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uapyro posted:I think my brain may be bleeding. I asked about this, and they said "The HTC Hero". I've seen it happen on other phones, we can sometimes order the Transform Ultra to replace the original Transform, but usually not.
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Duckman2008 posted:Back in November my indirect repair center at the time had decent stock coming in of the 3D LCD unit. Only issue was there were so many issue units we kept running out. I would be swapping people like crazy to the LTE. Really? What's the best way to see if this can happen? I'm on my second EVO LTE since June - the first one wound up with a dead antenna and this one has terrible battery life (like will go from 80% to 30% in an hour randomly), has started crashing and rebooting with no prompting and does that thing where it heats up in my pocket when not in use. I'd LOVE to get away from HTC products if there's any way I can.
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Giblet posted:We couldn't submit an order for a back ordered phone. We used to just tell people they could continue to call us to see if it was available. It's been almost 2 years since my store could even do an advanced exchange so things may have changed now. Gotcha. For indirect repair centers you can now order back ordered phones, so it's presented as an option if its there. blue.eyed.ash posted:Really? What's the best way to see if this can happen? I'm on my second EVO LTE since June - the first one wound up with a dead antenna and this one has terrible battery life (like will go from 80% to 30% in an hour randomly), has started crashing and rebooting with no prompting and does that thing where it heats up in my pocket when not in use. I'd LOVE to get away from HTC products if there's any way I can. Take it into a repair center, go over the issues, see what they can do. Be persistent. Some places won't do it until the 3rd swap. It is currently an option though, no guarantees it isn't removed, but so far so good. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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blue.eyed.ash posted:Really? What's the best way to see if this can happen? I'm on my second EVO LTE since June - the first one wound up with a dead antenna and this one has terrible battery life (like will go from 80% to 30% in an hour randomly), has started crashing and rebooting with no prompting and does that thing where it heats up in my pocket when not in use. I'd LOVE to get away from HTC products if there's any way I can. If you yell enough they will swap you.
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Did they remove all of the non-unlimited data plans for smartphones? I could've sworn there was a 2gig plan back in '11
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zer0spunk posted:I have a launch day evo 3d (that I was happy to replace a pre with..man am I not good at phone choices) Me too! I'm so loving sick of the 3d and Sprint service in general that it's not funny. I don't get any kind of a 4g signal in the building I work in and the 3g I do get is so loving slow that it's infuriating. That combined with the wretched battery life I get, and I don't know how I haven't thrown the thing against a wall yet. It has definitely entered my mind a few times. I don't even know what Sprint has coming in the next few months that's worthy of an upgrade. I'm trying my best to not jump ship and buy a Nexus 4.
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Network Vision update for the week: Approximately 715 updated sites today in: Chicago (78), Shentel (76), Atlanta/Athens (51), Arkansas (41), San Diego (34), Indianapolis (31), PR/VI (28), Baltimore (22), Kansas (21), New York City (21), Washington DC (21), Upstate NY Central (20), Boston (17), Nashville (16), LA Metro (14), Miami/West Palm (14), Minnesota (14), Austin (13), VT/NH/ME (12), Ft.Wayne/South Bend (11), Norfolk (11), SF Bay (11), DFW (10), Mississippi (10), North LA (9), Philadelphia Metro (9), Las Vegas (8), Tampa (8), Orange County (7), Upstate NY East (7), Orlando (6), Raleigh/Durham (6), Riverside/San Bernardino (6), Central Jersey (5), Charlotte (5), Houston (5), Memphis (4), Myrtle Beach (3), New Orleans (3), Northern Connecticut (3), Southern Connecticut (3), Jacksonville (2), Georgia (2), Delaware (1), Long Island (1), Northern Jersey (1), Oregon/SW Washington (1), Providence (1), San Antonio (1), South Carolina (1), Southern Jersey (1), West Michigan (1), West Washington (1).
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Duckman2008 posted:Gotcha. For indirect repair centers you can now order back ordered phones, so it's presented as an option if its there. Got it. I've been hesitant because the issues I've had with this EVO are intermittent and the last thing I want to do is walk in and say "this phone's a POS, it keeps dying and crashing" to have a tech look at it and say that everything is working fine.
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I swear Sprint is avoiding all NV updates in Ohio just to gently caress with me. That said, I'd swear I'm getting better (re: still lovely, but not infuriatingly super lovely lovely) speeds between Dayton and Cincinnati today (got the iOS 6.1 update last night)
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blue.eyed.ash posted:Got it. I've been hesitant because the issues I've had with this EVO are intermittent and the last thing I want to do is walk in and say "this phone's a POS, it keeps dying and crashing" to have a tech look at it and say that everything is working fine. I was lucky mine was actually acting up every time I went to the store. Of course I did have bad luck with a corporate repair store saying it was the network when my phone doesn't work half the time. I found another repair store that was not corporate and they actually tried it out and said it was the phone that was faulty, so I'm sticking with them.
