greenbastard

Would be nice and appreciated if you do make a trip to describe the whole international data process like what to expect when I turn on my phone in the other country.

It sure would. Just be careful in the border area manzer. I know Tamaulipas/Nuevo Leon got pretty hot last month with Cartel activity blocking most of the major Mexican highways near the border. I know Juarez and the area around New Mexico has quited down, but it's still pretty bad.

 

 

After further reading, I haven't found anything that says that the roaming is exclusive to only Telefonica. As far as I can tell from the official Sprint statement, all indications are that ALL 2G roaming and SMS is unlimited. I'm assuming that Sprint will just make Movistar their prefered roaming partner and Telcel/Iusacell will fall in afterwards in areas Movistar isn't available. Only way to find out is for one of us to travel abroad, reach a Telefonica/Softbank dead zone and start texting and using data. T&P to the brave hampster willing to test this out.

I wonder how Sprint will implement this without making it extremely confusing for customers traveling to these countries?

 

 

For example, Movistar would obviously become the prefer roaming partner in Mexico, but what will happen when we leave Movistar coverage and stray into Telcel or Iusacell (now a subsidiary of Ma Bell) coverage? Will texts and data still be unlimited or will we fall back to the older pricing? Also, how will we, as customers, know which network we will be on? I know my phone is an LTE/CDMA/GSM phone, but when I currently roam, I don't know if I'm on Verizon or Cricket.

You can call and add the feature for free to your plan.

 

Also, it works by using Telefónica Latin America (movistar and vivo), Telefónica España (movistar Spain), Telefónica Europe (O2 in Germany and UK), and SoftBank in Japan for roaming networks.

I've been waiting for this ever since T-Mobile announced it a while back. I sometimes travel abroad and I absolutely HATE dealing with SIM Card changes just to send messages back home. Also Mexico's Telcel and Movistar make it a hassle to understand their international SMS rates with so many plans. 2G data is just an added bonus!!!!

 

 

So much for considering a switch to T-Mobile! Screw you Legere and your fake wannabe hipster self!

File this under extremely anecdotal, but I was messing around with booting into Safe Mode to help someone on the Sprint Forums with a question. (Safe Mode boot is power off, turn on, hold vol down until the Samsung logo appears, then let go, phone should boot into Safe Mode) Turns out that after doing so, most of my problems have been fixed as far as the wakelocks and performance go. This may have also coincided with an update to Google Play Services? Some offending app?

 

Anyways, all I know is that after the Safe Mode boot and then boot back into "normal mode", my phone sleeps finally on my wireless chargers and has less lag. NOW, booting into safe mode DOES log one out of applications like Facebook, Twitter, etc. so it's possible that I just haven't logged back into my offending app that's dragging down the system. Maybe Safe Mode also clears out the cache better than clearing out the cache in recovery? I'm not that familiar with Safe Mode, but it's a nice option to have for testing.

 

(I do still get Contacts Force Closing with install of any app that has Contacts permissions, that's a real deal bugarino)

Thanks, I'll try this later. I'm just tired of apps crashing out of the blue and the occasional lag. I don't seem to get a Contacts forced close though.

 

In all honesty, outside of the B41 antenna placement, this phone was perfect on KK. Before the update, my only gripe was how I experience a -10 db loss on B41 because the lower right part of the phone rests on my palm and blocks the antenna. As a matter of fact. I'm surprised I haven't seen this gripe more on any of the forums. Bad Samsung design.

I have noticed that occasionally my "System" sounds will get maxed out on my sounds. But I have an app called Trigger that deals with sounds so I figured it was just a Lollipop bug with Trigger rather than the phone.

 

I spoke with a woman from Marcelo's executive team yesterday (not unique, I know). But she had interfaced with the "product development team" responsible for the S5. They, according to her, had NO knowledge of any of these bugs that people are experiencing (on these forums, the Sprint forums, and XDA). And she listed a very short list of issues with WiFi connectivity, something with G+ contacts, and one other issue. So I know at least she actually talked to the team as those are known issues with the S5. But terrible battery life, wakelocks, memory drains causing app closure, sluggish performance, Contacts force closing (not the aforementioned G+ contact issue), were all unknown to her/the team. I suggested that they place anyone from the product team in their forums and she said, "that's probably a good idea". Man, I sure hope that someone there knows what's going on better than the team responsible for our phones does. I mean, hopefully Samsung? But that's unlikely.

