centermedic

Looks like you can get rid of the three bullets.

Goto settings, display, recent app button and change to press for menu, press and hold for recent apps.

A little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing.

I know, I know. I just want my Jelly bean and LTE before User/City X!

Anything less than jelly bean is a let down.

I haven't seen those issues at all. Maybe something wrong with your phone? Take it to a Sprint store and have them check it out.

I second that. I frequent Wake and Johnston counties and occasionally Durham and Orange and I don't have that issue either.

Im also in Raleigh, not ITB, and I came here to see if I could glean anything about why service has been so crappy here. Im dropping calls all over the place, my data speeds are horrendous and Sprint keeps telling me everything is just fine.

 

Looks like maybe there is some NV rollouts.. I havent seen any faster speeds although I did managed to get over 1mb in WENDELL of all places today.

Make sure your phone prl is up to date. I have not seen to many drop call issues in the raleigh area.

Signed.

I drove by one tower in North Raleigh today that was scheduled to start NV work a couple weeks ago. New panels and RRU's seem to be up. Took a picture, but it's from my crappy Hero. I'll upload later once I can get it on my PC and if it looks worthwhile. Ran a speed test and got the following results:

 

ping: 137ms

dl: 1188kbps

ul: 508kbps

 

Don't have an LTE phone to see if 4G was active. There's a Sprint store right in front of the tower but I didn't have time to stop in and check it on one of their store phones.

Where is the tower?

Nope. As long as those three sites are all on the same SID/NID, *18 will not help at all. It updates your location to your current SID/NID, not your current cell site. No CDMA1X carrier uses single cell site location granularity.

 

AJ

Darn. I guess I should just sit tight and see iv NV kills one or two of those towers.

T-Mobile is coming for Sprint, unlimited will be around for a little longer yet.

Unthrottled unlimited 4G is coming back!

Now Sprint has no choice but to keep unlimited data

 

http://gizmodo.com/5...ata-plans-again

Glad to see T-Mobile bringing unlimited data back but I don't think they are gunning just for Sprint. The market is saturated so any customers you gain were stolen from somebody else. Its every man for himself now.

No, *18 is an old IS-95 cdmaOne trick. Heck, it may even be an IS-41AMPS/TDMA/CDMA trick. As I recall, it just forces a new registration with the VLR. Basically, it ensures that a subscriber's MSC knows the VLR where the sub is currently located. Before automatic roaming, a sub had to dial *18 to manually update location whenever the sub crossed over into a new SID. For further info, do a Google query on "follow me roaming."

 

AJ

Hmmm. This might help me as I am still bouncing off of three towers at the house.

I swap batteries often. It's much quicker than charging. I don't want to have to have my phone tethered to a charger.

 

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To me its just easier to plug a usb backup in and keep moving. But to each his own. Besides, I don't have a choice

 

You had GPS active all day while at a Disney theme park??? What happened to "It's a small world after all"?

 

AJ

Its bigger than it looks! The GPS was for Foursquare before I realized Foursquare works acceptably well without GPS.

This is almost the perfect device for me, except I am hesitant to get any android phone without a replaceable battery. I've had a number of times when I didn't notice the battery was depleting quickly until it was almost gone, but was saved by swapping to a fresh battery. Without being able to switch batteries, I would have been stuck.

I see comments like this all over the place and it kind of bothers me. IMHO there is no reason, except for the power user who keeps over three batteries, to be concerned about not being able to swap out batteries. There are to many alternatives out there now that cost less than a factory battery. They can also be as small as a carabiner. Personally I bought myself a 2500ma solar charger. I have only had to use it once and that was while I was vacationing at Disney with the gps on all day. Not picking on you. Just kinda throwing it out there.

I disagree.

 

The huge advantage over a nexus device is that they lack all the bloatware that both the phone manufacturer and the cell company install on there.

 

I equate Android on a nexus to technical Lego and Android on anything else to Duplo Lego.

 

I really don't consider this a huge advantage for the simple reason that the type of person that is gonna complain about bloatware will more than likely root and remove said bloatware anyway. If there was no way to remove bloatware from lets say a gs3 or an evo lte then I can see the huge advantage. Also keep in mind that bloatware are apps/software that you absolutely have no use for but that in itself can differ from user to user so what is bloatware for you may not be bloatware for me.

