jonathanm1978

Not sure why my note 9 suddenly started hitting band 2 here...

It seems to be a previous search for "weather" and I think it is popping up at the same time each day..IF I happen to be using the phone when that particular time comes around. 

It's like a Google Now card ...but gets annoying that I can't find out where to turn it off... 

I just got this notification since I still have around 500 shares of Sprint stock. 

Can anyone put this in non-NYSE speak so I can take my 500 and decipher what I"ll have when this is completed?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KehMngDAMICwVAeuXlIDb92LTixhcUsX/view?usp=sharing

Nope... no buttons. I want to just factory reset... but I have an RSA app that generates a secure code for my wife's work stuff and it's a hassle trying to get a new secureID.

Usually I can figure out these things on my own..but this has me at a loss. 

Randomly...when I unlock my phone, it will pop up google seach for weather..

It's not Chrome...it's the google app popping up a search for weather. And it usually happens when I unlock the screen. Sometimes, it'll be a few seconds after I've unlocked and doing something, it will pop over top of whatever I have open at the time. Only happens a couple times a day, but it's annoying...anyone have ideas on why? 

2 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

8665 would be a 5x5 G Block carrier. Is it possible it is being aggregated with a second B25 carrier? A 5x5 maxes out at ~37Mbps under ideal conditions, usually you will see mid 20s under good conditions. 

Yes it's being aggregated in that way. I am seeing a lot of 2nd carriers coming online near me.

They wouldn't give me two on my account either. I won't go into what I had to go through to get one for business location.

There's always a few people, prob under a hundred nationwide, who have a unique issue. Being able to modify band priority has in some cases, made people able to use their phone as expected. In a case where Sprint can't make a special prl just for one or two people (not that band priority is tied to prl).. Just saying... Being able to do these things can be helpful in getting an engineer to the root of a problem.. or seeing what exactly is happening, or just being handy in times that it should work properly.

Eh gotta love that...

Who needs that sorta control anyway..

9 minutes ago, shaferz said:

Our iphones still seem to prefer to initially connect to the Macro network.  If I go to my basement and cycle airplane mode with the phone in a place where it only gets weak B26, the phone will nearly immediately hop onto the MB, and stay latched on until I go out of range (almost 1/2 a block!)  But unless I do that, our phones almost always stick in the macro network.  :-/  Hoping that at some point, a software fix is pushed (to either the phones or on the network side) that will make connecting to the MB a bit more preferred.  

Example, if I am at home and connected to the MB, my phone immediately grabs the MACRO when the MB is out of range.   I would have thought that upon return home (or within some reasonable about of time for scanning) the phone would get handed back off to the MB.  MUCH stronger signal strength (1-2 'bars' of B25 on the Macro vs full bars of B41 on the Magic Box, ) so I'm not really sure at what point in time our phones should shift to the Magic Box.  We have been through 3 of the Magic Boxes, and each one acts like this.  MB Support seems to want to help at a high level, but the problem still hasnt been fixed.  Just dealing with it for now and hoping a future software update fixes things.

Change the band priority to 1. 41 2. 25 3. 26...

I actually saw the SSID on my magic box... Something made it boot loop and it wouldn't stop. Still unsure why, but after unplug for about thirty and plug back in, it decided to work properly again. But I saw the AU-545 ssid briefly. Came close to calling but that's when it began working again. Hasn't happened again yet... Is there something with these doing that?

29 minutes ago, belusnecropolis said:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wRoKXpqX5CJDjwev1

Looks like this guy has an eSIM, or at least the slot is empty on the Ninja radio side of the board. First device I have seen that in yet. Neat.

Is that an internal magic box pic? 

I hope someone will post it for us because I've had to turn off roaming LTE on my note 8... It kept finding band 17 before it would latch to band 41 magic box... So there's that

Realistically, I'm curious about how soon after a merger is announced will we see them make it where TMO LTE is native for Sprint and vice versa

I connect to att and data becomes unresponsive.... I've not been able to use any roaming LTE on at&t at all... It turns off soon as I connect. I finally went in and turned off roaming LTE ...

1 hour ago, Maverick said:

 

How does one go about getting a magic box?!

I'm thinking they've closed off residential requests for now until they fill some of the orders. I know the link is around here somewhere, Google Sprint magic box, or try sprint.com/magicbox

Currently, last I heard, it was business only...

I think it's a very exciting time to be a Sprint customer. What would be better is if a merger is done and those TMO roaming bands turn into native. It should be rather easy and one of the first things upon a merger happening... Turn on band 12 and band 4 for us Sprint customers... Same for TMO. Turn on band 25,26 and 41 for them... U would think that happens within 6 months of the merger.

Either way, I look forward to seeing what happens in the near future with Alabama. Seeing some sites go from GMO to full LTE...

Then I'd like to see what happens to my Sprint stick with a merger.

I think it'll get better...I don't know why it doesn't perform well. I don't remember how the note 5 did when it first released... But I think once it's past it's initial launch they might tweak the radio.

30 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

They still have the Sprint firmware, you can flash the unlocked firmware. 

I'd be happy with a better radio firmware. I still see the places where my note 5 was great on magic box reception and the note 8 doesn't pick up at all... Hopefully we get something soon.

4 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

If you do easy pay your phone is already unlocked fyi.

Mine is SM-N950U.

13 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

I do and I believe the price is the same...at least for me. 

I don't have a bill from ²ⁿⁿ⅞ to compare. I had the Samsung Airave... That was the first one...

I wish they would've given me two on my account. I had to get with a cousin and use his number in order to get one for business location.

The only way, so far, that I have found to keep my Note 8 from jumping on B17 AT&T is turn off LTE Roaming in ##DATA#...

And even then, I'm bouncing back to EV-DO VZW roaming -- I really think they should do some work on the radio and improve the reception.

26 minutes ago, david279 said:

They may not count as a line but in the Sprint App there is a phone number associated with my Magic Box. 

It's given a line on an account. I know this because I already had a magic box, on my residential account, and I requested a magic box for business location.

The lady from MB support emailed me and said  "we need an account to link this business magic box to"...so I gave her my number, which already had a MB linked...

She emailed me back and said that I couldn't use my account, because I already have a MB linked to my account, and needed to use a different account to link it to for the business MB. If it wasn't linked to an account (with a phone number, as shown below) then accounts would allow as many as you want to request within reason. I couldn't request one for home and one for business using the same account number..

Since band 17 is a roaming band... It's either on or off. I change the band priority a few days ago. 

Either have to disable LTE roaming or leave it on.

I know Sprint doesn't have a roaming partner for LTE around here.... The closest I know of is cspire in Mississippi...