anthony.spina97

I think my biggest fear with the 6 is that it will have the same signal issues that the HTC One M8 had.

Like what?

 

-Anthony

A few days later, and I am still not seeing any eHRPD. Anthony, are you observing this uptown, or outside of the city somewhere?

In Harrisburg.

 

-Anthony

I keep Bluetooth on all the time for my car, it's easier to leave it on than to turn it on whenever I go out. And my experience running it since Tuesday is about the same. Not much difference better or worse. I've even went though almost every setting to try and optimize the usage as much as possible and not have it fetch or refresh things I don't need.

I thought it may have been the "Raise to Speak" feature, but that seems to have been removed from the Siri panel?

It does appear that the raise to speak feature gas disappeared. I've always had it off so I didn't notice. Hmm..

 

-Anthony

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1410515814.842988.jpg Crazy battery drain in iOS 8 GM. Unplugged around 11:00 because it was at 100%, locked it completely and then went to bed. When my alarm went off I was shocked to see 29%, apparently Siri ran all night long? Yes, I understand it's a beta, just pointing it out. Hope it's worked out by Wednesday.

Well, it actually isn't considered a beta. It's the full version of iOS 8. From what I see, you have 2 problems. 1. You have Bluetooth on, and 2. Like you said, Siri ran all night for whatever reason. Now, you probably have Bluetooth on all the time, if I assume correctly, so lets eliminate that from the equation. If I were you, I would do a soft reset of the device (Home button+Sleep/Wake until the Apple logo comes up) and see if that helps. Could have been a little glitch.

 

I have actually seen much better battery life in 8 GM than I did on Beta 5, so I'm satisfied with it so far.

 

-Anthony

Field test is back to 3.5 inch size in iOS 8 GM. I'm not sure how this happens...

 

-Anthony

Thanks man. I'm sure hoping so. Probably not in Mooresville though.pretty sure the clearwire spectrum is primarily in the Charlotte area. I'm not really familiar with band 26 though. Is that a higher or lower frequency? I just can't figure out that 800mhz here in town. It's everywhere, but not turned on or showing on the maps. I have a hard time thinking they'd come to town, upgrade the towers, then come back later for 800mhz lte. Maybe that's the case though. Who knows.

Band 26 is 800 MHz. So a lower frequency. When they upgraded the towers in our market, certain users of the 800 MHz spectrum that Sprint would use for LTE were still using it, so Sprint had to wait for them to move off of the spectrum in order to deploy it. The equipment was there, but Sprint couldn't turn it on. Now, the people who were using Sprint's spectrum have moved off of it, so Sprint is now deploying 800 MHz LTE in NC. Deploying 800 LTE is very easy compared to upgrading the tower. It consists of going to the site, installing something called a Carrier Card in the Base Station, and pretty much flipping the switch. That's the simplest way I can explain it.

 

-Anthony

Agreed. I only ask because in up in the air as to whether any thing would improve in the area. Woukd the new bands in the new iPhone potential help? I thought it would only help me pick up spark. They was an enormous amount of Nextel spectrum here in Iredell, because the sherries department used it.

The new bands in the iPhone 6 will allow us to connect to Spark (LTE Band 41). The current iPhone 5s has support for LTE Bands 25 (1900 PCS) and 26 (800 SMR). Charlotte is on it's way to being a pretty good Sprint market, once Bands 26 and 41 are fully rolled out. Band 41, I hear, is around, but not as prevalent as Band 25. And from my experiences, Band 26 has just recently started showing up. So I can guarantee that things will get MUCH better.

 

-Anthony

Im noticing that there is no 800mhz lte in the Charlotte/Mooresville area in nc. Is there going to be a rollout of that or spark in the future? We had a lot of Nextel spectrum when it was in use, so where'd it go lol? I spoke to a customer service rep and he seemed to not know what I was talked by about. Any help would be great. Thanks

Never listen to a CS rep, they almost always have no clue what they're talking about when it comes to the network. We have a decent bit of 800 LTE floating around in the surrounding areas of Charlotte. I've mostly found it in the Concord/Kannapolis area.

 

-Anthony

Will this iPhone 6 not allow WiFi calling just yet? Yesterday I saw them list all the carriers but Sprint for WiFi calling. Maybe I am missing something.

Sprint hasn't announced that they will allow support for it, yet. I can almost guarantee that Sprint will get WiFi calling on the 6, even iOS 8 in general, they just haven't said they will support it yet. We need to wait for the device to be publicly available, then we shall see. Patience, young Padawan.

 

-Anthony

Shift update worked for my phone as well. No glitches on my end yet.

 

Anyone planning on getting the 6?

January will be my 12th month on Easy Pay. That's when I plan on getting my 6 plus. Can't wait to have me some Band 41 goodness!