I agree with Mr. Gumdrop Belly Buttons. The same type of user who could not tell you what version of android they are running is the same type that does not even know what bloatware is. I think we tend to assume that most people are knowledgeable when the reality is most are not.

I used to always buy at the corporate store. The I bought from sprints online store which ended up being a total disaster. I bought my OG EVO and the wifes Epic 4g from Radio Shack. My EVO LTE and the wifes EVO 3D were bought from Best Buy and thats probably who we will stick wife for the foreseeable future.

That is the worse lie, by any sober objective measure, no matter what the exaggerated Sprint maps say. I have seen plenty of evidence here and on other forums of lots of "non-existent" LTE service, and experienced a lot of it firsthand.

 

I'm just a guest here myself, but I think you will find that kind of provocative trolling without factual basis is not welcome.

Sprint posts on its covergae maps "This tool provides high-level estimates of our wireless coverage. Coverage is not available everywhere and varies based on a number of factors." That about covers any laibility or charges of being less than truthful.

The best thing for Sprint to do is to acquire the spectrum and have Leap be another MVNO on top of Sprint's network.

I agree. I don't have a problem absorbing their customers but the amount of debt is pretty significant. MVNO is the way to go and if leap goes down the tubes at least Sprint still has the spectrum.

Done

Figures the RDU market would start in Fayetville. Booooooooo!

^{I don't see it as being a bad thing. It would be interesting to see if Sprint users take network precedence over MVNO's.}

None that I know of. Are you thinking of SDARS (e.g. Sirius XM) terrestrial repeaters?

 

AJ

I was thinking of the monitoring stations. Nevermind

Keep in mind that LightSquared's L band spectrum adjacent to GPS is slated for satellite downlink transmission, not terrestrial downlink transmission. LightSquared's Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) use was possible only under conditional FCC waiver. And, well, LightSquared was not able to meet those conditions. So, a potential spectrum swap would likely require that the L band spectrum adjacent to GPS be used only as satellite downlink as originally intended. LightSquared and its predecessors have been using L band spectrum for satellite downlink operations for years, coexisting just fine with GPS.

 

 

 

No. GPS operates on the basic principle of time of arrival -- the greater the distance from the GPS satellite, the later the time of arrival. A pseudo GPS signal broadcast from a cell site would have a much earlier time of arrival than would the signal broadcast from any of the GPS satellites, not to mention that it would likely swamp the signal from any/all GPS satellites. Thus, a cell site based geolocation system would have to be separate from GPS.

 

AJ

Don't we have terrestrial GPS sites that augment the satellite signals? How are those used?

After the first OTA, I have not had any reboot issues. I now have wifi issues though. I had no issues before the OTA and now afterwards my wifi wont connect to save my life. I take that back, I do get random connections (few and far between) for brief periods of time. Then its back to nothing. My evolte shows that it is connected, I just dont get any throughput. I am using the same access point on my laptop and I have no issues with that. So I have no idea what happened, I shouldnt have updated.

UGGGH. WIFI systems are so complex. Anything you do can change your connectivity with a wifi system. It could be as simple as the update making your phone not play nice with the router anymore. Try going into your wifi settings on your phone and make it "forget" the connection(usually a long press) and start the connection from scratch. If that does not work then you may want to check with the router manufacturer to see if there are any known issues with your device.

Sprints fundamentals absolutely suck! If you were playing by the book then you should stay away. Having said that, some of my best buys on the market have been companies with screwy financials but a good plan and/or product. Sprint has recently rejoined my portfolio.

This is the same logic that caused folks to be so negative of the EVO 3D because they figured that they would never use the 3D function. This is faulty logic. You need to look at all the features of the phone, the cost and then compare it to other phones that you may buy and then choose the one that fits your needs. Also by your logic there is not a LTE Sprint phone that would be worth it for you. So either you are going with a non-LTE phone or changing carriers.

Because you have a Nexus 7 (or similar future tablet), would that make you consider for your next phone a basic handset that simply makes calls, sends SMS, and tethers? Here is an interesting article on the subject:

 

http://www.zdnet.com...nes-7000001359/

 

AJ

I can't see my self doing that. It would force me to carry two devices where ever I go.