Originally Posted by turnleftbrighteyes (Post 27337699)

I thought I'd chime in as a happy Fi customer, who falls on the lower end of cell phone savviness (prior to Fi, I was a long-time customer of Virgin Mobile, which meant I had both a crummy phone and network.) I've never bothered to root a phone, and I've merrily traveled internationally without a working cell phone at all.

So, that said, Fi is great. I'm very pleased with the Nexus 5X. My main concern, which has been completely unwarranted, was battery life. I often don't need to charge it in the evenings. I love the lack of various carrier bloatware.I've had no issues with the network in the U.S. I have upcoming travel to South America and Europe, so hope all goes smoothly there (but if not, well, I'm used to not having a working phone anyway.) My bill is $10 less than with Virgin Mobile, which was already cheap to begin with, as I used a whopping 0.2GB of data last month, as I'm almost always near wifi.

In other words, I've had the sense the Fi was maybe being marketed to a more tech-oriented or interested consumer. But I'm very pleased and would happily recommend it to befuddled or cheapskate friends. So I hope Google doesn't abandon it...

Originally Posted by LordHamster (Post 27296894)

...<<<snipped>>>... As for the delays.. I personally only experienced one delay in Kochi India on getting data, which I'm starting to think was due to a local carrier outage... not FI.

Originally Posted by turnleftbrighteyes (Post 27337699)

So, that said, Fi is great. I'm very pleased with the Nexus 5X. My main concern, which has been completely unwarranted, was battery life. I often don't need to charge it in the evenings. I love the lack of various carrier bloatware.I've had no issues with the network in the U.S. I have upcoming travel to South America and Europe, so hope all goes smoothly there (but if not, well, I'm used to not having a working phone anyway.) My bill is $10 less than with Virgin Mobile, which was already cheap to begin with, as I used a whopping 0.2GB of data last month, as I'm almost always near wifi.

Originally Posted by nerd (Post 27340817)

What's your secret? I think the Nexus 5X is a great phone but my battery life is atrocious.

Originally Posted by nerd (Post 27340817)

What's your secret? I think the Nexus 5X is a great phone but my battery life is atrocious.

Originally Posted by Boogie711 (Post 27345653)

Speaking of battery life, what are people's experience with battery life while roaming?

I have a Samsung S6 that goes into "roaming" mode while I'm in Canada with a T-Mobile SIM, and it hurts battery life. I was thinking of moving to Fi but I wasn't sure if it would merely continue to be a problem.

Originally Posted by gpeso8 (Post 27352532)

I had my first major hiccup you with ProjectFi this weekend. I had no data service in Medan, Indonesia with my Nexus 5x for the three days I was in the city. Had no issues with data with my wife's T-Mobile and our two local phones with two Indonesian providers (Telkomsel, and Three). Troubleshooting with Fi for hours accomplished nothing but a $10 credit.

Originally Posted by gpeso8 (Post 27352532)

I had my first major hiccup you with ProjectFi this weekend. I had no data service in Medan, Indonesia with my Nexus 5x for the three days I was in the city. Had no issues with data with my wife's T-Mobile and our two local phones with two Indonesian providers (Telkomsel, and Three). Troubleshooting with Fi for hours accomplished nothing but a $10 credit.

Originally Posted by ROW2Aisle (Post 27355697)

Your experience parallels mine. I had good data service with my Nexus 6P for the first few days after arrival in India with data service in Kochi, Chennai and a few other places but for the last 5 days my data service is out to lunch. I tried debugging the problem by switching multiple times between LTE, 3G & 2G manually on all the available service providers and had no luck. Signal Spy indicated that my phone was connected with HSPA or Edge or GPRS yet the use of any app indicated I was offline.

My data only SIM however works in my iPhone 5s and so I suspect the problem is with my primary SIM. I contacted Project Fi support and they also suspect that the problem is the primary SIM. They are mailing me a replacement SIM when I get back to the US. So now I'm using my backup Motorola Moto E dual SIM phone with a local SIM card for local calls and my Project Fi primary SIM for international calls and Wi-Fi calls, and my iPhone 5s for the Project Fi data service with the data only SIM.

Originally Posted by dyung (Post 27358352)

I don't believe you can as part of the activation process, your phone's MEID must be registered with Sprint, and they won't allow duplicate activations for the same MEID.

Originally Posted by Boogie711 (Post 27345653)

Speaking of battery life, what are people's experience with battery life while roaming?

Originally Posted by Zorak (Post 27332544)

Peru: effectively did not work. ~10 days the majority of which was in Lima or Cusco and could never get it to "hold" a data connection. When coming out of airplane mode, I would get the LTE indicator (Nexus 6P) and usable data for about 30-90 seconds, then data dropped out and the service indicator changed to a hollow triangle. I could toggle airplane mode on/off again and get another 30-90 seconds, but ANGTFT.

Exacerbating this was the fact that hotel wifi seemed utterly crappy even in nicer hotels, individual SSIDs per floor that regularly cut in and out, and poor throughput (especially upload bandwidth). Had much better luck with wifi in cafes/restaurants.

The Reddit results in a Google search for "google fi peru" suggest this may be a problem with the underlying T-Mobile connectivity in Peru.