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1 hour ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Is it just a messaging issue or is it really not doing "fast" wireless charging?

It's slow charging as best I can tell. 

however, now none of my fast wireless charging pads (all non-samsung and all worked before this update) are fast wireless charging. Just "wireless charging". I cleared cache and the fast wireless charging is checked in battery settings. I checked and unchecked it, and I've rebooted again. Hmmm....that's a real bummer. 

11 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

New update is out and it fixed the adaptive refresh rate bug finally. 

yes, seems a lot better after the update! 

8 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

And the phone has massive lag while scrolling, 120hz touch input is bugged. 

Yes, I see this too. I thought I posted this comment yesterday but it never loaded I guess. Cache clearing doesn't help. It's a bug fo sho. 

50 minutes ago, clbowens said:

Wow, I have the Android 12 (One UI 4) update downloading now.

pretty wild, they just announced it like what, 2 days ago?? Impressive. I'm hoping some 5GUC pops up, they've been doing  a lot of work around me lately. Not sure who's network is getting the work done though, our local places don't report the permits very well anymore. 

Have you guys tried to not-optimize SCP in the app settings? I know you probably have, but I only have rare issues with SCP. Occasionally it'll crash for me, but like once a month?? 

Anyone preorder a Samsung Watch 4? I ordered up the Classic for myself and the wife. I got the LTE version, I guess we can add that for $10 a month? Does anyone know how I get that added? Do I have to call in? 

Ooooo, Vo5Geez

It drives me insane how WiFi-calling always reverts to "cellular preferred" and then I miss every. damn. call. when I'm at work until I switch it back over to "WiFi preferred". Apparently it's the network forcing this as it happens on many phones, not just the S21 line. Just an eternal frustration!! 

29 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

T-Mobile is officially showing Ultra-Capacity 5G on their coverage map.

https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map

oh my, I have some Ultra Capacity right up in my area now! 

3 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

Is anyone's phone like constantly warm/ hot? This thing is always warm, really hot when charging. Not a good sign, did Samsung screw up again?

No, mine has not been hot. Best phone I've owned 

When you guys gets a voicemail, do you get the notification from the dial-in voicemail AND the visual voice mail. If you deal with the visual voice mail, you STILL have to call into the dial-in voicemail to get rid of the notification? It's happening on both my phone S21 Ultra and my wife's S21+. Super duper annoying. Is there any fix or work around?? 

6 minutes ago, jreuschl said:

Per my question above, I was unsure.  FYI: The "Sprint" S21 and "T-Moble" S21 share the same software, which makes sense since once you put in a T-Mobile SIM for TNX, it becomes T-Mobile on booup.

yes, sorry, I must have missed this question above. Boots into T-mobile, your Sprint life is long gone. You are all pink now my friend! 

Our markets (Milwaukee and Madison) are really great for TNX usage. Sprint towers and T-mobile towers mix like you saw on TNA, but the speeds are far better on either towers on TNX than on TNA, in my experience. I'll test out the USCC roaming in Western Wisconsin on June 12th when I make my annual pilgrimage West to pick up our side of beef. I am rarely without a Sprint or T-mobile signal and have picked up ATT when not around Madison otherwise. 

On 5/12/2021 at 7:57 AM, clbowens said:

I'm surprised the May security update isn't out yet.

Be surprised no more, it's out right now. 

6 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

I was using Sprint's Spam Blocker App and I was still getting quite a few Spam Calls. After switching to TNX and using T-Mobile's Scam Shield App, I'm getting almost zero. T-Mobile has a much better Spam Call Blocker system and I'm glad I made the switch.

However, the T-mobile one let's in a lot of SMS spam that I've seen. The Sprint version was blocking that garbage too, the T-mobile seems to let the SMS through but does catch calls pretty well. 

I'm going to throw in a random observation that I can't back up with logs just yet, but maybe others have seen this: 

Recent trip from St. Louis to Madison, I was using the latest Beta (on S21 Ultra, TNX) with the trail logging on and my Bluetooth would disconnect from my Durango (2020, Uconnect 4) while I was on calls. I would exit SCP and the behavior would stop and no longer disconnect on calls. I was able to replicate this several times over even after restarting my phone and clearing caches. With trail logging on or off, it would still disconnect my bluetooth after some time. Exit SCP, phone calls were fine. 

SCP also crashed on me several times, but because I was driving, I didn't get the logs sent in, Mike. You can see it happen though on Highway 39 right in the middle of Illinois if you look at the signalcheck map, lots of pins and then nothing once I hit the middle of IL heading north after the crash, lol. 

23 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

Yeah it shows T-Mobile Unlimited Freedom w/Taxes & Fees Inc Unlimited Talk, Text & Data, my line fees went from $65 to $75 a month for my main line and my second line went from $45 to $50. These people are so damn stupid on the phone I literally was screaming at these people because all they do is go on script. They literally don't understand when you talk to them, they submitted a request to roll me back because I apparently never got an email or text letting me know to opt out. Absolutely insane. 

5 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Mine jumped $10 per line (6 lines). Not terribly pleased. The email said it would maybe be a couple dollars. Let us know if they fix it. 

3 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

Yeah the person said it only went up $3, don't know what she was reading off of. She said that was the average increase. And after my chat she credited my account $3, I'm losing faith here.

My exact experience with trying to deal with this. It's ridiculous and no one could put the prices back to where they were. I had to give up as to not have an aneurysm. Again, it wasn't because of the "Taxes Included", the total bill is $50-ish more a month and we actually went to cheaper phones this round for payment plan, so it's likely even more, but I just can't deal with this.  

