Bob Newhart

Will the voice calls or DC calls transfer from Sprint to Roam to Sprint now?

Can you make phone calls through wifi if you didn't have any cell signal? What about texting?

No calls, unless you use the free apps such as Bobsled or Vonage.

No texting, unless you use another app. I use google voice, as I've integrated it.

Tip for you, Keep keys in another pocket.

I got a screen protector for my Nexus, its awful, but it was $1 for 6.

 

 

No one lives in this area, and it's FOUR towers.

 

Ugh.

As AJ mentioned, those are freeways and highways there in that map.

Similar to how no one lives at a ski resort or baseball stadium, but thousands go there.

I got a text today! From my mom!

Did she tell you any news on LTE ? Moms know stuff.

It is quite apparent that Samsung really doesn't test their phones very well. It looks like they only test them in ideal signal testing conditions in a lab, not in the real world where people actually lose a signal a lot.

Towards the end of the year is when they are scheduled (from this site) to start the Seattle area upgrades. Only then will I see the magic of 800 Mhz to/from 1900 Mhz transitioning, I only hope that when it it as the 800 Mhz signal that is doesn't looking continually for the 1900 Mhz signal, as this will be just as bad.

Until peoples cell phones work as advertised they will complain. I don't see anything wrong with that.

You have to agree that Sprint has been letting their network die a slow death. Only now are they trying to revive it, trying to give it one last chance.

The term 3 or 4 G describes the potential of the technology, not what the service provided is, its just marketing.

HSPA+ on T-Mobile can get 20+ Mbps, plenty fast enough. The coverage of T-Mobile's HSPA+ and ATT's are poor when compared to their coverage maps. In a city just south of me, with T-Mobile HSPA+ 'only' maxes at out at 1Mbps, the data connection to the towers is the limiting factor.

I wish I could 'only' get 1Mbps on the Sprint service though. The WiMax in the same city, it'd be a regular 6 to 8 Mbps, really good.

Another problem with this phone, is the same problem that I had on the Nexus S 4G with the data just not working at all.

I work inside buildings where I have close to zero cell coverage of Sprint or Verizon, which converts the phone into a pocket warmer. Terrible cell design.

As I leave the building sometimes when it gets a full Sprint voice signal, it gets no data service. I can still send/receive sms text messages and make calls, but no data. I have to go into the networks and disable mobile data, then re-enable mobile data. This fixes it 99% of the time, when it doesn't a phone reboot is needed AND then the disable/re-enable process.

Terrible. The GSM Galaxy Nexus is heads and tails a better phone.

I'm just hoping the 800 Mhz 1X signals fix all of these problems.

Sprint relies heavily on roaming agreements, and they will depend more on them after they remove thier rural towers if the users switch to cdma from iden.

Allowing us to roam on other cdma companies is why a lot of us have Sprint in the first place.

The cell companies like to use the terms 'coverage X % of the population', but what they don't say is where this coverage is, at home, at work or travelling.

I hope that it isn't Samsung, their phones lately all have low signal problems on wifi and cell.

I'm hoping that it is Motorola.

There are lot of areas that have Nextel coverage right now that have zero Sprint CDMA coverage.

Take a look at Kern County in California, or West of Fresno, CA. Massive coverage differences.

Don't know what else you want... seems easy to read and definitely the best of the coverage maps from the carriers. Guess people are just very nit picky.

Go to their coverage site. http://coverage.sprintpcs.com/IMPACT.jsp

Zoom out a little, take a look at the coverage for:

1) Sprint coverage - signal strength varies

2) Off-Network Roaming

green and slightly off green. Another colour should be used, blue/red/yellow/orange...anything.

http://www.olypen.com/jinj2/pix/junk/coverage.png

This is not being picky. They do this on purpose, as do the other cell companies.

They could have : Grey = No coverage/roaming.

I do find Sprint's coverage maps to be the most accurate among the cell companies in my area.

I do wish they'd make the maps easier to read, the different shades of green are on purpose to hide roaming with native coverage. They should make this clearer, as in greens for sprint and anything else to anything else.

Yep, the phone does get quite toasty if you use it a lot, I think a lot of it is from the screen.

I'd be happy if the phone was twice or three times as thick, contains a massive battery, which would also allow a camera that would have a large lens. I don't understand the phone designers obsession with wafer thin phones that have no battery life.

