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[Nexus 5 General] elspanish88:
Merry Christmas guys!!!
[Nexus 5 General] ck.chunkeat:
Hi guys,I have a question regarding RMA in the UK.I bought my nexus 5 from car phone warehouse, I'm wondering how's the RMA process like? Can I get a new set or will they just repair it?

My phone had the GPS problem and it won't lock properly and the signal is weak.

Also,my phone was bought on the 1st week of release
[Nexus 5 General] choclate:
i got the same problem as u bought from carphonewarehouse went into the shop said to the lady it got gps problem she just replaced it and give me brand new and gps is working fine now.
[Nexus 5 General] ck.chunkeat:
Thing is mine is more than 1 month old I think, so is it still eligible for exchange..plus I bought it online..
[Nexus 5 General] bahaa89:
Hello everyone, I have a friend who's in UK in London for two weeks and I asked him to buy for me one Nexus 5, I want to ask how much does it cost these days and from where do you recommend to buy it ?

Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] Michealtbh:
Let us know how it goes, I too bought from Carphone Warehouse, interested in knowing what the exchange process is like.

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£300 from Google, it's more expensive everywhere else
[Nexus 5 General] bahaa89:
Does Google have stores there ? I mean besides to buy it from Play Store, because it wouldn't change location settings and my friend can't see the phone in play store... ?
[Nexus 5 General] Michealtbh:
Only from the Play Store
[Nexus 5 General] ck.chunkeat:
Hmm,the reason I asked is because I want to know how the process is..:P
[Nexus 5 General] Lettuce!:
Maybe call the store you bought it from and explain the problem and ask about replacement?

I also bought mine from Carphone Warehouse on release day, lucky to get the only 2 they had in stock and at £295 before they put the price up to £420
[Nexus 5 General] guruehsaan:
how is the case? I also ordered one but from mobilefun, same price but only £3 delivery but they were out of stock and so the waiting began and in that time i started thinking alot and then cancelled it, thought the flipping is gna be annoying and so i'll end up not using an also thought i could buy multiple cases with that amount of money too.

But i am willing to reconsider again because it does look nice on pictures, does the case live upto its price? and is the flipping annoying? and how is it while texting and everyday use?
[Nexus 5 General] bahaa89:
The price is 330£ now as I see in their site.
[Nexus 5 General] x10man:
Definitely a nice case, at first it was a bit weird because its so different to the phone, but now the phone outside of the case feels unsafe and weird. The flip cover is very strong, definitely helps during drops, as is the back cover. I like the flip action, kinda gets in the way of the camera but it doesn't take long to get used to using the camera with it on. Definitely worth the money simply for the extra safety it provides your expensive new phone.

Texting etc on it feels really nice, I can't type with it off anymore.

All in all, a well built, practical phone case.

Thanks,

X10man
[Nexus 5 General] guruehsaan:
hmmm, your tempting me to buy it again now...but its damnn expensive. Honestly imma end up buying it, so i guess i am but in a couple of months, let me gather some money, I've already ordered a cruzerlite case, green bugdroid, and a cheap 99p case from eBay which has been getting crazy reviews on how nice it is so i thought why not.

By mid 2014 i will want something new on my phone as i get bored of cases easily, already thinking of ordering a red cruzerlite, and so i shall have it then, thanks for your response!

Here's the famous ebay case if your feeling adventurous: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190854459465?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UK-QuickS...lePhonesCasesPouches&var=&hash=item3f2ca097ff
[Nexus 5 General] x10man:
If you can afford it, buy it. Even if you change cases a lot, this is one you can put on if you're going somewhere your phone could smash up, and have full confidence that your £350 phone will be as good as new still. Plus its self healing as far as I can tell, all my scratches on it disappeared after a short while.
[Nexus 5 General] iMini:
Bought myself this case about a month ago now. just paste in Amazon address before this to see it (can't post links yet) Non-Slip-Japanese-Protector-Included-Excellent/dp/B00GRP1YMK/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

It's pretty good, but luckily I haven't had any falls where I think the case has protected the phone, anyone else have any experience? I have the Nexus 5 feel case, rather than the "crystal clear" ones I've seen (I think they look quite tacky). I struggle to get the case off sometimes, feels like I'm going to break off the buttons, does anyone else have this issue or is my technique just wrong?

