Cell Service Providers for Nexus 5?
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@fitz Bring Your Own Device. Basically a bunch of different SIM cards depending on which carrier was unlocked.
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@fitz i went through this a month or so ago. Verizon and t-mobile would not activate. I have used ATT through net10 and tracfone. Get a tracfone byod sim kit for 1 dollar and 15 dollar air time card at you local big box store. easy activation for new number using att sim. Easy check for only 16 bux. After proving i could get the phone to work I ported my number to net10 successfully but that was a bigger ordeal. Net10 had better plan for my usage.
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@fitz Weird that data isn't working. Are you sure you didn't understand it wrong? You get up to 2GB of data per month with T-Mobile Connect (which is the $15/2GB plan). I don't see anything about 2g network only on their site.
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@totalrando Gotcha. Thanks.
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@fitz No problem. I should mention I do get some sort of data on my plan (I assume 3G and a little 2G) on my Nexus 4.
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@nigel-tufnel Okay. Thanks. I actually went to ATT before going to T Mobile. The kid there wasn't able to get my phone working, but perhaps he didn't know what he was doing. The phone connected to their network for a few seconds, but then disconnected and couldn't reconnect. As I said above, I am now connected on T Mobile... but without data. Are you able to get data through net10?
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@dobey Perhaps they set me up with the wrong plan. They do have a no data plan. I'm going back in today or tomorrow to check.
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@totalrando Good to hear.
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@fitz Hmm, maybe I'll stop buy local store here and see if I can get one of the $15 connect SIMs, later.
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@dobey Okay. So I had my phone set to "2G only." After switching to "2G/3G/4G," I'm all over the internet smokin' fast. This works as well as my iPhone. I am stoked! Thanks again to everyone here. I never would have figured this out without your help because all the service providers (including T Mobile) claim they don't support these phones.
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@fitz Great! Glad you've got it working. Enjoy!
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@fitz Make sure to tell customer service how well it works. You'd be surprised at how quickly they'll adopt that into their verbiage.
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My N5's work fine on Mint. Mint uses the T-Mobile network...so I am told by Mint.
Can anyone comment of the feasibility of VoLTE being integrated into Halium? This is why Verizon will not service the N5.
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@rvan VoLTE will work on hallium when VoLTE will be handled by uTouch, wich is not for now.
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@keneda - Thank you for answering my question regarding VoLTE for the N5. I would have been more surprised if someone responded indicating VoLTE was not an interest. Is there a projected timeline for VoLTE in the N5?
This is welcome news. I know the N5 is old but I like mine a lot. The screen quality for such a small phone is tremendous!
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@rvan The N5 has the hardware for VoLTE, but google did not release a radio package with VoLTE support except for the China market. It's not yet clear if UT's VoLTE solution can make use of that hardware. We'll simply have to wait and see when it's ready for testing
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My N5 (with T-Mobile) is in a dead zone, so I have to drive about a mile before it will connect with the T-Mobile tower. For funzie's today I went to the AT& T store to see if maybe the N5 would work. The employee there took the sim card out of his phone and put it in mine. It connected and with data use to for about a minute or so then disconnected. He took the card out and put it back in his phone and um. AT&T blocked his number. Oops, he had to make a call on another phone to get them to unblock it and he told them what he did. Sooooo, apparently AT&T has the capability to accept these phones but they choose not to. Anyway, I'm hoping T-Mobile will put a tower in my area because $15.00 a month a great price. Even if AT&T would have worked they wanted $35.00 a month for their most basic plan.
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@rocket2nfinity This is how interpreted VoLTE might progress on the N5. I assumed nothing. I downloaded the VoLTE requirements and implementation documents for reference.
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@rvan Sorry, newbie here to the whole cell phone thing, but long term, are we assuming the N5 will not work on 5G systems at all?
Here in WA I have not been able to find a provider that will accept this phone (Just based on online compat tests). I do have an extra line through tmobile and I ordered a sim card without updating the phone information so I will test it, but I am just curious about the long term functionality of the phone.
It's such a great little phone.
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@geekbone
N5 has not the hardware to use 5G, so it'll never work on thoses networks.
