[revaaron]

Background: I've been on sprint since 1999. From 199 to 2001 on a Radio shack plan. Same number the whole time. For the past 2.5 years, my service has gotten worse and worse. Trying with both google voice integration and without google voice integration and I have the same issues.

1) sprint seems to have no clue where I am:
Even in the times that I have full bars, I will get gv emails that say "you missed a call" abd I will have nothing on my phone at all except the email that someone left me vm. With gv integration, I also get txts popping up in gv and then 20 minutes later, they pop up on my phone. the Airwave thing is also useless though it does make calls out to the world easier... that is until I start transferring files around my house and then it dies. I also have to reboot the airwave 2x a day to get it to work most of the time. Then when I do leave my house, my phone will not let go of the airwave until I go like a 1/2 mile away. so from my front door to a 1/2 mile away, I have no service.

2) all the major towns I go to magically never have any service when I want to use my phone.
in Mass: andover, haverhill, methuen, lowell, etc...
in NH: Dover, Portsmouth, Durham, etc...
As far as the north east goes, these towns and cities are pretty big deals to have 0 service. Everyone with sprint in my building today was roaming most of the day too.

3) SMS issue lately: I had an issue before that when I sent 30 txt, the person(s) would only get 20 and then 2 days later, they would get a wall of the 10 they missed. Now what is happening is that my messages are going to them x4 and their messages to me are coming in x4 at almost that 1/3 frequency. This is across networks too. I will get the same message from them repeat a few hours or the next day.

4) MMS issue: I will send say 4 mms's to 4 different people. I then put my phone in my pocket. Pull it out since it hasn't vibrated that anyone said "cute kid" or whatever and all the messages are still "sending....". I reboot the phone.. still sending... let it sit for a while, still sending. Then I go and fordward the first MMS to the person who was the first one to get the original MMS and magically, all the MMS's zip through.

5) battery (something that is the phone itself) don't even get me sarted

Now I have all these same problems with a custom rom, ICS rom, or stock... so it's got to be a sprint network issue.

When I've called sprint or bought it to the store or had a phone tech talk to me, it's always the same options as "all they can do for me"
1) hard reset
2) sell you a new phone
3) get a replacement
4) something wacky like leave the phone on top of the airwave for an hour after a reboot and leaving them off for 45 minutes

This is after every single time, the person takes down all this detailed info about me and my issues, gives me case numbers... etc.. and then when I talk to the next person, the most they ever seem to be able to pull up is "oh, I see you called" and then follow it up with "you know you are eligible for an upgrade"... ugh. I basically gave up calling or going in unless my phone breaks.

So after 12+ years of sprint, I decided to start tweeting #sprintsucks since at this point, there are no phones to switch to on another network and if I did, I wouldn't have unlimited data. BTW, I'm tweeting from my iPad using verizon which is never out off line. If I wasn't bound by FCC laws to be at my phone for a radio station 24/7, i would just switch to Gv on the iPAD while a VOIP solution and use that as my phone. Pretend that I'm cool like zack morris with my huge phone.
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