swintec

Yea, I figured it had to be a bug of sorts but I do not understand how the phone gets on it with a call but I cant get on 800 without a special PRL right now in the same area. I can only assume it is CFSB in action.

Hopefully someone can tell me if this is a CSFB feature or not. I was in an LTE area today with my nexus 5. Back when I had my photon and a custom PRL, I could see this area also had some 800 sites broadcasting on the test SIDs. With my nexus 5 I have the stock PRL which does not see these 800 sites yet. Anyways, while connected to LTE I got a call and naturally it disconnected from LTE and rolled to 1x as intended. But..i noticed that i went from LTE to the little roaming indicator as this was all happening. Strange but when I looked at signal check it showed I was connected to 1x800. Please see screenshot of during the call. 1) Why did it show me as roaming despite being on 1x800? Is it because it does not recognize the test SID from the PRL? 2) If the SID isnt in the PRL for the phone to see, does CSFB over rule this with a call and connect the phone to 1x800 anyways, at the network level?

Yes, should be. You can try telling them Sprint CS sent you in (which they do in some cases). In my search for one, Sprint International CS offered to call the store and ask about stock as well. You can tell a little white lie and tell the store CS sent you in and if they say they have none tell them CS called the store the other day to check and were told they had plenty. If you think about it, it be hard to have a cell phone store, push for all kinds of activations by your employees but not have SIM cards on hand to activate the devices.

Ironically, my sprint corporate store fed me a line and wouldnt give one up. I went to a sprint third party retailer and they were more than willing. Was told all sprint stores were sent a bunch specifically for the nexus. He had a stack of like 5-10 that had come in the week before (this was last week). Take that for what its worth though.

Lost TWRP as well but just added it back and rooted again. Will see what happens.

did the OTA update just now. was on 4.4.1 but with the 4.4 radio. It really screwed something up. Unable to use data when not on Wifi. Cant use Google Play store on Wifi or 3G and i cant seem to send / receive text or MMS. Wondering if I need to install the 4.4.1 radio. oh, and also lost root.

this phone really keeps me on my toes, that's for sure. always something new and exciting to fiddle with right now.

If the previous update was completely pulled (containing the 'new' radio image) and this is meant to be the actual update, wouldnt those who never got last weeks update end up staying on the original radio?....and possibly this is what they want?

it is being offered to me right now OTA. 1.7 MB in size. Really dont want to break root so I may wait until someone has it up on XDA like they did the last one.

thats weird.

Since I updated to the newest Nexus update, SignalCheck no longer shows the address information for each tower i am connected to....at least I think it was the update that broke it. can anyone else confirm?

sweet thanks for the heads up. had that app back in the Epic days and have missed it since my Photon Q. Since my Nexus can not roam on US cellular for data at all..this makes up for it a bit.

Ugghh. I get no data when I am roaming (1xRTT). Anyone know what the issue could be? It is still the stock PRL since the PRL push wont stick. In settings, the checkbox is enabled for data while roaming. The only thing I get while roaming is voice. At the time, I was in a US Cellular area that i have frequented a lot before with no issues. I can get data if the phone stays on US cellular for voice and there is a sprint data connection around, the phone will use that for EVDO...but outside of that..nada. The state of the data connection will simply stay on "Connecting..."

yep, tried those steps about 8 times with basic flasher and DFS. it all works according to plan except the PRL doesnt stick to the new one. I am told it just takes a few tries to eventually get it to happen though.

is there a definitive PRL flashing method out yet? One posted upthread seems to be what is used for the G2 and there is some differences between the phones. Plus it keeps referencing diagnostic mode which doesnt appear.

