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[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
Global is lte!/gsm/cdma

LTE only is CDMA/LTE. So I have mine set as LTE only.
[Nexus 6  General] KB112:
I was thinking about playing with the bands earlier today bro. You might be onto something. I know I had issues with the spark roll out on my G2. It would jump band to band and I'd go from LTE to no signal and then 3G and bounce around a lot.

Some people shut down the newer bands on their device and were rock solid again. I was thinking about doing that, but hadn't looked into it. I wonder if it would help the switch over from LTE to 3G, which causes the text/call issues.

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Well damn, either the dialer code is disabled, they removed it, or it's been changed. The old code was ##3282#. For the nexus 5 I checked and it was *#*#3282#*#*. It didn't work though.

By entering this code you could change LTE band priority etc. You also could enable or shut down LTE band of your choice. So unless someone knows a different code, I'm stumped.
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
I did that on the lg g3, but also can't access it now
[Nexus 6  General] KB112:
Yeah, there's an app that let's you access it on the N5. It's available on the GPS. But I managed to side load it and no dice. Has no access to the necessary screens. :/
[Nexus 6  General] Johnabis:
so another problem. I live in theory based on the coverage map the best sprint coverage there is. if you look up zip code 19403 where I work on sprint overage map it is covered with Turbo spark when you zoom in. even my house which is about 15 miles away has Turbo. pretty much the entire area from my house to my work.

now what I don't understand is I use LTE discovery while in the car, 80% of the time I do have LTE and 20% I had 3g only. but when I was on LTE it went between band 26 and 25 only. it saw a weak band 41 once and it dropped out right away. with that said how am I be fully in the sprint Turbo spark area but not have band 41 ? I figured with the nexus 6 iI Would have no issue.

Thanks,

John
[Nexus 6  General] A2CKilla:
Remember, this isn't a sprint brand phone, those programing codes won't work at all on the nexus, you have to really change a lot of detailed stuff for what you're trying to do, take a look at sqllite, I believe I saw something there, either that or you're spending a lot of time checking properties settings in some type of root Explorer
[Nexus 6  General] KB112:
I know this isn't a Sprint branded phone. However these settings were also preinstalled in the Nexus 5. The same way all Nexus 6 have Sprint DM built in. There is even an app on the GPS to allow you quick access to them on the N5.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cellmapper.nexus5fieldtestmode

Unfortunately it doesn't work properly on the N6. I installed a copy of it and some of the menus work. However the DATA screen doesn't, this is where you can select/change LTE bands. So it seems to not be installed on this device. But thanks for the heads up on sqlite.
[Nexus 6  General] mattgfx:
For anyone having sms duplicate issues. I may have found a fix. I hit *#*#4636#*#* went into phone informstion. Scrolled to bottom.and turned on sms over ims. Also turned on ims registration. Haven't had the issue since
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
I haven't had any duplicate issues since switching to radio band 7. Nothing else was changed.
[Nexus 6  General] toprock23:
I can't find the option to switch radio bands. Where is it?
[Nexus 6  General] Ingenium13:
Is anyone else having issues with NFC? I just noticed that NFC wasn't working, and there's nothing NFC or Android Beam related in settings. When I try to add an NFC Smart Unlock device it gives an error saying it's unavailable. I also tried using Secure Settings to enable NFC which also gave an error.

It seems that the phone isn't detecting the NFC chip being present. I tried booting into safe mode but the issue existed there too.

Does it sound like my phone is defective? Or could an app or something be interfering. I'm rooted, with busy box installed, but other than that I'm stock.
[Nexus 6  General] mattgfx:
How do I go about that
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
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[Nexus 6  General] :
Settings>more>toggle NFC on?

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[Nexus 6  General] Ingenium13:
The option isn't there. On my Nexus 7 (3G, still on 4.4) and my Galaxy S4 it's there, but since both are Kitkat I wasn't sure if it got moved somewhere in lollipop. There's only airplane mode, default sms application, tethering, VPN, cellular networks, and emergency broadcast.

When I try enabling tap and pay in Google Wallet it force closes, and then force closes every time I open it after that. I have to clear data for it to not force close upon opening.
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
That's weird. Try performing a factory reset.
[Nexus 6  General] toprock23:
This works for me. I also reenabled the pcs band 1900mhz. Signal seemed to improve, but it might just be placebo.

