Since the Nexus 5 is one phone for every carrier (except Verizon of course) will I have to install a ROM made for Sprint Nexus 5 if I am on Sprint? I figure since I can order one phone from the play store and activate it on whichever network I want that it will be the same for ROMs, I download one Nexus 5 ROM and just install it. Thanks in advance to anyone who answers.
They should be universal since the american n5 works on all 3 carriers, perhaps the euro spec n5 might need their own euro rom but since the difference is only related to the modem hardware i think one rom will rule them all since the modem normally isn't flashed with a rom.
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Hello everyone, I just have a quick question.
I currently have a Samsung S3 (The AT&T one, I unlocked it, which calls and data works just fine), but I have been having some problems with it so Im thinking of upgrading to the Nexus 5 when it is available.
The problem is, I dont know if N5 would work with bands in Mexico (Im currently using Telcel carrier) anybody would tell me?
Also.. if I buy the N5 through google play will it come unlocked right out of the box?
If you buy a Nexus 5 from Google play, it will come unlocked out of the box. Just use the sim card in your current phone, and it should work just fine. I assume the bands would be similar to the ones on your AT&T S3 since the Nexus 5 was leaked to support a wide variety of bands.
being that there is one phone for all carriers, are all roms going to work on all variants? or are we going to have a sprint version of the rom and gsm version like we did on the galaxy nexus.
There is no Sprint version.
The phone Sprint is selling is the same one as the Play Store one.
Exel said:
There is no Sprint version.
The phone Sprint is selling is the same one as the Play Store one.
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yeah i know, i just was curious due to radios and what not. hopefully this means sprint is finally getting the hell out of the way with updates!
Yes, they should all work on different carriers. That's what made this phone so attractive to me. Being on the Sprint S4, the Verizon version had such awesome ROM's. Now I don't have to salivate any longer, I can just flash.
Compatibility doesn't come with the Rom itself but with baseband (or radio or modem as sometimes named). As long as your baseband is ok you can run every Rom you want, the interface between Rom and baseband is done by RIL (radio interface layer), present in the Rom. On recent phones modem is on a different partition than Rom.
So will it be possible to buy a carrier-locked model and just flash the stock image overtop? Just to get rid of bloatware and carrier junk, I mean.
I have not owned a device that has been multiple carriers for the same hardware except the Moto X and the Nexus 5. My question is in regards differences in the carriers and any software oir settings in the rom files. Can every U.S. Nexus 5 flash the exact same rom without issues unlike say for instance a Sprint HTC One owner accidentally flashing a T-Mobile rom and messing up the phone needing a lot of work to fix.
Will those of us on Sprint be able flash all roms available for the Nexus 5 or will we have to wait for ports of them like we had to on the Galaxy Nexus?
So im new to sprint but not new to roms and such...ive been reading but havent found a solid answer about running the international note 5 roms on sprints note 5....new to cdma....had tmobile for 10 years and all we had to do was flash one of tmo kernels and all was good....i currently have the lg g5...but since there is an issue with root right now. Ibwas thinking about taking it back for the note 5 but noticed the sprint note 5 didnt have much for developement
Thank you....i have searched like i said
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Ive been on Sprint for a good while now and I've had Nexus phones for years now so I'm not used to having to worry about the different versions and if I'll get to use custom roms or not.
But because I remember how much life sucked pre Nexus, 5,6,6p on Sprint, I was just wondering if this variant of the s8 is destined to live a stock rom life? I see the international and TMobile and att versions etc are already flourishing, but not a whole lot here.
Just trying to make my decision of do I upgrade or finally move to a gsm carrier.
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Ive been on Sprint for a good while now and I've had Nexus phones for years now so I'm not used to having to worry about the different versions and if I'll get to use custom roms or not.
But because I remember how much life sucked pre Nexus, 5,6,6p on Sprint, I was just wondering if this variant of the s8 is destined to live a stock rom life? I see the international and TMobile and att versions etc are already flourishing, but not a whole lot here.
Just trying to make my decision of do I upgrade or finally move to a gsm carrier.
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Most of those roms are Universal for all carriers. You just have to flash your sprint CSC/Userdata to get all network features. Check Verizon or ATT threads.