Greetings -
In two weeks I will be on a ski trip at Copper Mountain, in Summit County, Colorado. (I believe that is were it is located...)
I was curious if/how good the cell phone service is at Copper Mountain, with Verizon as a carrier.
Just some poking around in Google, I found that Verizon has added towers in the area. Does anyone have experience or know of a site with detailed Coverage maps/reviews?
I probably will not be bringing my Laptop, but will need a way to upload pictures to Facebook, Skype with Family, etc. Thus, I will probably bring only my phone.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
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zooming in on the vz map didnt show anything? it might show roaming
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do you think that cell carriers are going to send "test" alert on november 9th?
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/emergency-alert-system-nationwide-test
just going by that, i know it was covered already that phones will have an EAS chip, but for those of us with older phones *points to signature* will they have a system in place to test?
It's not a chip.
Phones have been able to receive cell broadcasts pretty much since the beginning, it is just down to the firmware giving you the option to turn the new message types on or off.
xaccers said:
It's not a chip.
Phones have been able to receive cell broadcasts pretty much since the beginning, it is just down to the firmware giving you the option to turn the new message types on or off.
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This idea of their being special hardware involved has been doing the rounds in the nut-job, conspiracy theory loon sites.
Personally i think it's a great idea and could save lives during an Emergency. I'm sure the tin-foil hat brigade would disagree though.
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This is actually a great idea. When I was involved with Search & Rescue we took a long hard look at using something like this to our advantage in case an emergency ever happened.
It would be great to do on a national level, but not so much on the local level.
It would actually be beneficial if smaller communities could use this as well and limit it to their local area. Not sure how it will be setup though. Anyone who has ever lived in an area where there are lots of natural disasters will know what I'm talking about.
Needless to say this is one thing the government should be doing.
I'm not sure if it's ok to post something like this, it's from computerworld:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221404/New_low_cost_mobile_carrier_set_for_Tuesday_launch
It talks about a $19/month unlimited plan for android users.
Good find. I always hope these little companies catch on. Eventually it may force large carriers to lower their prices.
Seems like a great idea! Unfortunately for where I live, there's a 0% chance of something like this starting up. 60% of the time we're near free WiFi? Not for me. More like 2%, and when I am, it's unusably slow.
But nonetheless, great idea. $19 a month is certainly some huge savings.
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Hi guys, hope this doesn't breach any forum advertising rules or anything. But my nephew is doing a project at school about the mobile phone industry and why consumers sign up to certain networks. He's looking at marketing in particular and has done about two questionnaires and research etc...
Anyway, he asked me if i could do one of his questionnaires, so i did and i thought i'd put it on here so he could get more responses. Now it was originally on paper so i've just copied it into this website. There might be a few errors as i haven't fixed it all.
I'd be very grateful if you guys could fill one out for him, shouldn't take longer than a couple of minutes.
Just to let you know. To fill this out, you have the be a Three UK customer who has left/switched from a different network in the past.
http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s.asp?sid=d54749u3lzs99iv65854
Thanks guys.
P.s please no spam answers or any bias based on the traffic sense thing. The survey Is meant for new customers who have just taken out a contract recently.
I think there is a problem with the link, it brings me to a page displaying; "Incorrect survey link code!"
Link updated,
Thanks mate.
I just went to the Samsung site looking for their Customer Forums where could report some bugs in their latest OTA and suggest some improvements.
THERE ARE NONE.
Seriously, a multi-billion dollar company with NO way for their customers to interact, get problems solved or make suggestions. Nothing. It is inconceivable to me that in the year 2012 a company the size of Samsung would be in the stone ages of customer interaction.
Want to know how they get customer feedback? You log on and post a review of the product. That's it! No interaction, no feedback, no idea if anyone even saw what you wrote - you just post a review and pray.
Yeah you can go to Samsung's Facebook page and post something on their wall but that's not a proper forum.
http://www.facebook.com/samsungsupport
I am honestly dumbfounded at this revelation.
They do it on social media. In a pretty big way too.
Surely, in your research of the GN 10.1, you found that out - I did. They do have a question and answer area.
A "rant" is neither productive nor helpful. They don't have forums. Period.
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They do it on social media. In a pretty big way too.
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Social media is a pathetic replacement for an actual Forum. Lol, can you imagine xda-developers as a Facebook page?
Massive fail Samsung. It's clear from some of the changes they made in the last OTA that they aren't listening to the users.
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A "rant" is neither productive nor helpful. They don't have forums. Period.
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That's probably why they don't have forums. Not enough people ranting. You'll have to forgive me. I didn't research whether Samsung had customer forums. I just assumed they weren't living in 1960.
