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I just purchased a home less than .5 miles north of CL03XC150 which is the tower behind Lyndhurst Municipal Court at Mayfield and Richmond. The tower has great signal to the west but is horrific to the North. Just a few feet from the tower and I am already down to -95 db. At my house, where I can physically see the tower, outside I get -105db if I am lucky LTE and inside LTE is almost non-existent. Worst yet, 1x/36 is about -98db inside my home. Again I can see the tower. Is there a reason this tower simply does not have any strength north. Are there plans to add antennas or increase strength to anyone's knowledge? There is a tower north of Wilson Mills by Richmond Rd. but that does not seem to reach me either. I am literally right behind Lyndhurst Park and cannot use the tower which is right there. Additionally, the tower is at the Municipal building/courthouse and is also not usable from inside the building. This is going to be a real problem for me if this is not remedied. Any word on 800 SMR in the area. There is 1 active at 271 and Mayfiled I believe but my G2 has never connected to it. I have not seen 800 SMR since a test 6 or so months ago in the basement of the old courthouse on a Note 3. At that time I was suing a custom PRL. I can't imagine once 800 SMR is up and running a custom PRL will be required to connect though.

I am still on a 1500 family share plan with unlimited data and looked into switching my 5 lines to framily the other day and the result was a bill about $50 or so a month higher. Not sure why. Could have been that they included the monthly cost of new phone but it was certainly not worth the switch.

I do agree. GoSms has gotten extremely bloated. I may try Hangouts.

I don't have insurance. With cost of deductible and wait time to get new device I figure I will just pay if I break one. Plus with 5 devices having insurance on each it will cost more then just paying if something happens. Plus I wanted to keep my phone and not reprogram as it has no microsd and I wanted my titanium backups. The ability to get it fixed figured in more than the cost.

Thank you for your detailed response. I am decent and putting electronics together but I know enough about myself in taking prior phones apart that I do not work well in small spaces. After watching the video on everything you had to remove and how to get to the LCD, which did look easy to replace, I decided against doing it myself. Plus there were to many different versions of the part to chose from online and none seemed reliable about getting it here next day. I ended up finding a stand in the local mall and I just bit the bullet and paid $190 for the lcd, digitizer and glass screen with overnight shipping of the part. A little high but at least I do not have to attempt to do it myself and risk destroying the phone and it will be back in my hands today. The actual parts with install were $160 which nets them $60 or so in profit to do the work. Probably worth it to let someone with some experience do the repair. I don't want to completely brick the device. I almost just bit the bullet and bought a Nexus 5 but all of the reported Exchange problems kept me away. One thing about LG's software on the G2 it has the best Exchange support of any Android device I have ever used. Sub calendars work as well as multiple exchange accounts and email support as well as moving messages between folders is flawless.

I have been using GOSMS for years. Does anyone have experience with that and Hangouts and have a preference between the two? I have been interested in trying hangouts but reluctant. I cannot use the stock text app as I cannot stand the bubble messages.

I am sure this has been discussed but I cracked the screen on my G2. I believe it is just the glass and digitizer but I am not sure if it goes all the way to the LCD. I cannot find anyone local in Cleveland, Ohio who can replace this screen quickly. One place in the mall said they could do it but it could take 6 days and cost would be $100 for glass and digitizer and $160 if LCD is also bad. I see online I can buy the glass and digitizer for approx $25 and the whole package with LCD for approx $100 but I am still waiting multiple days for it and I am weary about replacing the screen myself. Does anyone have any suggestions or know of where I can get the screen replaced today. The phone is useless as the digitizer is completely broken and I use it for work and need it back asap. I had contemplated just buying a Nexus 5 but I cannot find anywhere that will sell it to me for $399 as Google would but again I have to wait for shipping then and I hate to go to the smaller battery and lose some of the Sprint apps/features I like for example their visual voicemail. Has anyone had experience buying one locally for $399 for 32GB? Thank you everyone in advance for your help/suggestions.

I did a complete wipe and installed kitkat stock rom rooted and it works flawless. Battery life is better than ever before. I can go 14 hours easy with moderate usage and multiple push email accounts and still have 80% plus battery.

Additional screenshots from the debug menu of my 55 Public Square band 25 LTE connection which went live at least for tri-band phones around 10:30 AM on 5-13-14: Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk

I was able to connect again and it speedtested as follows: 1.54 up and 1.08 down. Tapatalk is giving me issues trying to upload screenshots currently but I will give it a go. Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk

I was getting about 2.5mbps down and 1ish up. Right now I am at -107 and cannot get any Internet or locate a server to Speedtest. Leeds me to believe testing is in progress. I do hope they turn up the power once testing is done if that's what it is. I am not sure what tower I am connecting to but I am right next door to the new 75 public square antennas I watched them install a week or so ago and I have connected a few times 3g to that antenna at like -98db. It is on top of the building literally right next to my office about 3 floors higher than I am and I see it out my office window so I would think at normal operating power I would get a stronger signal then that. Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk

LTE showed up in my office on public square 1 hour ago on lgg2. I hope the signal gets stronger I usually get at lease -85 on eHRPD. The new LTE GCI:0821BE02. Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk

I installed it friday. Running smooth with better battery than stock. Between my stock nand backup and titanium I should have no problem when kitkat comes knocking. Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk

Band 41 while still in testing is really fast in spots downtown. Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk

This was in an area in my office where 3g was never an issue. In the late afternoon though everyday I keep swapping from ehrp to evdo and back. Could possibly be because they are doing work? i did pay my bill. Band 26 would be great especially since I am in an IBEZ sitting right on lake Erie in Cleveland.