Jeff1234

I got the update on my v30+ this morning.  VoLTE is turned off by default.  Enabled it, but doesn't look like its active yet in my area (Sacramento, CA).  Quick test call and no indication of VoLTE, and noted the cell signal droped the LTE tag when on the call, just as it did previously.  I'll play around with it later to see if there's any change.

Quick question, which plant made your Note 4?   Both my original  (bad fingerprint scanner) and replacement were produced in Vietnam.   I understand there were three plants - South Korea, China and Vietnam.  Wondering if the Sprint batch were all in Vietnam or if we have a variety.

any tips getting finger print scan better will not work at all my note 4 , on lock screen 

Is it not detecting the fingerprint scan or just not accepting the fingerprint? Turned out my fingerprint sensor was DOA. Was able to register a fingerprint initially, but then after locking the phone, the swipe prompt wouldn't even appear.  Had the local sprint service center check it out and its non-responsive even to the self tests.   Waiting for Amazon to get some back in stock so that I can exchange it.

If its just not accepting the fingerprint, since it has the same sensor as the S5, I imagine some of the tips and tricks for it would help.  Found a couple of youtube videos and forum posts on how to optimize it when I was searching for a fix for my issue.

Having same issue with connection optimizer off or on. My wife has hers with optimizer on and she never has this issue but I do. Good to see at least I'm not the only one.

 

Someone in xda said that it was a Samsung or Android thing to conserve battery and it is supposed to go on and off as needed, but it doesn't always turn back on for me. Sometimes it does other times I have to manually turn it back on. I'm not rooted either.

 

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I haven't tried disabling connections optimizer yet, and will give it a try, but I have noticed the same thing.   A couple of times while navigating in the bay area last week, the phone reported no GPS signal, and I had to cycle location services to get it to come back.  Hope this is something that they address in an update.

Probably spent way too long on this today. Worked with both sprint and samsung and confirmed the sensor is bad in my unit. So its either send it into Samsung for repairs, 12 days or return exchange it with amazon 4-5 days. Either of which mean I'll be without a phone for a few days. :-( Almost not worth it considering every else seems fine.

The self test screen is kind of helpful though. *#0*# first time I've ever played with it.

Is anyone else having problems with the fingerprint scanner?   When I got the phone Tuesday night, I registered a couple of fingerprints, used it a few times to unlock the phone, then it just quit working, and had to use the backup password.

Now, attempting to access the fingerprint manager under the Finger Scanner options, i get "An error has occurred with the fingerprint sensor.  If this message appears repeatedly, restart your device.".

I've restarted the device multiple times, and cleared the cache for the Fingerprints android app. (Per a suggestion on the S5 forums.) It looks like it was a bit of a problem with the S5, but the note is so new, I haven't found anyone complaining about it. Yet.

I'm using PIN code, but I hate to see an advertised feature not working. 

I never got an email from Best Buy so it looks like I'll be waiting for a little while longer.

Looks like Amazon isn't faring much better.  I preordered with them in September, when they were offering the Note 4 for $299, while BB and Sprint were still listed at $349.  Haven't gotten a shipping notification from them yet, and the charge still hasn't hit my card.   Called and they said it was in pre-processing (whatever that means) and should ship soon.  Hopefully I'll get it early next week.

Their price match program explicitly says they won't price match online retailers for contract phone prices. You might get them to price match something like Sam's Club or Costco if they have a better price.

Yeah, spoke with a BB employee in the Samsung section last night and he said that they wouldn't be able to price match Amazon on it.   Oh well, wasn't like they were going to hand me the phone today. I went ahead and pre-ordered mine this morning through Amazon, they offered $47 to trade in an old Galaxy S2 I had laying around, so I'll take that and submit it the Samsung promo for the difference.   Probably won't get the phone till the 20th or 21st due to the shipping, and the rebate till December but $50 is $50.

They also wouldn't price match Amazon for the HTC one M8 for my son, $49 on Amazon, $199 at BB and no way was I going to pay $150 more for the same phone. Now on to what case I want to get....   

