I got the dreaded at&t text today. So in retaliation I'm boycotting by shutting my phone off for April fools day! Please join me!
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THIS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23573763&postcount=2
Yea. Turn off your phone for one day. That'll tell them. A revolution has to start with someone.
jaszek said:
Yea. Turn off your phone for one day. That'll tell them. A revolution has to start with someone.
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Think about it at&t has 17 million unlimited users not counting T-Mobile, some places don't have Wi-Fi. So you have to use your unlimited data plan.
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How is not using your internet connection for a day any kind of protest? Aren't you just applying 100% throttling to yourself - doing the very thing you're actually protesting against, but more so than the people you are trying to protest?
Protest.
Turning off your phone saves them money, you're not using their towers. You'd be better off constantly using your unlimited data once throttled - stream, torrent, whatever - because that'll actually hurt them. Or switch carriers.
But if you don't wanna use your phone for a day, by all means...
How the hell do you use 3Gb's in a month...
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Uhm I reckon I'm using 5 GB a month, just that.I have wifi.
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Yepyepyep SUE THEM FOR FALSE ADVERTISING AND COMPROMISING OF SERVICES WE'VE PAID FOR.
BUTT WEIGHT! Its all in the damn contract. We're helpless T.T
AHHH On April Fools we should go to every single one of their shops and root all the demo sets (those that can be rooted without a comp, ofc)
*cackles*
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I fail to see how saving At&t money by turning your phone off is a boycott? Unless its an early April fools joke by suggesting that? I fear when Verizon follows AT&T and starts throttling us. I'm averaging 24-26GB a month. No I don't tether either, and I switch to wifi when its available. 35ishGB if you include data when on wifi. They advertise blazing fast LTE (and Verizon lte is extremely fast) and then cap it. Now home internet companies are starting to cap? Why are we regressing in technology not moving forward?
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How the hell do you use 3Gb's in a month...
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I used 326 gigs one month. Lots of tethering and torrents.
The last month I was on at&t I raped the data. Spanked their mothers' mothers. It was insane that month.
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This is the main reason I got Sprint.
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This is the main reason I got Sprint.
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Nice. Don't ley mikeymike, a dev for att phones see that. His girly bits will start crying foul. He always opens his **** holster up about how wrong it is and people like me ruin phone companies. Freaking baby.
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I got the d### message from tmobile yesterday. I was downloading roms for a buddy with no internet.
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I never get those messages
Verizon Unlimited 4G LTE FTW!!
How is helping them (by not using their towers) in any way protesting? If anything, you should use as much as you can.
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Glad I have unlimited. Feel bad for those that don't.
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Strangest boycott I've ever heard of. Why not speak with your wallet, like canceling your plan?
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Ok you guys are not going to believe this. Since my wife is a data hog doing 40 gigabytes a month they gave her a Droid 4. She was using a 3G LG Ally
They said they want to get the heavy users off of the 3G network. So as an incentive they are giving discounts to people that are heavy users with 3g phones to upgrade to 4G usually 100 off. My wife was an extreme case so they gave her the droid 4 for free. How backwards and awesome is that? So moral of the story.... be a data hog and get yourself a free 4G device. LOL
I am hearing rumors that they want to clear 3g for I phone users because Iphone will not be receiving 4g!! Yikes Stinks to be an apple lover!!
Ha! So that's why my account got flagged for $100 off with an early upgrade!
I got no such deal. I got mine for the $200
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I got no such deal. I got mine for the $200
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guess you didnt use enough data! just leave pandora open 24/7 and tether so you might get a deal too
Great idea. I wanna get a droid maxx. Lmao
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http://m.cnet.com/news/sprint-posts-q2-loss-of-$16b-as-2m-subscribers-drop-off/57596067
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http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/30/sprint-reports-highest-ever-revenue-of-7-2-billion-q2-2013/
Funny how Cnets article talks about the bad mainly...Engadget article is more balanced.
