Might be the case, I can't recall of the three stores around here are corporate. I've caught them all lying about something at some point. I rarely go to them anymore except to pay my bill in store occasionally or ask questions
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Sprint: iPhone 6s/6s Plus Pre-order Thread
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Might be the case, I can't recall of the three stores around here are corporate. I've caught them all lying about something at some point. I rarely go to them anymore except to pay my bill in store occasionally or ask questions
I have a Sprint iPhone 6 Plus that I got in December 2014 when they came out with the "cut your plan in half" rate. I switched from Verizon. Sprints been fine thus far. Any ways, I was told I couldn't upgrade until December. Went on the Sprint.com site Friday, and saw a green "I" on my phone. I clicked it. It provided me with a special preorder for the iPhone 6S Plus! YES SIR! So, I ordered it with the stipulation I send the 6 Plus I have back to them. I went for the iPhone for life plan. Lease on the phone dropped form 40/mo to 23/mo. Im happy with the outcome! Ill have the phone this week!
Hi all. I just switched to the iPhone forever program yesterday and got a 6+ because they obviously don't have the new ones yet. So I was told to pre-order one in the store on Wednesday. Just curious if anyone has an idea having worked with Sprint in the past how long I'll be looking for the 6S plus if I preorder on Wednesday. Thanks!
anybody get any ship date changes that ordered after the 12th? I ordered a 64gb iPhone 6s + rose gold
I finally got my phone today (iPhone 6s 64g rose gold). I'm in love with the color now to just figure out how the new features work.
Uhm…????????
Which carrier? You asked your question in the Sprint pre-order thread. Pretty much, we all must assume then that the carrier is Sprint. Why would the poster post that statement here if they were on any other carrier?
I didn't. But my involvement in this thread was before preorder went live and solely from the interest of speculation.
Preorders for Sprint in 2012, 2013 and 2014 did not go well with the website so I wanted to point that out so Sprint customers wouldn't be surprised if 2015 preorders did not go well.
Turns out this year that Sprint actually did ok, but launch day itself was actually a debacle.
I'm only commenting in here now as my 16 years of Sprint experience allows.
All of that said, my wife and I do have the 6s and the 6s+ coming, but we switched carriers on Saturday (a day after the official launch, but during launch weekend) and ordered with T-Mobile. Just waiting now. Once our phones come in (whenever that is) we will be porting out of Sprint.
For the moment however, we are still using Sprint.
Has anyone who turned in a non-iPhone gotten trade in approval (on the contract, not by reps)? How about getting their old iPhone unlocked?
So far I've had conflicting info regarding what qualifies as a trade in. And also, I paid off my two Easy Pay iPhone 6+ on Thursday but phone reps still refuse to unlock it.
I know I'm being impatient but I just want my trade in cleared and my old iPhones unlocked so I can go another year without calling Sprint.
So far I've had conflicting info regarding what qualifies as a trade in. And also, I paid off my two Easy Pay iPhone 6+ on Thursday but phone reps still refuse to unlock it.
I know I'm being impatient but I just want my trade in cleared and my old iPhones unlocked so I can go another year without calling Sprint.
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This is exactly what motivated me to leave Sprint after 16 years.
With all that they have half-finished in my market, my wife cannot make a phone call any longer without it cutting in and out or dropping. Not being able to make/hold a call, the one major use of our phones. is the final straw for us.
We should not have to turn on WiFi calling to make a phone call when our old iPhone 5's handled things just fine.
New T-Mobile 6s and 6s+ out for delivery to us today.
My wife just switched from a iPhone 5 to 6s and has been complaining of poor call quality on the new phone on the Sprint network here in AZ/Phoenix/Glendale. I have seen other reports of the 6 having similar problems. I have witnessed this as well.. its extremely hard to make out any words and I have a hard time hearing her when she calls me. Does anyone have a solution to this? There is a slight increase in quality when wifi calling, but overall the quality is still poor. Anybody else dealing with this?
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Well I seemed to have stumbled on some information directly relating to our problem in this Sprint thread here: https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/175034?start=0&tstart=0 "They even pulled the phones from different serial number groups to make sure. Gone to the sprint store twice and also numerous calls with Sprint. It's determined that it's a Sprint network issue here in Glendale, Arizona. Sprint is selling iphone 6 and cannot support them. Supposedly they are fixing towers however I've heard that story since I've been with Sprint for 9 years." This post is from 10/2014 and it seems Sprint hasn't made any significant changes to their infrastructure since then. To make matters worse on my wife's new 6s - the download speed is 0.30Mbps and upload is 0.02Mbps .. needless to say the phone is going back and she'll be reactivating her iphone 5.
