anthony.spina97

I don't believe so, no.

 

-Anthony

Nexus / Pixel devices don't have wifi calling. So it's not an option. In many cities the density is fine for VoLTE. I'll go months without dropping LTE. It would be nice to at least have the option.

 

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He's talking about being connected to WiFi while on a call, not using WiFi calling.

 

-Anthony

Interesting. Maybe it was because I applied too late on release day. I’m just outside of band 41 and band 25 coverage here and was denied one. I suppose I’ll try again later this year when supply has caught up a little bit.

 

-Anthony

That sounds very bass-ackwards. Why not just request a credit balance refund for the amount on your account?

I’m not exactly sure we can, considering the credits were supposed to be applied monthly as deductions, similar to how your base Framily rate gets deducted 5 dollars for every extra person you have on your Framily plan. Technically it’s not our money because it was something Sprint offered as a promotion, and not as cash.

 

-Anthony

maybe i dont understand the situation but wouldnt they just subtract any and all bills from the credit balance and keep doing so until there is no longer a credit balance left on the account?

That’s what I had thought, but apparently Sprint (and maybe the other carriers, I don’t have any experience with them) doesn’t do that. They only subtract the price of your plan, and you have to pay separately for the equipment.

 

We had the same issue back when easy pay was relatively new and my father would make large payments to our Sprint account so that he didn’t have to log on and pay for a couple months. And then he gets an email that says that our account might be terminated if we don’t pay off the amount due, even though there was several hundred dollars worth of credit on the account.

 

-Anthony

Because credits does not equal real money. Equipment charges need to be paid with real money since Apple or Samsung need to be paid with real money and not Sprint credits.

Around 1200 dollars worth of the credits is credit from Sprint that is supposed to be for the devices. We took advantage of the trade in an iPhone 6 or newer towards an iPhone 7 promo back in September and Sprint couldn’t figure out how to apply our monthly bill credits for the device payments so they just credited us the whole amount of the devices.

 

I understand that we can just make our usual monthly payment, minus the equipment fees, and we wouldn’t have a problem, but it just seems weird that we still have to physically pay when there’s such a large available balance.

 

-Anthony

So I’ve got a quick Sprint question that I’m hoping someone can answer for me.

 

Why is it that Sprint is incapable of paying equipment charges with a negative balance on our account? We have nearly 2000 dollars worth of credit on our account and yet every month we have a notice that our bill is “past due” because they don’t deduct equipment charges from your account balance. I just don’t understand why we still need to go on to the website and make a payment when we have so much credit on the account.

 

-Anthony

Can confirm that field test is operative once again in iOS 11 dev beta 3. It still craps itself after loading all of the information, but at least it works like it did pre-beta 2.

 

-Anthony

I received the same email.

As did I.

 

-Anthony

Something else to note - field test no longer works in the second iOS 11 beta, at least on my iPhone 6S. That’s something I’m going to miss a lot.

 

Hoping Qualcomm phones will get a new field test in a coming update like the Intel ones recently did.

Yeah the worst part is we can still bring the field test app up, but it just sits at "Connecting" forever.

 

-Anthony

What's the issue with the S8?

 

It supports all of Sprint's network bands and is an HPUE device.

 

True, it's not Gigabit on Sprint, but Sprint hasn't widely deployed its Gigabit network as far as I know.

 

Using and HTC U11, which is Gigabit on Sprint, wouldn't have made a significant difference I imagine.

Apparently it's stock LTE band priorities are messed up for Sprint. From what I've seen it favors B26 first, then B25, and then B41. It should be the other way around.

 

-Anthony

Qualcomm yes the Snapdragon 835.

 

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Ah yes that is correct. Forgot about that. The 835 is probably what Apple is using in the iPhone 8, but like others said, it will probably be limited to whatever the Intel modem is capable of, so as to not offer devices that drastically out-perform another on a different network. They did the same thing with the iPhone 7 by limiting the Qualcomm devices because the Intel modems weren't as powerful.

