troyd96

For a while they moved my phone to all T-Mobile bands, and I could not connect to my Magic Box Gold anymore. Just found out today I'm connecting back to my Magic Box again. The T-mobile bands worked a little better in the interior of my work building but near where the Magic Box it was a wash as to which was faster. I need to experiment today and determine if it tries to pick up T-mobile bands in the interior of the building or keeps trying to shift onto the unusable Band 25 Sprint signal that gives me no data in the interior like it used to do.

So right before the merger was complete or right afterwards I was able to connect to all the T-Mobile bands on my Note 10+. It was great because even though I have a Magic Box, if I go toward the interior of my work building it would connect to Spring Band 25 but the data and connection was absolutely useless. Since I have been able to connect to T-Mobile the interior parts of the building would connect to 1 of 3 different bands of T-mobile and give me good enough service to use data in the interior. About a month or so ago, I don't know if there was a profile or PRL change but now my phone will not connect to the T-Mobile bands at work. It will sit on that crappy Band 25 connection for a minute or so then go "no service" and then finally reconnect to 3G which is useless also. It's almost as if they turned off the capability of using T-Moblie towers around my work area. Unfortunately everywhere else I go gets good enough Sprint signal that it will never connect to a T-mobile tower so I can see if it is just my work area or my phone that has issues. I have even network reset my phone where it goes through the initial provisioning and hands-free activation and that has not helped either. Obviously I have done PRL and profile updates that didn't help either. I'm in the Atlanta/Decatur, GA area for my work. Anyone else notice this?

I understand this. I have done that numerous times as well. After the last software update I had issues with it staying connected or connecting to the box at all. Doing that Carrier/Network reset fixed it for me on my phone. It was the only thing that fixed it. I'm not talking about a full data wipe and factory reset. I'm talking about a network carrier reset. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

I had to do a network reset on my Note 10+ by dialing the ##72786# maybe different on your phone then it restarts and does a new handsfree provisioning and it started working again. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

I'm ok with it doing what it thinks is best. Honestly wifi calling was always flakey for me to begin with. If I had to take a call at home and went outside too far away from my house it would not cut over to cell correctly and half the time I lost the call. Same went for when it used the magic box at my work and I went too far away from it. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Answered my own question I guess with the FAQ section for wifi calling... Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Anyone notice your WiFi calling not working anymore on the Note 10+? I got it connected and have verified my address several times but haven't been able to get it to work since either this May update or the one in April. I don't really know which one it happened on. My wife's Note 10+ won't connect to it either. We just see VoLTE symbol instead of wifi calling one and dialer doesn't show the wifi symbol either on the green button. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Yeah that's what I meant. It broadcasts Band 41 but yes it locks on Band 25. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

My Note 10+ will not connect to my Magic Box now without some extreme effort on my end to get it to do so. At work (where the magic box is that gave me about 25-30 Mbps down, and 2-4 Mbps up), I know get what looks to be uncapped or at least higher capped Band 2, 12, 66 of T-Mobile all of which giving me about 18-20 Mbps Down and Up. So it isn't a big deal I guess now that the Magic Box isn't needed as I'm getting better signal throughout my building now where once upon a time I needed the Magic Box to get any meaningful service. Caveat this is all LTE of course not 5G. Do you all think T-Mobile will reconfigure the Magic Boxes to allow them to connect to one of their bands instead of band 41? Just wondering the usefulness of the Magic Boxes going forward since it seems they are desperately trying to keep us from connecting to Sprint Bands. The magic box still has an excellent connection to the sprint tower though.

Do you all think that T-Mobile will allow the Magic Boxes to go from Band 41 to one of the T-Mobile Bands like Band 2? The reason I ask is I got one at my work and that is the only way I would get decent LTE service for Sprint. Now that they have turned on letting us use T-mobile bands, I get Band 2, 12, and 66, pretty well throughout the building now, and it looks like now they removed the 5Mbps cap on it as I got about 18Mbps Up and Down on a speedtest today. I have to actually restart my phone and/or the Magic Box now to get off the T-Mobile bands and back on the Magic Box. That is within the last few days that this has been going on. The Magic Box would probably give me about 30Mbps Down, but only about 2-4 Mbps up so it isn't that big of a deal but I am trying to figure out if maybe I should just unplug the Magic Box and keep it as it won't really be useful from here on out?

