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[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tom1226:
Ahh I got it, I've been on GV for voicemail for so long that I forgot that Verizon split its voicemail handling into a Verizon application. I assume once they get their **** together and put their own little package that gets downloaded on device setup, it'll have their voicemail bundled in...but I assume that won't happen until (if) they start selling the device.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akellar:
Try turning off visual voicemail in your account. Haven't tested myself but have read that's the fix.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jayrod76:
VZW customer with a moto bought Nexus 6. Everything is working great. Put my nano from my 13 Dev X and haven't had any issues. VZW shows as a non VZW device.. No biggie. Voicemail works but I don't use visual or Gvoice.

Rooted with 2.27...no hickups.

Sent from a whale named Shamu
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caveat71:
You misunderstand - Once you switch the device to LTE only mode on TMO the device will no longer connect to VZW, at all!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akellar:
I understand fine. How many people do you really think switch providers back and forth? This impacts almost nobody.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caveat71:
True - in one country you aren't likely to swap SIM cards out. But if you travel outside the US and have that setting enabled when using the foreign SIM, your phone will be borked when you get home. That's the real-world application. I just tested this against a Rogers (Canada) SIM. Same deal.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akellar:
Does it not work to leave it set to global?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caveat71:
If you leave it set for "Global" and never set it to "LTE (Recommended)" it works fine. However, the "recommended" bit is what causes problems. You switch to that and its over. With that recommended part you KNOW there will be people that set that option. You won't get back on Verizon and there is no "Global" option after using a GSM network with the setting as "LTE (Recommended)" The only way I was able to get VZW back was a factory reset....
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtpease:
I briefly tried FoxFi before rooting my phone, and it didn't work. I also tried several tethering apps, but nothing worked. I think you'll have to decide between Soft Card and native tethering, at least for now.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TeeX2.0:
by chance do you have NFL Mobile? I'm curious if the Verizon-specific app of NFL Mobile will still work, as well as the hotspot (from having a MORE Everything plan).

I've currently got the new Moto X and will put my nano sim into my 6 when it gets here Tuesday :)

thanks for all the info!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jayrod76:
As far as I can tell...

Sent from a whale named Shamu
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TeeX2.0:
awesome, thanks man! :good:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tom1226:
Thanks for letting me know. I wonder if usb tethering widths with foxfi...ill have to check it out when mine arrives.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtpease:
It did give me the option to try USB tethering, but I didn't try it. This was shortly before a root method was announced, and I had to change my pants.

Hopefully it works for you. Personally, a lack of WiFi tethering is kind of a deal breaker. Hopefully we'll have a method of hiding root soon.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tom1226:
Gotcha. Yeah, most of the time I tether it's only to one device (my work laptop), so it doesn't really matter. I do prefer WiFi tethering though. And I use several root apps, so I'd like root...Thanks for letting me know though.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GMoGoody:
Can you do this online with the 64GB version. The site only gives me an option for a post paid plan @ $45
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdonnelly1127:
Only at a store I was going to wait for the 64gb model but 32gb is enough for me and besides I was done waiting
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GMoGoody:
Damn that is what I thought. Now I need to determine if paying $55 more is worth it or waiting. In addition to making sure I cancel the tmobile plan in a month.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdonnelly1127:
Its not worth it lol just do the 32GB model if they have it
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laur3n.newm4n:
My Nexus 6 is on Verizon. I purchased it through the Play Store. I used the nano SIM from my Moto X 2013 to get it set up, and it activated just fine. Verizon shows the ICCID (SIM) number on my account page, but can't figure out what the device is. Calls and SMS work just fine. Google Voice works just fine in both Google Voice and Hangouts. Tethering and hotspot works because the family plan I am on is tiered share everything data plan, so I have a subscription.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kae9797:
voice mail notifications

Anybody having problems with the voice mail notifications?

