Recent content by CharlesH

The only difference between Xfinity Mobile and Verizon is the name of the company you send your payment to. And that phones on Xfinity Mobile are configured to also use Xfinity WiFi hot spots, which are by default generated by their residential routers. These hot spots are logically separate...

Way back when, one had to dial a code (I have forgotten what it was) every time one transitioned into a new service area, in order to register your phone in the new area. In any case, PRL (preferred roaming list) is a CDMA thing, obsolete on 4G phones. No *228 to update the PRL on 4G phones/

I have not received a system update on my Turbo 2 since November 2017. I am thinking particularly about Android security updates, rather than Android OS version updates. So is it out of support, even for security updates? I am on Verizon, if that matters.

That sounds like the kind of announcement one typically gets for pre-paid plans. On pre-paid, your call will get cut off when your funds are exhausted. Maybe this is coming from a pre-paid phone moved to a post-paid plan?

I discovered the hard way that my notifications were silent when an alarm that I had set to wake me early, didn't. I then recalled that, hey, I haven't heard notifications from my e-mail clients recently. I fussed around with the Do Not Disturb functionality, and turned off everything there I...

Ditto.

One of the phones on my New Unlimited plan is a feature phone that is under 2-year contract, and the access charge is $20. Anyone have any idea what the access charge is for a feature phone NOT under contract?

They put the 10GB tethering limit and the 22GB "deprioritization" limits in the product definition right upfront, so they can implement those limits if and when they want to, without customers screaming about breach of a promise of "unlimited". Generally customers (except on forums like this)...

When I signed up for the new Unlimited plan, I asked that it be backdated to the beginning of my current billing cycle. The estimates for my next bill show credits for the amounts prepaid on the old rate plan, and charges for the new rate plan. Unless their billing system messes up, it should...

OTOH, porting from a landline to cellular takes days. Where "landline" includes services like Comcast Voice. Been there, done that.

Re: Data won't work while on the phone Nor on an iPhone or pretty much all current Android LTE phones. Up until a year or two ago, Android LTE phones which supported CDMA (like for Verizon) had the hardware to support simultaneous use of CDMA for voice and LTE for data. No more. The Verizon...

I have found that putting the phone landscape, and making sure that the green light on the Tylt is centered under the wireless charging circle that you see when wireless charging starts, really keeps the phone cooler. In portrait mode, it would get up to 112 degrees, but it typically gets up to...

I am a bit confused about what folks are reporting. Is this update bringing 5.1.1 devices to Marshmallow (addressing whatever the earlier concerns were), and doing some unknown minor tweak for phones already on 6.0, so everyone will now be at the same release?

Maybe a security patch of some kind, like other Android phones regularly receive? Just speculating.

Unless your have Advanced Calling (also known as HD Voice, or VoLTE) turned on, you cannot talk and use data at the same time on all of the newer LTE-capable phones. Verizon LTE Android phones used to have two radios, so one could be active on CDMA on a voice call, while data went on the other...