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my Galaxy Note 2 had that issue. eventually tracked it down to my carrier providing a time signal that was a minute and a half fast.
turns out GPS actually cares a fair bit about what time it was. so i rooted and solved the problem with this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fastergps&hl=en
if you're comfortable rooting your phone this might help you.
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Can't root without breaking SMS. Verizon did something to the network settings for my particular area code (yes, it's actually phone number specific) that makes rooted and unlocked devices incapable of using SMS over 4g, no matter what you do with the settings. It literally worked fine until one day in February and then stopped for everyone. Verizon admits nothing.
The properly hilarious thing is that MMS, which is traditionally easy to break, actually works.
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how...... wha......
and i thought US. CELLULAR was bad!
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I just have the Android percentage...
Now, like I said, if I could just get the percentage without the icon...
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I'm pretty sure my S3 has bum gps since the day I bought it.
That sucks. My last GPS was a SirfStar II- or III-based and it was unable to get signal unless it was within about 6 inches of a window. By contrast my Note II can work inside most of the time if I'm not in the middle of a really big building or whatever.
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and i thought US. CELLULAR was bad!
No, Verizon is the @MikeTheLiar of US cell carriers. Remember, they are the one who disabled a bluetooth profile on early BT phones so you could not use BT to get pictures off your phone, but had to use their MMS-or-something "service" that charged a quarter. Per picture.
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No, Verizon is the @MikeTheLiar of US cell carriers. Remember, they are the one who disabled a bluetooth profile on early BT phones so you could not use BT to get pictures off your phone, but had to use their MMS-or-something "service" that charged a quarter. Per picture.
hmm.... well then.... must keep a note of that then. I'm currently on their network through a reseller...
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I'm currently on their network through a reseller...
That's probably different. Plus, if you rooted your phone, it would probably fix any such shenanigans. I'm not aware of anything like that BT crippling that they're currently doing.
I'm thinking--I think I mentioned this upthread--of switching to Republic Wireless from Sprint. You have to by RW's phone, and they only have the 3 Moto E/G/X models, because they have a custom rom that apparently lets you actually switch mid-call between the cellular and wifi networks on a phone call, but they're a lot cheaper than the ~70/line I'm paying now.
Although a friend just told me last night he got a OnePlus One, and I get an invite if/when he ever gets any (you can't just buy the phone from them, oh, no, you have to have an invite from someone who's already got one, like Gmail was ten years ago) and I'd ahve to see if it works on Sprint.
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I'm on the BYOP StraightTalk right now. 45$/mo/line (i only have the one) 3GB data at 4G and unlimited at 3G
not bad, but i'm not completely commited. non contract though so if i find something different i might switch.
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I'm on the BYOP StraightTalk right now.
Yeah, I've considered them but they mostly use AT&T or T-Mo, and both of those get crap reception in my office. I "need" to stay on the Sprint or Verizon networks.
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well if you find an amazing deal let me know i might be tempted to switch. ;-)
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well if you find an amazing deal
Consider Republic Wireless, if you are willing to use a Moto E/G/X, and Sprint has good reception where you are. Metro PCS has a neat deal where $40, $50, or whatever plan you pick is the price you pay, tax-inclusive, but as the name implies, their coverage isn't as widespread as the big four.
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already own a nexus 5. not trading that in any time soon.
i'll look into metro PCS.
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i'll look into metro PCS.
I believe you don't have to BYOD with them but you'd have to verify that for yourself. Generally, that means you pay full price for your phone, and they, as is typical with the MVNOs, are a bit behind in what they carry--oh, I was wrongish; you can get the GS5 for $649.
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as i WANT BYOD i doubt having them require BYOD is not an issue, it's the other way around that's a dealbreaker. :-P
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I like Sprint.
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as i WANT BYOD i doubt having them require BYOD is not an issue
Hah. I meant to write "I believe BYOD is an option and you don't have to buy one of their phones," so you'd really better check now. :)
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Heh. I do that too, but I just hate paying $200+ a month.
Yeah, it's kinda tough. I don't mind putting the money down for myself, but now that I'm married, it's a big question. My wife has AT&T, which has better 4G coverage in our area, but her data limit is 300MB/mo. So that's like $510/mo if I wanted to use 7.48GB.
I think that the long-term plan will be to wait for Sprint's LTE network to be mostly deployed here, then switch her over, and suck it up.