52 minutes ago, dewbertdc said:

That's a good question... there's no mention of needing to change plans for this, I would assume Sprint-billed folks are eligible with the same 24 month credits that T-Mobile users are.

I would assume though that any phone through this would be TNX'ed. When I TNX'ed all 5 of my lines, they switched us over to a T-mobile plan that is more expensive than what I was paying when it was the Sprint plan. A frustration that CS was not able to help me with, so we're just stuck into paying $50 more a month in total (and it wasn't because fees were rolled into price, meaning my monthly total is $50 higher). However, if you don't TNX all your lines, then perhaps you keep the Sprint plan? 

34 minutes ago, clbowens said:

April security update is out.

Sprint S21, with Sprint SIM here.

Beefy at 1 giggle in size. Available on my TNX SIM too. 

On 2/22/2021 at 2:10 PM, clbowens said:

Is anyone having an issue with the call screener app?  On my S10, it would identify (or at least try to) all my calls.  Now it only works sometimes.  

I've deleted the data for the app multiple times with no success.

Also, since I'm now using T-Mobile network (since I have a 5G phone), does call screener not work anymore?  Do I have to use scam shield?

Yes, I've seen that scam shield rarely works for me as well. I'm on TNX so I don't have call screener app anymore just the reported "superior" scam shield, but it doesn't seem to work very well. I get scam texts and calls quite a bit. 

Are there network reset codes for TNX (Tmobile) like there was for Sprint (##72786#)??

One of my lines (S21 5G) in the St. Louis area is dropping calls after 3 mins very consistently. It appears to happen on WiFi-calling and on TMO network. We're all on TNX for my 5 lines. Anyone have any thoughts?

21 minutes ago, comintel said:

For me, on TNX with my Sprint-branded S20, in Raleigh, no Sprint sites can be accessed at all, ever, even when there is no TMobile signal at all and it says no connection, which is frequent.  (There are known excellent Sprint signals that I can access on other phones).

Many reps have told ne that this is a stated restriction of TNX - no roaming onto Sprint.  Reps on reddit confirm it as having been stated on the original internal TNX announcement.

Further evidence is that I cannot select anything except TMobile in the operator selection panel.  

Of course I have now converted back to TNA, where I CAN access Sprint sites, although only by band locking to band 41.  (That does not work on TNX).

However there is another possible overlapping explanation.  It appears according to many posters on the T-Mobile subreddit that even on native TMobile, only iPhones and TMobile-branded Androids are allowed to roam AT ALL, EVER.

This is market specific. The Milwaukee and Madison market has been updated with the "layer cake" treatment and for me on TNX R15 SIM (Sprint S21 Ultra), I get B25,26,41 from Sprint. I roam on ATT and VZW occasionally. Most time is all T-Mobile for me but frequently Sprint. So those like my markets, TNX is excellent. But sounds like Raleigh is not one of those markets.

6 minutes ago, though said:

Does TNA allow you on all Sprint towers or only the 312-250 "keep" towers?

I believe all towers at least that was my experience with TNA here in my market (Madison, WI), but could be market by market? Of course, it'll use the TMO towers first and fallback on Sprint when TMO is the weaker or absent signal. I found in my usage on TNA I would pop on and off TMO and Sprint towers but had great "coverage" however, the speeds weren't always the best. (they are better on TNX on the same towers for my market)

1 minute ago, clbowens said:

Feb security update downloading now.  I'm on a Sprint S21 with Sprint SIM.  It also has camera improvement and device performance improvement

lol, the one morning I didn't check! 

S21 Ultra on TNX also downloading same update ending xxxxAUAG

14 minutes ago, though said:

TNA - Any drawbacks???

I noticed the last couple weeks that my Airave CDMA light was flashing Red. Tried power cycling a few times to no avail. I called the Airave team and they said that Sprint is phasing them out and there is no way to get it re-activated on my account.

He wants to move me to TNA which he says allows me to bounce more freely onto T-Mobile towers and will give me better service compared to my regular Sprint plan I am on now.

I currently have 6 devices on my account. My question is: is there any reason NOT to move all my devices to TNA? When I leave native Sprint service, will I roam the same (or better/worse) than I currently do onto other Roaming providers?

My devices are

(2) Pixel 4 XL

(2) Pixel 2  XL

(1) Pixel 4

(1) Samsung S8

I tried searching around this forum and others and couldn't really find a whole. TIA

TNA just moves your tower priority to TMO first, then Sprint fallback (roaming, but native). Can't really go too wrong in that case, IMO. TNA vs TNX is another story based on your market. My market uses Sprint B41, 25, 26 just fine on TNX so it's been a glorious improvement of service and speeds, but TNA seems like a no brainer.

TNX is super nice though for many other reasons I've found -> I actually get phone calls and texts in a timely manner, the WiFi-calling actually works to send MMS messages, and the HD voice seems more stable. YMMV

On 2/6/2021 at 11:41 AM, mikejeep said:

FYI ⚠️ I have received messages from several users with Samsung S20 and S21 devices reporting frequent SCP crashes. Unfortunately, none of my crash reporting or logging tools are capturing these incidents.. I am still looking into it. Presumably it's related to some sort of Samsung software update and hopefully they will correct it in a future update, but I am just speculating. If you experience an issue, please submit the Android crash report and send a diagnostic if you can, just in case it captures something. Thanks!

My S21 Ultra has been doing just fine. I do know that the Optimize Battery Usage (Settings > Apps > three dots > Special Access > Optimize Battery Usage) is very aggressive on the newer One UI on my S20+ previously. SCP was dying on me frequently until I prevented it from Optimizing Battery Usage on the app. Not sure if this is related or helps anyone, but helped my issues.