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  1. koiulpoi
    If you tired, you could switch to tiered?
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    I've never heard of anyone being terminated for excessive data usage. Like Rawvega said, it's usually roaming data that gets people booted. I have heard of people being terminated for violating the T&Cs, but only rarely. Lemmie quote em: If you manage to "adversely affect network performance", you likely already know you're abusing it. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry. Source: I've worked 1.5 years for Sprint retailers in areas where people really like their unlimited.
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    Aww, poor baby, he's realizing that mobile data is by its very nature, an expensive, shared resource, and not an unlimited fountain of streaming... streams. Sure, I'll completely agree that VZW's pricing and plans are exorbitant, but much like WiMAX before it, I honestly think that LTE was oversold on its capabilities and capacity. The author says " LTE was supposed to lead to a golden age of mobile broadband where people could quickly watch videos on their smartphones and tablets", and I don't think it ever really was. In both theory and practice, that is what brings networks to its knees, 4G or no. Now, if somebody was to throw 120 MHz worth of TD-LTE at it instead of 10x10 of FD-LTE, then maybe...
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    There's a street around here called "Cascade West Parkway Southeast". We have roads that change names 4 times as you keep going straight. We have a turn called the Michigan left, and they're all over the place. We have a freeway that bisects a city, and that freeway was never even supposed to be there, that connects to 3 other freeways. Things are weird around here.
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    You can also use Google Voice calls over data through apps like GrooveIP. Works surprisingly well.
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    Oh, I dunno, I like to think of iOS 7 as being Superflat, in the style of Murakami Takashi. Honestly though, I see why this hasn't bothered me; parallax stuff has been in videogames for years and years.
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    Well... I heard a rumor from a guy who knows a guy who is totally a reliable source that SAYGO (Sprint As You Go) is going away, so SWEGO could be a replacement. Or something. Or you could take this post with a bucket of salt.
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    I hope they do put in procedures like that. I hear a lot from folks that the reason 3G NV and CDMA 800 upgrades are so crucial and take so long is 911 testing. Yet, they can still end up with sites launching that would keep 911 from working. It's been a tough couple of weeks here in Grand Rapids, certainly. We got a ton of 800, and it seems to be having trouble handing off to 1900. Or maybe it just likes to drop calls because it feels like it, not sure. It's been more or less extremely severe, throughout the city. It's especially bad with Artprize going on. It's been pretty trying, being at the brunt of it - doubly so when Care informs people that "nothing is wrong". I know what's coming, but man, it's making me want to switch.
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    But, by the Gods, I wish it did work that way.
  10. koiulpoi
    You must be prime credit class. Being ASL (account spending limit) class means, unfortunately, no.
  11. koiulpoi
    Really? I always figured it was "arbitrary signal unit"
  12. koiulpoi
    Did you... even read the article? You're literally spending more money than the phone. This isn't even taking in to account selling your old one. This is just you giving money to the death star.
  13. koiulpoi
    I actually find it both fitting and hilarious that AT&T's program is in no possible way good for the consumer. It's just straight-up terrible. And VZW's is almost as bad.
  14. koiulpoi
    Thank you, this has actually been very informative for me. You know what you should do? Submit an article for the wall here! I think it'd the kind of info most of us would be interested in. After all, every smartphone has a Li-Ion battery these days...
  15. koiulpoi
    Heh, you should see how some folks use their phones. Charge 8 hours overnight, let it drain for 15 minutes while driving in to work. Charge for 8-9 hours while working, let it drain for 15 minutes while driving home. Charge the rest of the time when it's at home, repeat. And for many of them, you can ignore the section about driving, thanks to car chargers. I'm fairly certain that's damaging. Not an expert, just fairly certain. After checking out various battery life apps, my recommendation falls to Wakelock Detector. Set it to advanced mode, and you've got a lot of incredibly useful data. The GS3 in particular can easily suffer from a wakelock involving the Media Scanner Service, which is almost always caused by corrupt media files. Usually, these files come from "FREEEE MP3 DOWNLOADER PARADISE HAPPY" apps, or something similar. Such apps also are known to display ads all over your phone and harvest your personal information, so, you know. Well, shouldn't we be asking for the expertise of a chemical engineer?
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    Guys and gals, there's a reason that, even with Sprint's "total equipment protection", batteries are only warrantied for one year. With typical smartphone use of (what I've witnessed) around 1.5 cycles per day, sometimes more, they will degrade quickly - not to mention overcharging through leaving devices plugged in overnight, and then all day at work, and then again... If you're going to use a device for 20 months, I would honestly recommend purchasing a new battery at 12-16 months, if you're a moderate to heavy user. Anyways, one big thing I've noticed is that, while devices will generally get around the same battery life with LTE vs 3G (signal strength concerns aside), people on LTE tend to use their devices much, much more. As these ARM devices are designed to spend most of their time asleep with the screen off, you will notice the battery life being considerably diminished with increased usage. Another thing is, on Android, check to make sure you're not having some kind of wakelock issue. I have no idea if it's even possible for a wakelock to only occur on LTE, but it seem plausible. Samsung Touchwiz is prone to severe wakelock issues, above and beyond the normal Android problems and Facebook.
  17. koiulpoi
    Oh come now, give me a little more credit I didn't forget, I intentionally left that out. My post assumed that you would be upgrading once a year on the year, and that you weren't leaving Sprint. Yes, if you wait longer than a year to upgrade, it becomes a hideously bad deal. Yes, if you're trying to cancel, you have to pay off the remaining balance. However - if you cancel service with 12 months left on a contract, you have to pay $240 in ETFs, so please don't forget that. Of course, all of this discussion is a little silly in and of itself, as it assumes a stable market for used phones. Like I said at the end of my post on the matter, one advantage you can't put a price on is not having to deal with Craigslist/eBay. It's less time and energy that you personally have to spend. If you're a smart consumer, you could use your last annual upgrade on a cheapo phone and cancel immediately. Example: One year before you leave, you get an iPhone 8S (hypothetical here) for a 649.99 over 24 months, or $27/month. After one year, you want to cancel, so you suddenly owe $27*12 = $324. Ouch! But wait - there's that phone by ZTE over in the case. You decide to pick up one of those, and use your "annual upgrade" on your day of cancellation to get a $210 (+$36 activation fee) device. You just saved $78, plus however much you can sell it for. Or, since you're going elsewhere and we're assuming that phones aren't unlocked, you could just sell that 8S for $350 and be ahead $26.
  18. koiulpoi
    I actually don't have anyone on my ignore list, so, eh. Nobody here has bothered me enough to do so.
  19. koiulpoi
    Why not? Is the calculation... too hard for you? How loud would you have to yell for me to hear it? Loud enough to kill people around you?
  20. koiulpoi
    Pfffft okay, I lost it here at work when I got the email reply to this. Thanks, AJ, everyone's looking at me weird. I'd explain it but...
  21. koiulpoi
    PM me your phone number and the cross street you're at, I'll submit it to the network team. Grand Rapids has been having some odd issues lately, and I've been trying to use our Network Pinpoint tool as much as possible.
  22. koiulpoi
    Previously, I would have said it's madness to not go after more low-frequency spectrum. However, with the announcement of building out spacing for 2500 in many metro areas, concentrating more in to PCS could definitely be a worthwhile thing. Still, it would be a godsend for many rural areas - if it's that much better than 800 MHz. I'm waiting for AJ to chime in and yell at me about free space path loss.
  23. koiulpoi