I think its funny on those coverage charts that the descriptions are 'good - better - best - excellent', nothing negative there.

My SERO-P has Direct Connect listed. Before I had an LTE phone is was not listed on the plan.

T-Mobile's existing HSPA+ network is great, they would be better off converting their Edge/GSM markets and expanding their coverage instead of converting to LTE. They have a lot of unused spectrum around the country unused, just like the other cell companies.

Maybe LTE is a marketing buzz word, even better than using a 'g' in 4g adverts.

I work somewhere that still uses them too, they need to get contacted where cell phones aren't allowed.

They only can use the none two way models too.

Lisa on Mobile Tech Review recently posted her review of the Sprint's version of the Galaxy Nexus. I like her reviews, her videos are very well done.

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=42594

I found her review very positive, the information was mostly correct.

A few items that I agree with her about, the signal levels of the wifi being one of them.

I did notice that the wifi levels are stronger than my previous Nexus S phone from Sprint, and it works a lot better.

The cell signals are noticibly weaker than the Nexus S, but I have no problem using the phone at home with an Airave for voice/ data (EVDO), works really well.

Out and about though I would say that the cell levels are 1 bar or so lower. At work the phone goes back and forth between Sprint and Verizon, all day long, which makes the battery die. I have to have it plugged in, otherwise its just a pocket warmer. Putting it into 'home' only mode helps a lot.

I wish Google would add an option where you could tell your phone only too look for a cell signal once every 15 minutes if it hasn't seen one for a while.

A friend has the GSM version of this phone and uses it on T-Mobile, he has noticed that his cell signal is also slightly weaker than his Nexus One.

I can't wait until the 800 Mhz voice/data gets enabled in Seattle, hoping that it will change everything.

The screen is amazing, I love not having any other UI installed over the top of plain Android.

I use the phone more than my Nook Tablet running Android now.

Flash videos on web pages work better than ever, plus Netflix has no problems.

Best phone I have ever seen .... or owned.

On a few posts you mention that 'most' sites will have their feeds upgraded to fibre/microwave, why not all, is that because they already have the higher bandwidth feeds?

Who knows what will happen if the towers get saturated over time, just how the current towers have done slowly over the years. Whether its the spectrum of the backhaul data lines.

I hope that Sprint will expand their coverage foot print.

Do you know anything if they plan for this by adding towers, or are they sticking to be a urban carrier like T-Mobile?

I was surprised that the county law enforcement agency in my area uses Sprint CDMA for their patrol car laptop connection and Sprint iDEN for their phone, combined about 1200 devices. They go to some areas where they have zero signal from Sprint/Verizon for their data, their Nextel still works a lot of the time. I do hope that Sprint has thought of all of this in their grand plan.

thanks

With T-Mobile's Wifi calling, the phone still activily searches for a T-Mobile cell signal, maybe not as often but it does.

This is what I discovered and what T-Mobile's support posted on their website.

I used to have text messaging problems where it would send a message out, but tell the phone that it didn't, so I'd resend it again and again, until a friend told me to quit it!

That was a while ago. I have the Airvana EVDO model.

I have noticed that the Galaxy Nexus doesn't have as strong of a cell signal when compared with an older Nexus S, it is quite a bit poorer. I don't have signals where I used to, can't stream Pandora when driving in my car anymore.

It isn't just the Sprint signal that it can't get, its the Verizon roaming one too.

I'm only keeping it in the hopes that when the 800 Mhz signal is enabled, that the coverage improves.

Whether its 1x/EVDO/LTE it doesn't matter which I get.

I have a feeling that LTE is mostly hype, as when everyone gets an LTE phone the speeds will most likley go to what we get on EVDO today, especially if Sprint is feeding the towers with T1s and not fibre.

It does have better wifi as the Nexus S's was terrible and quit working occasionally.

The Airave works well, when it works. You have to have a reliable ISP with low latencies.

The one thing it does well is stopping your battery die. When you get home and your phone is in your pocket, the battery does not die as the phone isn't searching hard for a signal. <---- you guys do not understand how good this is.

T-Mobile's Wifi calling does NOT stop your battery running down, even if you're on wifi, the phone is continually searching for a T-Mobile signal. The Airave works better than this.

The Airave's EVDO data speeds are a little better than the real Sprint EVDO speeds, usually get around 0.2 Mbps when connected to the Airave.

It works really well for txt messages, SMS/MMS.