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I'm not sure that is unreasonable for people to return to Sprint in that situation. Clearly in the Target-type retailers most people understand that they merely have a return policy. Warranty is handled by the manufacturer. However, in electronics those retailers blur the line. Some have in-house warranty service and others sell extended warranties where they insert themselves into the warranty process for the customer. I don't blame a customer for not being sure which situation applies when it comes to Sprint.

I'm going to be downtown Cedar Rapids at the Doubletree for a week in a hotel room and the convention center. Can anyone tell me what I can expect from Sprint service at that location?

There is another screenshot in that same XDA thread showing a user being connected to CAN Rogers Wireless. Is that the question at hand - whether the device roams in Canada or not?

What unlocked mifi did you buy?

This XDA thread purports to show proof of a Sprint M9 roaming on W-CDMA in the Caribbean. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3105627

I am having a heck of a time with this phone, not in establishing a connection to a tower but actually having data throughput once I make the connection. This issue has generated quite the discussion thread on the Sprint users forum but I haven't seen any mention of it here. This always occurs when switching towers. It is never an issue when I am stable on a tower. It happens for example when leaving wifi at my house and also when switching from tower to tower while driving. From what I can tell it is not specific to a specific LTE frequency as I have seen it occur on 2500 and 800. It is not even specific to LTE because it happens on 3G as well. Here is a screenshot and as you can see I have the white triangle that tells me I have no data connection and that warning is real because I indeed do not. The only thing that fixes this is to toggle airplane mode when it occurs or if you wait it out eventually after many minutes it usually goes away on its own.

But isn't the reverse also true? Doesn't Sprint provide USCC customers w/ significant national capability that they lack today?

I roamed in USCC territory yesterday and the M9 was definitely in roaming mode as expected.

I've been in corporate America for 21 years, in consulting nonetheless, and I've never had simultaneous voice and data. I'm still doing fine.

I don't believe them that it does not work with Android devices. On the HTC m9 within the wifi settings there is a specific setting that you can check to automatically connect to Passpoint Secure devices. If it doesn't work with Boingo then it is definitely something on their end and not inherent in Android.

There seems to be some rather widespread reports of various apps on the M9 not communicating despite a good LTE data signal. I've personally experienced this with Facebook and several Google apps. Some as speculating it's a potential DNS issue. Details here: https://community.sprint.com/baw/mobile/mobile-access.jspa#jive-discussion?content=%2Fapi%2Fcore%2Fv2%2Fdiscussions%2F205603

I picked up this tablet for my wife this afternoon. It was completely free. The tablet will bill at $10 a month for 2 years and I will be credited at $10 a month for 2 years. The tablet did not require its own data plan either rather the data usage comes out of our family data bucket. I understand that this is plan dependent. For free you can't beat this tablet though it is very bare bones hardware. It is only 8 gigabytes to begin with and 4.5 gigabytes is used up from the start and that is after removing everything that came on it that is removable. I put 6 or 7 apps that my wife enjoys and the device is down to about 1.7 gigabytes. The UI of the tablet itself seems to do fine with lollipop despite having only 1 gigabyte of RAM. You do notice the 1 gigabyte when scrolling in apps that have a lot of photos like Facebook. There is definitely stutter. During the setup of the device it instantaneously rebooted twice so that is a little concerning but has not repeated since. For being completely free, if it ends up being a great device for email and casual web browsing then it was well worth it. Her S6 does not have a usable data connection in her office so this will hopefully supplement her.

My wife gave me some feedback that her S6 is definitely having RF challenges at her work where her LG G2 connected fine. I sort of suspected that would happen. Would it help to switch the phone to 3G only when she is inside? I was also thinking about getting her an LG G Pad 7 for free on my account. Is it known how good the RF performance on that tablet is?

The activation of my wife's s6 did not go very well. I activated it at home and immediately connected it to wifi. Everything seemed good and the activation process completed successfully. I could place a call and receive a call and the same for text messaging. I proceeded to spend a couple hours restoring it and setting it up for her. The minute she got off of WiFi she told me that the battery was dying quickly. She had gone from 100 percent to 20 percent in about 2.5 hours. I looked at the phone and the data signal was cycling from LTE to no bars with a 'x' and back and forth once every second continuously. Nothing I did would fix it including rebooting, doing a network reset or anything else I tried. The only thing that fixed it was doing a reset from recovery. Interestingly, my m9 also was not successfully activated the first time. It would not connect to data at all and it required a reset from recovery as well. I must have the world's worst luck.

When I added the new International value roaming to my account I noticed that in the list of options there were other choices that you could check to "enable international data" for example. Do you have to pick those options too or does simply selecting this new international value option trump those other settings?

Did anybody get an updated firmware today? The rumors were the Sprint version was being distributed today.

I am agreeing with you. Reread my post. I think you might have missed the double negative in my sentence.

That's very true but that's not to say that they can't make the camera better by updating the software.

There is something very strange about that article and update rumor going around tonight. All of the commentary suggests that this is a US update to bring the software current with the latest International version which improves the camera. However it is quoted that the software update that we are supposed to get starting tomorrow is version 1.32.531.33. My version is already 1.32.651.17. So I don't really understand what is going on.

I just received my Spigen Neo Hybrid case in gunmetal grey just a few minutes ago and it is absolutely spectacular. It goes with the phone perfectly, looks high end and I love the textured back for grip. I went with a tempered glass screen protector from Amazon and I just picked one that had a lot of high quality reviews and that works well too. I've never used a tempered glass protector before but I will not go back to the film type after having this one.

I haven't had an HTC phone since the original Evo so this may be old news to those that have had more recent phones. I was pleased to see that it appears that almost all of the functionality that HTC overlays on Android is distributed as an app from the Google Play Store. This includes the hotly debated camera, as well as Sense. After activating the phone I would guess that there were no fewer than at least 10 HTC apps that updated through the Google Play Store. One app in particular caught my eye it was called HTC Service Pack. I'm presuming that this is similar to the approach that Google takes with Play Services. It seems like there is a whole lot about this phone that HTC will be capable of updating and improving over time at their whim rather than waiting for firmware updates.

The flash fired in both photos and that is confirmed by the EXIF data. Both photos had the flash set on auto so the camera decided whether to fire the flash not me but again in both photos the flash indeed fired.

I am convinced that the camera issues with this phone are not hardware related. There are some very good threads developing in various forums about a significant improvement in photo quality by using manual settings indeed I can confirm that. The most important manual setting appears to be limiting ISO to 200 if possible. Auto ISO is just crazy on this phone in the current version. In conjunction with that, current thought process is to also knock down sharpness by 1.5. Here is the vast difference that you'll see. First shot is completely automatic settings and the 2nd shot is manual settings.

The camera software version is 7.0.495306. I can't really give you any opinions on battery life yet. Whenever I have had time to use the device I have been using it significantly more than normal downloading and setting up apps. Tomorrow will be a day that I will combine travel with a lot of meetings and I won't be able to constantly be on the device so I will get a better feeling.

It's not like the countries picked are solely up to Sprint. The foreign careers have to play ball and the economics have to work as well.