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Has anyone ever had an issue where people just cannot hear you for the first 5 seconds of a call? Any ideas what could cause that? It's been happening since I got the phone in January, and on various towers in the Chicagoland area. It's getting annoying. I'm wondering if it's a setting, or if my phone has an issue.

Only on Bluetooth

I'm seeing a lot more B41 pop up around me, but it seems to be using legacy backhaul. I'm in a Clear market, so I'm not surprised.

Android supports IMS... I wonder if Sprint can't just use that for wifi calling on the rest of the devices without requiring a firmware update.

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I think triband devices switch back and forth for 1x and EVDO when they are not connected to LTE.

Snookie? The birthplace of baseball, Frank Sinatra, and everything that is good, and all this artist noted for Jersey was Snookie??

It does say "Scariest Things," not cool things.

Well there is a Duluth, GA just north of Atlanta. You summer in one and winter in the other easily and never have to worry about the name of your town.

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It's nice that Sprint is bringing back the 30-day guarantee.

What I can't decide is if this really is a cringe-worthy event, or if the Phonescoop liveblogger doesn't like Sprint, or is just bad at liveblogging.

If your a premier sponsor have a look at this post. If not hang on a little longer, good things come to the patient/

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5107-lte-800-band-26-sites-accepted-discussion/?p=330345

I'm not... Yet

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Just to add onto that, I've got B26 LTE all around me, but the antennas are not aimed correctly. I actually get a higher RSRP on B25 and B41 LTE inside my house than I do on B26.

Regarding carrier aggregation, milan03 had a great point a few months ago.  Understand that Category 3 LTE basebands do not support greater than 20 MHz FDD/TDD at a time.  AT&T carrier aggregation is pairing two 5/10 MHz FDD carriers, so it is not exceeding the 20 MHz limitation.  Sprint Spark carrier aggregation will pair multiple 20 MHz TDD carriers, so it must wait for higher category basebands from Qualcomm.  And I do not recall if those are available for the LG G3.

 

AJ

While that's true, could they not aggregate B25 and B26 to have 10Mhz and 8Mhz FDD?

I am sorry, but that is ridiculous. Why would anyone install an app like that on a smartphone? A Wi-Fi tablet? Sure. A smartphone on an "unlimited" data plan? Hell no.

 

I know I will take heat for this, but I do not care. Some of you guys need to get a grip on your smartphone usage. It does not need to satisfy all your waking needs for phone, laptop, TV, Walkman, gaming system, camera, e-penis, and e-vagina all rolled into one.

 

This is why we really cannot have "unlimited" data...

 

AJ

Android has an option to not install updates over mobile networks. Large apps won't update unless you're on wifi.

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A little bird told me of an even bigger announcement come mid summer that many have wanted for over a decade.

 

Hmm, perhaps an expansion of their WiFi calling beyond the few phones that offer it now...

Yeah, one thing Sprint really needs to do is train the frontline CSRs better in regards to issues like this.

 

Simply using the Network Pinpoint tool and marking a location as having issues making and receiving calls will flag it for the network engineers. It takes literally 30 seconds to do so. This does not "open a ticket" though, it just flags the location. If there are multiple flags in an area it gets tagged by a backend script for further investigation.

 

My suggestion is to have the CSR pinpoint the location and flag it for all of your lines that are having issues. I specify only the ones having issues because if it gets flagged for a single band device in addition to tri-band devices the script may tag it for a potentially different issue than eCSFB for example.

 

The system works if CSRs use it. And it works with faster results compared to the old "ticket" system in my experience before I was laid off.

Do the chat CSRs have access to the Network Pinpoint tool?

I think I'm just going to hang out on .15 until I stop seeing sites around me that report "telephone calls unavailable" in SignalCheck Pro. There are a few places I go that are more NV complete than my home, and so far flashing .13 before I head there has given me good results. Texas Motor Speedway and Lakeview, TX on .13 are pretty great. So is Saginaw.

Looks like I can get it for mine, but only with a new line =-/. It would have been nice to save $20/month. $40 if they give you free data for both lines.

What other companies is this good for?

Has anyone successfully had a sprint spark connection and experienced spark speeds yet on a nexus 5?

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No band 26 in the normal places I had it with the .15 radio. I did get band 41 while out and then a -122 signal at home that still pulled ~5/.5Mbps.

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Alright, we need to put a stop to this.  You can "pull it" in private all you want.  But if you "pull it" when you quote someone in this thread and then post it, well, that is messed up.

 

AJ

hey now he didn't pull it he only posted it!

Hey, now, I pulled it when I quoted him, then I posted it.

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First person to pull and post the update gets the respect of his peers!

 

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The update.

Instant messaging

I've gotten over $500 worth of stuff in the last year from beta testing. The stuff I can talk about -- because the test is over and I'm not under the NDA's anymore -- is a Roku box (streaming netflix, hulu, etc), a AV500 powerline adapter w/gigabit, a wifi powerline adapter that doubles as a wifi extender, a wifi range extender that works better than my Ubiquiti Nano Loco M2, and most recently, an AC1750 DSL Modem/Wireless router combo. For doing the tests, the devices were mine to keep and use as I want (or sell). I just keep them all..that last test, the AC1750 router/modem is a $130 value by itself (or more). Since its also the latest in wifi with the AC standard, I'm using it until it blows up.

Same url?

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Where do you sign up for these phone betas?

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If you have the Franco kernel loaded you don't have to do that boot from kernel step.

What about Faux kernel?

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