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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Eradificator:
How do I choose who I want to send my MMS to?! I can't see anyway to reach my contacts from the MMS composer screen, so whenever I want to send a picture I have to first of all choose the contact, copy their number and then create a new MMS and paste this number in the 'to' line.

Am I missing something?! Because this is quite an annoying process.

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] wammy28:
Yes, I have the same problems.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] andersh:
I had exactly the same problem, but finally it dawned on me that you have

to press on the text ("To:") not on the empty field. This will bring up the

address book and you can select the recipient.

Not exactly obivous since the text is not marked in any special way.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Eradificator:
Nah, can't be that simple... I would have tried that

<I grab my Wizard>

<open a new MMS>

<press to>

zomg! It is that simple! Now I feel dumb!

I'm gonna go sit in the corner and put my special hat on.... :?

Thanks for the help!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] knowsleyroader:
Im so glad I have found this forum as I can see all these kind of things cropping up when I get my device.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daman09:
I've seen some scattered reports that the Nexus 5 syncs with fitbit devices without any modifications. Can anyone independently confirm this??
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ITGuy11:
Sync working for me with no mods! I have a Fitbit One btw.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daman09:
Oh Man, this is excellent! I'm assuming 4.4 fixed whatever bugs there happened to be with BLE Syncing.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsprks:
How did you enable this? Where did you get a version of the app that would enable the syncing?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrasLOHF:
I have a Flex and signed up for the beta. Haven't gotten an answer yet. If I search for bluetooth devices I'll see Quark listed which has to be the Flex but it won't connect. Phooey.

EDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Go here,http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46041881#post46041881, see post #26, download and install(uninstall the Fitbit app on your phone if you already have one installed)...PROFIT!!!!! Didn't even need to "pair" the devices. It just syncs straight from the app. You can even leave the app open and walk and it'll count in real time. Awesome
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alistairs1:
The updated version of this modded APK can be found at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2492436 it works by spoofing which device it is to Fitbit.

Seems to work fine on Nexus 5, but the problem they pulled support for (device hanging after a couple of days) can still happen unless you uncheck "background sync" in device settings so it will only sync when you open app. I can live with that until there's an official fix and support.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ITGuy11:
Sync just worked on its own with the standard app from the Play Store until Fitbit blacklisted the Nexus 5. They have a beta program that I am in. The beta app works on the Nexus 5 and my GS4 running CM11.

Here is information on the Fitbit beta tester group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fitbit-android-sync-beta
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsprks:
Thanks, I've submitted my request to join the beta for the Nexus 5, hopefully they will let me join.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] clarke.hackworth:
I have a on friend on t-mobile that is going to travel to another county (Egypt). She is thinking of using tmo's new roaming plans while she is there. I have loaded the latest stable of CyanogenMod for her SGS3. I was wondering if others had experience using tmo's new data roaming plans with Cyanogenmod or other custom roms?

From everything I have read it should just work. However I want to know as much about the situation before she goes (as I will get the blame it things don't work).

Are there any potential gotchas people can think of?

What about APNs? Will the APNs that come programed with Cyanogenmod work with the networks in Egypt? (I don't know alot about how APNs work).
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] serio22:
I think it'll be fine, and if any changes need to be made to the apns then T-Mobile should let them know, or better yet just ask them.. But if you wanna be 100% sure of the phone working and play it safe then I would load a stock ROM for the time being instead of cm
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
It should be fine, CM has a very large and international list of APNs, though no way to verify if you're not there. Make sure data roaming is turned on in the settings too.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
I had trouble activating my SIM earlier. It did not want to activate when i did initial set up on the device. So I skipped thinking that i can activate it after set up. So for about an hour it would not connect to T-Mobiles network, then it finally did, with bad signal. All i am able to get is mainly 3G and H data signal, no LTE/4G like i am paying for.

has anyone had a similar problem before? Do you think this can be a bad SIM? Any help is appreciated.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndreaCristiano:
Sorry to hear about your problem my phone isn't here yet so I can not give insights yet but will let you know if anything arises
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azmuh:
Getting the same problem here, not getting LTE only H... this is my first time with a LTE phone so maybe my area doesn't have LTE, going to Uni tmrw and see if i get LTE there (which is should)

I like in Central Jersey so don't know if they have LTE there, i am pretty sure they have it in Northern Jersey, specially the Newark, Jersey City, NYC area's
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casonswag:
U have lte in your area?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] megaman81:
Try setting your APN to fast.t-mobile.com instead of epc.t-mobile.com
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
Yes. You can do a zip code search on there coverage. My zip is 37075 its got great coverage. I feel its a SIM problem.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neok44:
T-Mobile does NOT have nationwide LTE so theres no guarantee that you actually have LTE where you are. Best to make sure of that before you do anything else.

