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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
no carrier is getting the 32gb models now. i talked to samsung and they told me it won't be anytime soon.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] snappjay:
+ best coverage for my area out of the big 4

+ good (best?) phone selection

- HORRIBLE customer service. 611 is junk. 10% chance of getting someone you can actually understand and speaks clear English. The AT&T policies change depending on who you talk to. No consistency.

- The AT&T reps at the corp stores are extremely rude and always expect that you have no idea what you are talking about.... for example, while I was looking at a Lumia 920, the rep said "this is the newest Android phone we have", which I politely stated that this is actually a Windows Phone 8. He laughed and said "does this look like a computer to you?" This is just one example of many.

- The HSPA+ coverage at my home is laggy and often times doesn't work at all. I have better luck with 3G/EDGE for some reason.

- Heaven help you if you have a Nexus phone. They have NO IDEA what it is, how you have it or why it works with their network. It's like some kind of alien device that breaks their understanding of how cell phones are supposed to work. For example, I'm standing in the store with my GSM Galaxy Nexus with "No Service" showing. No amount of rebooting or factory resetting is getting me back on the network, so I assume it's a problem with my account. The guy says "I don't see this phone in our system. You can't use a Verizon phone on AT&T"... I said "yes I agree, but this is a GSM phone and has ALWAYS worked on AT&T until today". He shrugged and said "You're gonna have to call 611 cuse you lost me". Turns out someone somewhere sometime had put me on an "iPhone data plan"...which is somehow DIFFERENT from a "every other phone data plan". I figured that out from looking at my account online.

Very sorry for the above rant. T-Mobile and Sprint coverage is non-exsistant and I'm not a huge fan of Verizon's phone selection.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
Not trolling at all.

No one mentions the fact that they throttle speeds during calls to 1mbps or less with high pings??? Doesn't anyone want the option to turn LTE off and use HSPA only? This comes in handy if your phone sits in your desk drawer all day at at work?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] phositadc:
I have to admit, this pisses me off something severe. Let me force edge and HSPA, you dirty bastards!

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gzrecoil:
Never had trouble with throttling or pings while on a phone call, but I haven't been able to turn LTE off. Luckily with the S4, I won't want to since the battery is so big.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
Test it out!!! Run a speedtest during a call. I bet you anything you won't get anything greater than 1mbps down and your ping will be high. Run the test off the call and you'll have better results.

Frustrates me to know end.

T-Mobile does not do this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jem417:
I'm on AT&T because in my area Anchorage, Alaska AT&T offers newest phones and when I travel to the lower 48 states I'm pretty much guaranteed coverage in the major cities I visit. Verizon is coming up here this summer so we'll see how they compare to AT&T.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] archer75:
Doesn't bother me at all. I don't need a 32gb phone. I have no idea why I need to surf and talk at the same time. And I don't need an unlimited plan as most places I go have wifi.

At most I use 500mb of my 2gb plan per month. At most. Even with tons of streaming of music.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gzrecoil:
I'm going to check on it when I get the GS4, that doesn't make sense since the call is not using LTE.

I'll probably write a few letters once I confirm and make some noise, that is just absurd.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
Yes it is. Uploads are like 0.01mbps. Test it out!!! I have called many, many times. AT&T doesn't acknowledge this.

If you are pulling 5-7mbps on HSPA+ then you should pull that on a call. They are throttling everyone's speeds during calls and returning them to normal once the call ends.

Pings are significantly higher also. Talking and surfing is pretty much unusable. It wasn't always like this though. Can't wait to see what they do once calls are made over LTE. I bet they'll throttle with LTE too.

Test it out!

And the fact that AT&T wants me on the fastest network is absurd too. I should be able to force H+ or 2G when I WANT TO SAVE DATA USAGE!!! I don't always need LTE. WHY CAN'T WE FN TURN IT OFF???
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mattdm:
To answer your question, yes, all those things bother me. But, Sprint and T-Mobile both have spotty coverage and a very limited selection of phones, and Verizon is the devil. (locked bootloaders, losing unlimited data when using an upgrade, etc.)

AT&T is truly the best option for me. Good coverage, huge selection of phones, more dev support since the phones are GSM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KryptosXLayer2:
U MAD BRO?

Seriously, what is the point of this thread? You want to force slower speeds, get an original Galaxy S, I don't know what the complaints are about, but it sounds like you work for another carrier and trying to hate on the big boys for no reason
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
I'm a consumer just like you. I am mad that a smaller carrier doesn't throttle speeds during calls during calls and gives customers the option to turn off 3G/4G.

You tell me how its beneficial if my device sits on LTE all day when I don't need it too? If it was on HSPA or EDGE I could still maintain a data connection and preserve battery life.

