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JosefTor

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  1. My sanity came back when I switched. I have never seen 3g since the day I switched and I could actually hear the person on the other end of the call. Plus, my price is 2/3 of sprint's plan which is nice.
  2. Without root, you can easily disable all bloat ware with apps such as ez disabler. It makes samsung phones able to have less bloat than even nexus phones.
  3. Japan town in LA is good. The museums are good to like the science center and natural history museum. Someone mentioned the observatory and Hollywood sign which are nice. The Hollywood Hills tour is also good. Lastly, I would try and get out of LA as soon as possible and head to things such as Santa Barbara, Solvang (a Danish town), the beaches such as Laguna Beach, San Diego, etc. I'm not a huge fan of LA because of the traffic and dirtiness but there is light at the end of the tunnel elsewhere around there.
  4. I hope this sentiment isn't shared at Sprint. People don't leave because of 1 Mbps connections which people wouldn't even notice a difference on their phones, they leave because sprint drops to 3g with sub 100 kbps speeds or no connection at all in major metropolitan areas. I can't recommend sprint to anyone in OC or else they won't be my friend for long.
  5. Correct. There are also apps that you can do the same thing as well. Just realize that once you restart the phone, it defaults to auto switching so you have to put in the dialer codes again.
  6. I had a similar experience in Orange County where they said there were no plans to fix the areas on the interstate and surrounding my house which would drop to no coverage. It just seems like they have no fight anymore. Then, after I switched off sprint, I receive postcards to come back. Why spend money to get me back when you had an opportunity to keep me in the first place? Also, I keep receiving two postcards at the sign time. They should probably only have one per household.
  7. We should call this what it feels like, this is a Sprint survival move. I don't believe this is under promising and over achieving or some strategic move. PS: I do not want Sprint to fail. No one wins with 3 carriers except big business.
  8. Do yourself a favor and do not get the Nexus 5x. I switched from the phone to a Galaxy S7 Edge and have never been happier. The Nexus 5x is slow, has a washed out screen, poor battery life, and large bezels. I wouldn't get the LG G5 either as the build quality is lacking and the software needs to mature. The HTC 10, although I haven't seen one, appears to be good from the reviews I am reading. I'd also consider the Galaxy S7 if I were you. Love mine.
  9. Lol how aggressive Sprint is being with advertising. I see them on TV, the sides of busses, and YouTube. Well done Sprint!
  10. I tend to think that people wouldn't care if they dropped to 2-3 Mbps since all functions of their phone would work the same including Hugh definition videos. My problem, and the reason I left Sprint, was that it would drop from 100 Mbps to unusable speeds or no signal through Orange County. No signals on the main thoroughfares is unacceptable. And then when I would report it they would respond that everything looks good on their side and to check my phone. I knew it wasn't the phone so that just frustrated me.
  11. Logically what you say makes sense, but for a tech enthusiast community that spends a lot of money on a new phone supposed to last at least 2 years and for a community that finds it fun to go tower spotting even with the wife in the car, not having 3x CA will really suck once the speed test photos start rolling in. This will cause us to get the itch and to upgrade only a year into our contract. Also, for people not on Sprint with its big B41 bandwidth pipes, this 3x CA will come in handy for those folks as they see their speeds drop.
  12. I don't expect a county/city that went bankrupt to make smart financial decisions. Heck, they'll probably delay and ask for more money.
  13. I must have missed something. Why the big concern over increasing the T&D ratio when you get speeds over 200 and then discuss the ways to increase upload. Any download and upload over 10 and I am a happy clam. Heck, my home Internet is 3 and I game on Xbox and stream Netflix with ease on my 55 inch.
  14. If you notice any bugs, please let us know. I got a little gun shy after the marshmallow preview build proved very buggy.
  15. Haven't received it yet, but the latest March OTA update is supposed to fix the speed and stability issues. Maybe we can use the camera now to actually take pictures reliably? Thanks Google.
  16. Software encryption is enabled by default on the Nexus 5x. If you do a Google search on Nexus 5 versus 5x, it will be blatantly apparent that Nexus 5x is slower than the 5 and probably one of the slowest phones around. Also, the speaker grill problem can also be found via a search. It is not well known but it is definitely not a mono speaker and, if it is, the speaker is faced towards the back of the phone and not towards the grill.
  17. Just moved from project Fi to Tmobile from originally being a sprint customer for over a decade. I'm not bashing sprint as I know it has gotten better in a lot of places, but San Bernardino and the border have really hindered the sprint experience without having B26 in SoCal. I am excited to continue listening to people's experiences in sprint here and will consider returning once B26 and small cells is launched. This is definitely an awesome community. Also, where is our market czar? I can't wait for a dedicated person for the west/southwest and I don't think one has been selected yet. Project Fi was fun but definitely had it's quirks about it. Switching between carriers only occurs when you lose signal and takes about 45 seconds, missed voicemails when on Sprint on project Fi, and VoLTE not working on Tmobile band 12 which means missed and dropped calls. Now that I am on tmobile, definitely love HD calling. Usually when talking to people on the phone, we would talk until the other person got frustrated that we couldn't hear each other. No more... Now I can enjoy using my phone as my business phone.
  18. True, but the phone isn't doing much to help itself. I bought my wife and I this phone and it is significantly slower than our old Nexus 5x (thanks Google for unwanted software encryption). Also, the speaker isn't front facing even though it appears to be... you can hear the sound louder from the back than the front. I'm sad I went all in with this phone.
  19. Even though 2020 is so far in the future, I hope sprint deploys equipment today with 5g in mind (example: deploy microwave that can't support the speeds of 5g) or just stops this small cell deployment and focus on a rapid 5g deployment in the future. I'd hate to see a large capital spend now (when the heck are we starting again?) and then sprint takes their time to 5g and blames WiMax as the reason.
  20. How does B41 or other Sprint spectrum play into 5g down the road? Is 5g just a very high frequency technology?
  21. Very exciting. If this is NGN small cells it is definitely more equipment than I thought would have been necessary though. I thought these things were supposed to be one small module with power going to it... Not separate base units, antennas, and microwave.
  22. Completely agree on this. I just got the feeling sprint and some of the users here don't value advertising and consider it just another cost to get rid of.
  23. Although I like the thought of spending more money on their network, smart and effective advertising should never be chopped for any reason because without advertising, you will lose your business. It is dangerous if people get it into their heads that advertising is not something sprint can afford. Look at Tmobile for instance which it's success can be largely attributed to a marketing stunt.
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