Any faith left for sprint

[crxssi]

Crxssi the payment ones are definitely normal... The other ones though (such as the lifeline program offer) you can opt out of. (see below)

I had already opted out of everything that could be opted out of, the first week I got the phone. I want NOTHING from T-Mobile, except maybe something if my bill is late or they have something specific about me they need to ask or tell me.

 

[crxssi]

Question... did you switch from another carrier to T-Mobile? I switched over from Sprint

Yes, I switched from Sprint on an Evo LTE

of course and my battery life has gone to $hit since I made the switch.. I use to be able to go from 6 am - 6 pm and still have 25% battery life.. Since I made the switch to T-Mobile my battery life has now gone from 100% at 6 am to 44% at 10 am... and I have to almost keep my Nexus 5 on the charger constantly or I'll be dead in the water.. Happened to me on Saturday too.. I took it off the charger at 9 am and at noon I was at just below 50% by 2:30 in the afternoon I was down to under 20% hunting for a power source..... Have not seen battery life this horrible since my EVO 4G on WiMax.......

That is not good and sounds like you need to do some research. Either something is defective, you have a bad app, strange settings, or a really, really bad cell signal and it is switching in and out of LTE or edge or 3G or something.

 

[Robbie317]

Yeah, that shouldn't be happening. Have you tried wiping the cache partition in recovery?

Sent from my Galaxy S4 running SlimKat 4.4.2

I think that might have fixed it... I wiped the cache partition in recovery... charged it back up to 100% I am now 5 hours 10 minutes with 1 hour 16 minutes screen time and still at 72% remaining...... and I actually had to use my phone GPS for 15 minutes to find an address... Nothing stood out in my Apps as if there was something rouge going on.... Will see how tomorrow goes I guess.... but after I took it off the charger around 3 this afternoon at work it's been back to before if not better... Time will tell I guess..

Thanks again..... Total brain fart on my part to not wipe before...

 

[UJ95x]

I think that might have fixed it... I wiped the cache partition in recovery... charged it back up to 100% I am now 5 hours 10 minutes with 1 hour 16 minutes screen time and still at 72% remaining...... and I actually had to use my phone GPS for 15 minutes to find an address... Nothing stood out in my Apps as if there was something rouge going on.... Will see how tomorrow goes I guess.... but after I took it off the charger around 3 this afternoon at work it's been back to before if not better... Time will tell I guess..

Thanks again..... Total brain fart on my part to not wipe before...

Awesome. Glad it's fixed

Sent from my Galaxy S4 running SlimKat 4.4.2

 

[techydavid]

Soooooo... Why haven't we seen any hating on Sprint in like a week, and no thread updates for 4 days? Anyone home?

From mah shiny new Nexus 5

 

[Almeuit]

Soooooo... Why haven't we seen any hating on Sprint in like a week, and no thread updates for 4 days? Anyone home?

From mah shiny new Nexus 5

We were having discussions about all our experiences with Sprint. The title isn't "just come talk crap on Sprint daily".


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[ttwiitch]

Soooooo... Why haven't we seen any hating on Sprint in like a week, and no thread updates for 4 days? Anyone home?

From mah shiny new Nexus 5

The better the Network gets month by month, the less hate ;-)

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[Zerocool84]

I was at an LA Angels game yesterday, you would assume carriers would make sure they have fast networks at major sports stadiums but I was stuck on 3G the whole game. Sucks when other people had LTE just fine.

 

[bed269]

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[Robbie317]

The better the Network gets month by month, the less hate ;-)

Sent from my Nexus 5 using AC Forums mobile app

or the more people move to other networks the more Bandwidth becomes available for the people who stick it out.. lol......

I still have a Sprint account because of my wife's line is under contract for another 16 months or so.... I now get to listen to her gripe while I actually can use my device while out and about... On Sprint I averaged 1 gig per month in Data and after almost 3 weeks I am at 3.5 gig of data use... At least where I live, work and play T-Mobile is head and shoulders better than Sprint...

Now I have a totally new gripe... Battery life (not one thing it's another.. LOL)... I use to "Average" 1 - 2 hours of screen on time per day while on Sprint... now I am averaging 3 - 4 hours of screen on time per day so of course now my battery drops faster..... use to EASILY go from 6 am - 10 pm on a single charge now I have to make sure to top off during the day at work and for the first time since November I actually plug it up via USB in the car (I've been exclusively wireless charging with a charger at work and home)

 

[Robbie317]

I was at an LA Angels game yesterday, you would assume carriers would make sure they have fast networks at major sports stadiums but I was stuck on 3G the whole game. Sucks when other people had LTE just fine.

Same here in Dallas... Six Flags, Cowboys Stadium and the Rangers Stadium are all a stones throw away from each other and Sprints coverage was horrible (I have not been since last September/October so they could have improved it some down there)

Sprint never has seemed to be able to handle a lot of people on network at once... Heck at work when I had Sprint when I got in at 6 am I had somewhat usable speeds buy by 9 it was mostly useless....

 

[techydavid]

We were having discussions about all our experiences with Sprint. The title isn't "just come talk crap on Sprint daily".


Sent from my T-Mobile Note 3 using AC Forums.

Good point. Sorry for sounding like a hater.

From mah shiny new Nexus 5

 

[ttwiitch]

or the more people move to other networks the more Bandwidth becomes available for the people who stick it out.. lol......

