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Got my MSL from sprint with a 3 min phone call. The guy was very helpful and gave it to me no questions asked. Call back.

Looks like 3G has been upgraded in Charlotte completely. Hopefully Raleigh is next. Anyone in Charlotte still having issues?

It will do a wake lock every time it has to CHANGE the color. For example, if you have it set to go Red-Green-Blue-Red-Green-Blue..... when you have an email, missed call, and fb message, this will cause several short wake locks EACH SECOND. For this reason, I have mine set to only show the color of the LATEST notification, so the color only changes if I get a new notification of a different color.

Exactly. While I'm upset I'm back to 2011 3G speeds, its good to finally know the cause and that it can be fixed. I live in an announced LTE market. Here's to hoping Sprint flips on the 3G NV (all equipment is in place for 3G if the site has LTE) ASAP. It seems that Sprint turns on LTE as soon as, or soon after the NV equipment and backhaul have been installed. Then they wait until all of the sites in a small area, or "cluster" are upgraded to turn on 3g/voice NV to avoid the handoff issues they saw in the first several NV markets.

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BAM. Good catch. Thats 100% the problem. Raleigh is LTE only, where I am now is LTE and 3G upgrades.

Saw somewhere else the suggestion to report this to Android Blogs to get some press going to hopefully get Sprint motivated for a fix. I'd suggest others submit tips too, maybe S4GRU can write a blog post a "scoop" all the blogs again? Issues were first reported here!

Nothing wrong with your phone. Nothing wrong with your settings. Something is wrong with the Network in the triangle. No idea when or how Sprint will fix this, whether it will require a phone update (god I hope not that could take forever) or a network update (might be quicker?) Interesting the G2 is having this issue too, hate it for you guys, but its good that this will prob make Sprint fix it faster.

I was heading East. Picked it up west of Wilson, held it through Farmville (population of like 13) and had a crazy strong signal in Greenville.

I traveled 25 miles outside of Raleigh and instantly got a strong LTE signal. I then kept that LTE signal for several hours in areas my EVO barely got signal and where I had no idea LTE even existed (super super rural areas). I traveled in and out of LTE areas for about another hour and the device performed handoffs flawlessly. I'm now getting LTE inside of a house where an iPhone 4S and a (older) blackberry have to step outside to keep a call from breaking up. I'm VERY VERY impressed. This 100% confirms in my mind that the issue so many of us are seeing connecting to LTE is regional. I am absolutely confident that as soon as I get back to Raleigh I will go back to never seeing LTE again until Sprint fixes this. Which is disappointing, because the radio in this thing, especially on LTE is the best I have ever seen in my life, by far, but Sprint has something seriously screwed up in many parts of the country keeping us from connecting.

I'm definitely thinking this is a regional issue now. You're right down the road from me and I have several other reports from RDU guys that their N5 will not connect to LTE.

A reboot or an airplane mode toggle causes an immediate scan and we still cannot connect to LTE. Not a scanning issue unfortunately.

Is it time to start a separate thread with a couple of polls that people can answer, like bands in your area, what your area is, hardware vendor in your area, etc? So we can find a trend?

Is Raleigh a Band 41 market??? I know you know Robert! Edit: I'll be traveling to Greenville NC this weekend, and while they have B25 LTE (relatively new), I'm pretty sure they do NOT have B41 LTE. So we'll see if I connect instantly like I should.

It's that way for all of us (regarding LTE flashing for a second) that cannot connect to LTE. I assume everyone is on B25. We'll see what happens tomorrow. I'm HOPING even the N5's sold from Sprint will have this issue in the areas we are seeing it in, that will light a fire under their asses to get it fixed.

It's been about 80 hours for me (got it monday morning). Not a drop of LTE yet.

It will be interesting to see tomorrow if any of the people who purchased theirs from Sprint have the same LTE problems in the same areas the rest of us are. Approaching 1 week of having this phone and haven't seen any LTE yet. As we get closer to the end of the return window (14 days after order I think) it's going to be hard to decide whether or not to return it or just put a TMo SIM or something in it, the phone is great otherwise.

We cannot even connect by airplane toggle or reboot. Not a single LTE connection (unless you go into the testing screen and force it into LTE Only mode, but then you have no voice connection).

Raleigh has had solid LTE for a long time, I get it everywhere but my home. However in 3 days, my N5 has not connected once. The N5 has major major issues in some areas, most of us have never seen the LTE icon unless we force LTE ONLY.

Those of us that cannot even connect to LTE are jealous

Sprint. I was in the Google Voice pilot program for Sprint integration though, I've had it since the beginning.

Not sure if it is 1 or 2 but it is full integration. I only have 1 number, my sprint number is my google voice number. I no longer use the google voice app, hangouts for SMS & MMS and have the voicemail integrated into the stock dialer. I still use the gvoice app to text from my tablets/computer though and no MMS there obviously.

It works with the hangouts app through your sprint integrated gvoice number.

No. Stock, un-modified devices have the issue. It is likely region specific. Alcatel-Lucent markets I'm thinking.

Sprint has confirmed the issue on their own forums. Hopefully the fix is as easy as the one for the MEID debacle. https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/138887?start=15&tstart=0