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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] doroyce05:
Thanks, I was doing this last night and for some reason it would give me the Error notification. i just tried it again from an outside network (my work instead of home) and it worked. I did the same thing but the only difference is the network i was connected to. It might be the reason but who knows. The only ting different was the fact that this time around, im accessing the account from a different netwrok from where my Airave is connected to.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] FizzleDiz:
I got my E4GT through boost mobile. Even though it's on sprints network, I'm a boost mobile customer, therefore not eligible for an airave in any way right?

Sent from my Galaxy S2 4G using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] skyungjae:
I was unable to get an Airave. Customer service kept on telling me that I lived in an area with good service, and I had no dropped calls (because I couldn't make or receive calls to begin with). Been pretty happy roaming.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] doroyce05:
I actually have good service for my phone. The issue i had was that when i step in my house, i would then be roaming. i complained and complained. I have unlimited roaming so that i had nothing to wory about but then I dont like having my phone roaming and notifiying me that im roaming. Eventually they gave up and sent me one for free. If you have the patients, keep on calling and keep asking to see if there is something they can do. I mean you are paying for their service...... and lack of service to me means no customer for them.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] patrao_n:
If you are on sprint you technically do not have unlimited roaming. Read the fine print

sent from my BAD A$$ Epic touch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elliwigy:
you dont have unltd roaming. you can turn roaming notification off. and i dont think he has patients unless hes a doctor. get your facts straight before you comment as if you know what your talking about. their policy has changed as to who qualifies for a free airave. he just needs to call sprint.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] beni26:
I just got my airave a few days ago and so far it's working fine. Currently I have it hooked up the recommended way but I think I'm going to change it to your way. As far as bandwidth it hasn't affected my speeds that much. Also, I too was also able to restrict access through the sprint site. It didn't work at first when I hit save but it finally worked after I tried a couple times.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Raistlin1:
A tower .22 miles from my house went down from Hurricane Sandy and my service has been terrible ever since. I finally called them up to complain and they first said it was set to be fixed on xx date, that day came and went and nothing. Called back and they transferred me to several different departments and then I finally got someone to send me an airave. Well the day it was delivered the tower must have been fixed because service went back to normal in my house, so it has been sitting in a box unopened. Just got a text message saying that I will be charged if I do not use the airave, thought that was strange but after reading this thread it appears they charge you if you don't use it.

Guess I need to call them to arrange to send it back.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] miketucky350:
I also recieved a free airave. I live in a great sprint area , but in my house signal is awful and eats battery. I will say this thing is great. I get full bars and amazing battery live now. Just remember as posted before. Do not follow the installation directions. If you hook your cable modem to the wan port then hook router and pc to lan ports it causes issues. Like missed texts, no video streaming. Plus it capps upload speed to 768k which you can go into settings and turn that up but most people dont know how to do that stuff. So by default the airave will take my 5meg upload and hack it down. Well just run broadband to wan on router them airave from lan from it and waaalaa it works perfect 0 issues.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chaosacolyte:
Hello all, I tried calling Sprint customer service about how horrible my signal is in my house. Online, the coverage for my neighborhood is "fair" or 1 bar. At home, I mostly have 0-1 bars. When talking to the representative, I told her about the dropped calls I have had for about half a year and so on, and mentioned to her that a friend told me about how an airave can help. After some fiddling on her end, she said that the bad coverage was caused by a nearby tower outage. When I asked how long the was tower out, she said for about a month (?!? really?). Is it normal for a tower to be out for a MONTH? Obviously the problem I have has been going on for MUCH longer. I live in the southwest part of Houston, so I don't think there were any damages because of storms. She said I did not qualify for an airave because of the outage, and that the tower "should be fixed" next week.

