Just activated Nexus 5 on Sprint.....

[cannondale01]

This thing is smooth.....

 

[cannondale01]

Just as smooth or smoother than my HTC One.....

 

[neonworm]

Glad you like it It is a great device.

 

[zkSharks]

I've been using mine most of the day. It's great. ART is great. The launcher is great.

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[ttwiitch]

How did you activate it? Any obstacles? Sim card issues?

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[zkSharks]

How did you activate it? Any obstacles? Sim card issues?

I had T-Mobile micro-SIMs already, and they were active. Unboxed the phone, put in the SIM, turned it on, and it picked up LTE in a few seconds (and in a location where the One consistently had strong HSPA+, but no LTE).

 

[cannondale01]

Mine came from Sprint so it had the Sim card in it already. I ported a line from Verizon but it took a couple of calls into sprint to get it to work...

 

[TimmyTwo2]

Maybe this is a n00b question but is the wifi hotspot unlocked since it's a Nexus? Wondering because I can't root my S3 because I have Good for email at work and the IT policy won't allow rooted phones but I'd like to wifi tether occasionally.

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[ttwiitch]

Maybe this is a n00b question but is the wifi hotspot unlocked since it's a Nexus? Wondering because I can't root my S3 because I have Good for email at work and the IT policy won't allow rooted phones but I'd like to wifi tether occasionally.

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Good question

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[Jerfer]

Maybe this is a n00b question but is the wifi hotspot unlocked since it's a Nexus? Wondering because I can't root my S3 because I have Good for email at work and the IT policy won't allow rooted phones but I'd like to wifi tether occasionally.

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Yes.

 

[Jerfer]

However, I'm sure carriers know when you're tethering when you're not supposed to. I know Straight Talk checks by looking at the HTTP User-Agent header. If you're looking at a website on your laptop and you're tethering through your phone in order to use Straight Talk's mobile data connection, it'll show something similar to this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0

That tells them that you're using Firefox on a Windows 8 machine on their network. The only explanation is that you're tethering, and they'll cut you off for not following TOS. If you were using Firefox on your Nexus 4 (not sure what Nexus 5 would show) it would look like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.2; en-us; Nexus 4 Build/JOP24G) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30

So if you do tether without having an option on your plan that allows you to tether, I'd download an add-on on your computer that changes the user-agent string to your phone's so that it looks like you're using your phone instead of a computer.