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td4guy posted:Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you...one of the luckiest goons ever! Seriously, I was astonished. I left Best Buy a year ago and knew the day would come I got audited. Phone got shut off yesterday, I fully expected to have to go on a full plan with my company's 12% discount. I asked why my phone got shut off, he said "It looks like you were flagged during an audit as being ineligible for your current plan. If you would like, I can transfer you to what is called our 'SERO premium' plan. It will be a bit more money, but still a fantastic deal." Dude got a survey with all 5's from me for sure.
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I can't believe he gave you a SERO plan. It's loving November of 2012.
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So I'll be getting an Optimus G for free off contract through work once they are in inventory. I'll make sure to give a review once I get to play around with it.atomicvocabulary posted:I can't believe he gave you a SERO plan. It's loving November of 2012. The sero plan is in fact a current plan that people are added to regularly. It is just back to its original intention as the sprint employee retention offer. Giblet fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Nov 2, 2012 |
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Nov 2, 2012 20:40
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I remember when SERO plans were $100 on eBay. Now they're like $250.
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Giblet posted:
It used to be the sprint employee referral offer, not retention. It was originally a perk sprint employees could give to friends, and it required a name and an ID #. I think employees were limited to a finite number of referrals each month, 25 or 50? Then sprint was trying to improve its customer service image by interacting with the consumerist blog. They started out giving consumerist readers a special customer service number, then they offered readers the SERO plan using a name with unlimited activations. Then fatwallet publicized the deal and it exploded in popularity, but sprint's churn was so bad at the time they allowed it to continue. Speculation was that they were using SERO to drive up subscriber numbers to improve stock prices in order to finance what turned out to be the clear wire deal and wimax. Once their customer numbers were up they started driving SERO customers to more profitable plans. EPRP replaced SERO as the friends perk. Which is where I thought things were today. If they are back to offering SERO that is pretty big news.
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My bet is the poster is actually on EPRP, not SERO, since it endsd up being a tiny bit more expensive than his now-defunct employee discount plan.
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Lovie Unsmith posted:I remember when SERO plans were $100 on eBay. Now they're like $250. I thought you can't even TOL them? ...Who wants to buy my SERO plan? 
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I was on EPRP about this time last year and was talking to a nice woman at sprint about my lack of signal at my new rental home. She gave me an airrave and put me in SERO.  It does happen.Edit: That being said, can you actually legitimately sell a SERO account? I'll probably be jumping ship here soon. poxin fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Nov 2, 2012 |
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bigpolar posted:It used to be the sprint employee referral offer, not retention. It was originally a perk sprint employees could give to friends, and it required a name and an ID #. I think employees were limited to a finite number of referrals each month, 25 or 50? I apologize I got it's history a little wrong, that being said employees leaving Sprint and friends and family that were on SWAC accounts are eligible for SERO. What I was getting at is that the plan is still alive and well with people getting added to it all the time. You just can't get it anymore when threatening to cancel like you used to.
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bigpolar posted:EPRP replaced SERO as the friends perk. Which is where I thought things were today. If they are back to offering SERO that is pretty big news. The catch is that the account liability falls on the employee who sponsors you. If you deadbeat on the plan, he ends up with the ETF. Similarly I think handset upgrades have to go through the sponsor too. I'm also not really sure what happens when the sponsor leaves Sprint. Giblet posted:that being said employees leaving Sprint and friends and family that were on SWAC accounts are eligible for SERO.
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mastershakeman posted:My bet is the poster is actually on EPRP, not SERO, since it endsd up being a tiny bit more expensive than his now-defunct employee discount plan. Nope, SERO Premium 500. I'm guessing it's just a standard offer when people leave employee plans (I've had this one since 2001, so I'm a long time "employee")
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I don't think SERO ever had liability falling on the employees, which is why it had limited availability for a while. I don't know a lot of people at sprint who trust friends enough to assume liability like that though. I know I wouldn't do it for any of my friends. Looking at the features, SWAC looks just like SERO but with a discount to cover the premium data. That $20 option makes switching to a dumb phone again almost appealing though. Phones cheap enough to not need insurance at all, and still get unlimited texting. If I didn't stream Internet radio at work I would try to drop back to normal SERO again.
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ddogflex posted:I thought you can't even TOL them? ...Who wants to buy my SERO plan? Apparently you can only TOL them to somebody who already has one and wants to add an extra line, although somebody here had trouble with that just recently.