Update: its sending double txts again. Damn!
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
Doors sprint even support SMS one ims?
[Nexus 6  General] KB112:
I didn't think that they did. But I guess I could be wrong.
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
i can confirm that turning on IMS does not solve the issue. Actually, it worked better before turning it on. Now with it turned on, people are getting 4 sms duplicates.
[Nexus 6  General] Ingenium13:
I agree, it does not fix it. I tried it with IMS registration both enabled and disabled. It seemed to have no effect for me, the problem persisted.
[Nexus 6  General] Mahapederdon:
I can even reproduce it when I send myself a text.
[Nexus 6  General] alyoder:
There is a huge support thread on the double text / sending / failed text issue. Sprint has acknowledged it and says "we're working on it" for like a month now. Its somehow related to LTE. A temp workaround is to set network to 3g only. It fixes texting, but of course means no lte
[Nexus 6  General] TrekkieTechie21:
Activation Trouble

I'm also having the same problem getting my Nexus 6 activated, except I'm with Ting, a MVNO that works on the Sprint network. No voice or text, but data works fine. I've spent about 2 hours on the phone with their excellent customer service reps, and now they are in the process of contacting Sprint to see what we can figure out. I purchased it directly from the Google Play store, so the problem doesn't appear to be confined.
[Nexus 6  General] mattgfx:
I had the same effect. Turning on band 7 seemed to help until i got to a tower with no band 26. Then lost all signal and had to provision. This is grtting ridiculous
[Nexus 6  General] SP_Kenny:
Stas333 sorry about the delayed response - was out for the holiday and trying to do some testing for you while on my travels.

First off I admit that most of the time I have my phone set for 3g because of the double message issue. Phone is running stock non rooted 5.0.1

I did have to do a drive that I knew would take me through LTE and 3g areas for the holidays

So with the phone set for preferred being LTE and under settings / data usage / cellular network settings where you would change the preferred network I also have data roaming turned off.

I fired up my plex app (for plex.tv, if you guys don't know what that is I recommend checking it out) and connected to my music library to stream music while on my drive.

Was able to observe smooth switchover from LTE to 3g. I have seen it switch back to LTE, but doesn't do it all the time when I get back into a known LTE area it just stays in 3g mode. Not sure if I had just not waited long enough as I arrived home and it was still on 3g

I tried it again over this past weekend on a different trip - was surprised the rout stayed in LTE the whole time :P

Let me know if you want me to try anything else out

Cheers
[Nexus 6  General] biscodude:
Good luck! After 2 weeks and about 15 hours with chat and phone support I eventually had Moto send me a different phone and it activated with no problems.
[Nexus 6  General] :
Word is getting around.

http://www.androidheadlines.com/201...issues-with-voice-and-sms-for-some-users.html
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
good. i need to sign up and post a comment in the sprint community thread
[Nexus 6  General] kxhaz:
Wow, I have been so lucky. No issues getting my N6 up and running (I got mine from Sprint online). I also (knock on wood) have not had any issues with SMS. What is funny is that with my S4 about two months ago we had SMS issues between me and my wife (she has a S4 as well) and it was only an issue when I was at home and she was at work. This lasted for a few days and then no more issue. Then a few days after that when we were both at work when I would text her she would get duplicated messages from me, again lasted about two days and then was fixed. I was thinking this was an issue with the towers.
[Nexus 6  General] robber:
Google voicemail post hangouts integration has been rock solid on multiple devices for me. I used to have issues with reliability as well. If you have not tried it, it may be worth another try.

Does anyone know anything about wifi calling for the n6? It appears in my account as a feature still.

Tmobile apparently is going to support it "early 2015".
[Nexus 6  General] jhienk:
Just wanted to say hello. It is nice to see a dedicated thread for sprint. Received my 6 Friday and loving it so far.
[Nexus 6  General] marctronixx:
another nod for google voice using hangouts. solid.
[Nexus 6  General] Evo_Shift:
I use google voice but skip all the integration stuff so it acts just like the old visual voicemail.
[Nexus 6  General] noahas:
Would like to know this as well.

