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Yea. I think that's more of an Android problem, than HTC. My Samsung eventually get slow too with keyboard taking a while to come up. I plan on doing a full reset once lollipop comes out.

I'm leaning towards it being an HTC issue. For me it usually happens in the middle of the night when sense starts to shut things down for power savings.

I'll be putting together an album of similar atrocities. How was working for NYNEX? From the history books, they're workmanship and service wasn't the greatest? At least subjectively in the NYC area, NY Telephone (Pre breakup) was just OK, Bell Atlantic was better, almost good as they were doing fiber DSL hybrids in the late 90's, NYNEX wasn't so hot, and it all went to censored after the "00 Verizon merger.

Working for NYNEX was pretty cool. I wished I could have stayed with the company to become a cable splicer. Even though I was trained to do residential installations  and work on the poles I ended up in public communications(pay phones) which actually was an added skill. Even while I was there Bell Atlantic was considered the better service company. I think the execs at NYNEX always had an eye on a merger or buyout in the future. They were pretty middle of the road in innovation and infrastructure investment. I can tell you that same older buildings were a mess with drop cables and old unused wire. But that was a necessity and often received the blind eye treatment. However, the supervisors I had wold have had a bird over the pic that you posted. Totally unacceptable. 

Sorry but I have to agree. I keep getting distracted by that is a sorry cross box. Has Verizon really stopped paying attention to its land line network. Back when I worked for NYNEX that would have been unacceptable.

Looks like Ford is following in Chrysler's footsteps. This may be the future for RIM.

 

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/11/ford-ditches-microsoft-for-qnx-in-latest-in-vehicle-tech-platform/

 

 

Seems a little thin on details like how much is the interest. There is another app out there that rounds up your credit card purchases and takes the difference and invests it. I think its called Acorns. The fees are a little on the steep side until you get to a certain dollar amount.

They've announced Carrier Aggregation rollout for 2015, so Release 10 equipment is a must. It'll have to be a selective launch as there is absolutely no way that the entire LTE footprint gets the overhaul that quick.

 

 

I totally get that. What I am saying is that for a press conference that was relatively heavy on tech details I was surprised that they did not specifically mention Release 10 equipment.

Where does VZW have carrier aggregation capable band 13 infrastructure?  Most of it is old, non RRU, Release 8 infrastructure.

 

AJ

I was wondering that myself. Verizons press release was notable for not mentioning an upgrade to release 10.

I know this is an old thread but it's worth a try.

Maybe someone here can help.

 

My monthly average data usage over the past 4 years is 300-600 mb.  Yeah it's an older phone, but I really like it and it fits my needs perfect.

 

My plan automatically changed effective 11/24/14.  2gb Family Share, I'm the only one on it.

 

#1 On 11/25/14, a relative stopped by telling me to check my phone, my son (1,200 miles away) had been trying to call and/or text me since 11/24,.

She called me while I was standing there, her call went right to voice mail.  My phone was on and had signal, never rang.

I called Sprint they did something and within 20 minutes everything was fine.

 

#2 on 12/2/14 I get text messages from 11/25 & 11/26 and on 11/27 the last telling me I am over my data roaming allotment.  I used 207mb in the first 24 hours of the phone working and 70+mb the next day.  I can't recall ever going over (I know Sprint has tightened down) I just don't use much data.

 

 

This is just a shot in the dark but I would check my call log if I were you. If you see any calls or premium services that are not yours then somebody has gotten into your account.

Very surprising that you had issues on I-95. I generally do not have any issues with LTE until I get to Florida.

My phone used to be on LTE most of the time but it is on 3G EVDO more and more lately.

 

That being said, my 3G is decent here, at about 7-800Kbps average, but I think that my standard of decent must be lower than most of the forum's.  I am happy with 400Kbps.  I do parts orders, email, reference stuff, real business work.  I don't care about entertainment, and like it or not, entertainment is far more intensive than business work.  This is one reason I don't mind metered billing.  If tweens want to squander the company's bandwidth with their netflix and youtube movies, I have no issue with them getting big bills for this.  The more they spend, the less they waste, and the faster my services run.  I couldn't care less about "rich content" on my smartphone.  I want my browser to be responsive.

 

If I could find the stupid kid watching stupid songs on youtube that is keeping my last minute orders from going through on time, I would put his phone in the garbage.  Youtube doesn't help the economy.  Business does.

I will smart you one further (don't ask where I got that from). My phone has become an essential part of my tool box. I use it for translation, medical consults, reference lookup, drug inquiries. For these purposes I don't need a bunch of bandwidth. i just need it to work. But I do use netflix and youtube during my down periods so having the bandwidth at these times is nice.

10 gb a month? That's a long way from the often cited 2 gb a month average.

Looks like doing the $5 thing requires an eligible upgrade

 

And its only $1 a month if you do it via Best Buy

http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/en_US/images/abn/2014/mob/pm/130068_Sprint_Loyalty_Service_Credit.pdf

Is an eligible upgrade 22 months or 12 months?

Blackberry has too hard of a time embracing change. They keep wanting those archaic physical keyboards. But Apple opening up to all carriers at the beginning? That would never have happened. As for Android, their market share may have been lower than it is now, but I don't think by much.

We are dealing with hypothetical s here. I still think Apple missed a huge opportunity by dealing with AT&T exclusively. Remember, Android gained traction because you could only get an I-phone on AT&T. So you had the other four carriers actively pushing Android. If Apple had opened up earlier I really do not think Android would have had a chance to flourish the way it has.

