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Nexus 5 |OT|
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Arjen
Member
Hi (Dutch carrier). Yeah, chip is turned upside down.
WolfForager
Member
Is there any word on when the N5 will be available on Amazon UK?
I guess I would order another or take it by their shop.
How much time to give a suggestion? Based on your link it's "Showing 1 - 16 of 65,478 Results"
I'm more on about the SPIGEN cases. I've seen them mentioned on here a fair bit.How much time to give a suggestion? Based on your link it's "Showing 1 - 16 of 65,478 Results"
Randy Lanzarote
Member
There have been some api changes in 4.4 which the developer is still trying to work around. He's released a few updates to the app since it hit and things have gotten better, hopefully he'll have them all sorted soon.
I've only ever used the AC charger for both my N4 and N5. The N5 charges way faster.
Second "day" after a full charge, with 2.5 hours screen on time:
Looks like this will be plenty good enough for my day to day usage.
Ugh, they really need to update those system icons.
Nice battery life though.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Hmm, I was expecting a better number than 4.5 hours. My N4 on wifi at auto brightness running stock could do 4.5+ hours.
Haven't tested the N5 screen time yet, standby time is a vast improvement over the N4 though.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I have a Neo Hybrid and don't have any real complaints. Good fit, buttons work well, USB plug fits well, and it doesn't add too much to the size of the phone. The only thing I don't like is that the bumper is plastic, but that's pretty minor. It still looks pretty nice.
Donny Hayabusa
Member
Hey guys,
my sister is living with her husband on an american base here in Germany. This means they can order stuff from american sites like amazon.com etc.
How can she order me a Nexus 5? She gets redirected to the german page. Use a proxy? Thanks for saving me some cash
my sister is living with her husband on an american base here in Germany. This means they can order stuff from american sites like amazon.com etc.
How can she order me a Nexus 5? She gets redirected to the german page. Use a proxy? Thanks for saving me some cash
I noticed that Play Services was doing some weird battery draining in 4.3 on my G-Nex, but a reboot "fixed" it. It's probably just a bug in the Play Services that will be fixed eventually, but until then you kinda have to just watch out for the excessive battery drain.
Just as a note, Play Services handles a lot of functionality other than syncing, such as the fused location provider, Google Cloud Messaging (push notifications), and G+ app integration. It basically contains a lot of functionality that used to be handled by external libraries or the OS itself, only now it can be pushed out to any Android device, thus reducing software fragmentation a bit.
threetri333
Banned
Help, I cannot get service on my Nexus 5 most of the time compared to my N4. I really need service from T-mobile. -_-
Vyse The Legend
Member
Dude, you've asked this a few times already. Why haven't you gone to a T-Mobile store yet?
Thanks for this. Tried both Textra and Hellotext, think I'm going to stick with Textra (at least until Google gets the bugs out of Hangouts for group text messaging)
Got my white Spigen slim case delivered this weekend, and I highly recommend it. Looks great, but slim and light enough for those that normally go case-less.
FallingEdge
Member
I bet you it is because of LTE. Disable it and see what happens.
Battersea Power Station
Member
I keep it on even when the screen is off. Battery life is better versus being connected to a mobile network.
Spiritreaver
Member
How long does it normally take developers to ship out updates for a new OS? It's been quite some time and I've yet to see any of my apps update for KitKat and Spotify is still bugged..
No fullscreen album art on Spotify makes me a sad panda.
No fullscreen album art on Spotify makes me a sad panda.
Hey guys,
my sister is living with her husband on an american base here in Germany. This means they can order stuff from american sites like amazon.com etc.
How can she order me a Nexus 5? She gets redirected to the german page. Use a proxy? Thanks for saving me some cash
I just got a Chrome extension today called Hola that includes the ability to unblock the US store from Japan for myself. Should work for her as well, assuming she can install a Chrome extension.
Vanillalite
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Android Prism put up our review today. Fellow GAFer Kinggroin wrote the review. Check it out for more opinions as well as a bunch of camera samples!
razgriz417
Member
Has this been posted yet? Seems like Tmo is sending out free Sim cards again today (for veterans day). Figure it'd be useful for ppl thinking about switching to Tmo and want to save the $10 for the sim cards
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Hold your finger on an empty part of the home screen. Then when the pages pop up, choose settings.
Make sure it's on.
I live in the bay area, which you'd think would be wired to the teeth. I can barely get reception in my apt and I live near a major university! I also have spotty coverage in the few days of tests i've done, only get LTE about 1/2 the time when out and about, rest of the time is "H" which i assume is HSPA or HSPA+. T-mobile.
Hoping it's just bad luck and i'll have better service over the next few days
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
I'm using AT&T Go Phone and MMS works fine. I've sent and receive both picture messages and group messages (group text messages is buggy on Hangouts so I use a third party app)
Arjen
Member
Auto download for me.
Choose my own as I realize there's a few apps I never even used at all. I still go into "My Apps" to pick/remove what I want.
Hydrargyrus
Member
I do it by myself. There are a lot of apps that doesn't interest me at all and I don't need them to take more space than necessary
I let it download my apps but it never works.
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
Do you have your language settings to US English? At the moment that feature only works if you have it as US.
Once you stop thinking about this phone, it performs exceptionally well.
In the past two days I've been too busy to think about battery life.
You can easily get 3 hours of screen time out of 20+ hours of use.
4-5 hours of on screen time with about 15-16 hours of use.
What do I mostly use this phone for?
I think constantly pushing the phone to see how long it can last gives it a wrong impression on how you actually use it day to day.
In the past two days I've been too busy to think about battery life.
You can easily get 3 hours of screen time out of 20+ hours of use.
4-5 hours of on screen time with about 15-16 hours of use.
What do I mostly use this phone for?
- IM Messages
- SMS messages
- Emails, work and personal ( I have a total of 3 Gmail accounts synced - 2 G Apps one standard)
- 40 minutes or so of streaming Google All Music Access on the daily commute (LTE + Bluetooth)
- Some occasional mobile GAF browsing and Feedly reading.
- Very little phone calls.
I think constantly pushing the phone to see how long it can last gives it a wrong impression on how you actually use it day to day.
I'm getting more and more frustrated with KitKat and some of the design decisions made for it. I'm also getting increasingly tired of Google wanting to shoehorn themselves into places where they don't belong. I think I'll have to flash some custom rom sooner rather than later.
As in 20+ hours of listening to music while the screen is off? Or 20+ hours of stand by?
3 hours of screen on time seems awful. Anything under 5 is pretty terrible in my eyes.
MrPing1000
Member
Thinking about getting my first smart phone. Been rocking a nokia 6300 for 5+ years. Not a heavy phone user, always used pay as you go.
Play poker for a living, poker halls usually have free wifi these days, would be nice to have some internet access during the downtime. Can be sitting in the same room for 10 hours sometimes. Nexus 5 good to go? Prob play music off it too.
Play poker for a living, poker halls usually have free wifi these days, would be nice to have some internet access during the downtime. Can be sitting in the same room for 10 hours sometimes. Nexus 5 good to go? Prob play music off it too.