@userw9UL6Tl9jb wrote:
Alright, I have read all 63 pages in this forum, and all 33 over in Sprint's site.
I have read everyone's comments describing their issues/problems with their devices and I share everybody's frustrations. I, too, have a pre-ordered S10+ which I received on 3/6/19.
Much like just about everyone here, the device worked great for a number of weeks and then service went downhill. Even in places I knew for a fact had very good cell reception. Text messages (SMS/MMS) would delay, sometimes not send at all. At first, I thought it was a normal and temporary issue with the network (Sprint), perhaps an outage of some kind. It eventually got so bad that I realized it was a bigger issue than I had anticipated. Which led me to find these two forums and well, the rest is history.
This is my thing, my S10+ (currently running the latest ASD5) works great in some select areas. I have been able to clock some decent speeds on Speedtest (70.4 mbps, 145 mbps) since the ASD5 update. Even prior to ASD5 (when device was running on ASC8), I have also managed to clock some very impressive speeds: 87.2 mbps, 93.5mbps, 75.4mbps, 158mbps, 206mbps, 188mbps, 141mbps.
(I do shift work and work early hours of the day while everyone sleeps, some of the pre-ASD5 speeds were clocked at hours where there is not too much network traffic flowing)
With that all said, there are certain areas (which I visit quite frequetly which I now know) where I get awful service. You know, the usual downgrade from LTE to 3G; roaming; "unable to establish network connection". All this while I'm in my car with my girlfriend (who has an iPhone XR, on the same network as me, as the 2nd line in my plan) who does not experience any of this.
From reading this, do you guys think my issue is merely of a geographical nature in that service is no good in the above-mentioned area, or does it sound like I have a defective device?
I don't quite know where I stand. I get so frustrated when I'm in those deadzones that I tell myself I'm going to go through with a replacement of my device. Alternatively, though, I have experienced some very good LTE speeds as I mentioned above, making me wonder if I even have a defective unit to begin with. Some people on these forums state their phones are completely useless, essentially a $1000 paperweight. Fortunately, that is not the case for me, unless I'm in one of the deadzones.
What do you guys think?
The issue is not carrier, some carrier make it work harder then some, the phone the way it design is to switch network for best signal, and for internet travel it switch to either a heavy usage LTE or a slower LTE, problem it is that the device is switching band like crazy, which what I understand is after the security patch, when that happen the phone is trying to find a network that is faster or connecting, since theres download and upload, the phone have 0 to 0.02 upload so can't send info out, so the tower and phone thinks is slow connection so switch to different band, but it's the same reason so it switch like crazy which that's the battery drain issue show up and phone get really hot. Some of the phone have been damaged by the over heating, which why when send the phone in, they replace main board as u read on this forum, as matter fact someone posted video of their phone battery drain and over heating, and next die it die completely, long story short, the phone is trying to find a stable connection but the software is fighting it. The new patch is attempt to fix that and hopefully the phone work again that's why u see some ppl report it work some didn't.
So end of the story the pie firmware have an issue, so they come out security patch then security patch cuz the phone batt drain and over heating which end reason damaged the motherboard.
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