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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    More people should call retention instead of complaining about how poorly Sprint handled new customers compared to existing customers with this new plan. As soon as I called to inquire about the etf/phone lease cancellation fees they handed me off to (what I assume) was a more senior member that worked with me quite well.

     

    Three My Way lines at ~$210 (not including two lines with phone leases) a month are being moved to the new plan for ~$115 (not including phone leases, $5 dollar credit per line for auto pay). So it's a move from a plan with limits, to a plan with similar limits and more benefits. 

    Google Nexus 5X by LG User Thread (LG H790)

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    i think my camera may be broken. im not sure if this happened after i installed 6.1 the othe rnight or if it was going on before update but as you can see, nothing happens.  my photos dont show up at the bottom right, the shutter button stays grayed out and the option to swap cameras is also grayed out.  Anyone have an idea?

    Flash the old camera apk.

    Google Nexus 5X by LG User Thread (LG H790)

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    I haven't attempted it myself (I haven't gotten the OTA prompt yet) but the old flashable radio IMGs are always in the factory images and you should just be able to fastboot flash radio <name-of-radio.img> with no problems. Obviously it would be more convenient to use a mirror of the radios specifically, but that may not exist yet.

    This is your only option at the moment, normally there is one specific user on XDA that makes flashable zips of the radios. However I believe he's on a 6p at the moment.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    First they need to make Sprint Zone an app you can download from the Play Store because I can't get it ever since I purchased the Nexus 6.

    You have to find a current apk and then you can manually install it. Personally I think a stand alone app for this would go over better to the general public.

     

    Although on a tangent, device and os version should be an field you can add.

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    US Cellular - Sprint LTE Roaming?

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    Well with the supposed doing away of the spinning spark symbol they're going to need some way of differentiating. Perhaps a simple color change from white to red/orange for the respective symbol when you're roaming. Or if they do LTE for b25/26 and LTE + for b41 they could use LTE r for roaming.

     

    However they decide to do it, I really believe it needs to be idiot proof and nigh impossible to mistake for something else. Otherwise we all know how it's going to go..

    SignalCheck - Android app to monitor your Wi-Fi/2G/3G/4G LTE/5G-NR signal strengths

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    It definitely shouldn't work this way, but signal levels for both update at the same time. My non-scientific observations seem to be that if it ever connected to 1x and switched to/from LTE, then when connected to that LTE site it also shows 1x data. Is it possible that it's quickly switching to 1x occasionally to check the status for eCSFB reasons?

     

    I'm also fine with SCP displaying both sets of information. The problem is that basically all the LTE details are missing when this happens, but the details are there in LTE Discovery so it must be available somewhere.

     

    Sent from my Nexus 6

    You're intermixing how IOS devices and Android devices handle things. Signalcheck cannot show both at the same time properly because it's not possible. The sole reason 1X data is showing while LTE data is showing currently is due to a change in Android 5.0+ that is causing it to report false information or causing stale information to hang around.

    Network Vision/LTE - Missouri Market (includes St. Louis)

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    Front page of?

     

    Sorry I'm new here. How do I find the info on sprints site? This stuff should be easier to find. What will it be called if not spark? Even the coverage map refers to it that way.

    He meant front page of S4GRU, there's an article essentially breaking down the phone and the most importantly, the signal strength.

     

    A lot of the information here isn't readily available from Sprint, that's one of the main purposes behind S4GRU's existence. You can donate to achieve a sponsor level status to gain access to more information (this is how the site stays alive :) ) such as tower maps. Here's a link to the note 5 article, the general consensus is that this batch of Samsung phones are not the greatest RF performers. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-393-even-more-guardians-of-the-samsung-galaxy/

    Google Nexus 6P by Huawei (was [Rumor] Huawei Nexus phone?)

