jonathanm1978

I already read it, I wasn't asking for this information for myself...I saw the article and read about carrier fallback and enhanced carrier fallback. But these issues will be seen no matter what new tri device people buy...so they might find it easier to have a brief summary in the first post or something. JS. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

I have BF4 on the way, should be here today, but the PS4 I'm having to just hope I can snag when they go on sale tonight at midnight...My wife has to work 6am-6pm tomorrow, but I'm going to beg her to take a few hundred bucks and stand at Walmart while I go stand at gamestop with a few hundred..and hope one of us is able to walk away with one....

Can we sum up a bulletpoint style list of things someone should know when they consider getting the G2...maybe not listing problems, but the possible scenarios one might encounter...so someone who's considering it can get an idea of what they would be in for once they get home...I think that would be a great help. Seems like some people are seeing issues, and some aren't...but without reading all 68 pages of posts to find out, generally it looks like 2600 might be a culprit? I still get confused on which is 41 and which is 25.. 41 is 2600/clwr, 25 is current 1900 and 26 is 800? is that correct?

You're in Alabama too, aren't you? I'm thinking that will be the bell-ringer for me...Note 3 isn't tri-band... Even though it may be a while before Tri-band hits bama, I'd rather be future-proof in a way. I bought the GS3 when it first came out...and I have a problem now with the phone and I'm looking to upgrade so I don't have any down-time... That Nexus looks nice too...my wife may get the G2 and I might wind up with the Nexus..

I'm really stuck between LG G2 and the new Galaxy Note..but I'm leaning on the LG side of things.... I was thinking about going in today, but I'm not sure yet.

I got a game already so now I gotta find a ps4 sooner or later. Hopefully sooner... Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

I thought the note 3 just came out.. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

That site didn't do it either. Wound up being holding the middle of the volume button, the PTT button, and power all together until it comes up and restarts. Now I gotta figure out her exchange server settings for work email. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

How do you start a Motorola Titanium up in Recovery mode...or what have you... The people at the plant have a "used" phone box they can grab phones from when they need one, and she grabbed a moto that needs to be factory reset...but I can't find much on the subject and wondered if there's a way to get into motorolas to do such..?

Well, I'll be joining the crowd of new phone adopters next week...After talking with Sprint today, I'm going to give it a week, and go grab one on the One UP program... I told the wife she could have the phone, she wants the G2 as well..and I would just settle for getting the PS4 next week. No need for me to get a PS4 and LG G2 all in the same week. I really don't use my phone enough to warrant doing that..

I am really considering this as my extra line...I hate to go add a line just to get a phone...but we're not talking much more than what I'm paying now for service if I stick with the everything 1500... I'm battling my demons to stop me from buying a line I don't need, and making it 5 lines on my account....I should just go ahead and do the upgrade now program... 112 days left until my first upgrade eligible...142 on the next...so 3 months to go on one of them.

Here's an example....iPhone 4S on Sprint voice (5 bars)..but 1X data...and my GS3, on wifi and roaming sitting beside it. No airplane mode, Airave is all green and lights are fine...this happens randomly. Right after this, the Gs3 jumped on the Airave without me doing anything...and showed 5 bars. (the roaming signal is legit because of the VZW tower up the road about a mile...I made a call to make sure it wasn't a "ghost" signal...the call to VM went through fine...and then I put it down and took this picture).

The ticket I opened is in day 2...but I need the radio to stay where it is...I had to call them to request a ticket to extend the range to 8000 sq ft...if they turn it down, the signal cuts out in my bedroom. But it's not just data I'm having problems with....in fact....it's not really that important to have 3G data working. I just want the thing to stop dropping me on the voice side...because I have 4 phones that roam randomly at home...at any given time....and I don't want that to happen too much without me noticing.

Per speaking with gamestop yesterday, they said they had to sell their currently ordered shipment of PS4 by Monday...so they could get the next order... I asked point blank " so it's not like there's a supply shortage...just such a great demand that you are limited on what you can order as far as amount?" I was told yes..there's not a shortage of units..just a limited number they can acquire at one time. If that's the case, then it shouldn't be a problem to get one, just a matter of when that might happen.

