Nexus Thread**

[cloakster]

It came out in Canada before the US? cool

[ragingclue]

Originally Posted by cloakster

It came out in Canada before the US? cool

And GB. And a ton of other places. The pentaband GSM has been available for a bit overseas. There was some BS with Google and making this a VZW exclusive, so even though the pentaband GSM version covers T-Mo and AT$T (yeah even fake 4G HSPA+), the phone is not for sale here, subsidized or outright.

This is starting to hardly look like a real Nexus phone. All this shit is exactly stuff the Nexus was supposed to have nothing to do with. At least, that's how I understood it.

[Hedges]

I want it! Why won't it come to Rogers!

[turb0]

You can buy the unlocked version from Newegg for.... $699

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...bles-_-na-_-na

Price is pretty steep, but I guess not that too far off from Iphones without a contract or any other top of the line phone (and you get it before its released)

[driersheets]

coming dec 15

[BMWPower06]

Coming in a few hours!! Pre-orders are already up on VZW.com

[kyleb350]

Originally Posted by BMWPower06

Coming in a few hours!! Pre-orders are already up on VZW.com

I'm going to check one out at the local store.

[Curt2000]

Picked up mine today...pretty sweet. I like it a lot better than my iPhone 3GS already. The screen is ridiculously big and the user interface is really easy to get used to...i.e. I'm not wasting much time searching for keys and functions that I was used to on my iPhone. Early indications are that the battery life is not so hot...I heard a guy in front of me buying an extended life battery so maybe there is some sort of upgrade available.

A warning to all those looking for the Galaxy Nexus: DO NOT BUY DIRECT FROM A VERIZON FRANCHISE!!!!! They will charge you $299 for the phone...if you are switching from another carrier you can get the phone for $189 from Radio Shack or Best Buy...I figured this out after the fact and I'm pissed!

[mrgoochio]

Anyone know any better deals than the $300 for 2yr contract renewal customers? (not new to verizon customers)

also, anyone have theirs rooted? can you tether by wire/wireless without a tethering contract from vzw? i tether my rooted droid loaded with buglessbeast with wire and wireless a lot without contract as it is and don't want to lose that feature

[BigDog]

Originally Posted by mrgoochio

Anyone know any better deals than the $300 for 2yr contract renewal customers? (not new to verizon customers)

also, anyone have theirs rooted? can you tether by wire/wireless without a tethering contract from vzw? i tether my rooted droid loaded with buglessbeast with wire and wireless a lot without contract as it is and don't want to lose that feature

got mine from www.letstalk.com for $174.99

shipped thurs, arrived friday morning... rooted friday evening!

[mrgoochio]

Originally Posted by BigDog

got mine from www.letstalk.com for $174.99

shipped thurs, arrived friday morning... rooted friday evening!

$174.99 is a new customer to verizon price isn't it?

[Monster335]

Originally Posted by BigDog

got mine from www.letstalk.com for $174.99

shipped thurs, arrived friday morning... rooted friday evening!

Other than the contract you have with verizon. What kind of contract do you have with lets talk?

[BMWPower06]

Originally Posted by mrgoochio

Anyone know any better deals than the $300 for 2yr contract renewal customers? (not new to verizon customers)

also, anyone have theirs rooted? can you tether by wire/wireless without a tethering contract from vzw? i tether my rooted droid loaded with buglessbeast with wire and wireless a lot without contract as it is and don't want to lose that feature

I rooted mine for a couple days so I could get google wallet on it early. Then once the wallet.apk was made available I flashed the stock image back onto my phone, but left the bootloader unlocked and just installed the apk. I'm going to wait to re-root

[Omghi2u]

I got the international GSM version, but I cant seem to sync the contacts over to my car via bluetooth. My car did sync contacts with my previous phone, and this galaxy nexus should as well.

So all you guys with this phone, any luck with bluetoon sync with your bmw? state your car and what have you been able to sync with

'08 335i e92 with idrive and premuim
voice bluetooh syncs ok
no phonebook/contacts
no audio pass thur bluetooth

[BigDog]

Originally Posted by Monster335

Other than the contract you have with verizon. What kind of contract do you have with lets talk?

no other contract


i just renewed my contract with verizon... that's all

still grandfathered in with my unlimited data

[dawiyo]

Originally Posted by Omghi2u

I got the international GSM version, but I cant seem to sync the contacts over to my car via bluetooth. My car did sync contacts with my previous phone, and this galaxy nexus should as well.

So all you guys with this phone, any luck with bluetoon sync with your bmw? state your car and what have you been able to sync with

'08 335i e92 with idrive and premuim
voice bluetooh syncs ok
no phonebook/contacts
no audio pass thur bluetooth

Did you ever get this figured out? I'm having the same issue.

[iatacs19]

I have the unlocked Galaxy Nexus GSM version with stock 4.0.2 and I cannot connect to my car at all. I have a 2011 iDrive, I have updated the car's bluetooth with the latest from BMW's site and neither can see the other.

Any ideas?

[BMWPower06]

That's weird, my LTE Galaxy Nexus syncs up to my iDrive just fine

[bstrathearn]

Originally Posted by iatacs19

I have the unlocked Galaxy Nexus GSM version with stock 4.0.2 and I cannot connect to my car at all. I have a 2011 iDrive, I have updated the car's bluetooth with the latest from BMW's site and neither can see the other.

Any ideas?

I'm having the same exact issue on a new F30 with the latest iDrive updates installed (3.5.4). I have a non-contract phone that can have debug versions of the OS installed, so I'm going to gather some more debug info and see if I can get some help from the Android side. This seems to be a problem that is specific to this phone.

I'll keep this thread up to date on whatever I can find out.

[bstrathearn]

Originally Posted by bstrathearn

I'm having the same exact issue on a new F30 with the latest iDrive updates installed (3.5.4). I have a non-contract phone that can have debug versions of the OS installed, so I'm going to gather some more debug info and see if I can get some help from the Android side. This seems to be a problem that is specific to this phone.

I'll keep this thread up to date on whatever I can find out.

This turned out to be a simple problem of my phone's address book being too large for the iDrive system to parse. It's probably something that could happen with any Android phone that is connected to a google account that contains many address book entries.

To work around this, I un-paired the phone from the car, re-paired the two and made sure that I pressed "Cancel" and checked "do not ask again" when prompted on the phone, for access permissions to my address book and call history. Of course, this means that it's harder to call someone while driving, but my main use case is answering incoming calls, not making outgoing calls. It's a shame that this workaround is needed and I'll try to follow up with my CA to see if the problem can be raised with BMW.

[ejazbmw]

i have mine for sale http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=668018

[alexandraM3]

thanks you , guys next cellphone on the list