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I genuinely thought that all Nexus devices were stock Android without carrier modifications. Is this not the case?

ktsmith 15y ago
The galaxy nexus released to Verizon had no google wallet and added one or two pieces of Verizon specific software including their backup assistant. I don't believe either piece of vendor bloatware could be removed just disabled. edit: The other pieces of software is My Verizon Mobile.
- yareally 15y ago
  I have a galaxy nexus (verizon version) and yes, they can be disabled in the same manner as any other app on the device (hold pressing and dragging it to the top of the screen under app info and clicking disable afterwards). If that does not go far enough, you can flash the stock firmware from Google http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
- tsotha 15y ago
  My Verizon Mobile allows you to check your data usage. I don't think they can really get away from that.
  - ktsmith 15y ago
    For those users with grandfathered unlimited accounts there is no need to care about data usage. At the very least it should be optional and removable, which it isn't.
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chimeracoder 15y ago
Not anymore. The Verizon Galaxy Nexus has some bloatware, and Google Wallet was disabled. (You can re-enable it if you root/reflash, but then it registers as an 'unsupported device', so the officially supported device doesn't have all of the ICS features) And even if that were the only difference, then there's not much to be excited about. If you really want that, you're one of the 2%, and you're probably interested enough to go through the now-painless process of rooting/unlocking and flashing a custom ROM to get a 'vanilla android'. And the other 98% of Android users don't care if they have bloatware/Sense/TouchWiz/Blur, because they don't even know the difference. So even though the Nexus is not always a stock Android phone anymore, even if it were, that's not enough to get that excited about, either as a developer/modder/tinkerer or as a casual user.
- abraham 15y ago
  You don't have to root the Verizon Galaxy Nexus to run Wallet. You simply have to install the Google Shopper app and auth it first.

The galaxy nexus released to Verizon had no google wallet and added one or two pieces of Verizon specific software including their backup assistant. I don't believe either piece of vendor bloatware could be removed just disabled. edit: The other pieces of software is My Verizon Mobile.

yareally 15y ago
I have a galaxy nexus (verizon version) and yes, they can be disabled in the same manner as any other app on the device (hold pressing and dragging it to the top of the screen under app info and clicking disable afterwards). If that does not go far enough, you can flash the stock firmware from Google http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
tsotha 15y ago
My Verizon Mobile allows you to check your data usage. I don't think they can really get away from that.
- ktsmith 15y ago
  For those users with grandfathered unlimited accounts there is no need to care about data usage. At the very least it should be optional and removable, which it isn't.

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chimeracoder 15y ago

Not anymore. The Verizon Galaxy Nexus has some bloatware, and Google Wallet was disabled. (You can re-enable it if you root/reflash, but then it registers as an 'unsupported device', so the officially supported device doesn't have all of the ICS features) And even if that were the only difference, then there's not much to be excited about. If you really want that, you're one of the 2%, and you're probably interested enough to go through the now-painless process of rooting/unlocking and flashing a custom ROM to get a 'vanilla android'. And the other 98% of Android users don't care if they have bloatware/Sense/TouchWiz/Blur, because they don't even know the difference. So even though the Nexus is not always a stock Android phone anymore, even if it were, that's not enough to get that excited about, either as a developer/modder/tinkerer or as a casual user.

abraham 15y ago
You don't have to root the Verizon Galaxy Nexus to run Wallet. You simply have to install the Google Shopper app and auth it first.