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I looked into this further, and realized there were more issues than I initially remembered. It's not "many devices", it's "all devices" that experience these problems. Android does not initialize the SD card early enough in the boot process in order for the auto-start trigger to work. Also, if the card becomes unavailable while the app is running (either physically removed or unmounted, like when making a USB connection to a computer), the widget will disappear until next reboot, the service will be killed off and won't restart, and database corruption could result. It's too many potential headaches for me to allow.. sorry!

Mike,

 

Thanks for looking into it.  It sounds like it would require a built-in delay if the system was just started or something.  That seems odd that Android tries to auto-start apps on the SD card before the SD card is initialized.  Maybe at some time in the future we can get this feature working.  Of course not everyone has an underpowered, cheap, low RAM tablet like mine that requires them to move everything they can to the SD card.

 

Steve

Any chance you could set the property on SignalCheck to allow it to be moved to an SD card?  This is one of only 14 apps on my tablet that cannot be migrated to the SD card.

My case is a Mophie JuicePack which is quite bulky.  I only put the case on when I think I will be using my phone heavily and will be at risk of running the battery to zero.  Otherwise I keep my iphone naked other than a screen protector and in my pocket with the screen facing me.  If I bump my pocket on something, it is the back of the phone that is impacted and not the screen.  The only risk that I face from this is the possibility of dropping it.

 

I have a charger in my car, at work on my desk, and at home so in normal daily use I am fine without a case.  Very little chance of breaking my phone since I have a job that does not put my phone at risk.  If I am traveling or will be away from my normal daily locations for any significant period of time, I put it in the charger case.  This makes the charger case last longer.

Title pretty much says it all. I'm seeing this pop up on tech sites, so I guess it's news. Not really much of a surprise right?

 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-shutter-wimax-network-end-2015-will-turn-least-6000-clearwire-sites/2014-04-07#ixzz2yDrvb6bw

 

 

 

Anybody know how many wimax devices are still out there?  I know I have one that's still on an active line. 

Freedompop is still selling wimax devices.  I have one from them.

I had been experiencing a problem where my Iphone 5S would suddenly change to the wrong time for the past month.  I narrowed the issue down to my house as it did not occur when I was away from home and only occurred if I had my phone set to get its time automatically from the network.

 

I finally determined that if my phone connected to my Airvana, my phone time would change to one hour off.  If I unplugged my Airvana, the time would go back to the normal time and my phone would go back to 1 bar signal strength.

 

I called Sprint a couple days ago and had a long discussion with Airvana technical support.  They tried about a dozen different things to fix it and finally pulled in someone who was working some other customers on the same issue.  They agreed to push an update to my Airvana.  It now has the correct time and has been fine for the past 2 days at my home.

 

If you have the wrong time on your phone check if it is being caused by your Airvana.  If it is, call Sprint and have the update sent to it.

Happy Birthday Robert!  We all hope you have many more.

Sprint seems to have some widespread Daylight Saving Time bugs in their NV deployments.  Several of us have experienced the 1 hour off time when your phone is set to acquire time automatically from the network.  It seems to have started with the "Spring Forward" a few weeks ago.  It is possible that the 3G/1x connection that you are moving back to when talking on the telephone has a different time than the LTE network that you are normally on due to this bug.  If your time is off and the tower and band you are on has been accepted, you should contact Sprint so they can fix the automatic time in that area.

I was in Myrtle Beach about two weeks ago and compared to a year ago when I was there the coverage was incredible.  People with me had AT&T and spent most of the time with either one bar or no signal at all.  That is the way Sprint was a year ago.  This time, I had LTE and at least two bars and often four or five bars with very usable speeds while my AT&T friends complained about not even being able to send a text message or load Facebook.

So if I read this properly, T-Mobile customers may soon be able to roam on Sprint towers if they follow through with this.  That is an interesting alternative to merging the companies.  I wonder if next, T-Mobile and Dish will sell their towers and bandwidth to Sprint in exchange for a roaming agreement and tower build-out plan.  You will have Sprint, T-Mobile and Dish and others using Sprint nationwide towers with all the companies combined bands running on them.

 

Sounds like this could be major game changer.

The problem is not unlimited data.  It is Sprint's network management not throttling users who are using so much data at a time that other users are starved for bandwidth.  Throttling of heavy users on towers that are overloaded at that time will solve most problems that heavy users cause. 

 

When the tower is overloaded on a particular band and those users cannot be shifted to another tower or another band:  Find the top 10 percentile data volume users in the past several minutes and throttle them to a lower speed.  If the tower is still overloaded after one minute, do it again. 

 

Eventually the heaviest consumers of data during that time will free up enough bandwidth that everyone will have a satisfactory experience. Heavy consumers of data can continue to be heavy users at a lower speed.  Tower overloads would be short lived as each tower would automatically shift users to other towers or bands and would reduce heavy user max bandwidth.

For the three prepaid brands, Sprint could license New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle."

 

I am mobile, so somebody else post the video.

 

AJ

For you AJ.

Throttling is almost always preferred by customers over cutting people off when they go over their cap.  At least this still allows the phone to be used with small amounts of data.  Sprint should really throttle any user with a high amount of usage if the tower they are on is running at capacity at that time.

I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing their phones jumping between daylight savings time and standard time since Sunday because my iPhone has been switching at least a couple times a day mostly when I'm using Sprints data 3G and now LTE. Is this a network problem or something with my phone? I don't really mind but it's kinda annoying to keep switching it to the correct time.

My Iphone switched to the wrong time overnight.  I woke up this morning and looked at the clock and tried to figure out what was going on as the clock was one hour behind.  It confused me for a while until I realized that the timezone had changed automatically.  I manually set the timezone and all is fine now.  If I change it back to "Set Automatically", it changes within 5 minutes to the time before the "Spring Forward" and shows GMT+6 rather than Chicago time.  Either Sprint's NV infrastructure is experiencing a Daylight Saving Time bug or Apple's IOS has a bug.

