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Whistling rear end in a top hat posted:Doesn't the 2 year agreement thing only work if it's a new contract? My best guess based off of Sprint's terribly lovely website is that you'd pay $99.99 with a two-year upgrade. Personally, I think you'd be a fool to buy a three year old phone with your upgrade instead of just grabbing one off Craigslist or Swappa, but obviously it's up to you.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:My best guess based off of Sprint's terribly lovely website is that you'd pay $99.99 with a two-year upgrade. Personally, I think you'd be a fool to buy a three year old phone with your upgrade instead of just grabbing one off Craigslist or Swappa, but obviously it's up to you.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:My best guess based off of Sprint's terribly lovely website is that you'd pay $99.99 with a two-year upgrade. Personally, I think you'd be a fool to buy a three year old phone with your upgrade instead of just grabbing one off Craigslist or Swappa, but obviously it's up to you.
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The 5.0 update is out for the Sprint Note 3, and so far, it feels like it's breathed new life into the device. I loved my Note 3 when I first got it, but one of the updates along the way really brought it down. Now it feels just as snappy as it did when I got it, and I'm digging all the Material Design changes. The only thing I don't like is this persistent S Finder and Quick Connect thing in the notification shade. I can't find any way to make those go away... 
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Apr 10, 2015 17:31
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I hope that's a life size picture of your phone's display because I just pictured you walking around with a Note the size of 4 monitors. 
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Apr 10, 2015 17:49
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Sprint joins T-Mobile in offering free international data roaming. http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-rel...pe-or-japan.htm You have to manually add it to your account but apparently all existing plans are eligible, including SERO.
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Apr 10, 2015 20:09
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I think I'm going to go with an s6 from my m7, but that s6 promo doesn't make much sense to me. 80 a month not including the fees that get thrown on. And you lease the phone. At the 24 month mark you either give the phone back or buy it from sprint (can't find out what that actually costs) Or I stick with my current plan at 78 with fees, pay the discount price on the phone and own it at the end of the 24 months. Why would I lease the phone?
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Apr 10, 2015 22:11
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lazydog posted:Sprint joins T-Mobile in offering free international data roaming.
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zer0spunk posted:I think I'm going to go with an s6 from my m7, but that s6 promo doesn't make much sense to me. Do you get unlimited everything?
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WoG posted:No Canada, though. Still nice. What I was thinking. Good for the 10 days I'll be in Scotland, although it seems better to just spend 15 pounds on a prepaid SIM from Three and get unlimited LTE. And I'm in Canada a few times a year, this would be handy.
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brc64 posted:The 5.0 update is out for the Sprint Note 3, and so far, it feels like it's breathed new life into the device. I loved my Note 3 when I first got it, but one of the updates along the way really brought it down. Now it feels just as snappy as it did when I got it, and I'm digging all the Material Design changes. The only thing I don't like is this persistent S Finder and Quick Connect thing in the notification shade. I can't find any way to make those go away... My Note 4 is downloading the update right now, but it's always had the S Finder/Quick Connect thing there and it is a bitch. Options are learn to ignore it, or root and use custom roms and poo poo again.
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Apr 14, 2015 20:16
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With T-Mo willing to buy out a contract is there really any reason to stay with sprint for a non SERO plan?
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Apr 14, 2015 20:25
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There hasn't been for ages. Go to Verizon or AT&T though, T-Mobile has worse coverage than Sprint outside of metropolitan areas.
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Will Verizon buy out your contract? The only problem with me is I would have to pay off my Galaxy S5 and it would hurt to do that.
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thelightguy posted:There hasn't been for ages. Go to Verizon or AT&T though, T-Mobile has worse coverage than Sprint outside of metropolitan areas. Uggg. Both VZW and ATT have data overages and nickle and dime fees. I can drop my bill to $50/mo from $80 by going to the 1GB plan at tmobile since they exclude all music services from their data cap.
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Is there a catch with the leasing plan? I am getting nowhere with the Sprint store or their chat. From what I am told I get a $15 service credit for customer loyalty that would have the lease for a Galaxy S6 at $5 per month ($20-15) for two years. Is there a reason not to do this compared to just buying the phone for $200 like I do every two years?
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Pedialyte posted:Is there a catch with the leasing plan? I am getting nowhere with the Sprint store or their chat. From what I am told I get a $15 service credit for customer loyalty that would have the lease for a Galaxy S6 at $5 per month ($20-15) for two years. Is there a reason not to do this compared to just buying the phone for $200 like I do every two years?
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Apr 14, 2015 22:24
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Brightman posted:My Note 4 is downloading the update right now, but it's always had the S Finder/Quick Connect thing there and it is a bitch. Options are learn to ignore it, or root and use custom roms and poo poo again. Why do carriers have to gently caress with things in weird ways? My girlfriend's AT&T Note 4 doesn't have these, but hers has a persistent (non dismissable) notification whenever she's connected to wifi, which would drive me equally mad (maybe even more so).
