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Software. Of course, backhaul has to be up to par, or speeds won't increase that much, but it will improve capacity.

Really? There's no new carrier card or anything? So basically the only thing holding back non-Clearwire B41 sites from having a second carrier is insufficient backhaul?

 

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Tapping a new voicemail notification will bring you right to that tab. Whats strange is that if I delete the message within the dialer it is still sitting in the inbox of the google voice app. not a huge deal but i hope they expire off after 30 days like they do in the trash can.

For me they're very delayed. A new voicemail won't appear for several hours to a day after the fact. Sometimes even after marking it as read in Google voice and hangouts it still shows up hours later and I have to mark it read there as well.

 

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If you go to sprint.com/international Sprint has recently added international coverage maps. You can see areas of no coverage, areas where you'll be covered by Open World & Global Roaming coverage (light green and dark green) and areas where you'll be charged ($$$$) for casual roaming (light and dark purple). This is a very welcome addition!

It looks like it also shows which carrier you'll roam on.

 

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IPv6 was just turned on in San Francisco

 

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Actually, it seems to be phone specific. My Nexus 6P gets an IPv6 address, but my partner's Galaxy S5 does not.

 

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IPv6 was just turned on in San Francisco

 

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The entire Middle East is missing as well. Dubai, UAE etc are still an advantage in T-mobile's program.

Yeah I have a long layover in Dubai in a few months. Would be nice to be able to use my phone while there.

 

I'm guessing that the roaming partners are Softbank's preferred partners? For example, I looked up South Africa, and it looks like Softbank will roam on all their carriers but they charge different rates. Vodacom is the cheapest rate, and seems to be the only one that has what I'm guessing are data packages for purchase ("packet flat rate"). http://mb.softbank.jp/en/global_services/global_roaming/area_id.html?country=6&id=20131004000000440 So I assume this is who Sprint would roam on there?

 

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Interesting. Why doesn't Samsung do its own testing?

 

How about HTC? Does it do its testing in-house or contract out?

 

The HTC M9 as I recall has horrid real-world RF Performance... and they just shipped it anyway?

They almost certainly do their own internal testing during the design of the phone. I work be shocked if they didn't. But their lab likely isn't certified by the FCC and other agencies, so it's easier to use the FCC report for official numbers.

 

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Anyone else notice that the 6P never displays a SNR below 20? I thought it was just broken and always showed 20, but I've occasionally seen higher value.

 

I wonder if that's partially why it shows a much higher signal strength (both the status bar bars and the color in the battery history stats) versus the 6 in the same location, even though the rsrp isn't much different.

 

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Are sprint customers with the nexus 6p going to be able to use LTE roaming? For right now it seems nexus devices arnt supported.

I don't see why Nexus devices wouldn't support it. I'm assuming it's handled completely in the SIM/baseband. It's not like Nexus devices use different SIM cards from other Sprint phones. And the chipsets are the same used in other flagship devices. It seems they would have to intentionally not add or blacklist the devices. I can't see a logical reason for doing that.

 

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Unfortunately, they probably can't standardize testing on iPhones due to compatibility with the testing gear I'd imagine... but using Unlocked iPhone models (especially the 6s with Band 41 CA for Sprint's LTE Plus Network and Band 12 for those T-Mobile people who've been clamoring for it) on all 4 carriers would make the most sense and eliminate any hardware discrepancy at this point going forward.

I believe the iPhone can't run their testing software, I think it's too locked down. I guess they could with jailbroken iPhones though. The Nexus 6P is probably a better phone to standardize on since it supports all bands and CA on all carriers, plus they can use their current testing software.

 

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thanks to the huxley tower being a GMO and providing terrible service to huxley i was able to get connected to USCC LTE today got connected to both B12 and B5 on my Flex 2. sorry no SCP screen shots as it was doing the 1x/LTE bug and if i would have airplane mode i would have lost LTE.

 

 

Interesting, there's no roaming indicator. I thought USCC counted against your roaming bucket?

 

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A remote possibility, albeit one we have to consider, is that some unlocked, third party handsets may not receive all Sprint network features, such as LTE roaming or band 41 2x CA. We certainly have seen some 2x CA concerns among the three unlocked, third party handsets this fall.

 

AJ

I believe the 6p does 2x CA successfully at least. I was able to pull a speed test of 75 mbit on B41, which should be faster than a single carrier can do.

 

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Those who see that a firmware update is available -- ooh, new and shiny, gotta have it -- I just do not understand. In fact, we happen to have a photo of two of those inveterate firmware updaters:

 

 

AJ

It does fix a few bugs actually. Plus the December security patches. I haven't had any issues with 6.0.1 yet other than it doesn't hang onto B41 as strongly and drops to B25/26 quicker.

 

But that's why the first thing I do with a Nexus is unlock the bootloader. If an update causes issues I'll simply download the previous factory image and flash it. Takes 5 minutes and data is left intact if you don't use the included script to flash it.

 

I personally love the monthly updates. It lets us avoid the situation when the Nexus 6 launched and SMS was broken in LTE for 5 months until the first update came out (along with certain GSM/WCDMA networks causing the phone to lock up and require a reboot when handing off between sites).

 

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Just got the 6.0.1 update, my phone is now dropping to 3G in some occasions. Did not have this issue with 6.0.

