bill875

3 minutes ago, danlodish345 said:

Another close up shot.. quite a bit of noise in the picture

Yes, that's why I think Samsung is not being honest about what the third lens is for.  I'm guessing it is not a real zoom lens, but I'd like to be wrong.  It's just the excessive noise and artifacts that say it's digital zoom.

12 minutes ago, danlodish345 said:

The one on the right is the telephoto lens zoomed all the in the middle one is just the main ones and the one all the way on the left is a wide-angle lens.

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Something I've noticed is that the "Telephoto" "Lens" images produced by the S10/S10+ look soft and full of digital artifacts consistent with using 2X Digital Zoom.  I also noticed this with my Note 8 as well.  That makes me think that there isn't really a "Telephoto" lens on the 8, 9 and 10 series.  The whole point of a true telephoto lens would be to produce clear, optically zoomed images without softness or artifacts.  I think they are screwing with us LOL.

Was anyone else denied/rejected for their Galaxy Buds registration?  I pre-ordered my Prism Blue S10+ at my local Best Buy store on 2/24 and picked up on 3/8.  I then submitted the registration through the Shop Samsung app around 2PM ET on 3/8 with a picture of my store receipt and Pre-Order Agreement.  I received an update in the app this morning saying "We couldn’t approve your registration because: Your purchase did not occur within the retailer pre-order period."

I can't help but wonder if this is because Best Buy was having all sorts of system issues and ultimately had to cancel my order and re-sell in a new transaction. The thing is, I have the Pickup tag still on my box showing date picked, 3/7, so that should suffice, I would think.

I'm not very happy with Samsung and Best Buy.  After work, I'm heading to Best Buy to talk to the manager so they can make this right.

2 minutes ago, lilotimz said:

You can pop on chat or call mb tech support to ask them to activate it back on your account.

 

Takes approximately half a hour. My gen 3 and Gen 2 had some shenanigans where both was somehow not provisioned. Both are back activated now.

I think the reason why they did this was because I didn't have any lines available.  I'm approved for 15 and all 15 are in use, despite having requested one of my lines to be canceled out immediately, which of course they failed to do.  They are going to wait until the end of the billing cycle .  I may still call to see what they can do.  I mean, if I have 15, why not approve me for 20.  Never missed a payment or been late since 2000.

So I get to work this morning and found that my Gen2 MagicBox was deactivated when Sprint shipped out my Gen3 unit.  Apparently it will take until Weds to get a MB3 from Louisville, KY to Hickory, NC (Charlotte area).  If they were going to deactivate my old unit, it would have been nice if they would have overnighted the Gen3 to me.

I called Magic Box Support back this afternoon and the gentleman promptly placed an order for an "AIRSPAN MAGIC BOX GEN 3."  The order confirmation page shows it as a "Sprint Magic Box Gold."

Does Sprint still attach these as a line to our customer accounts?  I'm approved for 15 lines, but they are all currently in use.

My Gen2 died about a month ago.  Just called MB support and they told me the MB Gold is out of stock and to call back a week from Friday.  I'm thinking I need to call back and check tomorrow morning.  The girl kept hitting mute and didn't seem to know what she was doing.  Meanwhile, I have a return kit being sent for the Gen 2.

Sprint held back the first Pie update for a little while and the security updates since, but not this one. I'm not sure why the change, but I like it.  Perhaps they only hold back updates if the modem is updated and needs re-certifying or something along those lines.

18 hours ago, travisc said:

One thing I've noticed while roaming on band 4, is that google thinks im offline and not connected. To do a search I have to open a browser instead of using the google app. Play store is the same as well. Everything else seems to work fine though.

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My wife and I noticed this behavior while "Roaming" on T-Mobile this weekend while on HWY 16 in North Carolina near Charlotte.

No surprise here, but the Charlotte, NC results show that Sprint has a lot of catching up to around here.

Some Mini Macro's have gone in since early last month here in the greater Charlotte area.

49 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

There are things that need fixing though, the last samsung phone I buy most likely.

What sort of issues exist? Last weekend I upgraded my wife's S7 Edge to the S9+ and she's very happy with it so far.  She used to drop calls 2-3 times during her short 10 min commute to work, now she holds on to her calls for the entire drive.  Happy wife, happy life, right?

@lilotimz, do you know what the SIM SIMOLW506TQ is used for?  According to https://bestcellular.com/product/simolw506tq/, it covers a wide range of phones for Sprint.

As someone who could benefit from a Sprint/Charter relationship, I can get behind this!  We need all of the small cells, strand mounts and backhaul we can get in NC/SC to fill in the very many gaps that exist on the Sprint network here.

I agree, my PH-1 loves 1x800 and the signal levels are about the same as my Note 8 side-by-side. 

Well, now that they have Altice and Cox, I'm hopeful they will sign with Charter Spectrum next.  Having two decent sized cable companies on board may help to convince the others to join in.

I have the 80GB (40GB Double Data) Plan and also have it available, however, I did accept Sprint's "Gift" of Unlimited Data for 6 Months, so I think that is why it is showing on my account.  Did you receive and accept the offer of 6 mo. Unlimited Data?

And Donald Trump is on his way to Japan this afternoon.  Any coincidence?  I think not .

40 minutes ago, lilotimz said:

Try contacting them through the regular channels first and let me know.

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I tried for a second unit for my 60,000 Square Ft. office and they were not able to add a second unit to my account.  Perhaps they want to limit distribution for now until production ramps up.

15 minutes ago, spike331 said:

So, WiFi?

Yes, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac wave 2 outdoor access point with Internal Antennas.

23 minutes ago, spike331 said:

Any idea what these white boxes are?

Looks like an Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless AP3965i 

On 9/7/2017 at 9:45 PM, anthony.spina97 said:

You are in the same boat as Bill and I. Hopefully we can inform Sprint about this issue and get us some Magic Box love!

 

-Anthony

My Magic Box finally connected today in Hickory, NC (Charlotte Market), however it would not connect just 6 miles away in Conover, NC as of Sunday.  Unfortunately, it does not extend the B41 signal far enough into the building for it to reach my work area.  Additionally, without the MB, where I used to receive a -94dBm B41 signal, I am now at -117dBm, I believe one of the sectors is offline or has been adjusted and no longer reaches the front of our building.  I believe that I am now connecting to a site that is further away and more congested.  Interestingly enough, it operates without GPS lock.

Did you look at your account on Sprint.com to see if the MB is there. It will also have a phone number assigned probably only used for tracking.

Yes, it was on my account the day it shipped and is assigned a Suburban Chicago Area Code (630), despite living in Western NC (828).  So I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

Does it give you and "Error Code 30" message when failing at 20%.

No, exactly what Anthony said above is what happens to mine.  I'm letting the battery drain completely on mine just to see if that makes any difference.

I had the exact same thing happen. The gentleman emailed me on Tuesday saying it should be here in 6-7 days and the MB got here this afternoon. I've found that if I don't touch it, the MB will just restart the initialization process at 20% when it fails, so I'm just gonna let it sit forever until it works. Lol. Hopefully it will activate at some point.

 

-Anthony

I may give that a try. The e-Ink screen is a bit frustrating that it doesn't go blank.  It just retains the last screen that was up on the display until it refreshes with something different.

I took my MB outside in clear view of the sky and line-of-sight of two Sprint towers and the MB still didn't connect after three attempts.  It just stays at 20% until it asks me if I want to shut down or try again.