Mine keep coming up as text messages with all kinds of strange stuff with the phone number that called:confused:

WTF is that all about?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akellar:
Go into your account online and turn off visual voice mail
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lkevinl:
I got my Nexus 6 from T-Mobile, popped in my nano sim from my VZW Droid Maxx and Nexus 6 works great.

FYI, if you buy from T-Mo, don't get pre-paid like they will suggest! Prepaid means you prepay for the month upfront. If you get on their lowest tier monthly plan instead, you can get the phone + account for the price of the phone + $10 sim fee. The lowest tier plan is $40/month. But, in a day or two, simply go back into the store and tell them you'd like to cancel under their 14 day buyers remorse plan and you pay nothing for the plan. So you're basically buying the phone for retail + $10.

T-Mo made me go into a store... I couldn't cancel over the phone and the tried everything to get me to reconsider but I dumped them anyone.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kae9797:
Yea I read that somewhere else, but the problem is that I don't have visual voice mail and to be sure of it I already checked that its not turned on by mistake.

Any other ideas?

I don't feel like getting into it with Verizon just yet.

Maybe after they release the Nexus 6 maybe. :crying:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenq2001:
But can't you just buy the N6 outright? In the tmo corp store here, we can buy it at the full price..
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EvanVanVan:
The only thing I've noticed that hasn't worked like it should with my N6 on VZW is, after purchasing Moto Care from Motorola neither I or a Verizon rep was able to remove Asurion Total Equipment Protection insurance from my account. I finally had to put my sim back in my Moto X to remove the insurance. Not really an N6 problem, but figured someone else might run into it in the future.

Funny thing was after being on hold for 5 minutes the Verizon rep comes back on the line and says "do you have a nexus 6 by any chance?" I was like "yep" lol.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] air2k57:
Not on mine, always there is an option. I was in long island and nexus 6 had issues keeping lte, kept dropping on 3g toggiling between global and lte fixed that.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slomo26:
This is my problem as well. I bought my N6 from T-Mobile full retail 649.99 (One store tried to rip me off for an extra 100.00 but that's another story) walked out, popped my Verizon nano sim in and I was in business. I do have Verizon visual voice mail and I am experiencing the same garbled text message problem as you every time a VM is left. My N6 is unrooted.

If someone were to strip the Verizon VM apk from the Gen 2 X or Turbo would that make the Visual VM work? I tried side loading the Samsung version from an S5 but it would not install. I found an earlier version for the original Verizon GNEX in the app store and it installed but it would stay in an endless loop when I opened it.

I still have a GV account but I would rather stay with Verizon Visaul VM.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mo
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cleis:
Can't Get 4G

I'm having issues with my 4g LTE. Did you put it on Global or LTE to get 4g working?

EDIT: For anyone else that sees this and still has trouble. I was able to fix the LTE by powering down, removing the sim card, then restarting the phone without a sim. After that, I shut the phone down again, then reinstalling the sim card before restarting. Worked perfectly.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thepiombino:
I tried using the X VVM apk with no luck. May have to wait for official VZW N6-friendly apk on this one. In the meantime, highly recommend Google Voice for VM management.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greekstile:
Network Extender

Any one on vzw using a network extender? Its working fine for voice, but i cannot get data through the extender.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctdevil1122:
Cut micro sim not working in N6 from Motorola

I bought N6 directly from Motorola. Cut the micro sim from my Verizon Note 3 with sim cutter and inserted it after set up. Nothing. Still saying no sim card, no service. Removed it. Reset phone. Inserted it, then did set up. Still nothing. Am I doing something wrong? This is drivin me crazy. Guess I'm going to have to call Verizon and get a nano sim and try that. Thanks for any help.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmh714:
Some are running into this issue and other not. I got a SIM sent to me from VZW and called them to activate when it arrived and was good within minutes. The Stores are virtually useless.

My understanding is that some swapped SIM's work and others not, so it might not hurt to try another one if you have a family/friend with a nano on VZW. One post I read somewhere said the SIM's without NFC were having issues, but not sure since I had zero problems with a new SIM.

