Oakley707

How can I tell if I'm connected to CA?

Sounds like with the engineering screens not working, you would have to do a speed test to confirm...

Ok great! I will check that out!

Also, if you are anywhere near Columbus, OH.  You should become a sponsor.  Our thread is one of the most updated threads with all kinds of site information.  We also have a database file for SCP, so you not only know which band you are on, but exactly which tower you are on as well.  Premiere sponsorship access gives you access to everything, well worth the cost of admission.

Use Hangouts Dialer + Google Voice, it's everyone's WiFi calling solution.  I highly doubt Sprint is working on integration of our "Sprint" wifi calling solution (which from what I understand is a non-standard implementation) on this "Google" device.  It's not a "Sprint" phone, it just happens to work quite well on the network.  I don't think we'll ever see Sprint Zone app either... it's actually a useful tool now but we'll survive without it. 

FYI, you could sideload it on the N6.  I wouldn't see why you couldn't do it on the 6P as well.

I was told when I called that my account has been noted that the device was damaged by me dropping it. But I don't regret doing the right thing.

 

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What you were told and what has happened are two different things.  I've been told many times that there were notes / credits put on my account that 'somehow' never showed up when I called back.  I'm kind of anal about calling customer service and always mark the date / time and person's name I'm speaking to specifically to refer back to that.  I think it is well worth another phone call, worst that happens is they say "I'm sorry sir, but I have a note on your account".  Again, I'm with you in telling the truth.  I'm not suggesting you call back and change your story.  I think you should call back and give the exact same story and see what the new person says.

MasterCard has said they will cover it.  However, they are asking that I get a letter in writing from Google and Huawei saying that it cannot be repaired.  Otherwise, they will only pay for the repair cost. But it sounds like it is going to be hell and take a long time.  I will contact Google Fi, because it may be worth the $100 if they'll do it!

I also, was wondering how Google tracks your complaint / call.  I'd think that you may want to simply wait a week and call back with the exact same story that you gave before.  I've noted that the customer service you receive is VERY dependent on how the other person is feeling that day...  I've definitely profiled the conversation (i.e. heard their voice and hung up before any information was given and called back immediately).  It may seem trivial, but I think some of these employees have more wiggle room than they initially lead on to on purpose.  I wanted to purchase a 6P device myself and am weighing your outcome / story pretty heavily.  I know for a fact at least years ago, that Apple had a one time forgiveness policy where you could purchase a replacement iPhone for on contract pricing (~$200-300 depending on model).

Good luck.

It's here! It's finally here!!!

 

 

 

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Sorry have to laugh at the N5 picture...

i cant get google voice to take over my voicemail duties.  i call the number the set up tells me to with *28 but it just rings and rings and voicemail is still stuck with the sprint system.  i seem to remember it is just suppose to ring like once isnt it?

I called Sprint about this a couple days ago. Apparently you can't use *28 anymore. You need to issue the two types of conditional forwarding (*73 and *74) separately. I tried it and it works, at least for me. They said they will fix the info. on the website to correct this but I wouldn't hold my breath on that.

This seems weird to me... Are you sure you have it setup correctly on the Google Voice website as well?  I have had it setup for awhile, but just re-did it when 6.0 came out and I did a full wipe.  May want to check all settings, you aren't talking about full integration are you?  I do not use full integration, so I cannot speak to that.

6.0 is super smooth. I'm liking the animations. Seems like battery life and the new radio has improved too.

 

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I agree, battery life is much better.  I wish SCP worked consistently, but I think that is more of an issue with 6.0.

That's understandable I know you come from a long list of HTC devices like myself. It's painful dealing with soft bricks and boot loops. With Nexus devices its extremely difficult to brick your device. I usually flash stock rooted roms and delete all the unnecessary gapps that I don't use.

 

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I said it a few comments up. I prefer to not to flash ROMs or updates for fear that I'll get stuck in a boot loop or brick my device.

