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3 minutes ago, mrknowitall526 said:

I HATE the new volume slider. Why the hell would they default it to control media volume? It is way too difficult now to control ringer volume.
 

A lot of the settings take extra taps now.  I do not like it.  It is visibly appealing but not as functional as Oreo.  It seems like they made changes just to say it is something new.

2 hours ago, Trip said:

Follow-up note:  Do not buy the Moto E4 if you're attempting to use it for network tracking as I am.  Leaving aside the bad Band 66 EARFCN (which means I never see a valid EARFCN for AWS-1), it's also having issues with Network Signal Guru.  The band lock doesn't seem to stick properly some of the time; if it can't find LTE in a particular band, it looks like it will sometimes override the lock and try the other bands anyway.

 

While tracking Sprint, I just edit the LTE bands on the phone - I don't use Network Signal Guru.  I am not sure if that would help you since I don't know how NSG locks bands.

9 hours ago, DurhamHusker said:

I don't see a thread for the Pixel 2. Am I missing it or has one just not been started?

One has not been started.  I think you are free to do so though.

1 hour ago, uecker87 said:

Hmm.  Idk.  Weird how B41 has just a little 2 and not a star.

It looks like I missed band 66

3 minutes ago, uecker87 said:

The tech specs on Google's website said 4x4 MIMO on B41.  I haven't looked through the FCC docs to know if that's confirmed there.

I got my Pixel 2 XL 64GB in Black ordered with a deliver date of Oct 18th or 19th.

I don't think it supports 4x4 on B41

It looks like bands 1,2,3,4,5,7 & 38 do

2 hours ago, jefbal99 said:

*** 3. Towers in West Michigan follow the freeways for the most part, so if the town/city is a mile or two from the freeway, B41 is under utilized.

This is the biggest problem most carriers.  The game has changed and they, for the most part, have not adapted.  It kills me when some of these towns turn down towers being built within the city limits.  

Verizon has started re-spacing their towers in my county.  They have built 6 new towers in the last year.  That is an impressive investment for a rural county.  

 

Hmm.. that's easy to implement from a technical standpoint, but I'm not sure of the best way to add it to the UI. Did you have something in mind? I can't add a fourth button to the Site Note popup (3 is max), but I could add an option under Preferences to have it populate coordinates instead of the address every time. Would that still be useful, or do you like the address to be displayed on most occasions?

 

EDIT: Would adding an option to have the coordinates added to the geocoded address -- for example, "[40.1234, -70.9876] 123 Main Street, Boston" work for you?

 

-Mike

I guess I like the option idea (preferences).  I certainly don't want to mess it up for anyone else because I probably enter my notes differently.  I just know that I am not normally sitting under a tower inputting site notes.  

I like the addition of the location button (HERE) in the site notes but I have found it was not very useful while on the freeway.  On a recent trip, I would drive past a tower and click the "HERE" button but of course it could not find a full address.

Would it be possible to have it enter just the GPS coordinates in the site notes?  I then could go back later and and update the site note using my computer.

They do going up 23.

 

I don't know about Detroit that is why I said " Maybe sprint does not care about Detroit"

I would not dispute coverage along the freeways.  We have 8T8R equipment up here (between Lansing & Flint) providing coverage for the corn fields.  I always thought it was kind of a waste.  I can hit 80+ Mbps as I drive by at 75MPH.  It blew my mind when they did not install 800 equipment on the towers to save money but yet they put up the best B41 equipment.

That didn't take long for a negative headline.

Sprint is asking customers to place these ugly 'Magic Boxes' in their homes to improve its network

I don't think many of the east Michigan towers have 800 capable equipment. I haven't seen any retrofits.

got any pictures?

No - I hope to take some by next week.  On the drive by, they looked similar to the pictures in the Columbus Premier thread.

I found 3 small cells (Mobilitie) in Corunna, MI last night.  Only 1 of the 3 was live so far.

