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Has anyone else with a G4 and a non-default launcher like the Google Now Launcher or Nova Launcher (or any other 3rd party launcher) experienced an issue where a Sprint app tries to download itself, but fails to do so, and then it resets the default home to the LG Launcher? I would have gotten a screenshot, but I already dismissed the message. I've had it happen to me twice already. I think I uninstalled one of the preloaded apps that they allowed you to uninstall, and it may be causing the issue, though I don't remember the name of the app 100%. I vaguely remember the Sprint app to be the Sprint Direct Connect app trying to download itself, so I installed the app manually through the Play Store to see if it'll fix the problem. I know it's a really weird issue, but I'll try to get a screenshot if it happens again tomorrow morning.

I'm definitely talking about the 2013 Nexus 7. The 2012 Nexus 7 was much worse, from what I heard, but it doesn't mean that the Nexus 7 2013 wasn't badly affected. Edit: And I'm not suggesting this is happening to everyone. I have another friend who has a Nexus 7 2013, and he also said he was enjoying Lollipop on it. My Nexus 7, however, is shared between my girlfriend and me, and both of us agree that it is much worse than when it had 4.4 or 4.3.

I got a G4 yesterday. It's definitely a nice device. I didn't get the leather back though, because I'd rather get a case (and the case I'm getting doesn't have support for the leather back supposedly). In any case, coming from a Nexus 5, I definitely notice both a huge battery life increase, as well as a way better camera. I have already gone through 2 and a half hours of screen on time with 63% remaining. I don't care whether that's good or bad to some of you guys, but for me, it's a HUGE upgrade from my Nexus 5, which would have been on fumes with the same usage. I will definitely miss my AOSP settings, though, but after getting used to it, I remember how much I like customization without resorting to rooting and Xposed. I already added and deleted certain toggles in the quick settings bar in the notification shade for example, and I like having a different wallpaper for my lock screen and launcher. Performance wise, I definitely notice a very slight stutter every now and then compared to the N5, but not enough to bother me. It seems like installing apps and loading some websites is faster on the G4 though. I'm guessing it's just due to either better NAND storage or better RAM, or it could just be a placebo effect, but if it is, that means the performance difference is negligible, so it's more than good enough, in other words. As I've already put the Google Now Launcher on this phone, it feels like home, and I'll definitely enjoy it more than my Nexus 5 now that I have better battery life and that better camera.

I highly agree with the Nexus 5 statement, but the Nexus 7 statement, I'm kind of on the fence. On one hand, it's definitely the best tablet that came with the Nexus name, and the Nexus 9 was just disappointing. On the other hand, my Nexus 7 has slowed down so much after Lollipop, I haven't really used it anymore. I'll actually be jumping ship to the LG G4 either today or tomorrow. As much as I love my Nexus 5, its battery life is really what irks me, and LG's G series has had much better luck with battery life. Even still, I'm actually planning on keeping my Nexus 5 as a secondary device until it dies. It's just that good.

I just got an email from Sprint today with a link to this pre-order page. I happened to see this in the description: Is June 5th a confirmed release date? It seems like a plausible date, though I haven't read any confirmed release dates on other major tech sites.

I have been selected for jury duty, and I'm in the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown la. This is definitely a place that could benefit from 800. At least the WiFi is usable.

Yes, San Bernadino County is still holding us up. From what I hear around this site, though, that should be resolved during this summer. I'm crossing my fingers for this one. One thing I've been happy about though is their rapid expansion of B41. I haven't seen too many new B41 additions within the last couple of weeks, but I saw a vast improvement over the last 6 months down here in Irvine and Tustin. I'm even seeing B41 in places where I barely get any B25, indoors of all places. With B26, indoor coverage should be even better.

I seem have the opposite experience, and it kind of resembles one of the old KitKat radios for me. My phone seems to hate 3G now. Whenever I'm in a 3G only location, my phone seems to want to scan for LTE all the time, and I consistently have no data connection while this is happening. When I do get into LTE range, though, it jumps onto LTE. Not too quickly, but I wouldn't say it takes forever. Then everything works well after connecting to LTE.

