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How much data were you guys able to use on verizon or other networks while roaming? Last sep I roamed while going from oregon to cali, then cross country to DC on amtrak. Lots of roaming on the train and it shut off within a day claiming I had used too much roaming but honestly I hadnt hardly used it at all. Less than a few website visits and background apps. Then data shut off and I only had voice unless I went back on native sprint coverage. I saw verizon 1x and EVDO by a couple other companiea along the way.. I would guess that I only actually got to use 100MB roaming data. It was pathetic. I switxhed to tmobile since but thought about going back to sprint assuming roaming has been improved as sprint does have significantly more coverage with roaming while traveling (on amtrak tmobile users phones tend to work less at least last year).

Obviously data is a ripoff in America then. Why are they charging $150 per gig? There is logically no explanation for why they wouldn't charge the same amount or lower than they charge on their regular plans, or something on the order they charge their MVNOs. Technically roaming should be treated as if each respective company was an MVNO of the other company, so we could roam onto whatever network and be charged the same as if we were a customer of said network. Ultimately the reason roaming data is probably priced high if it is (citation needed) .. Its because of anticompetitive practices and piss poor FCC regulation. You sound like an industry inside shill honestly with nothing but excuses for why the industry in America sucks and is overpriced. People use their phones like laptops these days and many webpages are huge .. That's why you come across huge multiple hundred megabyte webpages. I browse using Android and I use only desktop browser rendering and website versions.

roaming. how I wish it were nicer and more plentiful. I've used it before and it crapped out and was not useable. the reason could be because of the 100MB limit. I've made two trips this year one from Salem OR to Stockton CA; during that trip the native Sprint service cuts off entirely when on the Amtrak train headed to Cali. The train travels outside of Eugene OR area and into the mountain regions where some type of roaming turns on and it roams most of the way until the train gets to California. Two types of roaming happen: a 3G roaming and a 1xRTT roaming. I cannot recall the carriers but one is probably Verizon. The data works just well enough that at least I have a connection part of the way. However, some point during my travels in Oregon, the data cuts off and only voice service remains. I didn't even use the data. I'm pretty sure 100MB easy sucks up with just background services, or even just a few page loads of my website homepage (my website homepage is 30MB per webpagetest by itself; just in JPEGs, PNGs, and HTML. in theory, one could reload the home page of my website only about 3 times before the 100MB cap was reached). The trip on Amtrak is hardly 24 hours and Sprint native service appears when large cities pass by. The second trip I made this year was from Sacramento CA to Washington DC. This is a 3 day 72 hour journey. During this trip native Sprint service is generally nowhere to be found outside of large cities like Los Vegas, Denver, Chicago, but the entire route is covered with roaming through most of the trip. The connection dies within less than a day leaving one without data. My phone had a message, "data disabled." I didn't know why because I felt like I hadn't even hardly used my phone. Sprint if you're hearing this please .. please consider adding more roaming data to the plans. For the rate I was paying, $95 for unlimited service, unlimited data, on one line, customers really deserve more. Roaming in America unfortatunely sucks. The appeal of it is high because as a customer we will have data and voice in more areas, whereever a partner has service. 2-5GB of roaming data would be nice just to get us by when roaming IF roaming occurs at all. I do travel, and that's the only time I use it, usually when riding on the Amtrak, or I take a trip out of town around Oregon and it roams through the moutain and back roads. ​a question has to be asked; why is data so expensive in the United States? in the UK they sell a goodybag with 6GB LTE and unlimited 256Kbps LTE for $25 USD!!! pre-paid SIM. https://www.giffgaff.com/goodybags/20pound-goodybag tell me why roaming in America isn't always-on and at least a couple of gigs of full speed LTE?

Thanks. I was going by what I discovered using a simple google search and then looking up the specific chipset model on qualcomm's site. I did not have the more advanced information available. Now I am definitely getting rid of my note 4. Question is, what phone is the best on the market now or near future? G4, GS6, Flex 2, ? I won't buy apple, .. Do any headsets currently have uplink CA? Because the one guy who tested with 30Mbps, that was uplink CA correct? Uplink CA is BIG for me, almost a requirement because like you all I want to filly utilize spark here in Salem and Portland area. So far uplink CA info looks obsure but I gather support is not guaranteed. I am bigger on upload than download because of all the web development and video uploading I do. I often have on the go 10GB uploads a couple times a month.

