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Then learn how to do it your damn self. You apparently believe it is so simple. It is just these "lazy jailbreakers" as you say. GTFO you unappreciative POS. You are crazy, and quite a few other things.

FYI I know one if the four "main" evaders (musclenerd, FWIW), we work together, and there is no way they will be able to JB 6.1.3/4 at this stage. All effort will be to 7.x. If 7 is ugly there will undoubtedly be themes for users to emulate a more 6.x look.

Almost where? To 5000 sigs on change.org? How do you think that site works exactly? The White House will swoop down and lock away the evasion team until they produce a new jailbreak? Buy a used or refurb device with 6.1.2 or less. Or, buy a new one and crosscheck the serial to manufacturing date. If prior to the release of 6.1.3 (like March or something, idr, Wikipedia) it will have

This is something that I suppose can happen during NV rollout, for two reasons: (1) 3G is saturated and 1x is ironically actually faster for you -- this is one of the main points of NV, and it will be interesting how the sub base responds: I understand it and I still reflexively toggle airplane mode when I see the dreaded circle symbolizing 1x; (2) NV-upgraded 3G is brought online in clusters, and in the interim, you may wind up instead on adjacent 1x as they tweak it. I also have been seeing that damned circle ALOT more often lately. I am reserving judgement until they progress further in my area and this 800SMR switchover wraps. It is certainly true that, when I force back onto 3G, it is dismally unusable, so I suppose the NV optimization algorithms may be functioning as designed... It is noteworthy that, afaict, calls don't drop, SMS goes thru, and the time to initiate a call is much better (a few seconds vice 15+ seconds with frequent failures). Data, however, is sloooowwww.

That would be pretty damn outstanding. The spectrum we want, and two fantastic leaders. Son-san is pretty famous in japanland for being just an awesome human being. People love the guy. And Hesse's actions, while maybe not as dynamic as Son-san's, are certainly at least very commendable, in his ability to keep things grounded and rolling toward NV, while everything is on the edge of falling apart, which would have happened with a lesser CEO.

Something like that. They had extensive talks, they have Mike Mullen heading up "something" in the talks, including making sure SoftBank complies with the same thing that certain agencies showed up and told Hesse a few years back -- no Huawei or other Chinese equipment, etc. Maybe the F*T*C cares about market competition on occasion, but that is certainly not what the FCC, DOJ, DHS, etc are concerning themselves with.

I would really enjoy knowing how old you are. You have a 13 year old brother. In that case, are you still a teen or just removed from your teen years? I would probably put my money on that bet. AJ 6 years old, trust fund baby, one of three. older brother of new parent (13) needed a phone. So, I bought him one. Imagine the clerk's curiosity at the Apple store when the name on my Amex black matched my passport... So, ageism is illegal when it prevents a senile 65-y-o from keeping a job a more qualified 30-y-o might do, but yet, when a potentially more-qualified 13-y-o gets a smartphone, the "adults" get distracted from waging wars and fighting about religion and stealing from each other "legally" and get in a tizzy about how $600 was wasted on someone who cannot possibly utilize such value. I have yet to meet more than a handful of adults who properly make use of even 10% of the capability of their smartphone. The above is implausible of course. For one, the clerk would probably not permit me to sign, no matter what my passport or Amex said. Anyway... IRL, your question. Though it should not matter particularly, I am the oldest of a few, and late twenties. It'd be interesting if I was still a teen but could afford my little bro an iPhone, which actually would make me pretty generous I suppose, unless I were a teen celebrity or something. As for whether "late twenties" counts as "just removed from your teen years" ... I suppose that is up for debate. I rather feel like it probably does. According to science, my cognitive ability has been on the decline for over half a decade, so the closer I can feel to being late teens as opposed to late twenties, I consider a positive thing.

Fixed that for you. I personally bought an iPhone 5 for my 13-YO little brother. He's a precocious little genius of a shit, and deserves to be able to google/wiki/research topics as they come up during the day. Pretending that we are superior to teens is counterproductive. Most adults I know don't do much useful with their lives. Teen brains are at peak functioning. Genius teen brains may solve some pretty big problems before life starts rotting their optimism and creativity. People like you stifle progress in your misguided superiority. /rant

Aahahaha. Basically, my feeling as well after hearing the role MM had joined the party for. And I'm ex-Navy intel, btw. Not sure I like this, one bit.

If it's jailbroken, Signal 2 from @planetbeing. This.

Jesus is LTE that power hungry on the iPhone? No. Something else is causing this, even if it somehow is perceived to be LTE. Lower latency and larger bandwidth of LTE, especially when compared with the saturated 3G of sprint, means your radio will spend far less time actively transmitting.

