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    Sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear you, the noise still hasn't subsided from Fenway yet.. -Mike
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    The only surefire way is to check your local market thread and see if someone has a spreadsheet with the PCIs or GCIs documented. They do not directly correlate to the IDs shown on the sponsor maps. All that is really known is that it was determined that Sprint GCIs appear to be broken down to MMMSSSXX, where M = market ID, S = site ID, X = sector ID. So I can tell you that you're in market 0BC, connected to sector 3 of site 2E3. Does that help? -Mike
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    LMFAO.. ohhhhhhhh AJ if you only knew how many times I have had a link to that exact site all typed out and ready to go, on S4GRU and elsewhere.. I usually hold off and go back 20 minutes later to see if I really want to pull the trigger. I usually want to, but around here I'm more reserved than usual. If there was a lot more lawlessness on S4GRU, I'd show my true colors more often. For the record, I will not confirm nor deny if I had such a post prepared in the reply you are referring to. To stay on-topic.. those of you who were previously debating the merits of putting your device in Global mode vs. LTE mode, I confirmed that it only changes the setting on the "Radio Info" screen from LTE/CDMA to LTE/GSM/CDMA. Any effect it is having on your LTE connection or band selection is a coincidence. -Mike
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    Hey even when I get nasty e-mails from users complaining about the free app, I take it as a suggestion.. I made this app because I wanted it for myself. The fact that anyone else enjoys it is just gravy. I certainly have given far less time and effort to the non-CDMA side of things, mostly because I got very little feedback about it, and my testing capabilities were limited. Now that I'm a SIM swap away from having a T-Mobile testing device at any time, it will receive more attention. Already exploring the display neighboring cell data. Looks like it would work for LTE too...... Dynamic headings would be the better solution. Separate sections would be a waste of space, because only one connection is ever reported at a time; there would never be more than one "section" with any data in it. Most Euro folks (and French Canadians) generally annoy me, so consider it done just on that basis alone. I appreciate it! I've had my N5 on T-Mobile more than Sprint so far, just for testing the app.. already made several tweaks just by what I have seen in a few hours of monitoring. The Nexus 5 is the ultimate developer phone for this reason alone. T-Mobile seems to expose all of the available data, so I don't see a need to get dirty with AT&T yet. For now, the biggest help to me would be keeping up with the beta updates and keep posting when you see anything that can be improved or needs fixing. In all sincerity, thank you for all of your suggestions and help from the very beginning -- I appreciate all of the technical knowledge you have shared with me. The app has benefited greatly thanks to your input! -Mike
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    No, the SIM determines which provider you are registered with, no matter how many G's you're trying to connect to. When the Sprint SIM is installed, it's a Sprint phone. When the T-Mobile SIM is in, it's a T-Mobile phone. When no SIM is in, it's a small tablet. -Mike
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    The suggestion box is always open! Funny you should mention that, because after just a few hours of playing with my Nexus 5, I had already decided I wanted to do that. That dashed-out 1X icon is driving me nuts! Coding for that has already started.. While we're on the subject of tri-band phones and their shiny new versions of Android, a new feature in testing shows the status of the mobile data connection as well as when data is flowing in/out. Android 4.4 does not have the data arrows 24/7 in the status bar, so this is (accidentally) timed well. Android moved the arrows to the quick settings pulldown, but it's always nice to have all of your nerdy network info on the screen at once. Testing is going very well, so it should be out soon. -Mike
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    A quick Google search shows it's not compatible with Android 4.4 yet. -Mike
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    Remember, those are percentages since rebooting -- so if your phone has only been on for 5 minutes, those stats are not a useful sample size. Also, not saying you did this, but often people freak out when they see something like "Screen" showing 80% -- it's not a problem. One must keep in mind that this screen displays the percentage of power consumed since last reboot.. if 80% of your battery life is because of the screen, that's normal. It only starts to be a concern when you see background processes like Google Services (or SignalCheck haha!) with high numbers. -Mike
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    Please try reading at least a little bit of the thread before throwing out a question.. yes, people have. It was asked again this morning: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4989-lg-google-nexus-5-users-thread/?p=242637 -Mike
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    Are you suggesting to dyamically update what is now the fixed "GSM" label? Or split signal data into an additional on-screen section? Everything but LTE is shown in the same section because non-CDMA devices only report one non-LTE signal at a time to Android. UMTS is what Android reports, that's why I went with it. Are you saying that every instance where "UMTS" is displayed should instead show "W-CDMA"? For development purposes, my N5 works GREAT on a non-activated T-Mobile SIM. Being able to force live 2G/3G/4G on the fly is a perfect test environment. I have already made several tweaks based on things I discovered.. very nice being able to see results in-hand. -Mike
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    Based on your battery usage screenshot, it looks like you might be getting bit by the Google Play Services battery drain bug. It has been hammering a lot of people on several different phones this week. Google must be aware of it by now, hopefully they push an update soon. It gets updated silently and automatically in the background when necessary. -Mike
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    Aha.. post a screenshot of the main screen next time you see that, nothing "null" should be appearing anywhere so I'd like to see what is causing that. Hopefully it's NV work and the finish up soon for you! -Mike
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    Google pushes the full shipping info to UPS overnight. Last night it was about 3am Eastern. Once that happens, you will see the ETA and other details appear, and you'll get a My Choice notification if you have that set up. -Mike
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    Didn't you get a tracking number? That should show you. In any case, the ground maps on UPS.com show 4 days to all of California. No clue if I just got lucky or if this is the norm with these shipments, but my 2nd Day Air shipment was delivered in one day.. only took 8 hours to get to my local hub in MA. UPS handles Google's logistics themselves, so maybe that extra head start from the very beginning might shave a day off for you. -Mike
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    A few people have this week.. see here and here. -Mike
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    It would be.. but I'm sure "the masters themselves" would like to have some free time once in awhile.. remember, they earned all that knowledge somehow. Sharing it here costs them time and doesn't help out their wallet. One reason this site is top-notch is because it has evolved to a point where legitimate contributions (not just articles, but even helpful forum responses) come from so many different people.. -Mike
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    LG G2 Users Thread!

