yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5 General] Highway 55:
Thank you!

After flashing this does anything else break? Like back in KK some AOSP devs wouldn't support sprint because it meant breaking the camera (green line in recorded video).
[Nexus 5 General] uodii:
I havent noticed any problems. I've been getting calls and sms/mms. I just spent the entire day at the NAIAS and google camera took perfect pictures and videos. Give it a shot and do a little testing afterwards, the worst that might happen is that you wipe and flash your rom again.
[Nexus 5 General] Highway 55:
This fix works awesome. There seems to be no I'll effect on any of the other apps. Wish this fix was around a year ago. Thanks again.
[Nexus 5 General] dwreck420:
Nexus 5 CM12?

this isnt working for me on nexus 5 with cm 12 nightlies :( i downloaded and flashed in recovery, is there anything else i need to do? ive looked around in *#*#4636#*#* and didnt see anything

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flashed this in recovery after the other zip did work, rebooted, not sure if this is what really fixed it but i have LTE now!!!
[Nexus 5 General] stephenn82:
after flashing, phone says "Update Device has stopped"

Ideas?
[Nexus 5 General] uodii:
What rom are you trying to flash? I've noticed this just doesnt seem to work on some roms for reasons I dont think anybody can figure out (possibly depends on the device tree used to build the rom?). In any case, flash this: http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/fix-unfortunately-update-device-stopped-t2955497 seems to work, but I think it has it's down sides. When I flash this on roms with the Update Device message, my MMS functionality is very questionable. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt.
[Nexus 5 General] stephenn82:
Rom is DU 9.1 v 5.0.1, which is plagued with this issue, on Sprint.
[Nexus 5 General] uodii:
I figured. I remember flashing a version of DU in early January and it worked with no problems, but something apparently changed around mid january because, as you said, it's been nothing but issues with it since and it's rather disappointing.
[Nexus 5 General] stephenn82:
was it 5.0 or 5.0.1, not 5.0.2? The latest version seems to be the culprit. And, on the DU thread im posting in, says they are "being selective" next time. And he hates the SPrint phones. I would assume that mean us Sprint dudes have no love. Its still a phone, and I dont have any sprint junk on it...just the fact im stuck with them for another year...lol
[Nexus 5 General] uodii:
I dont remember exactly which version it was (It may have been the early stages of 5.0.2, but I'd have to scroll through the DU G+ page to see what releases were around that time), all I remember was that it did run solid on Sprint at one point (unless it happened the be the luckiest flash in the world). But to be honest, [MENTION=2489052]NYCHitman1[/MENTION] showed us a ton of love by trying to fix the problem over about 2 months worth of releases. I dont know if he's finally given up or not, but that's a pretty valiant effort in my book and I dont blame him if he did stop trying. It's really not worth the headache.

Dreaming of the day that my Sprint contract is over.......
[Nexus 5 General] NYCHitman1:
Unfortunately, I did give up. It was giving me the most incredible headache for something that I don't have control over - not to mention the fact that I couldn't even test it myself as I do not use Sprint as my carrier.

Personally, I didn't see the benefit to continue doing it mostly because it affects an incredibly small margin of DU users and if someone needs to continually refresh their data profiles when they run custom ROM's on a Nexus device - I think that says a lot about the carrier itself.
[Nexus 5 General] stephenn82:
Indeed....why did i join them? oh yeah, they had the best deal for unlimited everything in 2009...regret switching to them now!

I am dreaming of that day too...april 5 2016 cant come fast enough!
[Nexus 5 General] NYCHitman1:
We don't always make the best decisions :p

I was with VZW for 5 years and Sprint for 7 years. Hated both carriers (for many different reasons). I've been on T-Mo for the last ~2.5 yrs and couldn't be happier.
[Nexus 5 General] tcuwolf:
Hi everyone I have a T-Mobile nexus 5 is it possible to activate it on sprint out of the box
[Nexus 5 General] njdan30:
Sprint is cdma yours is gsm type so out of box no
[Nexus 5 General] tcuwolf:
Found this

---------- Post added at 05:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:26 PM ----------

The D820 version of the Nexus 5 is designed for North America and will connect to 2G, 3G or LTE on AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. The D821 version of the Nexus 5 is set up to work with the rest of the world. European users should have no problem with a 2G, 3G or LTE connection. But some of the Asian carriers that use different networks could pose a problem. For example, China Mobile uses a proprietary 3G pipeline that has kept the Apple iPhone off the roster of the world's largest carrier.
[Nexus 5 General] bdcrim:
My understanding is that they will only activate N5's that they sold or those bought from the play store. A quick phone call to them with the MEID number should answer your question.
[Nexus 5 General] Koopa777:
......what?