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Apr 15, 2015 05:56
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I've been using Sprint for about three years now, have an $80 plan for unlimited everything on a Nexus. Phones super old at this point and has a few issues, so I'm looking to upgrade or get out of Sprint. Without too much of an initial investment, anyone have any recommendations? The new lease plans they're promoting don't seem very good from a quick look-over, unless there's a guaranteed warranty on the phone.
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brc64 posted:Why do carriers have to gently caress with things in weird ways? My girlfriend's AT&T Note 4 doesn't have these, but hers has a persistent (non dismissable) notification whenever she's connected to wifi, which would drive me equally mad (maybe even more so). I really didn't think it was a carrier thing since those are Samsung app things, that's weird. Lollipop has really messed with the notification shade for me, the Nova gesture of just swiping down to reveal it doesn't work anymore, and I can't hide the SmartRemote Notification remote...oh and I guess Tasker isn't loving working since Work Silent did gently caress all...or it turned on Do Not Disturb mode...whatever, just annoyed I have to gently caress around with that now. Anyway, on the plus side the Smart Remote power and volume buttons are now showing up on my lock screen so I don't have to unlock the phone to turn on the tv and sound system.
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the littlest prince posted:I think iPhones and Samsungs typically have the best cameras. The S6 just came out ... Grumpwagon posted:So, you might know this, but since your current phone is a WiMax device, I'm going to explain anyway. Any 4g phone you get now is going to be a LTE phone. That is a completely different (and incompatible) 4g technology from the 4g that was in the 1st gen EVO that you have. Sprint did a very bad job deploying WiMax, and a pretty good job deploying LTE. Even if your area had good WiMax, Sprint's LTE deployment used "better" spectrum, so it is faster (10-15 mbps vs 3-5 for WiMax in my experience), penetrates buildings better (especially if you have band 26), and propagates farther from the tower. Thanks, dudes. I spent almost two hours on the phone with Sprint (called SERO telesales directly). I spoke to 5 people; all of them had troubles navigating the sprint site and would just offload me to a new person. One employee suggested that I go in-store, buy the phone, change my plan, and call them afterward to change it back. Also, while I was about to purchase the phone for $199, the price dropped online to $49.99. I was told this was for new customers + 2-year contracts ONLY, and that it would not apply to me renewing my 2-year contract because I've been with Sprint for over a decade. Whatever, Sprint.
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Brightman posted:I really didn't think it was a carrier thing since those are Samsung app things, that's weird. Lollipop has really messed with the notification shade for me, the Nova gesture of just swiping down to reveal it doesn't work anymore, and I can't hide the SmartRemote Notification remote...oh and I guess Tasker isn't loving working since Work Silent did gently caress all...or it turned on Do Not Disturb mode...whatever, just annoyed I have to gently caress around with that now. Anyway, on the plus side the Smart Remote power and volume buttons are now showing up on my lock screen so I don't have to unlock the phone to turn on the tv and sound system. The latest Nova beta fixes that shade gesture bug.
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Got the Note 3 Lollipop update today. As was previously mentioned, whatever update came before really made Note 3 a sluggish piece of rear end. I went to a rooted custom ROM that was better but still not great. I went through the process to unroot and get back to stock to take the OTA update and it's like having a brand new phone. Very happy with everything except the notification tray stuff but I'm sure I'm just overlooking a setting. I'll probably end up rooting again for wifi-tether, not having that is a deal breaker on stock.
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Bought an iPhone 5s from Swappa so I can move over to Cricket from my SERO account, but the contract isn't up until the 27th. If I just say gently caress it and port as soon as I can get a sim will Sprint prorate the etf or try to gently caress me with the whole thing? Edit: LOL "minimum of $100" for prorated ETF. Even if it's only a week. Loucks fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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hrolfr posted:One employee suggested that I go in-store, buy the phone, change my plan, and call them afterward to change it back.
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lazydog posted:Sprint joins T-Mobile in offering free international data roaming.
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s6 acquired and activated finally. Thanks for the help, thread people. I added a $5 / month tablet plan to my sero acct as I purchased the s6. Impulse buys are the worst, but I was so surprised that I could even do it that I did it. It came with a phone number despite being a 1gig/month tablet plan. Not entirely sure what the heck it is besides a "free" LG G-pad that I don't need.
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Their systems are likely hardcoded to require a phone number for every line. Only $5/mo added onto your bill for an LTE tablet? That's pretty rad. I could swing that, easy.
