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    Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Beta (Formerly iOS 8 Beta/Mac OS 10.10 Beta)

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    What all is buggy about it? I just got a 5s on trade and want to try iOS 8 but don't want to ruin the phone until the final version comes out.

    Some things don't work like they should. For example, I tried adding a number to an existing contact through the messages app and it would let me add it, but wouldn't let me confirm the changes I made to the contact. Also there are small things were you will read a message in the messages app and you will go back to the main messages screen, but it will still show the message as unread. There are a few other things, too, but I can't think off them off the top of my head.

     

    My advice: If you want to give the beta a try, back up your phone and update to it. Try it out for a couple days, and see if it is stable enough for you. If not, restore back to iOS 7 and use your backup, no harm no foul. I use it on my daily driver, which is an iPhone 5S also, and I'm able to use it without much frustration. So by all means, go ahead and give it a shot. But make sure you have your UDID registered first or you risk your device not registering with Apple's servers. 

     

    -Anthony

    Non-G-Block PCS LTE Carriers

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    This isn't true. The Samsung devices would still connect to the PCS G-block spectrum. They just wouldn't connect to the additional carriers.

    No, they wouldn't. If the current 5x5 carrier was widened to a 10x10 carrier, the devices in question wouldn't connect at all. The only way to add the capacity without leaving said devices in the dark is to add a second 5x5 carrier. Which means there would be 2 5x5 carriers rather than 1 10x10 carrier.

     

    -Anthony

    is it bad for your phone to have a signal in the -32dbm area?

    in General Topics

    Posted

    What square footage is your airave set too? Mine is set to 5000sqfeet so I can use the phone outside for calls as well(before 800 got Here)

    Mine is set to the default. I never called Airvana to have them up the square footage. Never felt like dealing with them haha. The default works fine for me in my 2 story 3300 square foot house. I can even get signal at my mailbox ~50 feet from my house. It works pretty well for me.

     

    -Anthony

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    Non-G-Block PCS LTE Carriers

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Yes, Chicago and St. Louis. They should have done so too...the wider carrier is more efficient, and the customers with the (crappy) Samsung phones that only support 5MHz channels are in the minority (and will only get smaller).

    Sure, they may be in the minority, but if Sprint were to make their current 5x5 carrier in Chicago into a 10x10 carrier, all of those "crappy" Samsung devices would instantly go from having LTE to only being able to connect to 3G. Sprint is already hated enough by most people in the country; how much more do you think they will be hated if they all of a sudden make it so that all those Samsung devices couldn't connect to LTE? The media would lose their minds if that were to happen.

     

    -Anthony

     

    Edit: Removed St. Louis because AJ stated a 10x10 wouldn't be possible there.

    Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Beta (Formerly iOS 8 Beta/Mac OS 10.10 Beta)

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    No it didn't. I swear I upgraded to 7 from 6. How could they ship a phone with an os that was out 2 days before the device? It didn't ship with a beta.

    It came with iOS 7 on it. The Golden Master of iOS 7 (the final version that is released to developers and would later be released to the public) was released on September 11th. iOS 7 officially came out to the public on September 18th. Every iPhone that has ever been released has usually been officially available to the public 2 days after the public (keyword: public) iOS update came out.

     

    Apple usually has the Golden Master of the OS ready for about a week and a half before the device comes out. When they put their finishing touches on the final beta of the OS, they create the Golden Master, and they first load that onto all of the inventory that they have built up over the past few months. They have millions of devices plugged into computers designed specifically to load the OS on the device in their factories in China. All that inventory doesn't just sit in a couple hundred Apple stores for a few weeks. It usually arrives at the stores a day or two before the device is publicly available.

     

    -Anthony

     

    EDIT: Also, when Apple does a keynote for a new iPhone, and you see them demoing the new device, that device is running the Golden Master of the new iOS.