If my problems still continue, next time I call, should I ask to be transferred to Account Services like mentioned earlier in this thread? Should I mention that I have been tired of these dropped calls and that me and my 5 lines should switch to a carrier that has better service (like tmo or verizon)?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] patrao_n:
Call the airrave number directly. Tell them you have spoken with a tech who recommended the air rave. Done deal. If they ask you to pay for the airrave or pay anything more than the five dollar fee tell them to kick rocks. You aren't paying to fix their network

sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SeanK_:
I remember when I asked about why my service was crap at my house and great outside, they suggested a Airave for $40. I refused to pay anymore money to get a device that uses my internet to boost my singel. I called again about a month later and was transferred to Account Services I think and got one free. Don't pay anything!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] calisro:
Why would anyone want a free airwave unless they actually have bad service? Why take advantage of sprint and have them send you one unless you need one? Why waste electricity on another device. Just turn you wifi on.

If you actually have bad service, they'll give you one and you don't have to lie.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SeanK_:
Doesn't help for calls, texts and for others who don't have smartphones. Derp!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kchannel9:
So, if I'm on CREDO, a Sprint MNVO (MVNO?), will/can they help me out? I have no service in my house, and pay $20 a month for wifi VOIP just so I can use my 2 phone lines at home. I know I'm not paying Sprint, but this device would fix my issues and I'm on their network. Any insight?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] scifan:
At my house, I have great Verizon wireless coverage, and actually pretty decent AT&T coverage... at my house, both Sprint and T-Mobile have somewhat fringe coverage. T-Mobile's wifi calling pretty much eliminates my need for a pico/femto cell like Airave.

When I had Sprint, I also called and had them send me an Airave because my phone would hop back and forth between Verizon and Sprint which would cause dropped calls, or calls that would just go to voicemail.

Bottom line is if you have crappy/fringe service at your house call and ask to speak to retention's and explain your circumstance - especially if you're within that 1st 30 days. Don't bother with explaining your woes to a "normal" CSR as I had one who effectively invited me to switch service providers to "fix" my fringe service issues. While the retention folks were more than happy to set me up with an airave and waived my monthly fee's for that as well. Note, that they will request you send the gear back if you switch providers - (even if it's say... 4 years later)...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] H4rryTipp3r:
it was easy for me to get one, my friend works at the local sprint shop and he gave me the direct number to retention, and told me exactly what to say!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elzero26:
When they denied me mine. I was roam at home. I told them what if something happened to my children and needed to call 911? I told her i would just switch carriers who provide better service. they went ahead and sent me mine. It help with everything. ya they just bridge your 3g over from your home internet but hey atleast i can make a receive calls.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kchannel9:
Seriously I'm paying an extra $20 /month for 2 VOIP lines because I don't have this device. If I just get one on eBay can I set it up and will it work if I'm using the Sprint network through an MNVO, CREDOmobile?

Cuz Sprint definitely ain't giving me one, I'm not even their direct customer, and CREDO prolly doesn't have them to give. Smh
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JCred:
You're not a customer of Sprint, period. Though Credo's rates are high enough that you may want to consider becoming one.

Network Opperators wholesale low-value spectrum and or/underutilized capacity access to MVNOs who turn around and compete on price with the Network operator. Simply put the Network Operator has to provide the MVNO with exactly what they paid for as a customer... but not one ounce more that would undermine their value proposition to end-users that they and the MVNO compete for. Simply put, no MVNO can credibly claim to be as good or better and cheaper than the Network Operator they run on. EFor example you have access to the Sprint Network, but you are not covered by Sprint's roaming agreements. Where my phone will handoff to a Verizon tower your phone just won't work. You'll never be assisted by a Sprint rep, unless Credo has leased Sprint to provide tech support (very unlikely, but not imposible with what Credo is charging for rates). Even the Sprint owned Boost and Virgin lack anything beyond the ability to use the Sprint logo and network map for marketing and that map looks pretty depressing because Virgin and boost are excluded from roaming, as well. They even go as far as to blacklist MVNO assigned ESNs from being activated on a Sprint customer account and vice versa.

