koiulpoi

You can take it to a store; most will be OK with your phone being rooted. If the techs don't know what they're doing, they'll try and claim that your rooting is what's causing it...

 

I take it you're wiping data and system when going back to Sense?

It could simply be that whatever site(s) you connect to are having issues. If one of your main sites is blocking at a high percentage, you'll get the issues you describe. If they've already reported your location as a problem area, there's not a lot more you can do, honestly...

 

Too bad, there's not a decent cellphone with the Tegra 4i chipset. 

 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/nvidia-tegra-4i-soft-update-adds-lte-advanced-speeds/

Don't hold your breath. If things go to QComm's plan, every Sprint smartphone through 2013 will be Snapdragon only.

Go in to a Sprint store and ask.

Try out Swiftkey on Android and you'll never look back.

Instead of adding one lane at a time, they need to add 6 lanes (aka clearwire's spectrum).

Well, sure; a few tri-band devices have been announced, and phones are soon to follow. The FIT for 800 MHz is done, and Clear already has thousands of sites converted to LTE. It's not like they're sitting on their hands going "hm, I wonder".

 

That being said (and this may seem obvious), but for slow speedtests like that, are you certain you're getting a solid 4G signal? Signal bars typically show 1X signal, iirc.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joanlappin/2013/05/17/sprint-in-a-panic-over-losing-vote-has-clearwire-working-the-phones/

 

Who in the world is Joan Lappin and why does she have such a bass ackwards, horribly negative view of this whole situation? Defending Ergen? Claiming Clearwire is worth loads more? What?

 

also:

 

Don’t lose sight of Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch’s comments this week that the transfer of U.S. spectrum to foreign ownership with ties to the Chinese who keep trying to hack our websites both commercial and government is not in the national interest..  Hatch is drawing attention to the close relationship between Softbank and Huawei which provided Son’s equipment in Japan.  This is not an insignificant issue even though Son has said he will not use Huawei. Canada raised this issue as well.  As the world goes mobile and telecommunications moves from copper wire or fiber optic cable to the airwaves,  in my long expressed view in this blog, ownership should remain in the United States. 

Anyone who tries to tie China and Japan together, I have no respect for, and is a nationalist fool.

Softbank -> Sprint " Awww! Let's get on this silk bed and ... talk about our future..."

Sprint -> Softbank " *smooches*, let's get clearwire in here as well.."

O-okay, Son-san... what are... are we gonna do on the bed? And with Hesse-san too... *blushes*

How do they get started? How does so much misinformation get spread around?

 

I've been told, with a straight face, that the White iPhone is faster than the black one. No reason why, just, it's faster, "everybody knows it, we've done speedtests, and my white one runs smoother". From multiple people.

 

I've been told the white Galaxy S2 (epic touch) has Gorilla Glass, while the black one does not. I've also heard the opposite.

 

Has anyone else heard such things? I'm talking things like this, that are provably false, even at a moment's glance.

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

 

So, it's "making sure the whole backend works".

Not a hate for refurb as I'm sure they are as good just feel that paying for a brand new phone 5 weeks ago and having it break( guess brand new doesn't really matter huh) should have a new phone

Exactly, they gave you a phone with fewer issues than you previously had. Apple does a fantastic reconditioning job. Replacement devices being reconditioned is a pretty standard practice in the industry. If 5 weeks is too soon for you, what would you say the cutoff is? One year? Trust me, I've heard "I've been paying insurance for years, and now you're saying I'm going to have to pay more to get a refurbished phone!?" and similar things.

It doesn't matter, it's "5 Jiggas" !!

I just realized - what about this is "5G" anyways? Just jamming more antennas together with bigger spectrum isn't really an advancement, it's just more of what we already have. It's like putting a cake on top of a cake and then saying "BEHOLD! I have invented... THE DOUBLE CAKE!"

i complain to the manager and tell him that i will not accept a refurbished phone to replace my 5 week old phone. Few minutes later out comes new phone

Not really sure what the hate for reconditioned devices is. Well over 95% of the time, reconditioned devices are completely indistinguishable from new devices, in both functionality and appearance. That other 5% of the time, it's a minor defect that's noticed immediately and it's simply sent back. I'm honestly surprised that the manager of that store gave you a new device; most stores, neither Apple nor Sprint aren't willing to take the $630 hit for a new iPhone 5. In fact, do you know that it's new? PM me if you're curious.

 

Sign into my apple id make a call go home. get home and phone says invalid sim. nothing works. Call Sprint they forward me to apple spend 1 hour on phone with apple, very nice but could not fix my issue, makes me a new appointment at apple for next day. The day i am supposed to got apple i get an idea sign into my sprint account and behold,, apple activated my new phone the imei of my current phone was on my account but my old sim card number was still active not the new one, call sprint activate new sim start phone as new activation.. voila!!!! just like before.

 

point im trying to get out is if u need to swap a I5 and have connectivity issues make sure they have the right imei from the new phone and the right sim card activated. Sorry for the long winded explanation but if it helps someone down the road it was well worth it

Yes, this is correct. The UICC SIM and the iPhone 5's ESN need to match for the phone to provision at all. I'm surprised the store you were at overlooked this, and let you go with the old SIM still activated.]Sounds to me like somebody wanted you out the door as quick as possible...

