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Can you reference where you saw about the moving the contacts to fix GPS? My G2 has terrible GPS and can take 10 mintues to lock on if it ever does.

Mine was the same way, eventually what led me to the Nexus 5. Ingress and bad GPS don't mix.

 

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Looks like two different color led flashs.. Or is it a hear raye monitor?

 

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Hear Raye? I haven't seen Raye since American Gladiators

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raye_Hollitt

 

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Has anyone noticed the difference phone calls sound on the other end now? The person sounds louder but more high pitched. My wife is on the S3 also and when she calls me or vice versa the way she sounds like she is in the room with me talking to me directly in my ear. Sometimes I like it but others it just sounds weird. Wish I knew how to mess with it to make it sound like it used to.

 

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Sounds like HD Voice

 

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$675 is mine due to this Framily Plan promotion. 8 people on Verizon and 1 on ATT that were not happy with their phone bills were not hard to find. 5 months ago I would have never referred them. I switched off my lifetime unlimited plan, which I'm not so sure I should have done, but I have about a year of free phone service thanks to the $75 incentive.

That's a pretty good haul!

 

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Dropping the bundles Kinect sucks for game developers. Before they could design a game knowing with 100% certainty that buyers of the game had a Kinect. Now there is the possibility of less customers to buy their games. People without a Kinect will either not be able to play the game, or will miss out on specific features that require the Kinect. Developers have 2 options, ignore the market that does not have the Kinect (and lose money because of a smaller pool of customers) or spend extra resources (money and time) to make the game playable for people without a Kinect.

 

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My understanding is that while most recent Sprint smartphones can technically do GSM and UMTS on PCS bands, almost all (except the Nexus 5) have firmware or even hardware locks that don't allow UMTS/GSM access on US networks (e.g. any MCC starting with 31). Unless Sprint was forward-thinking enough to exclude 310-120 or another US MCC-MNC under their control like Nextel's (which would presumably mean that T-Mobile could broadcast the Sprint/Nextel MCC-MNC in addition to their own), there's no way to get those devices to authenticate on a US network. I suppose Sprint could go to the manufacturers and get them to update firmware to remove the lockouts, but we're talking about dozens of different devices, many of which are no longer supported by their manufacturers. You're also going to have to enable the WCDMA modes other than "Global," which are hidden from the menus on most Sprint devices, and talk customers through switching settings. And even after that you're probably looking at SIM swaps, with customers who have no clue what a SIM is, because it came preinstalled in the phone and they've never changed it.

 

And that doesn't account for the millions of dumb phones, m2m devices, mobile broadband devices, Phone Connects, and the like out there too, a lot of which don't even have any non-CDMA capabilities to speak of. And the older LTE devices that have embedded SIMs who won't be able to transition. Those people will churn - look at what happened with Nextel.

That's is an accurate take if the merger happened tomorrow, but by the time the merger is announced (if it ever happens) it will be quite a bit of time before it may be approved (if it is approved) and them an acceptable transition period before the network differences would even become an issue. . In theory by that time a lot of incompatible devices would be upgraded to more capable devices.

 

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If all this happens I hope Sprint can merge all these frequencys into one device and make it work. I have a EVO which isn't the best device, I can't switch from 1900 to 800 without roaming first and having to reset my connections to pick up 800 or dropping a call for all this to happen. Hopefully the new devices are better at handling this.

Every device available now is better than the Evo.

 

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That be be true with non nexus devices, but it's my understanding that Google has final say on what gets pushed to nexus devices.

 

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Correct, but the poster I quoted referenced other OEMs waiting on 4.4.3 to fix data/camera issues. . Those are Nexus specific. OEMs don't need to wait on Google to fix their own devices.

 

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If 4.4.2 has bugs involving dropping data, the camera bug, battery drain etc, and they have devices running 4.4.2 (not just the nexus), they would want 4.4.3 to be released sooner rather than later so they can push it to their customers so their customers can stop calling support or going to stores complaining of said problems.

OEMs do not have to wait for Google to update the Nexus to address these issues. They are perfectly capable of fixing code themselves (and they usually do).

*edit*

Also, most of those bugs are Nexus specific.

 

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I would hope the OEM's and the big 4 would put pressure on them to push out an update, especially if it fixes data connection problems, so at the very least they don't have to hear about it from customers that have 4.4.2.

Not sure what the big 4 have to do with it. The phone doesn't work on VZW, it is not an official AT&T device (so they don't have to provide support). The only carriers that offered it officially are the little 2, Sprint and T-Mobile.

 

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Spint starts rolling out Android 4.4 KitKat for Samsung Galaxy S3 http://www.androidcentral.com/spint-starts-rolling-out-android-44-kitkat-samsung-galaxy-s3

Enjoy your kit kat!

 

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With Sprint Easy Pay, well-qualified buyers can purchase HTC One (M8) Harman Kardon edition with $0 down (plus tax) and 24 monthly payments of $28.34.

 

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Interesting to see what the price point is. I am glad I haven't picked up the M8 yet. Heck the $150 earbuds are a nice throw in.

 

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Try ##72786# from the dialer. I know it will go away when the next person activates it.

 

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Nexus 5 spark update started rolling out

No, it was delayed (or announced early).

 

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As I recall it was determined after initial sales that a update would be required to enable Spark.

 

Again this is what I recall what do others remember? Did Sprint say a update would be necessary to enable Spark before it went on sale or was that post release/sale?

 

Can we clarify this because I really want to know now. I could be wrong and that is fine but what actually happened?

Launched as a future update to enable Spark http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-to-launch-nexus-5-by-lg-smartphone-on-nov-8-14999-with-sprint-unlimited-data-guarantee-for-life.htm

 

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Advertised as software update in early 2014*

 

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Don't get me wrong, I want triband as much as the next person, but you should buy phones for what they do not what they will do in the future.

 

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Well this stinks. I spent a lot of money on a tri-band device. If I would have known it was going to be like this I would have held on to my old device and saved my money. Pretty disappointed in this.

 

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You bought the device knowing that Triband was in the future. That is still accurate.

 

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That doesn't always work for me though. Some apps I use and occasionally take screenshots of don't display the notification bar and touch buttons, they instead use the full screen mode. Just makes it more difficult for my use scenario, but I realize I'm in the minority.

I didn't think about Kit Kat changing that. Drats

 

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That update simply made it possible to activate it on the Verizon network is why.

 

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I know what the update supposedly did (the Nexus 7 LTE worked fine on VZW prior to the update) , I was more referencing the fact that the updates could be targeted to specific carriers.

 

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I really wish they'd done something else other than Power and Volume Down, they're so hard to hit reliably.

Use Quick memo. Slide up and to the right from the home button.

 

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What are the odds of a Sprint only update that is not 4.4.3? I have an LTE Nexus 7 that is on the T-Mobile 200mb free monthly plan. I never received the update that rolled out with the VZW Nexus 7 launch. Could it be possible that the update will only roll out to devices with a Sprint SIM? If you look at the factory image page https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerhead for the Nexus 7 LTE, you will see the 2 versions

You see one clearly labeled for VZW for the same model.

 

 

 

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Time to go back to stock

 

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I dont want samsung to make it more like stock Android, Stock android is boring

That's why choice is a good thing.

 

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First thing I will install is Nova launcher and SwiftKey. How's the new touchwiz?

 

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https://plus.google.com/114721707153992450318/posts/Gg9UDMZsagF sums it up nicely. On paper the S5 is great. The screen is gorgeous, it is fast, rf seems to be pretty decent, really nice camera, but touchwiz is still ok at best.

 

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