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I think something's wrong with sprint wimax in San Antonio. I've used wimax on my evo 3D in other cities like NYC and Philly, but in San Antonio, I'd get a wimax signal and have completely non-working internet wherever I went.
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What do I have to do (other than wait) to get my Note 2 to update so I can get the split screen multi-tasking? How long should I expect to wait?
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Nov 11, 2012 23:41
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Totally TWISTED posted:I received an "Unknown" call a few days ago on my Sprint phone. Unfortunately I didn't decide to try and determine the number that called me until after other phone calls had been made and received on the phone. What options do I have for tracking down the number that the call originated from? It will show up on your next bill, you can view the detailed bill online. It should show up in your call log on the phone also. This is assuming by unknown that it was a number you did not recognize and not a blocked number. If it was blocked you would have have a lawyer and possibly the authorities involved to have a chance in hell to get the number.
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Nov 12, 2012 02:10
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Giblet posted:It will show up on your next bill, you can view the detailed bill online. It should show up in your call log on the phone also. This is assuming by unknown that it was a number you did not recognize and not a blocked number. If it was blocked you would have have a lawyer and possibly the authorities involved to have a chance in hell to get the number. It doesn't show up in the call log on the phone, well it does but just as "Unknown". I'll keep an eye out for the next bill just in case though.
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Nov 12, 2012 02:35
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Krime posted:What do I have to do (other than wait) to get my Note 2 to update so I can get the split screen multi-tasking? Here is a link from XDA forums, someone posted it a few days ago. I've done it and it works well. There are limited apps that are available for it unless you are rooted, then there is a mod you can flash that makes all apps available. Dropbox link I had to download to an sd card, and then load it using stock recovery, since I'm not rooted.
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Nov 12, 2012 02:48
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Cock Democracy posted:I think something's wrong with sprint wimax in San Antonio. I've used wimax on my evo 3D in other cities like NYC and Philly, but in San Antonio, I'd get a wimax signal and have completely non-working internet wherever I went. Wimax just sucks here, always has. That's why my mind is blown that I get great LTE here. I couldn't get wimax to save my life on my old Evo anywhere but I rarely lose 4G with my SG3, and that's driving from one side of town to the other for work.
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Nov 12, 2012 05:08
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Sprint has gone to complete poo poo in Omaha over the past couple days. I used to be able to reliably stream Pandora, now I can't, because it would appear my downstream speed is around dialup speed. What gives, it used to be half decent barring the absolutely terrible building penetration and weird 1-bar zones scattered throughout midtown, but now it's the trifecta of slow, spotty, and stand the gently caress outside to get signal.
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Nov 12, 2012 06:01
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The Entire Universe posted:Sprint has gone to complete poo poo in Omaha over the past couple days. Oh hey, I got my AT&T Straight Talk SIM coming so I'll know how they fare versus Sprint as soon as I can get the Nexus 4. If you want my impressions of AT&T's service, just head to the prepaid thread as I'll talk about it there. As for Sprint, I can't even look at an e-mail without the data choking on me and even looking at the Awful Betamax app kills the battery because it's always using so much power to load even just text on such a slow connection. I'm actually getting below dial-up speeds here in Northern Omaha. I'm really not sure what's going on. As for signal, it routinely is around 0 to 1 bars every day and full bars around 4-6am. I think there are too many Sprint users in Omaha or something. If I stay on 3G for even 3 hours now, I can be sure my battery will be dead by the third hour.
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Nov 12, 2012 06:53
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ThermoPhysical posted:As for signal, it routinely is around 0 to 1 bars every day and full bars around 4-6am. I think there are too many Sprint users in Omaha or something. If I stay on 3G for even 3 hours now, I can be sure my battery will be dead by the third hour. Is that how signal even works? I thought that if you're within range of a tower, you should get bars or you shouldn't. The number of people connected to the tower shouldn't have anything to do with it. That's what slow data but strong connections are for.
