Question about Neuxs 5x Service providers

[kuzcos]

Hi,

I'm trying to keep my Nexus 5x but it's looking like a very dim hope for me.

I bought Project Fi but as it turns out it doesn't give me great enough coverage in my area. T/Mo & Sprint aren't that great where I live, they have 1 tower each with LTE but I'm in 2/3G most of the time.

AT&T doesn't give any coverage to my area whatsoever.

So I was told to go to Walmart and buy the Straight Talk activation kit, they told me Verizon wasn't accessible, luckily I knew the people working and they returned it after it was opened, so I went to the Verizon store and they told me it wasn't able to be activated on the prepaid line, and I know I can't get away without a $500+ deposit, if they'll even approve me for a "contract" line.

Is there any hope of me keeping this device and being able to use it on Verizon or should I just return it or is there a way to get any of these services to activate it so I can use it?

I may very well end up back in the Apple ecoSystem if this isn't able to be fixed for me, any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[mclaser]

I'm also evaluating the 5x (seems too big for me, but I'll give it a few days). I came from a Moto X 2013 on Verizon prepay, which I've had for over a year. I just popped my sim card in the 5x and voice, data, text, all seem to work as expected. I've heard you can just go to a Verizon store and they'll give you a sim and get you going. Worse case you could probably buy a $20 Verizon phone on eBay, get it going on prepay, then put the sim in the 5x.

 

[kuzcos]

I did get this activated.

I called Google Support and they got Verizon on the line and activated it with me. Seems Google knows who to talk to in order to get there devices activated. Straight Talk seems like a lost cause for now unless someone can get them to add the IMEI number to there systems, shouldn't be too hard, but I couldn't get transferred to the people who add IMEI's to the system, as they were basically clueless, and claimed they had no one working for them who made the software or could add IMEI's.