swintec

what is this called and who do you think it is for?  surely this cant be considered a "small cell" as its the size of some humans.

wouldnt surprise me if its tomobile.  right in this section there is a thousand or so feet of road where tmobile absolutely drops out and at least for me, I get put on to sprint band 25.  very heavily traveled area too.  one of the only areas i have found where i roam over on to sprint.  kind of funny to cause just up the road is a tmobile store.

19 hours ago, mdob07 said:

It's enabled on my AT&T s20 Ultra, they enabled it several months ago, maybe even late 2020. My T-Mobile S20 plus only has n41, n71, n260, and n261 enabled right now.

can you share the dialer codes so i can see this info on my s20+?  the ones i used to use for sprint dont work since i swapped SIMs.  no way for you to enable n2 and n66 yourself in the menus?

9 hours ago, mdob07 said:

Almost 2 weeks later and still no July update. The last time there was a big delay it affected AT&T also but my AT&T S20 got the July update almost 3 weeks ago. I'm really hoping this update finally adds N2 and N66 when it finally comes. 

Only the plus and ultra support N2 and N66 right?  Actually, i wasnt even aware these were disabled right now.  has there been chatter that these would be enabled sometime soon or just wishful thinking?

On 7/31/2021 at 9:18 PM, comintel said:

My S20 also bounces cotinually between bands and no signal, making it useless.

This infuriates me to no end, i dont necessarily have no signal but it jumps on bands that are absolutely useless and stays there.  why hold a -121 signal reading on band 2 with 5G when n71 is there? Also goes through fits of seemingly no data access despite the phone showing no problems (usually when on n71).

11 hours ago, iansltx said:

 if you force SA (which *does* work in Samsung Band Selector; forcing NR 71 only gets you on SA n71) you can attempt to make calls, and they'll ring on the other end, but the call will fail after a half-second or so without ringing on your side. So VoNR definitely isn't there

Interesting this doesnt work for you.  ive been able to lock to just n71 and make calls just fine and have been able to since I TNXed back in the early spring.  quality is sometimes poor since there is supposedly no QoS but its VoNR none the less.

just as a refresher....what does the phone (galaxy s20+ in my case) and signal check show when connected to 5G ultra capacity?

20 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Not sure why that would be... RCS has been enabled on Sprint devices for a long time... and I still see sent/delivered/read/typing messages even though I'm on TNA.

thats the thing, I do not have RCS.  Textra (and third party sms apps) do not have the ability for it anyways. When TNX was enabled, I started seeing Sent >> Delivered for SMS..i dont get read/ typing indicators so this is different than RCS. i have just casually wondered what is going on on the network level for this to happen.

19 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

5G has been available from the start on TNA. All my devices are on T-Mobile 5G, n71, n41 with n66 showing as available once it's deployed.

i guess maybe i forgot what TNA is.  When tmobile first took over is TNA what they put all capable devices on, which made the devices prefer tmobile over sprint network?

If so, yes, i had "5G" from the start but it required the anchor band.  I never saw n71 (5G-BR 600 in signal check).  You have seen n71 from the start, with no anchor band needed?

As soon as i made the switch to TNX at the store and got in my car to play around, I started seeing n71 with no anchor band needed so unless they enabled n71 in the 10 minutes i was in the store swapping, i did not have this on TNA.

I remembered something else that came with TNX....SMS messages now show Sent >> Delivered in Textra where as before they only showed Sent which has made me wonder what is happening on the network level that tmobile knows this and why sprint could never do it.  I do not have RCS.

12 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

I may have missed it, but what are the the benefits of moving over to TNX on a 5G device that would automatically have TNA (prefer the T-Mobile network). It doesn't seem like it would change the network experience all that much. My devices are all TNA, and on the T-Mobile network all the time except while near Sprint Keep sites. I'd prefer to keep the easy access to Sprint sites since Sprint have a bigger network than T-Mobile here.

