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Sorry to be off topic but what kind of cat is that in the picture?

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Looks to be a beautiful bangel. I got a female bangel and she's a handful haha.

If the merger happens, the next chapter and expansion will be huge.

Put my name in the hat day they announced it. No call yet.

hehehehehe...@tin aka atomic50

 

• Nokia Networks Flexi Zone B41 Pico Cell model FWHT-01
• Airspan iRelay 460 LTE Band 41
• Alpha Wireless AW3477-S 2496-2690 MHz Omni Antenna

 

 

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? 

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.

I'm on 5.1.1 stock with my N6 and have access to them.

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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.

Android M preview 3 out. Nexus 6 returns with lte engineering screens!

Well, nobody will have to worry about a Sprint/TMo merger for a while. 

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/17/us-tmobile-m-a-comcast-idUSKBN0OX16W20150617

 

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.

Then again, a few Sprint employees have admitted to me that in this area of the Chicago suburbs, Sprint kinda sucks. Perhaps it is better downtown.

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. 

Thanks. That's what I was thinking. There would be no reason for me to switch from Framily with my corp discount to the unlimited family plan.

 

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^ this. Its been great seeing all these new plans but non of which let me apply my discounts! 100$ + 20% would be amazing! 

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. 

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. 

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. 

I wanted to start a separate thread to help track down an issue with my phone and likely others as well.  What is happening is I'm not always getting phone calls or able to make calls from my Sprint purchased Nexus 6. 

 

Here is what I know so far in my week of having it. LTE is fine, voice works fine as long its set to 3G only, voice seems to be flaky when the phone is picking up Band 41 where no one can reach me by phone and I have to make at least three attempts for a outbound call.  The B41 is new info for me so I haven't been out to test much yet but will today.  

 

So some of you guys that are in Spark deployed areas can you see if calls are an issue when connected? Try a few times if you can.  Also, I don't make a lot of calls or even get a lot so I may have never caught this if it wasn't for one of my persistent friends.  So what I'm saying is you may have an issue and not even know it.  

 

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. 

Tell me about it!   This phone has a serious bug with sending text messages while connected to LTE.  I'm using it on 3G now unless I need fast data.

 

There's a thread over at the Sprint message boards if you want somewhere to vent:  https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/179054?start=60&tstart=0

 

I can't tell if they are really taking the issue seriously or not.

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.

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.. 

Same result here.

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.

For engineering screen access, if someone wants to try sideloading the SprintHiddenMenu.apk off of the Nexus 5, let me know.  I can supply the APK.  My guess is that it will not work, since the Nexus 5 is an LG handset.  An alternative might be to pull the equivalent hidden APK off of a Sprint Moto X.

 

AJ

Post it or send it to me and I'll do it.

I tested several major apps, side by side with two n6's. One encrypted, one not. The only difference was 20 seconds longer boot time with the encrypted n6 (I'm sure to mount the encrypted partition). Benchmarks are a joke and don't show real world usage. I launched about 15 different apps, sometimes the encrypted one was even faster. There were no ui / snappy differences, nothing. I think people are having a placebo effect with disabling encryption. Pull out a stop watch or test side by side. You might get a second faster install of an app, but once its there and initialized, your going to have no difference with daily usage.

Ota updates will reenable encryption without modifications automatically, and the hassle / boot time vs the increased security are not worth it. Especially if your device gets lost or stolen you're going to really wish you had left it on. (Been there)

-Shane

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.

actually it does not in actual real-world use/performance.

 

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnLieske/posts/hgb2457j4Tw

 

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PhilNickinson/posts/7KmCmG54wQx

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.

please report your radio/signal findings.  if you can use the same location(s) as your nexus 5 that would be good 

 

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)... 

Not accessible via dialer codes?

 

I've been trying with 0 luck. Just basic screen comes up (radio, WiFi, battery).

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.

I am excited. Just got email from Sprint saying my Nexus 6 has shipped by UPS 2nd Air.

 

same here. soon! 

That is great to hear. I have noticed a lot of the towers on the map and when I've been in Seattle I have searched for a lot of their towers. I am waiting until they come out with more CA devices first before I upgrade. I will be able to get all of around the Seattle area. I really want a triband now but I believe those new phones will make even a bigger difference,

 

I was on my nexus 5 at the time. I got a nexus 6 coming. It worked as it should picking things up. But ya between interbay to the space needle area were I was staying I had B41.. I was driving at the time but I also picked up two more sites driving around safeco field to western ave.. Seattle is defiantly hopping with TD-LTE now...