Vince

I think we need a caption contest.

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Sorry never mind. Friend who has the case verified it does need the thing. I would hate to use that, especially if you have a car that doesn't have bluetooth and you can't connect your aux without it...agh That sounds annoying.

 

I know life proof makes some good cases. When we would kayaking at the springs, my brother would put his phone in his life proof. He dropped it in the water, took videos underwater, didn't even have a care in the world. Meanwhile mine was in a plastic baggy lol in the kayak not moving.

To each their own. I prefer a naked phone or minimalistic cases. If there was a chance of water or sand, a ziploc bag for the day works just as well.

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I know Sprint has started doing this in Kansas City, but I thought Sprint was supposed to start deploying multiple band 41 carriers nationwide starting soon. While this will create the ability to bond 20mhz channels together, can't they function just fine on their own by placing a customer on the less-burdened carrier?

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So it all depends on the LTE site setup? I was wondering what was going on where I live. I'm 1 mile from a LTE tower east of me, and there's another site inside of a church that's about a mile south of me. I never understood why I never could get LTE at home (and inside) majority of the time, only decent 3G. Every once in a while at times, during late nights anywhere around 10:30 pm and after when standing in front of my driveway, I will pick up LTE signals ranging between -117 dBm to 120 dBm for a short period of time. Makes sense now. Here's what I normally get inside and outside the house.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tasqhui3rem9kkg/AACyAa6XAiMm7zgJkRBxEZkMa?dl=0

Having the sun down really helps with fringe cellular signal. Solar radiation has a large effect on radio signals. This is also the time of year where trees have no leaves, which also helps signal travel farther. I have a few places by me where speeds are slow and drop to 3G in the summer, but have no problem this time of year holding LTE the whole time. There are so many variables when it comes to signal that really no person or coverage map can ever be close to being accurate. You have to just try it for yourself.

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I've reported a few dead clear/Sprint 41 towers and or sectors in the Chicagoland area to Sprint a few times via the Sprint zone app. They've mostly been fixed. Same symptoms: connected but with zero data flow.

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My buddies use lifeproof on their 5s's. Personally, I think it's annoying to have to open up something to charge it, or having to unscrew that plug to get at the AUX port. Not to mention, having to use that extension piece. It's not for me. And who needs waterproof anyways? I never understood that. Even some raindrops won't hurt a naked phone.

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seems like the user card is based on your gmail. probably have to do a wipe, reinstall the rom and not go through the setup where you enter your gmail.

there is not really clean way to 'log out' from your phone, if you care about the security of your google account, you will do a full encryption then wipe.

 

this will prevent anyone from forensically recovering leftover data on your device.

I've deleted/logged out of all accounts, and never used the phone for anything sensitive. I appreciate your responses, though. That ROM was a pain to install because the touchscreen installer (I forget what it was called) didn't work, and had to use the volume/power button to select everything (which wouldn't highlight options so I was basically guessing until I got it right).

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Does anyone know how to remove that contact card with your name on it when you pull down the top? It's the one on the page with "wifi, Bluetooth, airplane mode, etc.." I've sold my m8 and it has the 4.4.4 GPE rom flashed to it, so I'm trying to clean it up without erasing it. Thanks.

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Does anyone know how to remove that contact card with your name on it when you pull down the top? It's the one on the page with "wifi, Bluetooth, airplane mode, etc.." I've sold my m8 and it has the 4.4.4 GPE rom flashed to it, so I'm trying to clean it up without erasing it. Thanks.

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takes longer loading...

 

seems to hang when "saving" posts

 

 

or is it my imagination??

I've also noticed. It takes a bit to refresh and load topics sometimes. I use tapatalk 100% of the time, and see my post submissions hang (usually resulting in a double post). When switching over to HoFo, these problems disappear.

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So, I was at the Sprint store today...

