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http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/11/t-mobiles-network-extender-lets-anyone-use-your-internet-bandwidth/ basically T-Mobile just made you a volunteer of there cell phone network at additional cost to you, I would say that this goes against some TOS of your ISP

I must be the only one who likes this plan. The reason I don't like the sprint plan is I have to trust sprint to upgrade my town which is the worst performing in Orange County, Aliso Viejo. Who knows how long downtown or my neighborhood will take to even get LTE. The downtown has a chance, my neighborhood, not likely. By giving a consumer's a choice we get to perform the deployment for TMO. I already got my business on the pre-order list for this device about a month ago as well. This is a "disruptive" strategy at very low cost to Tmobile. I agree that it could violate terms of service though for consumer customers.

Just drove the grapevine on the 99 and did not drop LTE at all until I got to my hotel. Pretty good showing for Sprint. I got quite a bit of B41. Shocked that I didn't hit B26 at all though.

On Tmo/AT&T Bands, the N6P is slightly better than the N6 in reception. Equal to the N5. Although it seems to hold on to B4 better than the N5. But WiFi speeds are noticeably faster on my N6P over the N6 and N5. And that's likely due to WiFi MIMO.

 

My N6P battery life seems on par with the N6 during active usage. I was hoping for more, but I have been using this thing heavily. But it kills the N6 in standby battery life and charge up speed. My N6P drops about 1% an hour in standby (with a good signal). It could go days just sitting there.

 

The charge up speed with my 5 amp car charger and a fast USB Type C cable is over 3% per minute. Sometimes even getting to 4pc/m. I can almost recharge completely in my 20 minute drive home (if I leave it alone). With the wall charger from Google, I hit a 2-3pc/m recharging. Which is ~40-45 minutes when completely dead to full charge.

 

The one thing that really hurts the battery though is standby on T-Mobile WiFi calling. It drops like 8-10% an hour on Tmo WiFi calling standby. And I don't know if that is normal, or because I'm using it an areas where Tmo has no signal at all.

 

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What car charger are you using? I found none that charged at the same voltage as the wall charger that came with the phone. Btw, I don't think your phone can actually charge faster than 5v/3a.

Ok that makes sense. Lets hope Sprint makes it happen. I would love to see all carriers swap spectrum to make it as much efficient as possible for all parties to deploy wide channels.

 

I guess a good example would be if a Sprint market owns all of the PCS A block and if they can swap and acquire the neighboring PCS D block, Sprint could then combine the two blocks and make it a 20x20 LTE carrier. And that would also go for blocks B and E OR blocks F and C.

If Sprint doesn't have spectrum that they could mutually swap, they should open up their pocket book and buy some for a couple billion. By waiting, the spectrum price is going up to insane prices. If this payout happened years ago, it may have been able to be performed a lot cheaper. Right now it is still an OK time though because people need money to purchase the 600 spectrum.

Think I'm going to order my N5X today and switch to Fi. How's it working for you so far?

Did you request an invite?

New Sprint commercial for Halloween

 

 

Not that big a fan... People won't believe their statements at the end. Heck, I'm a sprint user and I know those statements aren't near true unless they are comparing themselves to sprint of a few years ago. Plus, that map of the US acts like they are pretending to have massive coverage when in fact, they now have the least coverage of the National carriers (or close to it since it sounds they are doing a metroPCS strategy). Sorry this sounds negative but I would have focused on things that are true such as number one in multiple markets, international roaming, talk about the open world plan, take about no overages, etc.

Since the update battery life has been great but one thing I've noticed is that I see my WiFi appears on every so often in the battery history. I have WiFi, scanning and location completely disabled. Has anyone experienced this? Also my phone seems to get stuck in 3G alot now and has a hard time making its way back to LTE.

 

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The update did the same 3g issue to my Nexus 5. It got fixed once I moved to the Nexus 5x.

I know Sprint used to over promise which got them burned, but I wish sprint would go back to listing targets and being more transparent with roll out plans. Everything is so secretive these days.

