Are the radios better then the nexus 4?

[ggreenwood334]

Are the radios better then the nexus 4. My service was alwaysnup and down with the N4, and wouldn't have service places I used to. Hope they didn't go cheap on this end. It is still a phone.
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[ggreenwood334]

Well. I guess I can wait until Monday. Lol. Also. Ups delivers commercial early. Drives by about 10am. I work 2-10. Can 2nd day air go with commercial? Had em drop off early once or twice

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[ggreenwood334]

Bump?

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[moldovanos]

Why bump? It looks like you are having a nice conversation with yourself

 

[ggreenwood334]

Lol. I'm kinda concerned. N4 sucked. But guess I will wait until tomorrow and quit talking to myself. Ha

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[duckied]

Lol people with the n5 is probably too busy playing with their new device

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[ggreenwood334]

Yeah. I agree. But when I'm at work and don't get service because crap radios.I won't be playing with it too much

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[Lownita]

My Signal strength is better than with n4.

 

[galaxys]

Don't have mine yet, but have a feeling it will be better!

 

[duckied]

Well that's the thing about radios sometime it may work better for someone else and sometimes it doesn't

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[ggreenwood334]

To answer my own question, the Nexus 5 is getting way better service than my Nexus 4. On wifi and on tmobile

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[wynand32]

I actually had worse cellular radio performance out of my Nexus 5 compared to my Nexus 4 while using it yesterday. Inside my office, I'm pretty sure I was averaging fewer bars, and the N5 couldn't decide if it was going to connect to 2G, HSPA+, or LTE. Outside, it flipped between HSPA+ and LTE as I moved around (mostly driving, but a few times even walking around a parking lot).

So, I'm not sure if it's my particular N5, or N5s in general, but so far I'm not impressed with its cellular performance relative to my N4.

 

[thunderstorm654]

I'm getting better performance so far, which I'm glad about as I also had a pretty bad time with the Nexus 4 over other phones. The 5 isn't amazing, but it's alright and acceptable to me.

 

[Majin GeoDooD]

I'm getting generally worse reception, especially inside at work. Before with my N4 I got perfectly acceptable reception where I sat. Now with the N5 I literally get nothing.. nothing at all. It won't even give me a smidgen of reception. I have to walk towards the front of our building to get anything.

Anyone else experiencing something similar?

*edit*

So in a completely random way I turned data roaming on and off just for ****s and giggles and within 5 seconds of turning it off I all of a sudden had a full HSPA signal. ????? It appears to work flawlessly now.

 

[ggreenwood334]

My signal on the n4 jumped all over the place. It holds still full and I don't lose service now in a town I drive through. I get WiFi outside my house that can stream video when my n4 couldn't at all.

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[anshmiester78900]

@OP

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[jbdan]

I have better dbm signal strength on the N5 (comparing to my GS4) in pretty much all locations I've been to so far.

 

[busab]

I'm getting better reception than my note 2 it seems. Very happy so far.

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[mevensen]

I'm getting better reception than my note 2 it seems. Very happy so far.

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Overall, this seems to be the case for me as well. And I'm comparing for reception underground (basement level) where I work.

 

[mobileboost]

It's better then the Nexus 4, but I'm using it on CDMA and it's CDMA reception is less then the HTC EVO 4G by 1 bar.