Also, in case anyone else tries this. You can't buy the phone in the store at the discounted price with a 2 year agreement. It can only be done online/telesales. I found out the hard way...
[Nexus 6  General] marctronixx:
had to call sprints cs to activate the sim (purchased from goog).

guy told me he had to remove wifi calling from my account (i was using an htc one max that had wifi calling) as it was not compatible with the nex.
[Nexus 6  General] atuarre:
Unfortunately that's what happens when you buy a nexus, and the stock Android experience. You can always dial to get your voicemail if you don't want to do the hangouts integration thing.
[Nexus 6  General] buzzwyzr:
Same here.
[Nexus 6  General] davidh59:
Before today I would have said Hangouts/Voice was rock solid. But today my phone would not download an MMS while on on both 3g and Lte. As soon as I got back to wifi it came in. I've checked all my setting everything look right. Is it just me or what am I missing?
[Nexus 6  General] :
Have you updated PRL and device config? Is your preferred network set to LTE and not still on global (default)?
[Nexus 6  General] davidh59:
Yeah I did all that, the message came from an ATT iphone received fine on my wife's nexus 5 but would not on my nexus 6. I set them both up identical. Weird
[Nexus 6  General] :
Very weird. I'm not sure if the ## codes work with this device or not so you might want to call Sprint and see if there's a reset code you can use or if they can reprovision wireless data services from their end. I can honestly say, I haven't had any service issues at all.
[Nexus 6  General] Atticustrd:
Do you guys know if popping in a T-Mobile SIM and activated it on the nexus would cause any issues with returning to the sprint SIM?

I'd like to try T-Mobile see how it performs in my area and the $30 pre paid wouldn't be bad. Just don't want to have issues getting back on sprint.
[Nexus 6  General] Mahapederdon:
I'm about to be one of you guys. Never got a shipping confirmation but chatted with Sprint and they gave me a tracking #
[Nexus 6  General] marctronixx:
ive had the setting set to "global" from day one. why not use that setting?
[Nexus 6  General] :
Excellent question. I'm not exactly sure but since my days on the N5, it has always been recommended to be on that setting. Since Sprint is a CDMA carrier and not a GSM.
[Nexus 6  General] Fixaflat:
Also curious about this since I plan on doing the same thing.
[Nexus 6  General] MXPS:
My N6 should be here today as it's out for delivery!
[Nexus 6  General] lilman355:
Just ordered my Nexus 6 last night :)
[Nexus 6  General] uecker87:
I am thinking about ordering one of these on Friday - From Nov. 28th to Dec. 1st all Nexus 6's purchased through and activated on Sprint receive $50 in Google Play credits! I kept trying to find one in store around here to play with to make sure the size wasn't an issue but I couldn't. Instead I played around with the closest thing in size that they had, the Note 4, and I don't think the 6" screen will be an issue at all. I will probably end up loving it.

For those of you with the device - compared to your old devices, how is the Nexus 6 at holding LTE? The Nexus 5 was great right away and then its RF performance sort of went backwards over time and got worse.
[Nexus 6  General] Ferms_93_2.8T:
I had no issues with duplicate messages until I enabled Google voice integration through sprint. I did this to get my voicemail through GV/hangouts. Once I enabled that, hangouts would send my messages from both my sms# and through my GV#. What a pita!! I logged into my GV account online and disabled sprint integration and my duplicate texts are gone. For now anyway. Not sure if this is the same as everyone else, but maybe this will help some of you. Now I just need to find another voicemail app.
[Nexus 6  General] lasswellt:
they're not actually duplicated, you're seeing the text, then the GV text after you send it. You can fix that by setting the send setting in hangouts to send via you GV number instead of the Auto function.
[Nexus 6  General] guitardoc64:
Good info. Just got mine ordered. It will be my first Nexus.
[Nexus 6  General] lasswellt:
did you just order? curious to see if Sprint is still pulling the it'll ship in 2 days on the site, then saying nope it's back ordered it'll be a few weeks ordeal.
[Nexus 6  General] guitardoc64:
Yeah I just ordered one. I assume that the supply is there, my local store even has them. Why order? I prefer to do my own activation, and the case hasn't come in yet.
[Nexus 6  General] guitardoc64:
Quick update. Just checked and my whale is in Kentucky! Friday or Monday! Woot!
[Nexus 6  General] orlzzt:
I agree wholeheartedly. I hate when those reps try to sell you crap like cases and screen covers. It's like buying a new car. No, I do NOT want the undercarriage rustproofing!