GL
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aafreeman:
Coming from Ancient Rezound/Vigor Worked for Me

I pulled the SIM out of my ancient Rezound (4G device) that had an active account, cut it down to nano size, and dropped into a new N6 64g that I got directly from the Moto store. After two few reboots, it picked up Verizon's network and LTE. After that, I downloaded the 5.0.1 update and applied it. I also changed the network setting from global to LTE. Everything still seems to be working fine. The phone says "Verizon Wireless," but my account on Verizon's website says "Your SIM card is loaded on a device not recognized by Verizon Wireless. Some services & features may not perform as expected." However, I'm getting LTE speeds for downloads and voice is working fine. I don't use Google Voice or tethering/hotspot, so I cannot comment on those.

I haven't done anything else; no root, etc. I live in Chicago, for what that may be worth.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeyd161:
Just throwing my 2 cents in

Got my Nexus 6 from Moto, was using a Galaxy S4 so I had to cut my sim down. Found a template online and cut it with scissors.

I'm able to call, text, & browse the web without any issues & use apps like facebook, youtube, google maps & etc.... I haven't installed any of the Verizon apps & don't plan to

Also able to tether, i have the more everything plan if this matters. First time i tried to tether got a pop up showing it was checking my account. Once it verified all is working

One thing i did notice every once in a while the LTE signal bars goes gray for a second or two then comes back. It doesn't disrupt service but has anyone else notice this? Never seen this with my GS4
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nujackk:
The extenders are 3g only you will not get LTE data thru it. I am referring to the Verizon Branded extenders. There are setups you can get for 250-300 the help get 4g in your home just search amazon.

For verizon you want 1700mhz and/or 1900mhz also 700mhz but thats old lte new AWS is on 1700 and 1900
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLMcc:
Hey all, great thread! I want to get a Nexus 6. I have a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon.

Step one is to get a micro sim card and an adaptor so I can put it in my Gnex to activate it. How do I do that? Just put it in and turn the phone on?

Thanks!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wolfeyes30:
akeller,

Thank you much. Mine was checked for basic visual voicemail. Changed to basic voicemail and notifications work. [emoji106]
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bplewis24:
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

I'm rooted. Used root explorer to edit the build.prop (had to mount as R/W, then grant SU access to the app)

Added the above line at the bottom (checked spelling multiple times). Saved and exited and it alerted me that it created a build.prop.bak backup after I saved the build.prop. Then I rebooted and tried to turn on tethering. After repeated attempts, it says "Your order could not be processed" and gives me phone numbers to call in for customer service.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.electron:
Yes
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLMcc:
Great, thanks! :good: I didn't know if I was going to have to call and fight with Verizon or what. Putting the new sim in won't reset my phone will it? I've never done anything like this before.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deshaan106:
Same thing happen to me but i just re-entered the line code, and then it worked.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.electron:
Putting in a sim only makes your phone connect to verizon.

If your phone was purchased through att then you will need a sim unlock code.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bplewis24:
I'm stupid. I just noticed that I typed in "nonprovisioning" instead of "noprovisioning". It works now :good:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r1ndr3w:
Just got my N6 and had the same thing happen. Did you get any information about this?

Thanks.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wolfeyes30:
Look at post #104 posted by akellar. Worked for me yesterday. My voicemail was set to basic visual voicemail and needed changed to basic voicemail. Notifications work now.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLMcc:
Thanks. I don't have the phone yet. I haven't even been able to order one. Google Play always seems to be oos so I'm still researching, which is probably good. I've never done anything like this. Always just went to VZ and got a phone. After the debacle that is / was the Galaxy Nexus I want to get my phone direct, before Verizon gets their dirty paws on it.