Nexus came in today and I decided to waste time trying to get a SIM card from a corporate store. I went to the only corporate store around and the guy said they didnt have any. he didnt know why CS would send me there. Granted he was obviously lying, couldnt even look at me as he spoke but what could i do really. I took the bit longer way home and decided to humor myself and stop at a sprint affiliate store. Told them the deal. Told them what the corporate store said and he laughed and said it was a flat out lie. They couldnt sell phones if they didnt have any. But...the reason he knew it was a lie was because Sprint sent out a package of SIMs to address the nexus issue to all sprint stores, corporate or otherwise. To my surprise, he came out with a stack of 5-10 SIMs and gave me one. Whether that is true, who knows. I got mine, from a non-corporate store no less, and will spend the night tonight playing with my new nexus.

This is a post from another forum I am on from an individual talking about the 600 mhz frequency. I dont know if it is right or not but I believe this guy works in the biz... "It's capacity is terrible, frequency reuse becomes almost non-existent(towers would have to be 20+ miles apart), and it will require the complete replacement of 10's of thousands of existing cell towers, because any effective panel sector antenna at 600MHz will be 12 feet long, and 4-6 feet wide. That will exceed the sq/ft wind load capacity of almost all cell towers already in existence, and be virtually impractical to install. Worse than hanging 25 sheets of 4x8 solid plywood on 150 foot tall towers that were never intended to handle that kind of wind load /twist load /ice load. It's amazing how many towers are already way over their original design limits, and have had to have reinforcing torsion bars(re-bar, DYWIDAG systems) welded to them already, to try and keep them from failing with the current number of antennas already on them. Just imagine if a strong hurricane/ice storm, could bring down many hundreds of towers in a region, literally bring them down, as is completely collapsed on the ground down. All Wireless coverage completely gone for 6 months or more, after such an event. Most original 850 sites, were designed for omnidirectional "whip" type antennas, but you can't do that at 600MHz, or the tower sites would then have even less capacity, and have to be 60+ miles apart. Verizon and AT&T are already maxing out their 700MHz sites, and it's all about the size of the antennas, and the tower spacing, and that's why they're going up to PCS 1900, and 1700/2100 AWS spectrum, where those problems don't exist. Nobody seems to be thinking logically about any of this."

isnt the cell tower equipment for 600 mhz incredibly large (size and weight) to the point that putting that equipment on the towers as they are may cause safety issues considering everything else that is up there? Especially when you factor in wind and all that.

their responsibility for having interest in it began when they committed to allowing the device on the network..or any device for that matter that is purchased at full retail. In my opinion, I dont think they mind so much giving the SIMs out, regardless of device. The process that had / has problems was HOW the sims would be distributed and not everyone being on the same page for their distribution. It would be penny wise pound foolish to worry about a SIM card that costs cents and hassle the user over giving it to them so they take their business elsewhere along with the monthly plan costs sprint would otherwise get each and every month....over a matter of cents. Anyways, Nexus 5 i ordered on the 27th of Nov. will be here tomorrow along with the case from Amazon. SIM card from sprint should be here thursday.

Im close to being in the nexus 5 club. ordered from google on tuesday. should be here by dec 11th. just ordered Diztronic case for it, ive always preferred otter box but will try something new. ordering the SIM from Sprint was an ordeal. Chatted with sprint international support and they said due to my SERO account they could not pull my account up to order. Called into SERO customer service and they said only sprint international can do it. lol round and round i went until CS rep in international CS had her manager order it for me. i was going to upgrade with amazon and end up with the phone almost free but i just didnt want to go on contract again. plus..being that i have always preferred a hardware based keyboard im not sure how my first all touchscreen phone will turn out.

i have this problem at times as well..mainly the last week or so. this issue seems to come and go at times over the years.

well that's easy then. i dont know anyone else with sprint service. lol guess i can call Sprint CS just to talk.

When/if HD voice is working on sprint, is it only for sprint <> sprint calls? to other cell phones? certain cell companies? Can it be used to call POTS lines?

oh interesting. guess i have been lucky.

they only do this on the new plans dont they? i remember reading this in the TOS for those plans when they came out back in September.