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http://m.cnet.com/news/sprint-posts-q2-loss-of-$16b-as-2m-subscribers-drop-off/57596067
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Headline is grossly misleading. It's not the 2M subscriber drop-off that caused the costs-- many of them were on the old iDEN network and essentially marginal anyway. It's the cost of safely shutting down and dismantling iDEN that was essentially one of many large, one-time costs Sprint is incurring as it modernizes its network.
I was under the impression that there will be loses every quarter until Network Vision is complete..
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This was to be expected. Nothing really new here...
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I was under the impression that there will be loses every quarter until Network Vision is complete..
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This was to be expected. Nothing really new here...
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Same here
Sprint has been a horrible experience lately. If nothing improves by next year I'm switching to tmo. International phones are better anyway...plus better deving and roms. Screw cdma.
When I'm done with this phone it's gonna be real hard to sell too. Ugh
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Sprint has been a horrible experience lately. If nothing improves by next year I'm switching to tmo. International phones are better anyway...plus better deving and roms. Screw cdma.
When I'm done with this phone it's gonna be real hard to sell too. Ugh
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I feel your sentiments and now that all carriers are pretty much getting the same devices, there is really no advantage to sticking to one carrier. And also not to mention the the promos for new subscribers are really good.
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Sprint has been a horrible experience lately. If nothing improves by next year I'm switching to tmo. International phones are better anyway...plus better deving and roms. Screw cdma.
When I'm done with this phone it's gonna be real hard to sell too. Ugh
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Sprint NV just started to get better in my area and closer to downtown I get more LTE coverage. I was on the verge of leaving sprint too. Hopefully it improves for you soon.
I'm also more worried about htc than I am about sprint
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Sprint NV just started to get better in my area and closer to downtown I get more LTE coverage. I was on the verge of leaving sprint too. Hopefully it improves for you soon.
I'm also more worried about htc than I am about sprint
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nobody is going to be happy with Sprint until the overhaul of the network is done. I deal with it because I know what's coming and I want my grandfathered plan in case hasse decides to go the way if att and Verizon
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http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/30/sprint-reports-highest-ever-revenue-of-7-2-billion-q2-2013/
Funny how Cnets article talks about the bad mainly...Engadget article is more balanced.
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For me, Cnet list it's journalistic integrity during the whole Dish Hopper CES debacle...
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dish hopper has awesome commercials.. cnet is not that bad.. they lure people to read the article just like my title led you here.. softbank had a horrid carrier they took over and now they are one of the big carriers in japan
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I hate sprint on my one for sprint it takes 26 seconds for it to ring out going on avg my service well about 45% of calls drop .
Oh the fact I live in an apt with other sprint owners with air rave so goog voice for some odd reason wont work . Ive been some what lucky I got in contact with someone at the exec offices and ive had a good portion of many bills refunded .
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I can't afford to pay $100 a month to Sprint so I want to know if there any options out there to unlock the phone or flash it over to another carrier. I don't know anything about this stuff and would really appreciate some answers.
Then why did you buy it? You know what's going to be much less affordable than your $100 per month? Your increased interest rates on anything you finance in the future since you jacked up your credit.
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Then why did you buy it? You know what's going to be much less affordable than your $100 per month? Your increased interest rates on anything you finance in the future since you jacked up your credit.
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Now, there's no need to start lecturing. Sure, ideally OP wouldn't be in this situation, but things happen (job loss, medical, personal), so let's just see if we can be more helpful.
OP, generally Sprint phones are difficult to move. There are people that go to janky 3rd party carriers, but this is annoying and difficult. No matter what, you'll have to end up paying the ETF with Sprint to get out of that contract. Otherwise, you'll have a mark on your credit (which is not worth the $2-300).
You could think about going with Ting. They have a BYOD program, but none of the new phones are in the program. Perhaps in a year it will be available.