 

Wondering if the baseband was upgraded.

 

Currently on .2.6.1.c4-00008-M8994FAAAANAZM-1

The radio is different. The versions in the factory images have different file names (2.15 vs 2.50) and different SHA1 sum checks.

 

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Yea. I'll agree that they're overpriced. They are better than average, but what really caught my eye is the volume control.

 

I just don't understand how no one on android world noticed that iPhones all come with headphones with inline volume controls. Is it just a lack of standardization? Anyway, are there any headphones with volume control for the 6p that anyone has found?

I actually asked Bose about it and they said they design them for Apple. I guess Apple has their own way to handle volume control. I'm not sure if stock Android has a method to do it. Samsung I know supports it with their earbuds, but I don't know if it's a different standard than what Apple uses.

 

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Warning: you just got suckered into buying Bose. No, mere consumer, Bose is not the "best." It has not been the best forever, even ever. And Amar now has been dead for two years.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/business/amar-g-bose-acoustic-engineer-and-inventor-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

 

Bose is like Monster Cable.

 

AJ

I did a lot of research before buying them. I know Bose is expensive for the audio quality and would never buy them as regular headphones or speakers. I got them solely for active noise cancellation for flights, since in that aspect they were/are the best on the market. I have a pair of audio technica ath-m50 I use most of the time.

 

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Casting a wide net, but was wondering if the volume control in these Bose headphones works with the 6p:

https://www.bose.com/products/headphones/earphones/soundtrue-ultra-in-ear-headphones-samsung-devices.html

 

The volume control is supposed to work with some Samsung devices, but the compatibility of that is unclear.

I have the Bose QC25 headphones and the volume control does not work with the 6p.

 

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I'd also like to note that calls are SUBSTANTIALLY more clear on the 6P than on my previous 2 phones (Nexus 6 and Galaxy S4). Previously, calls to call centers or automated services were awful and continuously cut out. It was particularly noticeable with hold music. A T-Mobile phone had the exact same issue, so I had assumed it was a voice codec thing where it's overly compressed. These calls are crystal clear now on the 6p.

 

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Sorry if this has been discussed but I couldn't find anything about it. Does the Nexus 6P have wifi calling for Sprint and has anyone tested it out? Thanks

It does not. No Nexus phones do. Sprint uses a proprietary implementation of wifi calling that is not compatible with the version built into stock Android. I doubt an app could be released to enable it since it would require heavy tie in with the OS, so the only way we'd get it is if/when Sprint upgrades their implementation. This will probably happen around the time VoLTE rolls out.

 

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OH MY GOD IT FINALLY HAPPENED

 

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Interesting, it disappears if I pick a device. I guess it's still in the process of being rolled out on the coverage map.

 

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I have both SignalCheck Pro and LTE Discovery on a Nexus 6p. Most of the time they both show the same info. Sometimes they show that I'm connected to different bands.

 

For example today SCP said that I was on B41 while LTE Discovery said that I was on B25.

Last week LTE Discovery said I was on B26 while SCP said I was on B25.

 

Not sure which app is showing the correct data when they disagree. Any suggestions?

Did they show the same GCI? Both apps determine the band based on GCI (to my knowledge anyway), so it could be one of them has an incorrect mapping.

 

As a side note, I've found that the Nexus 6p works much better with SCP than the Nexus 6 post Marshmallow. It's actually usable again for logging, though the 1x + LTE "bug" still occurs, but much less frequently and eventually corrects itself (or airplane mode fixes it immediately).

 

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Moto X Pure, still on 55029 from when I activated the phone. No PRL update option...

 

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If it's stock Android, its under Settings, More (under wireless & networks), cellular networks, carrier settings, update PRL.

 

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So I have experienced B26 for the first time in my life as of like 2 days ago because I am staying at my aunts house in Houston for a thanksgiving family reunion . What I've noticed is that B26 dies when EVDO is still at -98 or so dBm (my aunts house I either get -114 to -118 B26 or EVDO). Is this B26's full potential ot is it just not optimized? I've seen videos of B26 eclipsing the range of EVDO by a lot (

) but my experience just hasn't patched up...Shats going on here?

In my experience that's about where it drops off and goes to 3G.

 

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Just pulled this down on a customers phone at work....really making me want to get a new phone but I don't want to give up my nexus 6 . Anyone have opinions on the g4(can get a decent price on a used one) since it's a CA phone or does anyone know if the 6p supports CA

 

The 6p supports it.

 

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I wonder if this could be an e/CSFB issue. Post Android 5.0, the OS may handle e/CSFB differently. If LTE signal does not drop completely but falls below a threshold for reliable e/CSFB, then the dual CDMA1X and LTE signal display appears. At this point, I am not sure of causation, though I am sure of correlation.

 

One experiment to try is with SMS latency. When the dual CDMA1X and LTE signal display appears, all data still passes via LTE. However, I have noticed that SMS latency is much higher. As I commented to Robert a few weeks ago, I suspect that SMS then is passing over CDMA1X, not LTE. When just LTE, SMS latency is almost instantaneous. You can try the experiment for yourself.

 

AJ

I've also noticed SMS latency increasing on LTE post 6.0 (when the 1x + LTE issue appeared on the Nexus 6).

 

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