Not to mention, if I am close to my data limit, forcing HSPA or EDGE will help me by not going over my limit, because its slower.

GET IT NOW?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] archer75:
You can set caps on your phone so you don't go over. Very easy to do. Forcing HSPA or EDGE doesn't prevent you from going over. It just goes slower but uses the same amount of data to accomplish the same goal. I have heard that LTE as part of SoC uses much less power. But haven't tested it myself. Considering I have wifi at work I just turn off data completely and use wifi.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mg2195:
Just cause its slower doesn't mean it uses any less data...regardless of speed your still going to end up using the same amount of data...although I do agree you should have the option to turn off LTE, however you can always add a non LTE apn and just switch sons when ever you want to toggle LTE
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KryptosXLayer2:
Nope, not really...... I get a crazy amount of life out of my SIII with LTE on all day if I'm away from the the house where WiFi is on all day, and don't need to complain about battery life! I also have no complaints about "throttled speeds on calls" since that's a bandwidth issue - AT&T LTE can't do voice and data on the same bandwidth, so we get HSPA+ speeds instead, soooooooo whatttttttttt

Oh yeah, and not having access to the 32GB device? I guess we all don't need to worry if we have 64GB MicroSD cards, considering hardly anything large in size is stored on the device itself with the options I have selected.... this isn't about the HTC One, too, is it? God I hope not!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
It might not prevent you from going over, but the option would sure be nice. The fact that at home I can get 5 bars of EDGE and 2 bars of HSPA says a lot. If I had a toggle, my battery wouldn't die as much.

This shouldn't even be questioned. We should just have it! What do you all have to say about the throttling of speeds during calls?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
Ok that's you. You actually enjoy throttled speeds during calls? Kinda hard to believe since its pretty much inoperable. Bandwidth issues? Please. How come a much smaller carrier can do it w/o bandwidth issues? Oh wait...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] archer75:
Why do I care about speeds during a call? I should be talking to the person and not surfing. Perhaps it's just me but i'm unaware of any situation where this matters?

Maybe the phone you have just has poor battery life anyways?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] WhatzinyourphonE:
Well I'm in Kansas and their lte speeds are mind blowing. I can download a 90mb file in 2 min.. at Max. So I put up with att and pay what they ask. I'm not complaining
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KryptosXLayer2:
Wait, wait, wait, just stop and thing about what you're saying for a second.... it's OKAY to be "throttled" when you want to save battery, but you need LTE speeds while you're on a call? Do you know how selfish that sounds? I want my phone to be mind-controlled, but damnit they haven't perfected that yet!

And since you're still having trouble with understanding LTE:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
Its amusing how much you people are oblivious. Also funny how much you people defend AT&T. If they are going to offer a simultaneous talk and surf option why throttle it when T-Mobile doesn't and they use the EAXCT same technology.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] phositadc:
This doesn't work on some phones.

Btw, geniuses, the reason to disable LTE is not to save data. It's to save battery life, ESPECIALLY in those circumstances where you are in a fringe LTE area and your signal is constantly bouncing between weak LTE and strong HSPA... better off just forcing strong HSPA in that situation, especially if battery is a concern.

I almost never disable LTE, but to not even give us the option is idiotic.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
I have no control over throttling the speeds during the call, but would have absolute control throttling my speeds to force EDGE or HSPA if I was close to my data limit. Big big difference. We should have the option. You don't have to use it.

But if I'm pulling 7mbps down on H+ and then get on a call and can now barely pull 1, how is that a good thing? Like I said, the phone becomes pretty much useless when on a call. Have tested this out in multiple locations, and many people have confirmed it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] archer75:
technical foasvia

Please explain to me why I need to talk and surf at the same time? I honestly can't think of a situation where that matters.

Please explain to me how i'm oblivious about something I do not care about?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] paleman27:
Why do you need a 32GB phone that has the alternative of an external SD card up to 64GB? I mean, it would suck, like the HTC One that doesn't have the external card option....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
I will gladly explain to you why its important. AT&T advertises it left and right. They are false advertising, because its so useless, whereas, if you were on T-Mobile, you could do it with no problem.

It's an option, so why not use it? Whether or not you use it is redundant. Many, many AT&T customers do.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
Because apps can't be saved to the SD card, not to mention when you get the phone out of the box there is only around 11GB of storage. The more internal storage the better!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] archer75:
But you still haven't explained why. I am honestly asking. I don't do that because I don't see any reason to do so.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
Well in my situation, I have a couple hours before class, and sometimes I sit in my car. When I'm talking to friends I like to browse the web and do what not. It's near impossible because the speeds are so atrocious.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] paleman27:
There is an app for that, (for transferring your apps to the external SD card) isn't there? I think is AppMgrIII, right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
Yes there is. I for one, can always tell a difference in speed. Apps on internal storage run much faster. The fact is: the 32GB S4 has a lot of demand, and if it didn't no one would be asking.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KryptosXLayer2:
SIMILAR, NOT exact, chief....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_frequencies#Carrier_Frequency_Use

And good for you if you love T-Mo so much, I'd hate to have such poor coverage where I've experienced first hand AT&T having the dominant range, but if it works for you, try not to shove it down everyone else's throat that we should be pissed off when we have no reason to be!