Try the usual: 1) dialing ##update# 2) rebooting the phone by holding power+home until you see the apple logo. Also, make sure you don't have an active data session going in the background, i.e. Closing all apps. Your phone won't scan for band 41 until the connection goes idle. Lastly, there are forums around the web about some Sprint iPhone 6/6+ users are experiencing problems connecting to spark, or having your phone switch to band 26 from 25 (I'm one of these users). Sprint claims they know, and that a fix is slated to be released before the end of the year.

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Does the nexus 6 have visual voicemail?

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A city with practically all sites with LTE 800 live, 2nd carrier PCS in abundance, and hundreds of band 41 sites live is Sprint not focusing on the chicago market?

 

There are markets with metro pops of millions still waiting for LTE 800 and LTE 1900 with just a handful of band 41 sites or none at all. So before you complain about them not focusing on your market understand that there are millions who are in areas where even a 2nd PCS carrier would be a godsend and LTE 800 on whatever power setting is basically unfathomable. You're better off than millions of subscribers as it is.

You bolded my quote out of context. I was referring to band 26, specifically.

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The only difference I've noticed is from the leaves falling off the trees. Now that I've brought it up and you mentioned that, I'm doubting that optimization has occurred widespread if at all. I still have all the same LTE deadspots I've had since B26 went live, I've just gotten used to them and stopped noticing. Perhaps theyve been waiting for 8T8R to be live across the market, which it appears to be considering it's ubiquity in my travels across the area. Thinking back to my visit to KC in May, we're close to what it was like over there but not quite yet.

That's two separate animals. General/extended LTE coverage matters (to me) more than getting 30mbps in a few spots. And having those bands switch properly is important. Most people don't care about 30, 55, 80mbps, or whatever speeds they're receiving. Nowadays, it's: "does my phone do what I need it to do, when I want it to, every time" and, "do I have LTE?" You really only need 1mbps-ish to browse social networking, and a solid 3mbps to fire up a YouTube video quickly. It's when that average customer looks down at their phone and sees the dreaded "3G" logo. That's when the Sprint smack talk begins: "I'm always on 3G, no LTE here, bla bla." And like you, Im experiencing the same LTE drop in the same spot, day after day. Maybe I'm just picky, and expecting to never drop LTE in the area because I know what Sprint is deploying and I know what band 26 is capable of. That's not an unrealistic view considering the other 3 providers can achieve that. I'm not trying to be snooty, but Sprint should have had the Chicago network tuned and rocking shortly after launching band 26. The field engineers are in short supply? They need to be here and other large cities (where the people are) first.

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I spent the day in Chesterton and Portage and thought with B26 on, and should be optimized by now that these two places would have had its LTE gaps filled in and found this to not be the case. I found myself on 3G fairly frequently, sites so few and far between that even B26 isn't filling in all the gaps. I found this to still be the case in Valpo yesterday too. OTOH I found B41 when I was closer to each site!

I've noticed zero difference in b26 since it launched in March/April. It's really sad that they're not focusing on the Chicago market.

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I started getting some strange errors last night on my phone, so I had to cancel the jailbreak/commcenter patch/custom carrier bundle. I upgraded to 8.1.1. Jailbreaking doesn't have much of a point these days, and the carrier bundle didn't do anything.

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Has anyone flashed that skydragon lollipop rom to their m8?

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I was requested to post my B25 second carrier finds for the Cleveland market, so here's the screenshots. Both of these were found October 29th Screenshot_2014-10-29-15-51-27.png Screenshot_2014-10-29-17-58-39.png

Cleveland is now running 3 5x5mhz band 25 carriers? That's nice.

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For me, it boils down to 3 things: the messaging (email and text) is far superior, and cleaner; the overall experience is smoother (for me, everything on android takes one or two extra steps to do anything); and the app development/mobile website development is better. It's so easy to see that development is always geared towards iOS. Things come out first for iOS, and android lagging behind. I was on a flight a few months ago that offered live television. There was a football game on that I really wanted to watch, but couldn't because I was on my m8. Every iOS instantly loaded it up in HD, while android phones and tablets required all kinds of codecs and accompanying apps to make it work. People were pressing the flight attendant call button trying to get help. That ruined android for me, and was one of the last straws for me with android. iOS doesn't change much year after year because it doesn't have to. It works fine, and I don't get all of this "I can customize android much more" talk. What customization? I think with lollipop, android is finally getting on the right track with ease of use, and that sought after clean look.