I am endeavoring to report some bugs on their Facebook page. I have no idea if anyone else has already reported these or if there is follow-up as their "forum" has no apparent structure. Will report back if I get any feedback.
unfortunately yes.
I've been looking for its own forums few years back, and find NONE. :cyclops:
They rather use a facebook page, which we don't know the page is being maintained by who.
But, if you need a fast response, you can try their website, there's a LIVECHAT down there.
Facebook is really a pathetic idea to make it as the main forum of such a big company (in my opinion).
If facebook is being used as an additional media, then yes, it's a good idea.
Time for Mr. Peabody's WABAC Machine
For support: Not a forum and not Facebook.
Samsung needs a Web and Android App accessible Support database.
From 1979 to 2002 I was an IBM Mainframe Systems Programmer at UF in Gainesville Florida, then at the School Board of Alachua County Florida.
I watched large companies like IBM and CA move into the web era with their Support. I moved with them from phone calls and mailing fix tapes to Customer Searchable Databases with user entry for new issues, and with Downloadable Fixes for resolved issues.
Of course, way back then issues for my organization affected 10s of thousands of people where resolving an issue meant dealing with only one person in our organization.
Moving forward to today, we've got 10s of thousands of people and many, many more who all need their individual fixes. Very time consuming compared to dealing with one person.
This is one reason why more and more OTA forced SW updating is happening and why the big companies are pushing cloud computing. Such as Google evolving the Chrome platform; Adobe offering Creative Cloud; and VMWare and IBM competing for hosting Enterprise virtual computers.
Aloha.. Al :highfive:
Is it just me or do 80% of their Facebook Support moderators look like complete burnouts?
If a Forum is too hard for them how about a simple Suggestion Box where users can report bugs directly to the Design Team?
My faith in their meeting future needs with OTA's is greatly diminished. Hopefully they will surprise me.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31024209&postcount=24
You might get more feed back by directing your rants here. :cyclops:
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31024209&postcount=24
You might get more feed back by directing your rants here. :cyclops:
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tonyz3,
I think you should put in an application to work for the Samsung Design Team, you seem like their kind of guy. :cyclops:
They used to have customer Forum. I was a member. They were so heavily censored, that you could say virtually nothing negative.
When the Galaxy S was having GPS issues, a class action suit was initiated about the GPS problem. I posted this fact and my post was edited to eliminate the sentence stating that. My post appeared but the words "Class Action Lawsuit" magically disappeared!
Moderators would actually cut pieces out of your posts before they would appear.
I then tried to send a private message to another forum member about the censorship and they censored and blocked the private messages as well and then sent me a message saying any more communications of that type would get me banned.
I then posted a second time to the main forum complaining that they were censoring negative posts and was in fact banned from the forum. So there isn't much of a point to a Forum where you aren't alowed to communicate.
So perhaps they just decided to institute the ultimate form of censorship and eliminate the forum altogether.
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They used to have customer Forum. I was a member. They were so heavily censored, that you could say virtually nothing negative.
When the Galaxy S was having GPS issues, a class action suit was initiated about the GPS problem. I posted this fact and my post was edited to eliminate the sentence stating that. My post appeared but the words "Class Action Lawsuit" magically disappeared!
Moderators would actually cut pieces out of your posts before they would appear.
I then tried to send a private message to another forum member about the censorship and they censored and blocked the private messages as well and then sent me a message saying any more communications of that type would get me banned.
I then posted a second time to the main forum complaining that they were censoring negative posts and was in fact banned from the forum. So there isn't much of a point to a Forum where you aren't alowed to communicate.
So perhaps they just decided to institute the ultimate form of censorship and eliminate the forum altogether.
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Oh well, they make nice tablets and if we get the same software as the Note II we will all be happy campers.
mitchellvii said:
Oh well, they make nice tablets and if we get the same software as the Note II we will all be happy campers.
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+1
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I've been browsing the internet trying to find a workaround for telus throttling my data after 30GB. I'm on an unlimited plan, and after the 30GB it's reduced to 512kbps. It's useable, but it's not enjoyable. I often see it jump to full speeds, then slowly throttle back down to 425ish kbps.
I'm on iPhone at the moment, but was considering picking up an Android device if it's possible. I've looked at a couple things like Shadowsocks proxy, a http injection technique that disguises data coming and going, but I think that's on a per carrier basis?
All in all, I'm just trying to find a solution to this that could be done on iPhone 4s, SE, or if I need an android device to even consider it. Thanks for the help and sorry for the slightly off topic nature of this.
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