I can understand why you would want to surf and talk at the same time - I use a Bluetooth and there are lots of times I'll be on the phone and need to check something on the web while relaying that info to the person I'm talking to on the phone.... but if you don't need it, then no need to worry about it, and no reason why this guy should be upset with you, me, ATT, etc over it!

You want to talk about false advertising now? How about all the billboards I've seen for T-Mo saying they have the fastest LTE data in the nation? And VzW doing the same exact thing? It's been proven time and time again that ATT has the fastest speeds, everyone lies when it comes to crap like this, just relax and stop being up T-Mo's butt since no one really cares!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] archer75:
I don't know. It seems kinda rude to not give the person you are speaking to your full attention. If i'm being honest i've never known anyone to do this. Not ever. That's why it's a foreign concept to me.

However if that's your thing I could see why it's important to you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HotWaterAlchemy:
That's the thing I enjoy about Verizon. All of their LTE devices are factory unlocked from the start.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] paleman27:
Aren't there faster cards in the market right now for this situation? I haven't shop for a while but they are rank by numbers. Last one I saw was 10 before that one was a 4... I'm not sure...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
You do have every reason to be angry!!! You pay AT&T for talk and surf and they do this. This is false advertisement!!! I'm not saying T-Mobile is better or worse. I am saying, however, that its ridiculous AT&T throttles during calls to save bandwidth, when a small carrier doesn't.

Come on dude? You can't say talk and surf is not important because its rude to the other person? What if your on a business call and need to check an incoming e-mail? Or your on the phone with a friend and need to google directions somewhere? The point is, it comes in handy, and speeds shouldn't be slowed down.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
That I am not sure. There could be. If not, hopefully they come out with some good ones shortly. I just always find internal storage to be better. Rather have it, than not.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KryptosXLayer2:
Man.... RELAX! This is a typical Chicago thing to do, it seems, push people to get up in arms (ha! isn't that a good one!) about a topic they really have no business fighting.... just like guns in that town of yours, one place where guns are outlawed and they have some of the worst crime ever, yet no politician can see the correlation! oh well, I digress - like you have done by trying to get a rise out of AT&T customers in a AT&T section! Do you go on gun forums and tell them why guns are so evil too? haha....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] paleman27:
I just searched. The SD cards are rated by Class. Class 4, Class 10. I'm not sure if there is a faster one after Class 10. Anyways, what do I like about devices with external SD cards, to metion a few:

1-If you for get flooded or wet and is damage, you pull out your external sd card and move on...

2-If you brick your phone, you pull out your external sd card and move on...

3-I save my pictures and videos to the external sd card. Is so much faster to tranfer the media to a PC or laptop by just pulling it out of the phone and puggling it in to a card reader. I usually don't carry the USB cable with me...

4-I'm sure there is more...

Thanx for listening
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] archer75:
Just because you're mad doesn't mean everyone else should be. It may be important to you but it's not important to everyone.

I don't get business calls. If I got a call from work i'd ignore it. If someone needs directions somewhere they have their own phone to look it up. So i've just never encountered scenarios where this sort of thing would matter to me. Thus I don't care.

But like I said I can see why some people would care. Just don't expect everyone else to get up in arms about it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] attbrandon:
you get pushed to 4g when on a call. Depends on your coverage. When talking I speed test at 8 down 2 up on calls.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] BarryH_GEG:
So where are you going to go? VZW's as bad or worse than AT&T in all the areas you mentioned. T-Mobile's got some pretty crappy coverage depending on the market, it'll be a year until they have meaningful LTE, their re-farmed markets deliver inconsistent data speeds, and they are still 75% AWS. Sprint's no better with either 2G or LTE for all their new devices and they’re CDMA which is useless outside the U.S. (just like VZW) and CDMA for voice and GSM (LTE) for data just drains your battery faster.

I stay with AT&T because their coverage is consistent, I BYOD, they use GSM bands that are standard, they have great international roaming agreements and data packages, and you can use WayPort Wi-Fi for free. AT&T's certainly not fabulous but, at least for me, they are the best of a bad lot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
Got screenshots?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] UMGixxer:
I will give you one instance that I surf and talk at the same time. When my buddy who doesnt have a smartphone calls me and ask me to look up a phone number to a business or find something online.