You need a Sprint SIM/UICC card, but yes. There is no such thing as a "T-Mobile" or "Sprint" Nexus 5. There is only one model, the D820 (or D821 for international). Any N5 from any carrier will work with any carrier with the proper sim. You might need to yell at Sprint CustCare a bit though. It took a few tries to get my N5, bought from Google, activated on Sprint. Just call until you get someone who knows what they're doing. :good:

On a related note, I was considering switching to T-Mobile, but today my whole area got updated with Spark Band 41, as did the area I am going to be moving to in a few months. Now I'm conflicted. :p

---------- Post added at 07:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:19 PM ----------

Technically this is true, but I do believe they have relaxed that over the past year. I know a few people who have successfully done it.
[Nexus 5 General] gangrel_82:
So is this fix working on CM12 5.1.1?
[Nexus 5 General] MasterTec:
I use CM12.1 on my N5 using Ting, a Sprint MVNO.

Ever since a nightly update a few weeks ago I was getting an exclamation point next to my signal icon and no Data. Wifi worked fine, but no LTE or 3G. If I dropped it down to 1X it DID work but incredibly slow (obviously).

This fix works... well kind of. Sometimes it fixes my data, sometimes not.. and if it DOES work then it seems that once I get handed off to another Tower I would lose it again. Constantly rebooting and reflashing isn't really a viable fix for this.

I did find a workaround though by doing the following:

I access my APN menu... (I use an app called "change APN" from the play store but I'm sure there are other methods)

Then I select my "TING" entry

Then I select the "BEARER" field and change it from "Unspecified" to "LTE" ("Unspecified" is default)

Then I once again select the "BEARER" field and change it from "LTE" to "Unspecified"

Then I back out of the "TING" entry.. and BAM! I've got LTE again.

At least until I get handed off to another tower then I usually have to do it again.

This is definitely some kind of software APN glitch.. it has to be because I'm not really changing any settings.

Very strange. Hopefully this will help someone else having problems with the Sprint network on an AOSP rom.
[Nexus 5 General] YoColdRain:
I had same exact issue, and tried same exact steps with many different fixes. But all the hassle made me revert back to stock rom(xtrasmooth) and been living in LTE land.
[Nexus 5 General] spigotbp:
On yours, did the Ting entry in the list not have a bubble? I see Ting in the list, but the selection bubble to the right is missing on the last couple of entries, including Ting. Right now the one I have selected is 'internet' which is giving me LTE for the first time since the May 14 nightly. We'll see how it holds out as I travel around.
[Nexus 5 General] YoungGun821:
On TING and did not work for me.. still no data after Charoma flash..
[Nexus 5 General] Gips3yD4ng3r:
What you need to do is read flash the ROM then the sprint fix then gapps the SU then you should be good
[Nexus 5 General] Thad Boyd:
Hi, sorry to reply to a long-unused thread, but this looks like the best place to talk about this issue.

I've got a Nexus 5, I'm running the latest snapshot release (cm-12.1-20150901-SNAPSHOT-YOG4PAO237-hammerhead.zip), and I installed it just as specified in the OP (flash ROM, install Gapps, install sprint.zip).

And it worked for about a day, but then data quit working.

Rebooting to recovery and installing sprint.zip again makes it work again, but it's always temporary; later on (sometimes within the hour) it'll stop working again.

Obviously something must be reverting whatever settings that sprint.zip sets, but I don't know what's doing it (or what sprint.zip actually does when I run it; I checked the updater-script but it looks like it's just a bunch of calls to binaries so I'm not sure what it's doing).

