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    Thanks
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    I've used many subsidy upgrades, but my last two phones have been full purchase price. For my family members, up until just 6 weeks ago, used subsidy upgrades. They are a great way to get a "current" device at a discount, but paying for that discount with the contract and legacy plan. The industry has changed, but Sprint has the CDMA noose hanging over them. If Sprint was a GSM carrier, then this would be a non-issue as just about any device would be eligible for BYOD. Due to Sprints CDMA network and boutique bands it makes it difficult to BYOD without a get deal of research and knowledge, then working with CS to get a proper SIM and activated. Sprint has done an amazing job pulling themselves up and becoming a major player in the industry again. I hope this doesn't come back to bite them in the ass, but they've been pushing the 0% financing/lease model for two years now. I think the average customer is used to this already as all new customers in the last 18 months are on these plans.
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    If you bring up the website without being logged in, you get a notice that S4GRU is currently unavailable. After you login, you have access to everything. Anything happening with the site?
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    B41 has been a disaster in Lansing and Portland the last few days, 400-500ms ping times, sub 1mbs up and download. Observed on multiple devices in multiple locations. Wondering is Sprint is doing some tuning or maintenance?!?! If I could get on B26 at home, everything was good, but as soon as I was shifted to B41, throughput was terrible.
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    I check my app updates daily, hopefully for something new, but alas, mikejeep is still working on it
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    I agree it is abuse, but your regular phone account and these accounts are flagged differently in the system. If and when Sprint wants to throttle or shape this traffic, they can due to the existing flags in place. You risk having your service canceled as you are violating the terms of your contract with Sprint. If you were to have a secondary service via Calyx and bomb the hell out of it, then go for it. But to say this service and rooting/tethering are the same thing, I can't agree with that.
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    I disagree, people are paying for the mobile broadband service as mobile broadband, you are using a contracted personal line for mobile broadband. The difference is in the contract
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    That sucks, I remember Motorola selling this device on fast upgrades, Pure Google Experience, etc. I still have mine with the shattered screen that i keep pulling random bits of data off when I need it.
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    I've used it on s6 and s7, plus my Galaxy tab e. Still hate it on all levels Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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    Galaxy tab e

    jefbal99 replied to Rocket87's topic in Tablets

    Still loving this 8" tablet. Its my Amazon Prime and Netflix device, the only downfall I've found is that MHL and Miracast are disabled.
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    I've dropped mine twice face down within two weeks of having it and it survived. I was shocked and very impressed. Sorry for your luck with the device, I put a glass screen protector and finally a live case on it.
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    I loved my Note 2 and the entire note series (sans burning phones). I think the reason I skipped the Note 3 or 4 was it was one of the last single band LTE devices, only supporting Band 25. Then I moved on to a S4T, Moto X Pure, and now a Nexus 6P. I love the size and features of the "phablet" devices. My biggest gripe about the Note 2, S4T, and all Samsung devices is the TouchWiz interfaces. I can't see myself ever going back to a device that utilizes an overlay from stock Android. It will be very interesting to see how this device is marketed after the Note 7 debacle.
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    Any thoughts on the two different OTAs for Nexus 6P?
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    I second this, can't wait for new features and using new APIs from marshmallow and nougat
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    I'm using the built in Spam blocker in the Nougat Phone app
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    Apparently none of the people I text with have RCS enabled
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    Got it on my 6P this morning
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    Damn, i wish the program was last January when I spent a week in Jamaica or Jan 2018 when I'm going back...
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    Mike is the same beta testing group still in existence?
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    That wouldn't include a radio upgrade using a 3rd party OS. Radio upgrades only come from Moto
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    My mother is still very happy with this phone and the 128GB of storage, very snappy
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    Third carrier has been shown for quite sometime. Looking for confirmation of 2xCA without root
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    is that good, bad, or otherwise?
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    Reason I was thinking it was two different channels is the carriers are only 20mhz wide, the two frequencies listed are 194 Mhz apart
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    Perhaps I'm misreading LTE discovery. I thought the EARFCN channels and frequencies were the ranges, but now I'm thinking it's the two channels and this is showing CA. Thoughts? Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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