It's from Spigen, but I can't find the case on the official website, but it's sold from their official Amazon account, a little weird.
[Nexus 5 General] leont1280:
Anyone else having a problem where their card is getting declined? I ordered 32gb Black on 20th December and they are trying to take money out today but its declining. Contacted bank and they say there's no fraudulent activity and that the money has gone as an authorisation charge. But Google are not taking the money and sending me my device. I've waited so long and I'm starting to lose hope that i will get it within the next 2 weeks...
[Nexus 5 General] mchu6am4:
Nexus supplied by o2 are they locked?
[Nexus 5 General] Barso1:
Can't wait to receive my 32Black after being on ios for over 6 years.

I can't believe how much android has come on and with google services being integrated I am looking forward to seeing what they can offer.

I'm amazed that people see the 5S at twice the price being the better option, surely there's something wrong. I look forward to cutting my contract ties with O2 and bringing the power back to myself the customer.
[Nexus 5 General] guruehsaan:
yes it will be locked, but it can then be easily unlocked, very easily on your home computer.

you will love the nexus 5, it's absolutely astounding, really it is, it does everything you want it to do. I do however think you will not like it for the first week or so as you are coming from ios(unless you know about the dwellings of android) so i will suggest you ride out the first week or so, try figure the phone out and always jump to xda or android central if you need help. Android is different from ios and alot of new users, even one of my closest friends, hate the phone at the beginning, my friend said he wanted to return it after just one day with it, so you have to get used to it and truly adjust to it and know how to operate android and mainly adjust and know about the level of customisation available. Then you should make a judgment whether you like or not, keep it or not.

And if you want to get a case that's not too expensive, i recommend these:

http://www.cruzerlite.com/cases/lg/nexus-5/cruzerlite-bugdroid-circuit-case-for-lg-nexus-5

http://www.cruzerlite.com/cases/lg/nexus-5/cruzerlite-androidified-a2-case-for-lg-nexus-5

http://www.cruzerlite.com/cases/lg/nexus-5/cruzerlite-experience-case-for-lg-nexus-5

http://www.cruzerlite.com/cases/lg/nexus-5/cruzerlite-androidified-clone-army-case-for-lg-nexus-5

Buy them off amazon, £10 each and free delivery

I've got the green bugdroid, beautiful case and perfect fit, i'm going to order the red one too i think.
[Nexus 5 General] Rusty!:
No, the O2 Nexus will not be locked
[Nexus 5 General] mchu6am4:
Thanks I'll report back once I receive it hopefully later today...
[Nexus 5 General] rocksyjj:
i ordered my on 28th and mines still on pending but bank also say theres an authorization on my account how long does it usually go to authorized
[Nexus 5 General] leont1280:
I have no idea. My bank told me that if Google doesn't take it by midnight 31st Dec then the authorisation goes back into my bank account. Might wait till then to try again. It usually takes around 4-5 working days for Google to process 32gb black order.
[Nexus 5 General] rocksyjj:
i oredered the white one i may do same if its not

processed will wait a few days and try again as

its new year time so i understand delays and such

just a waiting game ...

mines says Leaves warehouse by December 31, 2013.
[Nexus 5 General] mchu6am4:
I can confirm the phone has come unlocked with no o2 branding except on the sticker stuck to the box!
[Nexus 5 General] sohell:
Happy New Year, Guys :highfive:

(...I doubt many of you are awake.. Just sleep it off, lol)
[Nexus 5 General] Deeco7:
Anyone on Three, who are experiencing dreadful speeds and lockups? Same **** happening from my T-Mobile/EE days!!
[Nexus 5 General] sohell:
Nope. I am on Three, use data extensively, in London and using a N5. Still solid for me. I know it sounds silly, but have you tried rebooting your mobile? Or sending [MENTION=1980367]threeu[/MENTION]K a tweet?
[Nexus 5 General] Lettuce!:
Not here. I'm on Three as well and not noticed any drops in service. Check their service status or call them and ask if they're doing any maintenance in your area.