Does anybody else have this problem? Any suggestions for how to fix, or at least how to troubleshoot? Thanks.
[Nexus 5 General] uodii:
It's because of a revert they made back in April that they have still yet to address. Until they do, Sprint users are going to have continuous issues with a CM based rom. I believe it was [MENTION=4152171]myfluxi[/MENTION] that pushed out a custom build in august with this fix: http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/104826/ that got things working nicely for Sprint users (I was running his custom build for about 2 weeks without an issue), but it looks like it's still an open item on the CM gerrit, unless it's been addressed by a different fix, but I doubt it....could be wrong though.

EDIT: It's a CAF build, but it worked very, very nicely: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62150575&postcount=2113
[Nexus 5 General] Thad Boyd:
Thanks for the link. I notice it's from early August; does that mean I won't be able to get any of the recent security fixes (Stagefright etc.)?
[Nexus 5 General] uodii:
Just a heads up for once marshmallow roms start pumping out, looks like they moved the sprint apks into the /priv-app/ folder on stock based M rom. I'm not sure if this will be different on AOSP. Has anybody tried an M based rom with sprint yet? I gave Chroma beta M a shot, but I couldnt even get data to work with sprint.
[Nexus 5 General] Thad Boyd:
I tried the stock ROM for about a day. Data worked fine, but after I used it a few hours it would start throwing up error messages saying it couldn't read the SD card (presumably it meant the /sdcard partition); this happened multiple times. Rebooting fixed it.

I wound up rolling back to KitKat. I've been pretty surprised how many issues I've had with my Nexus 5, considering it's a flagship Google device.
[Nexus 5 General] rodohmes:
I just used the zips found here on my Sprint 2013 Moto X to get things working on a US Cellular build of 5.1. Data is working (hooray!) but I SMS, MMS, and calls are a no go. Anybody have any advice?
[Nexus 5 General] chippinganimal:
Did you ever get it working on your device? I would like to try it on my sprint s5 as there are some TMobile and AT&T roms i want to test with.
[Nexus 5 General] rodohmes:
No, it was my primary device at the time and I needed a working phone, so I had to restore a backup that had calls & SMS working right. Then Sprint finally pushed the Lollipop update for the OG Moto X, so I haven't needed to try this again. Sorry.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I would lose all data on Ubermallow rom on my Nexus 6p and could not get it back regardless of what I did and adding this at end of flash fixed it. Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] bbgun7:
did you dirty flash everything over again, or factory reset and then flash?
[Nexus 5 General] :
I wiped evvverytthhing & flashed factory image then reflashed everything and flash this at end of flash. This can't be dirty flashed. It won't work unless it's flashed at end of a wipe.
[Nexus 5 General] bbgun7:
Cool, thanks
[Nexus 5 General] Thad Boyd:
I can definitely confirm that the issue still exists on a Nexus 5 with the latest snapshot of CM. I've tried CAF, I've tried non-CAF, I've tried dirty flash, I've tried clean flash, I've tried without sprint.zip, and I've tried with sprint.zip. Sprint data doesn't work (or, more precisely, it works at first but if you switch from an LTE zone to a 3G zone and back it stops).

I think at this point it's pretty clear that Sprint data is never going to work correctly on the Nexus 5 version of CM again. So my choices are to stick with KitKat or find a new firmware.

I could go back to stock and see how it works. Or I could try Bliss; I hear it works with Sprint.

I like a pretty barebones installation. I like configurability but not a lot of extras. If anybody can make a recommendation (ideally one that's confirmed working on Sprint!), I'd be happy to hear it.
[Nexus 5 General] Thad Boyd:
I'm having the same issue on Pure Nexus. Are you running it on a Nexus 5 too?

Guess I'll give Dirty Unicorns a shot before I give up and go back to KitKat.

ETA: I don't know what was happening at first but I'm not having any issues with Sprint data on Pure Nexus at the moment. I'll stick with it awhile and see if the issue comes back or if it was a one-off.
[Nexus 5 General] CodingEthos:
Can Finally Run Dirty Unicorns

Thank you to the developer behind the zip and thank you for posting this and sharing it with us. In 2016, you'd never think data wouldn't activate right on custom ROMs, but, Dirty Unicorns 10.2 official on my M8 Harman Kardon would not activate data of any kind.

I did a total internal wipe, except this time I flashed this Sprint fix, and wouldn't you know it. After 4 seconds of booting up LTE popped back up!

