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Guinea Pigs are on standby

Oink! 

And the verdict is . . .? 

AT&T 29/39 GHz and "5g" deployment are years away.  Sprint 2.5 GHz is now, and is currently expanding, although much slower than most of us would like. 

I also thought it was the new location sharing on gmaps. Have you guys been using that? I kinda love it. But might be draining.

 

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I'm not using GMap sharing, or any other new features (that I know of).  It just seems that since I did the update on 3/29, my battery life has gone to hell.  Like SeanK, I'm charging twice a day.  Or, I have my phone plugged in to a power supply or portable battery almost full time.  Rather disappointing:  Before the update, I could easily go all day and evening, and still have 40-50% charge by the time I shut down for the night.  Now, if I'm not charging, I'll be in the 30's by lunch.

Has anyone else noticed a sharp decline in battery life since the last update? 

So....  Is anyone having success with their NCAA Tournament Bracket?  I was 13 for 16 on day one. 

I was 1 for 1 (Northwestern over Vanderbilt).  Go Cats!

(Yeah, I know round 2 doesn't look so rosy.)

I think a TMobile and Dish merger would be good so that TMobile can grab the Dish spectrum and actually deploy it.

Plus, they'd have all the fun of dealing with Charlie Ergen. 

Update went ok.  WiFi calling failed after update, but healed itself about an hour later. Don't much like the revised Settings menus, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. 

I've been getting a bunch of spam calls too as of late. A lot of them are from all different states across the US according to Caller ID. They're all automated and seem to be pretending to be from "consumer services". It's really annoying, especially when they decide to call me at 6 in the morning or after 10 at night.

 

-Anthony

I just find it odd that an automated machine asked for my name on a number that is under my account...yet I have never claimed the number as mine. If I sign up for something, I always use my personal number. The only other culprit I can think of is Assurion, but I have never paid for insurance on the number that received the call.

Most are robocalls placed from automated dialers that rapidly call entire blocks of numbers. They spoof the caller ID (illegal as hell), and are nearly untraceable.

If they say your name, it is almost certainly a coincidence - they are dialing hundreds or thousands of calls per hour, and have absolutely no idea who they are calling.

I was thinking of doing an iPhone 7 fundraiser raffle for S4GRU like last year. Would you guys enter?

 

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7+???

If you have bought a GS7 Edge or Note 7 since August 3:  Are you aware that Samsung is offering your choice of a free Fit2 fitness tracker or a free memory chip for GS7 Edge & Note 7 buyers.  Check the Sprint web site for details.  My daughter's phone died a couple of weeks ago and she bought a GS7 Edge on my account.  The reselling store was not aware of the promotion, but I was shopping at a local Best Buy for a Fit2 for my other daughter, and they told me about it.  I pulled up the Installment Agreement for the GS7 Edge and submitted it through the Samsung web site, and just received a verification that the purchase qualifies and that I should get the Fit2 "within 12 weeks".  $179 retail value. 

don't update

 

I have two S-5's.  Updating to MM caused a very definite degradation in several ways. LTE drops totally at spots where it only got weak before and slowed down.  Once the LTE drops, it is slow to return even if you move to a strong area. Phone is just generally slower all around.   Occasionally it is almost impossible to answer an incoming 1X call. Phone just does not respond to an attempt to answer the call. I wish I had refused the update.  Sad how I had a perfectly working phone and they trashed it with the update.

That's Samsung always ruining their phones with the last update. It happened to the S3, and now it looks like it is happening with the S5 now that it has reached the end of life support. It's almost as if Samsung is pushing consumers to buy a new phone...almost!

 

(P.S., the PCA marshmallow update actually made the phone very enjoyable. But from the looks of it, the latest one ruins the phone.)

Has anyone had any more recent experience with the latest GS5 update?  My phone keeps threatening me with the update, but I have successfully fought it off so far. 

Should I update?  Should I not update?  Should I do like my daughter and get my GS5 stolen, so I won't need to worry about it?  (BTW, Sprint refuses to brick stolen phones. Bah!)

Thanks in advance.

