The Nexus 5 Thread

[WAWAWA酷耶]

should have, but still deciding i want black or white

check your pm

 

[kashix]

Anyone have extra white to let go? Can pm me?

 

[ntoken]

waiting for monday

my package is at the same place!!!!

 

[moozmoow]

Anyway for those who are interested, i can help you buy, provided i nv overshoot my CC bill this month

 

[jtec14]

oops, sounds legit. just curious if the rma procedure is the same.

I will be trying to order from jp soon, so the rma procedures I also want take note first. I remembered someone posted google US can help with arrangement even if you bought from google jp, assuming language barrier?

 

[zhaohan]

Go to your Google wallet > Transaction > Status.

Anyway are you using jshoppers?

still pending, using jshoppers

 

[squeeish]

let's hope we don't meet ninja postman tomorrow.

That's why I'm literally going to camp at the door.

Unlock first, very important.

Yeap. I made that mistake on my Nexus 7 and it's not fun. Also, Helium sucks as a backup app.

 

[moozmoow]

That's why I'm literally going to camp at the door.


Yeap. I made that mistake on my Nexus 7 and it's not fun. Also, Helium sucks as a backup app.

TB FTW!

 

[squeeish]

TB FTW!

Yeap, although the user interface leaves much to be desired. Luckily I didn't pay for the Helium app.

 

[ntoken]

You see the Network mode in the 2nd picture? It shows LTE when set to LTE. But when on 3G mode it shows that text.

Yes, it's showing the network. Even did a Google Now search to let you see the data is working fine. It didn't lose data connectivity in the 2+ hours that I tested it. The issue listed on the issue tracker isn't detailed enough - they don't seem to know whether it's just a text problem or if the phone is actually trying to jump to a LTE network endlessly.

The only change I did was to add a shinternet APN instead of using the default shwap apn, that's something that I used to do a long time ago due to the belief that the shinternet apn doesn't go through a proxy, someone correct me if this is wrong.

Heck, even if you have a LTE plan, when you switch to 3G, it sticks on 3G just as it should.

it seems to occur on telcos with 4G/3G network sim card (UIM,USIM) that has 2different set of ID/Keys in them
1 set for 3G, 1 set for 4G.

the problem is that if the user has only 3G plan, he will only have the identifier for the 3G network on the sim and does not have the identifier for the 4G network. therefore the phone will repeatedly try to auth with the 4G network and fail.

but in SG it seems this setup is not used here. 3G/4G sim cards are on the same id, when we actviated 4G on our old 3G plan, we do not need to change a new SIM card.

so if you read failure reports for those having this problems, and compare them to the Singtel global roaming partners, u can see that none of those ppl are in that global roaming partners list. for example, softbank jpn is a singtel global roaming partner, no issues reported for 3G only plans, ATT USA also singtel roaming partner, no such issues reported also.....

 

[sWirL84]

my package is at the same place!!!!

Guess Singpost will have alot of n5-loaded vans tomorrow. Lol.

 

[sWirL84]

TB FTW!

Second this, that's why need root!

 

[benthian89]

That's why I'm literally going to camp at the door.


Yeap. I made that mistake on my Nexus 7 and it's not fun. Also, Helium sucks as a backup app.

The problem is not with helium, it's the adb backup that is either unstable or the different manufacturers that mess up the standard directories.

What helium does is simply issue the raw adb commands for you when you click the button

 

[rerear]

Suppose rooted with the Chainfire CFroot, does one still able to receive any OTA official Android OS updates from Google?

That is the original intention of getting a N5?

 

[moozmoow]

Suppose rooted with the Chainfire CFroot, does one still able to receive any OTA official Android OS updates from Google?

That is the original intention of getting a N5?

Original intention of getting a N5 is not only from Google itself, but rather, longer support in terms of updates and development by 3rd party developers.

I suppose you are new to flashing/customization and all that?

 

[squeeish]

The problem is not with helium, it's the adb backup that is either unstable or the different manufacturers that mess up the standard directories.

What helium does is simply issue the raw adb commands for you when you click the button

On my nexus 7, I backed up all of my aps using helium. Then I copied out the carbon folder onto my desktop before proceeding to unlock and root.

Helium doesn't allow you to simply copy back the carbon folder and restore. You need to do the workaround of installing all the apps from Google Play first, then back up once, then copy over the old backups before restoring.

Even then, I had some errors with a few backups.

 

[rerear]

Original intention of getting a N5 is not only from Google itself, but rather, longer support in terms of updates and development by 3rd party developers.

I suppose you are new to flashing/customization and all that?

Old in terms of customization, but first time with a pure-google device, hence need the experts here to advise! So really once rooted, you can't receive any OTA, and have to rely on 3rd party? What then is the difference with any other Android device?

 

[benthian89]

On my nexus 7, I backed up all of my aps using helium. Then I copied out the carbon folder onto my desktop before proceeding to unlock and root.

Helium doesn't allow you to simply copy back the carbon folder and restore. You need to do the workaround of installing all the apps from Google Play first, then back up once, then copy over the old backups before restoring.

Even then, I had some errors with a few backups.

When you back up, did you do a full backup (apk + appdata) or just appdata only?

 

[benthian89]

Old in terms of customization, but first time with a pure-google device, hence need the experts here to advise! So really once rooted, you can't receive any OTA, and have to rely on 3rd party? What then is the difference with any other Android device?

First, Nexus device get the fastest update from Google. Let's say there is a new version of Android, google usually release the updated source code within a month while other manufacturers like Samsung may take 3 months or longer to update and release the source code.

Also, other manufacturers don release the full source code. Especially Samsung, a few developers were fed up and switch to develop for Sony phones.

So when the source code is released, developers will be able to make a stable rom for you.

And there are much more developers working on Nexus devices compared to any other. Since it is the most developer friendly

 

[kennyboy]

Old in terms of customization, but first time with a pure-google device, hence need the experts here to advise! So really once rooted, you can't receive any OTA, and have to rely on 3rd party? What then is the difference with any other Android device?

Because 3rd party is mostly even faster than waiting for the OTA from Google. They'll find the ota zip and post it for all the download. You could be waiting for days to a week for the original ota from Google. This is true for those who are on stock but rooted, not for those on an entire new custom rom.