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Root Uh-Oh! Excessive Roaming....

9to5cynic

9to5cynic

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Tsk tsk to me. Looks like my last 6 months have been a little too much roaming. Now, to me the curious part is I have (in the past) gotten better signal in the summer. Seems this summer is not the case.

Is it really my fault if sprint has been having network issues that cause me to roam where I didn't used to? I don't really know. Don't care too much either. Anyway... hope this isn't a foreshadowing of a 'goodbye' for my evo pals here. We'll see tomorrow if I can work anything out with Sprint (for $1000 a month I'll let them put a tower up in the backyard if it means better 3g o.O )

I guess I always thought that Sprint was the *least* unethical of the cell co. in the US. Well, hope I can stick with them.

At first I thought this coincided with me rooting my phone... Rooted Feb. Now Sept.... So that's about 6 months.... hmm.... Maybe rooting made me use my phone more?!

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Oh, and this is good.. Around April, the local paper did a story about how in the whole region reports have been that Sprint's network has been suffering... So that just adds to my puzzlement. At first I was just blaming sprint, but now it might really be their fault.. .? Eh. 1 am.
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Also, I've been pretty watchful of my data, in order to preserve battery. As soon as I read the letter, I switched from roaming to 'home only' network, and instantly lost all data connections. Thankfully, dial up still exists... :/ ;)
 
If you load the Verizon prl, you'll get red flagged for sure. All of your data will be roaming , no in network. That's how Mr. Ed got booted, granted he wanted to get canceled.
 
I didn't mean technically, just that I'm using my phone a lot more (and hotspot from time to time... like now... >.>)

And I've avoided the Verizon PRL for this very reason...

Oh well, I guess I'll know relatively soon if Sprint is in my future...
 
I am calling to complain to Sprint again tomorrow about the crappy service in my area over the last 2 months. All of my calls are on roam(never had this issue in 6 years) so I am assuming that all of my data is on roam as well. This will be the third time in 2 months I have called.....not that it will matter much I am guessing.
 
Yeah, we've had pretty lousy service in my area lately too. As soon as I opened the letter saying that they wanna can the account, I turned off roaming. Phone went silent until I turned it back on :)

Here's a fun fact: On my sprint account, it says that I've used XXXX KB / Unlimited for Roaming...

I guess 'unlimited' doesn't mean unlimited when applied to data.
 
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