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Vykk.Draygo posted:This was on the last page but it sounds like you didn't try it either. No, I did it. It didn't help. It's not a real fix, just placebo. I did some more testing and everywhere beside my office I get good speeds. This includes outside and nearby, so I think it's the cell. Some insane bs, since I get 4 bars and coworkers on androids see full 1.5mbit, but at least it is usable now. So maybe that update did work. Edit: Spoke with Sprint, and ended up transfered to an Escalations rep. It's a known issue, about compatibility between the iPhone and Sprint's network. Apple has to make server-side changes and then send out an iPhone update to fix it. I dunno how much of that is accurate and how much is an attempt at technobabble to calm the masses, but my speeds are at least reasonable now, so I'm hoping I'm in it with Sprint for the long haul now. EVGA Longoria fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Oct 20, 2011 |
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900ftjesus posted:I'm half wondering if this is their way of figuring out demand, but I would recommend filling this out if you want to see the Galaxy Nexus on Sprint: Done, god I hope this phone comes to Sprint at some point. I've got an upgrade to use and was going to replace my Evo any day now, but I guess I'll just hold off. I wonder if I should just wait until they start their LTE rollout, assuming they get some nicer new phones then.
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The Entire Universe posted:I'd like to piggyback on this because I've been thinking about hooking GV up for a while but really haven't because of the weirdness involved with my lack of total understanding in this area. Whaaat. I'm close to midtown Omaha and over the past two days I consistently got speeds much slower than you. What part of midtwon are you in? I ran tests downtown, around 38th and california, and in the Sprint store on 72nd and Dodge. Also ran the ##UPDATE# thing multiple times throughout with no improvement. My speeds only got to the slowest of your tests maybe two or three times over the 20+ times I tested it over the last couple days. I even tried doing it around 1:00 AM and got similar results (bout .1 to .16 mbps). If I'd been consistently getting your speeds I probably wouldn't have switched. Oh well.  I've got identical sets of tests for pretty much any time of day between 8:00am and 1:00am. Also--hook your number up to google voice. It's amazing with Sprint and is the thing I'm going to miss most on ATT. I didn't notice any downside whatsover with the direct integration. powderific fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Oct 20, 2011 |
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powderific posted:Whaaat. I'm close to midtown Omaha and over the past two days I consistently got speeds much slower than you. What part of midtwon are you in? I ran tests downtown, around 38th and california, and in the Sprint store on 72nd and Dodge. Also ran the ##UPDATE# thing multiple times throughout with no improvement. My speeds only got to the slowest of your tests maybe two or three times over the 20+ times I tested it over the last couple days. I even tried doing it around 1:00 AM and got similar results (bout .1 to .16 mbps). If I'd been consistently getting your speeds I probably wouldn't have switched. Oh well. If you still have your Sprint phone, test it today. My speeds have improved drastically since yesterday, and apparently Sprint is officially acknowledging the issue on calls and has a response. Response is "It's Apple's fault and they're fixing it", but still.
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Nah, switched out last night. As a bonus I have much better reception in my apartment so I'll probably stick with ATT for now. Glad for everyone else (and Sprint's) sake if it turns out to be an apple problem that an update can fix.
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At this point, ##UPDATE# looks like it has the same effect as the Close Door button in an elevator - ie if you're lucky, it coincides with something happening, if you're not you're left pushing the button with no effect until something actually does change and/or you feel a placebo effect (speeds jump up momentarily).
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I'm unloading two black 4S 32GB for Sprint over in SA-Mart if anyone's looking for an off-contract iPhone.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I'm unloading two black 4S 32GB for Sprint over in SA-Mart if anyone's looking for an off-contract iPhone. This is exactly the phone I'm looking for!