You get access to 5G-NR which is not (or was not) available on TNA.

my S20+ is still on the january update, any idea what gives?  possibly because i am on TNX?  i thought tmobile was pretty quick with updates.

i live in southern maine and tmobile coverage is amazing.  while i know that doesnt exactly help you, their coverage maps are pretty darn accurate so i would feel confident with whatever they show you for the area you are going to.

is VoNR a thing yet?  when connected to n71, if a call happens, the device drops over to band 71 LTE to make the call and then switches back to 5G n71.  If I use samsung band selector and lock the device to n71 and do a call, the phone does not switch away from 5G and continues to reflect n71 but i dont have a way to know if that is just the phone not knowing what to show since it is band locked.

is there a  way to enable 5G SA on the device in one of the various screens?

9 minutes ago, mikejeep said:

I'm very interested in this too.. I thought this was the type of feature that would only be available with RCS -- which Textra can't support yet because the API hasn't been made available to third-party developers. The only RCS client I think is available right now is the Android Messages app. I'd love to know the reason behind this!

well, it does not show them as read.  wild guess is that tmobile simply has agreements with the other carriers to give them this info (since it would all be done at the network level, the network knows if the device has received it) which apps like textra is able to utilize, completely independent on RCS?

I just did the swap this evening to TNX just for funsies, at a third party tmobile store.

For what its worth, my mobile hotspot still works and running fast speedtest, doesnt seem to show any throttle.  not sure if both of those will die overnight.

I was disappointed to not see any 5G SA (yet) but what i do see a lot of now is n71 / 5G-NR 600....wtf is that?  On the surface it just looks like band 71 is configured to show as 5G now, is this the faux 5G tmobile BS?  Before TNX, the phone / signal check would just show Band 71 LTE but again, it seems like they have it configured now to show 5G which is silly.  Speeds between the two are about the same which is why I am sort of calling shenanigans on this.

Also, with TNX, Textra (which i have used for years) now shows SMS messages as "sent > delivered" prior to this and always on sprint, textra would just show them as sent.  What does TNX do here to give the phone this insight now that apparently was never available before?

I have a S20+.  On ROAMAHOME right now.

My end game is 5G stand alone.  In my house for example, the anchor band (band 2) is weak while the 5G signal shows a much better RSRP. so if i lose band 2 i lose 5G which is quite often.

For instance, band 2 will show a RSRP of like -118 while 5G value is like -105 or so.  If I did not have to be on the anchor band i should have pretty decent 5G service or am i not understanding signal check correctly?

From the way I understand it though, if i go for 5G SA, I need TNX and in that case, I get migrated completely over to the TMO system, get a TMO bill, lose roaming on sprint and more importantly lose any USCC roaming.  I am also on whatever the plan is that old SERO users were migrated to (Advantage Plus?).  This also may bring other various issues.

Is TNX really all I can do?

is TNA the same as ROAMAHOME then, or essentially the same just with a tmobile sim?  plan stays in the sprint system?  can i get 5G stand alone with TNA?

12 hours ago, mikejeep said:

Speaking of which, have you roamed on USCC with ROAMAHOME? I know in central NH outside of Sprint coverage, USCC roaming was a godsend. Curious if that changes with the merger.. although TMO appears to have more native coverage anyway.

i havent been in a position to roam on USCC at this point since TMobile is so good around here now.  I just used samsung band selector on my S20+ and chose band 12 and it picked up and connected to USCC without issues.  everything works so maybe in areas that really need it, they left it alone.  if you go much north beyond southern maine, if they did not have USCC roaming, no tmobile customer would have service so its kind of a big deal.

3 hours ago, JDP121 said:

Has anyone who swapped out their Sprint Sim for the T-MOBILE TNX Sim been to Maine? If so how is T-Mobile’s coverage both data and voice wise?

i live in southern maine but i only have ROAMAHOME on my acocunt but i am on tmobile all the time. coverage is amazing.  maines a big state though so if you plan on going up north, you will probably have a bad time but as long as they still give US Cellular roaming you should be fine.

