troyd96

For a while they moved my phone to all T-Mobile bands, and I could not connect to my Magic Box Gold anymore. Just found out today I'm connecting back to my Magic Box again. The T-mobile bands worked a little better in the interior of my work building but near where the Magic Box it was a wash as to which was faster. I need to experiment today and determine if it tries to pick up T-mobile bands in the interior of the building or keeps trying to shift onto the unusable Band 25 Sprint signal that gives me no data in the interior like it used to do.

So right before the merger was complete or right afterwards I was able to connect to all the T-Mobile bands on my Note 10+. It was great because even though I have a Magic Box, if I go toward the interior of my work building it would connect to Spring Band 25 but the data and connection was absolutely useless. Since I have been able to connect to T-Mobile the interior parts of the building would connect to 1 of 3 different bands of T-mobile and give me good enough service to use data in the interior. About a month or so ago, I don't know if there was a profile or PRL change but now my phone will not connect to the T-Mobile bands at work. It will sit on that crappy Band 25 connection for a minute or so then go "no service" and then finally reconnect to 3G which is useless also. It's almost as if they turned off the capability of using T-Moblie towers around my work area. Unfortunately everywhere else I go gets good enough Sprint signal that it will never connect to a T-mobile tower so I can see if it is just my work area or my phone that has issues. I have even network reset my phone where it goes through the initial provisioning and hands-free activation and that has not helped either. Obviously I have done PRL and profile updates that didn't help either. I'm in the Atlanta/Decatur, GA area for my work. Anyone else notice this?

I understand this. I have done that numerous times as well. After the last software update I had issues with it staying connected or connecting to the box at all. Doing that Carrier/Network reset fixed it for me on my phone. It was the only thing that fixed it. I'm not talking about a full data wipe and factory reset. I'm talking about a network carrier reset. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

I had to do a network reset on my Note 10+ by dialing the ##72786# maybe different on your phone then it restarts and does a new handsfree provisioning and it started working again. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

I'm ok with it doing what it thinks is best. Honestly wifi calling was always flakey for me to begin with. If I had to take a call at home and went outside too far away from my house it would not cut over to cell correctly and half the time I lost the call. Same went for when it used the magic box at my work and I went too far away from it. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Answered my own question I guess with the FAQ section for wifi calling... Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Anyone notice your WiFi calling not working anymore on the Note 10+? I got it connected and have verified my address several times but haven't been able to get it to work since either this May update or the one in April. I don't really know which one it happened on. My wife's Note 10+ won't connect to it either. We just see VoLTE symbol instead of wifi calling one and dialer doesn't show the wifi symbol either on the green button. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Yeah that's what I meant. It broadcasts Band 41 but yes it locks on Band 25. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

My Note 10+ will not connect to my Magic Box now without some extreme effort on my end to get it to do so. At work (where the magic box is that gave me about 25-30 Mbps down, and 2-4 Mbps up), I know get what looks to be uncapped or at least higher capped Band 2, 12, 66 of T-Mobile all of which giving me about 18-20 Mbps Down and Up. So it isn't a big deal I guess now that the Magic Box isn't needed as I'm getting better signal throughout my building now where once upon a time I needed the Magic Box to get any meaningful service. Caveat this is all LTE of course not 5G. Do you all think T-Mobile will reconfigure the Magic Boxes to allow them to connect to one of their bands instead of band 41? Just wondering the usefulness of the Magic Boxes going forward since it seems they are desperately trying to keep us from connecting to Sprint Bands. The magic box still has an excellent connection to the sprint tower though.

Do you all think that T-Mobile will allow the Magic Boxes to go from Band 41 to one of the T-Mobile Bands like Band 2? The reason I ask is I got one at my work and that is the only way I would get decent LTE service for Sprint. Now that they have turned on letting us use T-mobile bands, I get Band 2, 12, and 66, pretty well throughout the building now, and it looks like now they removed the 5Mbps cap on it as I got about 18Mbps Up and Down on a speedtest today. I have to actually restart my phone and/or the Magic Box now to get off the T-Mobile bands and back on the Magic Box. That is within the last few days that this has been going on. The Magic Box would probably give me about 30Mbps Down, but only about 2-4 Mbps up so it isn't that big of a deal but I am trying to figure out if maybe I should just unplug the Magic Box and keep it as it won't really be useful from here on out?

Man you all suck! [emoji23]. Once upon a time I might have pulled 200-300 Mbps in the start of LTE now at my house (Coweta by interstate) I might get 50 Mbps and my work I have to have a magic box just to get 20 Mbps but even outside at my work (Southwest Dekalb near interstate) I don't get but 20-30 Mbps either when I used to get 200 Mbps in the beginning as did I near my house as well. Definitely got tower saturation in my area. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

I'm not worried about 5G right now. It's too much in it's infancy. In 1.5 years it should be better and more selection of 5G phones. Thanks for the info. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Question for someone knowledgeable. Is the Sprint Note 10+ compatible with all or most of T-Mobile's LTE bands? Got a deal on one for my wife and I during the black Friday time period and paying the $25 or so a month for 24 months to pay it off interest free. So wondering if I'm going to need to pay it off early and sell and get another phone or should be fine for the next 1.5 years or so? Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Ok update. I factory reset my phone and the Magic Box Gold still does not broadcast a signal to it. I took it home set it up in my house, still no dice for the last 2-3 days that it has been on at either place. The Gen 2 Magic Box works fine but took about 3-4 hours before broadcasting the first time, then when I come into the office in the morning my phone will not connect to it no matter how many times I restart the phone or cycle airplane mode, but the Gen 2 was broadcasting the signal consistently for about 2 days before it didn't. Unplugging and plugging back in the Gen 2 gets it to broadcast a signal within 45 minutes to an hour an it will be fine again for probably another day or two. I'm just trying to figure out why these things quit broadcasting signals after a few days of being up and why the Gen 3 won't broadcast one at all. I assume the Gen 3 one is just a bad Magic Box at this point and I'm going to send it back.

Ok about a month or less in what is the verdict. The wife and I are still enjoying our Note 8's. I used to be one of those that every 2 years I'm getting the new Note, but the price is so high for these and I don't really want to trade in our Note 8's. (I want to sell one and keep one as a spare or for my kid). The trade-in price for a Like New Note 8 is not really enough for me to trade it in to Samsung or Sprint. I'm waiting for the Black Friday deals where maybe I can catch a B1G1F offer for the Note 10+ on sprint, then I might pull the trigger.