I also notice the difference in speeds while you are talking and surfing as well, yes it does sucks but hey what can you do about it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ApplCobbler:
T-Mobile paid astroturfer spotted
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] attbrandon:
This is at my house where admittedly at&t has crappy service as you can see with my one bar. Also, as you can see with the server, it wasn't LTE. I'll do it again at work tomorrow where I get much better coverage
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KryptosXLayer2:
That's going to do about as much good as you are on this thread.... ENOUGH already! Can we close this already?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MattMJB0188:
You clearly misunderstood. Post a screenshot of your phone getting 8mbps DURING A CALL.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Theaccomplice88:
You mean like the galaxy s3? The one that people complained about because verizon was the only carrier to lock the bootloader?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TemporaryTester:
The five-second solution to fixing this is to flash an international modem onto it. I did this on my HTC Vivid, and haven't had problems since.

From my previous experience with Samsung phones, this is even easier to do with them than the whole HTC S-OFF shebang.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jasbur17:
I'm hoping to flash to international rom so updates will come much quicker. It would also have the benefit of fixing this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KryptosXLayer2:
You think the i9500 ROMs, with the Exynos 5 Octa processor will work for the i9505 Snapdragon 600 we will get? Good luck! :eek:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jasbur17:
That's backward, the 9500 is octa. Anyway, I believe the UK is getting unbranded 9505 snapdragons, so yes I believe we'll have faster updates with them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KryptosXLayer2:
Ever tried putting on an i9300 ROM on a US SIII? Doesn't work...... Don't know how you expect to put i9500 ROMs on a i9505!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
On the note 2 almost all of the roms are universal. Well for the gsm models.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] attbrandon:
Simple. You use a foreign Rom that doesn't have an octa model.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KryptosXLayer2:
Well, this would be a first.... the only ROMs the 747 could share with were the 747M ones, and even then, they had to make sure the APN's worked between them, despite the fact that many places in the world had similar internals to the 747 but couldn't swap ROMs between them!

I don't see how it will work unless this is different somehow, so we'll have to wait and see I guess
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] darkodin14:
realistically, who cares about 32gb? There is no reason you cant buy a 32-64 gb Class 10 Micro SDHC card. You wont notice the speed differences. So stop whining. Unless you are buying the crap phone 5 that has no sd card slot, stick with 16 gb.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Rhamza161:
Honestly, I do not care at all. I have a 32gb class 10 SD card already on its way to my house, and until it gets here I have a class 10 16gb sd card as well. This doesn't bother me in the slightest, though I can see why some people want to have the 32 gb versions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jasbur17:
I agree that we'll have to wait and see, my post only said that i "hope."

I'm sure that there are better examples but at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S4

you'll see that at&t's i337 is the same as international i9505 lte, aside from frequencies I'm sure.

There should be roms for that - - the i9500 never comes into play.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] smfazel:
Hi all

help me plz for deodexing stock tx jb

thanks guys
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
just search for

"dsixdas kitchen"

Find it on xda website. you will need to install that and use it to deodex your rom.
[General Questions and Answers] mchauber:
Sorry if I've missed something, but I've not been able to find a way to donate hardware... So here goes...

I have a new (bought it about a week ago) Sony Xperia Tablet S that (so far) cannot be rooted. Was wondering if there was a way to donate it to a dev-type interested in figuring it out. I've spent the last week pouring over this and I'm done (furious is closer to the mark, but I digress)... I should have checked xda-developers before purchasing a tab in the first place. That's not a mistake I'll make again (AMOF, I think I'll avoid the SONY name like the plague from now on).

If anyone here in the States is committed to working on it, I think it would be more productive going to a good cause rather than directly into the trash can. Other than the fact that I can't root it, remove dubious-looking software, and/or build my own ROM for it, it works as Sony seems to think I want and need it to.

Let me know. Thanks.

Specifics:

Model: SGPT12

Android Version: 4.1.1

Kernel Version: 3.1.10 integ-build@build5)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 29 00:53:54 JST 2013

Build #: TJS2016610(US)

(Don't know if it makes any difference, but the back shows a model # of SGPT1211)
[General Questions and Answers] Droidman61:
Yes I agree I will NEVER buy a Sony tablet again, they are crap.:mad:
[HTC Sensation] anauff:
Hello,

I have an htc sensation with elegancia ROM sense 4.1 v3.8.0 working with a French sim SFR

I find out that when I’m in a foreign country (like Italy), almost each time I receive a call the phone is rebooting. This happened after few ringing or just after the call.

I France I already get some reboot but very few.

Did someone experienced the same ? is it a known problem ?

Thanks for your help