Seems like its working lol:


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[Bigballer]

Seems like its working lol:


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that's it?.... I don't mean to bash, it looks like an improvement on sprint's part, but that still looks like on the low end of what I get with tmobile now

And I don't mean to praise tmobile altogether either. One of my buddies with verizon (on their XLTE network) in chicago got close to 95 mbps the other day (which is a lot faster than whatever I've gotten with tmobile)

 

[Kilroy13]

I will always stay with SPRINT because their customer service is out of this world! And I'm all over the country and get great signal 99% of the time!

SENT VIA MY LG G-FLEX ON SPRINT, POSTED BY ANDROID CENTRALS APP....LIFE IS GOOD✌

 

[crxssi]

that's it?.... I don't mean to bash, it looks like an improvement on sprint's part, but that still looks like on the low end of what I get with tmobile now

And I don't mean to praise tmobile altogether either. One of my buddies with verizon (on their XLTE network) in chicago got close to 95 mbps the other day (which is a lot faster than whatever I've gotten with tmobile)

I don't even care about speed once it is in the two-digit Megabits. I just care about reliability. And that is where it ended with Sprint in my area. I could pop 20Mbs without much problem at certain times on LTE, but then 5 min later have no connection or the network would just freeze or there would be zero upload speed for no reason. 3G was still a ghetto wasteland anywhere there was population (42 Kbs to 200 Kbs typical during the day, even months after Vision upgrades). Meanwhile, my text messages wouldn't go through or would repeat endlessly. And I dealt with that for over a year, so it wasn't just growing pains from "Vision" installation.

Sprint had/has some serious network issues in many areas (apparently my 1.7 million person area was one of them). I believe some of it is technical, some of it is being grossly overloaded/oversold, and the rest is the "unlimited" data mentality allowing people to just do stupid stuff all the time, draining what little network is left. I hope they get their act together, because competition is a good thing for everyone. But after 15 years, I really had no choice but to leave them. When I moved to T-Mobile, all my network and texting problems instantly disappeared, permanently (so far, anyway).

 

[Bigballer]

I don't even care about speed once it is in the two-digit Megabits. I just care about reliability. And that is where it ended with Sprint in my area. I could pop 20Mbs without much problem at certain times on LTE, but then 5 min later have no connection or the network would just freeze or there would be zero upload speed for no reason. 3G was still a ghetto wasteland anywhere there was population (42 Kbs to 200 Kbs typical during the day, even months after Vision upgrades). Meanwhile, my text messages wouldn't go through or would repeat endlessly. And I dealt with that for over a year, so it wasn't just growing pains from "Vision" installation.

Sprint had/has some serious network issues in many areas (apparently my 1.7 million person area was one of them). I believe some of it is technical, some of it is being grossly overloaded/oversold, and the rest is the "unlimited" data mentality allowing people to just do stupid stuff all the time, draining what little network is left. I hope they get their act together, because competition is a good thing for everyone. But after 15 years, I really had no choice but to leave them. When I moved to T-Mobile, all my network and texting problems instantly disappeared, permanently (so far, anyway).

fiber optic backhaul really helps

 

[Robbie317]

that's it?.... I don't mean to bash, it looks like an improvement on sprint's part, but that still looks like on the low end of what I get with tmobile now

And I don't mean to praise tmobile altogether either. One of my buddies with verizon (on their XLTE network) in chicago got close to 95 mbps the other day (which is a lot faster than whatever I've gotten with tmobile)

After almost 17 years with Sprint I switched to T-Mobile 3 weeks ago and what I've found is in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas T-Mobile is ten times better than Sprint... Speed wise.. I never saw more than 15 - 20 Mbps and that was like downtown Dallas near the AA Arena... So far with T-Mobile 15 is around the LOW end of the spectrum.. I'm usually around 30 - 40 in all the places I frequent the most... But I drove to Oklahoma two weekends ago to the Casino on the Texas boarder and I had NO signal in the poker room at all... with Sprint I at least had a faint 3G signal... but amazingly outside in the parking lot I got LTE but it was only around 5 - 7 Mbps.... When I'd go up there with Sprint I had a better overall signal but even outside I only got 3G and not even 1 Mbps....

Overall T-Mobile seems to have better city saturation but Sprint has better in between coverage as your traveling from city to city... but I spend 99% of my time in about a 20 square mile radius of the DFW airport and T-Mobile is 10 - 20 times better... and this $30 a month unlimited data (5 gig at LTE speeds), text, 100 talk minutes is $40 a month cheaper than my unlimited everything on Sprint plan WITH corporate discount....

Verizon is spotty in Dallas (all the guys that have company phones are on Verizon) but my buddies on AT&T don't have the top end speeds but better average speeds across every where we go...

 

[Robbie317]

I could pop 20Mbs without much problem at certain times on LTE, but then 5 min later have no connection or the network would just freeze or there would be zero upload speed for no reason. 3G was still a ghetto wasteland anywhere there was population

Man are you in Dallas???? That was my biggest gripe... LTE and 20 Mbps and then go one block over and nothing... or at 6 am at work usable speeds but come 9 when the office got full it was useless....

 

[crxssi]

Man are you in Dallas???? That was my biggest gripe... LTE and 20 Mbps and then go one block over and nothing... or at 6 am at work usable speeds but come 9 when the office got full it was useless....

No, Hampton Roads.