 

-Anthony

Does Qualcomm have a gigabit LTE capable chip right now? If not, it doesn’t surprise me that Apple won’t have one in the iPhone 8. Specs for the device were more than likely finalized last month, and it will be going into mass-production mid- to late-July. If there wasn’t a capable chip from Qualcomm at these times, then Apple certainly wouldn’t have designed the iPhone 8 around one.

 

-Anthony

Ah okay. I had thought I had seen Android devices with four bars. Maybe it was older devices with older versions of Android on them. Oh well, either way I would prefer the fifth bar in iOS 11's new signal indicator.

 

-Anthony

The only interesting thing in the update cellular-wise is that you are no longer able to display your signal strength in dBm at the top of your phone. You’re stuck with bars. And there are only four of them now, not five...

Yeah I noticed this too. Android has 4 bars, correct?

 

-Anthony

Yup, no VoLTE. Nothing too interesting Sprint-wise in the beta. Oh well, didn’t expect much.

 

-Anthony

Just a quick little tidbit, Sprint iPhone 7 Plus on iOS 11 beta 1 is running Carrier Bundle 28.5.19.

 

-Anthony

I'm beginning to fear there is way too much hope being put on this "magic box" in a window.    Need more than a box, that by the way,  I get to pay the electricity to run,  in my window.   It's called Towers...   

And I'm sure you're upset that you pay for the electricity to run your home router/modem, too.

 

-Anthony

Throttling seems to be real folks, even for grandfathered plans. I have seen this random throttling at random times of the day, no matter the tower or cell I am on. I doubt it is a backhauk issue as it has happened often in the past year. I'm on ED 1500 and I have not purchased a phone through Sprint since 2014 in case anyone is wondering.

 

Anyone holding on to an old plan because of true "unlimited" needs to take notice.

 

 

Throttling (or could be intermittent network issues) are gone now.

 

From I understand of how de-prioritization works, this is not a sign of it. To my understanding, de-prioritization would cause your ping to be extremely high, because users with less data usage during that billing cycle would get prioritized over you. But it would only happen on congested cell sites. You seem to of answered this for yourself, as it appears that this is a network issue rather than an instance of throttling.

 

-Anthony

What does a carrier update do the 28.4

 

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Apologies, but please try to phrase your question with correct grammar. It's very hard for a lot of people to decipher what you're asking.

 

I believe you would like to know what changes are in 28.4/what it does. It is believed that this carrier update enables AT&T LTE roaming on Sprint iOS devices, though it has not been confirmed. Refer to this post, which is up a little ways in this thread:

 

This is unverified but I've heard things regarding more AT&T LTE roaming getting enabled in this update.

I haven't had a single issue. I've had my 7 Plus since the end of September and have encountered this issue at all. Call quality is phenomenal as always, and don't have any issues with calls.

 

-Anthony

10.3 out

 

not sure if these changed from what they were before...

 

carrier sprint 28.3

prl 55061

 

also interesting, not sure if this is new, but carplay now supports wireless

28.3 is new, I'm on the beta still (will upgrade to the release version of 10.3 when I get home from class) and it updated it to 28.3 from 28.0 or 28.1 I believe.

 

Wireless Carplay, however, came out with the release of iOS 9. So about a year and a half ago. Not much supports it at the moment, but hopefully auto manufacturers will start supporting more soon.

 

-Anthony

https://promo.sprint.com/Registration/AAdvantageLanding

 

Anyone ever tried this promo? This would be interesting to me if I lived in a Sprint area currently. 

My family was going to do it, but when you sign up for it you lose any corporate discounts you have, so we opted not to.

 

-Anthony

this is the first I have seen where VPN is lumped in with hotspot usage.

I would think it's so that Sprint can make sure that people aren't using a VPN to hide extra hotspot usage.

 

-Anthony

yes.

So then you should know that Mobile Hotspot, Virtual Private Networks, and Peer 2 Peer usage is ALL limited to 2G speeds when you've reached the 10GB threshold. Not just VPN and P2P. I'm pretty sure that's how all included hotspot plans work on every carrier. Not sure what the issue here is.

 

-Anthony