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wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?
So this morning my GS4 lost signal and never regained it. It saw the towers but wasn't able to connect to any networks.

I call up T-Mo for support and after about 20 minutes the CSR tells me that they just got a notification that a batch of GS4s sold by them had been incorrectly flagged as stolen, and mine was one of them.

Anyone else affected by this?

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wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?

Cojawfee posted:

Service is usually pretty good within city limits of a city with T Mobile coverage. Once you're outside, you'll be lucky to get anything more than calls and SMS.

I was wondering if this was just my area, guess not. I could have sworn when I had an original iPhone that EDGE wasn't this bad. Slow of course, but still eventually useful. On T-Mobile seeing that E basically means that even texting over Google Voice is a crapshoot and trying to browse the web is an exercise in futility. $deity help you if you fall back to GPRS.

At least they have been good about upgrading the network. I have HSPA and LTE in a hell of a lot more places now than I did when I switched a year or so ago. Aside from a few extremely rural customer sites (which I've unfortunately been at a lot recently) I almost always have LTE at the destination even if not during the drive.


I wish dual-SIM phones were a real option in the US, it would be quite nice to have an AT&T (or ATT-based MVNO) SIM in the secondary slot for the times I really need data where T-Mo isn't ready.

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