Has this happened suddenly recently or long term?
[Nexus 5 General] big_b0sss:
yap i used to get 21 mbps download speed on galaxy s4 but now it has dropped to 5-6 mbps. guess i will probably need to flash different radio to see if the speed increase.
[Nexus 5 General] Barso1:
I received my N5 yesterday even though the device is still pending on the play store.

It's a great device but I think I will go for the iphone 5S. I just don't see android being for me.
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
Why? (genuinely interested...) What is it about Android (compared with IOS) that puts you off so quickly?
[Nexus 5 General] Deeco7:
Are you guys using Stock ROM and Kernel/Radio?

Same. Let us know how you get on.
[Nexus 5 General] Barso1:
There no denying the quality of the device and integration of google services. But the lack of some of my favourite games like device 6 and year walk.

Also the camera just isn't up there with the quality of the 5S camera. I know people say ios is for dummies and I'll admit that I will never understand why people think kitkat is obtrusive and glitchy, I personally found it fantastic, ios7 crashed on me more than kitkat did.

I just think the integration of apples HW, icloud and future seems more grounded that what Google seem to want from android.

For example, my google play account still shows my N5 and case as pending due to be dispatched 5th Jan and I received it yesterday, I phoned Google to arrange a refund and they are as perplexed as I am. They proceed to state I will receive an email in ten minutes to explain the return procedure which can take up to three weeks to process. I am still waiting on the email.

Apple would have had this finished in under a week.

The only thing putting me off the 5S is the screen size and I'm confident that will be fixed with iphone6.
[Nexus 5 General] LexLuth0r:
WTF, Looking at your previous posts you've owned other android devices!
[Nexus 5 General] Barso1:
I have owned other android devices but I thought the nexus range would be perfect without all the useless samsung features.
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
Okay, that's a fair comment dependant on your kind of usage...

I know others would probably disagree with me but I would disagree with that basic premise; having seen image comparisons side by side of both under various conditions. The N5's camera (especially in HDR+ mode) is easily a match for the 5S when comparing like for like in given situations but then, many would argue that "photography" is not the main purpose of either device! ;)

I would agree with your (apparent) opinion of KitKat as I too find it excellent (and it hasn't crashed on me at all yet) but I would also agree that IOS is a "dumbed down" system. However, that's a result of excellent marketing by Apple which you can't fault them on from a business perspective at least. My own opinion is that their product is grossly over-priced for what it offers... "bang for buck" if you like...

I would prefer the term "more established" (for Apple's "garden") but that's probably as a result of Google losing control of Android to a certain extent and in any event, I'll never understand why IOS fans actually prefer to be "told what to do and how to do it" by a closed system anyway...

Sounds like an out of the ordinary "glitch" to me... I have never experienced any such problems with any part of my Google Play account...

That's about what it took from order to receipt of my Nexus 5 from the Play store.

I'm not so enamoured with screen size for screen size's sake to be honest. I find the N5's screen awesome but, for me, even it is about at the extreme limit for one handed operation comfortably... :)
[Nexus 5 General] Sensamic:
Are you guys experiencing the audio problem with the camera?

Try it. Record a video in silence, with no noise, inside your house for example, moving the camera like you would normally, and then play the video with max volume in the phone or in the PC and see if you hear a distortion.

I think it's a microphone problem.
[Nexus 5 General] sohell:
OK, wow... I just ran a speed test on ThreeUK.. I got 7mbps - I thought this was pretty good, and I am thankful for that speed.. I am on HSPDA (or whatever.. I can never remember the damn acronyms!)

Should I be getting MORE than that? And here I thought I was getting a pretty good speed... I have never got anywhere near 21mbps...

According to ThreeUK, I am getting more or less what I should be

http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Built_for_internetting?site=d
[Nexus 5 General] Deeco7:
You have a 'DC-HSDPA/4G' device, therefore you should be getting speeds of 12mbps and up (dependent on location/time of day).
[Nexus 5 General] sohell:
Yeh, you are correct - I'd better give ThreeUK a call...
[Nexus 5 General] youguesswho:
Hello, I recently bought my Nexus 5 a few days ago and the battery has been extremely woeful, is this the case for any of you? Or should I return it for another one?
[Nexus 5 General] letom:
Ordered the nexus 5 on Monday and it says leaving warehouse by today. Just wanted to know whether I should have had tracking by now or if that'll be after. Just that I've listed my Nexus 4 on ebay so need this phone to come before the listing ends :p
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
Depends what you mean by "woeful"?
[Nexus 5 General] youguesswho:
It lasts about 3 hours till its down to 5%, and that's with medium usage, checking emails, sending texts ad playing the occasional game. Then its back on charge. Now I had an iPhone 5 before this and that wasn't good in the battery life department but I really thought this would be a step up.
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
Hmmm... that is pretty bad. Did you give the phone a full (long) initial charge before you started using the phone in earnest? (and then cycled it from full to empty with continuous use in between...)

