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The hangouts app has a lot of potential, but its inconsistent design and sometimes odd way of handling things need to be addressed sooner than later.

 

At the very least they update it on a regular basis.

My advice would be to move on to GV hangouts integration and use the hangouts app to listen to VM's (it works fine for VM's). GV app never got decent support to begin with, and has become less and less usable as the OS matures around it.

This is my phone in landscape mode. The status bar is very apparent but there is another burn to the right of it. It's the app headers. Really not sure what happened. It must be while I was sleeping during an inadvertent wake. I uninstalled dash Clock which was like a sort of screensaver. It didn't jive well with lollipop battery levels. And now I have burn in.

Are you guys getting screen burn in? Less than a year later I'm getting it on the status bar. I feel like it happened post lollipop. #thankslollipop

Everyone has different needs. You don't need it, someone else does. End of argument.

If you google "google play download stalls" or hangs a lot of people have similar issues. Ive always had issues intermittently.

You don't, the phone uses a tech called MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) to basically broadcast the same data that is on a magstripe. This allows you to hold the phone near the swipe reader and transmit the data without swiping anything. Its pretty genius actually and I'm surprised no one else has thought to put this tech to use before now.

Brooklyn bowl is so popular they made one in Las Vegas.

yeah sucks its not waterproof especially since wireless charging is now standard. i kinda with the edge was waterproof and had an sd card so that at least your paying something for the premium.

 

I am anxiously awaiting the actual review units as the launch draws closer.  I just can't believe that they put such a small battery in a sealed up phone, BUT I will wait and see what the reviewers say.  I'm pretty disappointed that the IP67 did not transfer through to the S6 from the S5.  I thought they were starting a trend.  I don't care so much about the SD card loss as long as Sprint offers the larger versions of the phone and doesn't pick the lowest common denominator with 32GB (ala, Nexus 6).

 

I am extremely interested in the camera and that LoopPay integration.  I think that Apple really missed the boat on LoopPay considering Magstrip swipes will be around for a while despite the move towards pin/chip cards in the future. 

The one in Toms Brook has been up for a few months. The one in Woodstock I just spotted about a month ago. Had I known these are the first known to exist anywhere, I would have posted sooner.

 

Robert already changed the one in the map to 3G/4G in a message I sent him a while back. Is there any way to add this new one to the map as 4G only?

Being quick charge compatible might go a long way in assuaging low batt fears. For me it does. A little. But it still does. Glass back though?

Sprint promotional items released. Win an s6 if you pre register.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/02/26/sprint-galaxy-s6-and-galaxy-s6-edge-promotion-leaked-ahead-of-mwc-announcement/

Look up at your light poles and gaze upon the hundreds of small cells deployed by cable co for public wifi and verizon that was never discovered in building permits.

Bring it on Sprint bring it on!

Small cells cost $2-3k a pop each but because they're so compact and low profile you don't have to drag it through city zoning or permitting and etc or need people with extensive training to install it as they're plug and play.

 

In comparison,a typical network vision antenna or 2.5 antenna cost $3000-$5000 each alone.

Do you use Google voice sprintegration? I use it and I feel like my texts have been getting more and more delayed. Some days it's fine. Some days not so much. S5 lollipop.

So battery still kinda sucks. But last night I was in someone's house on the hill that had poor signal.

Like only minimal b26. I was there 7 hours. Didn't use my phone like more than 15 minutes. And I was at 60 percent batt life. Not bad for 7 hours is poor coverage. Pre lollipop my phone is usually dead there after 7 hours light use or not. Said I had about 11 hours left on remaining batt.

So now this phone has great standby battery. Just don't ever use it for anything lol.

so something I've taken notice of, is that my device now wants to park on Band 41 no matter how weak the signal is. In my room I would always just get band 25 now it stays on band 26 and I just took a call and it hopped onto Band 41 automatically even at over a 110dBm!

I'm seeing on twitter and reddit that people are complaining about an outage/no service for T-Mobile in the northeast. I guess reliability does matter.

 

https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/map

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/02/13/t-mobile-service-struggling-in-northeast-at-the-moment/

After about a week now, one of my big pet peeves is the memory leaks. Things will just randomly disappear. No message about things crashing. Just disappearing especially signal check pro. It will be in status bar one minute and gone the next. Spotify too will randomly stop and be gone. Really annoying. Happens with all apps.

And things won't stay in memory in recent apps, when I come back to an app I just left it will refresh or act like I am just opening the app for the first time.

Anyone else experience these bugs?

Be on the lookout for these guys in Brooklyn. I don't think it's a sprint site, not sure about clear though.

http://gothamist.com/2015/02/10/cops_these_guys_stole_copper_wire_b.php

Chicago is in Middle America and Sprint does very well there. Guess who beat T-Mobile in Chicago?

Speaking of Chicago. Here's a pro sprint non tech article on the root metrics score from the Tribune.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-sprint10-20150210-story.html

For the first time that I've noticed I've been able to keep an LTE signal from my school all the way home without it dropping or cycling airplane mode! Long live Tri-Band or at least B26 optimization in this case

 

 

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Data in apps, unless you're rooted or the dev uses the appropriate Google API for data sync, won't be backed up. I use the Samsung cloud sync for my SMS/MMS (if I care about them). I'd rather have less junk floating around in any apps and start fresh. Otherwise, I let Google restore my wifi spots, settings prefs, and installed apps.

 

sent from an underwater dust storm from my Sprint S5

I recommend ##786# if you know your MSL to do a complete wipe

Have my MSL, What's the difference between RTN and factory reset in the recovery menu?

and what's the best way to backup everything these days, settings, info, apps, etc...

My battery is back down to 4 hrs. Sucks. I guess I have to do a wipe. What's the best way these days to do a wipe and recover all your info? I haven't done it I a while. What about a davlik cache wipe. I didn't see it in the recovery menu just the regular cache. Thanks guys.