    mikejeep replied to koiulpoi's topic in LG

    Looks like it's happening to everyone, a 2 second Google search immediately came up with these at the top: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/11/19/its-not-just-you-google-play-services-seems-to-be-a-battery-hog-today/ http://androidcommunity.com/play-services-is-suddenly-a-severe-battery-drain-but-nobody-knows-why-20131120/ http://www.androidheadlines.com/2013/11/google-play-services-draining-battery-lately-youre-alone.html Updates to Google Play Services are silently pushed out by Google, so a recent update must have done it. I'm sure a future update will correct it, since it appears to be widespread.. a temporary fix appears to be to clear data on that app. -Mike
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    T-Mobile seems good to go. AT&T, not so much. At least not without some extra work. I drove all over the place with the AT&T SIM (SKU 40954) installed for an hour, rebooted, in/out of airplane mode.. never saw a hint of any connections whatsoever. The phone does identify the SIM as belonging to MCC-MNC, 310-410 (which is AT&T), but that's it. The two AT&T retail stores I had visited said they absolutely could not sell a SIM without activation, so I had to get it on eBay.. but I think it's a network issue, not a SIM issue. And Sprint apparently doesn't like non-active SIMs on their LTE network. Shortly after getting the "locked out" message, it bounces over to EV-DO and won't reconnect to LTE until you reboot. -Mike
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    Happy to report that my shiny new Nexus 5 arrived, and shows signal data on both Sprint and T-Mobile without activating either SIM! The Sprint one locked itself out after about 60 seconds, but it continues to receive signal data. On both carriers, it reports LTE GCI, PCI, and TAC, as well as report the MCC-MNC in the most preferred/accurate method. I was expecting this with AOSP, but you never know.. As others had mentioned before, it reports an invalid LTE SNR and nothing for CQI. With an AT&T SIM (not activated) inserted, it will not connect to anything. Might try some schmoozing with AT&T to see if there's anything I can do about that. On Verizon, it.. oh wait, nevermind.. Going to start digging into this sucker to see what goodies I can dig out of it.. fingers crossed! -Mike
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    digiblur already beat me to it, but I'll elaborate a tiny bit -- the carrier names are pulled from a database built into the app, and the street addresses are the result of geocoding queries that typically hit a Google mapping server. Each 1X site broadcasts a latitude/longitude; the street address shown is the closest address to that point. If the address is wrong, you can put the coordinates into Google Maps in a browser, and hit the "Report a problem" button in the lower right corner. I've done it a few times, usually gets resolved within a couple of weeks. Please understand that if the coordinates do not point to a site, it's not a problem with Google -- as has been discussed on here countless times, Sprint offsets the tower coordinates in many markets. There isn't anything we can do about that, it's clearly intentional. -Mike
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    Thanks.. still trying to get in touch with someone (anyone!?) at Sprint that can have a conversation with me about this.. very curious about your area, I really think those are mistakes. When it says null, what MCC-MNC are you connecting to? -Mike
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    I hadn't thought of it.. only because nobody ever asked for it, and until my Nexus 5 arrived today, Android 4.1 was the newest version I had used. I'll keep that extra space on the pulldown in mind! -Mike
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    I have noticed that "-" appearing as the carrier in the notification pulldown occasionally as well.. sometimes on the 1X icon, sometimes on the main icon. If you go into the app, it refreshes it and then shows the proper carrier. Not sure what I did, but I definitely changed something I shouldn't have. I've been trying to figure it out, I'm sure I will stumble across it eventually. Probably deleted something I shouldn't have.. with over 4,200 lines of code at the moment, that is certainly possible.. -Mike
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    That's easy -- supply and demand. I see it often on Amazon, a lot of prices seem to change daily, up or down anywhere from a few cents to a few bucks. -Mike
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    My package is not linked to my My Choice account at all yet, hopefully that changes tonight.. I am at the end of my driver's route as well, so I want to change it to will-call pickup. I will be home most of the day tomorrow, playing with a new phone would be more fun than anything else I had planned -Mike
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