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9 hours ago, mhammett said:

I am looking for more observations on this.

I believe the restriction on the Google-approved wireless chargers for charging rapidly was instituted in a software update.

Out of the box, my 3 XL was "charging rapidly" from my old generic wireless charger. I installed the update and now it's "charging slowly". Can anyone else confirm?

Can I roll back my update?

Pretty sure the issue was that it was characterizing incompatible fast wireless charging as charging fast before the update. This is because Google uses a proprietary fast charging method instead of what Samsung and others use. With the update it's showing the correct charging.

Don't be hysterical. All net neutrality is a fight between content providers and infrastructure companies on who gets what profits.

 

 

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LMAO!

No he is the former government legal affairs lawyer from Sprint, not Verizon.

 

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Nope, former Verizon counsel.

That's my home market. I don't see ping above 100 on B41

 

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2nd-4th results are Band 41 3rd carrier from yesterday. But that's not normal, and could really just be the test server. But, I've never had that high pings with any server before.

 

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Visiting Vegas this week. Notice B26 appearing few times compared to last time.

Also notice the ping is very high on B41. I don't normally see ping over 100.

 

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I also noticed the same on Band 41 in Minnesota yesterday. Consistent pings above 105. Maybe it's related.

But not 2 blocks from the tower. If you do you should contact customer service and escalate a trouble ticket, you might have defective equipment in your area.

 

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That screen shot is two blocks from the tower on I-90. Have yet to connect to Band 41 on the other tower in town. Maybe you're right, I should. But given how it took them 1.5 years to actually get any LTE in Austin, I'm not holding my breath.

 

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2 blocks? Come on, quit your trolling, you have 3 additional carriers to pick from if you're so frustrated with Sprints performance. Most of them offering incentives for your business.

 

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Lol, yeah trolling. Austin, MN is perfect example of the two blocks of Band 41. Literally only get Band 41 on north side of town if outside and for a few blocks. Specifically this area: http://imgur.com/a/IUpE4

 

Though where there is density, e.g. downtown Minneapolis, it's fine.

Sedalia, MO >1500 people per sq mile and outside of minneapolis metro it is mostly <55 people per sq mile. Not really sure how that would mean sprint is going to put short range small cell on every house to cover everyone. Small cells are not a magic bullet for rural coverage for capacity maybe rural coverage no.

 

I don't even have any 1x data in my SCP logs from St Paul meaning I was on LTE all the time.  Outside of metros it should be nextel conversions or new macro sites not small cells.

 

Its not even a population density thing. Areas by Northfield, Faribault, Shakopee, all have severe issues with LTE, 1X is all over the place. Don't even get me started on Mankato. If you went just off the coverage maps (yes, even accounting for "fair" coverage), you'd be sorely disappointed in how often you're on LTE.

I don't know exactly where you're talking about, but I'd tend to agree. The most infuriating seems to be I35 going up to Duluth. Minneapolis and Duluth have great LTE, but on the way there it's just constant switching between 3G and LTE 800. Just so frustrating when in theory they should be able to at least cover the entire freeway.

Pretty much anything south of Jordan. Fairmont area is a complete joke. I90 as well. Mankato is completely crippled. Going on 14 past Eagle Lake is just 1x majority of the time. Austin has both towers with dual carrier band 41, and worth nothing, only get them outside. Faribault/waterville areas are just LTE islands even with all having band 26. I can go on and on. It's disappointing, not even evdo, but straight 1x most of the time. Great service at work is promising. I would describe Sprint in majority of Minnesota as what others deride T-Mobile as, islands of LTE.

 

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Safe to say, Sprint outside of Minneapolis + suburbs is extremely disappointing. Can't even stream Google Music most of the time without it buffering. It really is islands of LTE.

I was at BestBuy Wednesday and got around 8mbps. I'm shocked they don't have band 41 up and running in Mankato. I live in Waseca, which is about 23 miles east of Mankato and we've had band 41 for a year.

This is typical in Mankato everywhere now. And yeah very surprised, don't know why they stopped at St. Peter for Band 41. Especially given Mankato is a relatively huge college town.

 

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Mankato back to 3G speeds with full bars. How disappointing.

 

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I want to see more towers along the Interstate.

Honestly, outside of the cities and maybe suburbs, I don't see any expansion happening. Not in the foreseeable future anyways. I-90 coverage is so pathetic.

 

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Had a trip from Twin Cities to Duluth and talk about a lot of 3G on Interstate 35. Sometimes went to roaming. Data at times was unusable. Hope they improve this soon.

Yeah, same on 169 from Mankato to intersection of 169 and 494. Thought this was supposed to be Sprint's better market. But, so far I'm not impressed.

 

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You misunderstand memory. Empty memory is wasted memory. Near 100% use is exactly what you want from memory, because the OS is maximizing its use. My 6hr average is 1.4GB and the phone is just as snappy as it was when I started it.

I know that. I'd be okay with that if my maps didn't close in the background while driving or if Spotify didn't stop every 15 minutes. I commute 3 hours a day and its frustrating.

 

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Still getting massive memory leaks. 1.8 avg for all time periods. Just so frustrating. Nothing intensive, some maps, spotify and it goes to shit.

