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    Network Vision/LTE - Boston Market (all of Massachusetts)

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    Prudential Center is back bay.

     

    Downtown is around Post Office Square (that area is the financial district).

    Yeah, that's what I meant. Specifically, we walked down Congress Street from State Street, through Post Office Square, across Fort Point channel, and to the Flour bakery behind the Children's museum, and LTE was flaky at best on both phones the whole time.

    Will Sprint eventually adopt Softcard (formally Isis Wallet) instead of just Google Wallet?

    in General Topics

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    That's cool, What app handles the transaction? Hope it gets more widespread. That would be an application I would literally use everyday instead of paying at a cashier.

    I think it just charges your credit card through Google Wallet, ISIS, Apple Pay, or whatever is installed on your phone.

     

    And as to DC, a little digging turned up that the older $5 Smartrip cards were based on the proprietary GOCARD format, but the new $2 cards are ISO 14443 based and NFC compatible.

    Will Sprint eventually adopt Softcard (formally Isis Wallet) instead of just Google Wallet?

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    Boston's Transit Card is NFC and you can read it with your phone. But washington DC's metro card use different frequency. Your phone cannot read it.

    I just tried my metro smarttrip card from my last trip to DC and my phone read it just fine. I also found out that DC is planning to install a new system that will allow you to use NFC phones and RFID credit cards to get through the fare gates.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Since there was some confusion because of how Sprint described the lease on the website, here is some clarification from the actual lease document regarding early termination. Basically if you terminate the lease early, you will owe the balance of lease payments remaining. If you return the phone that will be the only fee you have to pay.

    That's not what the FAQ at http://shop.sprint.com/modals/iphone_for_life_faq_modal.html says:

    What happens if I cancel my service prior to completing my 24 month lease?

     

    If you cancel service during your lease term, you will have to pay the remaining lease payments plus the device purchase option price set forth in the Lease Agreement.

     

    If you return your device, the device purchase option price will not be credited to your account.

     

    Unless they use the word "credited" to mean "charged", it sounds like you have to pay the purchase price even if you return the phone.

    HTC One M8 User Thread

    in HTC

    Posted · Edited by ahecht

    Just make sure it's not a whitening toothpaste, as those have larger grit that can scratch your lens even worse. I used to use non-whitening toothpaste to restore CDs, but I've since switched to Meguire ScratchX, which you can get from any auto parts store. Works great on watch crystals, uncoated sunglasses, and, of course, car clear coat as well.

    HTC One M8 User Thread

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    I disabled wifi calling and verified it was removed from my 'services' on my sprint account due to GPS issues.

    The only reliable way to fix it after disabling wifi calling is to do a data profile reset. Go to the phone and dial ##3282#, select edit mode, enter your MSL (if you don't know it you can either install MSL reader from the Play Store if you're rooted or call Sprint and ask for it if you're not). Go to Data Profile, click on Menu, hit restore, and hit okay to any warnings (this will only reset your data profile, your apps and data will be untouched). After rebooting you will need to go through hands-free activation, but the GPS should work afterwards.

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    Sprint to join Rural Operators Roaming Hub (CCA and RRPP thread)

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    That is my hope as well. I spent a few days on vacation in NH and ended up getting my first-ever "You used too much roaming data" email from Sprint. 301mb on USCC 3G because Sprint has no coverage away from I-93.. I'm sure a big chunk of that was from my Verizon-toting sisters who begged me to turn on my hotspot because they were out of data for the month! :)

     

    -Mike

    I had two trips to Winnipesaukee last month, and my roaming data is currently at 291MB. Native coverage would be great.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    As much as I no longer trust BGR's opinions, sometimes they actually post facts: http://bgr.com/2014/08/05/verizon-two-year-contracts/

    They lost me at the following:

    Because while “saying no” to two-year contracts on Verizon might mean you don’t get a discounted phone, it definitely doesn’t mean that with T-Mobile, where you can get flagship phones for between $0 and $100 downand then pay off the remainder of the device’s cost over a 24-month period without signing any kind of service commitment.

     

    It's thinking like this that's exactly what's wrong with America and why so many people are in debt. Installment plans aren't a discount. Just because you pay $0-$100 down doesn't mean that you're still not paying the full price. Okay, maybe if you got a great savings account that pays 1% interest and stashed the money there you would save $6 or so, but they're just fooling people by calling it a discount.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted · Edited by ahecht

    ...and I think that Sprint's done it again with tri-band devices; I'm off contract now (have been for a few months) but the list of devices that I can do a subsidized upgrade to on my SERO-P plan is basically zero. I'd have to switch plans.

    We have two SERO-P accounts with staggered upgrade dates and I've never had any issues upgrading either over the phone or through Sprint.com every year. 3G, WiMax, LTE, and TriBand devices haven't been a problem. Yes, you can't use a third party store like Amazon, but that's a small price to pay. The website says that you will need to change your plan to activate the new phone, but it really just means that you have to call in or use chat to do the activation (it will tell you that when you attempt to activate online).

     

    Right now, I can use my SERO-P upgrade to get a HTC One M8, Galaxy S5, LG G3, Nexus 5, etc. Try calling telesales at 888-882-4030 if the website isn't working.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Their newest refer-a-friend "lifeline" promo. See here:

     

    http://www.tmonews.com/2014/08/t-mobile-offering-free-unlimited-data-refer-a-friend-deal-from-next-week/

     

    TMo's limited plans, on Simple Choice anyway, don't care what you do with your data. So the $50 1GB plan becomes $50 1GB tethering + unlimited on-phone data, unless I'm understanding things horribly wrong.

     

    Granted, this offer expires after a year, but at the rate things are changing, they'll have some new promo to take advantage of then.

    The free upgrade to unlimited data is only on the $70 5GB plan.

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