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Nexus 6 - Opened my eyes to big phones

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holden j caufield said:
how is the reception on the n6. I heard motorola phones are best in terms of signal quality. When are they rolling out wifi calling on the n6? I keep hearing it's going to out and tested but I haven't seen it yet.
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audio quality. they're best in terms of call audio quality. on the GSM offerings at least.

slight distinction, but it was significant. Atrix 4G sounded incredible.
 
My N6 should be here within 4-5 hours... Planning on customizing it thru XDA forums, but it looks complicated.....
 
It's too large. They got the size right with the Galaxy Nexus. 4.7"
Should have just stuck with that. Even Apple copied it for the iPhone.
If someone bought a 4.7-5" Nexus phone for the pure Androd, and just wanted a straight forward update path in the Nexus line, Google screwed them, and basically pushed them into Apple's arms.
It's like everything Google does aside from search, blind experimentation, no follow through, no commitment to the customer. Just winging it, throwing stuff at the wall, etc, pretending they are so cool. One can never just settle on using Google anything, because it may not be around in a year.
 
Chapbass said:
Everything on XDA looks complicated. Hell, even the forums themselves look complicated.
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Just arrived, took it out of box...

Yeah, feeling a bit 'dazed and confused' (as I'm reading XDA posts about ADB and Fastboot)... charging brand new N6 now, later will put the Ting sim in and go to their site... tomm.
 
looper said:
Just arrived, took it out of box...

Yeah, feeling a bit 'dazed and confused' (as I'm reading XDA posts about ADB and Fastboot)... charging brand new N6 now, later will put the Ting sim in and go to their site... tomm.
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Nexus root toolkit is all you need. Google it and download.
 
Put in Ting SIM and went to their site to activate N6 and grab a phone plan...

Ting sent me a CDMA/Sprint SIM instead of the GSM SIM I requested... 🙁 I called them > A REAL PERSON ANSWERED THE PHONE ON THE 2nd RING> OMG... The rep sending out 'overnight' the GSM SIM.... hope to have it tomm....
 
Avoid toolkits.

Just learn to do it the regular way. So that when (not if) you screw something up, you can fix it.
 
sweenish said:
Avoid toolkits.
Just learn to do it the regular way. So that when (not if) you screw something up, you can fix it.
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Every Android site has said that... that toolkit easier to use, but if you blow things up (I'm good at that) it's much harder to fix...as you don't probably know the basics...

First smartphone, so I have SO much to learn, but it will be fun.
 
Toolkit is super easy but you should always learn the manual way. Also never lock your boot loader on 5.1. Its not as easy as before now.
 
looper said:
I just know I'm going to mess this up... Lord, have mercy...
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If it's your first smartphone, why the rush to mess with customizing it at that level? People usually resort to custom roms and what not after using their phones for a while.
 
That's what I'm planning to do. I just started reading early at XDA, and got a bit intimidated I guess.
 
Red Storm said:
If it's your first smartphone, why the rush to mess with customizing it at that level? People usually resort to custom roms and what not after using their phones for a while.
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I was thinking the exact same thing. As a fellow Nexus 6 user, I would advise just rocking the standard rom and everything for a while. I can't touch mine as its a company phone, but its a pretty rocking device just stock.
 
Chapbass said:
I was thinking the exact same thing. As a fellow Nexus 6 user, I would advise just rocking the standard rom and everything for a while. I can't touch mine as its a company phone, but its a pretty rocking device just stock.
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Yes it absolutely is great stock. Most people root and rom to get rid of carrier bloat, which you really don't have to worry about in this case.
 
I would at least look into unlocking the bootloader. That way in the future if you want to root and customize, you can do so without wiping all of your apps and info.

Say what you want, but Google has so much work to do for their backup system. It still doesn't restore your apps + data. It barely restores your settings.

Just unlock the bootloader and thank me later! 😀
 
dlock13 said:
I would at least look into unlocking the bootloader. That way in the future if you want to root and customize, you can do so without wiping all of your apps and info.....
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If that's the outcome of that action, then that makes sense.

This morning, when I realized I couldn't do much without the Ting SIM card, I started poking around in the N6. Dang, all my contacts from GMail were in the phone! I was dreading the idea of having to individually put in all of those... SWEET.

I use 2 email addresses but just linked one to the N6. The one I get most emails from I left on my desktop computer. (where I am the majority of the time... semi-retired)
 
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