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Just sent a second donation. I hope this drawing gets funded. This would be a sweet phone to have. 

Was in Richmond yesterday, and all LTE bands I could receive got good data service. This used to be Ntelos, but now is native Sprint. Nowat home and on my tower located on Roy Rd, Troutville, and I get very decent B25 signal but still no data....I might be sending some up but nothing comes back. I switch my phone to 3G manually and I get good data there with EHRPD in the background. My significant other has a Note 4 same as mine, but hers has stock rom, and she thinks she's getting data at her sister's house. Might be, but I believe a home signal there is so weak that you may be lucky to get 1xrtt, and maybe 3G if you wear a tin hat, and hold the phone in the air. I dunno what's going on, but if it's my nightlies from Cyanogenmod, well I hope they fiure it out. If it's Ntelos, I wish they would have left well enough alone. LTE worked a treat for three day and now it's just a signal with dead air.

Richmond has always been a native Sprint market.

 

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From my understanding from the welcometoshentel.com site

 

A shentel will get all of ntelos's towers spectrum and customers, will then rebrand everything under the sprint brand name.

 

Now if I'm wrong don't hesitate to point it out.

You are correct except that Sprint will own the spectrum, not Shentel.

 

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For those who have this tablet, 5.1.1 was pushed to it this morning as soon as I turned it on. I really didn't think it would ever get it, so it was a pleasant surprise.

 

I have the wifi only edition. Not sure if it was pushed to the LTE versions.

 

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I got my Pixi 7 today. Two items that I'm slightly disappointed with is the screen and the wifi. The screen's viewing angles aren't great, but when looking straight on, it's not bad. The resolution is also not great, but I knew that when I ordered it. I'm a little disappointed that the wifi is only 2.4ghz, but it's not a complete deal breaker for me.

 

I was pleasantly surprised at the speed of the tablet. It is very smooth and quick for a budget tablet.

 

A couple other things. Sprint charged me $12 to ship it, but now there's a $12 credit on my account, so I guess that was a wash. I should get my bill soon but I'm still expecting to have to pay the $36 activation, which $36 isn't bad in exchange for the free year of service.

 

I did set the tablet up to only use 960MB per billing cycle so I shouldn't have any overages.

 

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So will cville get more bands when shentel takes over or no?

Everywhere should have all 3 bands once Shentel gets going on installing equipment.

 

Edit: Everywhere should have B25/B26. Shentel may selectively put B41 up. They will probably concentrate their B41 efforts on high traffic towers, at least at first.

 

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B26 is just a lower frequency. It is better at penetrating buildings, but it's still a 5x5 channel, so speeds won't necessarily be any better than B25.

 

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I'm just ready for the remove spark spinner update

 

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I'm jealous of my wife's S6 which lost the spinner a few months back.

 

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If I decide to get mine, I'll go to the store here in Pahrump and pick it up. They have plenty in stock.

 

 

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Unfortunately, Shentel owned Sprint stores are not participating in this promotion, so I had to get it shipped. The closest Sprint corporate store is over an hour away.

 

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How does one order this little gem?  Sprint.com is blindingly obfuscatorial.

 

I called Sprint to order mine. 

Okay thanks. Should there still be some improvement seen just from that B41?

Every additional carrier added, adds capacity for everyone, just like adding an additional lane on a highway. CA devices can just use two lanes at once, where your phone (and mine) can only use one lane. It's still faster though.

 

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So, not the iPhone 6? Sprint's own page indicates Sprint Spark as one of the key features.

Spark just indicates a device can use a single carrier on B41. A CA capable device means it can use more than one carrier at the same time. Right now, CA devices can effectively double download speeds on B41. In the future, Sprint may also allow 3x or even higher CA, which would further increase speeds.

 

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When I called this morning, I asked if I could buy a different tablet and still get the one year free service. They wouldn't let me. I was hoping to get the Samsung Tab E instead. So I ended up just getting this Alcatel tablet. I thought shipping was free on all devices, but apparently they don't want to lose money so they charged $12 shipping. They also said they couldn't waive the activation fee, so it's basically $48 for the tablet, which still isn't bad. If anyone else gets the shipping or activation fees waived, let me know. I was hoping to not have to pay them.  

I guess my answer is that it would seem silly to me to purchase a mobile wifi device with a cap to give me data to our unlimited data phones. I don't even own a computer. I think i used the wrong terminology when i said hotspot. I meant the repeater/ booster and being able to pick up that signal throughout the house.

I just re-read what you wrote and I misunderstood initially. I know of a place where they used a booster to boost signal inside of a government building classroom. An antenna was mounted outside and a wire was run through the roof to the booster on the ceiling of the classroom. It boosted the signal inside by about 20 dbm on B25. I have no idea what it cost, but it sure works.

 

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I just called my local Sprint

store (owned and operated by Shentel). They are not participating with this offer, so I guess I will have to call or order this online tomorrow.

 

Many times, Shentel does different promotions than Sprint, so this isn't too surprising.

 

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Note Edge

LG GFlex 2

LG G4

Galaxy s6

S6 edge

HTC one m9

Note 5

S6 edge plus

iPhone 6s

iPhone 6s Plus

Nexus 5x (2015 version)

Nexus 6 (2015 version)

HTC one a9

 

I think that's it.... Not including hotspot devices

Isn't it the Nexus 6P?

 

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I am sure it will support B25/B26. The question is if it supports B41, really.

Like Macinjosh said earlier, it shows B41 on the device specific coverage for it, so it should be B41 compatible. He just wasn't sure about CA.

 

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I should get a return period on it so I may just try it and if it doesn't happen to support at least B25/26, I'm sure I can send it back.

 

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The phone reps at Sprint couldn't tell me which bands it supports (big surprise)

They are clueless. I really wish they trained the CS people to have at least some technical knowledge.

 

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Now with EV-DO...

 

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That looks like you're connecting to two different towers. The RSSI would usually be pretty close if you're connecting to the same tower.

 

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Keep having this problem every day this week so far... Losing EV-DO almost every 20 minutes... Any answers? Screenshot_2015-11-19-11-15-17.png

 

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Any chance they are working on your closest tower and you are now connecting to one further away?

 

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The coverage map for the Pixi confirms that it does have access to the Sprint Tri-Band LTE network. However, I do not know if it has CA or not. I will have to research that out, but I feel it doesn't have CA.

I don't have B41 in my area yet anyway, so as long as it has B25/B26 support, it's good for me. B41, with or without CA, would just be a bonus for when I would travel.

 

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Sprint will be giving away the Alcatel One Touch Pixi 7 for free to existing customers along with one year free service (1GB/month) starting tomorrow, 11/20/15. Does anyone know for sure if this is a tri-band device? I don't see that info in the specs. I would assume it is, I just want to confirm that before I decide to order it. Mostly free sounds pretty cool for a travel tablet. Just have to pay $10 or $15 per month in the second year depending on which plan you want. 

 

By the way, Sprint's version has better specs than the wifi version so don't base your opinion off of the wifi only model. I noticed the Sprint version has a quad-core processor (vs dual core) and a bigger battery. 

Since I got the update, I had one random restart, but haven't had any other problems. Maybe the next update will get rid of the spinner.

 

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