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Hey guys, I'm looking to get a second pair of eyes on a switch from Tmobile to Sprint I'm thinking of doing. Right now I'm on a family plan with Tmobile that runs me about 145.00 a month. I have an old school blackberry and I am out of contract, my wife has a nexus S and still under contract that would cost me 200bux to break. I can get a 25% off discount through sprint. Assuming I move to Spring my wife is going to want the new Iphone and I will get the new Galaxy S2. The monthly payment on these two phones for 1500min unlimited everything contract will run 117.00 roughly 130.00 after taxes. However the upfront cost will be 600 bux which includes breaking the tmobile contract and the two new Sprint phones. The ultimate reason I'm switch is because I want Sprints true unlimited plan and the cheaper monthly payment. Do you guys think it makes sense to move, I would only be saving 15bux a month however I would have true unlimited internet. Edit: to make things more complicated I call Tmobile to tell them i'm breaking the contract and going to sprint. They offered to reduce my payment down to 110.00 a month for 1000 mins and 2GB of data and waive my this months payment of 145.00 which essentially brings my payment down to 100.00 bux a month for the first year. Bicho6 fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Oct 20, 2011 |
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Oct 20, 2011 20:40
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Don't count on unlimited data on Sprint for the rest of your contract.
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Mark Larson posted:Don't count on unlimited data on Sprint for the rest of your contract. I suppose your right, can't tell what will happen in the future. I imagine if they did decided to cap bandwidth I would be able to leave sprint with no ETF.
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Mark Larson posted:Don't count on unlimited data on Sprint for the rest of your contract. If they cancel it without grandfathering people in, it'll be a change to the contract and you'll end up leaving without an ETF.
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nate fisher posted:Thanks for this. I figured something like this would come out sooner or later. The EVO had the streaming problem you had to do some crazy jump through hoops thing to get it working correct. That's my post over on sprint users. It worked for me for a while but then my speeds at home dropped back down. However today when I was at the car shop and probably on a different tower I was getting a solid 1M/s so it is apparently possible for the iPhone 4S to get full EVDO data speeds. I'm also seeing various people claim that once they spoke to top-level support Sprint finally acknowledged the issue and the story seems to flip-flop between a Sprint update or an Apple update coming soon. So the real answer to the crappy iPhone speeds on Sprint is: spin the wheel and maybe you'll get lucky. If not, there may or may not be a real problem and it may or may not be fixed by Apple/Sprint/Dali Llama at some undetermined date in the futurepast.
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Bicho6 posted:I suppose your right, can't tell what will happen in the future. I imagine if they did decided to cap bandwidth I would be able to leave sprint with no ETF. lol, good luck with that. They aren't even letting people out when they increased fees and changed arbitration providers.
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"Mark Larson" posted:lol, good luck with that. They aren't even letting people out when they increased fees and changed arbitration providers. You're being over the top. "Bicho6" posted:Hey guys, I'm looking to get a second pair of eyes on a switch from Tmobile to Sprint I'm thinking of doing. Right now I'm on a family plan with Tmobile that runs me about 145.00 a month. I have an old school blackberry and I am out of contract, my wife has a nexus S and still under contract that would cost me 200bux to break. It's your call, tmobile seems desperate to get new customers and retain old ones, so if they are willing to give you a great retention rate good for you. On the sprint side any stupid poo poo about sprint being able to drop unlimited data on in contract customers is just extremely short sighted. Wireless carriers are able to change optional add ons: ie tethering, insurance, international (in most cases), etc. The main features that are required when you sign a contract do not change and cannot change without voiding your contract: phone internet features, texting and calling. If sprint tries to cap data on contract customers, their contract is voided, end of story. And if it isn't, file with the BBB and be done with it. Looking at past trends, ATT and Verizon are grandfathering in unlimited customers to some degree for the reason i mentioned: they don't want to void the contract and/or piss the customer off. Let's be real here: sprint cannot sustain unlimited internet for all customers forever. It's too much of a strain. Signing a contract now with sprint guarantees you one thing with unlimited internet: for the next 2 years you get unlimited data with sprint. They can change it once the contract is over, you are not guaranteed in the sake way Verizon does not have to guarantee grandfathering. They may choose to do it, and nobody knows what the future is. So for anyone looking for unlimited internet, weigh the pros and cons, and if its important enough lock it down for 2 years. If not, don't. And please let's avoid stupid blanket statements on either side of this debate, nothing in wireless is that clear cut for gods sake.