Well my experience has been better than that but I have used a few tips on here to try and reduce battery consumption. Probably the best was to turn off Wi-Fi background scanning as someone else suggested. Really had an effect...
[Nexus 5 General] sohell:
I believe common and sound advice is to just use the phone and not bother with an initial charge. Running it all the way down is also not advised (and may even be considered dangerous and reduce the life of the battery).

Modern batteries should be kept as fully charged as often as possible - so keep it charging whenever convenient. Don't kill yourself over charging all the time, but if you are watching TV for an hour, stick it on charge. AFAIK over-charging is not harmful (unless using a QI charger - but that more to do with the excess heat)

A couple of (randomly pulled from Google) articles

Point 7 - http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...tery-is-rubbish-and-how-to-solve-them-1185327

Points 1 & 4 - http://gizmodo.com/how-to-take-care-of-your-smartphone-battery-the-right-w-513217256

Point 3 - http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Cell-Phone-Battery-Last-Longer

A final two points from me:

1) If you use your phone, you will use the battery. Use the Screen On Time as a guide to how good your battery is. I get about 3 and half hours before I need to recharge. I am happy with this, but you may not be.

2) the battery life sucks when you first get the phone. But, after about a week, and under YOUR normal use, it should improve... Have fun:cool:
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
Thanks for those links! Sounds like very sensible advice. :)
[Nexus 5 General] Rusty!:
This happened to me when I got my Nexus 4, the initial authorization expired. Two weeks (give or take) after I got the phone, Google processed the payment properly.
[Nexus 5 General] Barso1:
I take back what I said. After spending the last two days with this phone I don't think I could ever go back to iPhone and ios ever again.

Absolutely loving my N5 so much.
[Nexus 5 General] sohell:
LOL, that's great you gave it a chance. Well done!

Tell us more - what is it about the N5 that you didn't like at first? And what has changed? It would be very interesting to know. I would find it very interesting to know how a modern Android experience feels like for the first time... I have used Android for so long, I can't appreciate what it feels like for a newbie :)
[Nexus 5 General] EddyOS:
My work colleague just moved from iOS to Android after getting a Nexus 5 and he's loving it. Obviously had an adjustment period but I soon sorted him out. We still have a work iPhone 4S that I use for various reasons in the office and iOS7 is just nasty when compared to Android IMO
[Nexus 5 General] Barso1:
I love how it's so fast, this thing never lags or slows. I'm also loving the onscreen buttons, no need for a physical button and I'm loving the screen.

Google services integrated into android are fantastic. I love hor photos automatically upload to google+ and then use the awesome feature.

And then my web history carries over to chrome on my laptop.

Swype and swiftkey are PERFECT and google now with search is beyond anything Siri could ever accomplish.

I'm also loving the camera and photosphere and uploading my pics to google maps.

Such a great phone for such a great price, everyone should own a N5 and I really think they should.
[Nexus 5 General] youguesswho:
Aaaaah, that might be it, I didn't completely charge it and then let it die comletely, so I shall do that now, and yes I switched that off

