Vince

My 6 connects to band 26 less than my 5s did. It hangs on to both pcs carriers in the Chicagoland area for dear life before usually dropping to 3G. We have a unique situation in our market with 2 pcs carriers, and I'm just going to attribute my issue to the tower not being configured for band handoffs properly. I see band 25 hang on around -115 and up now constantly. That never used to happen.

I can't quick launch my camera from the bottom of the lock screen... could be a software issue?

Every now and then mine will do that. Shutting the screen off and then back on fixes it.

On the wi-fi ..is it a 2ghz channel or 5ghz ?

 

Your issue maybe totally unrelated..

but I asking because I have a dual band Asus router which broadcast 6 ssid's at once.. 3 on 2Ghz and 3 on 5gz... Ive noticed when I go on the higher 5Ghz channels i sometimes have trouble getting those channels - even on my Windows Pc.. If you get the 5Ghz channels the speed are so much better.. so many things interfere with 2Ghz. I heard some argue that 2ghz goes much further and thats actually part of the problem. I used my Windows pc to see what channels my neighbors are using on their wi-fi so I can put my router on a different channel. To say this helps my speeds is an understatement..

This is very true. Especially in apartments/condos/townhouses. My father-in-law was having an issue where he pays for 50/10 cable and was only getting around 7/2. I bought him an apple router for Xmas, fired up a 5ghz channel, and now he's getting 60/12. Way too much interference in his apartment building.

Are you supposed to be able to get to the control center in the text app? Whenever I swipe up I don't get anything. More specifically when the keyboard is open. If it's closed it works just fine

Same problem here. I end up hitting letters and the other person thinks I'm typing.

My phone will just not connect to wifi....I am restoring the phone now and going to update it again back to 8.0.2....This is absurd. That and I keep having the issue where I can not rotate pictures or apps or whatever.

That was on my list of problems with my last iPhone 6. Sometimes, it would just never see wifi connections. The searching wheel would just spin forever and never show the at least 10 wifi networks I can pick up from my living room. Random drops were also a problem. Apple swapped my phone out without even being able to recreate a single problem at the store. Now, my phone works how it supposed to. I didn't lose a single percent of battery while sleeping (9 hours).

Despite my crappy signal, my battery life is doing well on my 5S on iOS 8.0.2.

 

 

 

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It might be a lot better if you purchased an actual flashlight.

My battery life was terrible on my 6. It would get red hot and drop a few percent a minute if doing something heavy like video or a big game. I took it to Apple yesterday and got a new phone from them. He did a diagnostic and said he's never seen so many corrupt system files causing crashes ever. Guess I had a lemon. Battery seems a little better now. I lost 30% while sleeping for 6 hours, but I saw that "photos" was at 70% with background activity. Probably just finishing up the sync process.

Domestic use in the United States on carriers other than Sprint in the US is not currently possible (and probably never will be).

starting with phones released in 2015, legally, they have to be.

iPad or AndroidPad, doesn't matter.  I just really think that a tablet works better in the cab of a truck rather than a laptop.

Ether the official Apple Bluetooth keyboard, or some other variant. Also, there are lots of cases with a built in keyboard.

As a truck driver, I find a tablet to be the best in-cab solution. Especially an iPad. Apple has some nice truck gps/log apps out there, and for portability, ease of use, web browsing, email, video chat (FaceTime, Skype, or any other chat app), Netflix, etc.. Look into a tablet rather than a chromebook. If you/he decides on a laptop, make sure the HDD is solid state. Truck vibrations destroy regular HDDs.

I don't know whats taking Otterbox so long.. but why in the h*ll are we waiting so long for a case that should've been out 3 weeks ago? .. I'm sure they get specs in advance.. I mean many cases were out on day 1.. I got my Wife iP6+ case at bestbuy on day 3..

 

Ive got a cheapo on my iP6+ now protecting it some.. but I need ottterbox defender

Same with lifeproof. It's kind of stupid that these two don't have a case out yet.

Wasn't it the 4S era when AT&T coerced Apple into pushing an update to show the "4G" label next to the bars so people thought they had a faster connection? I remember a friend and my dad telling me their phones went from 3G to 4G with an update.

I got Spark in Pekin today I was sitting in Walmart and Menard's parking lot and got a download speed of 47mbs download with one bar of service.