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Mark Larson posted:lol, good luck with that. They aren't even letting people out when they increased fees and changed arbitration providers. Stop posting in this thread. For serious.
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Oh, on a good note: Sprint officially announced the Motorola Admiral: http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=9125 My only bummer is the 3.1" screen (but has a keyboard at least). This is a god send to anyone on Nextel or needing PTT, assuming there are no bugs. And pricing isn't horrible. Fyi: promo for at least a month or two is that if you have Nextel right now you may qualify for $0.99 upgrade pricing for the Duramax (flip rugged PTT phone) or Admiral. Aka Sprint is going to start throwing good incentives to retain Nextel customers and switch them to Sprint CDMA PTT. It is definitely focused more on business customers (they are mostly all that is left on Nextel anyway) but I have seen regular customer lines qualify, though not all. Anyone who has any questions on this feel free to PM me. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Oct 21, 2011 |
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Any other Nexus S users out there? I just picked one up off of Craigslist... I want the thinnest/lightest case I can get for it. I also want a screen protector (I think...unless you can convince me otherwise)...but I'm tired of invisible shields. I want something that doesn't have that really "tacky" feeling that invisible shields do. Recommendations?
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Ozmodiar posted:Any other Nexus S users out there? I just picked one up off of Craigslist... I'm a big screen protector guy and don't have one on my nexus. But then i also found a hairline crack in the top left corner yesterday :/ Sprint has cool gel cases that might do the job, otherwise not sure. $3 amazon.com screen protectors would probably do the trick for the screen.
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Duckman2008 posted:I'm a big screen protector guy and don't have one on my nexus. But then i also found a hairline crack in the top left corner yesterday :/ Are Skinomi/Ghost Armor/BodyGuardz the same thing as Invisible Shield? And I found this cases that interests me...: Seidio SURFACE case http://store.androidcentral.com/seidio-surface-case/4A123A7977.htm
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Casao posted:If you still have your Sprint phone, test it today. My speeds have improved drastically since yesterday, and apparently Sprint is officially acknowledging the issue on calls and has a response. Response is "It's Apple's fault and they're fixing it", but still. Just got an iPhone 4S and am getting 1.63Mbps download and 0.88Mbps upload. No idea what is was like earlier, but this seems really good.
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One of my friends decided that they'd go to Radio Shack and get a new Sprint contract and phones--but still have a Verizon account active. This was 3 days ago at this point, and they've got two lines of ETF on VZW to eat. Doesn't Sprint buy out ETFs?
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aarstar posted:Just got an iPhone 4S and am getting 1.63Mbps download and 0.88Mbps upload. No idea what is was like earlier, but this seems really good. Something has gone wonky, when I disable WiFi I now see a little "o" instead of 3G. The field test screen confirms no 3G connection. Attempting to browse says "you are not subscribed to any cellular data service"... Then it switched to 3G but while launching the speed test app I saw it flip back to the "o" then back to 3G.. Something wierd is definitely going on.
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Ozmodiar posted:Are Skinomi/Ghost Armor/BodyGuardz the same thing as Invisible Shield? I had a BodyGuardz skin on my Palm Pre and it started coming off after a while, and yellowed quite a bit. Invisible Shield I have had on devices like PSP and my old iPod nano and they were much better quality. But that was a while back, I know some skins are dry apply now but have never used one. Seems like everyone and their mother makes a skin and they include them with a lot of cases even.
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Matlock posted:Doesn't Sprint buy out ETFs? That program ended like October 1st or something. It has been done for a bit. My brother had just called me about this today because he knows someone paying a ridiculous amount on AT&T.
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Ender.uNF posted:Something has gone wonky, when I disable WiFi I now see a little "o" instead of 3G. The field test screen confirms no 3G connection. Attempting to browse says "you are not subscribed to any cellular data service"... Then it switched to 3G but while launching the speed test app I saw it flip back to the "o" then back to 3G.. Something wierd is definitely going on. I had that last weekend and was wondering what the heck it was. I just did a little searching and finally found the official apple explanation page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1976 So O means you don't have 3G connection, its on 1xRTT. I guess they use the same symbol on both network types.