Hi so even though the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge have the same chipset, the Snapdragon 805, the Note 4 does not support CA but the Note Edge does? Can someone confirm it and why? Qualcomm says on their website the 805 has full CA support, CAT 6 LTE which includes CA allowing up to 300Mbps download. For the Note 4 not to support it its as if Sprint had to turn it off and cripple the hardware. I do remember they specific said one reason for delayed Note Edge launch was to equip it with CA over the Note 4, but if the hardware is the same why doesn't the Note 4 have it?

So my signals arent just terrible? And the tower is functioning fully? Cause tmo has the same amount of users but doesn't slow to 16mbps or below very often if at all for me that i have ever seen.. its hard to get it below 30mbps/16mbps, my usual like 40/24.. (uploads fast).. you should give tmo lte a try, it always performs better than sprint. Like even on the fringe. I also noticed it says this is a clearwire b41. Wonder if that has anything to do with it? Plan a trip around later. I expected at least 40mbps+ with spark b41 up into 60-75 range.. today at sprint store i pulled 2mbps/1mbps. On lte of unknown band.. i have faith in sprint still, one more year of upgrades hopefully will do it. With some carrier aggregation and stuffs.

Band 41 putting around 14/4mbps .. t mobile kicking it at 45mbps/24mbps. Sad sprint. Where is the 60-75mbps band 41 .. Will test around modesto, ca.

That really isn't fraud because the contract is separate from the phone cost. The phone cost $300 up front or whatever, the contract is separate. Also throughout a contract you can swap phones, buy new phones, trade phones, etc. They don't make you stay with the same phone.

Does anyone really believe a phone under contract is subsidized? Look at the note 4, its freaking $300 bucks. Note Edge is $430. They have tablets with similar specs or better for less.. There are phones like One Plus One selling with no contract for that range. Etc. It is more like price fixing. The price is fixed high to lock you to one phone, one carrier, unable to afford to switch and making you stay put due to payment plans in place or contracts. $300 by itself seems like full price for Note 4 quality device, but they take it a step further claiming it costs $720 which is triple to four times its actual cost to make.. Apple does that too, in the realm of iPhone it typically sold for $200 under contract but an identically spec'd iPod Touch cost $200 with no contract. Now the new payment plan versions cost $700 somehow. Yep, looks like they want us tied down to a payment plan for years unable to afford the cost up front so that we can't switch carriers as easy, same old BS. If you try to switch they will slap you with the termination fee, the rest of the cost of the device. Lol Somehow they are selling decked out tablets like the moorefield Asus memo 7" or the kindle fire hdx 7" for <$200. The Kindle even has built in LTE modem. Showing these $800 dollar cellphones couldn't possibly cost that much without some type of anticompete price fixing scheme being in place.

Any word on a deployment of 10x10? Surely people feel how slow the current 5x5 is compared to 10x10 T Mo/etc. Apparently many if not all Sprint LTE devices have been set up to support 10x10 in the 1900 band (Note 4 and Note Edge have it, the only devices I have checked). They have capacity of 37.5MHz to 40MHz in the band. Enough for up to 15x15 perhaps and a legacy CDMA/EVDO channel. Thus 10x10 is more than doable .. IMO. What it would do is overnight double downloads and uploads, to be on par with T Mo in areas where 2.5GHz dropped or was not available. The current 5x5 sort of puts around in comparison side by side. To Sprint: it might bring instant satisfaction boosts to customers that goes with fast and optimal running networks.

I have used plenty of phones I just didn't buy then for myself personally. Also one can normally tell how quality a phone is just by looking at it. There is rarely a time at least when I go to buy that anyone has a phone quite as good as Samsung. Plus Samsung has a huge modder community that most of the other phones don't have. Whereas a Galaxy phone normally has dozens upon dozens of custom roms to choose from, you might only have one choice or none or a few with other brands.. People buy Samsung for the quality hardware, to avoid LCD, and the modder community. At least on T Mobile. I have noticed Samsung's Sprint modder community is slightly lacking so but so is the community around their other phones. On the other hand, the new Note 4 does have quite a bit of Roms but only a fraction of what T Mobile has.. All the big developers for some reason are gravitating to T Mo (compare by looking at the XDA developers forum for each device to see what is out there.). Also T Mo had dozens of custom ROMs almost day one, as all the Galaxy S5 and S4 developers picked it up fast, it took until December for a full custom ROM to come out for Sprint, which is when a dozen other options suddenly popped up.