In doing some more research I'm still lost on the sim activation. k.electron said above that all I have to do is buy a micro sim card and a micro to mini sim adapter, put the micro sim in the adaptor, put it in my Galaxy Nexus and turn the phone on. That'll activate the sim. Then I've read online sources that say I have to have several different numbers (phone id, sim card, etc) and call Verizon to get the micro sim activated. :confused: I think I'm getting more confused.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kae9797:
Yea Just Like the guy said it has to do with Visual Voice mail on your number. Once they fix that on your number it should be fine!;)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevexyz0:
Nexus 6 takes a nano sim, also known as 4FF. You can order one from customer service; many people got theirs from using chat on the verizon website, others from calling in. Just tell them you want it for a Nexus 6 Android phone and they'll send you one free of charge, two day shipping. Some folks have said you have to lie and say it's for a 2014 Moto X or other supported nano sim phone, but I just said Nexus 6 and they didn't even blink an eye.

Activation is a bit confusing. The website (My Verizon) has online activation -- but this only works if you have the IMEI of a supported phone to input (i.e. not the IMEI of your Nexus 6). I also could not get it to work by inputting the IMEI of my current phone (Galaxy S3), I suppose because it thought it was already activated. Some have recommended to get this to work by "Borrowing" the IMEI of some random phone in a Verizon store or from a friend, but I chose not to do this.

Simply putting the sim in my old GS3 (with a nano-micro adapter) did not activate it. But I just called customer service (the "activations" department) and said I needed the sim they sent me in the mail activated, and they did it, and then it worked. While I was on the phone with them I first put the sim in my GS3 just to be safe to test the activation, but it may well have worked if I put it directly into the Nexus 6. In any event after it worked in the GS3 I transferred the sim to the Nexus 6 and it's worked fine ever since.

As many have pointed out, ad infinitum in this thread and elsewhere, log on to My Verizon and make sure your account is set to "Basic Voicemail", not "Visual Voicemail", and certainly not "Basic Visual Voicemail". Otherwise your voicemail will not work and you'll get cryptic encoded text messages instead of a voicemail indicator.

Your phone will show up on My Verizon as "NON-VZW" phone but that's the price we pay :p
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLMcc:
Thank you! This is the best information I've read on activating the sim! :good: I really appreciate it!

Now I just have to be able to order the phone.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.electron:
whoa friend. you are getting confused. lets take this one step at a time

do u have a current vzw plan and if so, with what phone?

also, buy the nexus 6 here: http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/nexus-6-header/Nexus-6/nexus-6-motorola-us.html
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Larzzzz82:
I have their new micro sim from my gnex trimmed down and everything works, even wallet. It is a 3ff sim.

Funny side note. Used wallet in the apple store no problem. Declined at vzw... Less than an hour between purchases.Yes, money and or credit, were available. Lol:p
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmh714:
that is too funny.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLMcc:
Hi. Yes, I'm currently with Verizon. I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Today I placed an order for the blue Nexus 6 through Google. It's supposed to ship by the 9th.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bplewis24:
Call Verizon's corporate number and ask them to send you a nano sim. They'll ask what phone it's for, and you'll say it is to activate a new HTC one M8 that you just bought and is being shipped to you. Also get a nano-to-micro Sim adapter.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLMcc:
I did that. The problem is getting the nano sim activated. The Verizon system won't let them activate a nano sim on a non nano sim phone. That's where I'm stuck now. Any ideas?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LillieBennett:
Wow, they sure like locking things down! I was considering buying say the moto turbo which will come with the new nano sim. Ya get 14 days to return the phone and check out the turbo, keep the sim and it will cost about $35 restocking fee. Hey, it's their system.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darshilshah87:
i am not sure regaqrding this. but i had customer whose daughter worked for google and was testing nexus6 and showed it as a non-verizon device...so i am not sure
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slapshot30:
Buy a cheap micro to nanoSIM cutter off Amazon or Ebay and use that. Activate microSIM in old phone, cut into nanoSIM, then put that into the Nexus.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLMcc:
My phone came today so I'm to try cutting it down with a knife / scissors tonight. I guess if I ruin it I'll go to Verizon tomorrow and get another sim for my GNex and then get a cutter.