Thanks for taking the time letting sprint know about 5.0 issues.

 

As days pass by, its getting harder and harder to tolerate the memory problems. I probably have had my browsing app (CM Browser) crash 3 times already today. It's frustrating.

Has anyone been having your phonr completely freeze requiring a battery pull, and once reatarted your phone is completely black, and you get "system isnt reaponding " message, and needs anotjer battery pull, then works fine for bit

I've had something similar happen to me 3 times already, but it only happens when I'm streaming music on Spotify via Bluetooth on my car. Usually when this happens, my screen won't turn on amd controls from my radio won't skip forward/backward tracks. The odd part is that the phone will still go through each track as if nothing was wrong. After reset, I don't see a message like you do though.

 

(BTW, instead of having to take off back, just hold down the POWER+HOME+VOL DOWN buttons together for

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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.

Wow, I just checked and I have a small burn in as well! And the crappy part about this is that I just had the screen replaced in October after I cracked it (all done through Samsung). I may give them a call this week to have it replaced. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone since after Samsung serviced my phone, I've seen water build up on both camera lenses around high humidity. I was told that the phone would still be IP67 certified even after the repair.

I don't have any burn in yet. (actually didn't think AMOLED could even get burn in?) but with lollipop, my screen comes on randomly while charging and will stay on forever. Really annoying and I can't figure out why it does that. I use wireless charging and since the 5.0 update this screen randomly coming on and staying on has happened.

 

sent from an underwater dust storm from my Sprint S5

I'm seeing the same thing.

 

 

Another problem I'm having is with the fingerprint scanner. Sometimes when I wake the screen up and try to unlock it, the fingerprint sensor is unresponsive. I can swipe as many times as I can but it doesn't tell me to swipe straight, incorrect fingerprint, or that finger is wet; it just doesn't do anything. (Just in case someone is wondering, I turned off locking when pressing the "Power Button" and have a lock delay of 10 minutes in the settings)

 

When this happens, there's 2 immediate solutions; 1. Enter the password manually or 2. Press the power button to turn the screen off and back on again. That usually gets the scanner working again.

 

Anyone else see this?

Strange how my S5 will camp on Band 26 LTE when the band 25 LTE is capable of faster download speed. It is actually very difficult for me to get on Band 25 even when the signal level is decent. I can drive right by several sites with great band 25 and the phone sticks to band 26 most of the time even though the band 26 is starting to get congested

This is the exact the same thing happening to the tower near my house. My phone usually parks at B25 (around -99 to -100 dbm average) when not in use, but as soon as you engage a data session it gets pushed down to Band 26 and stays there until you let the phone idle for 5 minutes.

 

Since it does this to every triband phone I have seen (iphone 6, iphone 6+ and Galaxy S5), Band 26 has halted down to dial up speeds while band 25 sits wide open with speeds of 5-7 mbps. Its frustrating waiting for Sprint to get its stuff together, but in a city as large as Houston, I can't complain. Sprint has its work cut out without much lower band spectrum to play with.

 

 

Other than this network glitch, B26 has closed 99.9% of the gaps in Houston. The only time I've seen my phone on 3G is when I put it in my pocket and I'm inside a huge store on the edge of cells. But even at this point 3G is working great again so its not noticeable unless you have LTE OCD.

No issue here. I just tried that out. I also have an otterbox case on it.

Mine does it all the time I am on B41. Since my ring finger sits right where the antennas are, I always see B41 suffer at the very least a -8 dBm loss when I'm close to the tower. I usually see a -10 to -14 dbm loss when im on tye outskirts of B41 coverage. Its pretty weird since B26/B25 have the antenna right next to it and they don't suffer any signal degradation on either left or right hand. But B41 does when using the phone on my right hand. I know these phones have 2 B41 antennas. Could it be that the antenna on the top right is defective in some way? Or are my fat short stubby fingers too much for my phone?