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Disargeria posted:Did they remove all of the non-unlimited data plans for smartphones? I could've sworn there was a 2gig plan back in '11
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td4guy posted:You're mistaken. It's always been all unlimited here, at least on smartphone lines. It's limited in the sense that if you left it on 3G, using as much data as the network would allow, 24/7 for 30 days, the cap is probably a couple gigs. E:  Are they supposed to call me or something at some point and ask why I'm always roaming? I must have rolled through a coverage blip on my drive home from work while running Pandora. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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The Entire Universe posted:E: I'm pretty sure you have to do it for a couple of consecutive months. They aren't going to boot you for 8 days of roaming.
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Is the Sprint SGS2 a terrible decision to pick up used? I know it has that wakelock bug with the notification light in ICS, but is there any way to fix that (custom roms?)?
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Grumpwagon posted:Is the Sprint SGS2 a terrible decision to pick up used? I know it has that wakelock bug with the notification light in ICS, but is there any way to fix that (custom roms?)? Used for like, $100-150 max is a decent deal. I'm sure it's root able, not sure who still tweaks Roms for it.
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The ROMs for the Sprint SGS2 aren't all that great to tell the truth. There is a decent CM10 beta and android 4.0 or later causes some weird issues with battery life and all that. If you plan on staying on rooted stock its not too bad. I think I need to go get mine replaced because I think mine has a bad radio though, but that's neither here nor there. Going to assume they have plenty of GS2s for replacement and I won't end up with a bullshit phone?
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Stumpalitious posted:The ROMs for the Sprint SGS2 aren't all that great to tell the truth. There is a decent CM10 beta and android 4.0 or later causes some weird issues with battery life and all that. If you plan on staying on rooted stock its not too bad. I think I need to go get mine replaced because I think mine has a bad radio though, but that's neither here nor there. It may be a little slow at the moment, the phantom menu popup (the antenna is directly under the menu button, when in a weak service area the interference can trigger the button) is now a known issue, so there have been a ton of replacements.
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datajosh posted:Network Vision update for the week: First of all, how dare you sir  Second of all, that's last weeks update. Here is the most recent one: Approximately 675 updated sites today in: SF Bay (94), Houston (47), Shentel (45), DFW (43), Chicago (40), LA Metro (33), Indianapolis (30), Kansas (25), Arkansas (21), Las Vegas (20), PR/VI (20), Mississippi (18), New Orleans (14), Tampa (13), Austin (12), New York City (11), San Diego (11), Washington DC (11), Charlotte (9), San Antonio (9), Baltimore (8), Miami/West Palm (8), Norfolk (8), North LA (8), Raleigh/Durham (8), Atlanta/Athens (7), Jacksonville (7), Orlando (7), South Bay (7), Upstate NY Central (7), West Michigan (7), Nashville (6), Orange County (6), Myrtle Beach (5), East Michigan (4), East Texas (4), Northern Jersey (4), Riverside/San Bernardino (4), Upstate NY East (4), Long Island (3), Philadelphia Metro (3), South Carolina (3), Alabama (2), Boston (2), Central Pennsylvania (2), Colorado (2), Ft. Wayne/South Bend (2), Memphis (2), Minnesota (2), Oregon/SW Washington (2), Central Jersey (1), Southern Jersey (1).
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I have a voice issue at my apartment, and I was wondering if there was anything that could be done to mitigate it, or if anyone has an idea of why it happens in the first place. I'll usually get anywhere from 2-5 bars of service at home inside and out (there are six bars total on the SGS3 stock rom's indicator, FYI), now with a pretty consistent LTE signal as well. Problem is, 90% of the time the voice service is awful regardless of the displayed signal strength. It'll connect calls ok, incoming and outgoing, but once it connects it will usually drop the audio (both ways as far as I can tell) for about a second at a time, every 5 seconds or so. This of course makes it pretty impossible to have a coherent conversation without repeating things 10 times and trying to get the timing just right. It happens inside and out, though seems to happen a little more inside. Doesn't do it at my work, so I'm pretty positive its not the phone. Also, I had the same problem when using my GNex. Is it more likely interference, bad signal because of hills, or something else? An Airrave probably won't be possible because we're at 5 lines on the account already. 
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Ender.uNF posted:DFW (43) Wow! How far along is dfw on the whole? I know I'm doing great at work and at home, at least. I was in Evansville, IN over the weekend. The land that Sprint forgot. I honestly don't think I could stand to be a Sprint customer if I still lived there.
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This is probably the spergiest thing I've ever said, but I want some sort of notification or something when I connect to LTE. My Sprint account shows that I've downloaded a MB or two over 4G, but I've never seen my phone on anything but 3G. I want to know where the hell these mystery LTE places are.
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Autopay charged me for next month's service and I'm planning on porting my number to GV and switching to T-mobile. I still have 5 days of service for this month, according to my Sprint account page. If I port my number out to GV before the 5 days are up, can I request a refund from Sprint for the following month's service or dispute the charge with my bank?