In another thread somebody posted there is supposedly a form you can go into a Verizon store to fill out to have the imei added to the database. I haven't found anything about it anywhere else.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polke45:
I just go online and search for "nano sim cut sheet". Print it out, tape it on and cut it from there. One mistake I made is not removing the tape before cutting all 4 sides so it took me a while before getting it off. Then sand the sim card down (logo side) until you starting to notice a faded outline of the copper sim chip from the other side.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slapshot30:
Sanding? Dang, I didn't know that was necessary. Are nanoSIMs thinner than microSIMs (as well as being less wide and long)?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polke45:
It is slightly thinner. This wouldn't work on the iPhone if you don't sand it, although I have seen instruction without the sanding part.

http://macnix.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-cut-down-your-sim-or-micro-sim.html
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulvine420:
I work at a premium retailer and use eroes. There are 2 methods in eroes one you need to do device only change and ad phone and sim the other is looking at the line click on little pencil icon and just put in sim hit activate then when sim is in phone it should activate. When my Sprint varient comes in I ordered off swappa I will try it and post my results. I also ordered sim cutter and adapter just in case.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndoren:
Not true for me at all. I bought a Verizon nano sim via ebay, and used an adapter to put it into my micro sim based Droid 4. I simply called and said I had a new sim installed in my phone and needed it activated. I gave them the sim ID and it was immediately activated (after a reboot). The Verzion Droid 4 was my current phone at the time. The customer rep never asked what kind of sim it was... nano, micro or otherwise. When I gave them the ID, it activated without any issue whatsoever. I removed it from my Droid 4, took it out of the adapter, and inserted it into my Nexus 6. Bam! No issues whatsoever. Neall
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.electron:
yes it shows up as non-vzw

this is one way to do it.

the nexus 6 is nano sim.

here's how to get a nano sim for free:

go to a verizon store.

find an htc one m8 or droid turbo on display.

copy the imei number on a piece of paper.

go home.

call 611 and tell them how u bought a m8/turbo (whichever imei u copied) and how u now need a nano sim.

give them the imei u copied.

receive nano sim.

insert into nexus 6.

done.

also for people who are confused about compatibility and whatnot, i have a verizon plan that i use on my nexus 6 bought direct from motorola. everything works normally (lte, 3g, voice calls etc.).

it shows up as non-vzw but doesnt affect anything.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] selayan:
You don't need an imei of an m8 unless you want to activate the sim too. I just called told them I bought a used m8, they sent me a sim. I then called the 800 number told them I needed my new sim activated. They looked in my account saw I had an m7, asked me for the sim number on the card and a few seconds later it was functioning.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLMcc:
I finally gave up trying to get the nano Sim activated and took a pair of scissors and a file to the sim from my GNex and cut it. It's a bit thick so it was a little hard to insert but it works. My N6 fired right up. So far so good!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dusty Rhodes:
If you lived near me I'd let you activate a sim with my spare MotoX so you could pop it into your N6 after you were done. Try asking online. Maybe a forum member in your area would help you out by meeting someplace with a laptop and internet connection. Would take all of 15-30 minutes.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bplewis24:
Same thing I did, except with a Galaxy Nexus.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLMcc:
Thanks for the offer. :good: I cut my Sim out of my GNex and have it in the N6. So far so good!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ErylFlynn:
Wow, if Verizon gives me too much grief I will just end up on AT&T. I have had nothing but bad coverage and weird issues with Verizon here and would love to move back to AT&T.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustusIV:
I cut my sim, everything is working fine.

I found a phone repair shop that did it for 5 bucks as i didnt want to wait for the cutter from amzon :)

Do you have ANY verizon phone that they can activate a sim in.