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    Wow, looks like y'all want to be careful with the 6p

     

     

    Sent from Moto X Pure via Tapatalk

     

    Seems to scratch pretty easily, especially the Graphite color. The 'bending' was already debunked however, to paraphrase the post I'll link below, he pre-broke the glass which made bending the aluminum body of the phone quite a bit easier. https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3qtuaj/nexus_6p_does_not_bend/

     

    edit: Further down someone points out discrepancies between the phone he used and retail phones. It's suspected he's using pre-production phone and also apparently goes through the effort to structurally weaken them beforehand. Other than the obvious 'it's aluminum, it's going to scratch' you guys can pretty much ignore that and move on to comparing the RF of the phone ;). 

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    Network Vision/LTE - Richmond & Southern Virginia Markets

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    Yes, I am aware I can tell what band I am presently on. Sprint claims B26 is already lit though so I would like some way of verifying this as I strongly suspect what they are telling me is wrong.

    There are massive amounts of maps for just about (if not every market) on S4GRU, feel free to support the site and upgrade your membership level (not sure if you've been a sponsor in the past or not). Maps for b26 should be Premier Sponsor level access unless it's changed. The most you can get without having access yourself is a 'yes there's b26 in your market' which is pretty much what Sprint will tell you, although information here tends to be a bit better.

     

    Other than that, to the best of my knowledge, there isn't some special method for phones to just 'know' what signals are in the area unless they're connected to them or pick them up when they scan for them (logging in SignalCheck can help with this if you do not like to/cannot keep an eye on your phone constantly like most of us).

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    I'm just happy Sprint is offering something no carrier currently is. Personally, im happy with 1 or 2gb tethering total, more than enough for emergency situations when I need to do some basic work on my Surface Pro.

     

    Also, I'm sure for basic browsing and email 2G would be fine..

    Well I have streamed Pandora on a 56kb/s 1x connection, so 128kb/s would be plenty and I probably should've clarified a little bit better. I was wondering if it has been stated if it's going to be throttled LTE or if you will be locked to Evdo/Ehrpd or 1x? 

    Google Nexus 5X by LG User Thread (LG H790)

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    That will be somewhat difficult.  I cannot have both running on the same Sprint line in the same place at the same time.  I suppose, though, with the separate SIM cards that I can gauge LTE signal metrics on both.  The Nexus 5 will be inactive, only monitoring network signal.

     

    AJ

    That should be close enough, as I'd think you'd be able to roughly tell if you're having 'better' signal in places that you did with the n5. 

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    In theory, this de-prioritization for 23GB+ users seems great.  However, the theory of a tri-band network is also great, yet it sometimes feels like Sprint handles band prioritization less than adequately.

     

    Again though, if Sprint can properly prioritize 23GB+ people, then this bodes well for the network.

     

    Also, why 23 and not something different? To copy T-mobile?

    Probably a percentage of the top users use 23gb's+, top 10% or top 5%.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    So, hopefully at this point you've realized there is no "cap" ... You are not being limited in any way, your data is temporarily slowed down, and once network conditions improve your speeds/latency returns to normal. You still have unlimited data. You can still use 100GB a month if you really really want to. It'll just be a bit slower in congested areas.

     

     

     

    Nothing has said you're slowed to 2G speeds. You may not even notice that your data is being slowed. 

     

     

     

    You're still unlimited. If you're working overnight, chances are you won't be impacted by de-prioritization in any way. That's a ridiculuous amount of Netflix though ... just saying.

     

     

    Again, no one said you're being slowed to 2G speeds. We don't exactly know how QoS will work in terms of speed/latency yet. Last time Sprint implemented a plan like this, we couldn't find anyone who had actually been impacted. 

    My thoughts are that it's going to be the same as the cap before all the Net Neutrality stuff happened. They say you're going to be 'slowed down' but no one ever really notices that they're slowed down. Or odds are the other people will be using their phones like normal and their requested data will stop shortly once they finish what they were doing and the person being 'limited' will be back to being the only one on a network. The same type of ebb and flow on home networks when you have lots of people on them, that no one bitches about (well unless you're on dialup ;) ).

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