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That sucks about the $76 for one week. I tried out the Note 3 on the AT&T network for 11 days and I paid $31. But then, I wasn't charged a restocking fee and my CVS corporate discount waived the $36 activation fee.

Which part of OC do you experience this issue? You may be experiencing those symptoms b/c of the Network Vision testing & upgrades. It didn't to me for a while too during their upgrade/update cycles.

Woohoo~! Happy days the past few days! Pretty much all the towers in Orange now have 4G LTE~! There was one tower south of my house that was still red but it turned yellow 3 days ago. Cant wait for the wifey & mom to upgrade to the Note 3 so they can enjoy LTE and get away from WiMax, which was degrading the past couple of months.

Another good text app is 8sms. It's the AOSP one.

My GS4 was a preorder item, paid in full. After receiving the phone, I had to call Sprint to activate the phone as chat didn't work. I didn't have to step inside a store. When I got the next month's bill, I noticed that the full price of the GS4 was included in the bill, as well as the $36 fee. My contract was not renewed.

No, I bought the GS4 full price. Yet I still got charged $36.

I'm curious as well. If I know for certain that I won't get hit with an activation fee when I switch from my GS4 to the N5 (like Sprint did when I went from the E4GT to the GS4), I would activate the N5 on Sprint and let you know.

Great info and good to know~! I'm currently enjoying my N5 on a prepaid T-Mobile Kim card and the speeds & experience have been great. Quick question: when you activated the N5 on Sprint after putting in a Sprint card, what were the subsequent steps? Were you able to activate the N5 on Sprint via website or did you have to call in to Sprint? Also, were you made to pay an activation charge? I thought one didn't have to pay an activation charge but I was charged the fee earlier this year when I switched from the E4GT to the GS4.

It's true. The Google price is what it is b/c Google is subsidizing the cost of their Play Store N5's. Expecting others to sell at Google prices and take a loss or make minimal profit, if at all, is unreasonable.

So far between T-Mobile and Sprint in LTE areas for both, Sprint has been winning the Speedtests. However, once I go inside my house, a store, or a building, Sprint drops down to 3G whereas T-Mobile keeps LTE. I was inside a Home Depot tonight and I wanted to reference a price of an item on Amazon. I pulled out my S4 first and I couldn't even connect to the network. I then pulled out the N5 and I got connection right away and it was fast. I got a little frustrated with Sprint tonight.

Man, reading about all these LTE issues makes me glad I popped in the $30 T-Mobile SIM card first (once I get the S5, I'll sell the S4 and bring the N5 in to Sprint). Maybe b/c it's GSM but my N5 LTE & voice experience on T-Mobile has been very smooth. I hope Sprint will fix their LTE issues soon.

Thx but I already knew about that option. Basically what I wanna do is hide some apps inside the app drawer b/c I already have shortcuts to those apps on the homescreen, Pie Control, and Swipepad. I don't wanna filter thru apps inside the drawer when I already made shortcuts already. For instance, on my S4 and Hololauncher, my app drawer shows only about 25 out of my 120 apps, the rest being set as shortcuts thru Pie, Swipepad, and/or folders on the homescreens and docks.

Yea, I know about 3rd party launchers, Hololauncher being my preferred launcher and which is on my S4. I already have it installed on the N5 but I haven't started using it b/c I wanted to give myself the chance to try out the Nexus experience and see if I can get used to it.

I downloaded the Android SDK and installed the driver from within. Rebooted the laptop once & connected the Nexus 5 and it was installed shortly after. I then used Chainfire's CF-Autoroot to unlock the bootloader and install SuperSU. Compared to the S4 (I'm holding on to MF9 until MJA issues get straightened out), the N5 is much snappier and smoother. Compared to the Note 3, they seem about the same. I was surprised to see some slight lag when entering the Widget screen and during the initial swiping. I guess TouchWiz isn't laggy just b/c it's TouchWiz. This is my first Nexus phone and I don't understand why some people adore the stock Android experience so much. I don't like the Google launcher that much. In fact, I think TouchWiz is more useful & functional. And I don't like how I cant hide apps in the app drawer (if someone knows, please let me know). I thought the ability to hide away some apps would be so basic. As for my 4g LTE experience with T-Mobile today, my S4 got double the download speed and 5 times the upload speed at the same spot by my work. At that spot, even AT&T's 4G was slower. It felt good seeing Sprint's improvement and growth.

Ah, cant wait to go home! My white 32gb has been delivered!

My 32gb white Nexus is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, one day ahead of schedule. I'm ready to get it unlocked and rooted after work. Here is my question though. Initially, I'm gonna use my Walmart-purchased $30 5gb of data SIM card to get started on T-Mobile. Eventually, I would like to activate the phone on Sprint. If I do activate it on Sprint, will I be able to go back to using the $30 T-Mobile SIM card anytime I want? Or, once it's activated on Sprint, will T-Mobile & AT&T SIM cards stop working?

Good to know that it's easy & simple with a T-Mobile SIM card. According to UPS, the phone will be delivered tomorrow. . I'll post some screenshots of the T-Mobile LTE in action once it's all set up.

Congrats! I'm glad I decided to stay with Sprint too. When I joined Sprint for the first time, it was June of 2012 and our family all picked up the E4GT, WiMax phones. Lucky for us, WiMax was almost everywhere where we went. Then I skipped on the gs3 b/c I found this site and didn't believe what the Sprint reps were telling me - LTE in Orange County by the end of 2012 and or early 2013. When the GS4 came out, I bought it off-contract and used it with 3g and WiFi. Luckily, 3 & 1/2 months later, my area got LTE and now LTE is Sprint official and pretty darn good. The timing worked out very well, all thanks to S4Gru.

Woot~! I had placed my order for the 32gb white Nexus 5 & I finally got my tracking # at 3:20 this morning! . Got my 5gb T-Mobile SIM card ready to pop in.

After Orange County launched officially, I suddenly lost my 4g LTE signal at home. Called Sprint & let their technical support know about our worsening call signal, dropped calls inside the house, & no more 4g LTE. According to the tech, they said the tower is undergoing more work/updates due to an increase in Sprint subscribers. I'm in LA right now and I must say the 4g coverage has been pretty impressive. Better than when I used to come here with my WiMax E4GT. However, going inside buildings often takes me right down to 3G.

Not sure. But even if I could, I don't wanna do it b/c I want my GS4 alive on Sprint. And I don't wanna add another line b/c it would jack up the price, more so than just using the $30 flat T-Mobile SIM card option. According to the SIM card documentation, yes, it's 4g LTE. And T-Mobile coverage website says my area offers 4G LTE.

I decided to go a different route with my Nexus 5. I swung by Walmart after work to pick up the T-Mobile $30 microSIM kit. For $30, it gives me unlimited text, 5gb of 4G data, and 100 mins of talk. If I really fall in love with the phone, then I'll sell my GS4 and activate it on Sprint. Unlocked phones FTW~!

Ordered my 32GB white Nexus 5 at 1:38pm Pacific time with 2-day shipping & it's still pending.

It's a setting one can activate in Settings. Once turned on, one uses a swipe gesture to activate. It took me some tries to get used to it but it works rather well.

I doubt it. If Sprint didn't change the plans on me after introducing the One Up program, I would've just opened up a 6th line. More importantly, I discovered through real-world usage that the Note 3 isn't compatible with me. And there are hundreds and thousands of other products out there that cost more than a Note 3 where consumers have a 30 days return protection on.