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Whose handling memberships now ? I sent in some cash to become a sponsor again.. 

Just drove past the E Broad and Lancaster Ave tower. The crews are out, about 6 guys. The hardware been sitting on the ground since last week. The panels seem prewired and ready to be attached. The top of the tower appears to have new mounting hardware needed for additional panels.

 

Wow, i thought this site would never get done

My iMessage won't activate at all. This thing is making me mad. Grr.

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No issues here .... Hope u get it figured out

I intentionally went into a building and found a place to loose all 1900mhz services. I'm currently in Gatlinburg, TN, which has B26 and 1x800mhz on a few towers that I've come across. So I knew it was available. I had to go really deep into a totally concrete building to get it to happen.

B26 carries really well in comparison to B25 in these parts as does 1x800 compared to 1x1900 RTT.

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I got 1x800 inside meijer grocery store... I made call also.. Perfect clarity

Fishing with Donuts!

 

So I guess the person fishing doesn't like donuts? That's what I always thought was funny about the donut jokes- who the he** doesn't like 'em?

So, I don't know if any of you remember...  But I had to ship my wife's iPhone 6 back to Apple to get the screen replaced.  Instead, they ended up replacing the device and charging the full $299 replacement fee.

 

Well, yesterday I received my invoice for the repair/replacement that stated, "IPHONE 6 REPAIRABLE CH - $299"

 

This of course had me intrigued as to why her phone was replaced instead of repaired if it indeed was repairable.  I then called Apple and spoke to a senior advisor who then also talked to dispatch.  Dispatch told her that they have a new system and maybe all of the kinks aren't worked out yet.  She then told me that she doesn't believe that is a good enough reason to charge me for the full $299 instead of the $109 for the screen repair, so she is going to escalate the matter and try to get me a $190 refund put into my account next week. 

 

I really hope Apple makes this right!  I am sure they will, but the icing on the cake will be that she received a replacement phone so there aren't any scratches or blemishes that had occurred on her previous phone with the shattered screen.  (Oh, and I bought her a case the day we received her replacement!)

 

I would certainly use the $190 to add Applecare+ to both of our devices, so either way Apple gets my money! 

 

For the most part Apple has a good record in manners like this.  I mentioned before both my iPhone 5c and wife iPhone5 being replaced on the spot ( at the Apple store ) under warranty with no charges.. hers for a home button and mine for a screen issue..

Anyone care to share some other good iPhone 6+ forums that cover apps and accessories? I'm going back to iPhone from Android which I have been on since the EVO wimax shipped in 2010.

 

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I can tell you ive aleady downloaded nearly 150 apps on my iPhone 6+ 128GB Gold... and theres more then you'd think that are awesome.. I may never use half of them often.. but its sweet to have alot of options

Useless bitching commence: Why is it that the iPad air 2 is .8 mm smaller than iPhone 6, and yet the camera is safely tucked inside.

 

 

They use different cameras.  Notice that the iPA2 can only do 120fps slomo while the iP6 does 240.  Also the iPA2 stops down to a ƒ/2.4 aperture while the iP6 goes down to ƒ/2.2.

 

It was a necessary design trade-off, allowing better optics into the iPhone 6 over whats in the iPadA2a  Apple likes clean lines in its product designs so you know they really needed that space.

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Wow. Not sure what is happening but I just got my first whiff of 1x800 on the iPhone 6+.

 

My PRL hasn't changed (51102). Strange that we're seeing so many reports of 1x800 on the same day. There might be zero correlation. I'm just glad to see it in the flesh myself.

 

 

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Under what conditions do you feel this happened?

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Pretty good speeds driving between mountains heading to Tennessee.

 

Nice ! Is this Sprint's network or another company on the roaming partners deal ?

 

 

Yes, i know it says "Sprint LTE" at the top of your screen, but I thought it also did ( on my phone ) when I was roaming on that other company's LTE  near WV... the one company that uses the same equipment as Sprint .. ??? cant remember the name.... Arghhh

I have iPhone 6 and was able to capture this screen shot while in field test shortly after airplane mode flicked on/off.

EDIT:  I understand what you're implying now, but when I captured this  similar screen I was not out of airplane mode.  I was driving though an area where traffic was moving 5 mph during rush hour.. I went out of engineering mode.. made a call to see if I could.. went back into engineering where the status had not changed.. there was a "bad value" reading for maybe 5 mins - kept toggling to check...then it simply went to no reading ( it had nothing there ) for several mins.,.If this was a sign of searching I'd think It would go away quick;y and if it didn't - then I wouldnt be able to make a call.... but I had tested this by making a call then again went back to engineering from that after endiing the call..

 

I thought one of the advantages of e/csfb was the ability to use both LTE and make calls on a CDMA network at the same time if implemented by carrier?  I know some are eager for 1x800, but if you're in an area where call quality is mostly superb like where i am - then you're not looking for eagerly for a solution.  Id think in a year when voLTE rolls out it would matter even less.  Plus wi-fi calling ....

 

Is my thinking way off? 

 

 

Either way, I don't understand why the iPhone refuses to use a 1x800 signal.

