Google Nexus 5 by LG Users Thread!

[EvanA]

Is there a consensus on what Qualcomm chipset the Nexus 6 will use? The latest evidence/rumor is that it will be the Snapdragon 805, which is the APQ8084. Since it is an APQ not an MSM, it has no cellular baseband on chip. That means back to two chipsets -- it has to be paired with an MDM, likely the Category 6 MDM9635/MDM9235.

 

And therein lies the rub. The MDM9635 is 3GPP/3GPP2, while the MDM9235 is 3GPP only. The Gobi modems come in a 3GPP only option, while the Snapdragon MSM chipsets typically are 3GPP/3GPP2 -- even for AT&T and T-Mobile handsets, for example. With the MSM8974, the Nexus 5 had CDMA2000 capability on board, regardless. But with a possible APQ8084 + MDM9235 pairing, Sprint could get shut out of the Nexus 6.

 

AJ

I think they will maintain their partnership with Google and will still get the Nexus 6 (or Nexus 5 2014). Keep in mind planning for this device was probably already underway when the Nexus 5 was released.

[metayoshi]

Is there a consensus on what Qualcomm chipset the Nexus 6 will use?  The latest evidence/rumor is that it will be the Snapdragon 805, which is the APQ8084.  Since it is an APQ not an MSM, it has no cellular baseband on chip.  That means back to two chipsets -- it has to be paired with an MDM, likely the Category 6 MDM9635/MDM9235.

 

And therein lies the rub.  The MDM9635 is 3GPP/3GPP2, while the MDM9235 is 3GPP only.  The Gobi modems come in a 3GPP only option, while the Snapdragon MSM chipsets typically are 3GPP/3GPP2 -- even for AT&T and T-Mobile handsets, for example.  With the MSM8974, the Nexus 5 had CDMA2000 capability on board, regardless.  But with a possible APQ8084 + MDM9235 pairing, Sprint could get shut out of the Nexus 6.

 

AJ

Good point. I completely forgot about the Nexus 6 being rumored to have an APQ chipset, which does make it much harder to have both CDMA and GSM on board. The Nexus 4 was also using a Snapdragon S4 pro (APQ8064), and that only had AT&T and T-Mobile support.

 

Looks like my point was proven even more so: if the Nexus 6 doesn't make it to Sprint, it's going to be due to CDMA + GSM compatibility, not LTE band capability.

[HTCandroid]

All my fears! Damn.....

[jamesinclair]

Does buying a Nexus 5 from the play store still require an annoying process to get a sim card, or has the process been made simple?

[david279]

Does buying a Nexus 5 from the play store still require an annoying process to get a sim card, or has the process been made simple?

Well check your sprint stores for sims right now to see how annoying it is. Because the play store n5 won't have one.

 

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[jamesinclair]

Well check your sprint stores for sims right now to see how annoying it is. Because the play store n5 won't have one.

 

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Have they gotten better at giving them away?

[david279]

I've never had to get one so I don't know.

 

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[Destroyallcubes]

Hold volume down and press and hold the power button until you see the bootloader. It's unlikely that you flashed a bad bootloader if you were using the 4.4.4 factory image.

Use the factory image from here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

still Nada. My computer beeps but no devices recognized in adb, fastboot or LG flash tools

[travismheim]

still Nada. My computer beeps but no devices recognized in adb, fastboot or LG flash tools

I would try posting over on xda nexus 5 help section if you haven't already. You'll probably take some flak for flashing the way you did but there's bound to be some one that already bricked their phone doing the same thing you did and might have a solution already.

[Dkoellerwx]

Have they gotten better at giving them away?

 

I was pretty simple for me. Walked into the store, told them I had a Nexus 5 and needed a SIM, and walked out 10 minutes later.

[norwoodsteel]

still Nada. My computer beeps but no devices recognized in adb, fastboot or LG flash tools

#1 can you get the phone to go to bootloader

[Destroyallcubes]

#1 can you get the phone to go to bootloader

It literally does nothing.

[norwoodsteel]

It literally does nothing.

if you can't get to bootloader mode there's not much you can do.

the battery didn't run out while flashing?

assuming there is plenty of juice in the battery try holding vol down button and power button and then plug in the charger at the same time

[norwoodsteel]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/guide-how-to-fix-bsod-bootloader-t2763370

 

 

 

http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/hard-bricked-wrong-kernel-t2818835

[ipatella]

Is there a consensus on what Qualcomm chipset the Nexus 6 will use?  The latest evidence/rumor is that it will be the Snapdragon 805, which is the APQ8084.  Since it is an APQ not an MSM, it has no cellular baseband on chip.  That means back to two chipsets -- it has to be paired with an MDM, likely the Category 6 MDM9635/MDM9235.

