Also, the Nexus 4 wasn't available for use on either Verizon or Sprint, which is a potential reach of over 150 million customers. Oh, and no LTE on AT&T or official LTE on T-Mobile.
Also, the Nexus 4 wasn't available for use on either Verizon or Sprint, which is a potential reach of over 150 million customers. Oh, and no LTE on AT&T or official LTE on T-Mobile.
zerogear
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- Jun 4, 2000
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Talking about LTE, I've learned that there now is LTE in my town (new tower?). My next door neighbor just showed it to me. And holy wow it is FAST. I have been more than happy with HSPA+ service on my N4 but now I am less certain.
8)
It's not just about speed. IT's also latency and spectrum. LTE is a lot less crowded (at least for AT&T) and so you have 4G, 3G, 2G to rely on if your network starts getting congested. A lot of times on 3G I see my phone trying to connect with the up arrow flashing a few times before it finally obtains a solid connection. This doesn't seem to be an issue on LTE at least from what I've noticed.
And plus, while I can get 7000kbps downloads at work on HSPA+ easily, it's not always that nice everywhere I walk. The LTE speeds do help especially when I don't have full bars or whatever...
poofyhairguy
Lifer
- Nov 20, 2005
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This.
Latencies on LTE are so much better. Not just continuous ping but how quickly it sets up a connection from a cold start. Sometimes I have to wait 10 seconds before H+ finally connects and starts transferring data.
LTE up here in Canada runs on AWS so it has trouble penetrating buildings meaning you generally get much better reception with HSPA. But I still leave my phone on auto so that I'd get LTE as often as possible.
I hate LTE on AT&T. It's so good, sometimes even better than my WiFi, that I keep burning past my 3 GB cap. That's without a ton of music streaming or any Netflix/video streaming, just regular browsing and the occasional audio podcast download a few times a week.
It's not just regular latency but also the channel setup time. LTE goes from standby to ready-to-transmit in less than a second whereas HSPA can sometimes take several seconds.
Yeah not too bad at all. 9 days after the official OTA for the Nexus devices? Plus, it's a staged roll-out so not even all Nexus users are migrated to 4.3. This is good news. Now let's see if they keep this up for Android 5.0.
And after all the issues with the Nexus 4 4.3 update, I'm not too upset that it took 9 days or if it took even longer.
Yeah but its the same build right? I don't know. I feel like there's ALWAYS going to be users out there with issues. Is it PEBKAC or not? I don't know. I see plenty of people flashing 4.3 on XDA and its mostly without issues.
AznAnarchy99
Lifer
- Dec 6, 2004
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On my Galaxy Nexus it was a no go. Data network became all wonky, symbol showed connection but was always grayed out.
Anyone flash the i9505 GE ROMs on their ATT S4 i337?
Do you need to flash an ATT kernel afterwards?
Do you need to flash an ATT kernel afterwards?
OK good, now to wait for a 4.3 ROM from the final build.
I'm running a leaked build of 4.3 and I think there is noticeably worse battery than the stock TW ROM. Hope the final version fixes that. Seems it is mostly caused by google services doing something.
I'm running a leaked build of 4.3 and I think there is noticeably worse battery than the stock TW ROM. Hope the final version fixes that. Seems it is mostly caused by google services doing something.
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