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[Nexus 6  General] guitardoc64:
Yeah true. I like being the first to power it up.
[Nexus 6  General] lasswellt:
shweeeeeet! my local stores don't have any showing in stock on the site, if that's the case, i may put in the order tonight :)

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ordered! been putting this off so long, i shoulda done it weeks ago :)
[Nexus 6  General] rothlike:
My local store did not have any so I ordered mine online and had it shipped to my local store. I ordered it on Sunday and picked it up Tuesday. They shipped it next day air.
[Nexus 6  General] lasswellt:
says it's shipped, lets see if it gets here Monday :)
[Nexus 6  General] guitardoc64:
Just got back from lunch with my Nexus!
[Nexus 6  General] DominoDoug:
I know people have had issues with missing phone calls and multiple texts, so I thought that I would list a couple remedies I use to get the best functionality from the phone in it's current state.

I haven't rooted yet so I'm running stock 5.0.1. Google Voice integration enabled.

As far as missing phone calls it's very hit and miss. My Google Voice number is my Sprint number so I have Hangouts ring as well as the Dialer when phone calls come. Sometimes Hangouts will only ring, and sometimes the Dialer will ring as well. I figure with this method I'll always know if someone called, no matter what. If both applications ring make sure that you answer the Phone application.

Side note: Calls that come through or don't come through have no rhyme or reason. At work I have a very strong LTE (spark possibly? 30mbps) signal. I've had calls ring both or only Hangouts at this location. Same goes for my residence LTE/3G (depending on where I am inside), phone calls hit and miss.

As far as texts go I haven't had issues for a couple weeks now. Not sure if this has to deal with me turning on SMS over IMS in the "Testing" settings (*#*#4636#*#*). Texts are still slow but I haven't seen multiples for a while now.

Hope this helps some of you out!
[Nexus 6  General] The Peanut Master:
Called literally 20 Sprint stores in Los Angeles within a 10 mile radius of my house, literally every store was out and until the 20th store which had a few in stock. Shows that persistence can in fact pay off (and also it helps living in a big city :P).
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
The first day it came out I randomly walked into sprint store and they had the phone there. So I took it off their hands
[Nexus 6  General] gmelchert:
My local store had em. Enjoying this.
[Nexus 6  General] harry46222:
When setting up mine I had to dial a special number. Nothing happened when I selected it. The window went away giving me just the main window. I wrote the number down and dialed it with nothing happening... Just a couple beeps. The help forum was not helpful at all. Out of curiosity I called my phone andbkeft a VM. Everything worked fine. Would've been nice to have something to let me know it was successful.
[Nexus 6  General] dodsonhaycattle:
Sim card

Forgive me if this has been discussed before(40 pages). I was reading somewhere online that the newer iphones have a different sim than the iphone 5 and now all of our information is on the sim card and doesnt just activate lte like on my nexus 5 so theoretically we should be able to pop a sim out of one phone and pop it in another like verizon and any gsm network. Is this the case now or am i misinformed?
[Nexus 6  General] :
Not sure if this has been discussed either. I would try to ask a chat rep first or call customer care and see if you can get a tech to answer that. As for the Sprint Nexus, it seems some models are Sim locked and some are not...if that helps. I know I've read about people swapping Sim cards though.

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[Nexus 6  General] dodsonhaycattle:
From what I gather the Nexus 6 and Iphone 5S and up use a csim card and the Iphone 5 and phones such as my old Nexus 5 use a usim card on sprint. I can put my nexus 6 card in my old Nexus 5 with a sim adapter and it shows data but no phone support. I need to find someone with a Nexus 6 or newer Iphone to swap them out and see. Im curious to see if I can put my Nexus 6 sim in a Nexus 9 and use it for data like Verizon users do. Doesnt matter to much though because I can add it to my family plan for $10/month if not as long as Sprint supports it. Plan on buying a used(cheaper) nexus 9 LTE sooner or later
[Nexus 6  General] Skripka:
A simple SIM card swap will not work on Sprint.