Any attempt to excuse this inadequacy is an attempt to excuse away something people currently want on their current devices. If their was not a desire for it they would not have to have prepared responses such as.... you can do voice and data while on wifi. As always... vote with your pocketbook.

Just thinking out loud though, Sprint is not preventing manufacturers from adding the capability to their phones. I do recommend voting with your wallet because that is how capitalism works, but I'm not sure where a good viable option is for you to turn.

Does Sprint have any plans to refarm a second B25 LTE carrier any time soon in LA Metro and OC county?

I was in Julian a couple weeks ago and had a second B25 carrier. Granted, that is in the middle of nowhere.

Yes, get rid of overages. They could set it up to purchase additional high speed data. An overage is typically a surprise on the bill, if you have to go and pay for extra data you know up front exactly what you're spending. Overages are the number one reason I kept my family on framily with unlimited data, surprise charges suck for budgeting.

 

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This would be great! I like that Sprint is clearing all my pain points with it one by one. I wish I was in a B26 market and that would be icing on the cake. I never wanted to switch off of unlimited because I hate overages. This will help users get off their unlimited plans. Just hope this won't kill their profit in the meantime.

Wall Street Journal interview with Claure

 

The CEO revealed that he removed reserved parking spaces for Sprint executives and made them walk "half a kilometer" to their office like regular employees.

 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-plan-to-fix-sprint-1445824911

Don't know what I think about this. It probably will help change the culture which is good, but a lot of higher up people have earned their position, work a lot harder doing things that add value to the stockholders, come in earlier and stay later, and travel frequently so they need to re-work throughout the day. These are of course generalizations but they generally hold true.

I can't wait to hear the user experiences of Nexus 6P on Sprint once people have had some time to test it on their network.

If it is anything like the Nexus 5x, it will be a strong LTE performer. I get LTE in places I have never had it moving from the Nexus 5.

Yes, You nailed it. CDMA works almost perfect. VOLTE probably will not at least in some areas. If they can be positive that the call will fallback to CDMA without dropping, then VOLTE should be considered.

Agreed! No dropped calls in the handoff needs to be the requirement before moving to VoLTE.

No, VoLTE won't be implemented for a while, probably not until NGN has made significant progress. If Sprint deployed VoLTE right now their dropped/blocked call rate would skyrocket.

Can sprint make their VoLTE seamlessly hand off to CDMA for voice calls? Then you wouldn't have the dropped call issues and you'd hopefully free enough carriers for another B25 carrier.

Ok, here are my thoughts:

 

Battery Life:

Seems good enough, it's no iphone but battery under normal usage gets me through the day

 

Screen:

Excellent! Very bright/clear! I dont miss SAMOLED at all.

 

Camera:

This is STILL a sore spot for the Nexus. The Camera on the LG G4 and GS6 (and iPhone 6) is far superior. Granted, this is a HUGE upgrade over the original nexus 5 camera, it still needs to come a long way before it can be considered flagship level. I still view it better than the Nexus 6 camera, though.

 

Form Factor:

I think one of the things that made the Nexus 5 unique was the fact that it was a bit smaller than your average flagship. I miss the older size, which I found to feel just great in the hand. This is actually a bit taller than a GS6 and about the same width. Disappointed that Google didn't keep the unique size of the Nexus 5 and carry it into the Nexus 5x.

 

Performance:

Stock Nexus - enough said? This phone flies. Compared to a GS6, this is a MUCH faster phone despite only having 2GB ram and a slower processor. Everything is buttery smooth as it should be.

 

Radio:

Phone works great on sprint! Handles bands EXTREMELY well - FAR better than the GS6 ever did. For example, in my office, I would bounce between B41/25/26 at my desk on a GS6. The GS6 could only reliably handle B26 but would always try and shift to a higher band as in an urban environment signal fluctuates. The N5x behaves and just sticks with a stable connection. Band changes in general are smooth and I haven't noticed any issues.

 

Imprint:

Probably the biggest surprise feature of the phone. Much better than Apple's TouchID. This is extremely fast and extremely accurate, best on the market. I did not expect this.