Sprint's problem in Warner Robins at least is very localized... alas to the main commercial area at Watson and Houston Lake around the mall. Frankly they need to be on the Centerville water tower with the other carriers to fill in their coverage; a DAS in the mall wouldn't hurt either.

 

In Macon, on the other hand, the only places I ever have trouble are in the Macon Mall (which nobody goes to these days) and the basement of Just Tap'd.

Was at Walsh Honda and around that area, and I had to constantly toggle airplane mode to get LTE. Was weird.

Sprint was a huge disappointment in Macon and Warner Robins. I visited family this past week and the weak network destroyed my battery. Band 26 is completely overloaded and my phone camped on that at all times along with just flipping back and forth between 3G or Band 26 and occasional Band 25. Band 26 was weak pretty much every where, so probably not optimized. First time I experienced 3G being the better option to go with and constantly had to hunt for free WiFi when out and about.

 

Given how big each of those cities are, it's very disappointing.

My wish list for new towers in south central Minnesota

1. 5 miles east side and west of Austin, Mn - i90

2. Claremont, Mn - Hwy 14

3. Frost, Mn area - i90

4. Wells/Alden, Mn - i90

5. New Richland, Mn - Hwy 13

6. Janesville, Mn - Hwy 14

1 & 4 would be such a god send. Especially since there were Nextel towers exactly where you mentioned. Some day.

 

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When I used the Nexus 5 for a year before getting this S6, I had a lot of that too. Mostly time without signal issues. I figured that when I got the S6 at launch in April that having a variant of a phone specifically for their network might work better than one that works on all like the Nexus 5. And for two months that was true. Very good LTE reception up until three days ago and it just cratered at my house. -_- Adding insult to injury my connection to their network is so bad that it can't complete the handoff to WiFi Calling. They really fubar'd some of these towers or something.

Agreed, I have been commuting to the cities for the last 8 months and this is a very recent problem, throughout the whole commute I either keep dropping to 1xRTT or I keep getting connection issues that requires multiple airplane mode toggles and in severe cases a phone restart.

 

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standard from sprint. They announced LTE for Winona in January of 2013, and said it would be ready in a few months. Fast forward two and a half years, and they again said "upgrades will start in the next few months". Bullshit.

The amount of times I drop to "3G" (1xRTT according to SCP) in and around the cities is just unacceptable. It's even worse, given that Minneapolis/MN is supposed to be a "good" market for Sprint. I wouldn't mind it so much if "3G" was usable. It's constantly buffering music or skipping songs entirely due to connection issues. Seriously frustrating having to toggle airplane mode because it won't switch to LTE because of Navigation running.

 

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I don't have a way to check this, but my understanding is that all Sprint branded Android LTE phones display both 1x and EVDO as "3G", and iPhones don't.

 

And my memory is hazy on this, but I think Nexus devices don't Nexus devices do, BlackBerry's don't, and Windows Phones do, but my memory is very hazy -- I'm not 100% sure of this.

 

(edit: I forgot that I changed this manually on my Nexus)

 

I'm fairly certain on KitKat it actually showed '1X', but ever since lollipop it shows '3G'.

This has been my experience in most markets too. (Especially northern markets, like Michigan, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, etc).

 

Chicago is actually the one place I've been to that I've seen this happen the least. I'm a little surprised you see it that often actually, Chicago is the best Sprint market I've ever been to.

 

 

I see this a ton. Especially since we have sizable chunks of the city without LTE.

 

I think a big part of this is caused by Sprint claiming 1x as "3G" (regardless of the fact that the technical definition allows it -- I'm not trying to rehash that discussion).  

 

But from a purely customer experience standpoint alone, users see "3G" and expect a full data experience, just slower.  So when AT&T / T-Mobile drop down to "4G/3G/H+", no one bats an eyelash because "stuff mostly still works, just slower".  But when Sprint drops down to "3G", it often 1x800, which translates to 'no data'. "Twitter doesn't work, Facebook doesn't work, Reddit doesn't work. Nothing works" is how I hear people describe this.

 

People remember that. Like Forever. It's their own mini-PTSD episode.  It only takes a handful of times for "3G = no data" association to happen before people learn it, and just give up.

 

Even if later on their phone is parked on EVDO with good backhaul, they're so accustomed to "3G" meaning "no data" that they just assume the "network is crap" whenever they see the 3G icon, regardless of whether data is actually working or not.

 

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That little "LTE" logo is comforting to the masses, in large part because telcoms have explicitly trained people pavlovian-style that data is only useful if they see the LTE / 4G icon.  

 

A few years ago, T-Mobile replaced two broken EDGE-only rural sites in Holland / Allegan with HSPA+, but left the T1 backhaul as-is.

 

If they still did that, or if AT&T or T-Mobile labeled EDGE as "3G" (which they're similarly technically allowed to do by ITU), I think you'd see the exact same problem + response happen with them.

 

I experience this in the Minneapolis area, where I'll drop LTE. It's been happening quite frequently recently, which is unfortunate and frustrating to constantly cycle airplane mode to get lte back. Data just drops, nothing loads, maps doesn't refresh. It's good that I have SCP running otherwise I'd be none the wiser about being on 1x instead of EVDO/EHRPD.

Lol, 80 pages of dissent. But, but, 320 pages! Just freaking hilarious.