thearch1tect

Im going to be moving to the Houston area soon and was wondering if anyone could chime in on the recent performance of the network?

Can't tell you how giddy I am this week. I walked into a Sprint store this past weekend and upgraded my S3 to a Nexus 6. Wonderful phone. My office sits just off Valley View on the East side of DFW and is notorious for no signals (sprint,ver,att). 11 years I've worked here and little to no signal, even outside. Here is what my N6 has been latched onto the last two days.

 

 

Congrats! I expected DFW to be better covered by B41 when I recently went from the S3 to the GN4 but I live a little south of 20 and I never see it unless I go to north Dallas and some parts of southeast Dallas.

Sprint is the tale of two networks in Dallas. In some ways the triband is great and I switch between the bands seamlessly. In other cases, I have 0mbps or am roaming. Have to say though, a few well places B26 and B41 sites will fix 'er right up!

 

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Agreed. I have similar issues as well.

Anyone buy their iPhone this week from best buy and traded in a phone and received a $300 gift card?

 

Need to get my wife an iPhone and its a great deal but wondering how best buy Is handling the promo and if they're giving $300 for any working smartphone like they did with their note 4 promo

Has anyone found a way to flash different PRL?

You can try this.

 

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1880781

PRL Archives

 

I used to flash these when I had my s3 but haven't tried on the note 4. If you try it let me know how it goes for you.

any tips getting finger print scan better will not work at all my note 4 , on lock screen

When you setup your fingerprint and do the ten swipes make sure to scan your finger at different angles. This way it gets a better read on your fingerprint

When I ordered my iPhone last week the ship date was 4 to 6 weeks. I noticed Sprint applied the money I paid for the phone to my account so when I went to pay my bill the other day it says I owe nothing as the bill was paid from the credit. So now I'll owe a balance on the phone. Is this the way they normally do it?

I'm curious about this too because the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago when I ordered the 6 for my wife. I have yet to get the phone though so waiting to see how this will all pan out.

Has anyone rooted yet?

 

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I plan to later this afternoon. Twrp just got released so we aren't too far away from having some custom roms

Woohoo! Love this phone. Hopefully i see some better data speeds now coming from the s3

Just called BB and a store near me said they hadn't gotten them all in and hadn't put the names on them yet. So I called the store I put my pre order with and the guy wouldn't even put me through to the mobile department just said Friday, the release date is Friday.

 

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About what I expected. Ah well, one extra day to wait.

I hope best buy releases theirs tomorrow too but I doubt it since I have yet to receive an email from there and I can't look up my order since they give an order number that doesn't work for their online system. Stupid.

Anyone who pre ordered through best buy able to check their status online?

Did anyone have any issues buying the 6 from an Apple store and getting the 2 year upgrade price? I have an old everything data family plan and am looking to get the 6 for her but want to make sure there wouldn't be any issues doing so through the apple store as it seems the quickest way to get the phone.

Sprint made a few changes in that system wide shutdown yesterday.

 

1- The $24 price difference between ordering the Black and White Note 4 is not longer there. Both colors are the same price now.

2- The Galaxy Note 4 price 2 yr price has gone down from $349 to now $299 in the Sprint store. This price now matches all retailers and all other Notes from other carriers.

 

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So glad to hear that. That makes the phone $99 with the best buy trade in or Samsung's rebate with a trade in.

I think I just got a little ripped off. I bought a $30 Craigslist phone (Samsung Admire for Metro PCS). Seemed to work perfect at the time but power button is hit or miss to turn screen off (mostly miss). Everything on the phone works besides this. Was gonna use it for the $200 off promotion. Anyone know if I'm going to have to use a different phone?

Just have the screen on and set it to a higher time for screen time out and hand it to the best buy person. All they will check for is cracks in the screen and that the touchscreen works.

I ordered my Note 4 Friday from Best Buy, can't wait!!! Then after I made my pre-order I was able to work with a sprint store to trade in an Iphone 4 for the promo value of $202.00!! toward my account. My question now is what constitutes a "smart phone" for the BB trade in program? I am worried that my s3 won't pass as it has a rapidly fading power button that randomly shuts the phone off. I am asking around for back ups and not sure how to confirm if a particular phone will cut it come time to pick up the GN4.

As long as it can run on the power of the battery, no water damage, and the screen doesn't have any cracks you're good. I bought some old Nokia lumia on craigslist for $20 to trade in since I wanted to keep my s3 as a backup.

I pre-ordered a Spigen case for the Note 4. I have one for my S4 and it's a really nice case. Great protection and it's surprisingly thin. A $30 case for $18.99 when pre-ordered through Ebay.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271610116496?var=570447100916&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

 

Edit: Just FYI, it may not be ready by launch day but it was still worth it to me at that price.

I ordered a spigen tough armor myself. Hopefully it isn't too bulky but liked the extra cushion on the corners

One of my local best buy's had both the Note 4 and the edge on display. Was pretty happy with the look and feel, so I think I'll bite the bullet and preorder. Question is, best buy at $350 but the $200 instantly for the trade in or amazon for $299, with a smaller trade in followed by Samsung cutting the check for the difference in several weeks. Seems like saving the extra $50 would be worth the wait. Anyone think there would be any problems with using the amazon trade in for the Samsung rebate?

The benefit of the bb deal is you can trade in any working smartphone and doesn't have to be worth at least $10 for the Samsung one. Of course if you have a phone worth at least $10 then saving $50 more might be worthwhile.

So as had been mentioned you get the gift card at time of activation on the phone. The person I talked to earlier today had no clue apparently.

 

Regardless I put a preorder in for a black one. Can't wait to retire the s3.

The gift card is not issued until the time of trade-in after the activation of the Note 4.

 

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That def makes more sense. I'm on my way to pick up an old lumina from a person on craigslist and then head to that best buy.

 

Were you able to confirm if the gift card can be used towards the purchase of the phone?

You get the card at the time of pre-order? Wow. I thought it would be at the time of purchase. What happens if someone cancels his/her pre-order? Are they going to ask for the card back?

Yeah I'm not sure that's part of why I don't know how true it is. Since there's a $50 pre order fee that's put towards the phone when you pick up maybe a CC is required to reserve it so they could charge your card the difference if you don't pick up?

Just left a best buy and I was told that I get the $200 gift card at time of preorder with any working smartphone trade in. My old evo 4g had some dead pixels so they wouldn't accept that but the gift card timing is different than what I've been reading so passing it along for whatever it's worth.

 

I'm going to try and find a phone on craigslist for cheap and come back and do the preoder and see what happens with the gift card.

I intend to.

 

In the past I've done Best Buy's register your phone and get a $50 gift card when you upgrade. When I did that, they applied the $50 right there towards the phone's purchase price.

Haven't heard of the $50 promo. How does one go about doing that?

Anyone preordering with best buy to try and get the $200 gift card from them?

I never heard of that app either. Is that only for iPhones only?

No it's for both platforms