 

Also...

I5

Why do people refer to it as the "i5" and not the "iPhone 5"? I've heard the "i4". The best is hearing the "s4" for the iPhone 4S, not the Galaxy S4.

It is based on 64 way MIMO. You could not fit 64 element MIMO in a 600MHz device, so 28GHz is probably the frequency where you could.

I saw that, it's "64 antenna elements". So... 32x32? 63x1? I have no idea how this works.

So, I have a question for those who know more than I do.

 

If a device has SVLTE, will it be able to connect to 1X on ESMR 800 simultaneously with LTE on PCS G-Block 1900?

 

If a device has SVDO, will it be able to connect to 1X on ESMR 800 simultaneously with EV-DO on PCS 1900?

 

Lastly, if a device lacks SVDO, will it be able to connect to 1X on ESMR 800 simultaneously with EV-DO on PCS 1900? If not, and in an area without LTE but with 800 (could happen due to coverage gaps or lack of full builds), will such devices be stuck on 1X for data if not fully on PCS?

 

I ask because, using a certain engineered PRL by a certain Digiblur, using my Note II (no SVDO, yes SVLTE), I was able to (seemingly) do 1X 800+LTE 1900, but not 1X 800+EV-DO 1900, and I'm curious about what the average customer experience will be.

It opens up the possibility of using a local SIM for those "world travelers" who think that they might go overseas, then do so once every 15 years.

 

 

AJ

So if I grab me a GS4, pop out the UICC, go to Europe, and throw in a cheapo prepaid one from a local carrier, it's gonna work?

So, uh, what's the point of the SIM card being removable, then?

Where people are getting screwed is failing sprints credit checks or not get approved for enough lines as they had at us cellular.

I am not sure if "getting screwed" is the right phrase. Anyone who fails a Sprint credit check has a rather poor credit rating and would probably be better off on prepaid anyway.

 

AJ

Frankly, Sprint is one of the most lenient as far as credit checks go. I have never seen anyone "fail". At worst, you'll only be approved for one line and have a deposit. Most deposits are $50 or $100 for bad credit. Worst I've personally seen was $500, and that's only once. I've heard of stories of people being refused service, but we all know how hearsay works.

imessage having a huge effect.

 

once google rolls out its own android to android text messaging overlay, its game over.

Are they actually working on something like that? Google Talk is already built in to every Android phone, and Facebook now has this same functionality...

Seasonal standby is weird, as you can only do it for 6 months, and it pushes your contract end date forward. What you're describing sounds like a simple flip-flop. Any Sprint store should be able to handle it; we do it all the time.

I wasn't focused on competing with resources for voice but rather the burden of being obligated to maintain CDMA PCS for M2M when all other voice traffic has migrated to CDMA-SMR and VoLTE.

You know, I'm not really sure what the big excitement over VoLTE is. LTE is a more "fragile" airlink than 1X, so it requires closer tower spacing or lower frequency to provide the same coverage. Why take up LTE capacity (which, for example, VZW is already running low on in some areas) with VoIP traffic when you can smash a lot more voice capacity in a single 1X carrier?

 

That being said, even VZW isn't shutting down 1X for another decade at minimum.

Well, voice is given priority anyways, so I don't really see this as an issue. Data sessions can be dropped and delayed if the network is overloaded.

So, what's the maximum throughput of that puppy? 40 MHz is a lot of spectrum to be throwing at something.

The One and the S4 are both the Snapdragon 600 processor, so it makes sense that their benchmarks would be similar. I read somewhere that every smartphone from here on out in 2013 on Sprint will contain some kind of Snapdragon, so it makes it less of an issue for me. If there's no choice between at least, say, Snapdragon vs Tegra vs Exynos, what do benchmarks matter? They're all the same in the backend...

 

Edit: Which was a problem with last generation, too. The Samsung Galaxy S3, the HTC EVO LTE, and the Motorola Photon Q all had identical chipsets - a Snapdragon S4 running at 1.5 GHz, which had barely better benchmarks than the previous gen's Galaxy S2 running a Exynos 4 1.2 GHz dual. It wasn't until the mid-gen Note II with the Exynos 5 quad 1.6 GHz and the Optimus G with the Krait that things got shaken up.

 

Now, if we were getting something with a Exyos Octo or a Tegra 4 chip in it, then I'll start checking benchmarks again and get interested.

MetroPCS does not hold any spectrum in San Diego County. But T-Mobile brings 40 MHz of AWS spectrum (down from 50 MHz because of a swap with VZW) and 25 MHz of PCS spectrum to the table in San Diego. So, AWS will likely continue running W-CDMA in a DC-HSPA+ configuration and add LTE in 10 MHz FDD bandwidth.

 

AJ

So, how spectrally efficient is DC-DSPA+, especially when compared to LTE? IIRC 10+10 MHz FDD LTE has a maximum throughput/capacity of ~75 Mbps per carrier/sector.