If you want Sprint, realocate the Credo and VOIP dollars to one Everything Data 450 and you might even save a buck or twon get much better customer and technical support and prob the airrave you covet. However, I would be more inclined to compare ATT coverage and cost of Share plan at data tier that aligns to your usage first. I'm an indirect rep for Sprint, ATT and VZW. Verizon has the largest LTE footprint, currently, but they don't even attempt to be competitive for rates. By not getting caught up in most LTE coverage, most quickly, ATT and Sprint are building superior LTE networks in regard to scalability and capacity... though Sprint's initial bet on WiMax has them well behind in time-to-buildout. ATT has the luxury of a sizable established HSPA+ network in place and their new share plans are reasonable (eg $110 unltd talk text @ 4GB data tier) with no fees for tethering. But patience for Sprint LTE will probably be rewarded with unlimited for at least sometime if not permanently grandfathered and 4GB is less than unlimited. Sorry for the flurry of tangents, it's late...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kchannel9:
Thank you for the incredibly detailed and well thought out response, I really appreciate it.

My unique situation is I get no service at home besides spotty T-Mobile, and I don't do business with AT&T. Also I don't belive in data caps, I'm morally and intellectually against the concept. That being, I'd love to get Sprint, but I'm on contract for at least another year or so. I originally signed up with CREDO because they had a $350 per line contract buyout.

I'd buy an Air Rave off ebay for like $60, but I'm concerned it still wouldn't work because I couldn't get a GPS lock most likely. Has only happened in the house once before. And unlike with Sprint, I couldn't just send it back :(

I think I'll just use Google Voice, which I think is free (?), haven't checked it out yet.

Edit: Well after reading some and unsuccessfully setting up a Google Voice account I can't delete (smh...), I also have discovered there is no actual VOIP/SIP style service in GV. So forget that.

Back to the Air Rave idea, I found this Hubpages review with a CREDO mobile customer describing how he got an Air Rave for free, from CREDO: http://peoplepower73.hubpages.com/hub/A-Review-of-the-Sprint-AirRave

So I guess I'm gonna call them tomorrow, and get that worked out. I just assumed there was no way that was possible since they are an MNVO, but I guess Sprint takes care of their MNVOs? Strange, but promising :) I'll report the results.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kchannel9:
Also, quick question: anyone know if the Air Rave generates a ton of EMFs / RF to provide connections in your house?

As far as having a ton of signals bouncing around my house, I might be better off to just keep paying the $20 a month and using VOIP/WiFi for everything. It's not perfect, but having a mini cell tower in my house doesn't really sound very awesome, at all actually.

Cuz right now I don't have any phone service, and it seems redundant to install a device that uses my cable connection to provide another band of signal in the same area that it's already providing WiFi to.

It would be basically bombarding the area with frequencies, which I assume can't be good for some sensitive devices, (or maybe even people for that matter, we still haven't completely solved the question of whether it's such a great idea to be immersed in strong RF or WiFi frequencies, though we're all hoping for the best).

Gonna have to make an orgonite case for Air Rave, lol:

Note to readers: If you're feeling a little close minded, don't go all nutso on me for referencing orgonite, I just don't want to fry my brains out more than I have to, and in 30 years, if I was way off base and cell phone EMF/RF was totes safe, then well, sorry, I was mistaken? But if not, then well, every little bit helps :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Yippee38:
I got my Airave free too, but I didn't even have to ask. I had just signed up for Sprint, so I called to complain. No charge. That was a year and a half ago. Recently, I noticed I've been getting 1 bar in my house, and the lights on the Airave keep flashing. Called them and had them troubleshoot it. They determined it's bad, so they sent me a new one. Problem is that they cannot activate it because that MAC address is showing tied to another customer's account. I said, MAC's are unique right? They said, "Yeah." I said that I'd take a picture of the MAC label and text it to them, then they could deactivate it at the other customer and activate it at mine. They said they can't do that because they need the other customer's permission. Hmmm. So when I send mine back to you, will you call me and ask for my permission to remove it from my account? Do you never remove them from other peoples' accounts? WTF?

