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Google modified the thresholds for signal bars in 5.1. It's now more generous and matches how other Android phones display signal strength.

Thanks, I'll admit I was not up to speed on what actually happened. Scratch my SNR theory.

Now, do you know if they modified that across the board (not so good for high-band like B41) or is there any individuality? Oh, and now I'm bring it back off topic   

Even if no money changed hands, Sprint likely saw this as an opportunity to gain some "coolness" in light of how hip T-Mobile is perceived to be by young urban adults (target audience of SNL). This is very close if not the same to the demographic that T-Mobile is focusing the bulk of their advertising on. 

This will do Sprint no good. I didn't find it very funny, but that's me personally. Nonetheless, in a culture where many "hip" young/middle-aged people are flocking (in noticeable numbers around certain urban areas) to T-Mobile and buying the bs marketing for islands of LTE, or better if they live close enough to a city or urban area where they do get a good (enough) experience: this is troll food at best. 

I agree with what AJ said, and I also believe regardless of whether that article actually happens or not, it will still be another overused, run-down track for the broken record Sprint-bashing Magentrolls. 

#3gGate

 

 

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I didn't even realize this was the T-Mobile thread 

One thing Android does do whether it's CDMA or GSM, Sprint or T-Mobile, is continually seem to confuse data/signal readings depending on the version.

In terms of the signal reading ("bars"), I've noticed a difference for at least B17 since the 5.1 release. Instead of getting 1-2 bars for virtually everything and 3 for strong and 4 for "next to tower" strong, I now see a fairly proper fluctuation between 2-5 bars virtually everywhere and only 1 (aka "none") for a weak signal ready to handoff. It seems to take the SNR into account, unless I'm mistaken.

Have T-Mobile users on Nexus'/5.1 or newer Custom Roms noticed this (seemingly positive) change for your bands 2 or 4 or even 12? The Band 2 on AT&T seems to reflect this, but I wasn't on B2 too much before the update nor am I yet.

 

That is one scary "Star Wars" character.  I wonder what it looks like underneath its mask...

 

AJ

LOL!

This one cracked me up too:

Wow that was good   

I think Bell Atlantic's Shamwow is in the same category:

Then again, the scariest of them all:

Gravity bong

zero gravity 

Is there a tool on the PC that allows you to do this?

If you use Windows, a favorite is WiFi Info View.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wifi_information_view.html

Works on all versions of Windows, XP and later

It would turn out poorly for carriers. That's prime time to stream video, and if it's not being counted against metered plans then I bet the networks would get hammered even more during those times.

 

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Yeah, I agree. Perhaps more realistically night hours like 11 pm - 5 am or a stricter set of hours like 1-4 am, but I'd also doubt ever excepting adoption of that. 

I'm thinking the future will be, or hopefully will be like others suggested in that the carriers offer realistic buckets of data like 2.5, 5, 20, 50 at far more reasonable prices. 

The Magenta Trolls on Fierce Wireless cause many people and devices to puke.  Your Uverse gateway cannot handle the trolling and gets sick when reading the comments there.  This same issue occurs at least daily in many people and their devices who do not wear Magenta or have Magenta colored skin.  It is to be expected and should be put in the AT&T FAQ.  I can handle it because the buzzard in my profile picture has Magenta colored skin.

A spoonful of magenta helps the magenda go down! 

(Sorry AJ, magenda is too catchy. I have to get it out of my system  )

Last I checked, AOL dial up was $24.95. Verizon will most likely up the rate to $29.95 to 39.95/mo. Let's call it, the Verizon Premium!

 

 

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A big red check, and it has to be good (or so the average American thinks)! Even though Verizon will probably figure out a way to compromise people's e-mail, security and remaining AOL "service" and make them pay for everything imaginable.

This deal is probably more about the brands and content producers under the AOL umbrella than the AOL brand itself.

 

Think:  Huffington Post, Engadget, Moviefone, Stylelist, etc.

Very true. Then we'd have Magenda and whatever you want to call Verizon Agenda or Red Agenda. 

"Verizon news, vNews (wtfe), only $0.89 per click"

That's a great video, really shows where Marcelo wants to take the company.

That's what I thought when I saw it. As apposed to the other "maverick" (in basically every way), Sprint is to be the maverick that wants to do things right for the long-term for their whole subscriber-base, with a level of honesty and integrity.

I believe we see eye to eye, Adonis, in fact I agree with everything in your post. 

All carriers have their good and bad. I just get tired of the magenta and red fanboy crowds thinking their shit is the best, to put it quite frankly. Namely how the more extreme of them must constantly go to bat for a hyped up primarily urban carrier, and a baby bell, because they think all good experiences on Sprint, and if not Sprint then on AT&T, are anecdotal at best. 

Don't get me wrong, there's no denying there are some areas where they both do excel (much of urban coverage for T-Mo, national coverage for VZW). However across the board, there is no true coast-to-coast, market-to-market ubiquity in performance from any of the 4 carriers.

AT&T has their clear set of problems and I seriously hope for their sake that they do get what they need to get done this year. I've called them out in a post myself, and just to reiterate, the purpose of my post was to discredit the bs notion that AT&T is crumbling nationwide and leaving all their customers unhappy. As I'm indeed in one of their better markets where they are keeping up, I'm not some unheard of minority. Otherwise, there is no way AT&T would still retain over 120 million subscribers.