But T-Mobile did very well purchasing MetroPCS. I wanted Sprint to buy/merge both Metro and Cricket.

So did the much-maligned Dan Hesse.  His incredibly-stupid-at-that-time board of directors totally torpedoed him.

Also if any one noticed the 6.0.1 update now shows the LTE bandwidth MHZ. Nice touch

Is this just on the Enginerring screens, or other places too?

It appears that they are having some issues or changing up something in the system. The app is showing that I have negative 7 days in my billing cycle. I also am showing 0 of 0 in roaming. Anytime I try to update the information I get an error that it can't connect to the system.

 

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My Sprint Zone auto-updated yesterday or the day before, and is now fairly thoroughly hosed.  I have reported through the app.  We shall see if Sprint notices either my report or the problem itself.

Looks like WiMAX may finally be shut down in my part of northwest Chicagoland. My aging EVO is stuck on "Searching" and won't lock onto a channel, where yesterday it would lock and populate all the parameters. It is showing channel 2647000, but no bandwidth, Rx power, IP address, or any other WiMAX parameters.

Check sensorly. Sometimes they can give a good representation of signal. Not speed though

 

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Thanks, but . . .

Sensorly data for that area is mostly empty, although it suggests speeds might be OK.  I was hoping to hear from someone who recently has actually been in or near the building.

This thread has been rather silent lately, but I though I's see if anyone is still watching:

I am working a trade show in the Georgia World Congress Center in late February, and wondered if anyone could comment on Sprint coverage in Hall B.  Specifically, is LTE likely to be strong enough inside Hall B to drive a hot spot at reasonable speed?  On the Sponsor map, I see 3 sites somewhat close, and the Ultimate Coverage Map shows that Sprint claims perfect coverage, but I can't really tell much from that.

Thanks in advance.

Shipping companies charge by size/weight and destination...just like Mobile companies charge by Data buckets and coverage. You don't see the USPS charging BOTH the shipper and receiver now do you? No.

 

Your analogy makes no sense.

The difference is that shipping companies charge ONLY the shipper.  And mobile companies charge the recipient, and under net neutrality should charge ONLY the recipient.

Greenie is correct, and the analogy absolutely makes no sense.

My prediction is that AJ will continue to post bizarre and absurd media clips, which (in spite of the fact that they sometimes make us all want to strangle him) are almost always directly on point, and sometimes even funny.

Either you left off accessible/replaceable battery or that's what you meant by external battery (I wasn't clear).  As my GS5 ages, and I don't plan to replace it for another year, being able to plug in a new battery will become increasingly important.  Woe to GS6 (and iPhone) users when they are faced with the same problem.

I agree with your statement on upload speeds holding them back. Sprint is in a difficult position there until upload CA is implemented and/or they change their TDD ratios for B41 (unsure of the technical term).

 

The other carriers have the advantage, with respect to UL, of having the same amount of spectrum deployed for upload as they do for download since they use bigger channels of FDD for LTE.

 

Sprint's 10x10 PCS deployment will help with this, but generally they will eventually need to bust out higher UL speeds on B41 to get on par with the other carriers in that respect.

 

. . . Or, RootMetrics will need to change their DL/UL ratio weighting to account for TDD.  The even FDD DL/UL ratio is actually a disadvantage for most LTE applications, as the UL channel is seriously underutilized in congested situations, as is evidenced by many of the recent TMo speedtests that have been posted in other threads.  Sprint's uneven DL/UL ratio on Band 41 provides far more efficient use of spectrum, especially when users are streaming (streaming downloads vastly more data than it will ever upload).  It is RootMetrics reporting which needs to change, not Sprint's use of spectrum.

San Bernardino County got a FCC extension on rebanding til next summer iirc.

When did that happen?

I feel like Ontario is a hidden secret. I hate flying into LAX.

 

Flying into LAX is easy.  Then you have to leave the airport and deal with LA traffic.  THAT is the hard impossible part!

Anyone else's battery life improve after update? Mine did.

My battery life seems to have gone to hell.  The GSam battery monitor doesn't show anything which is hogging the system, the battery just drains really fast.