Lastly, $100/mo. seems high for Sprint service. Are you sure you looked at all the plans and your options? I, personally, am in a family plan with some family members, and it ends up being about $55/user, subsidized.
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Now, there's no need to start lecturing.
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Really? So why are you lecturing me then?
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Most likely because you sounded like an ass
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Now, there's no need to start lecturing. Sure, ideally OP wouldn't be in this situation, but things happen (job loss, medical, personal), so let's just see if we can be more helpful.
OP, generally Sprint phones are difficult to move. There are people that go to janky 3rd party carriers, but this is annoying and difficult. No matter what, you'll have to end up paying the ETF with Sprint to get out of that contract. Otherwise, you'll have a mark on your credit (which is not worth the $2-300).
You could think about going with Ting. They have a BYOD program, but none of the new phones are in the program. Perhaps in a year it will be available.
Lastly, $100/mo. seems high for Sprint service. Are you sure you looked at all the plans and your options? I, personally, am in a family plan with some family members, and it ends up being about $55/user, subsidized.
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If he's doing just a straight individual plan, this could be around the price after TEP and taxes and such.
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Most likely because you sounded like an ass
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I think I provided some rather useful information. To each there own I guess.
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Here is the answer to your question.
guide how to flash to htc one (M7) to cricket or other carrier
Sprint phones are easily flashed to cricket and even when your bill or contract is burnt and sprint flags your esn unusable.
Is there a video or tutorial on how to flash the phone over?
If you want to use a GSM carrier, I wrote a simple app that will SIM unlock your phone...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viper.simunlockhelperfree
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The service is amazing over here at Verizon.. Data speeds are significantly better in every way.. Having LTE in the middle of a lake in Idaho is a plus.. But damn the locked bootloader and all the bs rootblocking updates. They put a huge setback on erytang.. Even with the $154,8658,000,000 bounty. Just thought I'd let you guys know I was thinking about ya
Flashaway my old friends.
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Cool story Bro
Love the 90s good times
Kind of feel like this is a waste of a thread and space. Since it doesn't contribute to the community.
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I think it does add to the community. I'm sure there are lots of folks wondering if the grass is greener. Nice to have some real users of both services tell us the good AND bad.
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I think it does add to the community. I'm sure there are lots of folks wondering if the grass is greener. Nice to have some real users of both services tell us the good AND bad.
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Yeah but all he said was Verizon has better signal and speeds which is. common knowledge to most of us. And that Verizon blocks bootloaders, while sprint doesn't.
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Nothing wrong with this. It's good to know the pros and cons.
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Yeah but all he said was Verizon has better signal and speeds which is. common knowledge to most of us. And that Verizon blocks bootloaders, while sprint doesn't.
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I didn't realize Verizon blocked boot loaders, so good to know.
I'm happy with my data speeds and coverage on Sprint. 40-60mbs is nothing to laugh at. Not many places I find don't have LTE anymore. Fast updates and no locked anything is a huge plus. Spring will be seeing many more Verizon customers in the coming months. S4/Note 3/S5 all locked from here out will bring more over.
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I'm happy with my data speeds and coverage on Sprint. 40-60mbs is nothing to laugh at. Not many places I find don't have LTE anymore. Fast updates and no locked anything is a huge plus. Spring will be seeing many more Verizon customers in the coming months. S4/Note 3/S5 all locked from here out will bring more over.
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Then you're lucky, because there are still TONS of places that don't have LTE, including major cities. I was in Denver a few weeks ago and still had to make do with 3G just like I do at home. Also, 40-60 mbs is unheard of, even on Verizon and AT&T. My home wifi isn't even that fast. If that figure is even remotely accurate, you're definitely a (very) rare exception rather than the rule.
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I'm happy with my data speeds and coverage on Sprint. 40-60mbs is nothing to laugh at. Not many places I find don't have LTE anymore. Fast updates and no locked anything is a huge plus. Spring will be seeing many more Verizon customers in the coming months. S4/Note 3/S5 all locked from here out will bring more over.
