Are the radios better then the nexus 4?

ggreenwood334

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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

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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

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

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ggreenwood334

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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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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

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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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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

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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.
 

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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?

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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.
 
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ggreenwood334

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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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mevensen

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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.