greenbastard
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Ummm...why not do that to begin with on T-Mobile or when you were on Sprint? See, this line of thinking is exactly why unlimited will never work. It has to die. People are using it as their personal WiFi in that they download anything they want, even if they have access to WiFi, just because it's unlimited. As soon as you begin to see that tiered data will cost you more if used uncontrollably, you begin to act responsibly as a mobile user is supposed to. I like unlimited for peace of mind, but it has to die. It's been a good ride, but this is why we can't have nice things in this world. I just hope that once every carrier is on tiered data, their prices per GB go down as competition rises. (And before any of you say that you're paying for 'unlimited', you should go read your terms and conditions about fair usage on both Sprint and T-Mobile's contracts)
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So anyone else getting this annoying issue with their phone not having their incoming phone calls come through? I called Sprint and they say it's not tower related, but with eCSFB I highly doubt that. About once every 4 days, my phone will stop receiving phone calls (messages are fine for some reason). The one way to fix this is to either make an outgoing phone call or do a prl/profile update. Once I do this, any incoming phone call will come through without issues for at least the next 4 days. I know, easy fix...but that's not how any of this is supposed to work, especially when it happens very often. Sprint said to take my S5 for a "complimentary" exchange for a refurbished S5 (or equivalent), but honestly I don't even think its the phone. What do you guys think? Is this a Sprint issue or phone issue?
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Tidal recommends 5.0 Mbps as a minimum for their Hifi service. SMH, DSL isn't even that fast. Tidal won't work on any mobile network in major cities, PERIOD. To expect a network to stream lossless music is ludacris (no pun intended). YouTube 720p video can be flawlessly streamed with less bandwidth requirements. Hifi is definitely meant for WiFi downloading. This Tidal Hifi fad won't last long. Mobile networks can't handle the load and phones don't have the memory space to build a large library users can save on their phones for offline use.
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Not to pile on, but this is utter BS. I get 1-2 Mbps speeds during the day and have no problem streaming a 360p video or using high quality Spotify. Most Radio streams go no higher than 64 kbps AAC+, so even 1x should be enough to stream a live radio stream. Are you a millennial by any chance?
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Are you on lollipop?
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Really? In my personal experience, the S5 performs way better than the iPhone 6 indoors (B26), and the iPhone has a pretty solid reputation when it comes to rf performance.
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I've grown fond of the leaks. Anytime my browser crashes, I take it as a sign that I've spent too much time on my phone and it's time to put it down.
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Depends. Is he a regional driver focused on a specific region or does he drive nationwide? Sprint has some major gaps in the north part of the country (North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Nebraska). Most interstates in those states lack native coverage and users rely on roaming partners. Outside of those states, they mostly have major interstates covered. Check the Sprint website to see specific coverage. I know they have the southeast and Texas locked down with 3G in every interstate. Even Verizon doesn't cover all of I-10 in West Texas while Sprint does.
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So, anyone else getting the random missed calls on Android triband devices inside Houston? Seems to be a eCSFB issue since Apple phones don't seem to be having this problem. Hopefully it's a sign of software being tweaked on the network since we really need some changes on that front.
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Roll Tide!
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Sprint International Value Roaming Plan Experience!
greenbastard replied to jamesinclair's topic in General Topics
Probably in the works as more countries turn on LTE, If we see Sprint create LTE roaming agreements in, lets say Mexico, those in the International Value Roaming will be able to access LTE, but still at throttled 2G speeds (kinda like how today we are able to get on their fast HSPA+ network with 2G speeds). Of course, this is assuming you have a phone that supports the necessary bands. In order to benefit from any potential high speed LTE, you will most likely have to pay for data buckets. -
A complete network is a bad network. Any company that is not constantly improving their network is a company that will be left behind by its competitors. Also many of us act as if this LTE technology and today's data-hungry market has been around forever. All of this is still rather new for consumers and providers, so for us to see 4 major carriers undertake massive overhauls/deployments of LTE this fast is rather fascinating. AM Radio, FM Radio, and terrestial TV took way longer to develop and deploy than LTE. So instead of crying about a network not working, can we just sit back and admire human ingenuity working faster and better than ever before seen in our history?!
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What are you talking about? At&T allows its customers to upgrade and keep their legacy 'unlimited' data plans.
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Yup. My brother does his online without having to deal with a rep haggling him into buying a tiered data plan.
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According to CNET's Marguerite Reardon, 44% of At&t data users were still on the old 'unlimited' plan. It's safe to assume Verizon has a lower amount of users with 'unlimited' data due to their more aggressive strategy of getting people off of their unlimited plans.
