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Hey guys. Loving my N6. Just wanted to see how many of you are getting awesome battery life like I am. This phone is probably THE first phone I've ever had that lasts me through the day. When I had my iPhone 6, I carried around my N4 as a "miniature tablet". Used my iPhone 6 to specifically make calls on and texts. It couldn't handle both and last throughout the day.

Before my iPhone 6, I used my N4 for phone calls and texts only, and used my N7 for web surfing at work (too dang bulky to carry around, but I did).

I've had my N6 for about 2 months and I can actually make not only phone call/text messages, but also web surfing THROUGHOUT the entire day. My normal day starts at 6am and ends at around 11pm.

My only gripe? That I'm using this awesome device on T-Mobile. Grrrrrr! Cheaper payment plans=cheaper coverage. I'm lucky to occasionally see LTE. Thank God for WiFi at home and work.

Anyways, I just wanted to share. Normally I come on these forums for troubleshooting, thought I'd switch it up a bit.
 

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Hey guys. Loving my N6. Just wanted to see how many of you are getting awesome battery life like I am. This phone is probably THE first phone I've ever had that lasts me through the day. When I had my iPhone 6, I carried around my N4 as a "miniature tablet". Used my iPhone 6 to specifically make calls on and texts. It couldn't handle both and last throughout the day.

Before my iPhone 6, I used my N4 for phone calls and texts only, and used my N7 for web surfing at work (too dang bulky to carry around, but I did).

I've had my N6 for about 2 months and I can actually make not only phone call/text messages, but also web surfing THROUGHOUT the entire day. My normal day starts at 6am and ends at around 11pm.

My only gripe? That I'm using this awesome device on T-Mobile. Grrrrrr! Cheaper payment plans=cheaper coverage. I'm lucky to occasionally see LTE. Thank God for WiFi at home and work.

Anyways, I just wanted to share. Normally I come on these forums for troubleshooting, thought I'd switch it up a bit.

Glad to hear you're enjoying your phone - no question it's a massive update from the N4 (by which I presume you mean Nexus, not Note) in just about every regard. As to T-Mo, or any other provider, it's not for everyone - have to make sure it works for where you go (T-Mo has been growing substantially, though, but if you have minimal LTE in your area now it may be some time before you note substantial change). I use T-Mo, and find it works better where I generally go than Verizon, so lucked out on the 'bargain' pricing.

Of course, having yours now through T-Mo means you're not under contract, so you have the option to head elsewhere if the service costs are manageable.
 

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Glad to hear you're enjoying your phone - no question it's a massive update from the N4 (by which I presume you mean Nexus, not Note) in just about every regard. As to T-Mo, or any other provider, it's not for everyone - have to make sure it works for where you go (T-Mo has been growing substantially, though, but if you have minimal LTE in your area now it may be some time before you note substantial change). I use T-Mo, and find it works better where I generally go than Verizon, so lucked out on the 'bargain' pricing.

Of course, having yours now through T-Mo means you're not under contract, so you have the option to head elsewhere if the service costs are manageable.

Hello, yes, I've been with T-Mobile for around 9 years. My fiance has Verizon. I'm bragging to her about my N6 while she is an iPhone user. Unfortunately, she continuously gets LTE everywhere we go, while I'm getting H, or 3G. But that's OK, my phone blows hers outta the water in just about every other way :).
 

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My only gripe? That I'm using this awesome device on T-Mobile. Grrrrrr! Cheaper payment plans=cheaper coverage. I'm lucky to occasionally see LTE. Thank God for WiFi at home and work.

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Good thing your Nexus 6 will soon have the T-Mobile 700Mhz block A update patch to turn on that radio freq.

T-Mobiles CTO Neville Ray talks about LTE network plans for '15

Neville Ray talks about LTE network plans for '15
 
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You seldom get LTE because where you are doesn't have LTE coverage. As to why it doesn't ... that could probably be plotted out, if someone had a few pounds of thousand dollar bills he didn't need. The coverage maps are figured from antenna patterns, not from actual ground measurements. Going through just one city, mapping out the actual coverage (remember the Verizon "can you hear me now" commercials), would be prohibitively expensive. (Sprint coverage is great here - except for a ridge that causes knife-edge refraction that causes the entire inside of my daughter's house - and nothing else - be be total dead spot. And they're not going to map the inside of everyone's house, so their map shows solid coverage of her house. It is covered - if you sit 10 feet above the roof.)

Why you get a signal in one spot and not in another one 3 feet away is something that can be explained, but measuring it for a large area isn't financially practical. (And the smallest dead spot I've ever measured was about circular, about 12" in diameter and about 2" thick, so the granularity of the measurement would have to be about 2" cubes all over an entire area to get a real coverage map. We'll be living on a planet revolving around another star before anyone does that.)
 

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Hmmm, is that why I very seldom get LTE?

T-Mobile has a list of devices that will receive the update with 700MHz support, and it even gives handy timeframes for each device. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge are currently working on T-Mo’s 700MHz spectrum, as well as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 and the Galaxy Tab S 10.5. Here are the four other Android devices getting the update in the months to come:

Google Nexus 6 – Software update coming early 2015
ZTE ZMAX – Software update coming 2015
Samsung Galaxy Avant – Software update coming May 2015
Sony Xperia Z3 – Software update coming May 2015

The lower frequency will help the carrier broaden 4G LTE coverage across the nation, as well as boost signal strength while indoors. So far, T-Mobile’s 700MHz support is only available in very select areas, but you can expect the carrier to roll out more support in the coming months.

T-Mobile 700MHz support coming to the Nexus 6, ZTE ZMAX and more

T-Mobile’s LTE network enhancements in 2015, Legere says that T-Mo’s 700MHz spectrum will be deployed to users in 350 metro areas, while Wideband LTE will reach “more than 150 metro areas.” The 700MHz spectrum will bring improved in-building coverage, while Wideband LTE increases bandwidth and capacity to T-Mo’s LTE network, which results in faster data speeds.
 
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No battery problems here either. Easily goes a whole day with heavy use. One day I noticed heavy battery usage, and it was the stupid facebook app, which took about 35% of my battery over 4 hours. Cleared the Facebook app cache and its been good since.
 

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You seldom get LTE because where you are doesn't have LTE coverage. As to why it doesn't ... that could probably be plotted out, if someone had a few pounds of thousand dollar bills he didn't need. The coverage maps are figured from antenna patterns, not from actual ground measurements. Going through just one city, mapping out the actual coverage (remember the Verizon "can you hear me now" commercials), would be prohibitively expensive. (Sprint coverage is great here - except for a ridge that causes knife-edge refraction that causes the entire inside of my daughter's house - and nothing else - be be total dead spot. And they're not going to map the inside of everyone's house, so their map shows solid coverage of her house. It is covered - if you sit 10 feet above the roof.)

Why you get a signal in one spot and not in another one 3 feet away is something that can be explained, but measuring it for a large area isn't financially practical. (And the smallest dead spot I've ever measured was about circular, about 12" in diameter and about 2" thick, so the granularity of the measurement would have to be about 2" cubes all over an entire area to get a real coverage map. We'll be living on a planet revolving around another star before anyone does that.)

Well its strange because sometimes I'll be sitting perfectly still and see my phone jump back and forth between H, 3G and E. I can understand if I was moving, but sitting still?
 

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