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1 hour ago, jporter12 said:

Is anyone else seeing this behavior?  

what sort of speeds (actual numbers) are we talking here?

4 hours ago, Mooeydj said:

Thanks. Mine says 65535. Weird.

 

i was on that as well until i tried to update yesterday and it got replaced with the one being talked about now.

10 hours ago, mikejeep said:

That is bizarre. Can you send a diagnostic report after it happens again? If you have no Alerts configured, I'm not sure why that would be happening. Do you have the 1X icon enabled? Perhaps instead of just showing the icon silently, it's configured with an audible notification as well? That could technically trigger an alert every time your signal updates..

 

I had to disable the 1x icon completely because it wouldnt stop alerting.  that worked for about a week or so and then the other day when i got up signal check was constantly notifying me of something, i just dont know what.  i was just connected to band 71.  i dont really know what else i can disable because at that point i lose the icons atthe top left of the screen.

will send you a report now since it happens any time i launch signal check and stops once i exit it.

anyone have issues with signal check constantly giving an audible notification?  Started out of the blue this morning and the only way to stop it is exit out of SC for good.

I cant figure out what is going on with SC and the S20.

Back when i first got the device, i had to disable 1x connection from showing completely because SC would just keep giving an alert over and over every time it connected to 1x.  I could not find any alert setting that handled this.  Okay no big deal just leave it disabled i guess.

I get up this morning and un-silence the phone and it just keeps beeping and beeping and come to find out its signal check, all out of the blue. I dont know what it is notifying me about because 1x is disabled from showing.  To stop it i had to exit out of SC completely and leave it closed.  Any idea what it up?

FWIW, i have no alerts configured for SC and regardless of that, even if i did why would it just start happening out of the blue over and over.

14 hours ago, Terrell352 said:

Well I have the unlocked S20 Ultra on Sprint and I seen the 5G icon but it was not using NR. I have seen a friend in Phoenix with a Tmobile one plus and a unlocked S20 Ultra with the latest firmware and the S20 would only use LTE but would say 5G while the one plus would use 5G NR for real.

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One thing i just noticed today on my S20.  It shows the 5G icon but if data is otherwise unused / idle...NR is missing from the service menu screens.  Once I start passing traffic it will populate.  maybe that is the issue for you?

4 minutes ago, Terrell352 said:

So you got yours from Sprint? I have yet to see a NR connection even when it says 5G.

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yes from sprint.  i had no native Sprint 5G around me prior to this so once they sent out the update last week it was like a switch was flipped.  im sure there was plenty of others around the country who had the same experience.

11 hours ago, Terrell352 said:

Well I have the unlocked S20 Ultra on Sprint and I seen the 5G icon but it was not using NR. I have seen a friend in Phoenix with a Tmobile one plus and a unlocked S20 Ultra with the latest firmware and the S20 would only use LTE but would say 5G while the one plus would use 5G NR for real.

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im not really sure as tmo seems to be playing fast and loose with how they do 5G (or reflect it on device).  i have the 5G icon showing right now but it always seems to show now even if i am just connected to band 2 (with no NR).  if i go down the street NR will show.

those of us who got the initial S20 update had the Sprint | SPRINT display so unless they changed something, that is how a lot of us knew we got the update.

14 minutes ago, Terrell352 said:

Are you sure???

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it was the case for the group of us last week in the initial run.

3 hours ago, flyloc2 said:

My s20+ just started showing sprint|sprint at the top left.  Anybody have that issue.  No problems, but it's really not what I want to show on my screen all the time.

Btw, that means you got the tmo update for 5G.

If the merger failed, where would that have put TMO going forward?  Absolutely no viable way forward for 5G and beyond? Hope to the spectrum gods that further spectrum would be opened up for sale?

36 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

It's weird I wasn't getting any 5G at my house last night or even this morning and I go out and run into 5G and now that's pretty much all I am connected to now 4 bars in my house 130 down / 10 up. Interesting.

you know, i wasnt even going to mention it because i thought it was a fluke but i have the same thing happening to me.  left to a 5G area this afternoon (none at home since the update last night) and since i got home the device has been showing 5G now unless it is on band 71 (it will just show LTE in that case).

i was not necessarily expecting 5G coverage at home since the coverage maps has me in this weird area where 5G is everywhere else except the middle of town.

