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That would be good and bad. Good as there will be more coverage but bad that we would have to purchase new devices that can utilize all the different spectrums.

 

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Unless you have a Nexus 5?

There has been lots of chatter about this but The Verge is reporting at about 5:05pm on 6/4/2014 that Sprint is close to announcing a deal to purchase T-Mobile.

http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/6/4/5780704/sprint-is-reportedly-close-to-an-agreement-to-buy-t-mobile

I am interested in hearing people's thoughts on what the short-term and long-term benefits could be for Sprint customers if this is true.

Short term, it would be wonderful if there could be full GSM roaming in-plan for Sprint customers including the current T-Mobile international benefit (I know but the data is extremely slow.)

Hard to confirm spark when you don't even get a connection.

 

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Doesn't it put an icon at the top right regardless?

If inside the US I can use Hangouts but outside the country I have to use the GV app then I assume that I have to uncheck the "send texts to phone" setting before I leave the US?

Spark confirmed yet?

That is great to know. I really appreciate your assistance. I understand now how this works domestically. In the scenario where I am on foreign soil and the phone is only in wifi (radios in airplane mode), how will this work assuming that I'd like to use Hangouts as my messaging app?

So if I use my current sprint number as my Google Voice number then when someone sends me a SMS to that number does that come into Hangouts or do I have to use the Google Voice app?

Oh, so when it asks me if I want to replace my GV number with my Sprint number, that isn't a port? I thought it was. If I remove the integration after the time period where my GV number has been deleted do I just get a new GV number at that point?

Is there any risk in not getting Spark if we update from those images? Could Spark be OTA only?

I use Google Voice as the voicemail on my phone but I have maintained my publicly known mobile phone number with Sprint and not ported it to Google. I am very reluctant to do the full Google Voice integration until we know exactly what Google is up to with Google Voice and Hangouts in the future.

I am going to be out of the country and have my domestic phone in airplane mode and only using wifi. Is there any way with SMS on the Sprint network to set up some kind of auto reply to the incoming SMS on the network side of things since the message will never hit my phone?

Excuse? The negativity gets old here. Do you want the update and then have it jack up your phone?

"Average people" are not watching Internet forums with baited breath waiting for a mobile phone update to hit and being concerned about whether or not it comes 1 hr, 1 day or 1 week after an Internet post that they didn't read in the first place. "Average people" will get a notice on their phone at some point and say "Hmm, wonder what this is." The people on XDA or even this forum, including myself, are the fringe of the fringe in the global mobile phone market.

Is there any chance that this is a small spark firmware update that Sprint pushes out which will be followed up by Google's push of 4.4.3 at a later date?

I don't believe that this has anything to do with sales. The number of people that know/care/seek out Spark when buying a phone has to be so low as to be insignificant.

I think there was a malicious purpose to the wait...

 

the S5 and the M8 are both LTE advanced phones and so is the nexus... why release spark on an LTE advance phone when they can maximize sales on 2 LTE advance and upgrade an older one later.

 

there isnt any lte advance service out yet... but it does offer much better speed allowance over cat 3 lte

 

of course im just referencing this...

 

 

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Mediacom is very active on Twitter. They provide some of the best support on Twitter for residential customers of any company I've ever seen. Maybe we should start to "vocalize our anxiousness" a little on Twitter? @mediacomcable

Just curious what is happening technically to give me this recurring experience downtown. We've spent 3 or 4 weekends at various events all day at the Iowa Events Center. In general the LTE connection on my Nexus 5 gets bogged down and approaches unusable. If I switch the phone settings to 3G I usually end up with a usable experience. Is this just simply the difference in load of the 4G equipment vs the 3G?

Is anyone noticing a daylight savings time problem on the Nexus 5? Today, I noticed that all of my calendar appointments next week are off by one hour. My date and time settings are set to receive both the time and the time zone from the network. The time on my phone is correct currently so I must presume that it has picked an accurate time zone.

If I uncheck to receive the timezone from the network then GMT -6 is what shows as the current time zone and all of my appointments after Sunday are incorrect by an hour. However, if I go into the timezone selection and I manually reselect GMT -6 then all of my appointments are correct. When all of my appointments are correct if I then go back and recheck to receive the timezone from the network then everything after Sunday shifts by an hour incorrectly again. So far I have only tried this on my LTE tower.

I am just a couple days into the management of my battery by Battery Guru after learning mode so I haven't really seen anything yet to tell me how I feel about it but I do have a question.

I have not had any issue with the app automatically managing my wifi. I have noticed that wifi is turned off at work where we do have wifi but I do not have access to it with my device and then when I get home wifi will be turned on. What I am noticing though is that the app is not turning wifi on for the purposes of location-based services when I am using an app.

I have always been under the impression that location based services is more accurate and does not necessarily require a complete GPS fix if it can see the wifi access points in the vicinity. So, I am wondering why Battery Guru is not turning on the wifi in those circumstances when I'm doing something that is making a location-based services call. Of course I could be all wet too and location-based services doesn't work this way. I'm just curious.

No QOS fixes that. Looking at LTE connection with 12,000ms pings right now. Yes, that's twelve thousand millisecond pings.

I meant on the WiFi side.

I have this personal thing where if I'm paying $200 for two lines of service, I'm going to use the hell out of Sprint unlimited data. I've used almost 5GB so far this month, and i'm only ten days into my billing cycle. I do have Wifi at home, but LTE is nice for when my partner is hogging bandwith by downloading stuff on his PlayStations...

Q.O.S.

I leave Sunday for a week in Disney and will check what I can with my EVO LTE so it wont be as good as a Triband device. Just hoping to have coverage at the parks and surrounding area.

Was at Disney World over Christmas and New Years. There is solid LTE through all Disney World parks. Data is unusable at Universal Studios.

Does anyone know of any extended battery cases coming on the market?

While not a case in the pure sense I've been using the PowerSkin Pop'n this week at the Orlando theme parks and been pretty pleased with it as a solution.

I was sooo happy today. Despite the large amount of crowds at Jordan Creek today, my data was working almost flawlessly! That NEVER happens! It is an 800 tower, but hopefully the days of wondering if your data will work there will soon be over

Really? Was that Saturday? I was out there around 2pm and data for me was the typical - approaching unusable. Interesting to compare notes out there.

Shoot. Didn't realize there was a scenario where NV was accepted but the service still isn't usable. So LTE won't go live with outstanding backhaul issues but NV will - correct?

Never could figure out what the issue was at Jordan Creek. With the Wells Fargo campus and Aviva out there I could never understand how backhaul could be an issue out there.