Mondays In Flames

Could you please provide me with all your info? I'd like to supply everything to you for the rest of your life. I could retire on just a few customers like you.

I don't understand what you're asking for.

 

-Luis

Are you on Framily? If so, you need to upgrade his data allotment to Unlimited for $20 per month.

Nope. Not on Sprint anymore. I'm on TMO now. I was just making an observation on what seems like an unnecessary fee. If Sprint offer unlimited why would they charge overage fees instead of just bumping you up to the next data tier. Or just you know. not charge it. It doesn't make sense to me.

 

 

-Luis

That hardly covers every T-Mobile market. And it is not usable in many major markets until UHF channel 51 is shut down, which will happen in conjunction with the 600 MHz auction.

 

AJ

Thanks for the info! That makes more sense. I keep reading contradictory information regarding 700MHZ deployment.

 

Also I do wanna point out to another poster regarding this being a patch. I semi agree? It seems like it came out of nowhere but I'm guessing not many people will complain unless they like the whole data bucket sharing thing. I've personally hated sharing data. I'm not a big consumer on average but my father is and I don't want to be penalized because of his fees. Which is strange to me that Sprint is charging overages since they offer unlimited data... Hmmm...

 

 

-Luis

No other operator can come close to AT&T in Miami. AT&T has both Cellular 850 MHz licenses for 50 MHz of contiguous low band spectrum. Plus, it got to cherry pick the best sites or retain all sites from AT&TWS' and BellSouth' two already mature Cellular 850 MHz networks. Competing against that in Miami is just not a fair fight.

 

Going forward, Sprint has the second best spectrum position in Miami, since it has low band spectrum for both CDMA1X and LTE. VZW cannot match that, as it has low band spectrum for only LTE. The same largely holds true for T-Mobile. It has loads of mid to high band spectrum in Miami, but it will not have usable low band spectrum until sometime after the 600 MHz auction -- in other words, it will be a few years. And even then, T-Mobile will never have low band spectrum for W-CDMA, only LTE.

 

AJ

What about the 700MHZ tmo acquired from big red?

 

 

-Luis

2.5GB per person. Feb. 2016, downgrades to 1GB per person. This is the "Pump and Dump" strategy that I've been fearing would come out of the rotting woodwork of T-Mobile.

I don't understand what you mean by pump and dump. Please explain.

 

 

-Luis

You presume wrong. For $25 dollars @ 7+ Framily members, you get 1GB of data. Add $10 dollars you get 3GB's at $15 per GB in overages. $20 dollars Unlimited Data. Not throttling, no slowdowns. Well, unless you're a data hog on one particular cell tower, but once you leave that select tower, to another tower, you're speeds will go back to normal. The throttle doesn't follow you where ever you go.

 

Sprint, if a bit more expensive, offers you the whole enchilada. With comparable coverage to AT&T.

coverage is very varied by location. I can tell you that sprint does not come close to att levels of coverage in Miami. But they are talking about the equivalent for four lines on sprint not 7. You should only compare apples to apples, just got they compared 4 lines for att and big red. Sure the framily is cheaper when you have 7+ but that's not they are taking about. Also this isn't a shot at sprint but at att. They made the chart just for comparisons.

 

 

-Luis

No, sorry. I meant to quote what you quoted. Sorry for the error.

 

Can you post a link to what you quoted?

Alright, no worries. I was just really confused, I never even mentioned Framily! It was actually someone else who I was quoting.

 

At the same time, I don't believe it was meant to misrepresent sprint, but rather state that the data allotment goes down to 4GB, much like how sprint has a 4GB data allotment (I presume).

 

 

-Luis

Why is he insinuating that Sprint's Framily plan is going to stab you in the back like TMO-US's bag of tricks?

 

That's called "misrepresenting facts."

 

Can I file a complaint to the FCC?

What? Who?

 

Me?

 

 

-Luis

And in fine print it says "UPDATE: Brad Molen has spotted some fine print for the new T-Mobile plan — apparently it will only offer 10GB of data for the first 16 months, after which it will go down to 4GB per month, much like Sprint’s “Framily” plan. That said, this still looks like a better deal at $100 per month, even if the 10GB monthly allotment only lasts for a year and four months.

 

 

Legerre, the queen of bullshit.  "Offer ends 9/30/14. Pricing for 4 lines only.10GB data per line/month until 1/2/16; then 1GB data per line.  Taxes & fees addit’l. Visit t-mobile.com for offer and coverage details."