Oh: and yes, it does close the app, with a few exceptions. Some iOS ones will persist infinitely, like Mail or Phone etc. though it does still kill it... It just comes right back. When my Mail app does something to piss me off (frequently: "message not downloaded" BS on flaky connections, with no refresh method) I kill it to fix that. Non-Apple apps that persist to different degrees include Skype (pretty nearly as persistent as the Apple ones, if you are logged in), Facebook, and strangely, the Chive app, both of which I uninstalled because their persistence makes me somewhat suspect shenanigans are afoot. Anyway, as was said before, except for shady or just poor/lazy usage of some GPS APIs, any battery impact is so minuscule it would be basically impossible to measure, paling in comparison to signal strength effects, backlight levels, and probably even the little power used by manipulating the touch layer itself to close out apps...

Probably true for 99% of people running stock iOS 6.x on a device with 1GB RAM and an X series processor. And, on stock iOS, there is no easy way to tell for certain if it is in the tray for historical reasons or actually paused and sitting in RAM... However I selectively kick apps out of RAM on a regular basis. But, I guess it is one of those things where, you're right (referring to OP), unless you aren't -- but it is almost guaranteed that in conditions where you are wrong, the user is a heavy power user or whatever, and pretty aware of why you're wrong...

Guess I should also state that, with the NV upgrades where they upgraded the 3G and we're waiting on backhaul, in THAT case it is becoming more often the underlying bandwidth limitation, until it is finished completely. "Signal 2" (http://signal.kssh.ca/) tells plenty already. RF spec-an shows even more how "hot" an area is relative to a available carriers. Combined with population and and extrapolated to subscriber densities. There are too many users usually, breathing on the same airspace, and there is a point at which CDMA just slows to a crawl keeping all the users associated. Everyone is connected, good signal, but there's just not a lot of slices left for actual data transmission. This is most evident in crowded suburbs. It is easier to add capacity to backhaul than acquire spectrum. Where I am, Verizon is almost as slow as Sprint on 3G, and the difference is Verizon has more spectrum. Most of my research has occurred smack in the middle of Ericcson country, but I don't think that makes a huge difference in the factuality of anything I said here...

DON'T UPGRADE OTA. It won't work and you'll just have to do it on a computer after to fix it (though new Evasion upgrades disables the OTA function to protect you). It will break your phone until you do a restore at iTunes. Then of course you cannot return to 6.1.2 and therefore cannot jailbreak again. Old thread but the conclusion of this one is unacceptable to any newbies viewing this.

From the way I've understood it, it is a combination of the ip5's firmware for power saving, the PRL, Sprint's QOS mapping algorithms, and the orthogonality of the LTE spec. As Sprint adds more and more sites and carriers, as they add the top-of-tower upgrades (even greater signal strength), and especially the rollout of 800SMR (which is I guess just more carriers and sites, in a way) it will improve.

Sure. I guess it depends how legacy the site is... I know that in most places I've been (which is by definition a highly subjective statement!) I can say with certainty I have witnessed the bottleneck be lack of spectrum maybe... 80 or 90% of the time.

I've personally experienced better speeds in rural areas on 3G, as a general rule, with Sprint. Put another way, bad 3G speeds on Sprint is typically bottlenecked by oversubscription at the wireless spectrum level, not the backhaul. But, YMMV, since its all about the subscriber-to-spectrum ratio. As for bitrates, yeah... Apple streams ABR AAC at 256k, as someone earlier said. Pandora mobile (even if you are a One subscriber, frustratingly) streams VBR AAC+PS around 28 - 32k by default, and VBR AAC+SBR around 56 - 64k if you select "higher quality audio" in the options. (Desktop Pandora One is 192k something or other.) So, pandora mobile sounds like crap... infinitely better than sat radio, and a tad worse than a good terrestrial FM HD radio. But I guess it does stream a lot better

Haha... Yes it would serve them right. No reason not to allow people to make their own decisions. Natural selection... Don't play with things you don't understand enough to control. FWIW I have several PRLs that I toggle between as needed, including a couple that are VZW-only. Only irritant with when I load any of VZW-only ones is, the phone will not connect to Sprint LTE and fall back on VZW 3G. It's just full-time VZW, basically as if I owned a Verizon 4S or something. If I could figure out how to make the preference Sprint LTE --> VZW 3G --> Sprint 3G --> Sprint 1X --> VZW 1X for data, and Sprint -> VZW for voice, that would be pretty sweet. Then I might leave that PRL up pretty much always. As it stands, I run 560xx PRLs by default, which is pretty decent most days.