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her data limit is 300MB/mo. So that's like $510/mo if I wanted to use 7.48GB.
Snort. They have a higher-volume lower per-unit cost price, but it'll probably STILL be $500 for 7.5GB.
I had one of their "unlimited" data plans, until they cancelled it because I was tethering. Then I just added it back. :) Then they disabled it again a few months later, and I fired them. I pay quite a bit less per line for a hell of a lot more features.
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That is the nice thing about Verizon. They were sued over the tethering ban and lost, so they can't actually penalize you - just intimidate you into paying extra. If you can't be intimidated by a few warning screens, the world is your tethering oyster.
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That is the [spoiler]xxxx[/spoiler][1] thing about Verizon.
Sorry...I can't see that word in that sentence.
[1] [spoiler]You didn't think I'd use the word, did you?[/spoiler]
Oh, Discurse, how is it that I can't put a spoiler in a footnote unless I escape the [ of the footnote symbol
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It's THE nice thing. Only one.
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My wife has AT&T, which has better 4G coverage in our area, but her data limit is 300MB/mo. So that's like $510/mo if I wanted to use 7.48GB
I pay $190 a month for five smart phones and a tablet all sharing 10GB on AT&T. No contract, BYOD. Do they hate your wife?
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£15 a month for unlimited internet and texts, and something like 500 minutes. You really get screwed on data prices in the States
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$86 (including 20% corporate discount) for 450 minutes, unlimited texts, 2gb data.
So even using the long dead stereotypical exchange rate of £1 = $2, we's gettin' raped. And you're ripoff Britain.
Of course, providing service to your entire country requires less infrastructure than many of our urban areas, so you have like a dozen carriers competing, whereas we have 2 truly universal full carriers, 1 that sucks once you get far enough out that you can see a tree, and a bunch of virtuals.
Now, I need to go abuse the European sense of scale by commuting the equivalent of the Millenium bridge in London to outer Calais (subtracting the tunnel trip) one-way.
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I'm not sure what I pay a month since for the actual service since O2 changed it so the cost of the line rental and the cost of the phone were separate charges.
The total is £38/month for the S5, unlimited minutes, unlimited texts and 2GB data.
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A relevant statistic here is that the distance from London to New York is comparable to New York to San Francisco. The kind of distance that a national US carrier needs to cover would involve crossing several European countries and incurring all sorts of roaming charges.
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“I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.” And so I said, “Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us. WE BE BAD. We’re the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We’re three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother’s side. You take your Germany, France, and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn’t give us room to park our cars. We’re the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d’Antibes. And we’ve got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go. You say our country’s never been invaded? You’re right, little buddy. Because I’d like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who’d have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying 'Cheerio.' Hell can’t hold our sock-hops.
We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, fuck longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I’d rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen, and jack of all Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfast and shit them out before lunch.”
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Wow, I suddenly feel like I'm getting a good deal. Currently my wife and I get unlimited talk, text and 4G. Only limit on the data is something like 3 GB of hotspot sharing (could probably get around that with rooting). For both our lines I'm paying $100/month.
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1 that sucks once you get far enough out that you can see a tree
Which one do you consider that to be, and what about the other 2? (Metro PCS has been building out its own network for several years; they're fall smaller than the big 4, but they're not really an MVNO any more, so they probably should count as a 5th.)
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Att and Verizon are the big boys. Sprint/Nextel are the ones that fall over outside the city.
Nobody else is even close to that good.
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Att and Verizon are the big boys. Sprint/Nextel are the ones that fall over outside the city.
I knew you meant A&V were the big two. Technically, T-Mo is about as big as Sprint, at least in the number of customers, so I was wondering if you meant them, Sprint, or possibly Metro, because Metro meets your definition even more than S & T.
Nextel? Heh. I think of them more or less the same way I think of MCI. Can you even find mention of them on sprint.com any longer?
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Nobody else is even close to that good.
OH--while I don't disagree with this, as I've mentioned, I use Sprint specifically because their service where I live is comparable to AT&T, and where I work, it's far superior, as in, I get signal.
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Metro PCS has been building out its own network for several years
You sure about that? All the ads I've seen for them have fine print along the lines of "on the T-Mobile network". Of course, that's probably because T-Mobile owns Metro PCS.
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Att and Verizon are the big boys. Sprint/Nextel are the ones that fall over outside the city.
Nobody else is even close to that good.