They tacked on an additional 1.5GB of data to their lowest data plans. Is there any movement on the whole Sprint TMO merger?

 

 

-Luis

Mime ghost glass. Hands down best screen protector I've ever owned. There is a huge difference between tempered glass and the plastic film type. A good tempered glass protector (like the ghost glass) will be hardly noticeable as it feels just like the original glass. It is also more resistant to scratches than a plastic film. Clarity is also great and it won't fade/decay as fast.

I had a rather horrible experience with them. I've had to get 3 replacements and all three broke. So my phone is going commando now. Maybe it's just my luck, they were nice when they were still intact.

 

 

-Luis

I just wanna state, that hold music sounds like crap ALL THE TIME. This article is clearly biased and uninformed.

 

/Sarcasm.

 

But it will be nice to test out the VoLTE. I know that TMO has some lag when connecting calls, and I've experienced the same on AT&T. So it would be nice to see if they can fix that.

Not exactly. Just because I see a TV brand on sale constantly on sale for a good price doesn't mean we are trying to move product because they Don't sell. The Xbox at the $449 sale price is a loss leader. They pushed price down to be more competitive. I've seen more people return ps4's than Xbox ones. And we've sold roughly the same either way. I'd go Xbox alone for the controller. The ps4/ps3 controllers are terrible compared to the 360/one controller.

See but that all comes down to personal opinion, and preference. I would never chose a system just because of the controller, or for such a minute detail, that's just insane. The truth is that the sale of the XBONE are lagging, the supply is out there. Almost every store I have called in Miami, they have XBONE in stock, but the PS4 flies off the shelves. Now, every store is different, so I can't say with certainty that is true for all of the US. 

 

Really, the only reason why sales are lagging behind the ps4 is because the initial hardware purchase is $100 more out of the gate, regardless of whatever you get with it.  Consumers will think twice before just dumping an additional $100 just because its an xbox.  Same reason why the ps3 lagged behind the 360 because out of the gate it was $200 more for basically the same thing. But yeah, there are more deals with the xbox because they are simply not selling as well. 

This. I made a point the other day to a friend, who stated that loyalist to the XBox will always get the next gen. I disagreed because it's easy to defect with consoles. Unlike phones where all your content is digital and can be transferred to a newer phone, old games aren't playing on newer consoles. I loved my XB360, I was so ecstatic when I got it. I loved playing Mass Effect on it, but simply because the PS4 has identical hardware for $100 less, I would go with the PS4 over the XBONE.

 

 

-Luis

So speculation there could be a stylus in play!http://www.androidauthority.com/lg-g3-antenna-376836/

This could be the Korean version, since their phones have those antenna's to pick up Digital TV (which sounds pretty awesome to me).

 

 

-Luis

This was a much needed update. I'm glad they finally have started listening to their customers. I haven't used my 360 in months primarily because I needed Gold for so many things. Maybe now their sales won't lag behind PS4's but unfortunately the damage has already been done.

 

Also people saying that the XBONE, has had better deals is primarily because the system does not sell. The retailers are the ones who put the deals up because it is not good for them to have such large stocks. Makes them look bad, desperate times calls for desperate measures.

 

 

-Luis

So whatever issues my phone was having with battery as of two days ago seem to have magically disappeared. Battery is back to normal. Thanks to all who gave me suggestions, maybe something you guys told me to do worked and I just didn't notice!

 

 

-Luis

So I just got back on this thread and have put my phone into Safe Mode to see if it's anything from a third party app.

 

The battery today is even worse than yesterday, one little phone call and 12 minutes of SOT, and the battery is down to 65%. It's not even noon yet. This is killing me slowly. Thankfully I have a cable at work to charge the phone through the computer. But still, w/e the issue is, it's bothering the hell out of me.

 

I'll post an update if I notice anything.

 

 

-Luis

 

P.S. Coincidentally Hangouts got updated as soon as this happened. Three days in a row. 

Has anyone been having battery drain issues as of late? In the past two days, the phone keeps draining when it's idle. I've noticed the biggest culprit is Android OS. Yesterday I had only SOT of 42 minutes, but the battery was at 52% when I left work at 3. Today it's gone from 100% to 80% with SOT of only 16 minutes.