I'm sorry I completely glossed over that comment.  I must agree with tybo31316, as flashing stock images on Nexus devices is much easier and better than HTC.  I remember having the original EVO and EVO 3D and how horribly annoying it was with those devices.  Either way, 6.0 has been running great.  Hope you get it soon.

I got the security update on the last day so let's see how long this one takes to get to me.

 

edit: I see someone said the same thing in response to that in the link.

You have a Nexus 6 and you are waiting for an OTA?  I thought that was the whole point of a true Nexus device.  I'm loving 6.0 on the Nexus 6.  I'm getting great battery life as well!

Confirmed that this is exactly what they are doing.

 

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I worded my post poorly.  I meant it was surprising that the Nexus devices do not get more love at local stores.  Most people ask about my phone / seem intrigued, yet I have always heard they do not do well when it comes to sales.

As an aside, no wireless charging is quite lame.

AT&T store in my city, one lady said they never sold one Nexus 6 that she was aware of and she only sold one Moto X 2014.  Activating mine was the first one she had dealt with.

May be why they are eliminating store / carrier versions altogether and just going with online sales.  Surprises me really, people always ask me what phone I have and want to get more information on it...  Oh well.

I have been noticing substantial on screen time with this preview. I didn't want to post it here unless it was consistent and I have been getting 5 hours minimum of on screen time after this build. In the 3 days I have been testing it. This is stock and encrypted btw.

 

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Wow, that battery life is incredible!

That does not change the fact that my 2013 Nexus 7, 2013 Nexus 5, and possibly my 2014 Moto X are not going anywhere.  They are sticking around, and both the Nexus 5 and Moto X already charge quite rapidly.  In my arsenal, the iPad mini 2 is the outlier, and it is a pain in the ass with its proprietary charger.  Fortunately, the iPad mini never leaves the house, mostly sits alone and sleeps.

 

AJ

No love for Qi charging?  I do not use my phone's charging port for anything other than fastboot / abd.  Even have one in my car.  Love it.

LTE seems unavailable in places I could always get it in the Carroll, Canal Winchester, Lancaster areas. Wazzzupp?

 

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It is possible they are doing some tweaks in reference to Band 25... Are you able to be a little more specific?  Are you running SCP?

No only the rim around the side is metal

 

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That is true, however, due to wireless charging the phone does have a smallish spot that will be attracted to a magnet.  The problem is the phone is so large, it doesn't work well.  I have an existing iMount that I used for my N5 and it does not work well with the N6.

Does the N6 have enough metal in the back to stick to a magnetic mount like the N5 does?

Hi! Sure thing! I'd be happy to.

 

I am indeed creating a new line with EasyPay on the same account as my existing line (which is also on EasyPay). Once the new line is created and I have both devices, I simply go into a Sprint store or use the online Sprint chat to swap the numbers between the two phones (so that my number is on the new device instead of the old one). Then, I terminate the phone number (line) that was moved to the old phone (but setup with the new phone). At this point, the full remainder of EasyPay payments are due on the old phone. So, for example, if I've had an HTC One M9 (which retails for $648 with 24 EasyPay payments of $27/month) and only made one monthly payment, when I cancel the line the remaining $621 balance immediately comes due. I pay this amount and sell the device on eBay or Swappa to try to retain as much of that as I can. 

 

Now, in terms of a decent profit - we all know the M9 is not a top seller. So I am going to lose a couple of hundred $$$ (at least) on this one! Ditto for most Samsung (nay, all Android) devices. Apple devices retain their values very well, I've found.

 

Not sure about that promotion as I was not offered anything like that (on account of my lines already being EasyPay). I would recommend taking it, particularly if you are looking at replacing the S5 anyway. Sounds like they might let you keep the existing phone, so you could turn around and sell it for at least $200. Plus, with EasyPay, you can always pay off your devices early and upgrade whenever you want - you definitely cannot do this on a contract!

 

Hope this info helps answer your questions. If not, let me know and I'd be glad to explain further.

This definitely helps.  I appreciate the detailed response.  I've got some more digging / research to do.  Thanks again.

