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Just activated and rooted my n5. I must say I love this phone already the speaker isn't as bad as people say. I believe its being compared to the HTC one but taking that phone out the picture it seems to be on par with other android devices. Most importantly of all I'm getting a -101 LTE signal throughout my house when my EVO LTE would rarely connect.

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Just activated the N5 and MY GOD.... The RF difference between this and the Evo is huge. I used to have to drive a mile to get LTE in my apt. Now my N5 is holding onto a faint signal.

 

Already satisfied lol.

How's the battery and the rear speaker compared to the EVO LTE? I'm home patiently waiting for my device to arrive.

For those of you that are rooted what are some good Roms for the n5

Just activated the N5 and MY GOD.... The RF difference between this and the Evo is huge. I used to have to drive a mile to get LTE in my apt. Now my N5 is holding onto a faint signal.

 

Already satisfied lol.

I have mine coming on Monday I can't wait to get it took advantage of the $30 amazon deal. I went to the sprint store last week and the one max, the g2, and a couple other phones were on 3g the nexus had 2-3 bars of LTE. So that made my decision easy.

be careful to note if it says eligble for 'one up' upgrade that means you have to switch to the new myway plans and give them your old phone.

No it was the 2yr price ordered from amazon but it's taking longer than usual to process the order though. Probably due to the black Friday volume. Ordered the spigen neo hybrid gold to wrap around my new baby.

Trying to get sprint to push my upgrade back since my upgrade is Jan 1. They r not budging one bit, pissing me off.

 

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Well for some odd reason my upgrade is January 1st and suddenly check online and I'm eligible for an upgrade now so I went ahead and jumped on the nexus 5 before sprint changes it up.

Amazon has this for $9.99 with new contract and $29.99 upgrade

 

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I'm all over this thanks dude. Nexus here I come.

Has anyone noticed that on the sprint site when looking at the nexus 5 it has a box at the bottom saying that in store pick up is unavailable and will be back for cyber Monday. The nexus 5 is the only device that has this notification. Do you all think that the nexus 5 will be a part of the cyber Monday deals on sprint.com

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Well, I'm getting close to the end of my billing cycle. In at 3.6gb used mostly Google music and you tube at work. This is a great sign that network vision is paying off. Before I couldn't use over 500mb. Love this new network in Jacksonville. Can't wait until I get my nexus 5.

They took away in-store pickup. This sucks now. About to call up and complain. Deals are only available online correct?

 

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In store also

For sprint one up maybe. I'm due Jan 1st still.

 

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Likely for the One Up program. I think they're doing that because they do actually make money on the program, and they're aware people want to know when they can get a new phone to replace the EVO Shift they got for free on contract a few years ago. If they see "eligible now", they'll rush to sign any piece of paper that gives them a phone.

Usually on the site it would say eligible for one up now and x amount of days until 2yr upgrade. Also when I browse the phone while logged in. It shows the two year price vs the full retail it used to show.

Does anyone have any deals for the cyber Monday sale? I checked my account today and mysteriously my upgrade date from Jan 1st to eligible now.

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Are there any stores selling the nexus 5 at a reduced priced on contract for black Friday?

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If anyone on a tri-band is ever out by Blanding Blvd and Old Jennings road, can you check the signal levels for me? I cannot find any 800mhz cdma on my GS3, so maybe another phone might see it.

 

If anything, the signal got worse again for 1x, I'll ignore LTE as I have wifi at home. I'd love to not rely on the Airave, or not be able to call near my house.

 

Other than my black hole, I'm loving the coverage. LTE is fast enough at work that I don't use the company wifi. I still sometimes drop back to 3G at Blanding and 295, but its random and only about 20% of the time max.

Blanding and brannan field road is where I first found CDMA 800 last week if that helps

I was late on my bill this month by three days, and I noticed as soon as sprint sent me a reminder of a balance past due, I wasn't getting LTE. This happen the last time I was past due earlier this year.

It's never happened to me and I'm always late paying my bill.

so i went to apple today and had my iphone warrentied because it got bent... how does that happen!? lol has anyone heard of this or had this issue? apple was cool about it and swapped it out for a new one though

I know when the EVO LTE launched people were bending their phones. Mostly people who carried their phone in their back pocket.

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Looks like Sprint added a new site downtown near the courthouse. They used to be a Nextel towers now it has Sprint Network Vision equipment with no legacy panels. Do you think this site was an iDEN conversion to network vision?

I was at the BJs on Philips today and had LTE inside the store. I was pretty impressed. Also had it while at The Pig on Old St Augustine Rd.

I see you've been in jax a lot the last couple days. LTE is very widespread in jax just my EVO can't pick it up all the time.

One other thing. Could you post the channel it was on? Look in your 1x engineering. Curious if they are still using 476 there.

I'm not in that area anymore. Is there any way to look it up without actually being connected.

You are pretty far from it. Check the 1x engineering screen and see if you can pull the lat long there. In Ericsson markets the coordinates are offset but would give you a good indication of where it is.

 

EDIT: I thought that SID looked weird. I see you are using a test 800 PRL as stock PRLs do not have that SID:

22433,Sprint Nextel,Pendleton OR; Sandpoint ID; Spokane WA

 

You'll notice you might have odd data issues and other weirdness since your phone is idling in the wrong geographic of the PRL and probably scanning the wrong EVDO channels for Florida.

Everything was fine except when I was on a call on 1x 800 and traveled out of 800 range the call dropped instead of switching over to 1x RTT.

CDMA 800 going strong in this location. Its staying connected and not dropping so whatever site is broadcasting must be online and past the test phase.

Wow. I wonder which tower this is coming from. This is in my back yard, practically.

For some reason signal check won't detect the location of the site.

Actually connected and make a phone call.

Connected to 1x 800 again outside the Pepsi plant on Bowden road.

If you get it from the Play Store, definitely go for the 32 gig version. It is only a little bit more money, but makes it worth the premium over buying it subsidized from Sprint. If I didn't have the G2, I'd definitely get the N5. It's a nice phone. I also recommend the black version since it has a nice matte texture as opposed to the glossy plastic feel of the white version.

That's what I had in mind. A black 32gb from the play store. Stock android is boring compared to some of the OEM skins but my nexus 7 made me fall in love with the nexus line. The only reason I didn't get the nexus 4 was it was GSM only. Also the tri band support and the updates from Google is another reason why I want it so badly.