tommym65

I wonder what the difference between assignees is. Some are general wireless and some are sprint.

The Radio Shack is my town is listed on that document with the assignee as General Wireless and store type as Standalone. Does that mean it's not going to become a Sprint corporate store? Or will it be a Sprint store without the Radio Shack co-branding?

I'm still fuzzy on this.  Are the "General Wireless" assignees in the list going to become Sprint Shacks, or Sprint Stores, or something else entirely?  I've re-read this entire thread and still can't figure it out.  If someone knows, please enlighten us.

Also, does anyone know what the actual branding of the Radio Shack conversions will be?  With they remain Radio Shack with a Sprint department, will they be re-branded (as "Sprint Shack", as in my above intentionally silly example, or something more serious), will they become simply "Sprint", or do they await some other more mysterious fate?

The suspense is killing me!

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I should have explained this caveat a little clearer. I intentionally ignore 03 as a second carrier because non-Samsung markets use 01/02/03 for the first carrier. It's not a problem caused by ALU or Ericsson, it's a problem caused by Samsung.

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Null GCI appearing on the display? Or in the Site Log? I've spent many hours hammering the null/duplicate/invalid entry issues with the Site Logger this week, just haven't had any success yet; my testing last night did not go very well. I pushed out yesterday's update because those particular items were working well. I've been working on it for a few hours today but nothing to share just yet. It's far more of a PITA than I expected!

 

2nd carrier:  Naaah, can't be a Samsung glitch, everyone knows Samsung is perfect.  Besides, REAL hexadecimal programmers ALWAYS count from zero! 

Null GCI:  The "Null" note is only in the log.  What seems to happen when I'm watching is that an LTE site will appear on screen ID'd as "LTE", and the provider and GCI lines are simply missing, which seems to cause a new "Null" entry in the log.  I presume the same thing is happening in the background when I'm not watching.

Thanks for listening.

Hi, Mike,

The new second carrier ID feature is nice, but slightly off-center in certain markets like Chicagoland. This may be generic to Samsung markets. In Chicago, on both B25 and B41, the first carrier has GCIs ending in hex 00, 01, and 02. The second carrier has GCIs ending in 03, 04, and 05, which I know that you know. The current beta does not identify 03 as 2nd carrier, which I am guessing is either a minor hiccup on your part, or a problem caused by AlcaLu and/or Ericsson markets.

Also, when do you think you might have a beta test for the dreaded "Null GCI" feature. More than half of the GCIs I see are currently being reported as null. I'm about to drive to Philly and back, and would love to be able to track a bajillion sites. Just asking.

EDIT: I think I misunderstood an earlier post. Re-reading, I don't see anything suggesting you are on the trail of the Null GCI gremlin. Hope I'm wrong.

As always, thanks for all the work you keep putting in. Signal Check just keeps getting better and better (no thanks to Lollipop!).

Update beta from Google Play  1st try.  Running about 2 hours. All ok so far. 

And what does 55023 do differently? 

There is something disturbing about a ball field nicknamed "The Cell".

But rather appropriate for a state where many of our Governors have lived in one! 

Given what I was offered, would you switch to Family Share?

I would, and did.  Even after adding a LivePro, my bill for 5 lines and 2 (increased from 1) hot spots went down about $100.

Yep, the WiMAX network is still alive and kicking for a little while longer.  But it will join the iDEN network soon.

 

AJ

Is it time to roll out the WiMAX "Countdown Clock"?  This will be so-o-o exciting! 

Yeah - sorry.  Last few posts were kind of a mess.    I'll clear this up as well as possible.  

 

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Got it.  Thanks for the clarification.

(Besides being a cellular geek, I am a railfan, and one of the most spectacular train wrecks in US history happened about ~130 years ago, 2 miles east of Chatsworth, IL, so any time I see Chatsworth mentioned anywhere, it piques my interest.  In a bizarre coincidence, another spectacular train wreck occurred at Chatsworth, California, more than 120 years after the Chatsworth, IL, wreck.  Both wrecks involved passenger trains, and both were completely preventable.  FWIW)

I stand corrected. I can now confirm that as of this morning, the Forrest IL tower is now LTE live!

