anthony.spina97

Will sprint upgrade its B26 LTE bandwidth to something wider in the future, because as people demand more speed out of a carrier every year I think 5x5 may not meet some people's needs. Anyone know anything about sprint planning on expanding that B26 to something wider?

The way things are right now, Sprint does not own enough spectrum to have anything bigger than a 5x5 carrier. So to answer your question, no, Sprint won't be expanding to anything larger than a 5x5, at least anytime soon (sadly).

 

-Anthony

Thanks for pointing that out. I must've forgot.

Your statement was that it is "Not exactly an Airave... but nonetheless, does the same thing". It doesn't do the same thing. It does something completely different.

 

-Anthony

Not exactly an Airave...but nonetheless, does the same thing:

 

http://shop.sprint.com/mysprint/shop/phone_details.jsp?prodId=dvc8040009prd&deviceSKUId=80400440&flow=AAL&planSKUId=&tabId=dvcTab1820005&ptn=2566269204

But that is not made to be a signal booster. It's a home router with its own service plan. You can't connect to it with your Sprint device that has unlimited data and expect to be able to use unlimited data. It's completely different than an Airave.

 

-Anthony

I too was thinking it was the scanner timer, but I'm not familiar with changing the LTE scanner timer on the iPhones. Normally when I do an airplane cycle it won't stay on LTE while my brothers will latch onto it.

 

There isn't any way to change the LTE scan timer on the iPhone. It's really something that Apple needs to change on their own. This problem will probably go away for you when you have ubiquitous LTE coverage, which will most likely be when you get Band 26.

 

-Anthony

And look at where the site is now. It's amazing what Robert and the other staff members have been able to achieve with this site. I'm glad I've been able to take part in some of the ride. Here's to S4GRU, Sprint, Robert, the rest of the staff, and the rest of the members here. And here's to many more years!

 

-Anthony

Update: Back to iOS 7.1.2. It was actually quite tricky because I tried to do a DFU restore and it just reverted me right back to iOS 8. I had to find the IPSW file, do the DFU restore, select the IPSW file and then it finally worked. Had to get rid of iOS 8 because my phone was having some really annoying wifi issues resulting in my messages constantly sending as texts, and my apps and web pages freezing. The only way to fix was through a wifi cycle. I thought beta 5 would be fix it, but it didn't.

 

I never knew that the sprint version was the iPhone 6,1 . I always thought it was iPhone 6,2 (Global). Isn't the 6,1 version GSM?

 

The Sprint variant of the 5s is the iPhine6,1. Also, sorry to hear about the problems you were having. For me, beta 5 has been the least buggy, but that's just me. Also, you don't have to put the device into DFU mode to restore to 7.1.2. You just have to download the IPSW and do shift+restore (or cmd+restore on OS X) and navigate to the IPSW to downgrade.

 

-Anthony

I have noticed in the location settings that some apps have the option to Always use location services and some say "While using."  I wonder if this has anything to do with it.

 

Everything is set to never and the ones that aren't are set to only while using. I personally don't understand why there isn't an only while using option for all of them. I don't mind my phone using my location to find out where I am while using the fandango app...but I don't want it ALWAYS eating away my battery life. 

There isn't an "Only while using" option on every app because they haven't been updated for iOS 8 yet. "Always" is "Yes, this app can use location services" and "Never" is "No, this app can not use location services" when it comes to non-iOS 8 updated apps. When iOS 8 GM comes out, and the developers update their apps, you will begin to see the "only while using" option.

 

-Anthony

Wow....I went down like 10% at most lol

 

Edit: I have also noticed that since I installed beta, my location services arrow icon has been on...like the entire time. Any way around this? I would prefer not to have my phone constantly feeding GPS to whatever is apparently running in the background. I even found that sometimes turing of bluetooth gets rid of it but it normally comes right back.

Have you looked at your Location Settings to see if anything is the culprit?

 

-Anthony

I thought so, but didn't want to assume.

Good idea. I try not to assume; that's how peoples' feelings get hurt.