Are you talking in your area or in general? Because generally speaking, T-Mobile isn't far behind Sprint/Nextel in the US1:
- Verizon 125.286 million subscribers
- AT&T 118.650 million subscribers
- Sprint 54.747 million subscribers
- T-Mobile 52.890 million subscribers
- US Cellular 4.674 million subscribers
1 Figures are as of Q3 2014. http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/grading-top-8-us-wireless-carriers-third-quarter-2014?confirmation=123
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You sure about that? All the ads I've seen for them have fine print along the lines of "on the T-Mobile network". Of course, that's probably because T-Mobile owns Metro PCS.
Technically it's a merger, but I guess there's nuances.
I did a bunch of reading about them a while back, but either it wasn't on Wikipedia, or someone's purged that. My memory, which may be faulty, was that they started out as an MVNO, but then started putting up their own towers around 2012. There's a tower in the parking lot of my office that I'm pretty sure has a Metro PCS-is-the-owner sticker on it; I'll try to check at lunch time.
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More than likely.
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Technically it's a merger, but I guess there's nuances.
Yeah, they can call it what they want, but it still seems like T-Mobile bought them out:
The joined entity will operate under the T-Mobile brand, with plans calling for MetroPCS customers to be migrated over to T-Mobile's network by 2015.1
Plus, there's this at the bottom of Metro PCS's website:
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More than likely.
My guess was that your $500 figure was based on the overage charges for the 300MB data allowance. It's only like, what, $10/mo more to get the 2 or 3 GB plan, and the overage charges are far less.
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Yeah, they can call it what they want, but it still seems like T-Mobile bought them out:
Yeah, I'm sure you're right; I am just saying what I remember from a year or two back.
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Yeah, I'm sure you're right; I am just saying what I remember from a year or two back.
No, you were right, they did call it a merger. My point was, it's just a label.
Filed Under: Q: When is a merger not a merger? A: When it's a buyout.
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My guess was that your $500 figure was based on the overage charges for the 300MB data allowance. It's only like, what, $10/mo more to get the 2 or 3 GB plan, and the overage charges are far less.
Yeah, they were. She's on a family plan with her father and sister, so I don't really worry about it.
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No, you were right, they did call it a merger. My point was, it's just a label.
Q: when a lion executes a merger with a lamb, which one walks away
A: [spoiler]The lamb, because it's a badass black belt that knows kung-fu[/spoiler]
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I completely forgot tmo exists. They go in the same "useless outside urban areas" category as Sprint.
I have a TMO owned tower within line of sight of my house. No signal at all... because they sited it on a valley floor and I'm actually above the antenna panels, which are, naturally, not aimed above 90 degrees. That tower can literally only service 2 abandoned farmhouses and a mile of road.
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I completely forgot tmo exists. They go in the same "useless outside urban areas" category as Sprint.
I have a TMO owned tower within line of sight of my house. No signal at all... because they sited it on a valley floor and I'm actually above the antenna panels, which are, naturally, not aimed above 90 degrees. That tower can literally only service 2 abandoned farmhouses and a mile of road.
Guess where the local TMO technician lives.
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I completely forgot tmo exists. They go in the same "useless outside urban areas" category as Sprint.
I checked and the tower just outside my office building does, in fact, say it's owned by Metro PCS, FWIW.
I know what you mean about coverage, but I don't leave the city much. If that were to change, perhaps if I moved out to farmland, I'd switch providers.
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I knew you meant A&V were the big two. Technically, T-Mo is about as big as Sprint, at least in the number of customers, so I was wondering if you meant them, Sprint, or possibly Metro, because Metro meets your definition even more than S & T.
Think area not number of customers -- T-Mobile lags far behind the other three providers in terms of coverage area. In fact -- I live in a half-million population city and we get exactly 0 service from T-Mo, despite being served (4G even!) by the other three providers.
Out at the other end of the state, though...Verizon's all there is. If you're out there with AT&T or T-Mo as your regular provider, you can forget about roaming, because it won't happen -- all the service there is CDMA.
I completely forgot tmo exists. They go in the same "useless outside urban areas" category as Sprint.
At least Sprint is CDMA, so you can get roaming in the US pretty much wherever because your phone will still work with Verizon's towers.
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Think area not number of customers
Sure, fine, but I didn't know that was @Weng's metric when I asked.
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Think area not number of customers
Because covering lots of area where there aren't many customers is a superb investment.