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    I don't think T-Mobile has changed the game nearly as much as it's made out to be. Sure they've thrown out contracts and implemented device financing instead, but in the end your still paying more! I think Son and Sprint in the end will be the ones causing great havoc (in a good way of course) but they're obviously plodding carefully to make sure it all works out properly..... Or it's just another cash grab and were all doomed if TMO and Sprint merge. I kinda share the same feelings about this as Roberts last comment about being almost neutral. At this point I'm just sitting back and watching the show. It gets more interesting every day. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    Hah funny it figures the day after I decide to return the thing and send it back notifications start to work!
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    Google voice is a good temporary fix but I want the regular VM to work. I borrowed a TMO SIM stuck it in my phone, left myself a message and the notification worked just fine.
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    So does anybody know the deal with the lack of voicemail notifications? I get none when someone leaves me a message. I did some sniffing on the web and apparently it's quite widespread. I haven't got my MSL yet so I can't horse with the bands, which sucks cuz I knows there's band 41 everywhere! And probably band 26 too. I so far do like the phone very much. I got red and it's more of a dark orange then red. I like how fast texts go through. They were slow on the iPhone and S3. Adjusting to android from iOS has been much easier for me then previous versions of both. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    Well I'm gonna very soon be able to participate in this thread as a N5 user! Just checked tracking and I have my Bright Red Nexus 5 waiting on my front porch! (Now I'm gonna drive home like a lunatic hehehe) Also fortunately for me the SIM card I ordered from sprint worldwide chat came at the same time! (The SIM and the phone actually both shipped from Louisville, KY) I'm glad I read about 30 pages of this thread so I could brief myself as to what I issues I might run into while using this phone on Sprint.
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    Ever since winter began to slowly let up my service in Northwest Indiana started to return to where it was at this time last year. There's still two spots that are awful but at one point it was completely unusable and now it at least is. I think things hit rock bottom for me in December, when I had to switch to EVDO a lot. (Fortunately that has taken a massive upswing since November ish) I haven't had any issues in the city lately, downtown along lakeshore drive and up north around Rogers Park, but I'm also never there during peak hours. I was at McCormick place at the auto show in February and the southern half had no LTE but the north side of the building had blazing speeds. I hear they switched on something over there recently (a DAS or a new site?) I have a red Nexus 5 on order, I hear those aren't "spark optimized" yet, but I'm still curious to see if it performs any better then my iPhone. Though even if I do fall in love with it I'll most likely keep my iPhone as well, and just become the person that Android and iOS fanboys both hate LOL. I am curious as to how the "Spark optimized" Triband phones are doing.
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    The past three weeks things have started to improve for me on LTE. Ever since late summer I was getting awful upload speeds most places, and started to see download speeds drop below 3 Mbps. So the last three weeks many places where I get decent signal no more then a mile from the nearest site I'm starting to see above 3 Mbps down, and always above 1mbps up, like I did a year ago. To put it in perspective, i used to see 5-8 Mbps at home, inside, then it dropped to 3 Mbps and below with useless upload speeds and now it's back to 5-10 Mbps with at least 2mbps up. At one point everywhere I went was crap! But even in Chicago I see improvement. I'm guessing they're finally doing something about that bad SNR. I'm still using a single band phone FYI so all reports are about band 25 only.
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    Once LTE becomes slower then EVDO it seems like it's a good time to refarm. There are certain parts of town where I absolutely must turn off LTE to continue streaming Pandora while I'm driving home. The site that serves my house also serves a good portion of town too, on another sector. When I'm on the other side of that tower/site the service stinks BAD, go back onto my side with the other sector and it improves dramatically. The other side with the overloaded sector serves nothing but rows and rows of homes for miles. I'm on a more forested less dense side. I'm still contemplating shelling out the 400 for a Nexus 5 but don't wanna let go of my iPhone 5, or 400 dollars. At this point as badly as it sucks I'm actually willing to put up with this stinky service to keep 400 dollars in my pocket, and a messaging system that I'm locked into pretty tightly. If Crapple doesn't come out with a Tri-band iPhone 6 next year then I'll surely switch back to Android.
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    I'm in NWI and still notice the same issues... Have to switch back to 3G often. It's not totally constrained to the city, but it's definitely worse in the city.
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    If fiber were available to my home I would pounce on it in a heartbeat even if it costed quite a bit more. Anything to avoid wireless and ditch the rather moody copper networks.
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    I had this happen a couple times a few days ago. In fact it was 30 seconds of dead air before I just hung up and redialed the number, it went through fine the next time. I know I wasn't just not hearing a ringback tone, cuz the other parties VM would've picked up by the time I hung up if that were the case. Other then that my calls go through as soon as I hit dial, unless I have low signal of course.