Cheers :D
[Nexus 5 General] misfit0313:
Still using this, every clean flash on my Moto X Pure Edition (Clark) when flashing an AOSP rom. Needed every time, works just about every time.

Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] jackmeat:
NO sim card -Sprint

I am way late to this, and a new member. I just flashed CM14.1 and all went smooth but I seem to have this exact same problem as has been described throughout this thread (took me a while to read everything). I have "no sim card - sprint" at the top of the screen, along with no data, and no ability to input APN. If I go to Access Point Name, it says they are not available for this user. Am I even in the right thread? I was hoping to get Nougat working which it is on wifi, but with no phone or data capabilities to speak of.
[Nexus 5 General] rodohmes:
From what I remember when using this briefly long ago, once you've flashed the file in the OP in recovery you shouldn't have to fiddle with APNs or anything - it should all be ready to go. It might take a few minutes to recognize things and start the "activating device on cellular network" (or whatever it says when activating), so be patient.

Also, it may (I can't remember for sure) make a difference if you flash this as part of a clean flash or not. If you've already set up your ROM and it's not working, try clean flashing again and flashing this right after your ROM & Gapps before booting into Android.

Hope you get things rocking and rolling soon.
[Nexus 5 General] jackmeat:
Well, I tried to do a clean flash, but this time I used aosp_hammerhead-7.1-nougat-20161026, and the first thing that comes up is "Insert Sim card" I flashed the ROM, GAPPS, and sprint.zip before booting the phone to system. I don't know if this part matters, but the SIM is from freedompop, and was working with Android 6 before I started messing around with this. In TWRP, i only used the standard "Wipe".
[Nexus 5 General] rodohmes:
I'd be sure and wipe everything but internal storage when clean flashing.

Other than that, the FreedomPop sim might be the issue. I have no knowledge of their network.
[Nexus 5 General] jackmeat:
Freedompop piggy backs off sprint (in my area at least) so anything I have done in the past dealt with sprint info. since i am stuck, can you think of any other method here i can attempt? i unfortunately made a backup onto a now dead usb stick, so losing data doesn't much matter anymore. I have the piddly media and apk backups on my pc from my backup pro, so nothing personal would be lost. I am just unsure what direction to go from here to get a working phone again. i have some nexus root toolkit(i used that to root my nexus 5) that has an option to flash to stock and unroot if that is the route i need to try. then again, if i wasn't interested in using Nougat, i would've (and as it looks, should have) left it alone while it was working ;)
[Nexus 5 General] lynnux:
I've been doing this with RingPlus/Sprint, and posted some of the things that worked for me here: https://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/getting-cdma-networks-to-nougat-roms-t3534679

Nougat is really different than MM for Sprint. My post is long, but some of that may work for you. The only thing I forgot to mention there is another trick I got from someone, which is to flash stock MM, get a network connection, and in TWRP save the EFS partition. Then when you flash one of the N roms, you restore that partition after flashing. Some of the networks stuff is apparently on there. Save that EFS partition for future.

Also, when you first get the message saying no sim card, pop the sim card out and put it back in. That usually gets me an initial connection to work with.

I was able to connect to Sprint just fine on 14.1CAF (unofficial), and now I'm on 14.1CAF DarkRom, and it's working fine, including data. I had to do the the things I mention in my post, including working with the apn.
[Nexus 5 General] jackmeat:
Thank you very much for all this info. I see I was basically doing this while you were just posting yesterday. I did revert back to stock already SO now I will start with everything you outlined here, beginning with backing up the EFS partition.Quick question, I have cm-14.1-20161028-UNOFFICIAL-hammerhead, but I would prefer sticking to what you have said works and is stable for you, which you mention CAF. Being the newbie that I am, what is the difference and is the CAF one for me? I see that this is available in a bunch of nightlies, http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=hammerheadcaf so which one do you think i should use? It seems there may be light at the end of this tunnel.
[Nexus 5 General] lynnux:
You may be able to get it to work on any 14.1 rom, and it may just be a coincidence that it worked for me on the two caf roms. In the intro to one or both of the caf roms there's an explanation of what it is. Some think it's smoother (I agree). Some phones have a hardware issue with caf on hammerhead where they freeze and crash every so often. For me it's 1-2 times a week, for some it never happens.