    We haven't been acquainted, but you have Wren as your profile picture, so you are instantly awesome in my book.

    1. A30N

      A30N

      I'm a die hard "phan" of the original Phantasy Star games. I'm playing through PSII again on my phone.

    2. koiulpoi

      koiulpoi

      That's awesome! Call me crazy, but I had a lot of fun in PSO too. Definitely not the same game. I'm still waiting on a modern Phantasy Star. But, what can you do after IV?

    3. A30N

      A30N

      Play Phantasy Star Generations 1 & 2! They are a remake of the classics with beautifully upgraded graphics. Released for the Playstation 2 in Japan only, however I think there is an English translated version by Kyence.

  24. koiulpoi
    You're telling me. I had two (separate) absolutely bizarre cases today that both arose from having the wrong SIM in the phone. The first, a brother and sister, both with iPhone 5's, had at some point in the past swapped SIMs (mistakenly), which upon the iOS 7 update, caused one phone to activate as the other, and the other to not activate at all and display "invalid SIM". Whoops. The second, everything on the phone worked, but after the iOS 7 upgrade, iMessage showed a strange, invalid phone number as the phone's "phone number", despite the rest of the device showing his normal one. Quick SIM swap, he was on his way. After, of course, twenty minutes of me banging my head on the table wondering what in the world was wrong. So much for the SIM only being used for LTE auth, eh? Of course, the people in both of these cases had no 4G (despite us being in a launched market), and just assumed there wasn't any...
  25. koiulpoi
    It's true, my home WiFi is terrible. I've been using my (6 GB capped) MiFi 500 on 3G lately, because it works better. I keep holding out for 800 LTE on DE34IP709...
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