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I was really leaning towards the Samsung Note 2, until it was pointed out that it can't do simultaneous 3G data and voice (like the S3 does). The consolation being it can do LTE data and voice, which will be great once my town gets the upgrade in 2018. loving gently caress fucks. Guess I'll wait a till spring to see what's coming down the pipe.
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moolchaba posted:I was really leaning towards the Samsung Note 2, until it was pointed out that it can't do simultaneous 3G data and voice (like the S3 does). The consolation being it can do LTE data and voice, which will be great once my town gets the upgrade in 2018. Whats the point of having 3g and voice simultaneously?
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There were a lot of att/ iPhone commercials to make you feel inferior if you couldn't talk and search for places for dinner at the same time.
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falz posted:There were a lot of att/ iPhone commercials to make you feel inferior if you couldn't talk and search for places for dinner at the same time. I'm about to work for these bastards, and i still always agree about how retarded the campaign on voice and text at the same time is, and yet how effective it somehow was.
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bigpolar posted:I don't know a lot of people at sprint who trust friends enough to assume liability like that though. I know I wouldn't do it for any of my friends. Duckman2008 posted:I'm about to work for these bastards, and i still always agree about how retarded the campaign on voice and text at the same time is, and yet how effective it somehow was. I'm actually kind of amused by the effort that went into SVDO devices like the SGS3. They had to duplicate the CDMA signal path just to support that one feature. Although honestly it's a nice (if useless) consolation prize for stepping down from a WiMXAX device to an LTE device in a WiMAX-but-not-LTE market that won't see LTE for another year or two.
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dundun posted:Whats the point of having 3g and voice simultaneously? It's not something everyone relies on, but I tether a lot. Being able to chat with someone on the phone while I remote their computer or talking to a friend while streaming necrophiliac porn is something I treasure.
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My wife and I upgraded to Note 2s this week. We are absolutely loving it. The size hasn't been an issue at all and I can't imagine going smaller now. The only thing I wish it had was the multi window option that the International version has, but I'm assuming it will be released as an OTA update later on.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I didn't know the SGSIII could do that... To be honest the only thing that I dislike about touchwiz is that I cant silence the shutter sound to take pictures of crazy people at Walmart. Bloatware can be hidden and no need to overclock. Maybe if you want a tethering app.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I didn't know the SGSIII could do that... I'm almost positive that SVDO was added to CM10 for the Sprint SGS3 many months ago. I've never tested it, but I think it's there.
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thenakedflip posted:My wife and I upgraded to Note 2s this week. We are absolutely loving it. The size hasn't been an issue at all and I can't imagine going smaller now. The only thing I wish it had was the multi window option that the International version has, but I'm assuming it will be released as an OTA update later on. Welcome to the Note 2 club!  My only gripe so far is that the stock messaging app doesn't give enough real estate for the conversation. They keyboard takes up 1/2 the screen, the contact, and message you are entering take up a huge portion, leaving about 1/4 of the screen for the actual conversation. Also, I miss the directional keyboard buttons from my EVO keyboard. Krime fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Nov 3, 2012 |
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Vykk.Draygo posted:I'm almost positive that SVDO was added to CM10 for the Sprint SGS3 many months ago. I've never tested it, but I think it's there.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:I'm almost positive that SVDO was added to CM10 for the Sprint SGS3 many months ago. I've never tested it, but I think it's there. ExcessBLarg! posted:Yes, CM10 has SVDO support. Hmm...basically, so if I just grab an SGSIII and put CM10 on it, I could have a sort-of Nexus device with mostly stock OS, fast updates and the ability to use 3G while calling?
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ThermoPhysical posted:Hmm...basically, so if I just grab an SGSIII and put CM10 on it, I could have a sort-of Nexus device with mostly stock OS, fast updates and the ability to use 3G while calling?
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Yeah pretty much. Hmm I might stay on Sprint then. I'm kind of in a confusion about that. If you don't mind, I have more questions. Are there some things the Nexus 4 may be able to do that the SGS III + CM10 couldn't? Like HDR mode in the camera app, PhotoSphere, Face Unlock, offline Voice to Text, Saying "Google" to activate Voice Search while in Google Now, basically all of the things the Nexus S is missing on ICS/Jelly Bean.  Would the phone last me a while with a dual-core processor? I mean the LG Nexus has a quad core so I don't know. How does Samsung's processor stack up to the quad-core in the Nexus 4/Optimus G? Would the Sprint Optimus G be a better choice than the Sprint SGSIII if the bootloader is unlocked and CM10 officially put on it? Another question is, is the Sprint SGSIII officially supported for CM? I checked their site and they don't seem to be up to date. I think the last SGS phone is the SGSII.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Another question is, is the Sprint SGSIII officially supported for CM? I checked their site and they don't seem to be up to date. I think the last SGS phone is the SGSII. Yes. It's listed as d2spr (d2 being the SGS3 designation, spr for Sprint).
