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OK. And if only 4 or 5 devices were consuming the maximum amount of data per sector, the site performance would suck for the other 100 users. So now a cell has to be added (cell splitting). A new macro site costs up to $250k. So how do you propose we share the cost of that new site just among the 4 or 5 device holders to get a true cost? There in lies the problem.

 

Since it is almost always high usage unlimited abusers who push a well performing site over the threshold and makes capital spend necessary, dividing out the costs just over this small pool would make their monthly cost $300-$400 per month. Not going to happen. So the ending result is everyone else pays.

 

 

Using Nexus 6 on Tapatalk

Would a throttling mechanism that kicks in on 'unlimited accounts' when they have hit a certain amount of burden on an individual site work?

 

Say they have 10gigs on one site and then they get throttled to 1 mb for 12 hours on that site. Technically enough to do everything but stream video, hell you can download this fine at that pace too, you just need patience, yet it would free up quite a bit of capacity for everyone else.

Meh if it can't roam in Canada I have my N5 for just that reason, now I just need an international one...or maybe a N6 to compliment the now 'small' sized M9. I also couldn't find what you wanted AJ, the box does not list it and I couldn't find it in settings.

So has anyone heard of these texts going around that cause the Springboard of the iPhone to crash when you recieve the message?

 

-Anthony

 

Edit: Here's an article about it:

http://fortune.com/2015/05/27/mcdonalds-same-store-sales/

It's been around since IOS 6, the fact that variations of it still work two major revisions to IOS is astounding. Apple dropped the ball with this one.

Someone in the Sprint thread on Reddit got their G4 today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/37faoj/sprint_delivered_the_lg_g4_to_me_today_anyone_else/

Have you tried to disable the Sprint Connections Optimiser? That swaps towers too often and IMO may contribute to the problem.

My problem with the Sprint Connections Optimiser is after I disable it, it self starts again by itself.

Mine is removed, I'm S-off and rooted so I debloated right away.

 

 

-downsized-

I occasionally have that happen when I'm forcing my phone to hop into the fringe LTE in my area. Also had it happen when dealing with clear b41 in KC, but not on 8tr8tr..

I'm looking to buy an unlocked Sprint device to both allow me to learn a bit about Android development and to use AT&T and T-Mobile.

My main concern is whether Sprint will activate it. Will Sprint activate the device regardless of where it was purchased or do I need to make sure of the origin of the device before purchasing?

If I recall correctly the only n5's that there were issued activating were those sold by T-Mobile.

 

 

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Calling it a world wide phone is the only stupid thing here. There's a different model for every domestic carrier, and international variants. The only phones close to being a truly worldwide phone are the Nexus devices, and those still require different radios for different continents....

 

Plus all you really need is Wi-Fi access to utilize your M9 in Canada. Wi-Fi calling and the numerous apps that send texts over data allow you to use phone anywhere that there is internet access.

Alright I actually voted now (got my hands on a PC finally), my statistics are definitely a bit skewed.

 

For the past year and a half (at the end of the month) that I've had Sprint (my opinion finally started to count xS) the first 7 months and this month have been an average of 15-50gb a month. While the middle 6-7 months I averaged about 7gb a month.

 

Why the huge discrepancy? At my parents house (current permanent address, due to school) we cannot get home internet excluding satellite. Streaming TV and movies plus running Pandora/sound cloud for 6-10 hours a day does add up quickly. However there is a wisp that just popped up that I'm trying to get something worked out with (barely outside of coverage, which is in even more rural areas..).

 

Tldr: no internet, to google fiber, back to no internet makes your usage look bipolar.

Most likely, performing certain data activities that violate the contractual Ts and Cs. But that is cool, lol.

 

 

AJ

That's what I was assuming (what most of us on here would assume). I was hoping it's prompt a further explanation/breakdown from him.

I'll go see if I can find how much. I'm positive I use a lot.

From January and back, I was through straight talk.

How in the hell did you use 141 gigs in a month?!...... ????

I can't legally drink yet...but I have passed the word on to the beer fanatics in my life!

Got mine in last night. First impression out of the UPS box was that the packaging was pretty high quality, and the router itself looks stellar. Tastefully done branding with the small sprint logo on one side, was expecting it to be over the top.

I did, but you can't add SERO lines unless you're still an employee (I am no longer an employee). She's on the $60 unlimited plan now, which doesn't include subsidies. I'd like to get her on SERO Premium, $50 with subsidies if possible.

FYI this is a Grey area post which may or may not violate site rules. You're technically asking for help exploiting the way new plans work, and soliciting (even though it is more on the ok side). You're most likely going to have a moderator or senior member come in and tell you to please not ask for help working around current sprint contacts and the like.

 

 

What do you guys think?