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Well I seemed to have stumbled on some information directly relating to our problem in this Sprint thread here: https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/175034?start=0&tstart=0 "They even pulled the phones from different serial number groups to make sure. Gone to the sprint store twice and also numerous calls with Sprint. It's determined that it's a Sprint network issue here in Glendale, Arizona. Sprint is selling iphone 6 and cannot support them. Supposedly they are fixing towers however I've heard that story since I've been with Sprint for 9 years." This post is from 10/2014 and it seems Sprint hasn't made any significant changes to their infrastructure since then. To make matters worse on my wife's new 6s - the download speed is 0.30Mbps and upload is 0.02Mbps .. needless to say the phone is going back and she'll be reactivating her iphone 5.
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Aye, hadn't seen this, but obviously I concur ^^
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Yes. I (or rather my wife is dealing with this). Can't hold calls and call failures.
My speculation is that the iPhone 6 is using 800mhz for voice. Sprint is still waiting for public safety to vacate 800 mhz in AZ. Consequently, they have little coverage of 800mhz.
The iPhone 5 handles it better because while it can do 800mhz voice, it generally drops to 3G/1x for calls/text messaging. The iPhone 6 is not. I know this because I have a 3G Airave at home and any time my wife makes a call there is no "beep, beep, beep, connect".
My solution has been to have her switch off cellular data and LTE when at home and to turn WiFi on. This forces 3G, which makes her phone connect to the Airave. Less sound quality (like with the iPhone 5) but at least she can make a phone call without it dropping out.
I automated this for her though so she doesn't have to do it herself. Her iPhone is jailbroken, so that was easy.
However, and this is where the train stops for us, my final solution was executed Saturday when we got temporary numbers with T-Mobile. We just got our T-Mobile iPhone 6s and 6s+ this evening. Tonight and part of tomorrow will be backing up and restoring phones. T-Mobile is getting our 6 and 6+ and will be paying my remaining lease fees and my ETFs for two tablets.
As of tomorrow night we should be solidly on T-Mobile.
Thanks for the insight - your analysis sounds spot on to me. Her problem is however that she talks to her family (all on sprint in CA) continuously and they have free Sprint to Sprint minutes. So, because she wants an iPhone, and frankly her family would scorn her if she switched to android(and she would probably scorn me for the learning curve), she is forced to keep the iphone5 while I get to keep my sanity.
The carrier shouldn't matter. Sprint's had free Any Mobile to Any Mobile for years as well as free Anytime minutes.
Even that aside, unless they are on one of the old ED (Everything Data) plans then I don't know of any current plan that does not have unlimited minutes. Carrier is irrelevant. And even the ED plans got unlimited minutes as a bonus offer a year or so ago.
Even that aside, unless they are on one of the old ED (Everything Data) plans then I don't know of any current plan that does not have unlimited minutes. Carrier is irrelevant. And even the ED plans got unlimited minutes as a bonus offer a year or so ago.
If all of her family uses iPhones, see if they'll call each other using FaceTime Audio. That way minutes shouldn't be an issue, and call quality (assuming they have adequate data speeds) will be great.
So, let me ask you something. Does your wife have WiFi calling enabled on her phone? Turns out there is a bug with this and if you have it on it kills sprints HD voice. HD voice will not work when a call is sent over WiFi and this is "by design". However, when on a cell based call HD voice should still work even with wifi calling enabled, yet currently, due to this bug that is not the case. I know this from first hand experience. I turned on wifi calling when I got my phone and I could not understand a word my wife was saying when I called her phone (iPhone 6s plus to IPhone 6s Plus) she also reported that I sounded horrible and couldn't understand me. So, I searched for the problem and found out about this bug. To fix it so the following.
1. Settings - Phone - disable wifi calling you also need to delete he emergency address that was entered.
2. Then go to phone and dial ##update# to refresh your services.
3. Make a test call to another sprint phone and after a second or 2 HD voice should kick in and be very clear.
Speaking for my wife, this does not apply.
She's on 8.1.1. No WiFi calling. Until last week I was on 8.1.2, again no WiFi calling. I have it disabled on my current phone.
Same issues. Call failure, voice breaking up.