Some executives specialize in expanding companies.  Some are turn-around experts and specialize in downsizing, rightsizing and re-organizing the organization.  Some excel at setting up companies to be agile, quick decision making machines.  Some are great at making the shareholders feel warm and fuzzy.  Some are great at tracking the financials and generating return on investment.  Some are very good at managing people, retaining talent, hiring new talent.

 

There are all kinds of executives at companies that are spectacular at their jobs until the organization changes and they get a different role.  Then what they are good at may no longer be what the company needs.  The choice then is to let them work in an area that sets them up for failure and hurts the company at the same time, wait for them to learn their new job, or to replace them with a different specialist who is good at what the company needs now.

 

Two reasons why executives get paid so highly:  1) There are not many people available who can do what they do.  Decision makers for billion dollar companies are not sitting around at the unemployment office or reading the classified ads looking for work.  Try making complex million dollar decisions all day every day with a bewildering amount of information quickly thrown at you and see how your stress levels work out.  2) People of that level are always at risk of being unemployed if the organization changes or even sometimes by doing their job.  A turn-around specialist has no use in a company after he has already turned the company around.

 

I suspect that these individuals who are being "let go" from Sprint were good at something other than what Spring needs now. 

 

Maybe this will stop the behavior where Sprint spent a fortune blanketing the airwaves for the "New Sprint Network" in Chicago when at that same time, data did not work at all in the downtown area because of spectrum capacity and hand-offs of voice calls between towers in the suburbs were still dropping calls.  Many people in Chicago joined Sprint based on the marketing, found that the "New Sprint Network" did not work for them where they needed it to work and returned to the Sprint store to demand their money back never to return.  That marketing decision alone should have got some people fired.

All network connections are throttled when they are maxed out.  They only allow the maximum amount of data that can fit through all the parts of the network that the data is attempting to travel through.  Excess traffic is rejected and backs off to try again later.  This causes slowdowns. 

 

The problem is that when the back haul or wireless bandwidth is all in use, the users that are consuming the most get backed off a little and those who are using very little bandwidth are backed off by roughly the same amount.  The net effect is those users who are using very little bandwidth appear to have their speeds cut to very slow speeds until the network adjusts.  If for example a user is streaming Netflix at 4MB/s and the network connection saturates, Netflix will attempt to continue sending data at 4MB/s until it realizes that it has to slow down.  Meanwhile a user attempting to view a simple webpage will request the page and the page contents get caught up in the 4MB/s Netflix data trying to get through a network connection that cannot handle it all.

 

There are solutions to this problem that most providers of network services use, they are generally quality of service, traffic priority levels, bandwidth limits and bandwidth caps.  You can see this in effect on a Sprint site that is slow, sometimes you can still stream Pandora over it.  This is because on some sites, streaming audio appears to be prioritized over users accessing web pages.  Sprint is likely testing bandwidth limits on streaming video on some sites.  We shall see what other parts of this Sprint uses to manage their maxed out sites.

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I ended up only getting an Associates degree for Web and Software development. Graduated last spring (went after many (fun but wasteful) years off. Was easy as hell to find a job in my area. After 7 months at my first place of employment, I ended up getting an offer at the University of Wisconsin - Madison as a PeopleSoft developer.

 

In my opinion (in IT, at this moment) an Associates is plenty to get yourself in the door at a reputable employer. I may take advantage of the 100% tuition reimbursment to persue my Bachelors down the road (I started off at UW - Madison and have all of my gen eds done. I just switched majors a ton and wanted to get the hands on experience of a Technical college to make sure it was something I could do for the next 30+ years.)

 

Bachelors of course will probably pay out more over your lifetime. But, I have found numerous employers around here that prefer 2-year degrees because it is MUCH more hands on.

I wont hire anyone that doesn't have at least a bachelors degree and at least 5 years experience. My department does hire people that have military experience rather than a bachelors degree but they must also have non-military experience.

 

In my many years experience in the computer field, I have found that an associates degree counts about the same as a certificate for the higher level jobs, meaning you won't qualify. The HR department at most major corporations will throw away your resume if you don't have either the appropriate amount of education or the equivalent experience. Without a bachelors degree or equivalent experience you certainly won't be working for someone like me. My HR department checks on education and experience before any prospects ever make it to an interview and removes those who do not have the appropriate education and experience.

 

My advice: Get your bachelors degree as soon as possible to make the most of your career.

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can anyone tell me what the brown dots on the nv map are?

Sites that have not been accepted as completed for any NV technology yet.  They may be in the middle of being rebuilt or may not have started their Network Vision rebuild yet.

I have seen this over and over again in articles and in commercials.  They are deliberately using a sprint map from what appears to be early 2013 to show poor coverage.  The other carrier maps are also likely from a similar earlier point in time where the company the commercial is about looks the most favorable and their competitors look the weakest.  While I do not think this is necessarily intentional by article writers referencing this information, it almost certainly is intentional in the commercials as this is a common commercial tactic to make yourself look better than your competitors.  The information is not slander as it was factually correct as of the point in time the data is from and the commercials likely display the point in time in fine print somewhere.

 

The article writers are likely using the commercials as their source.  The point of writing some of these articles is to compare and contrast the different companies and their coverage.  Why do research when it already has been done for you?  It would be good to set the record straight by giving the true current story some publicity.    I think many people would be shocked by these maps and the improvement that Sprint has gone through.  I would like to see the 3G maps displayed as well as they show the current voice coverage and areas where you can get slower data but still have full use of your mobile device.

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