Satellite providers do this already. Usually you have X amount of data, half of X available during normal hours and half of X available during off peak hours. Speeds go to hell during off peak because everyone is trying to download, stream, and update. For cellular this would be shooting themselves in the foot to do because the only people this benefits are those who are using or partially using their phones/mobile service as home isp's. However if they implemented this for actual hotspots, or granted 2gigs of free hotspot during non peak hours for the month on every mobile plan (counting separate from hotspot plans you already have) that could be a nice customer perk.

My curiosity with the firmware was more along the lines of why did sprint disable those specific features in their firmware in the first place? Could they negatively be affecting any of the Wi-Fi calling aspects, or was it just a choice of the head for the project saying, meh they don't need those?

 

Also does anyone know if you can do a dump of the firmware? I'd like to be able to try and dig into it to see why they made their choices on features.

 

Edit: had another thought

Has anyone discovered how to flash Asus's OEM firmware to this device? Is it possible to put the Sprint WiFi Connect into Rescue Mode and use Asus's Firmware Restoration tool in order to bypass the router's firmware signing?

 

Current WiFi Connect firmware: 3.0.0.4.378_4443-ge73b6a7

 

Current RT-AC66u Beta firmware: 3.0.0.4.378.4850

This was what I was wondering. Called and got mine ordered last night, but don't need wifi calling due to the 800 voice being on every tower around our house. I plan on experimenting when I get mine.

For any who are wondering/thinking about (and are S-off) flashing the previous radio onto this firmware version, it does not completely bring back the initial RF performance. However it is definitely a step in the right direction. For example previously would barely get a -116-117 dbm b26 at night time by a window, now can get a -108-109 dbm b26 signal in the exact same spot. Throughput has more than doubled also, ~1.5mb/so to a bit over 4mb/s. These findings are pretty much identical in the Kansas City area, STL area, and the rural areas inbetween.

My device experiencing the above problem is the LG G Pad F 7.0 with Android 5.0 Lollipop - Spark capable version.

I am not totally understanding of the term "rooted". The referenced device came from a Sprint corp store. I have upload several apps including Sensorly, Signal Check Pro, LTE Discovery.

Normally, I _DO_ select Exit to leave Signal Check Pro but after doing so, the System > Apps > Signal Check Pro indicate the app is sitill "Running" and the "Force Stop" rectangle is highlighted (selectable). Battery Doctor sees it as still drawing battery resources after the Exit option is selected.

Rooted, as in the device is rooted. IE having root access or administrative rights. Since you didn't even get the term, that means you're not rooted as you'd have to root your device yourself. Signalcheck usually says its running in the background after you close it if you have logging features turned on.

Is there a thread for speed testing, network testing in general? I don't want to break site policy as I respect the site, but several people have asked me to show my speed/signal experiences, both with Sprint and T-Mobile (if I even end up getting T-Mobile, as I'm hoping the Framily thing works out well).

 

An idea I have, not trying to tell the staff how to run things here or anything like that, just a suggestion, as I use to be a forum admin for several online forums in the past. One thing I did with staff we had, is if there were a particular demand for a topic thread we didn't particularly want to have, but then again we wanted the members requesting something to have a place to discuss a particular topic, was to have a private password protected section for it, and allow posts from people requesting access to it, even if we were having the section as a limited time only deal. Would something like this be possible here?

As Robert said above there is another site dedicated to T-Mobile, T4GRU. The most appropriate compromise would be to post your findings there and provide a link in this thread, or mention you posted there. Almost every S4GRU in this thread and many who are not are members of that forum also.

 

PS: in case you couldn't guess T4GRU is the T-Mobile version of this site, provided by the same enthusiasts that came up with the glory that is S4GRU.

Grab a nexus 5 off Swappa, its cheap and performs stellar in the kansas market. Plus if you decide to travel over to the greener turfed pastures of T-mobile you can use it on their network (as long as it isn't an n5 purchased from T-Mobile, sprint blocked theirs from being activated on sprints network).

 

 

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http://i.imgur.com/N0HY4ij.jpg

You're quite welcome. Did you ever install the drivers for the m9? Odds are your computer never decided to install them on your own until then [emoji2] .

Okay .. frustration central here.

I am a new purchaser of the M9. I have learned how to make screen shots of the LTE Discovery, Signal Check and Sensory speedtest screens.

I saw some interesting to me readings and was going to ask about them in the appropriate thread, but I have not been able to find the screenshots on the M9 nor when USB cable to my PC. I would appreciate some directions how to find my screenshots and how to copy that file folder to my PC without damaging my M9 directory.

 

Thank you in advance.

Should be in your gallery, or the pictures folder once you navigate to your sd card on your PC.

For everyone having radio issues there's a zip of the old one on xda. Results may vary but it is an improvement for me, not quite back to how it was but better.

i have two lines and swap between the upgrades every year so selling my m8 for a m9 means something like a $40 cost to me. If the rf was a little better than it may be worth it...but now google screws everything up and does this project fi thing and that may solve all of my connection problems. now if only it wasn't the nexus 6 exclusively

The rf is not bad in this phone by any means. The performance has just gone down. What I means is now it's about on par with my n5, before it used to smoke it.