JonnygATL

I was just discussing this a little bit in another forum. It's crazy how everyone else says this phone is the best RF performer when for me it's been the worst RF performer of any phone I've ever owned. For instance, other triband devices get LTE here at my house. My single band GS4 did as well. So triband and single band LTE phones on Sprint get 4G service at my house but not any Nexus 5s. This seems to be a product issue inherent to all Nexus 5 devices. Even at work this phone jumps off and on 4g all day where there is a Sprint 4g live tower less than 1000 feet away. My GS4 would have a strong LTE signal there and so does everyone else on Sprint with whom I work. It's absurd. At the store they were confused, as always and so I went home and called Asurion and ordered a new N5. Which I got the next day. Which has all of the exact same issues. I swear I am going to explode from frustration! But like I said in the other post...the only 3G only tower inside of I-285 is the one right across from my house on the Northside Drive side of the Bobby Jones Golf Course. It is 3G NV upgraded but no LTE yet. So my single band GS4 would pick up LTE from more distant towers but the speeds were decent. This phone won't even pick up LTE from those more distant towers so I really feel this phone has worse RF performance than the GS4. At least my experience would seem to suggest that it is thus.

Yeah I have and there is just no way that it's the phone (again) unless all Nexus 5 devices have LTE connection issues. Most people say that they do not, which I find baffling (given my experience). I read somewhere on these forums where a user asked if Band 26 can cause separate ecsfb issues when it is being brought online but I don't think I saw the answer to that. And, yes, I'm aware that it's been said before but it really doesn't matter when I'm still experiencing the same issues. It shouldn't be a problem BUT IT IS. And that's why I'm keen on reading any issues people are having related to the Nexus 5 or even network issues as I continue to try to find a source for this issue. The only thing I can think of is to just sell the Nexus and go back to Samsung but I'm trying to hold out as long as I can to see if the issue resolves itself. One last thing - the tower nearest my house is the only 3G only tower for miles and miles around. But it IS 3G upgraded, just not 4G. This was no issue for my GS4 as it would pull LTE from other, more distant towers. But my N5 will not, even in LTE only mode. Other parts of town it WILL pull LTE if I force it but not here at home. That's why I feel the RF performance isn't as good on this phone. Everything I've experienced with this phone (both of them that I've had) directly contradicts what others are saying about this phone. But I'm not making it up. It's happening and it's annoying. Otherwise why would I mention it?

Is there a rough timeline on when these issues will be largely resolved on Sprint's network? I'm patient but it's annoying having essentially gone back to a 3G phone (at least until these ecsfb issues are resolved).

I get great LTE speeds, too but only when I force it. Otherwise the thing is constantly on 3G. But I don't do it often because I still need to take calls as it's still, ya know, a phone.

Hmm. That's troubling. My other n5 did the same thing but I thought it was just jacked up. Do you know of a link that might describe the "flashing" process?

In the instances I do get LTE I have noticed that my n5 switches to 3G around -101 RSRP. Is that a normal threshold for such a switch? I would think it a bit early as there is always usable LTE so long as I force LTE.

I think I meant to quote the other guy. Oops. P.s...I think I'm cursed. Or my phone is.

Thanks. I will look into this.

Clever joke but also entirely untrue in this case. I've done nothing to this phone besides activating it ( which took two Sprint chat sessions after work as it didn't even seem to want to activate). So user error is certainly not a factor.

Refuses to recognize LTE. Allegedly no ecsfb issues exist here. Also, despite what anyone says, this phone cannot match the S4's RF performance. This is my second n5 and it doesn't even compare. At least not where I live, work and play.

This phone drives me absolutely nuts. Received my replacement n5 yesterday at work. Activated it after I got off last night....same f-ing problems. I want to hurt someone at LG!!!!!

Scary but very true. The numbers don't lie (though they do sometimes get a bit twisted).

No, I haven't. Out for dinner and clearly overpriced margaritas with friends. When I get home I'll try it out.

So I went back to my local Sprint store. Spent at least an hour talking to these guys about Sprint, network vision and nv 2.0. They were amazed to hear how much I knew about Sprint's network improvement plans and even more shocked when I explained to them that all of my knowledge came from s4gru.com. so...don't be surprised if you've got some new members very soon! P.s... Yes.. My phone is jacked. They proved it...finally. At least now I know I'm not crazy!

Also i've received countless empty texts from "9479" since the day I bought the phone. It happens, on average, every 3 to 4 hours. Incredibly annoying.

Well Sprint has a 14 day return policy, not Google. There is a 1 year warranty on the Google Nexus 5, from what I've been led to believe. So I'm well outside of Sprint's but well inside of Google's. It's just so shocking to me to hear people say that this phone "is an RF beast" over and over when it is, by far, the worst RF performer of any phone I've ever owned. Something inside of it must be super jacked up. I'm sure there are bad batches of any product produced, cell phones or otherwise. And mine definitely came from one of those batches, if what everyone else is saying is true.

Mine definitely has a lot of backlight bleed as well. I've also been experiencing severe data connectivity issues. Maybe our phones both came from the same bad batch. How did you go about seeking a replacement?

Wow. You get band 41? Very nice indeed. but thank you for all of your input. I will definitely take all this into consideration when I talk to sprint tomorrow.

Been meaning to ask you.. you have a N5 and are in the Atlanta area and have had other LTE phones before the N5, same story as me. However my question to you is this: Everyone says how great an RF performer this phone is but, in my experience, I do not get band 25 in all the places that my S4 did. It seems my S4 always had a strong LTE signal (it was the single band version) everywhere I went and my N5 rarely wants to connect to band 25 at all. Right now I am bouncing between 3G and band 26 LTE. How has your N5 experience been?

I'm tossing this out into the universe and hoping Robert or someone else can shed a little light on this for me. I know that Atlanta is essentially complete and only the problem towers remain. One of those is right across ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Is there any way to find out why, exactly, this site has yet to be upgraded to LTE? It is a problem for us in this area due to the sunken nature of the topography here which prevents those of us in this little depression from connecting to more elevated towers to our north, south and east. OF COURSE it's the tower closest to me! lol

Yeah. I live and work in Midtown and Buckhead and the towers here typically give between 2 and 4 down. Just a lot of people on them. Though my friends on other carriers in the exact same areas get about ten times faster DL speeds. I dunno. But the speeds I get are at least usable and far better than pre NV conditions.

Sorry..no I just left that part out when I was typing. LTE only did nothing at that point so put it back on LTE/CDMA Auto PRL. That is when I thought I saw a flash of LTE. Then I toggled twice and go those two results mentioned above. Sorry..got ahead of myself while I was typing. But right now it's back and forth between 3G and LTE on B26. If it falls to 3G and i toggle airplane mode, it jumps right back on b26.

It suddenly cut off from B26 and LTE altogether and now, for the first time, is on 1x800. This is the first I've seen of this, too. Maybe it's some kind of testing on Sprint's part?

Ya know what? I was at first like, "yes, I've done that a thousand times!" And I have done it many times. However....I did it again just now and for the very firs time I connected to Band 26 at home. Freaky but awesome! Maybe after I adjusted the band priorities according to a previous post today and then did the PRL update it might have made B26 look more appealing to the device than band 25. Huh....whatever the reason I'm definitely stoked!

Alright. It's walking distance and I need to stop by the CVS next door to it anyway. So I'm gonna buck up and walk over there and try my best not to be sarcastic in my dealings with them (personal fault, I know). ...evolving story.