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Looking for an excuse to buying pants with bigger pockets. --Qfg

Nope. There aren't any changes to the physical radio inside the N5. It doesn't support all VZW's LTE bands. Even if you could trick it into using a VZW SIM from another phone it'd still be useless; the SIM would let it access one of VZW's LTE bands, but the VZW tower wouldn't recognize the...

1) Band 12 is T-Mo's 700 MHz band. It may not even be in your city. Ask at a store. The N5 supports T-Mo's two other LTE bands (2, 1800 MHz; and 4, 1900 MHz) just fine. Band 12 has better building penetration but it's slower. Lots of N5s on T-Mo with no problem. 2) If it's cheap, and you...

Not looking forward to the new S-Pen; I'll just lose it. Fast wireless charging would be nice, though. Qfg

Are you running 5.0.1 or 5.1? When I upgraded to 5.01, several widgets that I knew were installed didn't show up when I long-pressed the home screen to bring up available widgets. I went into Google Play and made sure every app and widget was up-to-date, and did more than one full power-off...

The N6 Supports all of VZW's CDMA bands and both their LTE bands. The N5 didn't. The open access terms of the spectrum they won in the last LTE auction force them to allow any device that supports it. You've been able to use the N6 on VZW since day one of its release thanks to these rules...

Before you dig in with brain surgery or warranty claims, may I suggest a can of compressed air and a toothpick? My N5 also wasn't charging, and the USB port was flaky to boot. Turns out, the two little prongs on the top of the USB cable weren't latching inside the port. Between the end of a...

Re: Swapping Nexus 5 SIM from Sprint to T-Mobile This problem was posted to this forum a few weeks ago: http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-5/426551-nexus-5-sprint-help-network.html And the solution's in the google forum in the link above. It's a bug in the CDMA radio stack of...

The exact same thing happened to me, pretty much on the same day as you. I roamed with an international SIM for a while, and couldn't connect to Sprint voice when I came back. Sprint was zero help, since there are so few of these on the Sprint network they never see this problem. After 10...

Re: Fives days, five free phones: Win with Android Central, Poweramp and Negri Electronics! ACK

The N5 works on AT&T. They just don't sell it in AT&T stores. They don't really need or want to, either. Since they sell it directly via Google play, there's no incentive for a subsidized carrier version. Sprint's subsidy on the 16GB version is gravy to them. It'd be nice for end-users if...

Two reasons: Technical, and business. Technical: The N5 supports CDMA bands 0 and 1 (Verizon's CDMA Bands). It supports only one of Verizon's LTE bands (band 4), but not the other (band 13). Verizon is going to re-farm band 1 to LTE in 2015, anyway. Business: Even with CDMA band 0 and 1...

I calmly await notification of my victory. --Qfg

Re: Nexus 7 problem Just wanted to report that my Nexus 7 developed the exact same symptoms (dead, wouldn't power on, screen backlit but dark when plugged into charger, pixels flying across the screen when power held, hard and soft reset methods didn't work) after just two days. Granted, it...

Oh heck yeah! --Qfg