 

-Anthony

Rebuild what again?

He is asking if Sprint will have to do another "rip and replace" project in order to do VoLTE. And to answer his question, no, they wouldn't.

 

-Anthony

If you leave it unplugged long enough they will send you something in the mail about not using it and to either return it or be charged the $130 equipment fee.

That didn't happen to me. Had it unplugged for 4 months. Is that not long enough?

 

-Anthony

Wow, I did not know this.

You learn something new every day.

 

-Anthony

Plus the iphone has a lot less processing power and RAM.

RAM? Yes. Processing power? That's a little complicated. I recently found an article about the A7 chip that says that it can actually hold its own against the Intel i-series processors. When Apple says the A7 chip is a "desktop class" processor, they're not joking.

 

-Anthony

Mac OS X Mavericks got offline dictation, and the download was to the tune of 960 MB or so to do it. To increase iOS that much to bring offline dictation to the iPhone would be bad for the 16GB & lower models.

Well the iPhone's/iPad's/iPod's all have a specific portion of the Flash Storage partitioned off specifically for the OS. I think it's around 2 GB, at least on the 5S. iOS 8 beta 4 is around 1.8 GB on the 5S, so 960 MB would be more than is partitioned, which means less user storage.

 

-Anthony

Dictation still uses data, even on the beta.

 

-Anthony

Anyone having tapatalk issues with the beta (on iPhone)? Every time I go to view a thread it crashes, but if I log out it doesn't happen. I tried deleting the app cache and reinstalling the app but it still crashes.

Nope, haven't had that problem. Even while I'm on the beta.

 

-Anthony

Beta 4 is the newest beta.

Oh crap, yeah, you're right. Not sure how I got that confused. I guess your brain gets all messed up when you're sick :/

 

-Anthony

I've been on this forum for more then 2 years maybe 2.5. So please don't think of me as a Noob. The reason asked if we r still talking about Non G-Block LTE because I got down and up frequency of the second channel. Its not SignalCheckPros Bug   

I wasn't trying to think of you as a noob. I was trying to be funny haha. I apologize if it came off that way.

 

-Anthony

OK, are we still talking about Non G-Block PCS LTE Carriers?

Before all of the propaganda posts, yes, actually, we were. 

 

-Anthony

I checked in the update software area and all it tells me is that I'm on iOS 8. No beta version or anything.

It doesn't ever say what beta version you're on. It should always just say "Version: x.x.x". And it seems odd to me that you downloaded beta 4 and when you go to the "Software Update" section that it doesn't say "iOS 8 Beta 5". There might be something wrong...

 

-Anthony

Guys plz

 

-Anthony

 

 

Sent from my iPhone 5S using Tapatalk

I couldn't leave well enough alone so I installed beta 4 since it's all I could find. I gotta say I'm starting to like iPhone more and more than I ever used to.

I'm sort of excited to see what the 6 is capable of after having its new software on the 5s.

You can update to beta 5 OTA.

 

-Anthony

Lg doesn't update the nexus 5, google does. So your argument is currently invalid.

He is saying "How committed to updates is LG?" "With the nexus 5 I'm spoiled". He is stating that LG isn't very committed to updates, but google is very committed with the nexus 5 so he is spoiled.

 

-Anthony

I'll get the 5.5. I'm like Josh, I want the best of the best.

 

-Anthony

Seriously? This is elementary stuff. 

 

The G-block isn't going to be widened anyway. It's its own little obscure block outside of Sprint's other spectrum range in Chicago. 

 

Spring inherited some nice new spectrum from US Cellular that would have been enough to deploy 10x10. And a 10x10 in PCS A-F would not have affected the ability of the other devices from connecting to PCS G.

Now that, I don't disagree with. That makes sense. I had a different idea in my head. I thought we were saying the existing 5x5 carrier would be extended to a 10x10, rather than having a 10x10 in PCS A-F AND a 5x5 in PCS G. I had the wrong idea in my head, I apologize. Thanks for pointing that out. 

 

-Anthony