I don't remember having that bad of an experience when I flew to Japan last summer. Even according to the maps on this site, the towers around LAX are pretty up to date. With that being said, if you read just a few posts before yours, you can see that LA and some of north Orange County was having a pretty big LTE problem. One person in the OC Market thread reported his home Clearwire tower is back up, so hopefully the issue is fixed.

I think Robert said Southern CA, not Southern OC. As far as I know, Tustin and Irvine are ok.

In the last day or two, it definitely looks like the memory leak has been fixed. I also have to note that my WiFi has been performing much better as well, though I've seen on XDA that some people still have dropped WiFi. So far, I haven't had my problems on 5.0 and 5.0.1 where my WiFi just stops working for a more than a few seconds at a time. This is definitely looking good.

I'm pretty much on a command line daily and the instructions are not too bad to me. What I typically do is flash manually since I'm just used to it. Basically: Extract the .img files that start with or are named bootloader, radio, boot, and system to your adb/fastboot directory. If you want stock recovery, also extract the recovery.img to the adb/fastbook directory. Then boot your Nexus into Fastboot mode by turning off the power first then power it on by holding the volume down and power buttons at the same time. Then connect your phone to the PC, and then do in the command line: fastboot devices and make sure you see some device id. Otherwise you need to download drivers, which you'd have to google yourself . After you see it, do this first: (for any of the <name> items below, use the actual name for your file and don't include the <>). fastboot flash bootloader <bootloader-...>.img Then fastboot reboot-bootloader when that's done. Then the rest: fastboot flash boot <boot>.img fastboot flash radio <radio>.img fastboot flash system <system>.img If you want to flash recovery, then: fastboot flash recovery <recovery>.img After that, do another: fastboot reboot-bootloader and then use the Volume up/down keys to navigate to Recovery, and then press the power button to get into it (I usually have TWRP or CWM still). Wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache and then just do a normal reboot, and you should be updated, with all your data intact. That's pretty much what updating through OTA does, except this is all manual, and an OTA flashes the stock recovery all the time. If you want to do a full wipe, you can still do a factory reset in Recovery.

Surprised that we got it along with the N10 before the N6 and N9. Well... I guess i'll be doing some flashing tonight.

I agree about the off contract price difference, and in the end, I'm ok with paying the $200-$300 to get on a 2 year contract. It's not like I'm leaving Sprint anytime soon anyway, and the Galaxy S 3 and Nexus 5 proved to me that a good enough handset is usually just fine 2 years down the road. Edit: and to add to that, I was already planning on holding onto the Nexus 5 until VoLTE and CA become more prevalent, so who knows how long I would have held onto the N5 if it wasn't for the battery life. I'll be just fine with spending the $300 (most likely) on contract price for the Galaxy Note 5 if it holds up just as well as my recent phones.

I know what my options are. The fact that I have to charge it midday is what bothers me, not whether charging is easy to do or not.

To be honest, I'm probably done with the Nexus phones until they can bring battery life up to par with the flagship devices that fall in the same generation. As much as I love my Nexus 5 and AOSP Android, I find that I'm wishing I had more battery life during the day, especially considering I work in a building that gives everyone bad signal regardless of carrier. I mean, in terms of just the Snapdragon 80x devices that the Nexus 5 and 6 fall under, the LG G2, Galaxy S 5, and the HTC One M8 pretty much consistently beat both Nexus phones in different websites' battery tests. Even something as small as the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact is beating the Nexus phones on battery life. For my next phone, I bought my Nexus 5 off contract, so I can technically upgrade now if I wanted to, but I'm kind of playing the waiting game to see what LG comes out with for the G4 and how Samsung treats the Note 5. The Note 5 will be released during fall most likely, so I have a quite a while to wait for, but like I said, I still love my Nexus 5 so I can wait. I just have a charger at work to make sure I'm not going under by the end of the day.

That's exactly what it sounds like to me. I can't verify if I was on LTE or not while the calls were trying to be made, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was since I have pretty good LTE signal at home. The problem is this hasn't happened to me before being in an ALU market. It could have been something that got messed up when they upgraded my home tower to LTE a couple months ago. I contacted Sprint customer service already talking about the issue, and I hinted that it could have been an eCSFB issue without sounding like I knew what eCSFB was, but it's hard to reproduce the problem because most of the time, it's ok, and it's not like I receive calls on a daily basis.