In my case, I buy my phones on EasyPay. When I'm ready for a new one, I start a new line of service with a new, throwaway number, then swap the numbers between my new phone and old phone. Then, I cancel the line on my old phone, sell the phone on eBay, and pay off EasyPay on my next bill. This system has always worked pretty well in my case. Note that you do stand to lose some money from time to time, particularly if you're selling an Android phone - they just don't retain their value as well as Apple's products.

Would you mind explaining that in a little more detail.  I've always stayed away from the EasyPay options and stuck with 2 year agreements.  My wife's S5 is getting a little long in the tooth already (I know, a little nuts) and I received an offer to upgrade using EasyPay for a limited time.  It sounds like you are creating a new line with EasyPay, closing out the old account and then just continuing to do that.  Once you finish payments on the EasyPay you are no longer "tied" to that account / number?  Is that correct?  You are in turn paying full price for the phone (MSRP), but you are able to sell your old phone for a decent profit if it is ~1 year old.  Also, do you all know anything about this promotion?  Not trying to thread jack, it is related to getting a new phone every year...

Congratulations! For a limited time, you're eligible to upgrade your phone when you sign up for Easy Pay monthly installments or our Sprint Lease option with no service agreement. Or, upgrade with a new 2-year service agreement on 05/01/2016.

It has been since Saturday and I still do not have a resolution.  I must admit, I know the process occurred because of my actions, but I really think it should be a simpler fix.  If I didn't have an existing N5 that I didn't happen to trade-in / sell when I bought the N6 I would be livid.

Just to keep everyone informed of the situation, it appears I'm "lucky".  After multiple days / trips to Sprint local stores and multiple phone calls to executive services they finally added the device / MEID back to the database in order to re-activate my phone.  It was an overnight process and when I went to activate it online it "went" thru.  I waited over a half hour and the website was showing my N6 as active, yet no phone calls / texts / nor data would work.  I had to go into the Sprint store who troubleshot it for an hour before they sent me to a corporate repair store.  Another additional 1.5 hours later, the techs were completely stumped.  The SIM card was active, the LTE data was live yet the phone would not make calls or send text messages.  I reiterated that I used my phone for work and had spent countless hours trying to troubleshoot this problem and the manager was kind enough to provide me with a store replacement.  She mentioned that she would be docked for doing it, but basically felt bad for me.

So, all in all I'm a bit confused.  No idea why my old N6 "broke" when it went to Project Fi and why it couldn't be re-activated to Sprint afterwards.  Seems pretty weird and I'll chalk it up to an early adopter.  Having said that, at least Sprint stepped up and provided me with a new working phone.  Thankfully it is a Nexus, so it only took me half a day to re-flash images to the latest software and get Xposed working again.

How is the experience with Project Fi working for everyone else?  Switching from TMobile to Sprint seamlessly / making sense?  I'm very interested in the service combination as I think it would bode well for my area, but I'm nervous about the data pricing.  Really just wanted to try it out.

Good luck.. this device release thing is what I believe cost sprint a new customer that I tried to bring onboard from TMO awhile back... she said it was the worst experience she ever had to deal with.  it started with me trying to reactivate a phone on our account that I had briefly tried (and failed HA!) to use on Freedompop... Their fix was to overnight her two prepaid iPhones... total FAIL.

It has been since Saturday and I still do not have a resolution.  I must admit, I know the process occurred because of my actions, but I really think it should be a simpler fix.  If I didn't have an existing N5 that I didn't happen to trade-in / sell when I bought the N6 I would be livid.

I've hit this before. Sprint is paranoid about device IDs.

 

I moved a Sprint device from Ting back to Sprint Postpaid six months ago. It was a completely ridiculous ordeal, requiring about ten phone calls and a fax, over two weeks, before it was finally resolved.

 

Apparently, at that time there was no procedure for it at all -- officially, it "couldn't be done". Unofficially, you simply call in over and over again, hope you get escalated high enough that someone has database access, hope they take pity on you and decide to manually edit the raw list to move your device over, and then wait however long it takes them to get around to doing that.