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burndtjamb posted:Autopay charged me for next month's service and I'm planning on porting my number to GV and switching to T-mobile. I still have 5 days of service for this month, according to my Sprint account page. If I port my number out to GV before the 5 days are up, can I request a refund from Sprint for the following month's service or dispute the charge with my bank? Sprint will automatically issue a refund check after a bit. That being said if auto pay charged you that means your bill was due for the billing cycle you are currently in. You will only be refunded for whatever few days are left in your current billing cycle, not a whole month.
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Ahh, thanks!
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brc64 posted:Wow! How far along is dfw on the whole? I know I'm doing great at work and at home, at least. Nearing 40% I think, projected completion has at least moved into this year with a September 2013 date.
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Ender.uNF posted:First of all, how dare you sir
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Is there a map that shows when 4G is supposed to come to a specific area? I'm in Buffalo, and I'll be upgrading my Evo soon, but having an LTE compatible phone won't do me much good if it's not until 2053 (I know it's probably going to happen at some point this year, but I'm impatient, goddamnit!).
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KillHour posted:Is there a map that shows when 4G is supposed to come to a specific area? Found this on S4GRU... http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3101-map-of-current-and-coming-soon-sprint-lte-cities/ Fantastic...nothing happening at all in Ohio.
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Ender.uNF posted:Here is the most recent one:
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Why's the OP hating on the Moto Photon Q so much? I've got one and it's been great.
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NullPtr4Lunch posted:Why's the OP hating on the Moto Photon Q so much? I've got one and it's been great. You're lucky. It's one phone where I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that a large number of them came back with rebooting problems. Add in that Motorola basically treats anything not on Verizon as a second rate phone now a days and you have a product I personally wouldn't recommend.
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NullPtr4Lunch posted:Why's the OP hating on the Moto Photon Q so much? I've got one and it's been great. We have 2 on display at my store. Neither work. We already replaced both once. I refuse to sell that phone unless someone comes in asking for it by name and I can't talk them out of it.
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I've got an OtterBox Commuter for my iPhone5, and when I put the screen protector on a spec of dust was under it near the bottom, maybe 1/4" from the edge of the protector, not even on the screen. It has finally started bugging me a lot since it caused a little air bubble around it. Can I lift up the screen protector and then reapply it, or if I peel up that corner will it not stick and I'll have to replace the whole thing? I've never used a case/screen protector on a phone before, but the difference in resale prices between scuffed up phones and pristine ones is large enough for me to want to use this drat thing. e: vvv I'll try that, thanks for the tip. GentlemanofLeisure fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jan 31, 2013 |
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GentlemanofLeisure posted:I've got an OtterBox Commuter for my iPhone5, and when I put the screen protector on a spec of dust was under it near the bottom, maybe 1/4" from the edge of the protector, not even on the screen. It has finally started bugging me a lot since it caused a little air bubble around it. Can I lift up the screen protector and then reapply it, or if I peel up that corner will it not stick and I'll have to replace the whole thing? Get some scotch tape. Place one piece on the screen protector with about 2 inches on the screen and enough to grab sticking off the corner. You will use this to lift just the corner of the protector. Wrap a second piece of scot tape around your most dexterous finger sticky side out. Briefly lift the corner of the protector and use the sticky finger to snag the piece of dust. I've never tried this on a screen protector that has been on a phone for a while. It may or may not work for you. If it doesn't just buy a new one, or spend the money on a zag and get replacements for the cost of shipping whenever you want.
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goku chewbacca posted:Can a S4GRU paid member tell me where these two towers are? This is the first I've seen my region listed in tower upgrades. I live in the largest city in Central PA, so I'm hoping it's mine.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:I'm pretty sure you have to do it for a couple of consecutive months. They aren't going to boot you for 8 days of roaming. This began last month, but I only used about 700 megs.
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datajosh posted:Looks like one in Nicholson and one in Narvon. I'm not from the area but just looking at the map, I have no idea where Sprint got their definition of "central" PA. Wagons. Seriously. It's somewhat related to the Metropolitain Trading Areas and Basic Trading Areas as defined by the FCC - which roughly follows population/census/government lines. Those more or less follow old wagon trails and US Geological Survey markers, except with the MTA/BTAs the lines are located as far from population centers as possible to minimize interference issues. The frequency licenses are generally sold for one area at a time, sometimes for the smaller BTAs others for the larger MTAs. Sprint also has one of the extremely rare nationwide licenses which is where LTE is running right now (PCS G block).
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My S3 is having SDcard issues. A few days ago I kept getting messages about the card being removed unexpectedly then remounted and back and forth. Now it doesn't recognize it at all. I know the card is okay because I can read it on my MacBook (and I'm currently backing up its contents just to be safe...) It looks like this is a pretty common issue with the S3... I no longer have TEP on my account, so if I try to take it in to a Sprint store, will they do anything? What's my best option at this point?
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Ozmodiar posted:Found this on S4GRU... Yeah, I know the feeling. I live in Milwaukee, which I know is not a huge metropolis area or anything, but it'd be nice to actually be able to use 3g. It wasn't so bad when I first signed up, but it's been pretty bad the last year or so. Really just need to switch already, EPRP is nice and all, but what's the point if I can't even use it?
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