Man you all suck! [emoji23]. Once upon a time I might have pulled 200-300 Mbps in the start of LTE now at my house (Coweta by interstate) I might get 50 Mbps and my work I have to have a magic box just to get 20 Mbps but even outside at my work (Southwest Dekalb near interstate) I don't get but 20-30 Mbps either when I used to get 200 Mbps in the beginning as did I near my house as well. Definitely got tower saturation in my area. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

I'm not worried about 5G right now. It's too much in it's infancy. In 1.5 years it should be better and more selection of 5G phones. Thanks for the info. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Question for someone knowledgeable. Is the Sprint Note 10+ compatible with all or most of T-Mobile's LTE bands? Got a deal on one for my wife and I during the black Friday time period and paying the $25 or so a month for 24 months to pay it off interest free. So wondering if I'm going to need to pay it off early and sell and get another phone or should be fine for the next 1.5 years or so? Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

Ok update. I factory reset my phone and the Magic Box Gold still does not broadcast a signal to it. I took it home set it up in my house, still no dice for the last 2-3 days that it has been on at either place. The Gen 2 Magic Box works fine but took about 3-4 hours before broadcasting the first time, then when I come into the office in the morning my phone will not connect to it no matter how many times I restart the phone or cycle airplane mode, but the Gen 2 was broadcasting the signal consistently for about 2 days before it didn't. Unplugging and plugging back in the Gen 2 gets it to broadcast a signal within 45 minutes to an hour an it will be fine again for probably another day or two. I'm just trying to figure out why these things quit broadcasting signals after a few days of being up and why the Gen 3 won't broadcast one at all. I assume the Gen 3 one is just a bad Magic Box at this point and I'm going to send it back.

Ok about a month or less in what is the verdict. The wife and I are still enjoying our Note 8's. I used to be one of those that every 2 years I'm getting the new Note, but the price is so high for these and I don't really want to trade in our Note 8's. (I want to sell one and keep one as a spare or for my kid). The trade-in price for a Like New Note 8 is not really enough for me to trade it in to Samsung or Sprint. I'm waiting for the Black Friday deals where maybe I can catch a B1G1F offer for the Note 10+ on sprint, then I might pull the trigger.

Ok so my issue now is I had a Magic Box Gold worked great till a few months ago. Now it only sporadically broadcasts the Band 41 signal. I have Signal Check Pro and also verify from other people that have Sprint in my office building. Sometimes when I reset it or reboot it it will broadcast a Band 41 signal after an hour or more (sometimes even 2-4 hours later). The box has GPS locked, LTE is connected, everything is fine but no devices connected. After a few months of this I finally chatted with Sprint last week and they sent me another box, granted they only sent me a Gen2 but I figured if it at least works it is better than nothing. I get it set up today wait a few hours and this one still doesn't broadcast a signal and on this one the GPS doesn't lock either. I call them and ask, and they say the box looks like it is working fine on their end, but my phone does not detect that signal at all. I even turned off Band 25 and Band 26 in my LTE settings on my Note 8 and restarted the phone and it will only connect to a Band 41 tower outside the building only. So for kicks and giggles I got back out the Magic Box Gold and put it another window, and it booted up just fine connected and says there is 1 device connected though my phone still does not show it as a signal at all. I still connect to an outside Band 25 tower. So I don't know what device in the office is connecting to it, but now I'm starting to think maybe something is wrong with my phone not seeing the signal. So i'm going to factory reset my phone tonight and see what happens. Would love to keep my Gold one and send back the other they gave me if it was just my phone, but it is weird if it was just my phone.

Anybody had any issues with their Magic Box recently? I got the Gold version, but my Note 8 will not connect to it when it used to connect to it very easily all the time. I mean every few weeks I had to restart it or factory reset it to get it to connect but not very often. Now it won't connect to my phone no matter what I do with the magic box (factory reset or restart). The magicbox is connected to the LTE backhaul with Good signal. I have cycled airplane mode and restarted my phone over and over again. That doesn't help either. Help from sprint on Magic Boxes are a joke. There isn't a specific person that is really knowledgeable on them, and now that supposedly they are for businesses only, I'm not sure they would send me a replacement.

Sounds like you are having signal strength issues. I don't have that problem except in rural areas (which there are many in Georgia). My problem is in urban and suburban areas, my signal level will be in the -80 to -95 range (which is perfectly acceptable for LTE) and I will get very low download speeds and the speedtest will error out for upload most of the time. The upload speed and latency is I believe #1 issues Sprint has on its networks. I can get by with 5-10 Mbps, but when the upload doesn't even register, then that is your bottleneck. That always happens on the oversaturated towers where I most frequent.