 

Taking a device *to* an MVNO is simple, and almost entirely automated. Leaving that MVNO to take a device back to Sprint is incredibly difficult.

I now have confirmation in writing from Google that they have released my device...  We'll see how many phone calls today it takes to get this resolved.

It could be they are releasing invites by geographic area.

 

And to answer your question AJ, I just ordered the SIM and used my nexus that was on Sprint.

 

FYI: if you have a Nexus on Sprint you plan on using with Fi, you must deactivate it from being active otherwise, Fi activation will fail.

 

I put my Fi SIM in my N6 and went through activation and failed on the Sprint part. Once I activated my Sprint number on a different phone, it went through. Then I ported out of Sprint the next day.

 

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This is an interesting caveat.  To save all of the details, the intent for me was simply to test drive the Fi network over a couple of days (read: weekend) and then switch back to Sprint before the work week as I use my phone extensively for work and do not want to switch numbers yet / port over officially to Project Fi.  Please note that per above, you need to specifically de-activate your Nexus 6 from your Sprint account for your Nexus to be fully activated on Project Fi.  Here comes the fun.  I had an old Nexus 5, so I had activated it on my account in the interim.  I was done testing / playing with Project Fi and so I went online to Sprint's website to switch the device back to Sprint.  No dice.  I received an error stating that my device is not "We're sorry. The phone you've selected cannot be used at this time. Please select another phone to continue your activation."  Two hours later on Sprint technical support, no luck.  Two hours later today at a corporate repair center basically confirmed that the device ESN is no longer listed in Sprint's database to be activated and that it is unable to be brought into Sprint.  Even though, they confirmed that the N6 was on Sprint just days before under the same very account.  Two more phone calls into Project Fi where they confirmed that the "phone isn't locked when using Project Fi"... I'm now awaiting a response from Project Fi confirming that they in fact are releasing my ESN in order to get the phone back on Sprint.  All just to test drive Project Fi...

Hopefully this story can save someone else's time.  I'll keep everyone updated as to my resolution.  Pretty miffed that Google claimed they released my phone as I have now completely cancelled my Project Fi account instead of at first pausing them.

From my very basic understanding this is all Sprint's annoying way of authenticating devices.  If you are coming from a GSM carrier you shouldn't have these issues.  Blech.

How is SCP behaving on Fi? Is all your Sprint data populating?

 

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SCP behaves identical for me.  When on Sprint, all my notes show up.  When on TMobile, I do not have any notes, so none are shown.  However, GCI, PCI and LTE connection type are shown (ie Band 2).

Let me know if you have any other questions.  I've noticed the wifi calling is nice, but doesn't want to use it all the time.  Kind of weird.

i got my invite last week, however once I tried to sign up, I had to either get rid of my sprint integration/dual numbers or choose a different account.

 

I thought that I could simply request a completely new unrelated number, however it doesn't work that way.

 

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to take into consideration the existing invite when I created a new account to let me use my FI invite on it and now the new account is back in the FI waiting list.

 

In other words, the FI invite is hard linked to your google account and the option to create a new account means you start over in the FI queue.

Sounds like the ship may have already sailed for you.  I use Google Voice for visual voicemail with the N6 on Sprint, however, do not do the integration.  I spoke with Fi / Google support and was able to move my Google Voice account to a different gmail address (read: extra) and then used my personal (read: main) account for the Fi invite.  In speaking to support, you are unable to change your gmail account from Fi after the fact.  Therefore, I'd prefer that my Fi is on my personal and I can always change the Google Voice account back to my 'main' account if I do not like / utilize Fi.  Just food for thought.

As an aside, processing / shipping appears to be pretty quick.  Tracking number as of last night was already live and I am anticipating delivery on the 25th.

EDIT: https://goo.gl/photos/d96g6njcQq3DGgSCA Pictures of the arrival kit.  I'm about to activate, but may not have much time to play @6/26/15 4 est.

Just received my Fi invite yesterday and officially signed up today.  Sim should be shipping out soon.  I'll keep everyone posted as I'm interested to see what SCP / coverage / hand-offs work.