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  1. ingenium
    Wow you must not take many pictures or videos. I have 35GB just from my vacation in January. Thankfully Google gives free unlimited original backups for Pixel owners (I refuse to use the "high quality" option). I long ago maxed out my free Dropbox storage and had to stop using their auto backup feature. On Android, all the meta data is preserved. I assume the same is true on iOS. The photos will also show up in Drive, which makes downloading the originals easy. It might be worth paying $2 for 100GB of drive storage for a month and using Google Photos to back them up in original quality. Then retrieve them with Drive or downloading them from Google Photos directly. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    I linked my account a while ago. I'm not sure if I got any bonus miles at sign up, but I definitely get miles added to my account each month from Sprint. Actually, considering that I currently have 44,000 miles, and only made 2 2,200 mile flights with AA in the last several years, it must have given me a bonus. Woo hoo, I have (almost?) enough for a free cross country flight I think! Edit: I'll note I did it before the new streaming throttling took effect, and I'm on an older plan. The current page makes it sound like it opts you into the "optimization". I'll also note that I wasn't a new customer at a time (16 year customer), so I have no idea how I got the extra miles. Either way, I'm not complaining. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    In Pittsburgh, PA, Verizon's band 2 is sometimes sector 13. From Cell Mapper: What's interesting is they did a spectrum swap with ATT to get 10 MHz contiguous, and moved the location of their 5x5 B2 carrier accordingly. It seems they also changed the sector ID as well. In this case, Verizon's sector 14 is from pre swap, and 13 is from post swap. On the periphery of the market they expanded to a full 10x10, but within the city limits according to my SDR they still have 2 CDMA carriers in the other half of their 10x10 chunk. When they have a 10x10 deployed, 14 is a sector that they're currently using (I last saw it today). Sent from my Pixel XL
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    It's surprising they would do this. LTE I believe would clobber CDMA if they're nearby and overlap, so I doubt they have any CDMA left in that other 5x5 chunk. How much PCS in addition to the G block do they own? It's possible they refarmed some CDMA and haven't changed the other sites' config yet. In Pittsburgh, Verizon runs 10x10 on B2 (PCS) in the suburbs, but in the city it's only 5x5 because according to my spectrum analyzer they still have 2 CDMA carriers on air (downtown vs Homestead if anyone is curious). So I guess that's a far enough distance, being several miles. If the distance is enough at Disney, it's possible there are still some CDMA carriers on air in that spectrum. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    How does the earfcn of 41176 fit with the other B41 carriers in the market? What do the first 3 carriers use? Sent from my Pixel XL
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    I could confirmed the March update didn't do it. Minor build number, identical modem (sumchecks match), and tested with NSG. Only 2xCA. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    It's a known issue, exacerbated I think by Android 7. The cold temperature results in the battery voltage dropping, which the phone misinterprets as the battery about to die. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    Yup, I had B26 when I was in Phoenix near the airport. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    Does the FiOS discount also apply to multi line accounts? Sent from my Pixel XL
  10. ingenium
    That's possible. The phone in question though is on Android 5. The new APIs were introduced in android 7 I believe (could have been 6 though) Sent from my Pixel XL
  11. ingenium
    Framily could get down to like $37 per line (maybe it was $45 or $50 or so with unlimited) if you had 7 or more people (found easily through reddit). Sprint's unlimited promo they ran last year with the 4th line free (without expiration) was a bit cheaper, at $37.50 per line ($150 total) before taxes and fees, and has no throttling other than deprioritization after 23GB, plus 3GB of hotspot. That's still the best plan for a group of 4 that I've seen on Sprint, and I think is cheaper than ED1500 once you add in phone payments. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    I think Verizon has very few resources left for CDMA. Chances are the carriers they have running are just over capacity. "Normal" users never use CDMA anymore, so it's been left to rot. Wouldn't be surprised if there was just a single 1x and a single EVDO carrier. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    Not SF! Spectrum squatters preventing it. They shifted the earfcns a bit, but they still can't get another carrier on the air. As soon as you're outside of that license (fringe of the market) you see the third carrier. Sent from my Pixel XL
  14. ingenium