One of my local best buy's had both the Note 4 and the edge on display. Was pretty happy with the look and feel, so I think I'll bite the bullet and preorder. Question is, best buy at $350 but the $200 instantly for the trade in or amazon for $299, with a smaller trade in followed by Samsung cutting the check for the difference in several weeks. Seems like saving the extra $50 would be worth the wait. Anyone think there would be any problems with using the amazon trade in for the Samsung rebate?

Cat 6, supports B25/26/41.  No Carrier Aggregation.  No Sprint VoLTE.  No CCA/RRPP compatibility.  Basically, the timing of the Note series releases makes it bad for Sprint, year after year.  It always seems to be the last model of the year that doesn't support the new Sprint network initiatives.  There you go.

So, I'm still debating whether I should preorder at the end of the week (in order to take advantage of the $200 rebate) or hold off till mid October to see if anything "unexpected" shows up.

To me, the lack of carrier aggregation is the biggest downside - it seems from what I've read, Cat 6 and the next gen modem with the 805 is pretty pointless without it.  But upgrading to triband from my lowly Evo 4G LTE would be a big improvement.

As for Sprint VoLTE, isn't it still in the specifications / design stage?   Also, I wonder where it sits on the priority list now that Sprint's leadership has changed up.  I'm assuming I can live without it till mid 2016.

With CCA / RRPP program, I seem to recall that the benefits were largely regional, and that in California, there would be little to no benefit, so its one of those, would be nice bits.

The Nexus X or whatever its to be called probably won't be out till the end of October, and I don't see anything new beyond that until Spring.  Since we aren't getting the Moto X (2nd Gen) and the new nexus is motorola, I wonder if that will have an effect on its availability on Sprint....

What do you guys think?

http://www.cnet.com/news/galaxy-note-4-launch-date-set-for-oct-17-preorders-start-tomorrow/

 

Yikes, CNET says Sprint's price will be $350 on 2 year con

Oh well, out goes the low price leader marketing approach.   Spoke too soon.

Well maybe there's still hope.   The gotta be mobile link also says black and white will be the only colors at launch, and the colors may be exclusives - I'm guessing the gold is for sprint?

Yeah, I've been sitting on my upgrade since June to see what the fall would bring.  Thought about the G3, but the Note 4 looks pretty enticing.   Was hoping HTC would have a competitor to the Note 4, but I don't see it in the cards at this point with the lack of leaks (or leaks that indicate first part of next year.)

I'm assuming they must still be testing and tweaking.  I noticed that the towers that I've been getting LTE from for the past couple of weeks are today only connecting 3G eHRPD.   The coloma tower is showing 3g, but speed tests were better than I've ever seen them on 3G.   I also had LTE for a brief moment on Monday morning on one of the rural sites north of auburn, but since then I've gotten 3G only.

The tower behind Becks, hwy 50 between Sunrise and Hazel still appears to be only enabled for LTE to the West.  Wondering if its common for them to only enable the antennas in specific directions to start, and how long it will take them to light up the eastward ones.  

I'm still getting fair / poor LTE reception from the Fair Oaks tower though, and was able to stream spotify at work today without any difficulty.  :-)   I occasionally notice the phone dropping to 3g, but not bad so far this AM.

I'm guessing that there will be a few weeks of tweaking and tuning on the ones that went live this week. I'm noticing I'm now only getting 3g in several locations where I had lte earlier in the week

Got Lte in Folsom this morning. Will do some mapping later today

 

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Hm, picking up LTE in Rancho Cordova this morning as well, looks like from a tower in fair oaks, and data services are a bit wonky.  Can't upload my signal check pro screen. BCI 0AC00C00  Fluctuating between -91 dBm (28 asu) and -114 dBm (12 asu)

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Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Orangevale, Fair Oaks, Citrus Heights,north  North Highlands ...

 

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Woohoo!  Finally.   :-)   Was just thinking about upgrading my phone too.

Legacy sites squawk coordinates off centered depending on which sector you're connected to. You can tell your on legacy by the NID. Any NID that is not 2xx is the legacy lucent equipment and will have incorrect addresses. Network vision upgraded sites will have correct addresses.

 

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Well that explains it then.  Thanks again!