Do you have an engineering screenshot or signal check screen shot?

 

 

Sent from my iPhone 6

Another scandal rocks the iPhone 6 world. First was "bendgate." Now, we have "hairgate." Users on Twitter are reporting the seam where the aluminum meets the glass is catching hair on your head or beard, pinching it, and pulling it out. What shall we do? Complain on Twitter? Or, buy a case.

 

 

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How do u upload the log ?

I ran sensorly From Chicago to DeKalb .not sure if it was an error I was stuck on b41 from Warrenville all the way to peace Rd and Bethany in dekalb around 1.25 AM then signal check crashed .

There's an option to export the log right in signal check. Then just find it, and upload it to a cloud service like Dropbox and post the link to the file. As for the stuck band 41 display, that happens occasionally in that app. Always verify in your phone's engineering screen, or familiarize yourself with the Chicago market band 41 gci prefixes. They are: 00A/00B/087 for Chicago clear wire band 41, and 07F for Sprint band 41 (8t8r antenna mounted on a nv rack).

 

 

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Naked phone. Just be careful. It's too slim and sexy to cover. I've seen about 5 people with iPhone 6's, and they have also been caseless.

 

 

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how can you tell the tower number and band your on with an iphone? The tower I use from home has issues, anytime our iphone 6 uses this particular tower all calls go direct to voicemail. However our sons iphone 5s receives calls fine from the same location.

Sounds like an ecsfb problem with the spark side of that tower. Dial *3001#12345#* then "serving cell". That will show your band and a decimal value of the connected tower. Convert that value to hex for the true gci. From your own dbm/sector id observations (sector will be the last 2 of the gci), you should be able to use the sponsor maps to get the Sprint tower id to report trouble to Sprint tech support. The actual tower number you see on the maps here have a name, but I can't think of it right now.

 

 

Sent from my iPhone 6

iTunes match is great. I have my library in the cloud. And, if I'm flying or going to be without data, I pull certain playlists/albums locally. I guess it's the iPhone version of Google music. It also replaces low quality songs with a higher bitrate automatically. It's 24.99 a year. Not sure how much the Google equivalent is.

 

 

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At this point in time, there's no point in ordering a 6 online or in store, especially if you live in a large city. You should be able to find one by calling around. The plus, however, may be a different story. I randomly called 2 Sprint corporate store in my area, and the second one had a grey 64gb 6, and a gold 16gb 6, 4 days after launch. Just have to get lucky.

 

 

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How is the new B41 on the strip? Has it improved lately?

As of my trip there about 10 days ago, service on the strip was horrendous. The little bit of service there is way, way over capacity. Service elsewhere in the valley was pretty awesome.

 

 

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The camaraderie in these forums are like no other anywhere on the Internet. People willing to assist other markets with their map building is amazing.

 

 

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There is an area of near broad where my speed would be around 1 mb down but I have to be getting b41 because I hit 30-40 now

 

As far as band 26.. I have no clue.. But isn't that sorta a last resort? Sprint seems to have set prl's on the iPhone so you won't hit that band unless there is the absence of everything else and that's probably how they want it

The prl doesn't control your LTE connection. You are correct, though, about the iPhone not using 1x800 ever for voice. Band 26 LTE is mostly for coverage extension, although you may occasionally get shunted over to band 26 during peak times for capacity.

 

 

Sent from my iPhone 6

Here's my constant error (with nothing plugged in). Also, as of today, my phone doesn't always charge when plugged in. I've tried with 3 iPhone chargers and 1 iPad charger. All 4 charge our other iPhone and iPad so it's the phone. I need to get back to the United States and hit up an Apple Store. There isn't one in Puerto Rico which is mind blowing.

 

 

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Says the dude trying to sell me his Nexus5. I like the phone a lot, its got the carrier and band flexibility i need, but I told you the no expandable storage is a deal breaker for me. I have 32GB of music alone I like to keep on my phone for all my coast to coast and long intl flights and such.

I sold the phone months ago. Probably right after you said no. My post wasn't sales pressure. It's simply the only phone that would let you freely switch between Sprint/gsm/international gsm without any hoops to jump through. I'm just throwing ideas out there because you're still not set on a provider.

 

 

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