JohnZ

Your OS is only as good to you as the apps you use it for, look at video games as an example. If you want to play Mario.. get a Nintendo. If you want to play Halo.. get an Xbox. I have an iPad and Note. I use both for work, both rooted/jailbroke and customized, but both have their own exclusive apps, due to OS core limitations and the developer/programmer.

Regardless of your bars, it means absolutely nothing on your notification bar when you are dealing with LTE Data, just like jeremyvbk mentioned in the thread he quoted. The signal bars really mean nothing in terms of what your speeds will be. you can have 1 bar and still get 10-20mb downlink speeds, even with a low signal by finding the LTE Strength in debug menu, the same applies. If you wonder why your data speeds differ so often, you have to think of network traffic, its not just about your personal signal to the tower, its what happens after you connect to the tower and how your data gets routed. Most of your data performance depends on the tower load and the switch its going to. Load balancing network connections in highly congested peak times will be your biggest issue, luckily with LTE we don't notice it much, anything over 5mb down/up is going to feel the same as a 20mb down/up unless you are downloading a file and staring at your percentage progress. Cable modems and your home internet work the same way essentially... If a node supports 100 connections, and you do a speedtest with 99 other people doing heavy data, you may only see a few megabytes.. but if there are only 5 people connected you may see a 25mb download. Load balancing is not the same as throttling, every network does load balancing so everyone with network priority can connect, they will do so at a lower speed until the load lightens. Throttling you hear about happens depending on your carrier/ rate plan. Sprint postpaid devices get top priority for bandwidth, then prepaid, then roaming agreements with other carriers... If you get a Boost Phone you can get LTE data, but if you go over 1gb ( or whichever plan you are on that states it ) then you will be put at the bottom of the totem pole after the 1gb. Tmobile/AT&T will throttle you on any unlimited plan, and Sprint will too but ONLY if you are doing extreme excessive data usage.. ( the person that decides to tether to a torrentbox laptop and go through 100+gb a day in bandwidth will probably get throttled and possibly even cancelled, like the people that would abuse roaming back in the day)

This thread will tell you everything you need to know about knox: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45669362 Now heres what you need to know if you go to a Sprint Store: 1. Your only real protection from a bricked device regardless of any device is to have TEP- Pay the $11 a month and deal with it, its a small price to pay compared to the $600-800 out of pocket for new. TEP covers lost, stolen, and damaged devices, you have a claim cap per year to prevent fraud, but its good to have for a one time last resort option to pay a deductible and get a replacement handset. Of course your other options are out there, you could do a squaretrade warranty, or other third party like a rider on your home/auto insurance, but in reality.. if you want to play with fire.. have a bucket of water nearby. Knox trip warning is something you only need to worry about if you do a warranty claim direct with Samsung, The problem you are having is directly related to tripping knox- like you decided to flash the wrong bootloader and you have a black screen of death. If all else fails and it gets to that point then play dumb and hope you get lucky but dont count on it.. Samsung direct wont help you.. Sprint's rooting policy is pretty lax, ASC ( Authorized Service Centers) will look at a phone if it is on their list of approved devices to work on. Usually if it is still in warranty they aren't serviceable by reps anyways. It really depends who you get, 99.999% of the customers they get are people who don't even know what a custom rom is. Most techs that will accept the device will just ODIN the stock TAR file back on the phone which will put everything back anyways- before they work on it. TriangleAway will not fix Knox. It will only remove the bootloader modified message on older devices. If you return/exchange a phone to a store, they ship back to warehouse for RMA Your normal rep for an exchange/return wants to make sure the phone isnt physically damaged, it powers on, and there aren't missing pieces to it, they may power it on to do a factory reset, but if you get a Note 4 and play with root, then decide you dont like it and want to get an iPhone within your 14 day exchange period you really don't have to worry. The same applies if you do a "giveback" or "Buyback" when you go to upgrade.