That's what I'm saying...the PRL I got from Digi won't stick..so I quit using it back in like, August. it only worked when I was away from home, and I would have to PRL write while away....soon as I came home, the Airave prolbem would force it to PRL update / profile refresh and the PRL would revert back to stock. I finally just got tired of trying to remember to PRL write when I left home, and quit using it. It's still technically on the phone, but it's not in use. Another weird problem...my GS3, my wife's GS3, daughters iPhone and the Galaxy Victory all get weird timestamps on text msgs... That's been happening for months too. I don't run those weird msging apps on any device either...we're all running stock messaging for text...and still, we get texts at 4:12pm and the timestamp is for 10:12pm...just totally off. My sister in law isn't home right now, but I am. she sent me a text at 4:12pm...and it shows she sent it at 10:12pm tonight. But I sent one back..normal time 4:22p...her reponse after that was normal time too...4:29p. And I noticed during that time, my GS3 was hopping between roaming and native. All the while, the Airave is all green, and beeping on phone calls.

Read the last post I made again...voice and data both give me problems. I can have S3 #1 native full bars..., getting 3 beeps on phone calls, and S3 #2 roaming with 2 bars from the VZW tower up the road..and they can be sitting side by side. And iPhone 4S working fine on native Sprint with full bars too. I don't remember the last time I saw a 3G signal on my phones...but the voice roaming issue, that's a problem. Could be a huge one if all my phones roam (4 lines) and we don't catch it...we know about the beeps before sending a call...but it's not so easy on receiving a call...unless you take time to stare at it....and I keep my vonage forwarded to my cell all the time...after 2 rings, the call goes to my cell phone. (edit) I did have and still have the PRL on my GS3...but for some reason, this problem causes it to keep refreshing it's profile when it finally hits native..I don't always roam on my GS3...and I noticed when I finally get on the Airave, it'll usually do a PRL/Profile update from time to time without prompting it to do so.

I saw also that K-mart and Sears may have some...those are places you don't normally think of when it comes to a gaming console, or being first to have a few on release day... I'll be at Wal-mart next Thursday night around 10pm..and hopefully I walk out with a PS4 and either BF4 or CoD Ghosts... I'm not sure which game I'll pick up first...

It's just odd ...never seen anyone report what I've seen my Airave doing since...June or so.. Its not a new problem...but since we don't use 200-300 minutes a month from our 1500, and use Wifi at home...I thought maybe someone would have some technical insight as to why.... Why: GS3, mine...GS3 my wife...Iphone 4S my daughter, and Galaxy Victory 4G, my sis-in-law who also is staying here....(my wife's family had to move in for a while back in July) My mom-in-law also has a GS3...but it's not on my account...she got her own Sprint account. Now, the Airave only handles so many simultaneous voice + data connections at one time...I realize that... But I can have 2 devices, side by side...and one of them be roaming..the other will be on Native voice coverage. data....well it never goes to 3G no matter what's going on with voice... For example..the tech refreshed the airave on my account this morning from her end...told me to power down my phones (both the GS3 and iphone 4S that I have with me right now)... upon turning them back on, the iphone and Gs3 both went to roaming voice. The iphone reverted to native Sprint voice coverage with 1X data...and got the beeps on making a call to VM. GS3...when I turned it back on, stayed on roaming, and got no beeps when I made a call. At any given time, one, two, or multiple devices will suddenly go from native to roaming..and the lights on the Airave never change...always green. And it's in the same spot it's been in for years, and worked fine in that spot ... Extended the coverage area via tier 2 support so it should be around 8000sq ft of signal...I'm sitting in the next room when the above scenario took place with the iphone and GS3. So I'm at a loss...I don't always pay attention if I'm roaming when I answer a call...and usually can't tell if it beeps when someone calls me...I only notice it when I make calls... I don't want to get the letter in the mail saying I'm roaming too much..because I have no clue how often it does this...and I normally look over my sprint account about once every 2-3 months....as far as usage and such goes.