I know but not a stylus... I am a Note fan. Also I stick away from Google, Motorola, LG, Apple, HTC branded devices. Last one I bought was an EVO 3D. With the Google Nexus, I would be upset with it probably because it is a Motorola and Google, and it will have the stock Google OS / ASOP. I prefer TouchWhiz all the way. Samsung's camera app is also way better. Based on my comparisons of Google ROM Edition and Samsung ROMs on my previous Galaxy S4.. I could not live without the extra functionality of a Samsung branded phone.

By golly that is what people are saying. Only thing it appears to lack is carrier aggregation on band 41. www.extremetech.com/extreme/192101-nexus-6-the-best-android-smartphone-for-wireless-and-lte-connectivity Personally I don't buy non-Samsung Galaxy phones because I live by Super AMOLED and stylus. If you're like me, we will be waiting for a compatible Note 4 or 5 / Edge phone to be launched. People were saying the roaming might not be on till 2015 in another thread I was reading on this.. I am too excited about that new roaming agreement for the new Oregon coverage on Snake River PCS/etc. Hope to see some more back country coverage. And some more towers to become open in the mountains. Spark and carrier aggregation in the cities are also going to be cool.

There are still no devices that even support all the necessary bands. At this time you will probably need a Ganaxy S6 or next year model phone. Some phones may have support for roaming but not on the full scope of bands.

This is just a best practice tip. I have not messed with Knox much but I think you can mostly restore your phone to normal and the boot messages on seadroid and warrant bit set : kernel may go away. How? Use an app called triangle away while rooted. Custom recovery/flash counter is reset. During the process you install a stock recovery and rom, following the instructions for your device. Phone should be restored to secure mode and the boot warning goes away. I did not test it myself but this was the old method to restore your phone and have it be fully stock again, with hope to restore warrant status.. Knox is new since I started using custom Roms so I know little. But I believe if the counter is reset, and the warning goes away, they cannot tell as easily that you have rooted/used custom Roms.

That is a shame. I was just looking at other countries, apparently they will have it deployed. So will the other network providers. It is a shame Sprint's technology might prevent it. As you say, fdd+TDD won't be supported. Other countries might be fdd+fdd+fdd? That is meh. A new varient of Note 4 is being released that supports combining different spectrums. It is in S. Korea only at the time being. Didn't check into whether or not FDD/TDD mattered.

You guys know that LTE Voice is coming within 6 months anyway? Sprint was saying it is coming, but they're poking their feet on it. Mid-2015 is the time frame. Hope to god this is built into Note 4, requiring nothing more than a firmware update. This is what Verizon is using, LTE Voice, which enables data/voice simultaneously and HD Voice all in one.. Note 4 does have the capability, but Sprint might decide not to enable it. :/ There's a work around to just use a voice over IP app today in place of Sprint's mobile phone service as well. Google Hangouts / Voice does it for free. The app is fully Voice over IP today. Also the new Note 4 that's currently only out in S. Korea, looks freaking amazing. If deployed in America, it has the ability to use 800MHz, 1900MHz, and 2.5GHz all at once, full tri-mode carrier aggregation!! The way this will work on Sprint is, the connection seamlessly connects to whichever network, combining the data of all three spectrums, so you get like 20Mbps from 800MHz, 20Mbps from 1900MHz, and a full 70Mbps or higher from the 2.5GHz, all on one connection, giving you 110Mbps. As you move, perhaps some networks drop out but once in range again the spectrums combine. Sprint's plan I heard is also to have several channels of 2.5GHz open so you'll have 2x2.5GHz networks at first, then next year three networks. If I am not mistaken. The 2.5GHz network should combine itself for up to 210Mbps..

Eugene got any of this Spark love yet? That's my home town. I'm excited about Spark, because the regular old LTE, was doing pretty terrible when I tested it, back in May 2014 .. I was doing 20-50% the speed of T-Mobile LTE side by side. That's when I realized not all LTE was created equal. >.< 5x5, vs 10x10, etc.. Spark to the rescue!!

Sprint didn't announce this anywhere, but the following towns have Spark: Modesto, Stockton, Manteca, Turlock, Ceres, and most of Stanislaus County and parts of San Joaquin.. Basically from Stanislaus County, through San Joaquin county, up to connecting to Sacramento. I discovered this by accident tonight when checking Sprint's coverage map. Notice, Sprint has never once announced any of these cities as getting Spark. Only Sacramento. December 17th, 2014, 16 new Sprint markets were turned on according to Sprint, but they didn't name but two of the sites in the press release. Maybe it was turned on then, or when Sacramento was turned on back before but never mentioned it? Anyway, time to test it as I happen to be in Modesto, CA, I will have to try this out. I am getting a Note 4 .. maybe tonight or tomorrow to test it further.