Yup. Classic "memory leak" issues when the OS dumps system apps and such. They'll get it fixed up with a future release no doubt. It's been solved on the Nexus devices already.

With a couple of weeks with this update, its starting to get very irritating, especially when you're working on something, leave it and then come back to it and crash.

 

 

On a side note, anyone else annoyed by the placement of B41 antenna on the lower right hand corner? I'm right handed so when I hold my phone with my right hand I usually see that I lose or hold a weak B41 when compared to holding the phone with my left hand. I'm not exaggerating when I say that holding my S5 with my left hand creates an improvement of -12 to -15 dBm improvement on Band 41 when compared to holding the phone with my right hand. Major design flaw! Anyone have this issue?

A few personal observations...

 

After updating, it seems that my LTE speeds seem to be slower than before on B26. Before, I used to hover anywhere from 2 to 5 Mbps during the day on B26. After the update, I haven't seen my phone go over 1.6 Mbps.

 

B41 didn't really improve for me.

 

Also the phone seems to be more sensitive to losing LTE when placed on my lap than before. As a matter of fact, I seem to find my phone on 3G a lot more often now after it stored on my pockets.

 

On the plus side, the phone does seem to do a bit better job of scanning for LTE a tad bit faster than before.

 

I've also had the phone freeze on me a couple of times now. Each time it freezes, it is for long periods of time (~20 seconds) and it usually works fine afterwards.

 

My camera seems to open no faster than before.

 

Bluetooth has stopped skipping like it did before. On 4.4.2, I used to have a weird issue where my Bluetooth would occasionally freeze for a second when streaming locally stored music to my headunit. So far, that issue hasn't returned while playing music on my car.

Is there a guide to root 4.4.4 yet (don't care for Knox tripping)? At this point, I can't use a phone anymore without root access

Look over the last 2 pages.

 

sent from an underwater dust storm with my Sprint S5

Sorry, got a bit exited there and didn't read.

 

I'd still like a few more people to chime in on reception. Each situation is different.

OK, I've been burned bad before with updates, so I'll go ahead and ask 2 simple questions which are important to me.

 

1. Cell data reception. Is reception on B26 LTE better? Worse? What about B41?

 

2. Can towelroot still be used without tripping Knox? I cannot go back to using apps without tablet metrics. Its just a pet peeve of mine having all this screen space and having apps look bulky.

 

Thanks in advance for any answers thrown my way guys.

Never get 800 voice on wifes s5 only 1x , was in target loss 1x and got no signal from 800 voice only seen 800 voice once one phone im in delaware market 800 is everywhere. Anybody get 800 alot or mostly 1x.

The GS5 will go to 1x800 automatically if you're on B26 LTE at the moment you initiate or receive a phone call.

Only in the right window or place in my house. Never while using it in my room. This is the best rf performer ive had.

That doesn't sound right. Did you mess with the radio or band settings? Because the Nexus 5 is a better rf performer than the GS5. Or maybe you had a defective Nexus 5.

Did you get any sort of LTE on your Nexus?

sorry forgot to mention that is band 25.

I get similar numbers at home for Band 25. In my case, I don't get Band 41 (Clear legacy LTE and both B25 and B41 are coming from the same tower).

 

Now of course, each situation is different and a lot depends on the tower. For example, I'm sitting on a null area when looking at the old Clearwire maps. There is also a lot of space protection due to it being close to 2 Clear B41-only sites. Maybe it'll be different for you. Nobody can say for certain until you try it out. I'm hopeful my situation will change once 8T8R antennas are deployed here. Either way, it doesn't effect phone calls/texts and I have cable broadband for internet.

Remember, Sprint is going to notify customers before they reach their initial roaming limits. Hopefully they notify the customer that they will accrue charges for roaming if they exceed the 100MB limit in those 3 messages, and then the customer can't complain of lack of notification on Sprint's part.

The way people in my family plan roam is when they have an extended trip somewhere that has no native service. A good way of getting people to think about their roaming usage is to send a text as soon as they start roaming. The first text should warn them that they have entered roaming coverage and that they have a limit. After that, send that same reminder every 24 hours with an update of usage until that that customer is back on native coverage. Im sure those messages may cost Sprint some money, but they're probably still way cheaper than data anyways. It could lead to more responsible data usage by customers overall.

