lafester

Does anyone have an opinion on whether getting a new SIM would help with LTE connectivity issues? My local store has some extras on hand

Did not help for me either. However as I posted earlier I did start receiving LTE last night (about 30 hours after activation) and have been receiving fine since. I haven't heard anyone else chime in yet that was having issues yesterday so I can't confirm that it is just a delay with provisioning or something else.

In now connecting to LTE just fine how it lasts. As far as I know nothing has changed it just started working.

I am having the same issue as well with 32GB.I did however travel to Jefferson City,MO (recently added LTE)today for work and had an excellent LTE signal the whole time I was there. Internet Frog showed a download speed of 28.35 Mbps. Whenever I left, and the 3 hour drive home I had 3g, as I currently have now. So besides knowing the phone has potential for an extended period of LTE service, I'm not sure what it means. Trust me 28.35 was pretty nice compared to what I have now

Any way to get msl without bothering sprint?

Usual methods are not working.

What happens when you go to *#*#4636#*#* and select LTE only?

No service.

Should we start a separate thread for LTE issues only? I have tried everything including swapping sims and flashing the two older modem files posted at xda. The threads at sprint have gone quiet which isn't a good sign. It has to either be regional or a hardware problem at this point.

I received and activated my Nexus 5, 32 GB version last night and LTE fortunately has been performing great, much better than my old phone which was a EVO LTE. I didn't do anything special.I am in the DC area if that helps

Just did this and had no problems... of course I already had the drivers setup from galaxy nexus.

Got my 16 gb black today and also am getting no lte. Unfortunately I live on the edge of lte coverage which makes it difficult to test.

I do like everything about the phone though and will not miss my gs4 at all.

Looks like its just the black 32gb having problems activating and they are working on getting it fixed.

https://community.sprint.com/baw/message/671799#671799

Some people have he 32gb N5 and activated it, anyone have success with the 32gb version here?

I have only seen one post on xda... did you find more? Was hoping to at least confirm that it could happen.

Nexus is unlocked and will remain unlocked.

I dont mean locked into cotnract, I mean locked in hardware, like MEID.

so is it possible to reuse a s4 sim and have sprint re-authenticate? I know its been asked I guess maybe nobody knows yet. seems silly why don't they just tie the sim to the owner rather then the device so we don't have to keep calling to activate. hopefully they are moving in this direction.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I guess this is really how I assumed it would be, but with every day got a little more confident that we were on the verge of a major shift to a more GSM type model, even if only for a limited number of models.

 

I'm just hoping it's wrong, but really, it's been odds on that this is the way it'd be from the start.

 

Does make me rethink getting it though. Hopefully we don't have too long to wait to get some actual concrete answers, regardless of which way it goes.

 

until autoprime gives us a source this is just more rumor and speculation.

That is not the question.  The question is more of whether Sprint, Tmo and ATT will be allowed to sell the Nexus 5 through their corporate stores unlocked.  There is no doubt that the Nexus 5 will be sold through the Google Play store unlocked.

I don't think it will be sold outside of the play store but we shall see.

Since this is the first nexus to include sprint, tmo and att bands on one device nobody knows how its going to work.

It would seem like this device will sell through google directly and be unlocked for all gsm compatible + sprint.

Sprint could offer the phone at some point directly but I don't see why they would bother.

I like it but I do think this is an older prototype model. The final version should look a bit different.

Mostly this is a place to come share what you have found.

I don't see anything on sensorly for that area yet but glens falls has been active for a while.

Pretty much as far as I know. 800 is going to be the game changer.

I'll take 3-8 mbps though any day.

87 is now lit up almost all the way to saratoga

No? Ok put in a tmobile sim and see what happens.

It really should depend on how much you paid for subsidy. Full $199-$249 buyers should be able to go right in to one up in my opinion providing they trade in their phone.

If the Note 3 can be used as a world phone with sim cards?

 

Could you potentially use a tmobile month by month sim or boost mobile type pay as you go plan?

 

That is, could one use another service provider besides sprint with a sprint branded note 3 in the united states or would it only work with international sim cards?

Samsung is pretty good at blocking this for sprint. It may work at some point and it may not.

+1

No caps... throttle when necessary. 1-2 mbps should do it.

2gb hard caps are insane for what vzw and att are charging.

actually no they aren't.  If you want to manage how much folks use..slow them down.  t-mobile has that option available.  If you cannot support folks using 10 mb/s all the time then give everyone 1 megabit.  Also it is the wireless carriers own fault for marketing 4g as a replacement for wired.  What they need to do is properly manage their networks..caps only drive up revenues they don't do anything for network management.  SPrint's model is the new myway plans is more correct...reserve the right to throttle heavy usage(video..etc etc) to 1 mb/s or less rather than using arbitrary caps.  Also ALL connections are shared..it is just a matter of where the sharing takes place.

Ditto.

Are not most Nexus phones similar to the original, the phone which it wad based on or has it been a custom build? I was looking forward to the Note3, but disappointed with the 1 lte. I have wanted a pure Android device so the Nexus 5 is most likely to be my next phone. May they make s triband Google edition N3!

 

sent from the tiny N2

Note uses far too much samsung software to work properly as a google edition device.

$600 wow I thought tablet prices were coming down.

It does have some nice specs though.