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It most definitely switched to CDMA, however I only tested an outgoing call.

My parents are in town for the weekend and my mom has her US Cellular iPhone with. I was helping her with some typical older parent owning a smart phone type questions and noticed she had pretty strong signal for Sprint at my house. I pulled up field test and it's connected to B4. The device seems to be using T-Mobile LTE but Sprint for voice. Previously it's only used Sprint when visiting. Is USCC roaming onto T-Mobile new? That's crazy how it can switch providers pretty seamlessly.

Do the AT&T and Clear antennae have the same sector alignment?

Yeah, they are very similar. The only thing I can think of is the Clear gear is quite a bit lower on the tower and looks to be below the tree line of nearby pine trees whereas the ATT equipment at the top looks above the tree line. ATT, Verizon & T-Mobile have put their equipment on the top three separate poles, just above the tree line in the same vicinity. Now that I type that out it does seem very plausible that could be the issue.

I'm impressed with ATT's B30 signal strength at my house vs the Sprint Clearwire site that serves me. I see -115dbm on B41 and -96dbm on B30. Both signals originate from the same area and both are checked on iPhone 6S's.

I don't seem to have CA with ATT on this tower. Sprint does, and the 20+20 tdd smokes ATT's 10x10 fdd in download speeds.

These are what I assume are Verizon small cell's around my area. They have them all over the place at this point, ranging from retail areas like this to residential neighborhoods. I don't have a way to confirm they are Verizon, but they sure don't seem to be Sprint or AT&T and I don't think there's anyway they are T-Mobile. Anyway, they did a great job installing all of them. I bet most people don't even notice they are there.

If you turn yourself all the way around in that link, you can see a Sprint macro in the background that towers over the Sprint HQ.

Hello 6s users: Any recommendations for running armbands? Might get one as a stocking stuffer for my wife.

I got this for my wife last year and it works great. She has a 6 with a Rocketfish silicone case on the phone and can still get the phone in / out easily, but it stays snug.

Armband for iPhone 6S, iPhone 6, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S3 (Also fits OtterBox Commuter for iPhone 5s / iPhone 5 / iPhone 5c) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0071C9B0U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_tqdCwb15GN8VK

 

 

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Thanks! I've been have trouble coming up with something small for my wife. She's been shoving her 6 into an armband designed for the 5. I'm afraid every time she takes the phone out it's going to fly across the room!

The 21 month lease was no smartphone trade in, the 22 month lease is with the smartphone trade in and gives a $7/mo discount from trading in a smartphone worth at least $1.

 

 

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Ah, got it. I was not eligible to receive the $7/mo discount so it made sense for me to keep my existing phone and do something else with it. Although, $7/mo + $15/mo in discounts to lease a brand new device would've been a hell of deal!

I leased an iPhone for the first time last week, so I recently did the math on this. I like having a newer phone, traditionally every two years, however the upgrade option w/ iPhone forever could be appealing to me. I'll have to see what the numbers look like at the time I can upgrade early. I'm also not completely sold on leasing should anything go wrong, but on paper, it seems to make sense for me.

On my plan (SWAC), it works out close enough over a two year period that financially I don't think it really matters what option I pick. My plan cost is $40 per phone. I receive a $15 credit per device leased or on easy pay. We only have iPhone's, so my device cost upfront is always fairly significant if I go with the newest model and upgrade the storage. I have not taken taxes into consideration on this post and there is also a cost benefit not realized in these numbers if I elected to sell a device at the end of a 2 year or easy pay term. But I hate dealing with that and paying slightly more over two years would be worth not dealing with that hassle to me.

2 Year:

(40*24)+$300= $1260

Easy Pay:

(40*24)+(32-15)*24= $1368

Lease*:

(40*21)+(26-15)*21= $1071

Lease w/ buyout:

(40*21)+(26-15)*21+187= $1258

*My lease is 21 months. I've yet to figure out why they have a 21 or 22 month lease and forgot to ask the rep why they have two lease options 1 month apart.

Edit: I picked lease on the poll since that's what I did on my most recent upgrade.

I'm late to the CA party as well having just picked up a 6S Friday night. I'm impressed with CA as well! Out of complete curiosity, I did a speed test with my wife's 6 and saw 30.92Mbps and then with my 6S saw 56.72. Both phones had around -115dbm on Clear B41 in my house.

https://cheerstoyou.sprint.com/?INTMKT=MA:LP:20151208:LNL:B2C:ART:giveaways

Thanks! My formatting and links in the quote section of my post went bye bye.

Anyone have confirmation this thing is a go?

 

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I haven't seen anything about it anywhere yet.

It's now live on the site now.

 

It’s Upgrade Day! If you, or someone on your account, has had your phone for 7 months or more, you may be eligible to upgrade it today!

