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By the way, I'm glad to see this post from you AJ. I was starting to think you were Catholic and had decided to give up S4GRU during Lent.

Thanks for the clarification, I was about to be very worried there

I would kinda prefer to see Conan switch over. For one, adding yet another face to the crowd at this point just seems silly to me, and for another, it would in many ways make Conan a true spiritual successor to Dave, in that NBC pretty much gave both of them the finger, and it would make it such that they both gave NBC the finger right back through the same major network.

Wait, I'm confused by this....what do you mean by 'the oldest'? I would have assumed in a case like this (though I'm surprised Framilies aren't auto-locked the moment they hit 10 anyway) that the most recent person added that put it over the limit would be kicked back out.

Unfortunately I'll be getting my 2nd replacement sometime the first of next week. Vibration mode stopped working on my initial TEP replacement from several months back, and I just kind of dealt with it a long while, but today it started going wacko, overheating and causing either lockups or spontaneous restarts or outright shutting off. And the battery started draining something fierce when it was on....it went from 51% to 5% in a little over an hour at the Sprint store, with at least 4 times it either rebooted on its own or I had to force it to.

Good deal, thanks for the clarification Rocket.

My question to the resident Sprint store employee gurus on that would be, just to be clear, would people taking advantage of this be allowed to join an existing Framily, or would they be required to start their own? I only ask because of the wording used: 'Requires Framily activation and registration'. Maybe that just means joining any Framily, but without knowing the inner workings of things, that could potentially be interpreted either way.

I second what this fella said. Hope its been and continues to be a great day for you Robert.

You'd think they'd be coming out with some kind of new solution this year.....August if I remember right is the 2 year anniversary of the P-Q release. I kept hoping the Droid 5 rumors would be indicative of a Sprint derivative to succeed the Q, but if I find out that the company that's making the GS4 keyboards makes one for the 5 as well I may decide to go that route. As for the LG stuff, I've done a bunch of searching and while I can find BT keyboards, I can only find keyboard slider cases like the above for the GS4 and iPhone unfortunately.

I have to disagree with this point. I think people here and possibly other tech sites who take the time to learn to any degree know that. I don't think the general public has any clue, nor do I think the majority of the major tech site journalists at least consistently drive that point home either. Most people have been brainwashed to think Tmo just turned things around and decided to right the ship one day, and Legere is the wizard that brought it about, and Sprint isn't capable of even imagining being capable of doing anything remotely similar, without even knowing much less considering the fact raised above or what Tmo gained from the failed AT&T venture that was a catalyst for it. And this just underscores, IMO, the fact that network-aside, one of the biggest weaknesses Sprint needs to address is in marketing. And not just in terms of commercials, but making sure in one way or another that the feet of shoddy and/or incomplete journalism is held to the fire properly.

After some consderation, I take back what I said in another thread to Santa Claus. What I want this year is to have you become a recognized journalist on one of the major tech sites. And in this case I'm not even joking other than the 'Santa' aspect---I would love to see you or someone else with the same combination of industry knowledge, intelligence, and ability to back up what they write with both fact/detail and logic as you writing articles for a change.

Mon Mothma would be so proud of you right now.

S4GRU provides that information to sponsors. Sponsors are what keep the site running and the information flowing, to cover the operational costs. If you donate $20 or more to become a basic level sponsor, you'll have access to the map of 3G/4G (1900 Mhz LTE)/800 (1x only) updates.

No problem, although you kind of threw me for a loop at first with your post, you quoted me but then wiped out my quote and put in your reply such that it appears like I'm the one that said that.

I posted on this in the N5 thread, but I'm not so sure this is 'daylight savings' related. I've noticed this issue off and on in LTE live areas over the past year, and while most of the time when its happened it falls back an hour, I've also seen a few times where I've warped forward an hour even as well. What seems (so far, knocking on wood as I type this) to have fixed the issue for me for now is to manually set the time zone only by going into Settings--->Date & Time and unchecking Automatic time zone and manually setting it to whatever is appropriate. I still have auto date/time checked.

I just happened to check this forum/thread which I don't on a regular basis, but just to chime in real quick on the time issues reported here, though I'm not a Nexus 5 owner I can tell you its not specific to this model of phone at all. There's something wonky that happens, not with every case/tower, but with many, where getting an LTE connection shifts the time by an hour. And the odder thing is that though for me its usually pushed an hour back, I *have* seen on occasion where it actually shoves me an hour forward too. The solution, for me at least (and again, I don't own a Nexus 5 nor have much experience with ICS-->forward Android versions on other phones to know if this is base Android or just my model in particular, which is a Moto Photon Q), was to go into Settings--->Date & Time, and uncheck 'Automatic time zone/Use network provided time zone' and then manually set my time zone properly. At least, so far it seems to be the solution....I've not noticed a problem since I tried that about a month ago.

Wow, I wasn't aware of this....if more companies did something like this for the newer phones and they worked reasonably well I wouldn't be holding out on my Photon Q quite as long as I'm currently intending. I wonder if the same company or another makes one of these for the latest LG phones? If I were upgrading right now I think I might be drawn more to them than Samsung at the moment.

I don't necessarily fall definitively on one side or the other on the notion of the merger, I can see elements of both argument sides I suppose. But I'll simply say this: when I keep seeing people against it base any significant portion of their argument/reasoning based on basically 'it works well/doesn't work well in X' country I cringe and shake my head. I don't think you should ever automatically take any situation in life and think that simply trying to mimic what's done elsewhere is going to be right/good/successful, much less best for you or anyone else. Humanity is a conglomerate of individuals, and in this context, the same can be said of the world of nations: each one is different with different circumstances. There may be similarities in some cases, but there will always be differences too. AJ touched on this same thought process in a bit more specifics. If there's one thing history teaches, its that at least some of the greatest successes are forged by people who think outside the box or otherwise dare to buck against the grain/status quo and dare to try something others poo-poo'ed and summarily proved the naysayers wrong. I'm certainly not saying Sprint nor T-mo merging should automatically be approved or praised based on that mindset alone, everything should be evaluated based on its merits ideally by those in power---but I don't ever like seeing progress hindered based primarily on the notion that 'well it didn't/doesn't work there/for them, so it would only be a negative/detriment for us/if done in our situation'. Ever.

Congrats to Josh, who has been a tremendous asset to S4GRU and a great guy to read articles/posts from since the day I joined this site.

Just to back up Cary's comments/observations, with the caveat that I live in a non-metro area (population of the town I live in is a little over 30K roughly, though by the same token we're right on I-40 which is a major cross-country interstate), pre-NV any tests I ran on 3G were mostly in the .4-.45mbps range, with high latency. Post-NV, usually the worst I'd see on a test is around 1.5 and often see 2+ mbps, and while I don't test often, I can't remember offhand seeing pings higher than the mid 60's. With LTE, I've seen anywhere from between 5-6 on the low end to as high as around 12 mbps here. So yes, post NV makes a world of difference. Even without 1x800 turned on here yet (which is my next big milestone I'm anxiously watching for), I've even noticed a small bump with in-building RF performance on my phone compared to legacy equipment...nothing major mind you, but enough where I can actually use my phone at work to some degree at my desk where before I'd literally always have to at least get up next to a window if not walk outside to do anything I needed to.