 

USB Type C:

While many complain about progress, I was actually VERY happy to see this finally start to make it on flagship phones. It's a far more reliable and stable cable which is a good thing. I find the cable to be plugged/unplugged easily and securely. I bought 3 USB Type C to USB Type A cables from oneplusone's website, they are the cheapest at about $5.50/cable for 4ft and $6.50 for 6ft and a flat $4.99 shipping regardless of how many cables you buy. They seem to be a very high quality cable sold "at cost" according to oneplusone.

 

Charging:

Google's decision to go 3A over 5V is sort of annoying given that I have a bunch of 9V/12V chargers (quickcharge 2.0 chargers). Even AJ's favorite HP Touchpad 5.3V 2A charger can't give the N5x the juice it can take. For me, I'll settle for using my existing chargers at slower rates until USB Type C charging market matures. Given that the N5x can support quickcharge 2.0, I hope a software update unlocks higher voltage charging.

Like yr detailed post but I don't think the Nexus 5x supports quick charge 2.0. It does charge quick, but it doesn't use the Qualcomm quick charge technology to do it. On a separate note, I do hope proprietary fast charging goes away as it evolves way too quick and it shouldn't be a licensing/royalty thing.

Wow you sure do things rather hastily without eliminating variables. Prior to the Nexus 5X on your Nexus 5 you must have known the Sprint LTE coverage in the different areas you travel prior to installing the Android 6 preview. Didn't you find it very strange that it was perhaps the software that was causing your LTE woes and not the Sprint service itself. If that happened to me, I would have at least flashed the Nexus 5 back to Lollipop just to confirm if the LTE woes was really Sprint service that was messed up or not.

You know, I think I should get some cred to eat my words. What would you think if for 4 months you don't get LTE anymore and you drop calls all the time. 4 months without cell service when you are a principle project manager is a big deal.

Thats it. Auto correct has got to go lol. I'm downloading swiftkey.

 

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Try SwiftKey beta which does 2 word prediction

From stretch limos to Uber cars. Awesome! [emoji38]

Limos is going too far but ubers are a very common and economical choice for business trips

Kansas City Royals in the World Series = More advertising for Sprint!

 

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Was it just me but the only wireless company not advertising during the show was Sprint? If I was sprint it would have brought out the message that Sprint is number one in KC.

I wanted to eat my words real quick. The reason my experience has been so crappy as of late is because I was part of the android 6 preview program and it forced my phone to 1x all the time and would just camp out there leaving for an incredibly crappy experience. Over the past week on the official version, things have improved back to normal. Also, the nexus 5x is proving to be a much better phone than the nexus 5 on holding on to LTE so now I occasionally get LTE at work and sometimes at home. Granted, now I'm pisses at Google because I sold a bunch of my sprint shares and signed up for a Tmobile plan that I can now go and cancel. TMO is still superior in OC, but I don't want to lose my $60 unlimited plan.

The 5X was the easiest new phone activation I have ever had with Sprint. I didn't even have to chat. Good job Sprint!

 

Anyone else notice the USB Type C cable is really hard to disconnect? I thought I was going to break the phone unplugging the cable.

Yes, I thought the phone was going to go flying across the room because it is so slippery and the cable was hard to disconnect.

At sprint store and they are having trouble activating. Any tips for them?

Think I got it. I recalled back from Nexus 5 days the need to remove the last number of the code and then it goes through.

At sprint store and they are having trouble activating. Any tips for them?

http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/san-antonio-tx/2015/2H

 

I don't get how sprint did so badly in the data speed portions. Average download speeds where the second highest, upload speed where the worst but does root weight upload and down load the same? If so, that is pretty dumb.

 

 

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Sprint has got to be seeing that one of their updates is messing with their reliability. I want sprint to succeed and I think there is just a configuration error that Sprint deployed.

 

My own experience in Orange County seems to be slowly replicating itself in other markets. I used to travel on LTE the majority of the time and now it is less than 20% of the time even though I don't use data when driving. My phone is going from full blown LTE signal to no signal and back to 3g every couple of minutes when driving (or even when sitting at a stop light). I get my new Nexus 5x here shortly and hope this fixes itself but I am concerned how this will start to impact customer adds and drops.

 

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