JohnHovah

On 12/7/2018 at 2:48 PM, radem said:

At least for IOS this is not a soft launch.  It is enabled by default if you are in a VoLTE enabled market.  Bring on the spectrum refarming from CDMA to LTE.

On 12/5/2018 at 8:17 PM, radem said:

I rebooted it again after updating and it now shows it.  Maybe because I have a business line with some extra security stuff or my phone was just acting up.  Not sure but either way VoLTE is enabled by default. 

FYI the option for it is under Settings - Cellular - Cellular Data Options - Enable LTE - Voice & Data.  If you select Data Only, it looks like it turns VoLTE off.

does this carry over on to the iOS 12.1.2 software?

roaming. how I wish it were nicer and more plentiful. I've used it before and it crapped out and was not useable. the reason could be because of the 100MB limit. I've made two trips this year one from Salem OR to Stockton CA; during that trip the native Sprint service cuts off entirely when on the Amtrak train headed to Cali. The train travels outside of Eugene OR area and into the mountain regions where some type of roaming turns on and it roams most of the way until the train gets to California. Two types of roaming happen: a 3G roaming and a 1xRTT roaming. I cannot recall the carriers but one is probably Verizon. The data works just well enough that at least I have a connection part of the way. However, some point during my travels in Oregon, the data cuts off and only voice service remains. I didn't even use the data. I'm pretty sure 100MB easy sucks up with just background services, or even just a few page loads of my website homepage (my website homepage is 30MB per webpagetest by itself; just in JPEGs, PNGs, and HTML. in theory, one could reload the home page of my website only about 3 times before the 100MB cap was reached). The trip on Amtrak is hardly 24 hours and Sprint native service appears when large cities pass by.

 

The second trip I made this year was from Sacromento CA to Washington DC. This is a 3 day 72 hour journey. During this trip native Sprint service is generally nowhere to be found outside of large cities like Los Vegas, Denver, Chicago, but the entire route is covered with roaming through most of the trip. The connection dies within less than a day leaving one without data. My phone had a message, "data disabled." I didn't know why because I felt like I hadn't even hardly used my phone.

 

Sprint if you're hearing this please .. please consider adding more roaming data to the plans. For the rate I was paying, $95 for unlimited service, unlimited data, on one line, customers really deserve more.

 

Roaming in America unfortatunely sucks. The appeal of it is high because as a customer we will have data and voice in more areas, whereever a partner has service.

 

2-5GB of roaming data would be nice just to get us by when roaming IF roaming occurs at all. I do travel, and that's the only time I use it, usually when riding on the Amtrak, or I take a trip out of town around Oregon and it roams through the moutain and back roads.

 

​a question has to be asked; why is data so expensive in the United States? in the UK they sell a goodybag with 6GB LTE and unlimited 256Kbps LTE for $25 USD!!! pre-paid SIM. https://www.giffgaff.com/goodybags/20pound-goodybag

 

tell me why roaming in America isn't always-on and at least a couple of gigs of full speed LTE?

If you have a direct line to Masa we could probably help focus his priorities from here on out from both a technical perspective and end-user standpoint and sum up the experience fairly well and in a concise manner insomuch as what is and is not working thusfar.

Thanks Robert. I just started a monthly donation. I've been so busy with life that I have ignored this wonderful forum for too long.

Time to revive this old thread.  It is available for pre-order now and my only legitimate gripe is that there is only a 16gb version available on Sprint.

Of course some may take offense at the price seeing as Sprint is charging $449 for the 16gb model and a purchase direct from Google goes for $349/16gb and $399/32 respectively.  I have no problem buying devices outright but have a hard time stomaching the limited onboard space available on devices lately.

I would settle for even Dual Band LTE at this point considering it will take just as much (if not more) time to have ubiquitous 2.5ghz TD-LTE coverage.

Sprint does not want customers to be able buy their phones for cheap because that would mean people are not renewing their contracts making them "high risk" customers. I am sure the system setup will be similar to the iphone in the sense that the device will already need to be in the Sprint system in order to activate on a subscriber.

Why would Sprint not want BYOD support?  

It will save them billions in contractual (prepaid/negotiated) obligations to OEM's (think $15.5B obligation to Apple over several years).  Not to mention that Sprint (like every other carrier besides select T-Mo plans) does not offer a rate plan that is lower without a subsidy.

