Turas

That is great to hear about the zoo as I am about to make a trip there.  My family went there last year about this time and the signal was horrible.  I think my phone's radio kept trying to find a better tower because my battery died in about 2-3 hours which normally lasts the whole day.  

I just read through all of the markets for their completion rates which I had not done in some time.  I was pretty amazed at all of the NV 90%+ areas.  Being in the DC area things seemed to of slowed down which was affected my overall opinion of the rollout.  After seeing the latest updates I am very impressed.  Hopefully they keep the push on.  

I don't think I would go to anything other than the next Nexus after having the Nexus5.  Just a huge breath of fresh air after doing ROMs for HTC and Samsung.  I didn't have to do my own ROM for the Nexus5 and there's a huge reason why.

Amen to that. 

I was able to get it to work from a N5 (4.4) to a Netgear Push2TV adapter.  It did not connect the first time but then connected on the second time.  The performance was a little choppy for video but stills seemed to work good.  

in 5 hours the phone battery lost 17%. is that normal? I checked my email once and the time twice that's it.LTE was on all the timeOne thing to try 

One thing to try is Qualcomm's battery guru app also.  I have it on my phone and went 19 hours.  The phone had about 5% charge when I plugged it back in.  There was a mixture of gaming/phone and many emails.  I would consider it a moderate day of usage so I was pretty impressed.  

I just got my first flash of 1x 800 in Old town Alexandria, VA.  All of my bars went away and then it said 800 and stayed for a minute.  Then the bars disappeared again and was on regular signal.

Yeah, even compared to my S4 the battery does seem to be mediocre at best like Robert was saying also.  I have been off charger for 4 hours and am at 49%.  This will be my second full day with the device.  I seemed to get much better performance yesterday so maybe it is some app I installed.

It would have to drop the LTE connection while on the voice call since the phone does not support SVDO or SVLTE.

My network is CDMA/LTE

 

 

 

Does yours have LTE AND VOICE connected at the same time?

 

EDIT: Let me be clear, my phone functions fine, I have no connectivity issues in regards to things not connecting. My issue is there is NO VOICE connection along with being connected to LTE. 3G and voice connects together.

Wouldn't that always be the case?  These phones don't support SVDO or SVLTE so you can't have voice connection while also having LTE.

Looks like we're not out of the woods yet 

 

Has anyone with a 32GB white OR black successfully gotten LTE?

Yes, mine worked fine and gets LTE.  32GB Black.  I used my SIM from and S4.  I am getting very nice speeds with it also, I am not sure which band I am on yet. 

I was able to activate my 32GB black device using the SIM from my S4.  I put the SIM in and called customer service, gave them my id minus the last digit.  They updated my settings.  I had to go update PRL and then update profile and everything worked great.  

Just wondering how DC service is?  Has it seemed to improve of late?  I stay mostly outside of DC but many of my users live/work there.  I have been hesitant to move those guys over from AT&T yet.  Old Town Alexandria seems to have pretty good coverage now as did my trips to Fairfax. 

Would the sim card from an S4 work or is that a different type?

Any idea how long Google takes to ship? I chose 2 days instead of the other option.

I chose 2 day but the confirmation says it will leave the warehouse 11/05/2013.  I ordered the 32GB Black. 

I'm kind of surprised that only one person has added this monthly contribution to S4GRU since it was announced earlier this week.  I have been asked to add this feature by at least two dozen members.  Perhaps you all were waiting for the weekend? 

 

Robert

Make that two.

You all have too much time on your hands.

I am growing tired of waiting for things to come though.  I was so excited for the GN3 and then this phone when the other did not hold up but it seems to me HTC is just always late to the party.  I am re-evaluating my strategy and may just go GS4 mini and then a Nexus 7 as I can't seem to find the "One" perfect device that is not vaporware.

Argggg $349 instead of $299 like it is for all other carriers.

Well also the Nexus 5 has a smaller battery (2300 maH rumored) and probably no IR blaster.  Could be small details to most but to me the Nexus 5 smaller battery of 2300 maH vs. G2 battery of 3000 maH is a huge difference.  I don't think Google has made enough improvements in software to compensate for a 700 maH difference.  The HTC One also has a 2300 maH battery and from what I hear the battery life isn't all that great.

 

 

My associate has the one and loves the battery life.  He used an S4 for a two weeks while his one was out for repair and I heard him complain everyday about battery life  being so bad on the S4.  I am now using that S4 though and it makes it through the day though, so I am not sure what he is complaining about. 

Looking at the device list I don't see 800 voice.  Would all phones since 2012 support that?

Have we seen the FCC docs for this phone yet?  I tried searching but got no results.  I am curious about whether it will be tri-band or not.  With the Note 3 going single band I am on of the many here looking for an alternative.

It's just after using both physical and on display buttons, I find physical buttons take ever so slightly longer to use. Just a personal preference.  I also like having multitask as a button instead of having to hold down the home button. Again, slightly faster. Not going to stop me from buying the Note 3 though. 

Yea, I guess it is just preference.  I have many friends that love or hate a phone purely on the physical buttons.  I guess that is one of the reasons I love the Android ecosystem.  There are so many choices that at least one of them is bound to fit your needs.  I imagine it is a pain for developers though to have to deal with so many options of screen sizes/button layout and versions.  

I'm hoping the Galaxy S5/Note 4 stretch the display down to the bottom and use on screen buttons already. More screen real estate. The physical buttons are so old fashioned to me.

Whats wrong with old fashioned?  I happen to be a big fan of it. 

The wait is killing me.  My S3 screen is just too small.

Fairfax County does have many lit areas but I was in Fairfax City last night and it was no where to be found.  I wonder if they are not working on a tower though as there used to be decent coverage there.  Now there were zero bars or was roaming coverage only.