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[Official] Ordered/I've got mine thread. :)

Are you going to buy the nexus 6?

  • Yes! Take my money! (Off- Contract)

    Votes: 30 28.6%

  • Yes! With carrier subsidy/payment plan

    Votes: 17 16.2%

  • No - Was going to buy, but now out of my price range

    Votes: 29 27.6%

  • No- Was not going to buy

    Votes: 16 15.2%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 13 12.4%
  • Total voters
    105
Shouldn't take long, turned my phone on right out of the box and as soon as I connected to WiFi I was pushed the 5.0.2 update. Within the first hour of owning the phone I was running the latest Lollipop and rooted. Man that was a good day!! :D

Edit: Sorry everyone, I meant the 5.0.1 update.
 
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Its in my hands, updated to 5.0.1, getting ready to unlock bootloader, install twrp and root. I will probably run encrypted.

Quick thoughts:
Phone is big and slick and actually a bit awkward to hold. I am glad I order the cases. Its almost all screen. Power and volume buttons seem to be in a bad place at least for me.

Right now I am unsure if I am going to run this thing full (stick my sim card in it) until I get my cases in. I am leery of dropping this beast and since two previous Nexus 5's hit the ground and shattered the screen, yeah...

Off to unlock and root!

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Done!

Also noted my index finger likes to find the dimple... the camera lens that is. D'OH!
 
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My nexus 6 came yesterday but we weren't home when it did, so it got delayed. The good news is it arrived early this morning. I am using my LG optimus L90 still, decided to make sure the battery on the nexus was fully charged before i put it into service, so hopefully the next time i post it will be with my new nexus 6

And we have a green light! All systems are go:)
 
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Just ordered a 64gb model. Upgrading from a note 3. I knew I wanted a large screen size but didn't want to get locked into AT&T next as i'd then be stuck on it for life. Not a lot of large screen phones out there so I want with the nexus 6 so I wouldn't be stuck with carrier bloatware and could get updates when they actually come out.
Now I just need to figure out how to root it to get the LED working.
 
This is the way I did mine. Not trying to say this is the best way but it works very easily and is 100% effective.

I used Wug Fresh tool kit to unlock the boot loader and install a custom recovery. No need to root it. I then used the custom recovery (TWRP) to install Dirty Unicorns Rom and TBO Gapps. This rom is a rooted rom and is IMHO is great! The TBO stands for Team Black Out and is a great Google Apps (GAPPS) package.

Done deal and very easy to do :)

Lenny
 
So I have had my nexus 6 going on a month. My wife gave me the choice of switching to the HTC M one 8 or the Samsung galaxy s4. My response was a big hell no!!! I have a nexus 6 one of the hardest to get phones on the market, there is a six to eight week wait to get one of these things:) no way I am trading down

halon said:
Root?
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No, the phone is under warranty and if I rooted it would cancel the warranty and the second something went wrong,my wife would root me in the worst possible way:confused:
 
In my opinion, root isn't necessary with this phone but I'm sure at some point I will root. Nothing wrong with not wanting to root one of the most developed lines of phones,
 
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