The Faceless Master
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One subtle change is that when you have the keyboard up, the back symbol changes to a down caret, which will no doubt make that UI step easier to grasp for new users.
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean announced at Google I/O 2012
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ThatObviousUser
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Now that's the kind of awesome stuff that totally justifies the soft keys and I'll no doubt lord over GS3 users in the coming months. 
The Faceless Master
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QBKing77: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Full Review! -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE1WxgYtqqA
yeah, that kind of stuff almost justifies losing screen space... for n00bs anyway. i already know what the back button does to a kb.
Now that's the kind of awesome stuff that totally justifies the soft keys and I'll no doubt lord over GS3 users in the coming months.
yeah, that kind of stuff almost justifies losing screen space... for n00bs anyway. i already know what the back button does to a kb.
virtuoso88
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Just loaded this on my GN LTE and it's friggen sweet! Everything is super smooth and everything works right now. Very surprised.
will flash after woooork
fluffydelusions
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This release makes it easier to troll those without the update...
"You jelly bro"
"You jelly bro"
fluffydelusions
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Right...it should be the thread title lol
As someone who is very picky about stuff like this, they are significant, and very noticable. Haven't seen any framerate drops, especially when slowly swiping homescreens or launcher pages.
Another thing that always bothered me was if you were on a secondary homescreen, and pressed the home button to snap to your main homescreen, the animation was both laggy, and the "pulse" animation on the home button itself was very laggy also. Both of those things are totally smooth now.
The multitasking popup opens faster now, still not "instant" but it is certainly more responsive.
RoadHazard
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That sounds great! I'm also really picky with that stuff, and certainly notice the loss of framerate happening here and there in 4.0.4. One of the worst offenders is closing the app drawer using the Back or Home buttons. The framerate just tanks for a second (which I imagine is why they used exactly that to demonstrate the much higher framerate in JB).
fluffydelusions
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Really want to try Jellybean. Can't decide if I want to flash it or not. Been following the thread and seen a lot people having various issues. Maybe I will just wait until the official OTA.
The Faceless Master
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wtf? NANDROID backup and then flash it.
fluffydelusions
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Yeah...I was just about to edit my post and say screw it, here I go lol. I can't hold off testing this out. How is stability and such with it?
Yeah it's great. The only thing I still notice - and I'm not sure if this will ever be solved - is the system still chops when you are using it and an app is installing from the Play Store at the same time, i.e. when the flash memory is being written to. The other thing that isn't quite fixed is homescreen scrolling while a widget is in a fade transition. Still chops a little there.
The transitions between apps is also beautiful and gives a better sense of "history" (going back and forward) vs just the fade from before. It's awesome!
There's a tonne of little UI polish details I could get into, so many things cleaned up.
That's a smart change. Took me a little while to realize that pressing back when I had my keyboard open would close the keyboard, not back me out of the screen/app.
Please elaborate, sounds nice. I'm jelly btw
Okay, since I'm bored at work
The out-of-box setup when you first boot up the phone is much friendlier / better designed. Better typography and a better walkthrough of the sign-in process.
When you pull down the notification shade, the content behind it slowly gets "shadowed". It's hard to describe but its beautiful when you pull it down slowly with your finger.
Lockscreen has a shortcut in the middle to Google Now.
Lockscreen "pulse" animation when you turn on the screen is different, not sure I like it, but its different.
Bootscreen is different, much better.
When you install apps from the Play Store, and icons are added to your desktop, when you go back to your desktop, the newly-added icons pop-up onto your screen at that point in time, rather than already being there. Neat effect.
Notification bar in general has a bunch of refinements to the typography of the time/date.
New icon for "clear all notifications" rather than just an X.
All live wallpapers are buttery smooth now, instead of just "phase beam" being usable.
The pop-up to choose a wallpaper has been refined and less-uglified.
The pop-up to choose which app you'd like to perform an action with has been refined, and clarified.
That's all I've noticed for now
Those phones don't count as android market share that Google releases.
fluffydelusions
Member
Rebooting into jellybean...
Okay, since I'm bored at work
The out-of-box setup when you first boot up the phone is much friendlier / better designed. Better typography and a better walkthrough of the sign-in process.
When you pull down the notification shade, the content behind it slowly gets "shadowed". It's hard to describe but its beautiful when you pull it down slowly with your finger.
Lockscreen has a shortcut in the middle to Google Now.
Lockscreen "pulse" animation when you turn on the screen is different, not sure I like it, but its different.
Bootscreen is different, much better.
When you install apps from the Play Store, and icons are added to your desktop, when you go back to your desktop, the newly-added icons pop-up onto your screen at that point in time, rather than already being there. Neat effect.
Notification bar in general has a bunch of refinements to the typography of the time/date.
