Recent content by clh42

Are you using Android Auto or Apple Carplay? Yes, my phone connects via bluetooth, but the point is that I'm wanting to use Android Auto. THAT specifically requires the data USB connection. Thought about a wireless charger too, but wireless charging still isn't as good/fast as the...

Thought I'd add what I ended up doing, if anyone else has the same need. I went ahead and did MySMS. It works pretty well. Sync is almost instantaneous, within a couple seconds. The only real issue I've had with it so far is that I've been unable to send a photo via text message using the...

I did a lot of searching of the internet in general. I found several posts that asked this basic question about PC peripherals, but nothing that addressed this specific use case. The basic question, I want a split USB cable to charge from one source, but get data from another source, and...

Oh, no, I'm not waiting for that. I've read enough on the merger to know that it will still be quite a while before they move Sprint customers over to the T-Mobile network. I've essentially decided TO leave Sprint. I just haven't taken the time to shop for plans to determine where I want to...

No problem. Thanks for the confirmation. Would still like to hear if anyone else has other ideas.

Hmm, yes, if someone can explain how Google Voice handles carrier-based SMS, I would give it a try. Everything I've read seems to indicate that GV can't handle carrier SMS. People say they're using GV for SMS, but it's SMS via their GV #, not their native cell carrier SMS. But yes, if it...

Two phones, different #'s, different carriers (if that matters). I'd like to be able to forward and respond to SMS text messages from one phone on the other phone. (I'm doing the normal call-forward for voice calls.) FIRST, am I correct that Google no longer has any apps that do this, at...

Well, it's been a long road but I can conclusively say that it is NOT the phone. Or at least nothing in the phone "broke." Sprint HAS to have made some change(s) somewhere on their end that makes this phone no longer work on their network as it was designed. LONG story short, LG was fantastic...

AH, interesting. Sprint has their own carrier-specific LG G8 and it is supposed to support VoLTE. That doesn't really bother me in general though. I honestly didn't even know VoLTE was a thing until you brought it to my attention in this thread. I did do a bit of additional research once you...

No, you haven't asked that before. I cannot find any specific VoLTE on/off setting, though everything I read says that my phone does support it. The only settings I can find related to LTE is under "Network & internet," then "Mobile networks," then "Network mode." The possible settings of...

So, IPv6 doesn't appear to be enabled in the n.ispn apn. IPv6 IS enabled in the cinet.spcs apn, but as I said before it's using the n.ispn apn anyway. There are 3 other APNs listed and I'm not sure what to make of those. They are listed, but do not have radio buttons beside them to select...

Yeah, I had done some searching on this too after my previous post and found what you found too. I THINK that is outdated information. OR maybe specific to Sprint carrier-provided phones. I then searched specifically for sprint n.ispn and came up with these links, which in general indicate...

To clarify, I only swapped phones after this issue started. After being without voice/text for a week, I decided to try to reactivate my old phone, an LG V20. It DID work! I had voice/text, and data, with the V20. Then I sent the G8 into LG for warranty repair. They didn't find anything...

To rephrase a bit, everything worked fine with this phone and Sprint until June 8. Then it just suddenly started having this issue. So something "broke." Although it's possible, it's not likely that both the phone and the network "broke" at the same time. So I'm wondering, again mostly tied...

I did the reboot as testing/troubleshooting. No, I don't normally reboot on a regular basis, so yes, I can do that. But that shouldn't be how I have to live it going forward indefinitely. So my main question at this point is, is it more likely the phone that's the issue, or the Sprint...