In the South Atlanta metro area T-mobile has worse coverage than Sprint, and sprint is pretty poor in a lot of areas as well, and it isn't necessarily towers as much as not enough capacity and overloaded towers in places like Newnan and South Dekalb County. Verizon by far is the best coverage for all of metro Atlanta especially the southside of the metro. I have stayed with Sprint because it was cheaper and knew I would have to deal with speed and coverage issues. If it gets worse post T-mobile merger I may have to bounce. My mom has T-mobile and she is always having issues with calls and data. I have rarely if ever seen the T-mobile LTE roaming bands everyone on here has talked about. Still just on oversaturated Sprint nodes toward my work (Dekalb county, GA) and my home county (Coweta County, GA). Hope this all works out and my bill stays the same or less for my unlimited plan that includes HD streaming videos, etc....

New article and renders state that the phone will be more curvier than ever which will suck because there will be no glass screen protector that will fit it well enough, and no true protective case that won't interfere with access to the curved part of the screen. I'm so over curved displays. Finding a glass screen protector for my Note 8 that doesn't cause touchscreen issues in the corners is like finding a needle in a haystack. I get a good brand I liked. Break my existing one order same brand and because of the quality control at these Chinese factories every screen protector is just a little different, and recently I have just gotten a lot of duds. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

Isn't calling plus essientially the same thing as VoLTE though? You are sending voice through LTE by checking the beta box. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

Anybody notice any T-Mobile LTE roaming yet on the Note 8? I see people in the Note 9 thread posting screen shots. I'm just wondering if they rolled it out for the Note 8 or not?

Anyone notice horrible Upload speeds on the Note 8? When doing speedtests I am getting on average 0.1-0.5 Mbps at most. It has been that way for a while. I think it is probably Sprints oversaturated network and the fact that they are not focusing on Upload speeds as I see plenty of internet forums on Sprint on multiple types of device complaining about the same thing I am. The Pings skyrocket due to Upload speeds at least for me. It makes the data useless or non-existent due to the latency. i'll get 2-10 MBps Download indoors but that doesn't matter if the packet uploads take forever to be sent.

It is connected to B41 at about -98 dBm. which the device calls good or excellent depending on the mood it is in. That should be plenty of signal to get good data, but my speedtest on a local server on my phone when I am on the magic box gives me anywhere from 100-500ms Ping, horrible jitter, 3 to 8 Mbps Down and the upload speeds are garbage like 0.01-0.03 KBps. When I go to the interior of the building my B25 kicks in due to building penetration and it doesn't ever want to reconnect to the magic box's B41 even when close to it once I have that B25 connection. The B25 connection is usually -101 to -110 dBm far less than signal wise than the B41 signal being put out by the Magic Box, but obviously my phone must detect a more stable connection on the B25 connection. My B25 tower speedtest is 40ms Ping better Jitter, 3 to 8 Mbps Down and about 2-3 Mbps Up. The problem with the B25 connection in the building is that even though it says its connected the data slows to a standstill or non-existent while in the center of my work building even though it says connected. That is why I wish the Magic Box would lock onto the B25 band instead of B41, because either something is wrong with my Magicbox or something is wrong with the tower the B41 is coming off of with those upload speeds and Ping values. If the Magic Box could transmit the B25 signal into the building since it has a better speed and connection I could get more access to data within the middle of my building which initially was the whole reason for getting the Magic Box to begin with. When I'm in my office by the window I never had issues with LTE begin with well except that B25 slows to a crawl from about 3pm-6pm (rush hour time frame) and the tower is oversaturated.

Ok I have a question and I don't see how I can search the actual thread for the answer. I had a Magic Box Gen2 at my work. It never really helped that much as my office by the window and my phone preferred to just sit B25 signal it got rather than the B41 signal from the magic box. Of course in the middle of the building it didn't really help either. I only had a Good signal though. I got a Gen3 box and gave my Gen2 to my wife for her work, and I put it in a better signal location where it says Excellent, but still my phone would rather stay on my B25 signal than change over to the magic box. When I force it do so the ping is 200-500ms in most speed test checks and while I might get some decent speeds in some of those speed tests the phone is sluggish due to the latency. So I have a couple of questions. 1) Will the Magic Box ever support bands other than B41 like B25? 2) Is there any hope to make my Magic Box experience any better than it is now? I'm in the Atlanta metro area, and I have had some pretty horrible oversaturation issues with Sprint for the better part of the last 2-3 years. Slow speeds and when it is really jammed no internet at all. I am starting to worry when they switch on VoLTE how many bad dropped calls there are going to be based on my internet experience. If it wasn't tremendously cheaper to be on sprint I already would have moved to another carrier. The price is what keeps me with them.