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I completely agree. However, there are times where I see it as just fine to return a product that didn't work for me in an application I was testing as long as (1) it is in perfect condition and able to be resold, and (2) I pay for the return shipping. Furthermore, I also don't ask for a refund of the original shipping out to me as it isn't the merchant's fault, or responsibility, to absorb the outbound shipping cost so I can test an item at his/her expense.

Now that is just as odd! This is what I was describing above as "normal" with Lineage. The switch will be in the off position, and typically grayed out, but it will still be placing and receiving VoLTE calls.

Note: I'm replying to this separately as they are totally different issues... -99dBm is awful signal (becoming borderline unusable) and there is no way the BB should be showing 4 bars! -107 beyond horrible and probably mostly unusable (meaning tons of packet retries). Nonetheless, the BB appears to have a much better receiver (than the Pro1) in that site 148 has a 6 dBm improvement (over the Pro1), and site 149 has a full 10 dBm improvement (over the Pro1). As I'm sure you know, it's a logarithmic scale where 3 dBm refers to a doubling of the power and 10 dBm would be a ten fold in

Band 66 encompasses all of Band 4 (it can be thought of as Band 4 + an extension). However, the working groups, and thus the phone radio hardware manufactures, consider them distinct bands. There has also been totally different EARFCN values (used to obtain the actual RF uplink/downlink frequencies) assigned to each band. For whatever reason, the LTE Discovery app often reads these values incorrectly, then displays the wrong band, and often (depending on if the bands overlap) the wrong uplink and downlink frequencies. A long while back, I brought this to one of their developer's attention

The overwhelming odds are that they SIM was either initially activated in a LG Voyager (as the mule, we all know they can't activate it in the Pro1), or Verizon has misidentified the IMEI and their database identifies the S5 IMEI as being a LG Voyager. I was going to add that these are really the only two options; however, certain Verizon employees can edit that field so I guess there is a chance that someone with the proper access edited it and changed it to LG Voyager.

Sure as long as you don't want/need CDMA (which will go away in a year anyway). The system still needs an associated IMEI & MEID. Not sure which one they used, but presumably it should have been the S5's since that is what it was activated in. So either the S5's IMEI incorrectly identifies as an LG Voyager, or they punched in something else when the new SIM card was activated.

OUCH! This is not good at all! I have never seen this behavior, but I also haven't loaded LOS on a Pro1 (yet) either. I wonder what would have happened if instead of reflashing stock, you just put the SIM card into another phone and flipped the switch, then returned it to the Pro1.

Well, it can't be disabled; however, in the case of Verizon, (if you could flip it off) it would then mean voice calls couldn't be placed or received over their network (since there isn't CDMA access).

@silversolver It has been my experience that, regardless of the hardware/phone, LOS has those switches grayed out and just uses the provisioning of the SIM card. Recently I helped a friend setup a LG phone (he was on the list for a Pro1 and his current phone died so he bought one for $15 on ebay to solve the problem. I found it to be a simple and elegant solution to the longer than expected wait times of the Pro1, but anyway...) and the LG was the same way (I have done others too). So if the mule isn't running LOS (or a version of LOS where they aren't grayed out), and the switch for VoLTE

Oh boy!!! I like where this is going... 😀

These days they seem to be more often referred to as Matryoshka dolls, but Babushka is a proper name for them, and when I was younger (at least here in the US) it was a more common term.

Have you tried using a hammer? 😁 (Sorry I couldn't help myself) I haven't used two SIMS, but one SIM and a SD and it slides in all the way, seats and works. Sorry I can't be of more help.

@OliverTypes I have quite the response, but I can't figure out how to get that hidden contents box in my response, so you are spared. 😁

@_DW_ That answer isn't very helpful because she asked "how" to do it. The appropriate response would have been Settings --> System --> Reset options --> Erase all data. 😁😂

I don't see the design flaw, mine opens effortlessly To me it's just fine for daily use. Takes milliseconds longer than my Droid 4 which is inconsequential to me. Not once have I felt like it was going to fly, or be thrown, out of my hands. It's like we have two different devices! I hate to say it, but I think there is something wrong with your phone. Or maybe mine is the outlier? What bothers me the most is the shifted keyboard. Even the QWERTZ isn't a solution because there are too many keys so one will always need to use an unnatural reach a

@bmccrary See @tdm's post above, that explains it. Clearly he is aware of it and working on it. I should have checked the issue tracker.

...but there are speakers on both ends! 😁 -Just kidding I know exactly what you mean.

@EskeRahn You are correct, different frame of reference to describe the same thing. I see in the pic you are holding it portrait, but I hold it more landscape so when it opens the phone only rotates like 75 degrees and it's ready to be used in landscape mode. What really confused me was when you said turn it upside down first as I never have it upside down (assuming the screen is the top).

True, and just as good is we learned that the xbl_a partition wasn't actually being rewritten. Would have been so nice if devyl just stuck with it and worked with tdm. We could have learned this, but not at the expense of those selling them who didn't muck with it.

Ummm... I don't think so, I'll try again without a video. Let's use the right hand since most people are right handed. The phone would be resting in the right palm with the bottom of the phone touching the skin of the palm of your right hand. Your right thumb would be resting against the edge of the screen close to the down and right arrow keys (but you can't see them because the screen is closed). Middle finger in between the fingerprint reader and camera button. Then just gently pinch your thumb and middle finger. Make sense?

Huh? No, resting in the palm of my right hand with my right thumb at the lower right, and my right middle finger in between the fingerprint reader and camera button. It's all with one hand. I can do the same thing with it in my left palm, but it's more difficult to get leverage because of the where the volume buttons are placed. However, phone in left palm, left thumb on bottom left of screen (close to SIM card tray), and left middle finger right above the volume buttons. Phone can easily be picked up with one hand and opened with one hand (seems very easy to me). Edit: Even easi

Got it thanks, I'm going to look into it and see if anyone I know understands what is happening (I sure don't). I have had numerous phones where the VoLTE switch is grayed out in the off position but it still places and receives VoLTE calls so that alone shouldn't be the issue.

I just go straight to sideloading Brave and it solves everything in one shot. Now back to typing fast...

Really? I can one handed open it all day long without hitting any buttons. I just use my right thumb on the bottom right corner and my middle finger in between the reader and camera button. All one really needs is a single finger and a thumb (assuming it's resting in your palm).

@bmccrary Interesting about receiving calls, but not able to place them. Have you gone into the INFO menu (via the phone dialer) and flipped the VoLTE switch on? You are correct in suspecting that VoLTE has something to do with it because with Verizon you won't have any other choice. Also, how about data (forgive me if you already mentioned this), does sending/receiving work well?