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Yup. They got worse a week after the update. I received my phone back from Samsung on Tuesday and was somewhat reluctant to switch back to the S5 from my S3 due to the constant app crashes on Lollipop.

Sprint was non existent past the pedestrian bridge over I-5 right before the interstate ends and veers left into Mexico almost a year ago. I had a very similar experience with calls and 1x SMS not going through right before I lost the sprint signal near the outlets. Has Sprint always deliberately kept their signal away from Tijuana/MX? I know they don't in some parts of Texas.

I used to roam a lot in Houston with Cricket, then Verizon if that wasn't available...I also roamed in some rural highways on Verizon when traveling around East and Central Texas. But that was 2+ years ago. I haven't roamed since 1x800 got lit up all over the place in Texas, even in rural highways. I think the only time I roamed as of late was when I went into Tijuana a year ago. Surprisingly Cricket was border blasting the immidiate border area of Mexico.

I hate to play devil's advocate here (especially with Lou's consistent passive trolling), but what you experienced (1 single user) isn't a good measurement for where T-Mobile sits today. As a matter of fact, looking at their map it seems like they've started to fire up H+ and LTE along the highways and rural areas (whether they have the back haul for it is a different story) I'm not here to defend T-Mobile or Sprint. Heck, I'm the farthest from being a fanboy of any wireless company, mostly because they are all out to make a profit from us and don't care about the industry as much as we do. But we need to stop acting as if T-Mobile is a terrible company. Sure, they have a marketing guru as CEO who will ultimately ruin the company financially in the long run, but you have to admire the progress T-Mobile has had in the past few years. I don't think any company has caused as much change in the modern wireless industry as T-Mobile has. In my opinion, T-Mobile has the better overall network today than Sprint. But if you were to ask me which company has a brighter future, its definitely Sprint. It still has a lot of LTE spectrum in its pocket and as soon as they finish 8t8r deployment, T-Mobile will have to find a new 'uncarrier' move to beat the speeds of its competitors. Las Vegas is a good example of what the future holds for Sprint. B41 was almost everywhere in that town (outside of the strip of course) and T-Mobile was struggling a lot of the times.

He said he did not receive a text.

Well, tested this myth...Busted. Samsung will cover this issue under their manufacturer 1 year warranty. Samsung went ahead and replaced my screen under their 1 year warranty for this burn in. I had to be very specific to the guy on the phone when calling in about the issue. This is what they wrote on the notes. It probably helped that I included a note on the shipment and a video on the phone that showcased the status bar burn in.

Extremely helpful. Thanks for the thorough detail of your experience. May I ask where all these speed tests where taken? Hopefully not at the airport since those tend to be heavily congested and may have tampered your speed tests. Also, did you receive a text as soon as you started roaming in D.F.? I may end up going down south to Mexico next month (I'm hoping I don't have to). I know for a fact that the area I may be (potentially, but hope not to) visiting has no Iusacell or Movistar. Hopefully Telcel does not incur any charges. A chat representative said it shouldn't, just as long I use GSM (yeah, it makes no sense, but I have a chat transcript just in case Telcel is charged regularly). Again, thanks for sharing your experience.

This was probably the culprit. Automatic mode would continually search for CDMA. Its probably part of the reason why you had no signal when you landed.

Mexico never gets it right. Trust me on this, their politicians are more crooked than an Englishman's teeth. The only winners from this wholesale move will be the foreign company (it WILL be foreign, thats for certain) that bribes the officials to handle the new network, the corrupt officials who receive the bribes, and the cartels (because those guys always find a way to win somehow). All they are doing is creating an unnecessary middle man, which in essence makes whoever buys capacity into a glorified MVNO. I expect this to be a failure of epic proportions. The real losers are the Mexican people. They'll probably see the prices of their data usage rise due to this unnecessary move. Service will probably also suffer as any issues subscribers have with the network will probably have to be relayed from their provider to the operator of the new network. . . . Having said all that, it does bring the interesting possibility of companies such as Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon renting space in Mexico's 700 MHz network. The article didn't mention if the new network would be leasing by spectrum/bandwidth or just wholeselling bulk access/per usage (I'm assuming the latter), but either way, this could bring up the possibility of international carriers creating affordable roaming options for travel to Mexico.

I'd like for Sprint to start demanding good rf performing phones. In this day and age, I'm still puzzled at how we seem to be getting some phones every now and then that have bad rf performance. From reading some of the boards, Samsung seems to be getting worse rf performance with every device it has designed for Sprint sine the S4 Triband version. S4 triband > S5 > S6. Definitely not a good trend.

I recommend CM Browser. Pretty light and fast and I have yet to see any ad pop up from them.