And just so you know, their coverage site does not distinguish between LTE and HSPA+ since they consider both 4G.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maramos:
No LTE here on a new T-Mobile account. My roommate has it on his S4. I'm hoping it just takes time to provision. Using fast.t-mobile.com
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hello00:
i get lte anywhere i go..im in miami
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
LTE is not a huge deal as long as I get HSPA+ its fast where I am. It shows Excellent coverage in my area, so yes I may not get Real LTE, but i should get good HSPA+ and cell service. Right?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draje0:
Try setting the preferred network to LTE. No clue if this will work on a Nexus 5, but it works on a Nexus 4. Even with the appropriate hacks, I only get LTE in my area when I do the following.

1. Enter *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer

2. Go to "Phone information"

3. Change the "Set preferred network type:" dropdown to "LTE only".
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maramos:
LTE started working after about 4 hours after setting up my new T-Mobile account.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chakra:
What apn do you have? Fast.t-mobile.com

Mines been working great all day.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimgreco:
I live in Sayreville as well, same issue. No LTE. I'm assuming it's just the coverage. I'll find out on my commute to work tomorrow.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
I have Fast.t-mobile.com APN. I live in Nashville. It just may be my house. I am going out tomorrow will do more testing.

I live in Nashville, well the outskirts. I may not have LTE but the HSPA+ should be decent. Like I said above it may be my house. I get crap wifi reception in here so thats probably the reason.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
What city are you in?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maramos:
Brooklyn
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
Yep. Thats why you got LTE. Still Rolling out in my area. I am actually not upset about it. The HSPA+ is pretty dang good.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spaceman860:
I've been in LTE since I turned on my phone. I'm in Connecticut

Sent from my NEXUS 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wynand32:
My N5 flips between HSPA+ and LTE pretty much without rhyme or reason. Interestingly, HSPA+ is about as fast down most of the time, but of course LTE is faster uploading.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eneka:
is your sim card old/cut? I know tthat my cousin was having trouble getting LTE on his iPhone 5s where it would only show "4g" apparently if you don't have the correct sim it won't connect to LTE. Don't know if this is true or if it affects the Nexus 5 but doesn't hurt trying a newer sim card. Also could be that your area simply doesn't have LTE yet.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] br0adband:
For the people having issues with LTE and T-Mobile...

You should verify you have it available first, and you can that from the Nexus 5 itself: just pull up Settings - More - Mobile Networks - and then search for available networks. You might have to do that several times before the phone actually does a proper search (can take 30+ seconds to finish depending on your area).

When it finally does list the available networks (you'll most likely see at least AT&T and T-Mobile options, possibly Straight Talk, NET10, etc), if you don't see one for T-Mobile RAT : LTE then you simply don't have that network option aka no LTE service where you happen to be for T-Mobile itself. T-Mobile will typically show RAT : WCDMA (for the 3G/4G HSPA+ network), and RAT : GSM (for the 2G/EDGE network)

T-Mobile is rapidly expanding service over many cities, and even in some areas that have had LTE capability since last October when they started flipping the switches to enable it (I'm in Las Vegas, the first city in the US where they enabled it), and in some areas and some cities you may have it but only in specific parts of the city depending on the size, like for someplace like Los Angeles they may have very heavy coverage in the downtown and Hollywood areas while the outskirts are less to no coverage at all.

Having said that, realize they are still expanding like crazy, even putting microPOPs on light and telephone poles to increase coverage as much as possible. Driving through Las Vegas with the Wi-Fi enabled on my LGOG I not a ton of T-Mobile hotspots all over the place nowadays and they're creating a huge mesh network for fallback coverage on top of their increasing cellular networks too.

Anyway, the basic gist is if you search for mobile networks, and you don't see the T-Mobile RAT : LTE one come up as detected by the Nexus 5, you're not going to get LTE service from T-Mobile. It's not everywhere yet but they'll get to it sooner or later. HSPA+ is pretty fast as it is, and that is pretty much covered everywhere that T-Mobile has any service at all.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NlBO:
Im sure its been said but you should check 3rd party coverage maps not only TMO's LTE coverage maps, Also update your APN settings and restart the phone. Beyond this it would be a problem with your SIM, although I doubt it if its connecting at all.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
Well here is my APN settings. Does it look right to you.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcat007:
Waiting for my N5... I only want to make phone calls with it, going to turn data off. I have wifi at home and work, T-Mobile 4g hotspot in car. Lte has nothing to do with calls, right? I plan on going with Ptel for calling, about half the cost of T- mobile and on the same towers. I get good 4g with my hotspot ($17.50/mo/1.75gb), so using phone data makes no sense for me.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbrown:
Here is a list of LTE bands supported

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/170166-nexus-5-excellent-global-coverage-perplexing-lte-support
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jord0n:
My APN settings are the same and I am having problems with the phone jumping between 3G and HSPDA, which makes it unusable at the moment. I went through T-Mobile customer and technical support and they were stumped. It was eventually escalated to the engineering department