I'm confused: I thought you were talking about Chatsworth. 

Anybody else have a pretty no hassle upgrade?

Yes, although the OTA server(s) must have been very busy yesterday in the evening, causing the first download attempt to fail gracefully.  The phone then restarted the download this morning, sped through it, and did the upgrade. No issues so far with apps, battery, overheating, or any of that stuff.

Have any of the upgraders gotten far enough to talk about major advantages (and disadvantages) of the upgrade, beyond the minor issues immediately following it?

Thanks in advance.

I don't think they have much for concern, because I've never heard a complaint in vegas for crappy Verizon service. Slow, probably, but overall service quality has always been decent there.

 

 

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(I know this is a bit off-topic.) Actually, I heard a complaint just this week. I was working a trade show at the South Point Exhibit Hall (far south Las Vegas Blvd) , and the woman in the booth next to me couldn't get the internet on her Verizon hot spot,  so I let her log onto my Sprint Livepro, which got solid indoor B41 LTE all week. Take THAT,  Verizon! 

Family Share 5 phones, 2 hotspots, some add-on features; 40 GB shared (including hotspot on all phones, unlimited talk/text): $249/month (which includes $~19 for purchase of 2nd hotspot).  I think that's a pretty good price.

Don't know if this is news,  but I have been getting very good B41 connectivity and speeds inside the Anaheim Convention Center all week (e. g.  24 down,  4 up).  I have been on my LivePro as a hotspot,  and the Sprint network has worked flawlessly. (It has also been good inside the Hilton.)  FWIY. 

Just wanted to let everyone know, that is caption won. I let vince pick since he started it and I agreed that it was funniest one,I wish we have more captions. But never the less, it was still fun. I will be making a donation to gift/scholarship account.

 

Merry Christmas everyone

 

 

Well, I guess I can say that if you let me know the amount of the donation, I will match it. So there!

And Happy New Year!

Mike,  So far the latest Beta  Gamma  Delta  Omicron  Upsilon  Zeta? is working great.  Thanks for all the fixes!  (But my phone is getting dizzy from all the updates!   )

"I know Band 41 is short-range,  but THIS is ridiculous!" 

For the time being, Sprint Network Vision sites and Clearwire WiMAX/LTE sites are separate entities.  To receive band 41 LTE, you almost certainly have a Clearwire site much closer to your home.  If you are interested in becoming an S4GRU sponsor, we have maps of both Sprint sites and Clearwire sites in our sponsors section.

 

AJ

Just an observation:  Last week driving around L A and up to Bakersfield, Signal Check Pro spotted 6 Clear B41 antennas, 80 Sprint B25 antennas, and 65 Sprint B41 antennas (although I think that it may have misidentified some of the Sprint 41's, as their GCI's look like Clear GCI's).  Apropos buzkillb, part of my drive was up the 210 right past Altadena, but I haven't had time to figure out which technologies I saw on that part of the trip.  My LTE coverage in the Altadena area (and, in fact pretty much everywhere I drove) was pretty good, and fairly uninterrupted, throughout the whole trip.

After going back and reading much of what you've written . . .

Thank you.  Sincerely, I appreciate that.  I don't think that you and I are in serious disagreement on this topic.  If T-Mobile and Sprint cannibalize each other, the only winners will be the Evil Big Two.

Okay, what is with this? This doesn't make any sense at all. His name is "Legere", and it's pronounced "leh-JER". If this is mockery, this is a pretty piss-poor way to mock someone. It doesn't really help with credibility of your statements, too. And frankly, it sounds like you hate the demographic that T-Mobile is targeting, which is exactly the same demographic that Sprint targets, too.

 

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Frankly, Sprint wishes it could have managed to create the marketing machine that T-Mobile has. As it is, it tries and fails many times.