The SIM card and the IMEI/MEID need to be paired together in Sprint's system. If they aren't paired in Sprint's whitelist database, then the phone device won't work won't work. You can do the pairing on sprint.com/activate by yourself on your account, or via Sprint worldwide chat at a computer.
[Nexus 6  General] troyperez:
I have successfully placed my Verizon iPhone 5 Sim in my Sprint Nexus 6 and everything works fine on the nexus 6. I didn't try the sprint Sim in the iPhone because the Verizon iPhone is locked.

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[Nexus 6  General] lasswellt:
it's official, got my nexus 6 today! w00t. activation didn't go through with the normal we're activating your device, but i skipped and it is actually activated.
[Nexus 6  General] mattgfx:
Anyone have any luck with the voicemail problem or text problem? Seriously annoyed that i am outside of my return. Id go back to my m7 and wait it out
[Nexus 6  General] KB112:
No fix yet for the text issues, other than using 3G. I don't have any voicemail issues. Do you mean that you miss calls and they go to VM? Or that we have no Sprint VM app?

I use You Mail and it works like a champ. I used it often on AOSP ROMs in the past. Does a great job on my N6.
[Nexus 6  General] mattgfx:
Actually i get phantom voice mails every time i switch towers...
[Nexus 6  General] SP_Kenny:
Is that just with the phone set on LTE or with 3g as well?
[Nexus 6  General] KB112:
Now that's just ****ty. I've never had that happen yet.
[Nexus 6  General] mattgfx:
Didn't matter what it was set to. I think it was because my last phone had visual voicemail. (M7)

I checked out youmail and installed last night. I reset my connecting with signal check pro and havent had the issue since!

Its just a shame that we have to jump through all these hoops to get our brand new phone working right
[Nexus 6  General] Skripka:
With SlimROM alpha builds...the VM notification is at least clearable and less frequent IMO.

I made a post on the Moto forums about this with a screenshot, apparently it supposedly is officially a bug. Feel free to pile on:

https://forums.motorola.com/posts/e584377635
[Nexus 6  General] :
PRL updated to 55022.

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[Nexus 6  General] t2noob:
yep i did the prl update and it pushed 55022 wonder if this will be better in my area...
[Nexus 6  General] simpkill:
Were you root/unlocked prior to this? If so did you lose it?
[Nexus 6  General] :
No, not rooted or unlocked. Ironically, the only phones I don't modify, are nexus devices. However, updating your PRL will have no effect on root.

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[Nexus 6  General] KB112:
Per the Sprint Community forum, the multiple SMS, Missed calls are now being acknowledged as a "known issue". Supposedly Sprint and Moto are working on a fix. We'll see, this has been said before.
[Nexus 6  General] simpkill:
Yeah, I would have left it completely stock but I wanted the WiFi tether. This is the first sprint device I've had that I actually can stomach the UI.
[Nexus 6  General] guitardoc64:
I'm liking not having bloatware to remove.
[Nexus 6  General] SP_Kenny:
But But - Clean ROM clears it up even more :victory:

Just giving you a hard time guitardoc64
[Nexus 6  General] Ingenium13:
Is there an official issue number or something associated with it? They've been saying the exact same thing for over a month now in the relevant Sprint Community thread, yet when you call in they still insist it's not listed as a known issue.

Basically, I don't believe them anymore until they actually provide some sort of proof or evidence that it's being worked on.

I asked for a ticket to be created, per the instructions of one SprintCare rep, and they responded saying I didn't need one, that it's a known issue, despite a rep 30 minutes earlier saying it wasn't a known issue and they needed enough tickets created to get the attention of the network team.

I asked for one to be created anyway and the rep said she put in a ticket it should be fixed in 24-48 hours. I asked for the number and got no response. I asked again 48 hours later and again got no response. Of course their 48 hour window came and went without anything getting fixed....
[Nexus 6  General] guitardoc64:
LOL I had to add back stuff to CleanROM that I use.
[Nexus 6  General] troyperez:
I'm currently Stock, Rooted, Unlocked bootloader. My OS is the original build. I used to be able to call and still have Lte data. Lately Lte drops as soon as my phone starts dialing. Anyone else see this?

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[Nexus 6  General] Ingenium13:
Simultaneous voice and data is not possible on any triband/Spark device. So you won't have LTE while on a call.
[Nexus 6  General] troyperez:
You say not possible but mine worked for the last two month's.

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