Maybe once the phone finally gets a taste of 5G  (and uses the icon) everything is essentially 5G.  Seems Tmo likes to play fast and loose.

Didnt we sort of know tmo 5G was not anything to write home about?  I remember that being a big thing about the merger.  Without sprint, tmo was not going to be able to provide a decent 5G service as time went on.  They just were not in a good position spectrum wise.

Finally got the update on my S20+ tonight in Maine.  Tmobile across the board now, and i now have LTE in my house WITH VoLTE.  No 5G though, yet.  Either way, these are things sprint just couldnt make happen after all these years and tmobile changed it in a matter of a few seconds.

Goodnight sweet prince. Its been real.

so what should i  be looking for in SC and the service menus to know if i am really on tmobile 5G?  today was my first day out and about with my S20 that i got yesterday and Sprints 5G popped on for awhile which i had no idea was around here.

2 minutes ago, transitwatch889 said:

It seems to be aggregating with band 2 over the 1900 frequency to connect over NR71. T-Mobile at my particular area has never been that good. And it's definitely worse than my normal Sprint LTE signal from my home Tower. I did read over Reddit that if speeds and signal are not to your liking they can actually reverse the provision back to Sprint native. You simply just have to call in. Not 100% if that's true but it's nice that they're able to do that if so.

can you check your sprint plan add-ons to see if you have the code added to your account to enable this and if so, what does it show / what is it called?

1 hour ago, BlueAngel said:

If you're in a limited area where Sprint has 5G then yeah you'll connect to 5G but this is an update for Sprint phones to connect to T-Mobile's 5G network. I might be paying my lease off an getting rid of mine, too many issues for a $1400 device. Burnt two years in a row with the latest Samsung flagships heh.

What problems are you having with the S20?  This will be a $8 per month lease for the S20+ (possibly free if I can get them to honor what the order confirmations say).

I still have my essential phone so anything is an upgrade from that at this point.

i wanted the one plus 8 but it does not seem like it can be activated.

6 minutes ago, Yuhfhrh said:

T-Mobile runs LTE and NR on 600MHz spectrum, so B71 LTE and N71 NR.

There are no ENDC B71+N71 combos, so if you're on LTE band 71 then you are not connected to NR N71. N71 requires a B2/B66 anchor atm. You can check engineering screens to confirm what you're connected to.

thanks.  i was looking at the band priorities in the data menus and B71 and B66 are not even in the list (there are a total of 18 though).  B2 is there though, does B2 take care of those two other bands?  I was going to try and move B71 to the top but could not since it was missing.

1 hour ago, BlueAngel said:

Guess tonight is the night when the 5G update is pushed to the S20 series, should be around midnight. Or maybe tomorrow night around the same time who knows.

I thought the S20s already have 5G?  I literally just took mine out of the box and am playing with it trying to decide if I should keep it or wait a few more months. 

I successfully connected to TMO Band 71...that is not 5G?

9 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

....yet.

I just don't see a place in the market for U.S. Cellular going forward. Maybe there's something I'm missing here, but I just don't see it.

Do you live in a USCC market?  They are very good where they service.  Here in northern new england they cover much of the state in places that others only wished they did (and just roam on USCC instead).  I cant really speak for their other markets though but I like to think they do just as good of a job.

The merger, at least for Maine really did not do much (yet).  At the end of the day, it was two poor coverage carriers getting together where their coverage was almost the same across the state anyways.  I will give tmobile the benefit of the doubt and believe them when they say they will expand in the coming years but USCC is king here.

will try the update today.  can you share the problem that you found for android 10 stale data?

1 hour ago, Tengen31 said:

With a old sim card or new?

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not sure, they just would not activate it for him and the IMEI shows not supported on the BYOD page.

a guy on reddit got his one plus 8 today and was unable to activate so far on sprint.  i guess the sprint device BS continues.  *sigh*

19 hours ago, briank86 said:

Anyone considering getting either of the 8 series? 

i would but im not even sure if it will be able to be activated on sprint.

12 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

Sprint hasn't announced anything yet. Given the merger, I don't think it will.

Yes, given the merger i would expect tmobile would do the announcing at this point.  i would like to order it tomorrow when it goes live but i can see that will not happen given this uncertainty.