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    We got lucky in Northwest Indiana. It got real dark, and the tornado sirens sounded across at least 4 towns, but no funnel cloud or tornado was ever spotted. I was out to lunch at the time, my phone was the first to get emergency alerts for flash flood, then tornado warning, about 10 minutes before the storm struck. The rest of the phones in the restaurant went bonkers about 5 minutes later. T-Mobile phones got a warning last, right when the storm struck and simultaneous to when the tornado sirens started sounding. IDK if that was coincidence or both relying on the same source. Once the storm struck it took awhile for it to actually kick up, then it went white out and sideways rain for a bit then it went away. It blew through very fast. No power outages by us, and no real damage, but I've heard of some people losing power. We had some STRONG winds later yesterday, up to 60 MPH gusts they said were possible. We had the lights flicker a bunch from that. For once I'm actually glad it's cold again, and no more high wind!
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    Meanwhile on AT&T... The speed I used to see on Sprint. Same location as my last test earlier. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    Today out doing my errands in NWI (Schererville, Merrillville, Griffith) I noticed my speeds were alot worse on LTE then just last week! I've also been having to power cycle my phone in order to make things work better sometimes.
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    As long as we're paying for the service I think it's quite reasonable to complain, whether we understand what's really going on or not. If you're on LTE and nothing will load at all, that warrants complaining. But instead of complaining, what I would like to know is WHY can't PCS LTE hold up to the traffic it's seeing? The cell density is there so it can't be that. IDK if the question has been officially answered on here yet. We know part of the issue is poor SNR. Is it as simple as too many devices connecting? As I sit here typing this I was prompted to take another speed test. I used to get 8-10 Mbps at this hour from my bedroom at home. Still not bad though.
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    It may have something to do with ILEC's too. AT&T serves west of I65 and Frontier (previously Verizon) serves east of 65. Michigan City area I believe is AT&T though.
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    Today was the worst I've ever seen in area's I frequent in Chicago. All three speed tests were taken at Canal and Roosevelt. AT&T is doing great as usual, (used to be horrific on HSPA back just a bit over a year ago, at this location) and Sprint 3G is slow but steady as always. LTE OTOH? all but completely dead. I'm contemplating coughing up the 350 plus tax for the Nexus 5 just so I can tap into band 41. (and eventually band 26 as well so I can get LTE in basements haha)
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    I only have slow call connection when my signal is 1-2 bars on my iPhone 5. Overall calls connect alot faster then they did on AT&T when I had them. Back when I had my S3 it was the same, never a slow connection unless it was weak signal.
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    I'm wondering what kind of hoops sprints gonna make you jump through to get a SIM card for the N5. When I switched from my S3 to my iPhone 5 the corporate store said they wouldn't give me a SIM card (or even sell me one) because I didn't purchase the phone from them. Other stores claimed not to have the nano sim. I had to go all the way to the apple store just to get a freaken SIM card. Anyone know if it may be this way for the N5?
  20. gusherb
    It's low SNR, like you suggest. I can be a couple miles from an LTE site (in the suburbs) or a few city blocks (in Chicago) and get poor LTE speeds (phone displaying 2-3 bars on LTE), go within within sight of an LTE site and all the sudden LTE speeds skyrocket. IMO it's clearly not backhaul for sure, and whether it's overcrowding or not IDK, but low SNR seems to possibly point to that. It's also been going on a bit longer then just a few weeks. Perhaps people are just now starting to complain. I've noticed stuff going on since June/July at least, at first in Chicago itself. Now I'm starting to notice strange "flukes" where I live, in Northwest, IN. Almost like clockwork now, if I'm more then 1.5-2 miles from an LTE site (while still getting a good signal) I easily get poor speeds, and slow response/timeouts. It's reminiscent of the AT&T HSPA network I escaped last year in September (which I hear is worlds better now) All in all, it's still not terrible but it's not as consistent as when it first started. Whatever's going on Sprint definitely needs to keep moving like they already are, and perhaps figure out why the network is losing consistency and fix it. I know it can't be much more then a few tweaks here and there. Although one thing to keep in mind is that Sprint is pretty popular in Chicagoland, last I heard the number two carrier right behind AT&T.
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    I don't have a GS3 and experience LTE speed/signal issues. In fact I came on here to find a thread to post my findings from my run to the drug store in. I was gonna say: you know LTE is overloaded when you have to switch it off and use EVDO to get a decent Internet connection. I'm dying for the nexus 5 to come out so I can get some tri band awesomeness, which is starting to look like more of a necessity as time goes on due to PCS LTE overcrowding.
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    Maybe that's why it showed me 140 instead of 130. I did notice that. It is a little screwy. I had to play with it a couple times to get the data plans on there. A single line is still 70. Nice to see they aren't doing away with EPRP and apparently not raising its prices either.
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    Two lines on the EPRP site is now 140 plus taxes and fees. 10 dollars less then going to the regular Sprint site. That's up 10 dollars from what it was with the old plans. We pay 130 plus tax.
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    Yeah I've tried that before, when I had an S3 and when my brother got a Nexus 4 on TMO. It seems like it requires a much more stable network connection then the FaceTime calling does.
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    In the meantime anyone with iOS 7 can use FaceTime calling! the closest thing to VoLTE I've used to date (technically you could say it is, since I used it over LTE haha) Voice quality is phenomenal, and it works great on LTE (no idea about EVDO yet, EVDO usually sucks around here though, so I'd imagine the call would suck too) Also it's interoperable between the other three carriers! hahaha
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