Whether you buy the device outright or at the subsidized rate sold through them (e.g. $199 for a GS4, $249 for a GNote2) you still pay the same monthly service fees.

Almost perfect until 

• SVDO and SVLTE support absent

I almost had a nerdgasm.

I am not sure why I find this slightly amusing, but in many parts of the country, 2000 square miles would not be thought of as a small area. And it would probably include 3-4 counties.I guess John has some San Bernardino County envy...;)AJ

Oh San Ber Doo.. How I long to be a part of your great and illustrious heritage... with your endless ocean views, luscious tropical vegetation and endless greenbelts and your ever so low crime rates... NOT..

LOL. Yes, it may be hard to fathom the size of counties here in Cali for those who live elsewhere.... I was born and raised in New York and most counties seem to encompass a city or three in the rest of the US, so I hear you on that. What I have always found amazing though is what people consider a horrible commute back east these days.

If you live in the sunbelt, 2-4 hours of drive/travel time doesn't seem like so long of a time to get to major hubs of civilization comparatively.

Wait??? I know we are hitting February and all and that San Diego should have had live sites months ago... But pray tell, where are these live sites? (For us San Diegans....) The county is only ~50 miles tall by ~40 wide... I will drive to every tower if I have to... Looking in the Sponsor and Premier Sponsor section starting............ NOW ;-)

wait, there's an iPad 4? Not that I will by it, but that news must have bypassed my overworked ass

Now, we await Otosan... But who is the token black guy (not being trying to be racist or anything)

So my family back east will have LTE up and running while we here in the 5th largest market get bupkis? for shame!!

"New Sprint"?? Seriously, can we at least have put some thought into the "New" name?

Anywho, what's up with the giant translator on Dan's ear? I thought the Japanese were into high powered microtech?

No ESMR-ready LTE Chipset yet?

"several hundred more sites have birds nesting on them and Sprint won't be able to turn them on until the birds leave, according to the conference call." Tell me you just testing us to see if we are reading. Its probably the Verizon guys putting bird food on the Sprint towers. I'm sure if you send a couple of Megawatts up the cables they would leave. Oops ..... Well they are gone .... fire that baby up!!!

And here I was thinking we could have a fried chicken bbq at onsite lte light-up party!

I too appreciate your site and your work. And I understand your points and definitely considered a lot of that before posting this. I think one of the points I may not have made clearly in my editorial is not so much the whining from people who are ignorant, but those who whine to me. People who follow S4GRU and read what we write.Thanks for your counter point, Artem. It deserves to be heard and seen as well.Robert

The Artem Russakovskii from AP? Love your work!

And Robert, as always you hit the nail on the head

Finally!!! I just saw the link http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/06/27/sprint-is-finally-ready-to-launch-its-lte-network-on-july-15th-in-select-cities/

I have been so inundated with Google IO goodness I missed this. Just in time for my birthday on the 16th. Thank you Sprint!

I always knew Siri was half baked

Finally some news.... I can't wait for the official launch. perhaps it will be concurrent with new device launches (e4glte? sgs3?)

I would be interested to see if there are other affected NV partner/equipment. In the past few months (here in San Diego), I am having constant dropped calls when mobile (I assume it is during a tower handoff as i am motion) and I will go from 5 bars to none, drop the call only the have 5 bars of signal after travelling less than 100 feet.

In areas where there was great coverage, you may only get one bar or no signal signal at all (generally this poor coverage is lasting only a day or two at a time in certain areas but never in the same area twice)

Perhaps this means we are seeing a NV rollout sooner rather than later here?

I will certainly be interested in hearing how the 3G speeds have improved as well

At least I found the link to the purported page. Maybe I can make my case better by losing the call when I am trying to order ( Not much of a stretch, Normally I will call from a landline in spotty coverage areas)

http://now.sprint.com/airave/?id16=airrave

I would be nice to see Google bid on dome Spectrum again, but on their own of course, also seeing as the GOOG has a comfy relationship with T-Mobile/Sprint, we could see some interesting possibilities in the future

I am still waiting for some 4G love in the San Diego (apparently separate) market. Considering we do not even have WiMax (except a few sporadic towers where initial work was done on but never quite made it out of the gates)