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That HAS to be a typo....
Joe0113 said:
That HAS to be a typo....
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Either a typo or BS. If anyone is actually getting those kinds of speeds on ANY mobile network in the US (let alone Sprint), I'll eat my own face.
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Either a typo or BS. If anyone is actually getting those kinds of speeds on ANY mobile network in the US (let alone Sprint), I'll eat my own face.
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My boss routinely pulls 40-45Mbps downloads on his Verizon GNEX at work (Cleveland, TN)
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My boss routinely pulls 40-45Mbps downloads on his Verizon GNEX at work (Cleveland, TN)
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As I pointed out earlier, that is very much the exception and not the rule. Also, you'll never get speeds like that on Sprint LTE.
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As I pointed out earlier, that is very much the exception and not the rule. Also, you'll never get speeds like that on Sprint LTE.
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You also said you would eat your face if anyone got those speeds on ANY network, let alone Sprint. I'm just saying it happens
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My boss routinely pulls 40-45Mbps downloads on his Verizon GNEX at work (Cleveland, TN)
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Maybe burst speed, but not steady speed.
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My wife has vzw note 2. Here in indiana we have equal lte coverage but vzw speeds is usually 3-4 down. My sprint phone always whips vzw here. Dont dog Sprint. I avg 10-20 down and hit 30-40 down alot. This is all from our single band only phones. The only edge vzw has is lte building Penetration. All will be solved with tri band lte devices.
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Idk OP, my service and bandwidth on Sprint's LTE is pretty solid, speaking as a recent convert from Verizon.
Ohh, I remember the good ol' days before Verizon lost their way. I was a Verizon customer during the release of the OG Motorola Droid, and that phone was like a development catalyst. I discovered xda thanks to that phone's development following. Everything I came to love about customizing kernels and roms came from that phone. ****, I remember what now seems like an ancient version of CyanogenMod for that OG Droid. I remember that phone out of the box was underclocked of all things, from 550Mhz down to 450 which made overclocking that thing to a meaty 1ish Ghz seem so beastly at the time lol!
Ahhhh good times :good:
Decent Sprint LTE speeds in College Park, MD
I get decent speeds (15-23 Mb down, 7-10 Mb up) on Sprint in College Park MD according to Speedtest.
Won't the speeds for the Sprint LTE towers drop for an individual once more people start utilizing it? I suspect some people are getting very high speeds because not a lot of Sprint users are tapping into the LTE bandwidth yet?
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I remember that phone out of the box was underclocked of all things, from 550Mhz down to 450 which made overclocking that thing to a meaty 1ish Ghz seem so beastly at the time lol!
Ahhhh good times :good:
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Close - it was a 600 mhz CPU underclocked to 550 mhz. I remember there were kernels that could overclock the thing all the way to 1.3 ghz. I've still never used another phone that could be overclocked that far past the native clock speed (by percentage, at least). Good times.
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"T-Mobile 'Get out of Jail Free Card' pays contract cutters up to $650 per line" http://feedly.com/k/1dwQMyQ
I'm thinking it would be a lot nicer to have a gsm One 2 than a cdma one. Have at it guys!
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New link that works
http://www.androidguys.com/2014/01/...free-card-pays-contract-cutters-650-per-line/
No disrespect to the devs here in sprintland, it's all about the updates
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Thanks !!!
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"T-Mobile 'Get out of Jail Free Card' pays contract cutters up to $650 per line" http://feedly.com/k/1dwQMyQ
I'm thinking it would be a lot nicer to have a gsm One 2 than a cdma one. Have at it guys!
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Taking this.. thanks!
Link returns bad
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Link returns bad
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Try this one
http://www.androidguys.com/2014/01/...free-card-pays-contract-cutters-650-per-line/
So many people are about to be gone...me too maybe lol.
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So many people are about to be gone...me too maybe lol.