    I assume global roaming, since they said throttled to 64 kbps as expected. From my experience, 64 kbps is just too low and I just opt for Open World and pay the roaming fees if applicable. Most of the time traveling, if you're not streaming or anything (ie casual usage, looking things up, Uber, sending/posting the occasional picture, etc), it's under 1GB used for a couple weeks. Well worth it for the convenience of fast data and better battery life (radio goes to sleep faster) in my opinion. If I intend to use more than 1GB, I just get a local SIM. But even in those cases where I had 5-10GB, I was rarely able to use more than 1-2GB. It just comes down to how long you'll be in the country (and how much data you'll use), how much of a pain it is to get a local SIM, and how much a prepaid plan costs. For a prepaid local SIM, once you factor in the SIM and minimum data bucket over 1GB, it's like $15-$30 anyway (but you probably get like 5GB of data). I'll also note that for some countries, there's value in being able to change carriers at a whim using Open World vs a local SIM. In Peru for example, everyone roams on Movistar, which has great coverage. However, since everyone roams on them, in tourist areas it was unusable. So then I'd switch to another Sprint roaming provider (Entel / Nextel) and have fast speeds. When I needed coverage, I'd swap back to Movistar. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    I think what a lot of apps do is use the permissions all right away, so the user gets all the prompts at once. Not sure if that helps you at all...But maybe make dummy requests for the permission the first time the app is launched just to trigger the prompts. And if they deny any, just have the app close. Then request them again upon next launch (I think that's the default behavior actually). That way you don't have to change anything else in the app to handle scenarios where a permission is denied. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    For what it's worth, it appears Sprint has finally or is in the final stages of converting the Clear small cells in SF to B41. Seemingly using Nokia pico cells, with existing antennas and enclosures. 2 carriers. We've found 25 or so so far from logs. The original density was insane in some residential areas, and they seem to have eliminated a decent number of them (according to other Sources on where small cells are/will be placed). These are in neighborhoods that are awful for Sprint, barely even any 1x coverage. But also all highly residential, very NIMBY. So it doesn't help for most of the city and the congestion issues there. They haven't even rolled out the third carrier yet due to a spectrum squatter right in the middle of the B41 allocation. Sent from my Pixel XL
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    I think the 6P images have been released? Sent from my Pixel XL
  18. ingenium
    Btw they've started the conversion of Clear small cells in SF following a similar pattern as NYC. Reusing existing antennas and enclosures. Seemingly using Nokia pico cells. 2 carriers. More info and pics in the SF NV 2.0 thread. Unfortunately it's using the same GCI pool as the mini macro conversions, so the only way to identify them is sequential GCIs both have 31 endings. Sent from my Pixel XL
  19. ingenium
    Some people I'm with have T-Mobile and they are roaming in Movistar with HSPA as well. I've found movistar to be hit and miss. Some areas they're completely saturated, so I forced my phone to Entel instead and it's much faster, albeit less coverage. When I need coverage I set it back to automatic and it switches to Movistar eventually. Oddly, Movistar shows as LTEVUELA on my phone, but SCP and every other app shows it as Movistar. Both are listed though under networks. RCS is working for me on both Entel and Movistar. I haven't tested Viettel yet (it didn't let me connect to the network when I tried once, but it's an approved roaming partner. Will try again later), but I assume it works there too. Sent from my Pixel XL
  20. ingenium
    I can confirm that RCS works while roaming via Open World. The other person was also roaming on the same carrier (Movistar Peru) Sent from my Pixel XL
  21. ingenium
    When they setup COWs in SF for the Superbowl, they went online about 3 weeks before the event, then they disappeared a few days after. Sent from my Pixel XL
  22. ingenium
    Do you know if the 3xCA it shows is actually using all 3 carriers? The fields are populated, which is a big step. The question is is the third being used... NSG would show throughput on each carrier if you're rooted and did a speed test. Sent from my Pixel XL
  23. ingenium
    You say international changes only. Is there just CDMA international roaming? Or does it also affect GSM international roaming? Sent from my Pixel XL
  24. ingenium
    Depends on the market... In Pittsburgh city pretty much all sites have B41. In SF as well, but there are some straggler sites, likely permit reasons (stealth sites on historic landmarks). Sent from my Pixel XL
  25. ingenium
    It just depends if your site spacing allows the majority of users to be on B41. HPUE and small cells will help, if any are planned for your market. HPUE at least won't cost Sprint anything and will be available immediately to capable devices (new currently unlaunched devices). Sent from my Pixel XL
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