 

And therein lies the rub.  The MDM9635 is 3GPP/3GPP2, while the MDM9235 is 3GPP only.  The Gobi modems come in a 3GPP only option, while the Snapdragon MSM chipsets typically are 3GPP/3GPP2 -- even for AT&T and T-Mobile handsets, for example.  With the MSM8974, the Nexus 5 had CDMA2000 capability on board, regardless.  But with a possible APQ8084 + MDM9235 pairing, Sprint could get shut out of the Nexus 6.

 

AJ

Would using 2 chips destroy the battery life?

[ipatella]

You probably would have never thought that the Nexus 5 would have supported as many bands as it did, either. Supporting more LTE bands is not really all that difficult. The difficult thing for them was adding B41 last time, yet they did. All the Sprint bands are supersets of other bands except B41. No need to worry.

 

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That's true, hopefully they keep coming back with em and if they do hopefully LTE preforms better on it in Chicago. 

 

edit: also looking for better battery life. man I sound like a spoiled 16 year old who's parents bought her the wrong color bmw.

[WiWavelength]

Would using 2 chips destroy the battery life?

 

Did that destroy the battery life on, for example, the HTC One M7 and Samsung Galaxy S4?

 

AJ

[ipatella]

Did that destroy the battery life on, for example, the HTC One M7 and Samsung Galaxy S4?

 

AJ

I owned an m7 before my n5 and my battery life was terrible. Can't speak to the gs4, never owned one for a while. 

[metayoshi]

Would using 2 chips destroy the battery life?

From a technical standpoint, it may affect it, but it should not be such a big difference that you would consider the battery life "destroyed". Since the APQ chipsets don't have the hardware to support the cellular baseband, it should take less power to power the whole chip than if baseband hardware was on the chip itself. Now the power is instead directed to the MDM chip which will have its own power characteristics. Those power characteristics might be better than, or worse than, having the same thing on the main chip itself. It all depends on what the hardware is capable of, how efficient the chip making process is, and what power management features they have for the chip.

[travismheim]

In addition to changing some of the location and wifi settings, today I set network mode to 3G only and have noticed a huge increase in battery life. I'm sitting at 23 hours on battery with light use, mostly texting and voice calls, with 78% battery remaining. It feels like I fell in love with the phone all over again after having such horrid battery problems. It's just unfortunate you need to make so many changes to get the stand by time up, I feel like the average user might just give up on the nexus and say it sucks.

[Destroyallcubes]

In addition to changing some of the location and wifi settings, today I set network mode to 3G only and have noticed a huge increase in battery life. I'm sitting at 23 hours on battery with light use, mostly texting and voice calls, with 78% battery remaining. It feels like I fell in love with the phone all over again after having such horrid battery problems. It's just unfortunate you need to make so many changes to get the stand by time up, I feel like the average user might just give up on the nexus and say it sucks.

Curious is your LTE strength usually strong if not weak signal can drain a battery. Switching to EVDo usually means the signal is better, and can help reduce battery that way.

[Dkoellerwx]

In addition to changing some of the location and wifi settings, today I set network mode to 3G only and have noticed a huge increase in battery life. I'm sitting at 23 hours on battery with light use, mostly texting and voice calls, with 78% battery remaining. It feels like I fell in love with the phone all over again after having such horrid battery problems. It's just unfortunate you need to make so many changes to get the stand by time up, I feel like the average user might just give up on the nexus and say it sucks.

Setting mine to CDMA only gives worse battery life than LTE. I'm not sure your results are representative of the typical user. I got great battery life (comparatively) when I was using the N5.

 

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[travismheim]

Curious is your LTE strength usually strong if not weak signal can drain a battery. Switching to EVDo usually means the signal is better, and can help reduce battery that way.

LTE signal strength is relatively poor across most of the city, even in area's where all sites have been upgraded. GSAM reports 90% of my radio is medium or below on LTE. B26 can't come soon enough.

[JosefTor]

For the folks on Android L, does B26 and B41 work?

 

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[SpenceSouth]

For the folks on Android L, does B26 and B41 work?

 

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Yep