See post 1204 and post 1210 if you haven't already

I beleive AJ answered this for us a while back and it is believed to be that the iphone (all iterations at have support for 800 1x) due not use CSFB. I am not as technical as him so please forgive me, but he explained that potentially is the reason why the phone does not want to connect. If I remember correctly, once 800 1x is readily available in the whole country, 1900 1x could be swapped for 800 1x.

It seems Aj's theory was incorrect.. The iP6 can connect to it..Read post on previous page: :A user did connect to 1x800 and posted a screen shot on post #1204 and mentioned again at post 1210 that a ATT user next to him had no service where he did have 1x800

I'm not sure. While in Field Test, turn on airplane mode and turn it off, and see if that fixes it.

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Yeah I've already done this... In some areas it won't show me any data tell me if it's pcs or not but usually it'll say pcs or just have nothing listed... Why does my phone say sprint 17. 1 but have no prl code? Does 17. 1 have any benefit

Tapping 'Sprint 17.1' gives lots of goodies.

Please explain... My phone says 17. 1 also and sometimes when I turn off LTE and look for 1x800 it gives no number at all where 800 would be pcs or otherwise... Or says 'bad value'.... What's the deal with 17. 1

I can't wait for apple pay to pave the way for NFC payments.

While many will mention nfc pay has been around 2-3 years -that doesn't matter at all. First, only around 10% of Android users have even tried Google wallet.. Meaning people aren't convinced that using it is good for them and or they don't care... This is good news for anyone entering nfc.. Because there is TONS of room for growth in nfc..

 

Also Google and Apples approach is different... Google in one way has started in essence their own bank which seems threatening to the bigger banking powers while Apple has instead made deals with established powers in a less threatening alliance with the big players... The approach itself could allow growth in areas despite Walmart and best buy pushing their own systems and blackballing Apple pay... Apple has started off with some good partners and big players

Just connected to 1x800 on iPhone 6

iPhone 6

The question is now that the iPhone is getting 1x800.. At what conditions is this going to happen... Where Iam the signal is so good in most areas 1x800 might not be a priority..... Explanations are welcome???

 

Good to see someone just debunked the iPhone 6 can't do it!!

Good camera shootout... Note 4.. Versus:

 

http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-galaxy-note-4-camera-shootout-versus-iphone-6-plus-lg-g3/#ftag=YHF65cbda0

i had asked earlier in the thread as i was hoping it would be better on 1x800 for my wife's sake. In a response to another poster, AJ responded with this

 

based on his response it sounds like because the iphone6 most likely doesn't use eCSFB and is constantly flipping back and forth polling for incoming calls it wouldn't handle switching between 1900 and 800 very well. and since 800 can't be installed everywhere, they had to use 1900.

 

Although I'm not getting 1x800 RTT.. i havent looked much for it in Ohio.. but Im going to make sure.

I thought one of the benefits is faster call connection.. eCSFB performs CS call setup while the UE still camp on LTE. after the UE redirect to legacy CS domain, the UE can start CS communication immediately.. On my iPhone 5c.. and my wife's iPhone 5 often the person calling would hear it ring 3 times on their side before it rang once for the person being called.  It seems like calls are initiating much faster on the iPhone 6, despite supposed lack of eCSFB

 

Not sure whats up.. maybe it wont matter once Sprint VOIP goes online..

 

Seems Marcelo's plan for Sprint will be band 41 8t8r everywhere as the "go to band" once its all online and everything else will be support.  They said they have over 160 Mhz of 2.5 .. so they are massively under-utilizing that so far.. and of course its not ready for prime as they are re-focusing on better experience in some cities:

 

"In the second wave of the Band 41 8T8R deployment attack, Sprint will be “going strong after a few cities...focusing on a few critical markets and deploying an experience that hasn't been seen yet in the U.S.”

 

I like the part, "...deploying an experience that hasn't been seen yet in the U.S."
 

 

 

 

I stopped using swift key because it wouldn't move messages up when I open the keyboard. Otherwise, I would totally make it permanent.

 

Have you tried Swype?

Has anybody had any luck with 1x800 on the new iPhones? I can't say that I've experienced any 1x800mhz on my new iPhone 6+. I saw a ton of 1x800 on my G3.

I really don't understand Apple and Sprint's reluctance to allow a 1x800 connection on the iPhone's.

I don't think Apple has much to do with it... But who knows

Just did another update this morning for SwiftKey... More bug fixed... Can't wait till the iOS update in a week

My phone will just not connect to wifi....I am restoring the phone now and going to update it again back to 8.0.2....This is absurd. That and I keep having the issue where I can not rotate pictures or apps or whatever. 

 

On the wi-fi ..is it a 2ghz channel or 5ghz ?

 

Your issue maybe totally unrelated..

but I asking because I have a dual band Asus router which broadcast 6 ssid's at once.. 3 on 2Ghz and 3 on 5gz... Ive noticed when I go on the higher 5Ghz channels i sometimes have trouble getting those channels - even on my Windows Pc.. If you get the 5Ghz channels the speed are so much better.. so many things interfere with 2Ghz.  I heard some argue that 2ghz goes much further and thats actually part of the problem. I used my Windows pc to see what channels my neighbors are using on their wi-fi so I can put my router on a different channel.  To say this helps my speeds is an understatement..

Sure is nice having the massive free space on this iP6+.. My old iPhone 5c was a 16gb..