anthony.spina97

"Cellular Info" is a short, simple name that comes to mind. -Anthony

Making the backup is only for if there is a problem with the downgrade process and you for some reason need to restore your phone, which in that case, you would restore back to 8.1.3 and you can use whatever backup you have on iCloud. I only mentioned the whole "backup not being compatible with an old iOS version) because if you wanted to do a RESTORE to 8.1.2 rather than an UPDATE to 8.1.2 from 8.1.3, you wouldn't be able to then use an 8.1.3 backup to restore all your apps and settings. When you downgrade to 8.1.2 (which you have to do on a computer through iTunes), and if it's successful, you can then perform a backup from 8.1.2 to iCloud so that your 8.1.3 backup on iCloud will be overridden by the new 8.1.2 backup, and you will then be able to use that backup on any 8.1.2 and higher device. -Anthony

We already have a thread for it in the Premier Sponsors section, which nahum is not. Hopefully we can get him there, though. -Anthony

If you restore, yes you lose all of your data. But if you do shift+update, you don't lose any of your data. Plus, if you do a backup on 8.1.3 and restore to 8.1.2 and try to use your backup, you won't be able to use it because it will be for a newer iOS version which can't be used on 8.1.2. I just did the shift+update to go from 8.1.3 to 8.1.2 a couple of hours ago, and it was successful. -Anthony

You are correct. Cell ID is only for LTE. That is what he was talking about when he said Tower ID, he was talking about the LTE sector's GCI. It should come up as a decimal, and it can be converted to hexadecimal for the proper GCI. -Anthony

That's exactly what I did about 2 hours ago. All you have to do is download the firmware for your device and do shift+update in iTunes, no restore required. Do it quick though! Apple may stop signing 8.1.2 soon. -Anthony

You mean the GCI? On the iPhone, it's just a decimal to hex conversion, so if he is able to get his program to see the ID, then I'm sure it wouldn't be terribly hard to implement that feature into it. -Anthony

NO STOP IT OMG! Sorry, my extreme nerdyness came out right there. You are forever know as "nahum the iOS Signal Check guy" -Anthony Edit: By the way, if you would like someone to help beta test it, you've got a willing participant right here

Maybe Sprint will have COW's deployed with 8T8R equipment on them? Unless that's not a thing... -Anthony

Oh no! I'm getting close to the bottom! That means it's time for a donation soon... -Anthony

Hmmm... Interesting... -Anthony

Looks interesting! When can I buy one? I kid, I kid. -Anthony

My Dad has never been a warranty guy for all of his life, but when the iPhone 4S came out and he decided to go Apple, the guy at the Sprint store pitched the idea of AppleCare+ to him. We have, up to now, owned AppleCare+ on every Apple product we have bought since then (3 iPhone 4S's, 1 iPhone 5, 3 iPhone 5s's, 1 iPad Air, and now 1 iPhone 6+). You're really spending more money NOT to get it, because a repair from Apple can cost upwards of 200 bucks, whereas you could just get a new phone for free or the $79 deductible with AppleCare. -Anthony

Not necessarily. LTE is more fragile than 1x/EVDO, and in some places, EVDO may still reach further than Band 26, even when properly tuned. -Anthony

Yes. There has been a jailbreak for every version of iOS 8 pretty much since the version came out. -Anthony

Zepplin, if my memory serves me right. -Anthony

I feel like the biggest reason they are in talks with Sprint and T-Mobile is because they are the only ones that won't charge Goolgle out the wazoo for service. -Anthony

We're on Framily with 3 smartphones, all paid off and with unlimited data, a tablet with 2 GB of data, and an airave. We pay about 170 a month (we have 6 people on our framily). -Anthony

You're a premier sponsor, you know how widely deployed band 26 is. I'm not sure what exactly makes you think that Sprint hasn't kicked Band 26 deployments into high gear... -Anthony

Actually, that semi-proves nothing. You are just assuming facts not in evidence. There has been no hint that shows that Spark deployment has slowed in anyway, shape, or form. They more than likely found ways to cut costs in the deployment of Spark, not by slowing down it's deployment. It wouldn't make any sense to slow down the Spark roll out. -Anthony

He's probably talking about when Sprint stated they were changing their focus on how they deploy Spark (in that they will move from deploying to every site, everywhere, to doing it to the sites that need it first and the rest of the sites afterward). In which case his statement is still incorrect, because they haven't slowed down deployment, they have just refocused how they're rolling it out. -Anthony

Went to the Apple Store Saturday morning with my Dad to get him a new phone. He upgraded from his Space Grey 64 GB Sprint 5S to a Space Grey 128 GB Sim-Free 6 Plus. Had to get a new SIM card from the Sprint store though, because for whatever reason the network wouldn't let him activate his phone with his old SIM. It's been working great since! When we got it home and restored it through iTunes it came up and said "Congratulations, your iPhone is now unlocked!" when the phone booted into iTunes. Bet you never thought you'd see that coming from an iPhone that was activated on Sprint, did ya? -Anthony

I was under the impression that if you buy a subsidized device on one of the newer plans that you have to pay the $15 fee for having a subsidized device. If that is the case, it's not a penalty, and therefore it should be factored in. -Anthony

If you're on a newer Sprint plan, you also have to factor in the $15 per month service charge for having a subsidized device. That makes it much more expensive to go with a contract rather than a lease. -Anthony

Those appear to be 8t8r antennas, not Clearwire. -Anthony Edit: Fraydog beat me to it