Second tower top rack. High capacity site with 2 800mhz/1900 mhz antennas per sector. Looks like one of the new antennas are being used with the old coax jumpers to the legacy equipment and broadcasting from it. 

Second set I'd say 1st picture top rack with the two skinny antennas are Sprint legacy. 

Thanks again lilotimz for the explanation.  Here's hoping they get to work on the tower on Coloma sometime soon.

Talking about towers - I've been using Signal Check Pro and am still a bit confused   I read through the FAQ, and understand the towers may squawk coordinates other than their physical location, and that you'd need to triangulate to get the "actual location", so maybe this is what I'm seeing.  However, Signal Check variously indicates that I'm connecting to three different towers that aren't listed on the map.  I'm guessing that at least one is an airrave in the housing complex nearby, but is there an easy way to tell?   I thought airraves were supposed to have an NID like 502.  In any case, here's the info from Signal Check that I'm seeing.  Does this make sense - and is this first one most likely a connection to the tower at 11840 Folsom Blvd?

However, one is identified as a sprint tower at 602 Kenosha Road, Rancho Cordova (on the Aerojet Property) .  

SID: 4183  NID 5 BID 602 (x25A) eHRPD ID 00840AC00000000B6C0A042A4E005A01

On google earth, it does appear that there "might" be a tower there. (Fenced area, white pole with rods sticking out), but Aerojet's a closed campus, so there's no getting down there to check it out.   )

The other signal identifies as 11434 Mother Load Cir, Gold River (which is a residential section with no visible towers.)

SID: 4183  NID 5 BID 584 (x248) eHRPD ID 00840AC00000000B6C0A042A4E005A02 

The third - 12085-12089 SIlver Point Lane, Gold River  (Again residential - no visible tower)

SID: 4183  NID 5 BID 346 (x15A) eHRPD ID 00840AC00000000B6C0A042A4E005A02 

The second pair of towers is from Coloma Rd, around the 11000 block.  Again, two separate towers, this time I'm not quite sure which is which, but I'm taking a guess that sprint is the lower set in the first image?  Hm, I scaled the images down when uploading to Imgur.  I guess I didn't need to.

Took a couple of pics of towers in Rancho Cordova today.  

The first is on Folsom Blvd, 11800 block behind becks.   There are two back there, but I believe the first one is sprint and at&t.  While I was there, a Semi pulled in and started unloading a big ole bucket lift.   Will have to check and see if they're doing work tomorrow.

There are two buildings, one is clearly marked AT&T, the other is more nondescript.

This is the other tower there.  Thought I'd post both, just in case I was wrong.

Hmm, I know these are fairly "generic" but just got a sprint text message that they're making updates in the area, directing to a sprint  website that says something to the effect of "updating a tower that you use most".   Are they actually target messaging users of specific towers, or is this just a broadcast to a general area?  Sitting on the outskirts of Rancho Cordova (which I believe lilotimz indicated they might be launching soon.  Kind of got my hopes up a bit.  :-)

Thanks for the pic,  they were there again this morning, but not up on the tower yet.  Sorry to hear it doesn't mean anything.  :-(  Oh well, guess I'll just keep hoping.  What about the one on Marketplace Lane in Rancho Cordova?  (~11840 Folsom Blvd, behind Becks Furniture.)   I've swung by there a couple of times but never have seen anyone working on it.  Two separate towers on the Schnitzer Steel property, one looks like this with the stack, the other's a slightly different design.

While out at lunch today, spotted a couple guys up on a lift working on the tower at 8897 Greenback Ln.in Orangevale.  Will try to snap pics of it on the way home tonight.

Anyone know when upgrades are scheduled to hit east Rancho Cordova / Folsom? I've seen LTE on Sunrise by highway 50, but the sensorly maps look like they've been expanding south and to the west. Here at Hazel and 50, we've not seen anything yet. It looks like the closest tower is at 11840 Folsom Blvd, behind the Becks Furniture, (it may be on Marketplace lane), on the property at Schnitzer Steel.   We've had some disruptions lately, but I've not seen LTE light up yet, and nothing in Folsom either.