So now I'm waiting for my third Airave. It should have showed up today, but isn't here yet.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] evobb10:
My airave workibg great for both phones mine and my wife. One issue is happening after my wife change new phone and can't activate it by dialing *99.

So I will call to CS.

People should have to know that's NOT FREE you will pay monthly as a surtax hhhhh that's funny.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] chatch15117:
This thread is about ponies!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kay_kiat88:
lol i think they made a mistake there. should be 2014.

On a more serious note, I think the support for ASUS is much better than Samsung. I traded my SGT 7 + $100 cash for a transformer. SGT 7 was such a heavily marketed flagship device and yet there's no support for ICS. Really ridiculous. Luckily the SGT 7 has great devs but still, lots of work have to be done by them in order for ICS to work on SGT 7.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] uiterlix:
The day iPad3 hits the shelves I'll say goodbye to my transformer.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] locutus7o9:
We really need more threads with no news.

Feb/March can still mean tomorrow.

It will be here when it does.

Asus (and other manufacturers) will probably eventually learn to not make any promises whatsoever. Then any updates will just be a surprise.

I have a TF101 and I really don't feel Asus is required to provide me with an ICS update. I hope they do, but I can hardly make demands based on random Facebook/Twitter/forum posts.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gkillerx:
this is funny and clische why are they even posting release dates ? If you dont know, why post IT?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] fregor:
Seriously? You need to post another topic on this? Terrible..
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Curtisbeef:
Sigh.... Worst PR department ever.

Asus isn't doing a very good job of making me want to be a return customer...

When is that Google branded Next Gen tab coming out again? :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] horndroid:
Words can't describe how much I don't care about ICS on my TF.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] raskall:
Think of this from a marketing angle: If Asus releases ICS simultaneously for TF101 and TF201 they will sell way less TF201s. Of course they stretch it as far as possible.

Ironically I have ICS on my ancient HTC Hero. My LG Optimus 3D isn't getting ICS until Q3 2012. LG doesn't even fix a bug that makes the phone miss a lot of calls and SMSes.

You think Asus customer service sucks? try LG!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Magnesus:
ICS for my ancient LG Swift is ready for me to install thanks to the folks that make CM7. I only have to find time to install it. I think I won't wait for ICS on TF101 by Asus too.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mcbyte_it:
ipad isn't a substitute for an android tablet: 2 different world... if there is no update for the asus doesn't mean that the ipad is better.

then why did you answer to this post :D

I care about ICS because i heard some saying it increases much the responsiveness and general performance for the TF101, and I really want to make my new TF101 better.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] nicoled985:
Samsung is pretty bad with updates. Asus is doing good. Samsung/att just released gingerbread to the infuse 4g about two weeks ago. It was buggy and made the touch screen unresponsive. I went back to froyo.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] vaaly:
Thanks god for Paul Burton's ICS
[Eee Pad Transformer General] raskall:
My TF101 is a machine that my employer got me instead of a laptop. So I cannot root. :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Magnesus:
But the custom ROM scene seems quite good on Samsung, right? Open bootloader and all... I'm considering jumping ship to Samsung this year, but I'm a little afraid that new versions of Android won't be available for it. Maybe I'll have to wait for Nexus tablet...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] EP2008:
LOL. And they said the update was only waiting approval from Google. Riiight.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] josteink:
I was looking into closing my old thread on the topic because of this guy, but now he started his own.

Ah well. Such is life.

Yes. Delays. It's not the end of the world. Jeez.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] theSlack:
I didn't complain, but this isn't the first time they've delayed their self-announced updates. The first time... sure delays happen... but again? Screw them. They should hire paul Burton, he got ics working for us. It ain't perfect, but its leaps and bounds better than what Asus gave us by the end of 2011 as they promised.

