anthony.spina97

Tmobile has kicked ass WITHOUT ANY lowband voice or data. I think they'll be just fine.

 

 

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Kicked ass*.

 

 

*In select metros where you either enter a building or drive outside of city limits and you drop to EDGE or No Service

 

-Anthony

I was asking because he said Band 26 was 5 by 5 MHz. I was wondering what the other bands were.

Band 25 is 5x5 and Band 41 is 20 MHz chunks.

 

-Anthony

What MHz are Band 41 and Band 25 at? Also, I thought Sprint had all the 800 LTE.

Band 41 is 2500-2600 MHz, Band 25 is pretty much the entire 1900 MHz PCS band. And Sprint owns all of the SMR/ESMR spectrum, which is what is commonly referred to as 800. The other chunks of 800 MHz spectrum are owned by Verizon and AT&T (and maybe some small regional carriers), and that is commonly referred to as 850 MHz.

 

-Anthony

I don't think I've seen one for the 6+ in person yet. I also had one for my 5s and liked it, even though it was damn near impossible to remove.

 

 

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Oh I remember all too well it's stubbornness about actually being removed from the phone. The 6+'s is much easier. Just gotta know how to remove it. It's a nice case, if you don't mind spending 50 bucks for it.

 

-Anthony

I use the Apple leather case on my 6+. It's solely for adding grip for the phone. Plus, I do really like this case. I had one for my 5s and love how it adds some grip and some nice style to my phone without making it bulky.

 

-Anthony

I did ok today - made it with a full charge and room to spare.

 

I have a job interview at a building with a NV upgraded tower (B26! B41!) about 1/8-1/4 mile away. I can't wait to see what that means for my battery life... I may have a useful device at work after all!

And on today's iPhone 6 Plus battery life screenshot, *drumroll* :

You've got me beat in standby, but my usage wins. And this is with it being in a low-no signal area from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

 

-Anthony

Paid Cydia apps are pirated around 75% of the time, so it's not really worth it. It'll be free.

You could always add an option in the app to allow someone to donate. A lot of Cydia developers do that in their apps.

 

-Anthony

I think I'm in love

 

 

-Anthony

Finally on the 6+ train. Choo choo!

 

-Anthony

Because they are the most organized, have the best team, and the best equipment. Something like that I assume.

 

IIRC, Nokia did a lot of T-Mobiles upgrades. Explains how they got LTE up so quick.

My response to him was simply going to be "Because Nokia..." because that pretty much says it all. Lol.

 

-Anthony

What's the hold up?

 

 

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Ericsson. (more than likely)

 

-Anthony

Has anyone else completely stopped receiving tapatalk notifications? I haven't had a single notification since that update a week or so ago.

 

 

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Yup, same here.

 

-Anthony

The reason that you only see 2 Tx antenna's is because (unless it has changed recently, you would have to have Tim chime in) the 8T8R's aren't operating in 4x2 MIMO yet.

 

-Anthony

So, iOS 8.2 seems to of noticeably improved my battery life on my 5s:

 

 

I would be below 40% more than likely with this kind of usage usually.

 

-Anthony

I'm really only noticing one issue with 8.2 so far: tapping the home button takes like 3 seconds to light up the screen. Anyone else? That's kind of annoying.

 

 

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Mine seems to be instant, so it could be something that is going on with your phone. Have you tried a soft reset?

 

-Anthony

Check the Settings thoroughly. Maybe we missed something.

Just did, and couldn't find anything related. If this isn't an error, then there may be some interesting behind the scenes developments going on...

 

-Anthony

Did you update to 8.2?

Yup!

 

-Anthony

So I was just looking through my usage for my iPhone 5s, and I saw this:

 

 

Which is odd, because it's an iPhone 5s, so I don't have Wifi calling of any sort, or Wifi texting, so this is kind of confusing. Anyone else seeing something like this?

 

-Anthony

The 6's and 6+'s never got it. It was the 5S's that got it, and I had just figured they would have gotten it in the future.

 

-Anthony

What's your carrier listed as on Sprint with 8.2. Still 18.0?

 

 

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Yup. Strangely, my 5S has gone back to PRL 51104 from 55022. Hmm...

 

On the bright side, after 2 weeks of trying, my 5S is finally unlocked by Sprint. I have finally reached the promised land! Now to go sell it so I can get a 6 plus.

 

-Anthony

Just to let you know, the app seems to still work perfectly on iOS 8.2.

 

-Anthony

Oh wow, i thought thought the NV panels had it all. So they have to go back and put more panels up on the sites they already upgraded to NV? Damn.. Is there a time frame for areas where they have to do that?

Yes, they have to deploy extra equipment. A time frame? Well, I would leave that question up to the higher ups on here to answer, as I can't provide an accurate answer to that.

 

-Anthony

I thought the new panels were all in one as in 800/1900/2500. In Tucson almost all of the cell sites are upgraded with the new panels and RRU with most having back haul. Do they have to have to be cleared to use 800 before 2500 can be activated?

No. The orginal Network Vision Panels are 800/1900. Band 41 requires a separate panel, called an 8T8R (8 transmitter, 8 receivers) panel/RRH's. And even though a site may have upgraded backhaul, it may only be sufficent for Band 25 or Band 25/26. Band 41 requires much more backhaul in order to be sufficiently supplied, so although a site may have 25/26, it may not be able to receive Band 41 yet.

 

And to your second question, no, they don't have to be cleared to use 800 before they can use 2500.

 

-Anthony

 

 

Used to have to use an Airave in the house just to hold a phone call, now I've got some freshly tuned Band 26 just cruising along

 

-Anthony

How many cells would a small cell sell if a small cell could sell cells?

 

AJ

A Google search didn't come up with a conclusion to this. There must be a glitch in the matrix.

 

 

-Anthony