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I was getting a weird symbol too on my ye' olde HTC Mogul sometime within the past few days and it would say 'no service' if I tapped on the usual bar area that would bring up the status. It still indicated I was on EV though, . Back to normal for awhile now.  Today things are working consistently around 1+ mb down and 500-600kbps up. Its time for people to be getting up, so I'll know soon if its congestion. Want to jump on iPhone once things get resolved, which it sounds like is happening via mass work orders to do work on towers or whatever.
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Looks like Sprint is officially killing off unlimited Mobile Broadband and Hotspot in November. Link
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Yup...phone plans are next, I'm assuming sometime next year. There really is no reason to stay with Sprint anymore when my contract is up.
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Auron posted:Yup...phone plans are next, I'm assuming sometime next year. You know this how?
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Lovie Unsmith posted:You know this how? I am getting tired of the doomsday prophets on this thread. Give it a rest nate fisher fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Oct 21, 2011 |
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I just signed up with sprint a couple of days ago and I'm about to port my number over. If I'm not happy with the service and cancel within the 14 day limit is there any reason that I wouldn't be able to bring my number with me somewhere else? I just want to make sure before I call in to get it ported over..
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"supersteve" posted:I just signed up with sprint a couple of days ago and I'm about to port my number over. If I'm not happy with the service and cancel within the 14 day limit is there any reason that I wouldn't be able to bring my number with me somewhere else? You can always port your number wherever else, and within 14 days you would just have a restock fee. "nate fisher" posted:I am getting tired of the doomsday prophets on this thread. Give it a rest This.
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Drevoak posted:Looks like Sprint is officially killing off unlimited Mobile Broadband and Hotspot in November. Link lol Tags : bad business bait and switch Cancel without ETF Dont be evil Get out of ETF grandfather ppl plz how do I get rid of material change etf MiFi overdrive pro unlimited 4g verizon pricing
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I don't understand how this is bad business when you have people using tethering to rack up over 100 GB of data per month. It's not exactly cheap to deliver these services. People make analogies to other countries were data services are cheaper, but they fail to take into account that places like Japan, Germany, and the UK have far fewer square miles to cover. More territory means increased cost of service (from # of towers, to support personnel, to spectrum) and lower profit margins. Does it suck? Yeah, it does, but what else are you supposed to do when some people use the unlimited service with no regard to other users? It's tough to maintain the unlimited model (again, primarily on tethering and hotspots) when that kind of data usage occurs. Furthermore, Sprint is a company that hasn't recorded a profit for a few years, as opposed to AT&T/Verizon who have record profits. Yet unlimited data is still being offered at a cheaper price point than even the lowest data tiers at AT&T and Verizon. It's a rather simple case of cost reduction while maintaining your sustainable differentiators.
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Nonsense. QoS and traffic shaping are old technology now... If someone is raping the tower, your system should automatically throttle them and the problem is solved. At night when no one is using the network they can go full speed. It literally doesn't cost you anything, the equipment is on whether anyone uses it or not and all of the big three are large enough to have peering agreements so they don't pay transit fees (sprint via its fiber network). In fact GB limits are not optimal because it means I can totally screw a tower and clog it with traffic as long as I do it a few hundred MB at a time.
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Everything will be more expensive and limited in the future. You, the consumer, will be screwed on any chosen carrier because you have no control over anything and the carriers have expensive lawyers and lobbyists. This thread is for actual information and legitimate questions by Sprint customers or people looking to join Sprint. It is not ok to constantly post "Sprint is losing unlimited data" because that statement is false until they actually announce it. Their last announcement was just before the iPhone launch and it was the exact opposite of that statement. Again, if you are not a Sprint customer, this is not the thread to rage against the machine for whatever reason. Pretend you're an adult and that you can accept that everything will continue to suck more over time and most people don't want to read your terrible posting. The carrier warrior/OS warrior crap belongs on Engadget, not here.
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https://twitter.com/androidandme/status/127472988848259074 A rumor but a good sign for Sprint and the Nexus Prime? I hope this is ok to post since just a rumor.
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