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ThermoPhysical posted:Are there some things the Nexus 4 may be able to do that the SGS III + CM10 couldn't? ThermoPhysical posted:Would the phone last me a while with a dual-core processor? I don't know, maybe Google will release some killer app that's particularly CPU intensive. I'd be kind of surprised though. ThermoPhysical posted:How does Samsung's processor stack up to the quad-core in the Nexus 4/Optimus G? ThermoPhysical posted:Would the Sprint Optimus G be a better choice than the Sprint SGSIII if the bootloader is unlocked and CM10 officially put on it? In contrast there's a few reasons why the SGS3 is reasonably well supported. A big one is that it was the second of Sprint's "second-gen" LTE devices (the Galaxy Nexus being a first-gen) that utilized a relatively-open underlying platform, and another is that the device came out right near the 22-month upgrade date for folks who picked up the original Evo and Epic devices at launch. ThermoPhysical posted:Another question is, is the Sprint SGSIII officially supported for CM?
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Honestly I can't say, I don't really use any of that fancy stuff. Will have to wait for the Nexus 4 to release and folks to complain that other devices don't do what it does. Hm..would you say the Galaxy Nexus is still a viable phone for the next two years as it's from 2011 as well? I'm not sure if 1GB of RAM will be enough for it in 2013-2014. Another question is, since my contract would be up in 20 months instead of 22, wouldn't my contract end in January of 2015 instead of March if I decided to stay with Sprint?
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Try and convince me on staying with my SERO plan. I've had an evo 4g since release and I'm thinking of going to virgin mobile for $30 a month. Its only 300 minutes, but I don't talk much and there's ways around that limitation.... so why should I keep paying $70 a month? ( planning to get an iPhone 5 when its released)
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ThermoPhysical posted:Another question is, since my contract would be up in 20 months instead of 22, wouldn't my contract end in January of 2015 instead of March if I decided to stay with Sprint? I think you are confusing contracts and upgrade dates. Contracts are all 24 months.
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Why is my phone's clock behind by one hour? It's as if it rolled back 2 hours overnight instead of just 1  Edit: I just disabled and re-enabled Mobile Network and the time corrected itself.
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Hoppin Tin posted:Try and convince me on staying with my SERO plan. I've had an evo 4g since release and I'm thinking of going to virgin mobile for $30 a month. Its only 300 minutes, but I don't talk much and there's ways around that limitation.... so why should I keep paying $70 a month? ( planning to get an iPhone 5 when its released) Virgin mobile is sprint with no roaming and shittier phones. So if you like having even worse coverage with a not up to date phone to save $20 (with no customer support as well), go for it. For some people it's def viable, but if you have SERO I wouldn't recommend it.
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Lovie Unsmith posted:Why is my phone's clock behind by one hour? It's as if it rolled back 2 hours overnight instead of just 1 It seems to always do this. It's like it auto rolls back an hour on it's own and it goes back an hour off of sprint's time.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Hm..would you say the Galaxy Nexus is still a viable phone for the next two years as it's from 2011 as well? The radio setup on the CDMA/LTE Galaxy Nexus is awful though. It's not worth it. ThermoPhysical posted:I'm not sure if 1GB of RAM will be enough for it in 2013-2014. Hoppin Tin posted:so why should I keep paying $70 a month?
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Lovie Unsmith posted:Why is my phone's clock behind by one hour? It's as if it rolled back 2 hours overnight instead of just 1 If you are on LTE, there is a known bug that is setting your timezone to EST. It' something the admin at s4gru.com has been discussing for a few months. It will get fixed however there is no ETA. The only way to prevent it is to disable auto-time in settings.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:
I'm paying $59.99 a month, plus $10 for premium data plus $7 in surcharges.... How are any of you doing only $50 a month? I used to have the $30 SERO, but then to upgrade to a Evo4G they said I had to up my plan. Is there any way to bring it down? I'd stay with Sprint if it was $50 EDIT: Yeah so I didn't even notice this for 2 years, but I called Sprint and they said I've been off the SERO plan for two years now. gently caress sprint. I'm out Hoppin Tin fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Nov 4, 2012 |
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