 

I've tried uninstalling any strange applications, but the problem seems to be happening.

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

-Luis

Oh, Florida. You never cease to amaze me. I love all the crazy stories that come out of this state.

 

 

-Luis

As a current TMO, and prior Sprint, customer here are my two cents:

 

I like the fact that I have LTE virtually everywhere I am with TMO, but I dislike the fact that once I'm outside of city limits the coverage does drop, where with Sprint I had coverage well into the everglades. Then again I am largely a city dweller. It's also nice that even when I'm not on LTE, the speeds are consistently great, whereas with Sprint 3G was completely abysmal. Never could load anything, and it was infuriating to pay the $10 premium data fee. While Sprint does have more reliable voice coverage, I find that TMO is adequate, with only two or three dead spots in Miami (where I normally am driving through).

 

Should both companies combine and make one giant, ultimate uncarrier mashup (clusterfuck?) behemoth that can bring down AT&T and Verizon? Sure why not? But I would not like to lose the benefits I currently have with TMO, and pay the higher prices I once did with Sprint. If they can pull it off in a way that is consumer friendly towards both companies customers that would be great. Ultimately, I would love to have Sprints Voice coverage with TMO's fast data.

 

(I hope this post in no way violates the rules, it's a personal opinion)

 

 

-Luis

Hi everyone. Quick question. I searched but didn't find much, but I was wanting to use LTE only (*#*#4636#*#*, Phone, LTE Only), and it does work but on Sprint, it disables 1x and pretends like the phone has no coverage and then does the "Searching for Service" and the battery drains like crazy. Any ideas?

Do you have LTE? When the phone has absolutely no service you can kiss your battery life away. It will drain it extremely fast. If you have LTE available then idk.

 

 

-luis

This is a Asian phone maker who broke off from OPPO. They're not looking moab the American market, they're looking to sell hard in Europe and Asia and if some people in America get it that's just icing on top. You ever seen a OPPO here in America. You barely see Sony phones here and they have some of the best phones out. America is just not the target for OnePlus.

 

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That makes more sense!

 

 

-Luis

They will only accept a limited number of phones that are to be smashed.

 

Some people have smashed some phones already hoping for an invite... Maybe it's me, but I would feel horrible smashing my phones.

 

 

-Luis

I think either this phone will explode, or will silently be digging it's own grave here in the US. By not offering it with any carriers, they are ultimately limiting their exposure to the market. Unfortunately, even though the big 4 have moved towards removing subsidies (to some extent) it's practically impossible to operate like the European markets.

 

It's a nice phone, I'll definitely want to check it out, but they are making a huge mistake by not including CDMA (mostly cause they won't have access to the millions of Verizon customers, also Sprint too )

 

My two cents.

 

 

-Luis

I agree 100% with this comment. My aunt and I both live in NYC but she lives relatively far away from me. She has an iPhone 5S on T-Mobile and I have an M8 on Sprint (obviously). I called her about a week ago and the quality was absolutely some of the worst I have ever heard. And I knew it wasn't coming from my end because when I call my mother on Verizon or my Dad on Sprint, it sounds insanely clear. Calling my Aunt sounded like I was speaking to someone using autotune on the other end. 

 

It's kind of a shame considering both T-Mobile is the only other carrier in NYC to have deployed HD Voice besides Sprint.

I do want to add to this that it seems to be a problem with iPhones and Tmo's network. I call other people on other networks with iPhones, but calling my one friend on Tmo that has an iPhone is horrible. Calling any other N5 sounds amazing, as well as other Android phones on Tmo. When I was on Sprint, I had the same problem with my friend's Tmo iPhone. It seems to be also device specific because it only happened recently with the 5s. Now recently my mother switched over to a Samsung blaze and it sounds horrible too, it could just be the phones themselves at times.

 

My two cents.

 

 

-Luis

No, just flat out no, it's not that.  Sorry to be blunt, but it's Google that sends out the updates, not Sprint.  Sprint has no say in it.  If Sprint didn't want the Spark portion to go out or something, they wouldn't have provided that bit to Google.  They have no say in whether a new upgrade to the OS goes out or not.

Yeah, this makes more sense. Sorry for the ignorance. It's just a little confusing. I understand that Apple sends out updates on their own accord, and I know that the Gnex had problems with Verizon. But hopefully it's exactly what you say!

 

 

-Luis