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by Sean Brunett
Sep 11, 2012
Sprint began rolling out Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) to the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S 4G last week, but they've just announced that the update will continue. We already knew the OTA will come in wav...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 05, 2012
A couple of hours ago we mentioned that some Sprint memos mention Jelly Bean for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus S 4G are coming, and we just got this tasty nugget to confirm. It's from in...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 05, 2012
A quick heads up for you folks on Sprint: We've gotten word from a reliable source that the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S 4G are slated to get their Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates this...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 01, 2012
Google has posted the updated JRO03H (Android 4.1.1) closed binary files today, including those for the Nexus S4G. That means one thing -- expect about a bazillion new AOSP Jell...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 03, 2012
Hooray! It looks like Google, Samsung, and Sprint were able to iron out the difficulties in redistributing the closed source radio code for the Nexus S 4G and it's now officially a part of the A...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 13, 2012
Google Wallet has seen another update, and this time Google has made all sorts of improvements and enhancements to the app. Per the change log in the Google Play store:
Prepaid Card top up f...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 10, 2012
So you've got the Sprint Nexus S 4G, and you're well aware that the official Ice Cream Sandwich update is coming. But what if you don't want to wait? The crazy cats in our Nexus S 4G for...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 09, 2012
A few days back, Sprint announced the update to Ice Cream Sandwich was ready to go, and today Jean-Baptiste Queru (the AOSP guru at Google) has announced that the sojus factory images are avail...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 05, 2012
Sprint as announced the availability of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Nexus S 4G this afternoon. The version will be IMM76D, and it has the same 4.0.4 features as we've come to expect from the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 03, 2012
A few days ago we saw the very first factory images for the Nexus S posted by Google. Previously you had to use a community-supplied image to go all the way back to 2.3.4 and then manually flash the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 01, 2012
Android 4.0.4 has leaked for the Sprint Nexus S 4G, and is ready to flash with Odin. It bumps the system up to IMM76D, like the rest of the devices running 4.0.4, and contains a new set of images as...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2012
There are a bunch of Nexus phones out there awaiting Ice Cream Sandwich updates. We certainly haven't forgotten about you Nexus S 4G folks, even if there's not a whole lot we can do about it...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 16, 2012
Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich was briefly pushed to the Nexus S last December, before being pulled due to battery life issues on some handsets. Now reports suggest that the official resumpti...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
If you've got a Sprint Nexus S 4G and have been waiting on pins and needles for your Android 4.X Ice Cream Sandwich update that supposedly was dropping Feb. 16, it's time to get some sleep. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 15, 2012
It's been a couple weeks now since we brought you a leaked build of Android 4.0.4 for the Sprint Nexus S 4G. According to an internal screen shot sent to Android Police, we might finally...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 03, 2012
Reports across the Internet about the Verizon Galaxy Nexus being dropped from AOSP support -- or even worse, no longer being updated by Google -- apparently were a bit premature. Dan Morrill h...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 31, 2012
An internal testing Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for the Samsung Nexus S 4G has been leaked out of Sprint, containing a new software modem, bootloader, and a 4.0.4 build. Some are reporting this is ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 30, 2011
Google may not have officially pumped out Ice Cream Sandwich for the Nexus S 4G yet, but that won't stop you from having it. We've got two custom ROMs in the forums that a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 24, 2011
Because of the Samsung Nexus S' VGA front camera, face unlock was left out of the official and AOSP builds of last year's reference phone. You know where this is going -- the files hav...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 20, 2011
By now you've heard a lot of scuttlebutt about the Ice Cream Sandwich battery bug, and how it's affected the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus. Or not. Either way, we've heard it,...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 17, 2011
Samsung Nexus S 4G hacker Beezy has done it again, this time porting the Android 4.0.3 OTA update for T-Mobile phones to the Sprint 4G version. There's no Wimax of course, but for t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 20, 2011
You didn't think we would stop playing with the Ice Cream Sandwich AOSP ROM for the Nexus S so soon did you? Trust me when I tell you it's almost 100 percent, and well worth the time t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 06, 2011
Thanks to the talent and hard work of our very own AC Developer Beezy, we've been playing with Ice Cream Sandwich on the Nexus S for a while now. One of the cool things that caught our eye...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 20, 2011
As we explained yesterday, now that the Ice Cream Sandwich SDK has been released, we're about to see a deluge of SDK-based ROM ports. We're not going to cover them all here, but will will co...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 14, 2011
Fans of footlongs and 4G will soon be able to pay for their sandwiches using Google Wallet. The restaurant chain has announced (and we've also been tipped with an internal Subway e-mail -- there...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Sep 19, 2011
Google Wallet has finally arrived on Sprint's Nexus S 4G in the form of an OTA update rolling out now. Samsung says that software version GWK74, which contains some security fixes along with Wal...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 18, 2011
Our pal digitalslacker is back, showing off a little MIUI action for the Nexus S 4G with another great ROM review. Reader submitted reviews are pretty much the best way to get an in-depth look a...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 20, 2011
We love reader-submitted ROM reviews, and once again we have Android Central member digitalslacker and his the Nexus S 4G, bringing us a review of GPA for the Nexus S 4G. This one is a treat -- ...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Aug 16, 2011
Sprint and Swype have teamed up to launch the latest version of the popular keyboard on the Nexus S 4G, available starting today. The update brings a bevy of new features to Swype, including a new cus...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 13, 2011
We're back with another reader submitted ROM review, this time around we have Android Central member digitalslacker showing some love for the Nexus S 4G with a great review of Oxygen ROM. I've u...