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Nov 12, 2012 07:17
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"d[-.- posted:b" post="409502236"] There was a lot of congestion on Virgin Mobile with data and signal when so many people had the Optimus V so it's possible, I guess. That and I live right down the street from a tower and still get 0-2 bars every day from 7am to around 3am. I figure most people are sleep by then (except me because of work).
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Nov 12, 2012 07:22
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Nov 12, 2012 07:38
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td4guy posted:The more phones there are connected to a tower, the smaller the tower's range becomes. That's what I've read. I just don't get how that works. Do you mean connected by voice/data/text or just connected because the phone is on and in range?
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Nov 12, 2012 10:28
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"d[-.- posted:b" post="409502236"]Is that how signal even works? I thought that if you're within range of a tower, you should get bars or you shouldn't. There's two general ways to discuss signal conditions. The first is an absolute signal (received power) level, measured in dBm. The second is a relative measure of signal-to-noise, for example, Ec/Io. The reason why signal-to-noise is important is because if you're in a weak signal area, the more noise (other phones) there is, the less understandable that weak signal is. Sometimes that translates to slower speed (as the phone can slow its symbol rate to compensate for noisy conditions), but it's not just a speed issue. For one, when there's a lot of noise, your phone has to transmit at a higher power, longer duration, or both to get above the noise floor, which consumes battery life faster. It also limits your reception distance and building penetration ability, since again, there's a higher noise floor. Now here's the fun part. The RSSI indicator ("bars") in AOSP is a function of both absolute received power (dBm) and signal-to-noise (Ec/Io). However, the stock ROM of every non-AOSP Sprint phone that I'm aware is modified so that RSSI shows received power only. So the difference is whether you're holding a Nexus S 4G or not. There's actually a bit more to the RSSI than that even, because there's separate levels for 1x, EVDO, and now LTE. It's quite a mess. Personally I wouldn't care, except one of the complains that xda folks frequently make against CM is how radio reception is "so much worse" because of the damned placebo RSSI. The numeric levels can be identical between stock ROM and CM but they see fewer bars, and so it must be worse. Oh, and stock ROMs often actually have more bars (e.g., 6 vs 4). I hate bars.
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Nov 12, 2012 10:31
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Is it possible to swap numbers on lines? Put one person who's currently on EPRP on my SERO line and the other number on the EPRP line?
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Nov 12, 2012 11:44
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bigpolar posted:Has anyone here upgraded from an EVO 3D to the note 2? I'm considering getting it, but I'm worried about the 3g radio. I would encourage you to try the iPhone... You can always sell it and cover the EFT (this early into its life you can also cover what you paid so in the end it won't cost you anything to try it for a month or two). You'll be shocked at the build quality and support compared to Android phones.
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Nov 12, 2012 12:30
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I've recently started having intermittent problems with my EVO 3D, particularly with the touchscreen. Specifically, the bottom portion of the touchscreen becomes partly or completely unresponsive, sometimes the capacitive buttons also give me trouble. Oddly, when rotating from portrait to landscape the unresponsive area shifts as well. I had initially assumed this might be the dreaded dying digitizer, but given that the affected area shifts I'm wondering if it might be a software issue. Should also be noted that a battery pull will fix the issue (for varying amounts of time) and sometimes the problem simply goes away after a while. I bought the phone new and it's never been rooted/flashed with a custom ROM, running stock ICS/Sense. Ideally I'd like to hold out with this phone until at least May when my upgrade comes. So, is this most likely the digitizer issue? Or is there a possibility a simple factory reset might solve my ills?
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Nov 12, 2012 20:15
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ThermoPhysical posted:Oh hey, I got my AT&T Straight Talk SIM coming so I'll know how they fare versus Sprint as soon as I can get the Nexus 4. If you want my impressions of AT&T's service, just head to the prepaid thread as I'll talk about it there. Yeah, it was pretty poo poo up there - my girlfriend volunteers at the humane society and right around the time we hit 90th and Blondo or so Pandora had given up trying to buffer.