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brc64 posted:Last week I got a letter in the mail from the new Sprint CEO (well, the offices of, I assume) thanking me for my loyalty and letting me know that as a reward, my 4 line share plan had been upgraded to unlimited talk (was 1500 minutes before) and that I'm eligible for a $15/mo "loyalty credit" toward the purchase of a new iPhone of Galaxy S5 (bringing the lease price to $5/mo). If anything, I'd want a Note 4, but I can't tell if that reward extends to other phones. The website makes it look like I can only use it for one of like 4 devices. This is from back in December, but I was suppose to get this loyalty credit and no longer am, and Sprint won't fix it. Paying $20 a month for a Galaxy S5 when it should be $5 for me. :/ It was actually $5 a month for two months and then Sprint for some reason took it away, and won't acknowledge the change or why I lost it. Gonna try to work with them tomorrow to get it fixed. On top of that i'm not happy with the Galaxy S5 anymore, its update to Lollipop has made the phone annoying to use and notifications no longer work. Now that the S6 is out, its very unlikely that Sprint will update the S5.
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So I am upgrade eligible, want the M9, have the 200 bucks to buy it, but every store I go into is trying to dick me into leasing the phone for $23 a month "but with a cheaper plan!" or buy it on payments "with no interest!" for $28 a month. Is the the new dumbest loving poo poo ever to ensure as many people leave sprint as possible? Why can't I just buy the goddamn phone on contract like I've done for the last 17 loving years?
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Old Man Pants posted:So I am upgrade eligible, want the M9, have the 200 bucks to buy it, but every store I go into is trying to dick me into leasing the phone for $23 a month "but with a cheaper plan!" or buy it on payments "with no interest!" for $28 a month. Is the the new dumbest loving poo poo ever to ensure as many people leave sprint as possible? Why can't I just buy the goddamn phone on contract like I've done for the last 17 loving years? What plan are you on? edit: it sounds like you're on some old rear end plan that predates even SERO. It's possible that the store doesn't know how to work with an old plan. I'd call up telesales or see if you can buy through the website. Vykk.Draygo fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Buy through Sprint.com if possible. My experience with the stores has been pretty negative, they can't seem to do anything right. Then again that applies to Sprint.com as well in some cases, their customer support tends to lie.
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Found an affiliate store that actually wanted to sell me the phone, paid for it and it is up and running. The corporate store was seriously trying to dick me around.
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Old Man Pants posted:So I am upgrade eligible, want the M9, have the 200 bucks to buy it, but every store I go into is trying to dick me into leasing the phone for $23 a month "but with a cheaper plan!" or buy it on payments "with no interest!" for $28 a month. Is the the new dumbest loving poo poo ever to ensure as many people leave sprint as possible? Why can't I just buy the goddamn phone on contract like I've done for the last 17 loving years? Every carrier is moving away from contracts. Do the math, for most of the carrier's buying the phone outright is cheaper than the older two year contracts when you factor in all phone and plan costs. People bitch for years about cell phone rates. They finally go down, but yes, they are going to go down by moving away from the old, lovely system. Leasing a phone is probably retarded though, only sprint does that.
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Duckman2008 posted:Leasing a phone is probably retarded though, only sprint does that. at&t NEXT is essentially a lease option as well, since you can trade in after 12, 18, or 24 months depending on the option you choose.
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Sprint's incompetence knows no bounds, I literally cannot get them to answer this question for me, I have talked to multiple people at Sprint. I want to pay off my Easy Pay payments on my Galaxy S5, right now. $20 a month, over two years, that's $480, not counting what I already paid. Sprint Customer Support said there is an additional fee I also have to pay, what is that fee though? They said they can't tell me that.
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r3plica posted:at&t NEXT is essentially a lease option as well, since you can trade in after 12, 18, or 24 months depending on the option you choose. You own the phone the whole time on Next, so it is an installment plan with option to trade in, not a lease. Word semantics, but a lease implies you don't own the phone you are making payments on.
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So I've been with Sprint for a while, I'm upgrade eligible etc. I'm currently on an unlimited data/text plan with 450 talk minutes that I never ever use, my monthly bill is $90 which includes phone insurance. I average about 5GB of data use per month. I have an S4 phone right now that I'm totally happy with. There appears to be a cheaper plan option ($60/mo), but it appears I have to buy a new phone to get it? I'd rather not buy a new phone, but if I can get a new phone and new plan for less than I'm paying now I suppose I might as well. This "phone lease" thing appears to have a $20/mo credit thing going, which would give me basically the same plan for $80/mo with a new phone? I'll be damned if I can figure this out. Help?
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bewbies posted:So I've been with Sprint for a while, I'm upgrade eligible etc. I'm currently on an unlimited data/text plan with 450 talk minutes that I never ever use, my monthly bill is $90 which includes phone insurance. I average about 5GB of data use per month. I have an S4 phone right now that I'm totally happy with. Have you tried asking Sprint if you can have your plan converted to that plan without buying a new phone? Though I'm skeptical that Sprint is offering 5gb of data for $60.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Have you tried asking Sprint You'll get a different answer from every employee in my experience.
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