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I broke my Nexus S 4G a few weeks ago (or, rather, it broke itself, and in the fixing I repaired the power problem and destroyed the speaker). I'm not sure if

I broke my Nexus S 4G a few weeks ago (or, rather, it broke itself, and in the fixing I repaired the power problem and destroyed the speaker). I'm not sure if it's just the phone, or if Cyanogen contributed (I installed it almost immediately upon getting the phone), but that thing had awful reception on pretty much every kind of network, and the battery lasted less than half the day. Kind of a let-down for a flagship Android phone. Now I just wish that half the stuff you can do with a Nexus was available for something like the Photon, which has fantastic reception and battery life, but no CM.

there 15y ago
i've had all kinds of stability problems with cyanogenmod on various phones, which is why i created http://blandroid.org/ http://blandroid.org/. though if you are getting poor reception all day, it may be making the radio work harder to find a signal, which reduces the battery. i never used my nexus s 4g for anything other than testing blandroid builds for it, but on my gsm nexus s, the battery would last nearly 2 days with light usage.
- steve-howard 15y ago
  I would use mine for maybe two phone calls and 15 minutes playing a game and I'd need to charge. My Photon is a workhorse, I just wish I could customize it more without destabilizing it. I like your project, though! The feature I miss the most from CM the notification pane power widget, though in general it's more fun to be able to tweak all kinds of things. I've been thinking about getting into some android dev work (especially aiding the efforts to port CM to whatever device I'm using at the time!), but I have no experience in reverse engineering/low-level mobile work.
  - there 15y ago
    The feature I miss the most from CM the notification pane power widget yeah, that seems to be the most commonly asked-for feature from users of my rom. from what i've seen in other projects, integrating it can lead to bugs, so i've avoided merging it. also, from what i've seen in screenshots, android 4 seems to have some of that functionality integrated into the pull-down notification window.
    - bdonlan 15y ago
      It's not in the CM9 alpha builds at least.
- antrix 15y ago
  Do you have plans to attempt an ICS build for the Nexus One?

there 15y ago

i've had all kinds of stability problems with cyanogenmod on various phones, which is why i created http://blandroid.org/ http://blandroid.org/. though if you are getting poor reception all day, it may be making the radio work harder to find a signal, which reduces the battery. i never used my nexus s 4g for anything other than testing blandroid builds for it, but on my gsm nexus s, the battery would last nearly 2 days with light usage.

steve-howard 15y ago
I would use mine for maybe two phone calls and 15 minutes playing a game and I'd need to charge. My Photon is a workhorse, I just wish I could customize it more without destabilizing it. I like your project, though! The feature I miss the most from CM the notification pane power widget, though in general it's more fun to be able to tweak all kinds of things. I've been thinking about getting into some android dev work (especially aiding the efforts to port CM to whatever device I'm using at the time!), but I have no experience in reverse engineering/low-level mobile work.
- there 15y ago
  The feature I miss the most from CM the notification pane power widget yeah, that seems to be the most commonly asked-for feature from users of my rom. from what i've seen in other projects, integrating it can lead to bugs, so i've avoided merging it. also, from what i've seen in screenshots, android 4 seems to have some of that functionality integrated into the pull-down notification window.
  - bdonlan 15y ago
    It's not in the CM9 alpha builds at least.
antrix 15y ago
Do you have plans to attempt an ICS build for the Nexus One?