 

-Anthony

Anthony..you might know this. Does the apple store do the "upgrade now" fee. Or, better yet, can they do the upgrade now fee like sprint has.

I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think the Apple stores will do it. It's kind of like how Framily was, where it's mostly a Sprint store only thing.

 

-Anthony

Installed the Gold Master last night. Remember Apple recommends erasing all content and settings after updating. I erased everything and restored from iCloud with ease.

 

 

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I just did shift+update on my 5s from beta 5 and on my Dad's 5s from 7.1.2. Working oretty well.

 

-Anthony

I'm currently updating iTunes to 11.4 on my PC and when that is done, I will install the GM.

 

-Anthony

The Forums tab has moved back to where it belongs. That is where it used to be prior to an IP Board update about two years ago. Also, we are aware of the checquer pattern that appears after clicking on one of the tabs. We are looking into that bug. Thanks.

 

Robert

Now I need to get out of the habit of clicking on where "The Wall" now sits because I'm so used to "The Forums" being in its place

 

-Anthony

Yup, just looked at the Tab. Back on eHRPD. Odd.

 

-Anthony

So you are looking forward to paying $650 for a 4.7 inch screen with only 750x1334 resolution and only 16gb of non expandable mem and 1gb of ram. My phone has 720p and can take up to 64gb until wp8.1 comes out than take up to 128gb card and only $450, sort but that is in my honest opinion reaming the consumer.

Welcome to the past 7 years. It's been this way since the iPhone came out.

 

-Anthony

Who changed the name of the thread??

 

-Anthony

I'm definitely getting the 5.5 inch in January when I upgrade. I can't pass up that insane (when compared to the 5s) battery life!

 

-Anthony

Yeah this is stupid, they've been livestreaming for years now and they haven't got it right yet.

 

-Anthony

Well I'll be at home streaming it on my 5S, so I'll do my best to give you guys play-by-play updates if you all would like.

 

-Anthony

So, my Charlotte Market pals with Android devices, I have noticed my Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (the only Android device we have in our home) has recently switched back to connecting to EVDO Rev. A since at least last night. It used to be connecting to eHRPD but hasn't been for the past 12 hours or so. Anyone else been noticing this?

 

And yes, it is in CDMA/LTE/EVDO mode, so it should connect to eHRPD like it normally has been. I know that when it is in CDMA/EVDO only mode, it wouldn't connect to eHRPD because there was no need to since it wouldn't be connecting to LTE.

 

-Anthony

No applecare?????

AppleCare+ doesn't support, and I quote, "Loss, theft, or submersion in liquid."

 

-Anthony

I can pick up light B26 when I'm coming up Roberta in the RRC area but it dies when I'm in Harrisburg. I live just around the corner and can pick up about the same fringe values in the front of my neighborhood. If Sprint would just hop on one of the towers over at Morehead and 49 or by Pitts Elementary, it'd REALLY light our area up. That's pretty good reach to HRHS... too bad it drops on Pharr Mill as you crest over the hill and down towards Shamrock Rd... that's another dismal area.

Well I know that there is a Sprint tower over near Pharr Mill and Rocky River Rd, but as far as I know, B26 isn't activated on it. Frankly B26 will be our only saving grace when it comes to Sprint LTE in Harrisburg. There is Clearwire equipment on the water tower in between Robinson Church Road and Hickory Ridge Road on Rocky River Road, and there is also Clear equipment on that tower at Morehead and 49. Sprint should really consider adding NV equipment to those towers, because even if they only deploy B25 and EVDO 1900 on those towers, it would do wonders for this ever growing town!

 

-Anthony

I doubt that an "LTE+" logo will appear, whether you're connected to Band 41 or connected to LTE at all. If I remember correctly, that only appeared on T-Mobile iPhone's that people jailbroke and installed a tweaked that made "LTE+" appear whenever they were connected to "Wideband LTE". I doubt Apple wants to make iOS more complicated that it already is. 1x, 3G, and LTE on CDMA and GPRS, E, 3G, 4G, and LTE on GSM are probably the most signal indicators that we will get.

 

-Anthony

I remember reading an article a while back stating that Apple couldn't change the aspect ratio of their phones without breaking the entire app ecosystem. Is that true? If so it would make sense that Apple chose to lengthen the phone rather than widen (change the 4:3 aspect ratio).

Well the current iPhone's have a 16:9 aspect ratio, and a I believe the 3.5 inch iPhone's were a 3:2 aspect ratio, and when we did that transition from 3.5 inch to 4 inch, it wasn't too big of a deal. I imagine Apple will try to keep the 16:9 aspect ratio so that people can still watch widescreen videos in full-screen on their iPhone's.

 

-Anthony