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    Wi-Fi for all, all for One - Comcast thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    1) Would you feel the same way if you had a gigabit fiber line in your home, and the 'public wifi' side was limited to just 10mbps (roughly just 1% of the total speed of the line)

     

    2) Would you feel the same way if your ISP gave you a slight discount for leaving their public hotspot wifi open (say a $5/month off the bill)

     

    3) Are you against the idea, period? Or are you against Comcast's bad implementation of this idea?

     

    4) Or are you frustrated with the bad implementation of their network? (with costs so high, and speeds so low / flakey that we instinctively fight for every Mbps we can get out of the network)

    (I numbered parts of your post so that I can clearly answer them :) )

     

    1) If it were set up this way (even if the public side was limited to 100 mbps), I would be 100% on board with the idea.

     

    2) If my network was Gigabit, and the public speed was limited to 10 mbps (or 100 mbps), I would want either a discount of more than 5 dollars per month, or no discount at all. 5 dollars doesn't really mean much when your cable bill is 250 bucks, so i would be okay with it if there was no discount at all, just a capped public speed.

     

    3) I would say what you are saying, that I'm only against the way that Comcast has implemented it. I don't like their implementation of it. I would be open to a capped public speed like you said.

     

    4) I'm a Time Warner customer, so I have no experience with Comcast, and my speeds and network reliability on Time Warner has been pretty darn good, so I have had no problems with that.

     

    -Anthony

    Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Beta (Formerly iOS 8 Beta/Mac OS 10.10 Beta)

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    I don't know what in God's name Apple did to the iOS 8 beta in between beta 2 and beta 3, but Holy Crap it freaking sucks! I've never used a worse iOS beta in my life! Things freezing, not functioning right, and a plethora of other things. Anyone who isn't on this beta version, do NOT upgrade to it until a newer one is out.

     

    (Sorry about the rant. This warning came out to be a little ranty)

     

    -Anthony

    SignalCheck - Android app to monitor your Wi-Fi/2G/3G/4G LTE/5G-NR signal strengths

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Okay, I'm really confused. Somehow it's telling me I'm on B41 yet my phone isn't triband!? 

     

    http://imgur.com/fIWJWN7

     

    I'm assuming a hiccup in the program? Kinda makes me want to upgrade to the S5 to "actually" get B41.

    What device are you using? If it is the Samsung Galaxy Victory like it says in your Phones/Devices on your profile, then it is probably just that beautiful Samsung "enginerring". ;)

     

    -Anthony

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    Wi-Fi for all, all for One - Comcast thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    First off, let me start by suggesting we make this its own thread, because I can see this new topic going on for a while, and we are WAY off the original topic. Now I shall give my two cents on this Wi-Fi sharing thing (or whatever you want to call it).

     

    I absolutely hate this idea. I pay (well, my Dad pays, but you get the point) for my home broadband connection. There is no reason that I should have to give someone else access to MY connection and use MY bandwidth and add more data to MY home data usage. I don't need to be getting slowed down by someone who is getting to use MY internet that I pay for (again, my Dad pays for it, but you should still get the point ;) ) and not pay ME for using MY internet. If I wanted my network to be open to the world, I wouldn't have a WPA2 security password on it. We have over 15 devices all connected to our home network, and we need all the bandwidth we can get. I would rather join T-Mobile than let this happen. (Yeah, it's not really relevant, but it show's how badly I don't want this to happen.)

     

    Now, if my ISP wanted to come to my house and run a new COAX line to my house and provide me with a second router for this public Wi-Fi access point, then by all means, go right ahead! I would be 100% on board with that!

     

    P.S. - Yes, I do understand that according to the article AJ posted, a customer has the choice whether or not they want to have this public Wi-Fi connection on, but I hate the idea of what a user a few posts before this one said about Comcast providing people with routers that already have these public access points and that you have to jump through hoops in order to turn it off.

     

    Sorry about the rant, just wanted to throw this out there.

     

    -Anthony

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