AT&T wouldn't be half the carrier they are now without 3 1/2 years of iPhone exclusivity. Verizon would have stayed number 1 all the way through, and we would be stuck with Windows Mobile and Blackberry.

 

T-Mobile would have been out the door and Sprint would be clinging for dear life if not already dead.

 

 

 

 

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I disagree. If Apple opened up to all carriers from the onset they would have had a bigger impact on the us cell industry. As a result Verizon would have been further ahead, AT&T would be a weak second at best and Sprint and T-Mobile would be stronger. Additionally, Android probably would not be as strong as it is. I fear there was no scenario that would have saved Windows and Blackberry.

Roaming is a little different than VoLTE interoperability.

Not questioning the tech. I am questioning the will.

RRPP coverage will be treated as native. As for Sprint building more coverage, it's certainly possible but we'll have to wait to know for sure.

I disagree. Every carrier is going to be IP connected for VoLTE eventually. That's the way the industry is moving.

The tech has never been the issue. The carriers willingness to ink roaming deals has. The big two have historically been hostile when it comes to roaming deals with T-Mobile and Sprint. Sprint roams with Verizon mostly through the old Alltel deal and AT&T did not renew their roaming deal with T-Mobile. I don't see those attitudes changing.

The price of the nexus 5 16gb is $350 and yes the potential is there but to tell you the truth I have almost zero faith in the market when it comes to prices dropping on hardware, if it does happen it definitely won't be anytime soon thats for sure.  As for your last point, like I said previously, with all things being equal the net effect will be that consumers will be paying slightly more for non subsidized devices and service compared to subsidized plans.  The up front benefit would be to the carriers and if OEM's stop killing us with 300% markups then it will benefit us as well.

 

 

If we get rid of the subsidy model industry wide I don't think there is a question that hardware prices will drop. I think the question should be will we get a comparable product for a lower price.

This is a strategic move by Verizon and AT&T. I would be VERY surprised if either on of them inked a VOLTE deal with Sprint or T-Mo in the future.

If he goes through with this it may end up being painful for Sprint unless he can offer some quality phones for cheap.

Still Post-Paid Losses and Churn is higher than it was in the previous quarter.... It was Wholesale that gave them a gain.... Doesn't speak well of Sprint branding right now....

 

Sprint needs some serious Marketing like yesterday, some serious branding.  

Eh. Remember that this quarter covered July- september so it only captures a small portion of Marcelos strategy. The fourth quarter should be more representative of where Sprint stands. I am also encouraged by the wholesale adds. It means that either MVNO's are coming to Sprint because the network has gotten better or existing MVNO's are able to expand their user base for the same reason.

Yes. Trefis also justifies it by saying because T-Mobile got those kinds of gains, Sprint will too. They're horrible and unreliable. I've seen similarly stupid analyses from them on other companies...

 

They are also the only firm to make such a statement. Out of more than a dozen analyst firms!

Thats not exactly what they said. They are basing it off of CIRP stating that Sprint added more customers than T-mobile over the july to september period. I will admit though that i would be very surprised if Sprint added a higher number of customers than T-Mobile did.

We are not in a good place until nobody feels the need to come out.

Wiping hard drives is a stupid thing to do. The waste of time in reinstalling all of your software and drivers is not worth it. Maybe it's an easy way out, but it's a stupid way out. The learning experience of learning how an operating system actually works inside is more than worth the time to manually troubleshoot and clean a computer the first few times.  After the first few times, it's so easy that you can sleep through it.

 

I do this as a professional service and have never seen even any set of three automated programs that can do it better than I can just working off the top of my head. I'm not trying to brag, since anyone can learn all of these things. I just really can't stand people who are always erasing their computers instead of actually taking a bit to learn how they actually work.

 

Anyone can wire in a light fixture to the point that it lights up and then (falsely) consider himself an electrician. Not just anyone can actually understand the forward and backward of wiring and electricity, and how to utilize/implement it properly and safely.

 

As for the Chrome problem, unless you delete the Chrome directories under Program Files and the User and App data locations after uninstallation, extensions may remain. Chrome doesn't use a process per tab, but a thread per tab, and that's only foe the basic rendering engine. Beyond that, each extension runs in a process, which will also have a thread per tab using that extension, the Chrome control process and task manager have a thread each, a debugging process will appear silently upon detection of scripting or markup errors, an extension control and updating process (if any extensions are installed), and I may have missed one or two more. A totally clean Chrome install will have four processes.

 

Be very careful with Chrome extensions. There are frequently bullshit extensions that come from people making bad choices in what to install. Additionally, many (obviously unscrupulous or financially desperate) developers have been paid off by malware creators for the rights to their already published extensions. As soon as an update is published, the new and ad-laden extension will be installed onto all computers running a previously published version, all without the user's knowledge or consent.

Thanks for the info. My concern was a virus or a unrecoverable issue with windows. Thats why I considered wiping the hard drive. I re-installed Chrome and the entire computer is running much better now but I will still go back and delete most of my extensions. There are only two that I use frequently.

It does the same thing on others computers that I've seen. One of my computers has 9 processes running from chrome while another has 7 running. I am not sure why it does that. 

Darn. It sucks up a fair bit of memory. Chrome used to be relatively light. I wonder what happened. I think I will try to get rid of the extensions and see what happens.

Doesnt sound like it would be....

I uninstalled and reinstalled chrome but I still get the same thing. Thinking I may have to wipe the hard drive. Something fishy is going on.