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Sprint better step it up, that is all. Framily plans don't cut it
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Sprint better step it up, that is all. Framily plans don't cut it
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Exactly, all these new plans Sprint is coming out with end up costing us more money than the plans we already have so why would we switch to them.
This is really tempting since T Mobile has better coverage and more 4G where I live than Sprint.
I'm going to scope it out. Might be something to jump on.
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Well I went to the website to check out how much it would be for 2 lines and it would end up costing more on T Mobile. First off you HAVE to finance a device or pay the full price up front. So 2 lines with unlimited everything comes up to $120 per month plus if I were to get 2 HTC Ones that would be an extra $50 per month. So $170 before taxes and fees. I think you have to buy the insurance also but I'm not sure. I'm going to go into a TMobile store and check it out for sure though.
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I don't understand why people think these no contract plans are any better than signing a contract.
Why would you want to be on the hook for paying off a 600$ device rather than paying a 200$ early termination fee..
Sprint has the cheapest plans of the major providers flat out, and the network is improving quickly
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T-Mobile has no 3g or 4g in my area, they only have edge no way I'm leaving Sprint for that at least with Sprint I have Damn Good 4g and 3g.
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T-Mobile has no 3g or 4g in my area, they only have edge no way I'm leaving Sprint for that at least with Sprint I have Damn Good 4g and 3g.
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T-Mobile can go away already..
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This isn't for everyone but for those who are in bad sprint areas would like it or those who complain about the long wait for updates would like it too since gsm always gets the update first
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This isn't for everyone but for those who are in bad sprint areas would like it or those who complain about the long wait for updates would like it too since gsm always gets the update first
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Exactly. Good info for those who want it. Those who don't shouldn't complain, just stay where they're at. Already sent a link to a friend who was talking about jumping ship from Verizon.
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Yeah I'd rather have my text messages send and receive normally. Past T-Mobile people I've texted have told me of "texting issues" and the whole "edge" thing. No thanks, if my LTE drops, at least 3G is faster than edge. And I'm not giving up my unlimited 4G LTE & tethering. As for upgrades... If I really want the phone like my two HTC Ones then I pay full price. T-Mobile sounds good and all but i know there's a catch there some here. And Sprint made me happy thay my AT&T friends with extreme speeds sometimes ask me to lend my portable hotspot when their LTE drops to HSPA or Edge.
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I went to a T-Mobile store today to inquire about it. What kills it for me is that you HAVE to purchase a device from them, and our Ones are only worth $106 in trade-in. Doesn't seem fair when I could sell it on CL for $275. The cost would work out roughly the same. $86/month. They also don't pay the ETF directly. You have to cover it, then you get a prepaid MasterCard in 4-8 weeks. So to start the plan, you're looking at potentially hundreds of dollars.
Yeah, it's contract free, but it's not really worth it in my opinion. Sprint does just fine in Metro Atlanta, and as much as I feel I'm getting boned by them, it's the smallest in the long list of dicks that are phone companies.
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I went to a T-Mobile store today to inquire about it. What kills it for me is that you HAVE to purchase a device from them, and our Ones are only worth $106 in trade-in. Doesn't seem fair when I could sell it on CL for $275. The cost would work out roughly the same. $86/month. They also don't pay the ETF directly. You have to cover it, then you get a prepaid MasterCard in 4-8 weeks. So to start the plan, you're looking at potentially hundreds of dollars.
Yeah, it's contract free, but it's not really worth it in my opinion. Sprint does just fine in Metro Atlanta, and as much as I feel I'm getting boned by them, it's the smallest in the long list of dicks that are phone companies.
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Yeah, what he said! I work in Pendergrass, Geogia, which is about 90 miles north of metro Atlanta, and formerly a 3G area if I was lucky. Within the last four months it has gone from spotty 3G to 2 bars of LTE. And that's literally out in the boonies. That much improvement that fast is worth hanging around, especially with the whole Mastercard bait and switch crap. Sprint is really earning my business these days. My penny and a half...