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Nov 12, 2012 20:57
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Have there been any new updates on the LTE service roll-out, or is it all people posting they have service online? Its pretty frustrating to see "AT&T Now has LTE in your area" billboards when I drive down the road, and nothing from Sprint when you're paying the cash. I'd almost like to jump ship, but I don't want to pay the cash and I like them.
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Nov 12, 2012 21:44
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Well so now we're getting into what "bars" means. Huh. So my NS4G is getting more signal than it shows? The Entire Universe posted:Yeah, it was pretty poo poo up there - my girlfriend volunteers at the humane society and right around the time we hit 90th and Blondo or so Pandora had given up trying to buffer. Oh, I know you're on an LTE phone now, but a friend of mine says that there's a WiMax signal from the tower on 114th and Dodge. So if anyone in Omaha on a WiMax device wants WiMax for a bit, could try there.
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Nov 12, 2012 22:48
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ThermoPhysical posted:Huh. So my NS4G is getting more signal than it shows?
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Nov 12, 2012 23:43
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td4guy posted:Just got an email from Sprint. There are gonna be a couple of changes starting on Dec 1. It says that we can opt-in to targeted ads. And that we're already opted into a "Reporting & Analytics Program". We can opt out of that if we want. It looks like each line on your account has to have their preferences individually adjusted. I've been trying to opt out of this for a while and the website keeps conveniently crashing every single time I do. Website is fine for anything else, like paying your bills or shopping for items.
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Nov 12, 2012 23:49
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ExcessBLarg! posted:If you were to put a Nexus S 4G and Epic 4G side by side (they have the same radios), the Epic on stock ROM would show more bars, but the actual signal conditions/quality between the devices would be identical. Ahh, so the Nexus devices show a more "true" signal then? I wonder how it'll be for the N4 on Straight Talk's AT&T. Is this the same for iPhones/iPads, do you know?
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Nov 13, 2012 00:00
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ThermoPhysical posted:Ahh, so the Nexus devices show a more "true" signal then? But phones are complicated beasts with multiple radios and operating modes and that jazz, I don't think any bar-style indicator should be particularly trusted other than as some cursory measure that signal conditions "now" are somewhat better or worse than they "were" a few minutes ago. ThermoPhysical posted:I wonder how it'll be for the N4 on Straight Talk's AT&T. ThermoPhysical posted:Is this the same for iPhones/iPads, do you know?
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Nov 13, 2012 00:15
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Smaller update this time, possibly due to the hurricane/storms and outages. PR/VI (40), Atlanta/Athens (39), LA Metro (36), Chicago (31), DFW (26), SF Bay (24), Boston (19), Houston (16), Baltimore (11), Shentel (11), Miami/West Palm (8), Kansas (7), San Antonio (7), Austin (6), Indianapolis (6), Ft. Wayne/South Bend (5), Washington DC (5), Memphis (4), New York City (4), Delaware (2), Charlotte (2), Raleigh/Durham (2), Riverside/San Bernardino (2), South Bay (2), Jacksonville (1), Nashville (1), North LA (1), San Diego (1)
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Nov 13, 2012 00:48
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My extra line is up for renewal. It is currently an Optimus, because I wanted to save $10 a month. If I buy an iPhone with the upgrade credit to sell, will the $10 charge be added, or will it only be added if I activate the phone on the line?Ender.uNF posted:Smaller update this time, possibly due to the hurricane/storms and outages. Are there any sort of coverage maps for LTE? Triikan fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 13, 2012 |
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Nov 13, 2012 01:06
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There are up-to-date tower maps in the paid section of s4gru.com. And the official coverage.sprint.com maps show projected LTE coverage when the Network Vision rollout is complete at the end of 2013.
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Nov 13, 2012 01:50
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blue.eyed.ash posted:I've been trying to opt out of this for a while and the website keeps conveniently crashing every single time I do. Website is fine for anything else, like paying your bills or shopping for items. Yeah, I can't opt out of it either, when I click on the setting it just refreshes the page. Good job Sprint!
