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Not going to happen, so you guys might as well stop wishing. Or you can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see what gets filled first.

Sprint isn't going to allow garbage wifi connections ruin the sparkling reputation their voice service has earned. I've made calls over my wifi, which is really fast and low latency, and they were garbage. If people want to call on wifi, there are apps to allow it, no reason for sprint to put their name on substandard voip.

Here is a speed test of my wifi for reference:

This guy was selling phones out of the trunk of his car in McDonald's parking lot. I got a great deal on an Ng Lexus 4. I think it is made in Vietnam.

 

 

AJ

Hows the battery life? Can you access qooqle plae on that?

What Sprint desperately needs to do is shut down the iden network. If that means losing some subs... so be it. There hasn't been enough subs on that platform to make it profitable in years. If they can make an extra $10 a month to give subscribers a far slower and less reliable PTT than iden, great. I never cared about PTT when I had Nextel, nor when I had the renegade. I care not about it today, it is nothing more a loud, annoying text message in my opinion.

 

That was only true after the SoftBank investment. Would that be optimal' date=' however? Obviously not. Sprint cares; otherwise, they would not push QChat.[/quote']

 

Doesn't sprint only have about 1.4 million subs clinging to iden? Sounds to me that they could handle that loss, Softbank or not...

 

Edit: according to investors.sprint.com, at the close of Q3 there were 2.3 million postpaid nextel subscribers and 830k prepaid. So, as of the end of September, 3.1 million iden subs compared to 52.9 million on the sprint platform... 5 and a half percent is low enough for sprint to absorb, especially when they have been converting over half the nextel churn.

Or buy a cyanogen mod supported device. The gs3 runs cm10 smoothly' date=' too!

 

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Non-nexus devices have proprietary software that is not open sourced making it tough to get everything running. It might run, and it might appear smooth, but it takes time to backwards engineer everything. Anyone remember how long it took to get working wimax?

I read the Nexus 4 was short on battery. Imagine if it had LTE on it as well...

I'd still get it though...

 

Not sure about Verizon's model' date=' haven't gotten a chance to take one of those apart.

 

The Sprint model however, the NFC antenna is built into the battery itself. There are two contacts to the left of the battery accessible for what I assume is an external battery or charging solution built into a different battery cover. I haven't been able to cleanly follow the copper on the PCB to figure out exactly where it goes on the board yet. My assumption based on those being the only contacts back there is that it would be for a wireless charging solution of some sort though.

 

Keep in mind that NFC is designed to operate at low distance (1-2 inches) and anything that gets in the way will interfere, like the magnetic coils required for a wireless charging solution. Probably the only thing that wouldn't interfere would be some sort of contact-based solution like the old blackberry docks where there is true metal contact for charging.[/quote']

 

There are 2 contacts on the left of the battery and 2 below the battery, next to the sim card. The Verizon wireless charging back has a wireless qi coil to charge the phone and a nfc coil built into the replacement back plate that uses the extra contacts that arent on the Sprint version.

 

Can I get this on my Epic 4G touch? I have been digging around for the answer to this but I don't really understand most of what I'm coming across. Would this put jelly bean on my GS2 (albeit clearly in an unofficial' date=' unsupported and warranty-voiding sort of way)?[/quote']

 

Yes. Check xda

Hopefully we see something in the east Metro soon.

Wait, east metro, and you have a packers logo? SMH

 

Hey now don't make fun of the prulled prok sandwich.

 

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Ummmm lol prulled prok is not my favorite sandwich... :-)

I wouldn't be so fast to jump on the CM10 praise bandwagon. I found the rom to be littered with annoying glitches such as the microphone used for recording is the noise canceling microphone located on the top of the device. To fix this you have to flash another file which breaks the devices A2DP bluetooth audio streaming abilities. There's the random data connection drop outs and the decreased battery life.

 

There's something to be said for sticking to the stock roms. At least the software engeners that created them had to go through various levels of testing and actually had the OEM partner support for the chipsets that make up the working components of these complex devices.

True. The funny thing about the CM ROMs for devices running a forked (sense, touchwiz, motoblur, LG, etc) version of Android is that by the time the ROM finally gets everything working and is starting to see some decent polish, bam, new android version drops, and CM moves on to the new AOSP. Most of the "drivers" carry over, but they still spin their wheels integrating all the new features.

This is only an issue if you are on a forked version of android though as the Nexus line has AOSP running smoothly nearly the minute it drops. P.S. my jelly bean stock keyboard autocorrected nexus to Jesus...

