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The WiFi to LTE phone call hand offs are exciting to see. Way to go T-Mobile!!! 

Got them from Google Play. Fantastic, glad to hear it should be fine to activate. 

I had trouble activating Nexus 5's from Google Play for friends on Sprint with stock 4.4.4. No incoming calls would come through and random problems with authentication. Sat with the store manager for hours trying to get it to work.

Googled the problem and others were having it as well. The fix was to flash 4.4.2, activate on Sprint, then upgrade to 4.4.4/flash whatever you want. I don't know if its a problem everyone has, but I thought I would throw this out there in case you had similar problems.

When enabling Sprint integration, everything stops working. I don't think this will work for Sprint+GV integration yet. I wonder why?

Edit: Phone calls over data still work, but all texting over data stops working in hangouts.

So I can make/receive calls while only connected to Wi-Fi using the new hangouts/dialer combination?

Yes

I don't know if you can receive calls though?  Anyone?

You can definitely receive calls.

Throw those triband phones to LTE only mode, and enjoy VoLTE?

This update isn't cutting Google Voice out of the loop. I've tested it, google voice messages still are "archived" online and in the GV app. This is just letting you send and receive messages (Via data) through hangouts instead of the GV app. Messages are marked when they use GV.

 

So you still have the ability to send messages with SMS or data.

I am going to take this back, at first I was getting mirrored messages to GV, but now they are only showing up in hangouts.

Google Voice is my archive for all text messages -- regardless of device.  This integration with Hangouts appears to cut Google Voice out of the loop, so there would go my archive.  No thanks.

 

Plus, as I stated earlier, I want the separate, redundant ability to send/receive text messages via data with Google Voice and/or via SMS with Hangouts.

 

AJ

This update isn't cutting Google Voice out of the loop. I've tested it, google voice messages still are "archived" online and in the GV app. This is just letting you send and receive messages (Via data) through hangouts instead of the GV app. Messages are marked when they use GV.

So you still have the ability to send messages with SMS or data.

I have now added FAQ's to the top Navigation Bar for easier discovery!

 

Robert

The forums button has moved to the right and and information kiosk is all glitchy!

Bathroom and steam...

My Galaxy S5 has spent 100+ hours in the pool, without any issues. How in the world did steam get into the phone?

I see alot of posts throughout forums (besides this one) that state they wish the Note 4 was water resistant as well as for too much plastic. Do people actually take out their phone in the rain or at a pool that much? As for the plastic that Samsung is known for, doesn't a metal phone get dented if dropped (besides the glass breaking) as oppose to a plastic covered device?   

Maybe i haven't researched this fully or am missing something so can someone try to convince me why it is so important for a phone to be 

1-water resistance and

2-have a metal body.

 

TS

On my vacation in Houston, I took the Galaxy S5 in the pool with me 10/15 days I was there. I loved relaxing and swimming with the phone. Browsing the web in the pool was much better than on the couch.

I took tons of underwater videos with the family in 4K, and we had a blast watching them. (I know, I know, "It's not meant for that! It's water resistant, not waterproof!") It works perfectly as long as you make sure everything is shut tight.

You could say I've grown accustomed to it, and its a major letdown that I wouldn't be able to take the Note 4 in with me.

But something tells me that Sprint will hold up until the other carriers mention their prices and then will undercut them by $50 so I feel it could actually be the 17th of Oct a week later than everyone else.

Sprint charged $50 more than the other carriers with the Galaxy Note 3, at least on upgrades.

From a posting on sammobile it seems like the note 4 might launch on Oct 10. Still over a month away :-(

Welcome to S4GRU!   

The Sprint Galaxy Note 3 launched on October 4th last year, so it's not too surprising.   

Just think, if you get the Edge, maybe you can see the display on a table outside of the pool! :-D

Boooo! Lol 

It would be a pretty big screw-up if band 41 carrier aggregation wasn't supported... Phone doesn't release until October and Sprint has already announced that they will have 2 carrier aggregation up by the end of the year. They wouldn't do that if none of their phones could use it.

It wouldn't surprise me. The Galaxy Note 3 wasn't triband. 

We really have no idea what the progress and complexities of the RRPP deals are. But a lot of the RRPP members do not have CDMA networks.

But most of Sprints phones do support GSM/Edge/HSPA. With some software updates, roaming could really be expanded.

Why did they drop usb 3.0 in favor of usb 2.0?

Edit: Oh I see. Why did they bother throwing it on the GS5 then?

"This year, the phone maker went back to USB 2.0; the product managers said that not many people were using the 3.0 port for data transfers, so they didn't see the point in taking up room inside the phone for that purpose."

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/03/samsung-galaxy-note-4-hands-on/

Very disappointed about no ip67 certification. I loved taking the GS5 into the pool.

I'm just thankful Sprint has kept us old users grandfathered in at 300MB.

It feels like I'm about to walk the plank...

I've been rocking the Note 3 as my primary device for almost a year now. Can't wait for the Note 4! I won't have to carry around a GS5 or N5 with me anymore! 

The only thing I hate about the triband phones are interrupted internet sessions when calls come through.  Patiently waiting for a native VoLTE solution from Sprint.

I just realized a consequence of these new plans, there are no longer discounted EPRP plans available.

Based on Bitcoin exchange problems and losses of money some have encountered, I still don't think I'm willing to risk it at this time.  And frankly, I'm not even sure I get the whole thing.

 

Robert

I think its fairly easy to set up an account with Coinbase or Bitpay. They will take bitcoin and convert it to USD for you immediately, so you never have to even touch bitcoin. That's what Dell, Newegg, etc use.

According to the new Sprint Family Shared Pack that went into effect today, there is now a 25¢/MB charge for exceeding the 100MB roaming data limit of the new plans.  It's in very fine print, and the plan info is in the form of an image on their site, making it even harder to read.

 

Link

Owch. An overage of 1GB will set you back $250. Imagine that massive bill shock. >.<

Edit: Robert beat me to it.

Those of you using the S5, since you can't set a band priority, I assume you stumble on B26 just by chance?  I realize the network selects the band, but at least other devices you could set an initial priority.

 

Would seem to be difficult to help the premier threads out finding B26 sites.

Most LTE devices are still B25 only. Since the network does load balancing, most triband devices get pushed to B26. So for now its easy to use an S5 for B26 hunting, but it will become increasingly more difficult when more B26 devices are out there.