Boo Asus.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Ciela:
Wait another year.. this year has the iPad2S :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Ep3n3wp:
I bet it got delayed cause they had to scramble to fix the prime and stopped working on our update which in turn delayed us...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] blestsol:
Guys, everyone who are complaining about delay and ICS threads. Save yourself the headaches, stop coming In them.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] SiNJiN76:
I bet the Facebook guy for Asus is trolling this forum and is just having a field day laughing his as off! :D:p

Sent from my Transformer TF101
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Tenny:
I am pretty anti apple but I am starting to consider this as well... getting really tired of all the bugs and slipping release dates on hardware that doesn't match up.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Poeta:
Bugs??? What bugs? My TF101 works great with the last stock Honeycomb (only rooted).

IPad isn't flawless. Believe me, i sold my IPad and bought the TF101 in June 2011, and is perfect for me :).

I want a perfect ICS to my machine and not a fast update with bugs. So, i'm going to wait ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] C.Flat:
You'd give up roms, and the freedom that Android provides because Asus is terrible at telling us when updates will be ready?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] pdanders:
I don't get this.

iOS is fundamentally a different type of experience. I could never replace an android device with an iOS device. They don't do the same things.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] fonix232:
Actually they are. If they want to ship their devices with all the Google Experience apps in the future though.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neidlinger:
.

for crying out loud people. Only about 1% of the Android population is running ICS. Do you really want to be on the LEAST supported network when it drops. And Asus said it's coming. So please enjoy the sunshine and quit worrying about things you cannot control.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] richteralan:
The slower ics being rolled out, the slower the support follow up.

And the slower the apps being updated for ics.

But i agree with the last sentence for its face value only.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] yukkerz:
Yeah can we please just make one thread for this ics crap. I'm tired of half the **** on here being the same crap about people crying. If they didn't even give a supposed release date, I'm sure people will be posting random "will we get ics?" "this is what Asus said on there Facebook/twitter."

Make a new thread about ics and watch it grow hundreds of pages.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Tubular:
Not really, this is entirely subjective. If you're a power user sure, but that's assuming all devices are viewed from the viewpoint of a power user and it's not.

Yes there is a market for people who want to use a tablet to do some light productivity, browse the web, play games and just use it normally without being a power user. This market probably corners the power user segment. For this market the iPad and Android are little different except where it matters, a smoother UI. ICS will make Android smoother (I've heard almost as or equally as smooth as iOS).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dligon:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...er-again-now-pushed-back-to-as-late-as-march/
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BBowermaster:
I'm sure before Ice Cream Sandwich was even announced, your tablet served you just fine.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] munsterrr:
Truth.

If ICS can make my porn run smoother. Im all ears. Until I hear confirmation. I care not lol. :p
[Eee Pad Transformer General] EP2008:
You must work for damage control for the tobacco industry... "only one percent of smokers get lung cancer" LOL

That 1% of ICS users is quite a large group of people when you consider well over 130 million Android devices are in the market.

I agree that the update will eventually come, but Asus is acting like Sears by giving a half-dozen different "delivery dates". LOL
[Eee Pad Transformer General] funmerlin:
The main thing that bothers me about HC is the stability of the default browser. I've been using both Opera and Firefox, and have started leaning towards Firefox. They're both decent, and seem more stable.

So I can see why folks are disappointed, but I don't understand the rage. At the least I'm glad they are keeping us in the loop. If the delay goes on who knows, maybe I'll try putting ICS on myself.

I've put CM9 on my nook color, so that is fulfilling my "hey new ICS things" desire. [Chrome doesn't work on it sadly :( Maybe a nightly build will fix it.]
[Eee Pad Transformer General] maxvsmith:
Damn. I was at bestbuy and played with the prime. ICS is so freaking fast and smooth. I loved it. Now I see the big deal about it. Why asus why.

Need ICS...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] *Daedalus:
And that had nothing to do with having twice the horsepower under the hood I'm sure.

This is getting old, fast.