A few people have tried what I did and haven't been able to make it work for them. Not sure if it depends on who your provider is, the particular sim card, or if they didn't have the patience to keep trying things.

As far as which nightly to flash, they've all been stable for me, so I'd just go with the latest of whichever rom you're going to try.
[Nexus 5 General] jackmeat:
Well, just to put this to rest. Let me start here. THANK YOU. I followed this almost to a tee, and everything seems to be working OK. I used the latest hammerheadcaf version along with micro gapps (all my phone could handle), then restored the EFS partition, then flashed your zip files, which the MVNO zip immediately popped up and freedompop was an option. i did go through and add the sprint APN, but it seems that was a worthless step, although I just left it there for the time being. It switches over to 4G LTE as soon as I turn off wifi, and doesn't seem, as of yet, to lose that. The only thing i added to your perfect solution (which may not have been needed, but more may have been better) was this fix as well https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2798619 Hopefully if anyone else runs into this problem, they will find this days thread. It worked like a charm.
[Nexus 5 General] lynnux:
Awesome! I'm glad I could help and that it worked for someone else. I thought maybe I had a magic phone and all this stuff wouldn't work for anyone else.

Interesting, early on I had a problem getting LTE to work. When I went from a 3g to LTE tower I'd get a rapid flashing on the status bar between LTE and 3G, and it never would quite stay on LTE. Then after flashing a nightly it suddenly starting working normally.

When I switch off wifi, there seems to be a delay before it picks up data signal. This could be normal, or an MVNO thing, not sure. Also, there are times when it's not picking up data right away, and I go to settings/cellular networks, and sometimes I have to go to the apn settings, and I don't do anything, but data kicks in.

A couple times after an update or reboot it's not getting data right away, and I go to apn settings and see different apn's than what were there before, and I've had to reinstate the sprint apn that works for me. I'm saying this partly as a disclaimer, also so people know what to do if they temporarily lose data. This may only happen to me once or twice every couple weeks.
[Nexus 5 General] jackmeat:
Well, I have only just got this done, so time with dropping and what not will tell. I will keep this thread in mind though, so if something does come up, I can update for others if so. My switch over to 4GLTE when wifi is off is pretty seamless. Then again, the tower is about half a mile away. I haven't rebooted it more then a few times but haven't seen anything yet there. Anyway, sorry to say, your phone isn't magic, but your post sure as hell may as well be, at least for me. Maybe the nightly version I used, which was the latest one posted, fixed some of the issues you were having previously, who knows. Well, now I am just restoring my backups from MBP, and then i can personalize everything again and be on my happy way. Until Android 8 comes out, and I get antsy and do this again (by then, I am sure I will need a new phone, but we'll see)
[Nexus 5 General] toro_37:
[MENTION=4110385]mjs2011[/MENTION] I used this zip quite a bit years ago when I had this device. Now im on metro pcs and use a nexus 5x and I've been running into the same issue. Seems CM, now LOS based roms when clean flashed only have one apn. Example: I'm currently on DU and all is fine, both apns are present. When I clean flash AICP I only have the first apn (twice) instead of the one ending in IMS like in screenshot I've uploaded. My question is would you be interested in making a zip that works for us metro pcs people for Nexus 5x on LOS based roms such as AICP? I didn't wanna bug you but remembered how well this worked and figured what the heck I'll ask anyway. Sorry if I'm out of line. If you aren't interested that's fine of course but if you are I'd be happy to test it. :D

Thanks for your time.
[Nexus 5 General] jackmeat:
I thought all was good, and then I rec'd a voicemail. Noticed my phone never rang. Then I tried calling the number back....couldn't call out. Tested other numbers, and I can't call out nor receive calls. I have to think the whole update PRL/Profile thing needs to be done, but when I go into the carrier settings and click either one of those, nothing happens. So I am back wondering how I can get the phone to update this information since I assume that is why it isn't working as a phone. BTW, everything else is working just fine and no isues with losing connection, etc.
[Nexus 5 General] lynnux:
Don't know what to say, phone is working fine for me. Did you flash the update prl zip? Yeah, nothing happens for me when I go into carrier settings try to update prl there.

Someone else on freedompop pm'd me saying they got the connection to work for them using the procedure, and it seemed the EFS partition trick made a difference. I've asked them if they're able to use phone, will post when I find out.