Side note: I do love Sprint (if people are taking my posts on this thread the wrong way that I have some intergalactic relationship with Ma Bell through the death star mothership), but I like AT&T's service (especially in my short-term situation).

When T-Mobile's LTE is slower than Verizon's EV-DO on a good day, it's now okay since ~1 megabit is fine (on T-Mobile, only; 1 UnCarrier megabit = 10 regular megabits). Because: UnCarrier Data Strong, so that means it can still do everything you need. Otherwise, go on WiFi.  

Flavor of the month: Too many people are hopping on T-Mobile's network.  

Factory Refurbished

"Post-NV" my EVDO speeds have ranged from 1Mbps to 2Mbps in both Boston and NYC. Pings are usually sub-80ms in my testing and it works just fine for everything including 480p video on YouTube. During peak times, it'll drop to around 900kbps. I just ran this one. My phone was on LTE but I switched to 3G.

Thank you all for your feedback!

When I'm on 3G my data experience tends to be rather well. Not always above 1 Mbps but it is very usable. I can browse S4GRU, Facebook, Snapchat, and many websites perfectly fine. I also live in an area that doesn't have a ton of Sprint towers and they are spaced rather far apart, and there is a lot of people in this area (one of those "population outgrew the network" kind of situations), but the experience is amazing for an EVDO Rev. A network.

 

-Anthony

Thank you! Yeah, and I'm not looking for the max EV-DO theoretical speeds or anything. Like I said, a good slice of bandwidth to do those basic tasks with ease and I'd be happy. 

I hadn't realized there was such a thing as a "True LTE Experience" being tied to a particular network band. I often get around 15mbps indoors with Sprint on B26, which is a higher speed than Verizon advertises for its typical LTE "experience".

Yeah, for anyone to presume you'll only pull 1-3 down just because it's B26 or even B25 is vacuous.

Not to mention no one needs more than like 5-6 for 99% of their smartphone needs, so faster speeds are just an added bonus. 

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Oh, by the way: What EV-DO speeds do you all on Sprint in touchy LTE, or in 3G areas you've visited average? 0.5 - 1 megabit? I mean it, because before I know it I'll by looking into a new phone, and I want to know if Sprint's upgraded EV-DO is often usable, unlike Verizon's (I can't count the timeouts I had! ).

I'm not a huge streamer not video streamer, so I just want to know if in upgraded areas you can do basic web browsing and music streaming with ease like on HSPA+

Yes but 2.5 is necessary to have the true lte experience.

Oh, but it doesn't stop T-Mobile and Verizon users from ranting and raving about their anecdotal mid-band experiences. 

Is that what a "true" LTE experience is? A continually tally-tickling (say that 5 times fast) speedtest in either random or frequented areas? 

And yes, if Sprint had a large percentange of redhead customers, than maybe looking at roaming in Ireland and Scotland would make sense.

This. 

All in all, the most readable comments on a Sprint article I can recall for a long time. Most of the detractors either curbed their comments or were completely basis. Like the lady who claimed Sprint was lying in their release.

 

But the quantity of vitriol was way down. And the average readability of the comments was tolerable. Sprint must be turning a corner.

 

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For FierceWireless it has been calmer with a level of sanity recently, but the T-Trolls are currently over at TMoNews.

Oh, and I'll try poetry (regarding T-Mobile):

Still just number four.

Promises span through next year.

Not yet accomplished.

That's the first I've heard that. Generally coverage is overstated. It's gotten better, particularly LTE (B25) representation, at least in the markets I spend time in. However, Spark coverage is still grossly overstated here. 

They all do, but I doubt I'm the only person to say they're too generous when marking the roaming areas. 

I've filled out that survey 3 times now. 3 different computers it popped up for me, so I filled it out. Hopefully they've heard from enough of us by now.

I filled it out twice I believe. I'd like to see a map using either Google/Bing, far bigger with a full screen or expandable option, and Sprint needs to change their algorithms. Sprint is the only carrier that actually sometimes claims less coverage than is proven on crowd-source maps (cover near borderline roaming areas is underrepresented and they claim roaming where they sometimes have a stronger signal than other carriers). It needs to be at least on par with reality.  

It's a good refresh, but I'm still upset to not see an updated coverage map. Their current one is just too small and hideous. There isn't any word on that, is there? They had a survey a month or two ago, but that's about it, I think. 

Mjölnir?

I had Thor on my mind before you said that! Grrr... I should have commented first 

bumpy roads

bumpy ride 

icy hot

Plenty of areas in the Catskills and Taconics or even along the Hudson in downstate New York are not far from large population centers, but they could be considered "rural."

 

AJ

Thank you. You understood what I meant. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downstate_New_York

I am in and travel around the orange, but I sometimes am around the bordering "yellow" areas sometimes (that I'd consider Upstate). Even some of the yellow is sometimes considered Downstate, although I don't personally consider it that. 

It could, but then again, that area is also largely considered as Upstate NY.

Could've also been easier to just say AT&T is amazing in Westchester, Putnam, etc so that we can relate. 

No, it is only considered Upstate by people in NYC; not by everyone else. Those counties are further south where I believe VZW does a bit better, even T-Mobile is more existent and Sprint's upgrades are currently more pronounced.