Hopefully this is something that T-Mobile can resolve and not a software issue that we have to wait on.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2.0t03speed:
Out of the box i just took my phone popped in my new sim, activated my $30 plan online and boom lte signal. you shouldn't have to do anything special. At least i didn't have to
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
Well I am going to T-Mobile for a Sim upgrade. I feel mine is faulty. I get **** signal at my place, when everyone I know with T-Mobile gets decent to great signal at my place.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KiNG OMaR:
I'm getting LTE on TMO in Chicago!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
Well T-Mobile gave me a new Sim, an Isis Sim. And all is better. No LTE in area but hspa is still just great for me. I turned off LTE in phone settings and have been getting better reception.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xero258:
3.11 down 3.65 up on HSPA

I came here just to start a thread on this and still may just to have a thread that records this problem.

Purchased from Google Play Store.

New T-Mobile sim I picked up from a tmo retailer that they activated.

APN matches the recommendation fast.tmobile

Absolutely in a huge area with LTE

Steady 3G signal, occasional Hspa, less occasional unless outdoors on and off LTE

Latest T-Mobile data plan.

Running of SIM since yesterday.

Switched from iPhone 5s that got superb, solid, steady LTE within my apartment and for miles and miles outside of it. Was getting minimum 25 down. Now look at my screenshot -- garbage. I don't know what it is about android phones (I've had nexus s , galaxy nexus , s3, s4, but it just seems like they can't get it right.

I'm jumping between 3g and hspa. Please see attachment. I can get LTE on the nexus 5 but not in my apartment anymore and not as often and consistently outside. Even have regular hiccups streaming music, good thing we don't have expandable storage I can just use the clo...

Its always something with these phones its old hat having to constantly tinker with radios and bands. I am going to switch out to the Sim I used on my s4 and see if that makes the connection better and I'll report back. Anyone else with weak or poor signal post to get a record of this, solutions are welcome as well.

Edit: couldn't upload screenshot

3.11 down 3.65 up on so called HSPA full bars
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Farva0412:
I just hope it's software. I have exact same problem.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myorks1127:
I went to T-Mobile to get the newer ISIS sim card because I wasn't getting LTE after having the phone running for 2 hours. In the store, both reps were getting LTE on their phones and mine was still not working. Of course like many of you know, these people don't have a clue about how phones work. One guy said that LTE and HSPA+ are basically the same thing and that maybe my phone doesn't have an LTE status symbol! lmao!!!!! So anyway, within 20 minutes of leaving the store, my LTE was active and working great, got 24 down on my first speed test! Be ready for these morons if you go in with the same problems. They also said that the LTE may not work because it's an unlocked phone when I clearly told them that other people on the forum had it working just fine, smh. I hope this works for everyone, sorry for the cool story lol.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3rdstring:
T-Mo US LTE coverage
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notbrodie:
The 3G/H switching is completely normal. HSPA uses more battery, so it idles on 3G, then switches to HSPA whenever it uses any significant amount of data. If your iPhone was using HSPA, it was doing the same thing, just behind the scenes. (Source: roommate is an apple care support tech). I regularly for 17mb down, 2.5mb up on HSPA

I don't know why your LTE isn't working. I had excellent LTE on my previous phone (nexus 4) and it smoothly transitioned to nexus 5.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xero258:
Called tmo after my post. Was bumped up one teir to another tech. He looked up the bands and said he did not see 1700 and 2100 and that might be the problem with why is spotty? He said it may very well have it but it just need to be unlocked software wise by Google. He said that he's heard of this happening with the play store version of the htc one as well.

Can anyone verify either of these things?

I don't have an Isis Sim I'm not familiar with it, is it for payments? They did not give me that when I was at the store 2 days ago. It sounds like some of you are saying that fixed the problem. It's not that I don't get LTE at all, it's just that it's not at all there in locations where it used to be and not as strong in general. Was the tech on the phone right about theLTE bands lacking and Google just needing to open them software wise? He suggested the to version (when released) will be optimized for LTE and carry the bands if this one doesn't.

The tech said he would activate my other Sim after the phone call ended but my original still works and the old one does not at all.

After my post I am getting 8-9 down on hspa in home, but that's still a far cry from before.

I really like the phone and don't want to jump around phone wise anymore, I'd rather not return it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notbrodie:
There will not be any carrier specific versions. The Nexus 5 already covers T-Mobile Band 4 (T-Mobile LTE)

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zim2dive:
My phone came up with the "fast" APN. I had LTE at home last night, but none at work today. Must just be the coverage.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xero258:
Just to confirm on my end ... Coverage map on tmo listed above is entirely solid green with zero spots for easily a 30 mile radius. A major neighboring city is also on the written list. I keep running tests and I get 3.75-4.5 down average inside the apartment with an occasional hit at 9down. When I get LTE I have one speed test recorded at 27.12 which is more proper but that was not where I reside and previously did not have issues.