I also think it's a network issue, but we'll see. Unfortunately for me, my missed call last Saturday made me miss a dinner with my parents. Or a missed call to my girlfriend means I'm outside of our apartment waiting for her while I'm blocking traffic. So yea, there's that.

Yup. Lollipop has had that issue for a while. I switched my launcher to Nova launcher (a pretty good launcher that I've used since tha Galaxy S 3 days), and while I still run into redraws from time to time, I don't get it as often as with the Google Launcher. Maybe you can try that and see if that goes away.

I've also been having the same experience within the past few days/weeks. I don't know what's happening, but it seems to just miss random calls. Some calls go through, but others just don't even reach my phone. I just either see a voicemail, a text from the person who called me, or a call that happened to be the 7th try of the other person. I'm stock rooted as well, but no fancy shmancy things like Xposed. Just Titanium Backup.

First of all, Welcome to S4GRU. As many of the S4GRU Sponsors and Premier Sponsors will attest to, Sprint's coverage maps are very exaggerated and not as accurate as we would like. I don't want to push you to do it right now, but sponsors get a ton of maps that are a lot more accurate since S4GRU himself gets updates from sources inside Sprint, and, in addition, we have many people who love to contribute to the maps. I am an owner of a Nexus 5 on Sprint, and I live in Orange County, but I go to LA a lot since it's my hometown and my parents still live there. In Downtown LA, B41 is pretty much everywhere, though I can't speak for Santa Monica as I don't go there that often. Orange County used to be hit an miss, but it's actually a lot better now than it was 2 years ago. In terms of improvement, I can say that Sprint has improved substantially and is continuing to improve ever since the whole merge between Sprint/Clearwire/Softbank. I live in Tustin and work in Irvine, and about 2 years ago, I was really disappointed with Sprint's performance. I stumbled upon this site, though, and I got a ton more information. I was really considering switching to Verizon back then, but this site changed my mind. Come to the present, B25 covers most places I go with more than good enough speeds, and B41 is starting to appear all over the place. Heck, there are places I feel like B26 would have been the savior frequency due to low density towers and a lot of buildings, but B41 and B25 is actually covering those places very well to my surprise. Is it worth the wait? In my opinion, that depends on each person. To me, it was well worth the wait, as I'm actually performing better than my Verizon friends in a lot of places now, and it was not like I absolutely needed the fastest speeds and usable data connection every single minute of the day back when my data was terrible. Some people, though, do need their data all the time as they rely on it for more than just looking at emails or getting some quick info, so for those people, I can understand why Sprint is not for them. So it's up to you. I waited and it was much better than I expected. The first few months were obviously painful, but I can't say that anymore. I have great Sprint coverage. They will definitely improve, as this site has boatloads of information about future plans about Sprint, and I see a bright future. If you want to stay with Sprint, you definitely can. Just don't expect any overnight changes. If you want to return to T-mobile, go ahead and do that too. This is the information I can give you based on my own experiences, so with that, you can do whatever you want to do.

I have had that happen to me before, but only once or twice. A reboot fixed that issue for me. Hasn't happened in a while for me. I wish you the best of luck because I know how annoying it was for me.

Yea... I'm actually planning to get the next Galaxy Note phone. As much as I hate TouchWiz and was never a big fan of phablets, the note 4 has been topping the battery life charts, and I've decided that I'll deal with it for a better battery. And with no xposed support on lollipop, and who knows if there ever will be due to ART, vanilla Android is kind of lacking in features. No question I loved my Nexus during KitKat, though.

This has been pretty much my experience with lollipop as well. Some days are just really good. Some days, the battery life just drops horribly. No usage changes, just vastly different battery life from day to day use.

That's definitely good news to my ears as I was at the Anaheim Convention Center not too long ago in November, and I was nowhere near getting B41 there. I did have pretty usable B25, but this is the first I've heard of B41 being available there.