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  1. comintel
    Magic Box Life time has been extended to March 1 according to this email I received from Sprint: Mine is still working great with high download speeds using band 41 backhaul. I realize that this is highly area dependent.
  2. comintel
    But probably not to the Magic Box which is what I want. At least that is what I found with a Sprint S20. Do you think it would be different with this phone?
  3. comintel
    Could anyone tell me the correct Sprint sim card for the A32? I have one coming and I am afraid it may come with only a T-Mobile sim. Thanks.
  4. comintel
    I thought there was supposed to be one last upgrade. I think people saud it was best to do it online as reps were usually unaware.
  5. comintel
    I should add that this will be the case for all new phone models of all manufacturers going forward. They will all require T-Mobile sims only and not work with any Sprint sim.
  6. comintel
    You can activate it on a Sprint plan and Sprint billing but it has to be a T-Mobile sim or esim for this model.
  7. comintel
    You can activate the new iPhone 13's on Sprint with a system-generated eSim. Or with a T-Mobile physical sim. But that is the first iPhone model where you can do that - not for older phones that would not take eSims. It is only allowed where the phone allows IMEI1 to be an eSim.
  8. comintel
    Ah, I see. Thanks for those details! It is great to see some posts on this subject.
  9. comintel
    Are you seeing a benefit from MOCN? Is it true that MOCN is highly biased to using T-Mobile towers? Should everyone with a non-5G phone ask for MOCN? I had the impression it was supposed to be automatic now, perhaps even without being entered explicitly. Is this not the case? I realize that it may take some time to draw conclusions so if you do not know yet that is fine. Thanks!
  10. comintel
    I asked revik2 on reddit and got the following answer (for my situation which is slightly different from yours):
  11. comintel
    I guess it is a database error in that case - on one or the other. My "Affected Lines" is wrong too, also for an LG phone. I am going to ask about it...
  12. comintel
    Devices are still being moved on and off the list. Software updates are planned by year end for a number of devices that will make them supported after all. TNX will be broadened to include some more devices that have VoLTE on T-Mobile but not on Sprint.. Also I have found that the checker is going off an older list and does not update when you change phones. So I would strongly suggest wait until the holdays at least. New models are coming out by then as well. As to the G8X, one may be factory-unlocked and one branded?
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    It has been like this for me for the 18 months I have has my S20 with no change whatsoever. I agree it seems to occur only with Samsungs. Of course, that does not necessarily mean it is a Samsung bug. Samsung might be implementing something correctly that certain vendor tower equipment is implementing incorrectly. .
  14. comintel
    Agreed - that is what I do too - lock to band 71.
  15. comintel
    There are also a bunch of people here like me in my area where it keeps hopping cobtinually between multiple bands and frequently also enters a "no signal" condition.
  16. comintel
    Quite possibly. I have had the problem of continuous band hopping and signal drops on my S20 from the beginning. I am in Raleigh NC . I do not know what equipment manufacturer is used here but I would guess you may know.
  17. comintel
    Basically yes. That was from the beginning and still is the sole purpose of the FAST.com site - to test for and prove carrier thottling. It was created by Netflix for that purpose, for the benefit of Netflix users who have inadequate Netflix performance, to allow them to know for sure what the source of the problem is.
  18. comintel
    Yes I get the no data access every few minutes as it hops around. Even though it has been that way for many months, I suspect it must be some sort of temporary /emergency patch for something or other. I assume it is targeted for eventual fix but waiting on other planned changes. I am sure they must know all about it.
  19. comintel
    My S20 also bounces cotinually between bands and no signal, making it useless. However, there is a bypass: Lock it to band 71 with the Samsung Band Selection app.
  20. comintel
    Another number that might help is: Oklahoma Network Center 1-855-423-6623 Normally they ask of a ticket is already open but people say they will usually help even without one. .
  21. comintel
    The direct number to Account Services/Retentions is 844-382-3317 . I think they might be able to help.
  22. comintel
    Band 71 is highly contrained in capacity and therefore, according to other posts, is reserved to be a last resort for those at a distance who have no other alternative.
  23. comintel
    Many people who have McAfee installed are having this happen when they try to TNX. In a lot of cases the store employees are doing factory resets to recover, whioch however loses the prior contents unless backed up.
  24. comintel
    Do you have McAfee installed? It can lock phones on a sim change.
  25. comintel
    The S20's are, as 5G phones, already on TMobile but will/would gain access to Standalone 5G. The other two are likely already on MOCN which gives access to both networks simultanenously which which may be preferable in that respect to TNX which may offer fewer sites. HOWEVER in both cases with TNX you lose Sprint's often superior roaming agreements, and in particular International roaming is still completely broken wirh TNX for many but not all people.
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