Thank you by the way to the folks that responded so far it's been valuable information to know.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LVOV:
No Service on new Nexus 5

1. New SIM

2. Worked fine in the T-Mobile store - got 4.4 OTA in the store over LTE.

3. Came home - "No Service" (even if the T-Mobile network is listed, could not register)

4. Call T-Mobile support - Teir1 then Teir2 - Phone is not registering on the network.

5. Inserted the same SIM in the Samsung SGH-T989 - all four bars with H+

6. Back to the store - SIM exchange.

7. Same problem - call Google - Advance Replacement

Is this my luck or an antenna on this new Nexus is very weak - I know that T-mobile doesn't have a good coverage in my area, but I always get at least two bars on all other mobile phones that I own. We will see if the replacement works better?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spitfire:
Thanks for this reminder, still have the N4 (N5 on the way) and last time I tried LTE my signal was weak. Just tried again and it's strong, yay Miami refarm!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hello00:
gotta love miami
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodvova:
I live in downtown Chicago, LTE on t-mobile works perfectly fine.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LVOV:
No Service on new Nexus 5

Not for me around Arlington Hights/Buffalo Grove area - and again it could be the issue with a phone.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zim2dive:
I'm cheap.. I admit it... so in that vein I simply consider Tmobile == miserable signal == the tradeoff I make for paying 1/2 of what I'd be paying on AT&T.

That being said.. once I am out of contract, I'll VERY likely switch the AT&T Straighttalk SIM... $5/phone more per month.. but I am willing to pay that little bit more vs. plan I'm on now (which I don't think they offer anymore anyway.. )

I've had the same mediocre signal strength as I've moved from Sensation4G to Nexus4 to Nexu5 (tho still too early to say with the N5)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LVOV:
No Service on new Nexus 5

I use to have AT&T was not all that happy with them and switched to T-Mobile, low coverage it's a know issue, but until I got a Nexus 5 I didn't have "No Service" reported on other 4 phones that my family is using. While driving today to work the signal indicator was all over the place, I have never see such behavior on none of the devices that I own. I will rather chose a different phone than go back to AT&T.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonyriceroni:
Anyone have any luck fixing this? Just got my n5 and disappointed I only have hspa in Dallas.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xero258:
Got a new Isis Sim this morning. Rebooted the phone about an hour ago. Can't say that's changed. I might call Google to ask for a replacement or just give up on the idea of having a steady high speed internet connection on Hspa+ or LTE

But to summarize so far,

I jump between 3g and hspa full bars

Don't see LTE where I used to at my place

I still see LTE though but not as often or as with strong a signal

Speed Test download and upload speeds are proper to whatever connection I'm running (3g or Hspa) the highest I've gotten on hspa is 13 down but I'm stationary.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _untitled_:
6 hours after I activated the SIM -- I have LTE now! Previously, it was only giving me HSPA at crappy speeds of 0.7 Mbps down/up. Then again, I did dial *#*#4636#*#* about an hour ago and toggle it to LTE only and then back to LTE/GSM. (not complaining though)

Speed test attached! Barely 1 bar of LTE with -111 dBm.

EDIT: added speed test at 0 bars of LTE and speed test at full bars of HSPA+ -- anyone know if the slow speeds with HSPA+ is normal? I was under the impression that HSPA+ was pretty fast.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neodorian:
Add me to the list. According to all coverage maps I ought to have good/excellent "4g" coverage (whether that's HSPA+ or LTE) but more often than not, I'm always getting the "no signal" warning. I can be indoors near a window, in the middle of the building, at home, in the car, etc. and sometimes I get a good signal and decent speeds, sometimes nothing, and sometimes it looks like a good signal but the speeds are really slow.

I'm kind of bummed because I've seen how fast it can be but even in spots that should have good coverage (as seen by friends with other phones) it's a crapshoot whether or not I will have data service.

I wonder if this is a hardware issue or if it's something a software/radio update can fix. Up until now I've always had CDMA phones where I can try updated PRLs and different modem drivers but I don't know if that's a "thing" on GSM/LTE phones.

If it's more than just poor coverage I'd imagine others will have the same issues and it will be brought to general attention. If it's just the way it is I can deal but if I'm not getting the coverage I should be getting I will be pretty disappointed.

edit: for what it's worth, this is a new Nexus 5 ordered from Google. New SIM activated last night on prepaid $30/mo 100min/5GB unthrottled 4G.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peteus:
What version do you have, 16 or 32GB. What are your upload speeds on LTE using ookla speedtest app?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LVOV:
Got my new phone 4 days ago - much better signal low but steady, never get "No Service".