Therefore, if you want AOSP, or ROMs running smoothly on the latest Android software, you are MUCH better off with a Nexus phone/tablet than a forked OS. You lose a little of the glitz that the OEMs throw on their flagship models, and the ability to use a microSD, but the OS runs smooth as silk with everything working as it should.

Well to hear something is better than nothing... I am sure there was a reason you brought up this page other than clicking on the check for update. I like shareing info with others. If the update does not come out on Dec 2nd I'll keep it to myself but this date just seems right to me and maybe i am just hopeful.

Me? I read every post on this site... That's my job.

Pretty much why I will never buy a non AOSP device again...

I heard there was a rumor that there was a rumor that there was a memo that said there might be an upgrade to the rumor generator.

My general rule is to believe half of official memos and no rumors.

The issue is I can no longer connect to 4g which is wimax from what I understand, though I guess I may be wrong. So yeah kind of the issue as I stated as my option is 3g or nonexistent lte atm. Atm as I also stated I use an airave for my home otherwise my voice service is near nonexistent as well. I also use my wireless at home for data. My issues are issues to me sorry if I wasn't clear before...As for the "hate" comment no idea where my expressing any kind of desire for quick turnaround on the service being made available or noting issues I have being a problem or construed as "hate" sorry...

You lost WiMax connectability when you upgraded to the GS3. Sprint has no dual 4G phones. Just WiMax or LTE. The only gadget they put out that was capable of both is the Sprint 4G LTE Tri-Fi Hotspot

Oh, I think he has...

 

 

AJ

I know he has, I saw the video...

http://www.jibjab.com/view/LdRPjUgoS6KrId_P_1QW6A

 

we're not Detroit?

Clevelanders are very proud of that point :-)

I think I read about one they sell out of some Kroger stores. I forgot the name. Wasn't Virgin on Sprint too?

Sprint owns Virgin

I'm going to pretend I'm an ostrich with my head in the sand but , isn't this where we kinda got started with mvno's ? It's because we were looking for cash to upgrade and do more with the network but were not there yet right people ? mobile with Evo Lte

Since when is more customers a bad thing? Maybe Verizon or ATT should boot 30 million of their customers.

Seriously though, these are small potatoes... Ting is the largest, and they are tiny.

I think development stopped on that one.

 

Sent from a little old Note 2

Did he already jump to another device? He is still keeping up with the (Verizon) GS3 development.

Well... I see he returned the Note 2 and returned to the GS3

I've not herd anyting about them shutting down anything but the IDEN network, any posts about plans them "shutting down 2-3G technology so they can add more capacity for LTE" that you could point me to?

I think the reference is eluding to the fact that once more people are using LTE, an underused EV-DO carrier or two can be taken off line and the spectrum repourposed to additional LTE carriers.

Very few public wifi that I have experienced has had this 'significantly lower latency' than wimax or lte.

I'm 99.9% positive that nobody in here is saying anything about PUBLIC WiFi.

history is always repeating itself, as smartphone/data usage goes up, so too will the network improvements and capabilities.

We won't see major network improvements and capabilities for another decade. Carriers will throw more spectrum at the problem, but there will be a spectrum crunch before we see the next generation of wireless airlinks, unless carriers start implementing small cells... That, however, is very unlikely.

until we get to that point, all the offloading in the world matters not one iota.

 

all this preaching of offloading is like avoiding the expensive and taxpayer funded superhighway just because it *potentially may* cause congestion, even when it knowingly does not.

You are not even on the right track. Not even close... You can keep believing that LTE has Godly capabilities, but it doesn't. It will be overwhelmed. This is why Sprint already has plans to start throwing gobs of spectrum at their towers. Verizon is already getting overloaded with twice the spectrum that Sprint is initially deploying. Wake up!

Just to add this into the discussion, Sprint's backhaul contracts specified "scalable" backhaul. For comparison, Charter offers cable internet in my area, so they offer a basic 5mbps download speed, then you can scale up your connection all the way to 100mbps download speeds. This is what Sprint specified, so that when they add 800mhz LTE, additional 1900 mhz LTE carriers, clearwire LTE hotspots, microwave airlinks to other cell sites et cetera, they contact the provider and it gets bumped up. No waiting months for additional T1 lines to be delivered as before...

I voted even though I don't have a note, I would have rooted and been running cleanrom on it immediately because Scott (different Scott) is one of the best developers out there IMHO...