Nexus 5 Reception

[StaticVoidz]

How is the Nexus 5s reception?

 

[Robbie317]

How is the Nexus 5s reception?

I am using mine on Sprint and compared to my GS3 that it replaced my reception is slightly better.. I get a faint LTE signal at work when I never saw LTE on my GS3.. Problem is at work that faint LTE signal was killing my batter.. So much that at work I have my phone set to 3G only to improve battery life...

 

[mush10]

My experience is it is subpar. Compared to my Moto X, Note 3 and iPhone 5s in the same spot the Nexus has performed the worst of the bunch. The other thing I noticed it is not as quick to drop LTE for a HSPA signal. In theory, this could be a good thing, but it appears to drop data all together before making the switch. I will keep an eye in this. As long as performance isn't hurt, it may be a non issue, but I do have concerns about getting a signal in weaker areas and potential for dropped calls.

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[Battleship]

Excellent for me. I'm on AT&T in a very well-served/covered market, so that might be it.

 

[StaticVoidz]

what carrier do you have?

 

[Robbie317]

Excellent for me. I'm on AT&T in a very well-served/covered market, so that might be it.

I am out of contract and thinking of switching to AT&T.... Their coverage in Dallas seems to be a lot better compared to two friends I work with who have GS4's on AT&T they blow me out of the water for coverage and speed.... I've also found that even getting rid of my so called "Unlimited" plan I rarely use more than 2 - 2.5 gig of Data per month max and the 6 gig plan with AT&T out of contract with my employer discount is CHEAPER than my so called unlimited plan with Sprint....

 

[wx27]

I am out of contract and thinking of switching to AT&T.... Their coverage in Dallas seems to be a lot better compared to two friends I work with who have GS4's on AT&T they blow me out of the water for coverage and speed.... I've also found that even getting rid of my so called "Unlimited" plan I rarely use more than 2 - 2.5 gig of Data per month max and the 6 gig plan with AT&T out of contract with my employer discount is CHEAPER than my so called unlimited plan with Sprint....

How much would the AT&T plan be for you? I've got straighttalk AT&T for $45/month and that has a 2.5GB cap on high speed data. If you don't need more than 2.5GB, it's a hard price to beat.

 

[Robbie317]

How much would the AT&T plan be for you? I've got straighttalk AT&T for $45/month and that has a 2.5GB cap on high speed data. If you don't need more than 2.5GB, it's a hard price to beat.

With my corporate discount their 2 gig plan is $50 a month minus 25% so it would come out to like $37 plus taxes for unlimited talk, text and 2 gig data...... and if I bumped it up to 4 gig it's $70 minus the 25% corporate discount $52.50 plus taxes... and they don't throttle you back just charge you $15 for an extra gig (Which isn't discounted) I was thinking of going to the 4 gig plan for a month or two.... I've never gone over 3 gig in a month but that might be because of how SLOW Sprint is... I've looked into the straight talk plans as well..... I paid almost $80 a month now with Sprint unlimited everything minus my corporate discount....

 

[uh60james]

Excellent 4G reception, picking it up in places my HTC One never would and holding it longer. 3G reception is about the same, still roam in the same places I always have. I'm on Sprint btw.

 

[rhea]

Mine seems good when in a strong signal area. I just moved from ST AT&T to GoPhone. Where I live, there's no difference --both are poor. But, hubby's iPhone 4s (gophone) shows same signal power. N5 does same as N4 (both better than Galaxy Nexus) except it takes a long time for N5 to register a signal when the signal is weak (lower than -109dBm).

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[krifor03]

Works better than my nexus 4

My Nexus 5 Rocks \m/

 

[chukka63]

Not as good as it should be.My wifes S3 beat my Nexus 4 and now my Nexus 5 hands down for reception/connectivity.

 

[petaf]

Excellent for me. I'm on AT&T in a very well-served/covered market, so that might be it.

This ^ ^

 

[rhea]

Mine seems good when in a strong signal area. I just moved from ST AT&T to GoPhone. Where I live, there's no difference --both are poor. But, hubby's iPhone 4s (gophone) shows same signal power. N5 does same as N4 (both better than Galaxy Nexus) except it takes a long time for N5 to register a signal when the signal is weak (lower than -109dBm).

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Since posting this, my signal reception began to disappear (No Service -140dBm) for major parts of the day. IPhone on same service has signal. Obviously, no phone calls can get through. Others have the problem which google is supposedly "watching."

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