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They're sending refurbished devices? Boooooo. Not cool. (But only because mine was still in perfect condition.) Why not just swap the boards? The back is user-removable. Maybe it'll be different for mine since I'm going through LG.

If I can get a refund from eBay on my botched Nexus 5 order I'll put that in on top of what I already have.

I went ahead and initiated the return on ebay. (Item was sold as non-returnable but regardless of what happens I'd like to hear what the seller has to say about this.) Until I can get this figured out (or my 5X is fixed), I'll be texting with an LS840 LG Viper circa 2012! Talk about a throwback.

Hi all. So since my Nexus 5X is busted and my old 5's daughterboard connector on the motherboard gave out, I purchased a Nexus 5 with a cracked display on ebay to harvest the motherboard from. The mobo works, but there's another problem. It was advertised as 32GB, but upon connecting the board to a working LCD and booting fastboot I discovered it was a 16GB T-Mobile model. So now I need some advice on how to get it whitelisted. The lowest-tier chat rep just told me it was incompatible after I gave her the IMEI. Where do I proceed from here? I remember reading a few success stories from people who got T-Mobile-purchased models whitelisted. And any advice on how to deal with the ebay mis-labeling? Do I just report it as "item didn't arrive as described"? It was $50, which I considered a fair price for a salvageable working 32GB board, but there are listings for cracked/broken LCD 16GB T-Mobile models for less than $10.

Woohoo! I'm a lucky winner! I get to go a week+ without a phone! http://www.androidauthority.com/nexus-5x-android-7-nougat-bootloop-issue-717698/ Anybody know how to navigate the pathetic Nexus hardware support system? Is a phone call during business hours (when I'm totally unavailable for the next three days) the only option? This is throwing a massive molten wrench into my week.

So how long is it gonna be before AT&T just sorta runs out of cash?

In many places, site density is so low and so few 8T8Rs have been deployed (or maybe they just haven't been optimized since initial deployment...?) that B26 is deployed with the same range as B25 which keeps all data use on the far edges of cells on EVDO.

Well I guess it's good that they're bothering to disable it in strained areas? I guess? Trying to find a positive to this and that's all I can come up with. I guess it's useful for the specific use case of unexpected hour-long downtime in a WiFi-less environment where watching Netflix is socially acceptable/allowed. I can count the number of places where I'd want to stream on a whim with no WiFi available and be willing to pay $3 for it on one hand. And I'm in those places a couple times a year.

If this is still under consideration I'd probably put in at least the minimum, maybe more depending on what I've got.

That would make sense. The big issue I noticed (I only checked Verizon, and I didn't even check PCS and 700) was they left out Verizon's second AWS carrier here. Even if so, that's pretty much useless data, especially when CA isn't even mentioned.

Hmmph. Rather underwhelmed. I was hoping for something that looks less like an iPhone and more like an M7. Oh well. I still like my 5X anyway.

Agreed. It was so incredibly groundbreaking at the time. Snapdragon 800! That was huge news! And it was only $350! And I actually do miss the weird curved top and bottom sometimes. Only gripe from me was battery, which the 5x has completely remedied.

Swapping the equipment costs money. But we should really be mad at Dish here for what they pulled during AWS-3. That's the main reason the 600 projections were so expensive.

Count me as really excited about possible consumer-purchaseable LTE femtocells. Other than that, mostly stuff we already knew. Which makes sense since I'm sure he had a lawyer-moderator sitting next to him the whole time.

Heh. I'm still in high school. No firsthand memory of 9/11 at all (thankfully).

Gotcha. (I've been reassured they're the same physical device thing before, but I suppose the distinction matters a lot in this context.)

So I'm guessing they go back and bypass the splitters combiners (d'oh) in 10x10 markets?

So I just looked real closely and realized the combiners aren't connected to anything. I feel dumb now. So to clarify, some RRUs can do MIMO LTE+CDMA over just two coax lines?

Actually, it looks like there are only two lines going out of the RRUs. So why are there four input lines on those combiners? Edit: it just occurred to me that they may be using the combiners as splice points for the old coax to new coax. Is that a thing that happens? http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/7581-gmo-site-discussion-ground-mount-option/?p=488451

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but it looks like nothing's connected to the output ports on those RF combiners.

I think I said it in another thread, but if they can eliminate handoff issues, any LTE is better than none at this point. Even if it's SISO that's still ~18mbps vs 2mbps on EVDO. It made sense to GMO sites back when Sprint thought they'd actually be able to go back and fix them, but it's clear they don't have the resources required at the moment.

I feel your pain. No new permits in a year and a half here. And that powerline story sounds familiar. T-Mobile just took up Cricket's spot and managed to get tower-mounted RRUs and full size antennas permitted on a slim flagpole site near me that required some pretty extensive aesthetic modifications (the site looks kinda like a thin Seattle Space Needle now). Sprint GMO'd it in 2014 and hasn't touched it since. The GMOs really sting. We've got a couple that really give Sprint a bad reputation around here because they happen to be in bad spots. That's something I don't get: all of the other carriers seem to be able to prioritize and fix pain-points at a hyper-local level whereas Sprint will just go through and upgrade as many sites in a market as they can in one pass and leave anything that they couldn't get to whether the non-upgraded site is next to a huge mall or in the middle of a corn field. The other three will do what they need to do to fix the mall site immediately and they’ll even eventually get around to the cornfield site. Sprint will let both sit indefinitely. I know my time watching this stuff is pretty limited compared to many others here, but from where I’ve been sitting for the past three years it looks like when a site isn’t done right the first time (i.e. subcontractor permit screwups, site owner negotiation problems, structural limitations) they just call it a day and leave it until total equipment failure happens. The result is a very inconsistent experience depending on where you live. I can drive from a GMO LTE build to a triband full build to a congested dualband full build to a non-functional 3G GMO to no service in about 15 minutes depending on traffic without leaving suburban south Charlotte. When it’s good it’s great, but when it’s bad it’s like I’m back in 2011. The lack of new sites doesn't help. But I don't think it's fair to put all of the blame on Sprint's new executives or even past executives here. Since before NV started they have never really had a surplus of cash that would be required to go back and fix bad sites. And there's some good news. Even with Sprint's lingering cash deficiencies they appear to be doing serious infill work in critical markets to make the network more consistent. They're still trialing new small cell types. They are appointing regional managers whose duties include local network patchwork. And they’re quite surprisingly taking small cells a lot more seriously than T-Mobile (and AT&T too from what I can tell) which allow them to really fix hyper-local network holes. ^^^ this is really unfortunate timing.

Not sure about twrp but I think you can flash radios without a custom recovery.

Weird and annoying as it may be, at this point it looks like Google's general policy for apps they deem growing too bloated/clunky is to kill them off and replace them with new apps developed fresh from the ground up rather than debloat existing apps.

Just ran across this http://www.journaltranscript.com/2016/08/sprint-corp-nyses-and-charlotte-mecklenburg-provide-wi-fi-to-students/ I think this is the first time I've heard our regional manager guy address the press.