Metro PCS - Major Changes

Fox Mulder · Jul 4, 2015

Aside from BYOD excluding promos that only apply to Metro devices, there is also the issue of WiFi calling. BYOD's can't do it which is the main reason I've stayed with Metro phones.

averagewonder · Jul 4, 2015

Fox Mulder said:
Aside from BYOD excluding promos that only apply to Metro devices, there is also the issue of WiFi calling. BYOD's can't do it which is the main reason I've stayed with Metro phones.

I have a BYOD s4 and I use Wi-Fi calling.

Fox Mulder · Jul 4, 2015

averagewonder said:
I have a BYOD s4 and I use Wi-Fi calling.

Is it a T-Mobile S4? Those will work because it's the same network and nearly identical firmware. But that's the only exception AFAIK.

averagewonder · Jul 4, 2015

Fox Mulder said:
Is it a T-Mobile S4? Those will work because it's the same network and nearly identical firmware. But that's the only exception AFAIK.

It is.

Krlypumaa · Jul 5, 2015

Fox Mulder said:
Aside from BYOD excluding promos that only apply to Metro devices, there is also the issue of WiFi calling. BYOD's can't do it which is the main reason I've stayed with Metro phones.

If you hav connected your device with metro n DO NOT hav a custom rom you would have to dl MyMetro and update ur EmcList for wifi to work... For what i knw

horsecharles · Jul 5, 2015

EarlyMon said:
There's three ways to screen cast - Miracast and Google Cast (the latter is best known by and used with Chromecast) - or - to Apple TV (and I'm not interested enough to learn the protocol name or how it works).

Leaving aside Apple TV, Chromecast requires a router, so that leaves Miracast.

Miracast uses wifi direct (peer to peer).

And it was baked in to Android beginning with Jellybean 4.2 - but - it's being replaced on a lot of phones starting with Lollipop with Google Cast (in fact, I think that Miracast has been deprecated altogether by Google).

It's likely that you'll need an app to use Miracast. Check out "Mirror Beta"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.mirror

Or search the Play Store for Miracast.

Miracast vs Chromecast -

http://allaboutchromecast.com/chrom...-about-wireless-display-and-screen-mirroring/

What you really want to watch out for -

http://allaboutmotog.com/moto-g-wireless-display-the-problem-and-the-solution/

Ty so much for that, you know, I just learned I have the same thing with several different names! I have Miracast -certified Windows tablet and I vaguely remember updating on the MS site + actually adding Widi on Intel site, then Intel had something about discontinuing, then months later put out an update. On a Samsung Windows 7 tablet All Share,
All Share Play \ Link on Samsung phones, and my LG tv calls it something else.
For the Stylo I had been searching for an LG app...your post very timely.
Thanks again!

EarlyMon · Jul 5, 2015

horsecharles said:
Ty so much for that, you know, I just learned I have the same thing with several different names! I have Miracast -certified Windows tablet and I vaguely remember updating on the MS site + actually adding Widi on Intel site, then Intel had something about discontinuing, then months later put out an update. On a Samsung Windows 7 tablet All Share,
All Share Play \ Link on Samsung phones, and my LG tv calls it something else.
For the Stylo I had been searching for an LG app...your post very timely.
Thanks again!

Glad to help.

For those with the same needs, please note that the above article is over a year old - if you don't have a smart TV with Miracast, you can find Miracast dongles in the $20 range. If you want something better, consider the Amazon Fire TV Stick.

I generally recommend the Chromecast but I own both that and the Fire TV Stick and I'm happy with both of them.

GameTheory · Jul 5, 2015

EarlyMon said:
Glad to help.

For those with the same needs, please note that the above article is over a year old - if you don't have a smart TV with Miracast, you can find Miracast dongles in the $20 range. If you want something better, consider the Amazon Fire TV Stick.

I generally recommend the Chromecast but I own both that and the Fire TV Stick and I'm happy with both of them.

