PedroDaGr8

Since this is kind of the general chat thread, I have to share this humorous story (at least it is to me): Since around February/March of this year, my S22U has been an absolute pain to charge. USB-C cables would immediately fall out and it progressively got worse and worse until it often took me a number of minutes to get the angle of the cable juuuussst right to get charging to occur at all (not exaggerating). The connection was so weak that even walking heavily could cause the cable to disconnect. I tried cleaning out the port with a stable, a paperclip, etc. Some dust/lint/dirt came out but the connection didn't improve one bit. Needless to say, this was a MONSTER headache and had me hating this phone. I just didn't have the finances right now for a replacement. Which brings us to the night before last. I am angry as hell because I had spent five minutes trying to get this phone to charge and failed. I am looking in the port and I notice it doesn't look right. The walls look rough and, using a staple, the back and walls feel REALLY rough and very hard. I get some lint/dust out with the staple and it improves charging in the sense I can get it to charge but it doesn't remove any of the hard stuff. It's late and it's charging, so that's enough for now. I decide it's time to see if that hard stuff is part of the connector or not. More aggressive methods are needed! I work in a biochem lab and we have a lot of different sizes of disposable needles available. So, yesterday morning, while in the lab I grab a few different sizes of needles between 26AWG and 31 AWG. When I got home, I got to work and start probing the connector with the 26 AWG and 31 AWG needle. The stuff feels extremely hard, almost like it was part of the connector, but a bit does break off. Under examination of the bit, it's almost sandy with dust/lint embedded in it. It's not part of the connector but instead some sort of rock-hard crap! That's when I remember that I had done some rock hounding at the end of last year and in January. This involved lots of digging in very sandy/dusty soils; soils which bare more than a passing resemblance to the crap in the connector. We have our answer, this debris is basically compacted/cemented rock dust. Over time, moisture in the area combined with the compression from inserting the USB-C connector had turned it into cement. I start going nuts chiseling away at it with the 26 AWG needle. After about 5-10 minutes of constant chiseling and scraping with the 26AWG and 31AWG needles, I see the first signs of metal at the back of the connector. So it is metal around the outsides! Another 5 minutes of work and I have scraped away pretty much all of the crap in the connector. A few finishing passes with the 31AWG needle, a blast of compressed air, and it is time to see if this helped any. I plug my regular USB-C cable and holy crap it clicks into place; it hasn't done that since February! I pick up the phone and the cable has actually latched! The connector works pretty much like it did over a year ago, it's almost like having a brand new phone!

That's odd, they are usually almost lock step with TMO. I forgot to mention this also includes the September Security Update.

Massive 3.1 GB update is out. Version still says 6.1 but several pages of update details.

Believe I came across a new TMO co-lo in the Paradise Valley/Echo Lake area (eNB 380789, gNB 1877976). Per this permit, TMO is co-locating on a tower there: Permit Details - MyBuildingPermit This likely will replace the nearby eNB 97245 which was never upgraded.

Thanks for sharing the details that you CAN share.

It has been nearly flawless for me (excluding the one recent glitch that was very likely a one-off on my phone). Maybe consider putting web-uploading under a "experimental-features" section. Basically saying that it is not fully ready for prime time but should you want to enable it then you do so at your own risk.

Nice find! Looks like it covers that valley and the highway within that valley pretty well. TMO has started putting more priority on rural highway runs, especially ones that have complex geographical constraints (i.e., valleys like this). More importantly, this is one of only a handful of reports of n66 in the entire state! Checking SignalCheck, there is only one n66 tower listed (not this one) and its over in Port Townsend

Small cells and backhual upgrades would really help TMO at this point!

That's odd, the August 1st play system update is already out for the S22. Usually, it lags the S24 and S23.

August Play System update is out (91MB)

TMO deployed a bunch of B2/B66/n41-capable small cells with a tiny cylindrical antenna around the downtown park in Bellevue. I haven't seen that antenna used by TMO before, it reminds me A LOT of the old B41 small cells that Sprint used to use. This is a great place for these small cells because that park is used for almost all festivals in Bellevue and regularly has thousands of people there. That being said, this park is also right next to one of the only TMO mmWave sites in all of metro Seattle. So TMO has this park covered about as good as they can. Here's an example one one by the park: 10045 NE 1st St - Google Maps I should add, TMO's headquarters is a couple miles away so they are very aware of how this park gets used. Fun fact, Mike Sievert is active on my local FB group and often answers questions people have about cell service/Tmobile.

Looks like the second n41 carrier in Seattle was finally upgraded to 90 MHz recently. No idea why it took so long but at least they finally did it.

Sorry, yes that is 460 files between 7/26-7/29. I can confirm I am on the most up-to-date beta which I received on 7/22. Also, I am not sure if it uploaded the points or not but it doesn't show any retained points in the app. I'll PM you the drive link shortly when they files finish uploading.

OK, something broke on/around 7/26. I noticed while on a trip recently that I was getting an error about skipping a cluster due to errors. Checked the folder for the exported data and there are 460 web_fatal files in there. None of the CSV files look weird. Let me know if you want me to upload them to my Google Drive for you to parse.

July Security update is out