*jaw drops*

 

VoLTE / VoWiFI 

 

256 QAM / 64 QAM DL/UL

 

4xCA DL / 2xCA UL B41

 

4x4 MIMO

 

HPUE

I hope the next Pixel will have those specs AND have them enabled

 In Eastern Michigan all the sites on US 23 from Toledo to Saginaw have B41 on live. If markets are not tracked how do you know what they lack? B41 is under reported and yes I have kept track of these markets waiting for someone to pick up the mantle for these markets.

I think I understand both sides of this conversation.  I really don't have many complaints about Sprint's network in my area, Owosso, Flint & Lansing, MI.  It was awesome when they came through 2.5 years ago and installed B41 equipment BUT it kills me that they didn't install it on the most important tower in the county.  We have a total 10 towers in the county.  Sprint installed B41 on every tower except one.  That one tower has highest usage/coverage of any tower in the county.  I don't know why B41 was not installed - permit issues maybe?  Tower weight?  All I know is that 2 carriers of B25 doesn't cut it - unusable.  They have had over 2 years to find a solution to the problem.  I just feel like the other carriers would have done something by now.

The funny part is Verizon is in the third day of trending down on the market after this unlimited announcement. While Sprint had recovered and trending back up because unlike the magenta fellow, Marcelo didn't go reactionary and come up with finding half ass. 

Investors do not like "reduced" prices.  If everything goes as planned for Verizon, things will look different when they report quarterly numbers.

This is brilliant/shrewd move by Verizon.  Like the other carriers have done in the past, they have increased their prices on the lower levels and are hoping people will go to the highest price plan they offer --- but not use it.  If they do use it, they now have the ability to curb it after 22GB.  After losing subsidies on the ED1500 plan, I was waiting until mid-March to switch my 5 lines to the Verizon Large plan.  I have 1 phone on contract until that time.  The plan would have given us 18GB a month (plenty for us) for $34 per line before taxes.  Now, I can only get 8GB for that price.

Did anyone see that to get the auto-pay discount, you must pay with debit or checking – no credit cards?  I would certainly have to think about that before handing over my bank info.

And yet, I could have stayed with at&t and not paid much more than I did when I switched to Sprint. Network quality was about the same here where I live. Yet I chose to quit feeding into the greed of the Twin Bells.

 

It seems to me that those that only cared about Sprint for 2 year contracts shouldn't have even been here to begin with.

 

 

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I don't understand why people worry about the companies.  I am going to focus on what provides the best value for my family, not what is best for Sprint.  By the way, I would call this a greedy move by Sprint so I guess that makes them just like AT&T and Verizon.

Seriously, what is it with you people? Leave Sprint over lack of 2 yr contracts? Oh brother.

Sure - why not?  It is about value.  Removing contract subsidies puts Sprints prices close to the other carriers for me.  Take my family for example, we don't use a lot of data so moving to Verizon will not cost very much more than Sprint and it will provide a better network for us.  Before the removal of subsidies, the price difference was too big to make the jump.

Mobilitie sure has a lot of trouble getting their permits through

http://flinttownshipview.mihomepaper.com/news/2016-07-14/News/Twp_board_rejects_cell_tower_application.html

http://thecitizenonline.com/village-county-will-battle-right-of-way-issues/

Hi,

 

Perhaps this is a FAQ and I'm just not finding the answer.

 

I purchased a used Nexus 5X for my son to use on Sprint. What app should he use for voice mail? I don't think he can find the same app my HTC One M8 had pre-installed.

 

He can call into voice mail, but there isn't an app that appears to be pre-loaded (or available from Sprint on the Play store) so I'm wondering what others use, if any.

 

Thank you!!!

Use Google Voice Lite

I don't know if this is news or not but today I noticed my S7 Edge picking up 1X800 near Novi / Farmington Hills today.

 

 

 

That is great news.  The farthest east I have seen 1x800 was Ovid on M-21.  I don't think any of the towers around me have 1x800 equipment.  Maybe I will have to take a closer look.

Just woke up and checked my phone, what the hell is this? Lol. Never seen this pop up before.

 

 

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SIM unlock?

The camera sounds great but I don't take many pictures.  I don't really care about VR either.  I guess I will pass on purchasing right now.