Exactly...this is the reason I've been seeing this problem since before June but haven't really gotten serious about fixing it...I don't always pay attention to voice though, and sometimes, the airave is all green, and I get no beeps on voice...so I roam when I shouldn't be. Discussing with a different Airave support person now, she's submitting a network ticket on it so they can see what's causing it to be working fine, and still kick me onto roaming with the voice side.... I don't always notice when it does this either, so I can't say how frequent, or infrequent the drops to roaming signal are. I know after the last Airave tech told me to turn off my phones so he could push an update...and I hung up with him..when I turned them both back on (my GS3, and my iPhone)....the both showed roaming voice...but the airave was solid green on all lights. I think that's gonna be a hardware issue.

I actually looked for that before posting because it really doesn't fit well in general topics/everything else. I been on forums for 10+ years, but all the forums I frequented used either vBulletin or phpBB...never dealt with IPboard before this site...usually when you click on New Content (or new posts, posts since last visit, etc), you get a list of topics...this board shows each individual post if it's new, could all be in the same topic, or 15 new posts in one topic, then 8 posts in another topic... Unless I know specifically where to go to look for something, I lose track of things if I forget to subscribe to them. Just different coding on this board than i'm used to seeing...and the search thing..I have no idea how you got search to bring those up...was it an advanced search? Because apparently my search that I did brought up every thread that had the word "airave" in it. I looked through the first 25 or so topics and only saw the 3 I mentioned.

They just told me on the phone that there's nothing they can do about it... it appears that 3G can work fine with the 2.0 version hardware, but on the 2.5 version, it's the area I live in and it can't be fixed... Doesn't make sense to me, but what do I know.

I guess this search function works different or something, because when I searched airave..it came up this:

I searched "Airave" and only saw 3...one in the sponsor area, one that said it was [answered] and one asking how an airave worked.

I have just chatted with tier 1 customer support on Sprint.com....and I'm guessing they don't take much time to look at an account before saying "you don't live in a coverage area, so an airave won't work for you..." well, let me quote what she told me about it....: I think she was going to suggest that I terminate my account with Sprint..I dunno. I kinda felt the conversation leaning in that direction and headed her off before she got into that...not interested in moving from what I enjoy to having myself ripped off every month by VZW...which gets great LTE at my house. I'm not about limits or data caps and not even going to try and go down that road...but if I were in that category, to try and get out of contract...I think that would've been my opportunity. At any rate....does anyone here know of GS3 and AIrave 2.0 connection problems on 3G? I've been seeing it for a while now, figured maybe it would fix itself once I moved the Airave back to the location it's always been in...but to no avail. I normally use Wifi...so having 3G isn't such an issue that I really want to put much time into it...but I think I saw where people were having issue with the Airave 2.0 and the GS3 a while back...I'm just not sure. At any rate, they want me to contact Airave support...which I guess would mean troubleshooting and possibly swapping out for the 2.5 version... I just got this one back about November 7 of last year...and it wasn't long after that i saw the problem with 3G on the Galaxy S3. I just checked my daughter's iPhone 4S and it doesn't get 3G either when I turn off wifi. However..if I go to make a phone call...I get the normal 3 beeps...coverage is great....I just don't have the data side... Can't be my internet...I have - not one -- but TWO DSL lines in my home...because AT&T {insert adjectives I prefer not to use} and I can't get Uverse or anything else...so I'm stuck with DSL at 6mbps down, .5mbps up...at any rate, I have Vonage on DSL1, and Airave on DSL2....and not much else pulling at the same time from the DSL2 line unless I'm gaming with my PS3. I don't understand this issue...or what could be causing it. Hard reset on Airave has been done...unplugged for several days....nothing has helped. Once in a blue moon I might get 3G on my wife's..and not my Gs3...or it may work on my daughters iPhone...but I don't think everything is kosher in the hardware...maybe it's a radio issue?? Anyone got any clues?

I called the local Chin...I mean Walmart...they said yes, they will have some extra, on top of the Pre-orders...but don't know how many (which I find to be...well, odd and somewhat false). Guess I'll have a scout at Gamestop..either my wife or myself...and another at Walmart. We'll see which one of us gets lucky first.