 

Valid only December 11, 2015 12:01 AM CST to 11:59 PM CST. Valid only for Sprint customers in good standing who have had their phones7 months or more. Excludes devices on Easy Pay. Restrictions apply.

I'm a little bummed it sounds like existing phones can't be on Easy Pay to be eligible for the offer. I guess I'll find out for sure tomorrow.

Anybody having issues with the time on their phone being wrong when in Automatic mode.  When I turn it off it is correct, but if I turn the set automatically back on it moves forward an hour.  Could it be a network issue, maybe a tower that did not get updated for DST ending?  iPhone 6S running 9.1

Yes on 9.1 w/ an iPhone 6. I restarted my phone yesterday afternoon and haven't had the issue come back yet... We'll see if that actually fixed the issue or not as I go throughout the day today.

It's how it is. The other three run single mode operations which allow them to broadcast higher power settings compared to Sprint who runs dual mode on their RRUs and has the split the power between LTE and CDMA. 

Is this changing though? It seems nearly every site around me has received a second NV antenna in the last month or so.

I'd believe it. For me 19.1 introduced the issues and 20.1 just continued on with the same.

I lost any consistency with Band 41 in my house around the time 8.3 was released. I'm uncertain but it may have more to do with leaves on the trees as much as anything else. It's amazing that a B41 signal from a Clear site .5 mile away is so much worse than a B26 signal from a Sprint site 2 miles away.

So far 20.1 seems about the same as 19.1 for me in that I'm still dropping to 3G like the pre-B26 days.

I noticed my phone prompted me to do a carrier update tonight. It received 20.1. I'm still on 8.3.

I do not. However my issue wasn't the same they were having. All calls from my work were going straight into voicemail rather than ringing either my or my wife's iPhone. As soon as I went into the update 911 section and removed the wifi calling provisioning off both of our lines calls rang through again. Sprint says it's a known issue they are working to resolve.

I just received a call from Sprint asking me to try enabling WiFi calling and placing a call from my work. Lo and behold it works!

That's impressive follow-up from customer service IMHO.

Do the three of you have a WiFi Connect Router on your account? That may be the issue.

I do not. However my issue wasn't the same they were having. All calls from my work were going straight into voicemail rather than ringing either my or my wife's iPhone. As soon as I went into the update 911 section and removed the wifi calling provisioning off both of our lines calls rang through again. Sprint says it's a known issue they are working to resolve.

I have it off in my device settings, but upon checking my services in my Sprint account, it says that I still have the service selected, and there is no remove option. Not sure why that is.

 

-Anthony

Go into the WiFi calling section on the phone, click on the update 911 address button then scroll down the page and you'll see an option to remove the service from your account.

It took me awhile to figure that out. It's odd that's the only place to remove it.

How are you guys doing on battery life? All I heard from the owner of the one I used is that he barely makes it a day, and he is by no means a power user on his phone so I wouldn't expect too many notifications being pushed.

My wife said she's usually in the 20-40% range when she plugs it in at night. Her day always consists of a workout for 30 to 90 minutes, so I suppose that's why there is often a 20% difference in charge. Between that and all the text/FB notifications she gets all day, it seems pretty good to me.

Does the iPhone have a harder time than Androids sticking on or searching for LTE? My iPhone frequently goes to 3G, even in LTE areas. It also stays on 3G for quite some time. I have had to resolve this issue by toggling on/off cellular data. It's the only way I can get back to LTE. But then sometimes it goes right back to 3G.

I've seen a lot more 3G since iOS 8.3. I had read the base band was updated with 8.3 and could be the cause, but I haven't been able to find a lot of widespread complaints about this being the actual problem. When I drop to 3G though, I feel like my phone usually switches back to LTE fairly quickly as long as I'm not using a constant data session.

My wife has one and loves it. She came from and expected the functionality of a fitness tracker and text/call notification device. When looking at it like that it's a damn expensive device, but she was never totally happy with the other options on the market. A lot did one area well but never really combined every feature she wanted in the overall package. Those that did were pretty manly looking and she had no interest in sporting those on her wrist.

This was the store I went to when I needed to use one (which isn't often anymore). There's no saving this one.

That's the Sprint store on the left corner. I hope they can re-locate the employees while they figure out what to do.

All it does is show your carrier and the current connected technology. It also includes the max speed for the connection. No band info, dBm signal strengths, or any other "geeky" info. All the information shown is available in the iOS SDK.

Yeah, I was waiting for a table when I found and typed that out. When I got home to my computer I realized it probably wasn't exactly what I thought. I think the line that got me is Detect LTE operation bands supported by your carrier. When read quickly that's a very sneaky line.