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doakills

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  1. If the merger happens, the next chapter and expansion will be huge.
  2. Put my name in the hat day they announced it. No call yet.
  3. Out of curiosity, I work for one of the Tier 1 railroads and we just switched to these really nice pole mounted LED lights (similar to the picture above). Once these lights were activated the LED light was putting out some RF that started to interfere with the VHF / UHF Channels our radios operate on. Would this type of RF, if present, mess with these base stations?
  4. When ever this might happen..... I still find 1x and EVDO in a lot of cold and far places in Oregon / Washington once you leave the corridor areas. Makes me sad
  5. Outside the disputes in this thread. My real issue is I'm on easy pay right now with nexus 6 with my annual upgrade available November 1st. Signs so far are pointing that they won't be offering neither phone through the carrier at all. Kind of a catch 22 since I can't just hand in this nexus 6 November 1st and be done unless I pay the balance.
  6. I just tried my wife's nexus 5 and its not working. No debug screen message comes up. The android m (6) preview has it back now.
  7. They do that, they just wrecked there entire company image with one word, "comcast".. That SOB company just need to fall off the face of the planet.
  8. I know when I was in Manhattan, IL and neighboring areas around the Sprint service was pretty solid, 800LTE and 2.5 service. I hardly fell back to 1900, maybe in a really bad building at best and even at that, only when there was 0 800 available. Far as signal/bandwidth was concerned, it was nothing near my Portland, OR speeds, but I was pulling 15 to 45mbps the entire time there.
  9. ^ this. Its been great seeing all these new plans but non of which let me apply my discounts! 100$ + 20% would be amazing!
  10. Portland, OR area has a nice flux of towers up and running now. I'd venture to say that 60-70% of our towers have 2.5 live? I haven't found to many spots that aren't running yet. Those 2.5 towers pull 35-70mbps depending on the day. Then we get b25 lte and its pulling 18-23mbps (sometimes 30? if its not loaded). Theirs only a handful of b26 even live in Portland so I cant even honestly speak to it.
  11. Going to chime in here, but my Portland/Vancouver B41 sites that I can tell to be optimize perform almost on par to my b25 counterparts with the major difference in speed that sets them aside. a 3 bar b25 I pull 11-15mbps at best? A 3 bar b41 signal I pull 30-40mbps... The bandwidth is so much wider then the b25 due to its frequency that its smoother for me. This is all at the same location, no moving around.
  12. Yeah sprintcare on twitter replied pretty quick to the corp discount, and was big no. So framily plan I stay.. For unlimited data / annual upgrade it still cost me 45 a month.. so either way I suppose its still 5$ cheaper.. Edit: Actually.. I get a discount on my data charges per line with my discount. so I pay 41$ a line for unlimited. So only way they could match me on this would be to discount the unlimited family to 80.00. So i'll pass.
  13. Honestly for the handful of sites and my testing I did on I-205 going from PDX to Tualatin, OR; I also have a few sites near me in Vancouver that are B41 enabled. I haven't encountered any problems with voice calls at all. If anything I got complements that I sounded better? I have however had drop out issues on LTE where it will lose signal, and take 30s-1minute to connect back again, forcing doesn't help either. Outside the drop outs occasionally its been pretty solid for me.
  14. I don't have this issue. My # is setup on google voice and merged into hangouts. Sends via google voice when on LTE/ehprd and SMS when roaming.
  15. Yeah I been playing with it for a few days now trying to force start it, playing with permissions. No good. So there must be new commands or an additional program that sprint has that needs to be loaded (apk) to use there DMsprint app thats in the system folder. A big concern, looking at this sprint DM service, not saying its not on n5 or other devices, its looking and controlling insane permissions..
  16. If your rooted you got to use a file explorer and put it into system apps folder. From there you can install it / run it.
  17. It had 0 to do with benchmarks to why I disabled it. I know ota will disable it, but I buy a nexus to develope and tweak with. So I hardly do ota vs I just fastboot my updates giving me the control to encrypt or not with the updates. Also far as encryption goes and this is through the anandtech article the encryption serves no purpose out of box to protect people more unless you security pin your device. So honestly there is 0 reason to desire it and why not gain the extra few % of performance gains? That is all. Your phone is yours, mine is mine . I seen a jump in performance getting rid of it.
  18. Well to be honest in certain aspects it is noticeable. It did install and execute applications faster. Boot is way faster. It overall has a better snap to it. Real world and to average, I doubt they know or care? Far as doing the removal its literally unlock boot loader, flash new boot IMG, erase usrdata, reboot, and Setup. Took me 3 minutes and about 10 to install my apps.
  19. well 2 days of using it, I got 3 b41 sites I ping off of and rest are b25.. I also connect to 800 cdma at work.. I would peg this phone about on par to my nexus 5. Switching between 25 --> 41 about the same as my nexus 5. Speeds as well. I do have oddities with the radio though and Its completely software at this point but when I reboot, it sometimes scans through multiple times to connect to a signal sometime taking 15-20s... This is after 2 factory resets (1 because of the update messed up my phone, force close city. 2nd one because I got rid of the encryption that Google forced)...
  20. I've been trying with 0 luck. Just basic screen comes up (radio, WiFi, battery).
  21. Got my n6 activated. Awesome phone so far. One issue I found so far is with LTE engineering screens, its not there. My n5 running 5.0 had it? Kinda odd.
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