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Okay, Neal, calm down. I did not intentionally mis-spell anyone's name -- I have a friend who spells his name LeGere, and I spelled the T-Mobile CEO's name the same way out of habit. There is little question that he (deliberately) cultivates an off-the-wall image. As to "hating" anyone's demographic, you are distorting an observation into a (non-existent) opinion. Some of my best friends (including 2 of my daughters and my son-in-law) are in that exact demographic. I am merely pointing out (entirely without bias) that Mr. Legere himself kept repeating the same mantra over and over.

Nor am I in any way denigrating T-Mobile's success. There is no question that Legere and his team have brought back T-Mobile from the dead, especially since the failed merger attempts and the essential abandonment by the German parent company. (And, yes, I expect that you or someone will attack that statement also.)

At no point in my post did I state, or even suggest, that Sprint has had more recent marketing success than T-Mobile. In fact, I didn't directly mention Sprint at all, except to point out that I think that Sprint would be foolish to closely follow this particular marketing path.

You and I have never exchanged views before, although I have watched with interest your discussions with senior members of this forum. You will never, in my 800 posts here, find that I have gone off on emotional tangents, diatribes, or rants. My post was intended to be an objective summary of some of Mr. Legere's statements, for those who may not have had the patience of time to watch the whole stream. I find your accusations and tone in this instance to be somewhat inappropriate, and suggest that you reread my posts objectively.

I'm not sure the name has anything to do with "impressing potential customers".

 

I'm fairly sure the only reason for the awkward "stash" name, is because they can't call it "rollover" due to the trademarks AT&T holds. Same reason C-Spire calls it "rolling" data.

 

Everyone is calling it "rollover". Pogue gets paid to talk to Legere, and even he couldn't stop calling it rollover. If Legere could have found a legal way to call it "rollover" (without paying AT&T for it), I'm betting he would have.

Yeah, but you gotta admit that "stash" fits LeGere's whole off-the-wall, super cool magenta persona.  He could have used "data cache" or "data bank" or some more conservative term and said the same thing, but that wouldn't show the anointed LeGions how hip Johnny-boy is.

A couple of thoughts after listening all the way through:

1. LeGere has his competitive sights set firmly on Verizon and AT&T, because they have the market share to steal, and they have the business model that is most vulnerable to such theft.  Virtually the only times he mentioned Sprint, he credited them with good ideas (unlimited data, "giving" data).

2. LeGere has his customer sights set firmly on the young, urban demographic.  He pointed out that the average T-Mo customer is 28 years old.  He kept referring to "cow fields".  Many cellular customers are over 28 (some of us are w-a-a-y over), and the term, John, is "cow pasture".  Not "field", "pasture".  So he is obviously after a non-old (or even middle-aged), non-rural, hip audience.

3. "Data Stash"?  Takes me back to my younger years in Ann Arbor, where most people felt that their stash was more important that grades, sex, cars, or even rock n roll.  To use some quaint terminology from that ancient time and place, he was shuckin' and jivin'.  He wants to impress a rather limited group of potential customers, and obviously feels that there are enough of them to impel some significant growth.

Is his business model bad?  No, he has been (and will be) successful with it.  Are Verizon and AT&T going to quake in their massive boots?  No, they're too busy counting their money to be worried.  Should Sprint slavishly follow in his drug-addled footsteps?  Not really, because the market segment to which he is appealing isn't big enough.  Does my 40-GB share plan need a data stash?  Not yet, even though 3 of the 5 users are in his target demographic, because even as active urban data users, they don't come near the limit (and my wife and my antique self are exurban, and don't count).  And if I needed a real stash, I'd move to Colorado.

There you are: Sage words of wisdom from the aged. 

did anything change with the latest beta and displaying SNR while connected to LTE? i updated this morning and noticed that i'm not showing SNR anymore.

Ditto on SNR. 

Beta looks good,  I like the new stuff. I will be traveling to SoCal this week,  so will try to give it a workout.  Great work,  Mike!