Love my chromecast, it's the shiznits. I have a lot of video files on my PC in a few diff formats so I use this chrome browser extension called "Videostream for Google Chromecast" which allows me to cast them. I use it along with the companion android app which allows the phone to be used as a remote for videostream. Love it!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...-ch/cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl?hl=en-US

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostream.Mobile

confed · Jul 5, 2015

Definitely a bigger fan of the Fire Stick. Chromecast just had too many issues for me. Fire Stick + Kodi = Amazing.

ToFailToWin · Jul 6, 2015

Hopefully , Metro does things right.

horsecharles · Jul 15, 2015

GameTheory said:
Love my chromecast, it's the shiznits. I have a lot of video files on my PC in a few diff formats so I use this chrome browser extension called "Videostream for Google Chromecast" which allows me to cast them. I use it along with the companion android app which allows the phone to be used as a remote for videostream. Love it!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...-ch/cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl?hl=en-US

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostream.Mobile

EarlyMon said:
Glad to help.

For those with the same needs, please note that the above article is over a year old - if you don't have a smart TV with Miracast, you can find Miracast dongles in the $20 range. If you want something better, consider the Amazon Fire TV Stick.

I generally recommend the Chromecast but I own both that and the Fire TV Stick and I'm

EarlyMon said:

There's three ways to screen cast - Miracast and Google Cast (the latter is best known by and used with Chromecast) - or - to Apple TV (and I'm not interested enough to learn the protocol name or how it works).

Leaving aside Apple TV, Chromecast requires a router, so that leaves Miracast.

Miracast uses wifi direct (peer to peer).

And it was baked in to Android beginning with Jellybean 4.2 - but - it's being replaced on a lot of phones starting with Lollipop with Google Cast (in fact, I think that Miracast has been deprecated altogether by Google).

It's likely that you'll need an app to use Miracast. Check out "Mirror Beta"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.mirror

Or search the Play Store for Miracast.

Miracast vs Chromecast -

http://allaboutchromecast.com/chrom...-about-wireless-display-and-screen-mirroring/

What you really want to watch out for -

http://allaboutmotog.com/moto-g-wireless-display-the-problem-and-the-solution/

Click to expand...

GameTheory said:

Love my chromecast, it's the shiznits. I have a lot of video files on my PC in a few diff formats so I use this chrome browser extension called "Videostream for Google Chromecast" which allows me to cast them. I use it along with the companion android app which allows the phone to be used as a remote for videostream. Love it!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...-ch/cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl?hl=en-US

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostream.Mobile

Click to expand...

happy with both of them.

Progress report:
What EarlyMon said about the baked-in getting removed...or at the very least disabled(I'm not rooted), on the G Stylo...although available on LG G#x...very disappointing, along with no IR that's present in earlier n lesser LG models.
It's a perplexing strategy by LG, conversely Samsung makes things so easy, with to boot extra apps available besides what's already originally included.

Depending where one goes-- it may not be kosher and/or physically feasible to connect a dongle and/or access Wi-Fi.
Playstore apps are wonderful efforts, but there's too often a phone or tv model here n there that doesn't play nice.

Looks like best alternatives are to hotspot LG n EITHER bring along Samsung phone n use it to cast
OR carry a MIFI around.

Conversely- if Samsung were to default add IR, it'd be so useful.
Add tv remote to the extensive number of things I regularly schlep around...depending on the particular day's choices of outfit n carry contraption, I look like a tourist or homeless... or field tech without wheels.

Ehh, life's a butch.

Kid09 · Jul 15, 2015

We are getting a mid range phone from HTC. The desire 626s.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/0...led-we-go-hands-on-with-the-plastic-flagship/

swagless_noob · Jul 15, 2015

Kid09 said:
We are getting a mid range phone from HTC. The desire 626s.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/0...led-we-go-hands-on-with-the-plastic-flagship/

Seems like a good phone. We haven't had an htc phone in a while, would be kind of better if we didn't have the "run down" version tho.

horsecharles · Jul 15, 2015

Kid09 said:
We are getting a mid range phone from HTC. The desire 626s.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/0...led-we-go-hands-on-with-the-plastic-flagship/

swagless_noob said:
Seems like a good phone. We haven't had an htc phone in a while, would be kind of better if we didn't have the "run down" version tho.