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Nov 13, 2012 01:51
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Triikan posted:Are there any sort of coverage maps for LTE? I use http://sensorly.com
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Nov 13, 2012 05:40
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bigpolar posted:Has anyone here upgraded from an EVO 3D to the note 2? I'm considering getting it, but I'm worried about the 3g radio. I just upgraded from the Echo to the Note 2. At my job using the Echo for Pandora was pretty much useless because 3g would keep dropping out/be super slow, also the battery would drain in about 5 hours. On the Note 2 I can listen to Pandora all day, no buffering, and I still have a ton of battery life left. Also my Note 2 just received the OTA software update which added the muti-window feature. Pretty nifty, even though I probably won't use it on a daily basis.
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Nov 13, 2012 07:20
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Are there any plans for a sprint-branded HTC DNA? I hate the phone options right now for sprint. Seriously. lovely screen with great community, or lovely community support with a great screen and build, or way too old.  ...and so I continue to wallow in my gingerbread OG EVO hell.  N4...why have thou forsaken me...
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Nov 13, 2012 20:10
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Can anyone using a Note 2 in an LTE coverage area tell me how their battery life has been? Desperately waiting for this phone on Verizon...wanting to get the best idea possible on what to expect...
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Nov 14, 2012 00:14
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cuedotnet posted:Can anyone using a Note 2 in an LTE coverage area tell me how their battery life has been? Desperately waiting for this phone on Verizon...wanting to get the best idea possible on what to expect... Not sure how much you can compare LTE performance between VZ and Sprint, but if its anything like the S3 battery life should be at least all day, if not day and a half.
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Nov 14, 2012 00:45
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Duckman2008 posted:Not sure how much you can compare LTE performance between VZ and Sprint, but if its anything like the S3 battery life should be at least all day, if not day and a half. I asked the same question in the ATT boards, however sprint also uses CDMA..
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Nov 14, 2012 01:09
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Have any of you goons in the Wash DC metro area experienced weird service interruptions? Maybe 30% of my incoming phone calls dont get to my phone and 30% outgoing are met with a "busy signal tone." I am trying to determine whether it is a problem with my old rear end EVO4G (running CM7.1) or a network issue.
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Nov 14, 2012 01:52
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For the 3 people that might care Sprint confirmed they will carry Windows Phone 8 in 2013 http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/13/3639942/sprint-windows-phone-8-2013
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Nov 14, 2012 03:58
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cuedotnet posted:Can anyone using a Note 2 in an LTE coverage area tell me how their battery life has been? Desperately waiting for this phone on Verizon...wanting to get the best idea possible on what to expect... Pretty good. I can go two days without charging, easy. I do have it on wireless at home, but 9-10 hours is away at work and such on LTE the whole time. With light use I usually make it to the 64 hour mark, and heavier use will put it around a day. For instance I got it to 27 hours with a total of 4 and a half of the screen on with auto brightness playing a few games and browsing the forums. Granted some might consider that light use.
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Nov 14, 2012 06:36
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ZeroAX posted:For the 3 people that might care Sprint confirmed they will carry Windows Phone 8 in 2013 http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/13/3639942/sprint-windows-phone-8-2013
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ZeroAX posted:For the 3 people that might care Sprint confirmed they will carry Windows Phone 8 in 2013 http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/13/3639942/sprint-windows-phone-8-2013
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Nov 14, 2012 13:55
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Has anyone had trouble logging in to sprint.com this week? I tried a few days ago, it initally rejects my password, I type it again and it takes me to a page with only the text "We are experiencing processing problems. Please try again later." The URL I'm at at with the error is https://mysprint.sprint.com/adapters-siteminder-aa/LoginWithDevicePrint.do. Note that this started happening after I did a password reset (I hadn't logged in for months before). I did another password reset this morning, the same thing happens.
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falz posted:Has anyone had trouble logging in to sprint.com this week? I tried a few days ago, it initally rejects my password, I type it again and it takes me to a page with only the text "We are experiencing processing problems. Please try again later." The URL I'm at at with the error is https://mysprint.sprint.com/adapters-siteminder-aa/LoginWithDevicePrint.do. Nope, I can log in, and did so a day or two ago as well.
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