My experience is actually the opposite. Sprint stores operated by a certain 3rd party in my area are extremely unprofessional. The last time I went there was to pick up a replacement phone through insurance. While waiting for the phone, the worker servicing my phone starts talking to his coworker about the sexual relationship that one of their coworkers was having with the manager as if I wasn't even there. I always got bad treatment there. Whether it was their workers talking on their personal phones while resolving my issue or the phone technicians wiping my phone without asking me for my permission, I always got bad service. The sexual relationship story was the last straw. I now drive to Sprint corporate stores or do everything online/phone if possible.

For the purpose of this argument, "nationwide" means just that; NATION WIDE. Nobody has a "nation wide" network now nor will have in the near future. Even if every wireless company would create roaming agreements withim themselves and count it as native coverage, there is just no possible way anyone can claim to be "nationwide". The gaps in the American West are still too massive and are not economically feasible to build out.

I'm pretty sure that Eisenhower got the idea of the interstate system from the Germans. We definitely didn't blaze the trail there. Maybe perfected it, but not blaze.

I used an S3 while down there, so definitely user experience may vary by device. I know that I definitely had no Sprint signal anywhere near the actual border on the US side (I'm being literal; starting at about 1000 feet on the US side). Cricket worked right before crossing, after crossing and while I was in avenida revolucion. It was fast (for EVDO of course) while I was right near the San Ysidro crossing, but had a weaker data performance in avenida revolucion (it still worked, but about as slow as pre NV Sprint). I hope to be back eventually one day. Violence has spiked this month for whatever reason. As soon as a lot of that blows over, I hope to go see Playas de Rosarito. I really wanted to go down there, but time didn't allow. I guess another +2000 mile road trip may be in order within the next year.

Mine is fine as well; calls come in fine without no issues on caller ID.

Government fail at its finest. I'd assume that officials within your city have realized they're already too deep into the project to just dump it. Ending their WiFi project would be an admission of wasted money, and since they all want to get reelected, they sure as hell don't want to admit that. Partnering with a wireless provider for data access would never work. It makes too much sense and governments don't like that.

The more I think about it, the more dumb this e911 becomes. Why not just force a phone to go back to CDMA when someone dials 911 when using WiFi calling? It cant be that hard to make it happen.

I'm not sure if you have both phones, but between the M9 vs the S6...who wins the RF battle in your opinion?

I think it was good. I don't think there is any harm in comedy and a few laughs at the expense of Sprint. People like companies with a sense of humor, it shows their human side. As a matter of fact, if I were Sprint, I'd keep the ball rolling and hire Leslie Jones to do a set of comedy style commercials for Sprint using the same character. They can't be any worse than those dumb "Framily" commercials.

Or an option to add a second notification displaying what we are connected to. For example: LTE B25 I know it would really help my eyes when glancing at the corner to see what's going on.

For anyone familiar with VoLTE...will voice calls still work the same with an extremely weak LTE signal as it would with a strong LTE signal? Or will we see degraded voice quality? I ask this because I've read of people missing phone calls through eCSFB (I know both are nowhere near the same thing) when their phone holds on to a weak LTE signal. B41 is still able to send and receive texts/calls just fine even when it sits at -128 dBm on my phone (internet is just extremely slow). Will a VoLTE phone call work as well with this weak of a signal?

Its the only thing I actually miss about HTC. Sense just worked very well. Touch Wiz does not. If HTC ever gets their RF performance right, I will jump back in bed with them. Unfortunately I still suffer reception nightmares from my old Evo. Too traumatized to consider HTC in the near future.

Start off by deleting your cookies. If no luck, try to remember what website you were visiting when these pop-ups came up. A website you frequent will probably be your most likely culprit. If still no answer, start checking Apps that you have installed. Start uninstalling sketchy apps that come from non-trusted sources. I doubt it is your Dolphin browser since they're pretty reputable, but I also wouldn't put it past them either.

Band 26 seems the same RF wise. I usually turn it off on the phone since load balancing in Houston has not been implemented and every triband phone is being pushed to B26 for any data session. But band 25 seems to fluctuate a lot on my phone now. It goes anywhere from -103 to -111 when its actively pulling data. Its not a sudden change in rf, but I could be at -103 one moment, then 30 seconds later I'm at -110 in the same spot. I don't know if this is a battery saving feature or a flaw from the latest radio. It still seems to work the same as far data rates, but I'm just worried that the phone will suffer when the phone reaches the edge of a cell (which could happen in Austin, where B26 has yet to be implemented). Band 41 in Houston is all Clearwire equipment, so its about as powerful as a WiFi router (OK, I exaggerate...but you get the point). I'll only move to a weak B41 indoors (~-117 dBm) if I'm not touching my phone. Once I touch the phone, I lose B41 (In case youre wondering, I'm situated less that 2000 ft from the closest Sprint/Clear co-located tower, flat terrain with heavy tree density) Overall, I haven't seen a difference in RF for B41.