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Thanks for the help!!
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
I'm definitely seeing an improvement to battery life after every top-up charge. Each day it gets just that little bit better...
[Nexus 5 General] leont1280:
I finally got my Nexus 5 after ordering on the 20th Of December, got it on the 3rd Jan in the Morning. Thing is i never even got a shipping notice email. That came like 12 hours after i got my Deivce. So happy after a long waiting time.
[Nexus 5 General] rocksyjj:
i was the same get mines yesterday what a great phone time to make it how i want it finally coming from an old sony cybershot phone "5 years and still rock solid" they sure knew how to build em back then now these new phones are like so fragile
[Nexus 5 General] leont1280:
Ikr, i came from a HTC Legend, Full aluminium phone. Felt like i was holding a metal brick and i could hurl it at people when they annoyed me, and no damage would come to it whatsoever. With my Nexus 5 it feels like if i grip it too hard ill snap it. Great phone nonetheless.
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
Lol! Hurling anything like a smartphone costing so much money, would be the LAST thing I'd think of hurling! ;)
[Nexus 5 General] reiper:
I recently moved from Orange to Three regarding to veeery low price and unlimited data with free tethering and hoping for fast 4g release in London. So far so good, as i have some serious problems with home broadband i am using three tethering and for web browsing is more than enough. EE has a great offer of sim only tablet data for 11 per month with first month free which I took before. What can i say is that EE has actually ridiculous prices on 4G but the speed is incredible. 40mb/s according to speed test, sometimes dropped to ''only'' 30mb/s.

Anyone else has Three I want to say that I made a mistake?
[Nexus 5 General] hunhool:
I'm on EE and I made a good decision when I joined.

Got 10 Gb data allowance and incredible fast download speed.

I pay just over 40/ month but worth it.

REKOGNÍZED KONYHABÚTOR :D
[Nexus 5 General] reiper:
The incredible speed is because they started earlier with 4g. I hope it will be the same with other providers including Three later on. You pay over 40pm with phone of sim only? I'd rather pay very less like 15pm and have sometimes dropped connections than paying 25pm more.
[Nexus 5 General] hunhool:
With phone of course.

The speed is just amazing here in an around Nottingham.

REKOGNÍZED KONYHABÚTOR :D
[Nexus 5 General] Deeco7:
I'm based in London, and joined Three end of November and had good network and speeds, now I'm getting only 2 bloody bars and 3mb network speeder dropouts, what gives ffs?
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Everywhere or just certain place? Drive all over London daily, signal hasn't changed at all for me.
[Nexus 5 General] reiper:
Don;t forget that for comfortable web browsing the ping is far more important that the actual download speed. On three i have ~50ms which would be even good for playing FPS games online :)
[Nexus 5 General] AvRS:
I'm probably really late to the game with this but just stumbled on it by accident: when you pull down the status bar but with 2 fingers it goes straight to quick settings. You don't actually have to pull down with 2 fingers it just needs to register 2 simultaneous touches e.g. you can touch with 2 fingers and slide down with one.

Did I just miss this ages ago or are there others that weren't aware like me? This is on stock.
[Nexus 5 General] Quinny899:
Pretty sure it did this since quick settings were added
[Nexus 5 General] ConorCX:
Having some pretty abysmal results with O2, both on 3G and 2G... 3G is only topping at around 1mbps on a good day, and 2G doesn't give me a reliable data connection at all, it says G but when I visit a web page it is unable to load, then the G symbol disappears... Is this normal?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] fcf30:
Just got myself a Nexus 5 and plan on switching from O2 to Three. Hope I'm not making a mistake. I decided to go for 'The One Plan' SIM-only 1-month rolling contract to see what it's like. I might switch to the 12-month contract if all goes well. I just hope I don't get throttled and suffer from poor signal strength in my area.

Has anyone tried giffgaff?
[Nexus 5 General] Michealtbh:
I've tried all those networks, currently on Three. O2 and giffgaff's speeds don't even come close to Three
[Nexus 5 General] jonyid:
I'm currently on a sim only deal with virgin mobile but also looking at 3 plans because of the impending 4g upgrade. How do the two compare? Can switch pretty easily if need be
[Nexus 5 General] Zenzic:
Giffgaff will be great if you have good o2 reception as it runs off their network. It's far cheaper than the other options at;

£10pm 500 mins 1gb data ∞sms or

£12pm 250mins ∞data and ∞ sms.

I can't knock it at all and have been with EE, O2 & Virgin.

Order a sim below
[Nexus 5 General] AvRS:
I went from Tesco who use O2 to Three and after 3 days or so couldn't cope with the lack of coverage so went to GiffGaff and do the £12 goodybag as it's really great value.

Just one note on the above Zenzic as much as I'd love the payback too it's actually against forum rules having your referral link in your signature and encouraging people to use it so you're best removing it before a mod see's ;)

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