On 10/27/2020 at 10:23 PM, iansltx said:

Tethering for the first time in a bit (non-TNX BTW) and I'm pulling a T-Mobile IP address. Can't exactly tell how I'm being routed, but pings (as low as low 30s to 4.2.2.4 in Dallas) are in line with pure T-Mobile routing rather than proxying through Sprint, thoguh T-Mobile's speedtest.net servers aren't visible. The last time I tethered, I got a Sprint CGN IP and was proxied through both backbones, driving up latency significantly. GeoIP says I'm in Oklahoma.

not sure when it started but i noticed this morning by S20+ is getting a TMo IP address (regular phone not tethering) now instead of Sprint and I also can not run trace routes anymore (used to work sprint), presumably because I am now under tmobiles network policies.

18 hours ago, floorguy said:

I can't determine if my connection issues are network related or phone related..

 

There are times where it just doesn't work. Spotify says no internet, speed test won't connect. But it says I have bars, and usually in the mid 90s to low 100s.

 

The last time it happened, I tried a phone call (volte right?). It worked so I connected to something. But data still wasn't working.  Drove down the road to a "new" tower and it worked..  airplane mode off and on doesn't work... Reboot does..

 

What do you think?

I have this same exact problem, but it only happens when i am connected to 5G and afaik, a specific tower in my town.  I notice it mostly when i am out for my walk at night.  I round the street corner and data is dead (shows 5G, phone calls still work).  I get to pretty much the same spot further down the road and data starts working again.

I have started very large downloads to max the connection out just to "catch" it dropping out and i can watch the speeds decrease to 0 as i round the corner.

I have found data will come back online though.  So either its dropping out for X number of minutes / seconds or maybe a certain panel / sector is having problems (since it is so predictable for me, literally happens between the same two points)?  not really sure.

does att count the firstnet emergency network connections in this as well?

17 minutes ago, dro1984 said:

Not impressed with ScamSheild and it   even sucks more that Sprint accounts don't have the exact same thing.    Went on MySprint... nothing there, no info nothing to turn July 24th... at least put some info on the phone-site.         This entire Uncarrier thing kinda blew.      

From PhoneArena:  "The full benefits of Scam Shield (and the new app itself) will be available to Sprint customers at a later date."    ??    

you can use it on sprint, you just need to use the call screener app (from what i understood).  i was paying $2.99 for the premium caller id which i have canceled so i am interested in seeing if this will now become free.

On 6/28/2020 at 6:23 PM, iansltx said:

Confirmed that VoLTE works perfectly on the S20, whether provisioned for Sprint-only (Ting) or T-Mobile/Sprint (Sprint postpaid), running on Sprint's core network. Two S20s on VoLTE will use what Samsung's dailer calls HD+ calling, though it may take a second or two to bump up to the highest-bandwidth codec after the call starts from what I can tell.

Just read up on this a bit and I guess HD+ runs at up to 48 KHz, which tracks with that I was hearing...I've experienced HD voice on older devices over the CDMA network and this seemed a good bit clearer. Call stability is superior to Duo, I'm sure due to network traffic prioritization (and, in the case I'm testing with, the call never actually leaving Sprint's network, vs. having to bounce out to Google).

HD calling is annoying for me.  i do not get HD calling if someone calls me.  if i call them, even calling them right back, HD calling will happen.  this happening mostly when the other user is verizon.

2 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

T-Mobile and GCI Wireless entered into a domestic 5G roaming agreement like they did with LTE. This makes the T-Mobile the first carrier to offer 5G in all 50 states. 

https://www.t-mobile.com/news/tmobile-5g-in-alaska-through-gci-partnership

Wait, chicken and the egg here but maybe GCI was the first to offer 5G nationwide?