P4 + Fi

[dsneedmd]

Thinking of getting a P4 and switching to Google Fi. Is there any problem with this & who has a good or bad experience with the P4 on Fi?

 

[bhatech]

Pixel phones provide the best experience on Fi and the features Fi offers, so you are on the right track

 

[N4Newbie]

Wife and I have been on Fi for 4 years and my 4XL since Tuesday of this week. Have had no issues at all with Fi and, because I/we do a fair amount of international travel, I love the way Fi "just works" no matter where we are.

 

[walterkurtz]

Wife and I have been on Fi for 4 years and my 4XL since Tuesday of this week. Have had no issues at all with Fi and, because I/we do a fair amount of international travel, I love the way Fi "just works" no matter where we are.

wow i am having the direct opposite experience.

signed up for fi last weekend. ported my number from verizon to google voice. since then, two things:

when someone leaves me a voicemail i get a texted transcript and another alert i can click on to listen. then the VM disappears. now that i am overseas i get the text notification but can not listen to the VM or find it anywhere between voice and fi. i worked on this for 2 hours today from london with google fi support. it was never solved.

worse, when i arrived in london today my phone had no data. once in two hours it connected somehow and i suddenly got a bunch of emails. then eventually google support told me to manually select the network. that worked and after 2 hours on the phone with fi support i left my hotel. i went to a store a km away and when i tried to send a pic i received a notification that i was no longer connected to the network. no data. i manually selected a different network that seems to be working now. but i am dreading going out into the city tomorrow to explore. without google maps and google search i'm dead.

i don't know what to do and may port back to verizon to sort it out. i'd rather pay a ton of money to verizon and reliably receive messages than save money without any reliability.

i am using an LGV40 which the fi site said was compatible. but maybe fi is really only best on pixel phones.

 

[BCWARE]

I have been on FI for a little over a year with very few issues. waiting on my 4XL to arrive and will trade in my son's S8 and he gets my 2XL

 

[N4Newbie]

wow i am having the direct opposite experience.

signed up for fi last weekend. ported my number from verizon to google voice. since then, two things:

when someone leaves me a voicemail i get a texted transcript and another alert i can click on to listen. then the VM disappears. now that i am overseas i get the text notification but can not listen to the VM or find it anywhere between voice and fi. i worked on this for 2 hours today from london with google fi support. it was never solved.

worse, when i arrived in london today my phone had no data. once in two hours it connected somehow and i suddenly got a bunch of emails. then eventually google support told me to manually select the network. that worked and after 2 hours on the phone with fi support i left my hotel. i went to a store a km away and when i tried to send a pic i received a notification that i was no longer connected to the network. no data. i manually selected a different network that seems to be working now. but i am dreading going out into the city tomorrow to explore. without google maps and google search i'm dead.

i don't know what to do and may port back to verizon to sort it out. i'd rather pay a ton of money to verizon and reliably receive messages than save money without any reliability.

I had a similar problem when in Milan but got it sorted out within an hour and then fine after that.

Two other times in Milan, a couple in Florence, plus Rome, plus Sicily, plus nine times in Brasil (Sao Paulo area), I have had voice and data work seamlessly without any issues at all.

 

[N4Newbie]

Forgot to add Venice/Treviso.

 

[18t]

I signed up for Fi last year. I'm almost always on WiFi at work or through my ISP hotspot. My average bill is around $30 after tax. Had no problems when I traveled to Canada. Being an MVNO, there are times my data is slower than it should be to respond, but it's more of an isolated issue. Overall, I'm happy with Fi.

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[travaz]

I went to Australia last November with a VZW phone and a P3XL. Verizon kind of worked and cost me $250 and had spotty coverage in Sydney when i was out and about. Fi and the Pixel worked the minute I turned it on when we landed and worked just like it does here in Phoenix Arizona. Fi cost me $55. VZW charged me whether i used it or not. Just got the 4XL today and look forward to using it on Fi. I dont have any experience with LG so i wouldn't know what was wrong. I think the best experience on Fi is a Pixel.

 

[Torisen1]

I've been on Fi for 3 years and I've not had any issues. I've had my Pixel 4 XL for 4 days and no problems. I have not done any international travel.

 

[njgill05]

Fi was my main reason for picking up the 4 XL, I really missed having Fi for service with a Pixel phone. It always just works, when flying to Norway as soon as the plane touched down I powered the Pixel 3XL I had at the time and was connected and didn't have to do anything. I just really like the Fi experience, and when I'm in the boondocks visiting family in CT I still get decent service.

 

[cbreze]

I was on Fi with a pixel 2 for about 6 months and couldn't take the poor reception everywhere even at home. WiFi at home of course so that saved me there. But traveling anywhere around my local area I had poor signal. Sprint was pretty poor but better than US cellular. T-Mobile worked the best but they DID NOT work out of town very well at all. FI is definitely a YMMV type of service. I had the luxury of being able to use my iPhone on Verizon to compare services so I usually had both phones with me. No comparison. Was out of town in the woods near a small community and was trying to find the head waters of this river to show some out of town company. Fi struggled on Sprint with one bar that dropped in and out and T-mo and US cell were completely dead, no signal. Verizon on the iPhone shined beautifully and led the way using GPS to the site.
Now the good thing was while in Vancouver B.C. I had great service on Fi and no extra charge for data. I really was hoping Fi would work for me because the cost was great and much better than Verizon. One other thing I noticed with Fi was WiFi would try to connect when in range but not always a strong signal. It sometimes over rode the T-Mobile signal to try and latch on to a weak, one bar wifi at some dentist office I was near. I had to turn wifi scanning off as it was driving me nuts. If not for the 3 cell service providers being so weak all the time it would have been great. Good luck with it I hope it works for you. If you're in a good area it is awesome or so I've been told.
I am back on Verizon and it is worth the extra cost(about$30)to have better reliability with awesome coverage everywhere.

My daughter in Albuquerque uses Fi and gets excellent results with it. As always with any service location plays a huge role.