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Comcast biggest problem (and most cable companies for this matter) is that they aren't consumer friendly. Their equipment rental lineup is mostly limited and expensive. That would be fine for most services, but unfortunately Comcast will NOT allow its customers to buy their own equipment. So I'm stuck with either their crap 1990s blue user interface or....oh wait, there is no "or", I'm stuck with it...PERIOD! There are no alternatives to their buggy cable boxes that periodically freeze or go out. If Comcast takes over T-Mobile, I fear the industry will regress in the sense that BYOD will die before it even got the chance to take off.
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Personally, I think "unlimited" is what has made Sprint stand out amongst its competitors here in Southeast Texas and south-southwest Louisiana. Although unlimited has to eventually end, it wouldn't be in Sprint's best interest to rush to end it today in the middle of NV.
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Trust me, it ain't his cellphone; its Midland. That whole part of the state is so depressing and dusty that it makes everything in your life 2x worse than what it actually is. There are fields of oil wells as far as the eye can see on that region. Very little agriculture outside of Cotton (which leads to those old western style tumble weeds in some parts of town). The entire town is filled with roughnecks who spend their nights at the local Twin Peaks and finish off the night at the local strip club. Its Oil Town USA. Lots of money to be made, but at the cost of your sanity.
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Everywhere in Texas, when you're indoors then this is from strongest to weakest: 1x 800 1x 1900 EVDO 1900 LTE 800 LTE 1900 LTE 2500 LTE signal seems to deteriorate a lot faster indoors than CDMA technology. 800 LTE always fall back to a somewhat useful 1900 3G EVDO (around -101 through -103).
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Sprint International Value Roaming Plan Experience!
greenbastard replied to jamesinclair's topic in General Topics
Laugh all you want, but payphones in Mexico are necessary for the everyday hardworking folks who run one of the many extortion rings in the country. Funny story, the first time I bought a SIM card from Movistar, I received a random phone call a few days later from a guy telling me to stay calm and not to panic. He claimed to have snatched my daughter from school and he was going to hold her safe until I paid him 5,000 pesos (~500 bucks) by the end of the day. I was 16 and didn't (and still don't) have any children. The oddest part about all this was how well spoken this guy was. I guess they are Mexico's version of telemarketers. -
Anyone ever gotten this random pop up on their GS5? I checked the task manager and it seems to be coming from the NetworkSystemProvider application. Is this anything harmful or something I should be concerned about? After a while, the phone gave me the same message without the 'Later' option and when it rebooted, it gave me the message "Optimizing App... 1 of 1".
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NYV = ? The thing I have noticed is that whenever I disable Band 26, my phone seems to be correctly balanced between band 41 and band 25. My phone will actually stay on Band 41 if it is available and will stay there until I completely lose signal, then switch to B25 At times, it actually seemed as if Sprint wanted to clear users from Band 25 in order to create a sense of faster speeds and better indoor signal for early Spark adaptors with B26. I remember when I had my single band S3, my speeds on B25 where at .5-1.5 Mbps. The day I switched to the S5 (and for a couple of months after), my phone would stay on B26 and speeds would constantly surpass 10 Mbps. Today, those roles have been reversed as more Triband users have come on line. I hope that whenever Sprint tears apart the Clearwire equipment and installs 8T8R panels, they finally get it right for Houston. This town seems to be the most congested town for Sprint in the entire state. Pre-NV days, I could pull +1 Mbps from some sites in San Antonio or College Station. In Houston, I'd be lucky to just load a web page on most sites.
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Sprint International Value Roaming Plan Experience!
greenbastard replied to jamesinclair's topic in General Topics
I'm not sure how it works on Apple, but is there a feature to switch to the type of network to use? Maybe you had it on LTE/CDMA only. I know Android can be put into Automatic, LTE/CDMA, GSM/UMTS, or CDMA only. Maybe that was your issue. It could also be that iusacell has already decommissioned CDMA so that's why you had absolutely no signal. Or maybe Sprint has removed them from the PRL list (I don't know how to check them). -
Sounds like the same experience I have with the GS5. Outdoor is all B41, but indoors is B26 even though B25 is available for me to use. My B26 is almost unusable during peak hours. I've had instances were I couldn't keep a constant 24 kbps audio stream without it constantly buffering. 3G on the other hand is now 1+ Mbps in a lot of places, which I have never seen in Houston before.
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It's been awfully quiet in Houston after B26 was fired up. Anyone else getting annoyed by the load balancing clogging B26, yet leaving B25 completely wide open? Clearwire B41 seems to be mostly useless in indoors, so B26 has taken a severe abuse in a lot of places. Also, Katy/Westpark/Sugar Land could use some of the new densification that Marcello announced. Some of the new subdivisions are outgrowing every network west of town by either by overloading their loosely spaced towers or by falling off of coverage. Its a mess trying to use data out there.