No can do @ 8gb storage, 1 gb RAM, no nfc...not even @ $29.

PS Priced at $79.

horsecharles · Jul 15, 2015

To piggyback on Kid 09:

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horsecharles · Jul 15, 2015

Summer doldrums, not much worthwhile.

I'll add the free Mexico for the next year and a half...would prefer Canada...a bit late to help the Clinton escapees LOL.

gelige · Jul 18, 2015

Anybody had a hands on with one of the Samsung phones?

Googling around, it seems like there are several variants of the Samsung Galaxy Core, and that the MetroPCs version looks like a good enough and capable choice, but unexciting.

Kid09 · Jul 18, 2015

gelige said:
Anybody had a hands on with one of the Samsung phones?

Googling around, it seems like there are several variants of the Samsung Galaxy Core, and that the MetroPCs version looks like a good enough and capable choice, but unexciting.

My cousin just got the Grand Prime yesterday. It's a nice phone. Camera is nice, fluid for the must part.

Sept1967 · Jul 19, 2015

Kid09 said:
We are getting a mid range phone from HTC. The desire 626s.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/0...led-we-go-hands-on-with-the-plastic-flagship/

With a CPU slower then *ANY* quad core out now? It isn't "mid" range at all, its bottom range entry level

Quad-core 1.1 GHz Cortex-A7

horsecharles · Jul 20, 2015

Sept1967 said:
With a CPU slower then *ANY* quad core out now? It isn't "mid" range at all, its bottom range entry level

Quad-core 1.1 GHz Cortex-A7

I agree...w/o trying to dump on the Kid...
ALL the recent models I would rate entry level: more similar to the defunct galaxy light than the Avant.
Lower processor speed aside, most other specs are meh.
I would go so far as to say that an entry level phone should match the Avant:
lower specs like 8gb storage n 1gb ram can eventually bog down phone.
Double those specs, and now a noob can add apps at will w/o ill consequences...and a techie spends a lot less time and effort on maintenance.

Kid09 · Jul 20, 2015

Sept1967 said:
With a CPU slower then *ANY* quad core out now? It isn't "mid" range at all, its bottom range entry level

Quad-core 1.1 GHz Cortex-A7

I mean I get that. The processor choice was weird. Other than that, the other specs does make make it midrange, albeit lower midrange. HTC makes weird choices nowadays.

horsecharles · Jul 21, 2015

Kid09 said:
I mean I get that. The processor choice was weird. Other than that, the other specs does make make it midrange, albeit lower midrange. HTC makes weird choices nowadays.

Amen!
Processor speed could be considered splitting hairs...remaining specs coulda more than made up.
Then to make 3-4 variants of this model...giving Boost n tmo/metro the worst?
Especially being the debuter on Metro(or first in eons).
Few years ago HTC was THE Android brand.

Kid09 · Jul 21, 2015

horsecharles said:
Amen!
Processor speed could be considered splitting hairs...remaining specs coulda more than made up.
Then to make 3-4 variants of this model...giving Boost n tmo/metro the worst?
Especially being the debuter on Metro(or first in eons).
Few years ago HTC was THE Android brand.

It's the first in eons. The last HTC phone was the wildfire. It's crazy because they could make a killing in the midrange department. They shoot themselves in the foot with the compromises they make on these phones.

horsecharles · Jul 21, 2015

Kid09 said:
It's the first in eons. The last HTC phone was the wildfire. It's crazy because they could make a killing in the midrange department. They shoot themselves in the foot with the compromises they make on these phones.

You jogged my memory...I think I couldn't afford the Wildfire ... Samsung / LG had cheaper options.

Kid09 · Jul 22, 2015

horsecharles said:
You jogged my memory...I think I couldn't afford the Wildfire ... Samsung / LG had cheaper options.

Only way how I even remembered that is because my mom still has it in her drawer.

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