New icon for "clear all notifications" rather than just an X.
All live wallpapers are buttery smooth now, instead of just "phase beam" being usable.
The pop-up to choose a wallpaper has been refined and less-uglified.
The pop-up to choose which app you'd like to perform an action with has been refined, and clarified.
That's all I've noticed for now
Great stuff, thanks for the details!
fluffydelusions
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Tried it. Definitely great but going back to CM9. Can't wait for this to hit cyanogenmod
The chops that are still present will never go away unless android is rewritten to prioritize touch/GUI animation over data polling. The OS will try to load data as fast as possible or uninterrupted, even when their is a GUI event (where as on IOS, processes pause until GUI process is done).
There are rare moments in iOS when this happens, and it too will drop frames.
I understand the need to have that almost instant data display, but at this point, I'd rather the performance consistency and have to wait an extra second.
Doesn't ICS already have this?
Or it could just be the random ROM I had to put on my crappy Aurora tablet.
No new live wallpapers
Really loving this - it is incredibly smooth for the most part. If there is a lot of stuff happening then it can get a little choppy but it is a huge improvement over ICS (which, in itself, was a huge improvement from before). It's not just smooth, but really quick - everything is a whole lot more responsive.
Vyse The Legend
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Do I need to be on takju to flash the JB update floating around? I'm on yakju.
fluffydelusions
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I just tried the voice search in JB...OMG amazing..so fast and accurate. Destroys siri
Well, seeing JB and the improvements it brings and having had ICS for less than 48hrs, I'm selling my Skyrocket w/ ICS and getting the Nexus. I'm done buying hardware with outdated software. Hopefully my wife won't kill me for buying it!
I was in the same boat. You won't regret it, I swear to you.
Lion Heart
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Can I use Wugs toolkit (1.4) to flash this or do I have to get the Gnex toolkit (7.0)? I'm sick of installing shit lol.
hillsighed
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Really like what they did with the notification drawer.
Banana Kid
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Currently midway through backing up all my media so I can root my Nexus and install Jelly Bean. I really should have done this as soon as I got it.
Cannot wait to get my hands on this.
Cannot wait to get my hands on this.
Me too. In ICS I love not having to switch apps to control music/podcast playback (BeyondPod shoutout), and with the extra space in JB it'll be the same for other kinds of notification as well, especially message and email type stuff.
The one thing I'm not too keen on is that it requires a two finger gesture to expand a notification so it won't be possible to do one-handed.
Robobandit
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You can flash your gnex to takju using google's takju factory images... but i don't think you need to.. the phones are exactly the same.. Takju just comes with google wallet pre-loaded.
The official OTA apparently expects you to be on Takju with a certain build number.. but I don't think the first custom roms have that restriction.
For clarification, my phone was Yakju.. i flashed it with a Takju factory image and then flashed jellybean
fluffydelusions
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Bluemercury
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So people with Yakju will have to wait until when exactly?Mine is GSM version.
try thumb and forefinger?
RapidCancel
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So to run jellybean on my GN, I just need to root, then install it via CWM? Does anyone have a good guide for rooting? I'm on yakjuux, I believe...Canadian GSM version.
RoadHazard
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EDIT: Posted this in the Android apps thread instead, more appropriate there.
Robobandit
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Takju and Yakju are the same hardware wise.
You can have Jellybean right now if you're ok with flashing your phone
OK, I shouldn't have said it was impossible... you could also use thumb and nose, or nose and tongue. My point was that it's awkward. I always try to avoid pinch-to-zoom when I'm using my phone one-handed.
Bluemercury
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I actually swapped from yakjuwx to yakju myself, but i didnt knew there was a new fringerprint for gsm.
ghostofsparta
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Nice. I'm not a big fan of voice stuff but that looks really good.
LyleLanley
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Installed Jelly Bean on my Galaxy Nexus a little while ago and while I am new to Android in general it feels like a bunch of small yet very nice additions. Of course I won't see a lot of the real additions until developers start incorporating them but overall it's pretty good.
As for Google Now it's definitely better than Siri in a bunch of ways, however like Siri I can't imagine myself using it very much. The voice is quite impressive though.
As for Google Now it's definitely better than Siri in a bunch of ways, however like Siri I can't imagine myself using it very much. The voice is quite impressive though.
LyleLanley
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I'm probably missing some stuff, but based on the sample cards within Google Now I can see that it'll give information on flights, more map information from directly within Google Now which I believe to get in Siri you'd have to launch the map app after asking it a question and it has translation.
Edit:
Another thing, which is really nice in Google Now is that if you ask it a question like "How tall is the Empire State Building?" Or "How much is $20 in pounds?" it'll actually read out the answer to you as opposed to just showing you a wolfram alpha sheet like Siri does.
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