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Edit: I would like to add a few more thoughts on what keeps me on the iOS side. First, iCloud. The fact that every aspect of my phone (messages, settings, wallpaper, alarms, wifi networks, apps, every single photo/video, and all of my music, etc.) are backed up, and retrievable under one single username/password. I can go buy a new phone today, and with one login, I have an exact clone of my last device. Google can't provide this. Maybe they can, and I just don't know about it, but it's a great security blanket. There's nothing worse than getting a new phone, and trying to remember how you had things setup before, and trying to replicate that. And second, iMessage. SMS/MMS feels archaic to me. It's slow, and very limited on things. Every single person I interact with in my life has an iPhone, and being able to send unlimited character messages, hd videos, and large collections of photos instantly is fantastic. iPhone users know about the horrid of getting a video mms'd to you from an android phone. It's the size of postage stamp with grainy, and seemingly 5fps quality. I was flipping through some videos of our annual Fourth of July fireworks extravaganza, and asked my buddy to send me a 5 minute video from his phone. Zero quality deterioration. Yes, I'm sure there are messaging apps that can mimic this, but it's the OS integration factor that's clean and nice.

Honestly, this is a debate that will continue on forever, until these operating systems no longer exist. There's no clear cut winner...ever. No review is ever fair, because everyone has a like or dislike towards one or the other. Whatever works for you, works, and that makes it the best operating system. I'm pretty sure we're a responsible enough community to thoroughly debate this topic without "trolling" the hell out of it.

did you install the iOS 8 commcenter patch.im using the carrier bundle hack and I'm continuously camping b26. I never on b25 so I know it's working flawlessly

I've also installed the carrier bundle. I really don't notice any difference. Still dropping to 3G when band 25 climbs up way too high. Band 26 is prevalent here. I've direct messaged the guy that wrote the bundle to ask if he'd look into the signal thresholds, or see if band switching can be adjusted better. He hasn't responded.

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Has anyone ever experienced entering your information into a field on a website, albeit a username or password, and it the key press freezes, locking up Safari until you close it and reopen?

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On my way from DeKalb to Rochelle I picked up B41 last night .is this a signal check bogus/ error ?

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xa74omhw8m5wqre/Screenshot_2014-11-18-21-35-30.png?dl=0

I posted about this tower about a month ago somewhere around this forum. It was one tower that stretched about 15 miles. Nearly from the Dekalb oasis to almost Rochelle. It was fantastic.

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Every android phone I have owned has had a notification LED. My current one (Nexus 5) even changes color based on what notifications I have. We've also had actionable notifications for awhile.

I meant the camera flash (designed for people that are hard of hearing). My m8 received the option with their last update, but it does absolutely nothing. As a trucker with my phone on a windshield mount all day, I need to see what the notification is every time I receive one. My G2, nexus 5, and m8 have never done that for me. If I get a text, I don't want to just see an envelope icon after unlocking the phone which is dangerous while driving.

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Cons:

• Notifications suck.
• The vibrate motor is loud as hell.

I am tempted to return the 6 Plus to the Sprint store and get a nexus 6. Will the Nexus 6 be unlocked from Sprint to work on T-mobile? Anyone know?

May I ask what sucks about the notifications? Is it the fact that you either get the screen to light up with an optional camera led flash, or have a banner roll down while using the phone? Personally, I feel notifications suck on android. The screen has never lit up on any android I've ever owned (without the help of an app), and it just throws up an icon that usually gets buried with 12 other unnecessary icons. up top. It sounds like you're happy with the iPhone other than that little nuisance.

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