And do not let the door hit her in the ass on the way out. Caveat emptor. She has a responsibility to understand coverage areas, service limitations, and fine print terms -- just as with every wireless provider. If that is so difficult with Sprint, then she can go be a mindless consumer, sign up with the duopoly, and not worry about their transgressions against our broadband future.

 

AJ

Thats a bit too much to expect from customers. There is a reason they are trying to simplify the framily plan to begin with. Further complicating usage terms leads to confusion and customer frustration.

 

Furthermore, you can't expect for people to dump Sprint just because they go over their roaming limit once every blue moon. For example, I recently roamed and coughed up 175 MB of roaming. That has been the only time I have roamed over 20 MB in a billing cycle in my entire time with Sprint. Im sure that my 5 years of being a customer heavily outweigh that one billing period Sprint took a hit on roaming for me. There are better ways of enforcing roaming usage, but getting people to leave Sprint is not one of them.

I'll say this much about Sprint. Before NV, I had trouble making indoor calls and even the simplest sms would not go out.

 

Post NV, everything works a lot better. Just this weekend, the tower that services my house went down (im about ¼ mile away from it). Back in the day, I would have been without service, but to my surprise, I was still on B26 from the neighboring towers indoors! Phone calls were clear and coming in without trouble in HD. Because I was pulling data from so far, 3G was not working, but B26 was pulling in 1 mbps download! Before, I would have been out of luck, but with the improvements made, my service was not disrupted even with a down tower. What's more interesting is that more work has yet to be done. 8t8r radio can't get here soon enough.

I just did this. I was walking by the truck with mine in my cargo shorts, which banged into the door... right on the corner of the screen in the perfect spot to spider crack the whole upper left. Yes, I had my case on.

 

I watched various youtube videos that showed the repair, I watched them repeatedly to ensure I was wholly capable of the repair. I ordered a replacement screen/lcd of the ebay (my lcd was working, but I knew the process of removing the broken screen would likely destroy the lcd, and boy was I right). I ordered a three dollar new adhesive for the re-sealing process. My boy and I took our time to ensure nothing got further screwed up. The process took a couple of very anal retentive and overly careful hours, you could do it under an hour if you weren't as ocd as me. Careful with that heat gun, apply heat slowly and don't overheat.

 

The lcd/screen cost about 150 to 165... but those mall places will charge you upwards of 300 for this phone and they WILL NOT be careful to avoid giving you bonus dings and scratches.

 

The repair is not guaranteed to be water-resistant, but I very confident my repair is every bit as good as the factory job, and will be just as water resistant. PM me if you want me to link the videos I thought were most helpful, good luck!

Got it fixed for $100 at a cellphone repair shop. Im sure the phone is no longer waterproof, but oh well. I dont plan on using it near water anyways.

 

But is it me, or does this screen glass just seem weaker than most other phones? I treated my S3 like dog crap and never broke. I dropped it flat faced several times by accident and the screen never broke (with a Greatshield case). The S5 fell 2 feet from a coffee table and the screen shattered with the same Greatshield case.

Well, I am largely pleased by those answers. If two things do not mix well and make a good concoction, they are probably SEC football fanaticism and booze. Plus, if the university were already making money off of beer sales in the stadium, selling Wi-Fi access, too, would be profiteering.

 

AJ

Yeah, but SEC football games at neutral sites are fair play.

 

Which leads to women squirrel jumping the opposing fanbases. Some of the tower crews should make her an offer to join their workforce. She could leap in and out of towers without struggle and move NV along quickly.

 

 

Well, here is a fundraising question. Does Ole Miss sell beer inside the stadium?

 

AJ

No SEC stadium sells alcohol per conference rule. Kyle Field at Texas A&M does not sell alcohol. DKR Memorial Stadium and texas university does not sell, but are experimenting with it in other athletic venues. The University of Houston does sell beer at all of their venues. Baylor doesnt sell beer because, well, they're Baptist. Thats all I know.