Network Vision/LTE - Nashville Market (including Knoxville/Chattanooga/Tri-Cities)

[JossMan]

CDMA 3G integration is more than likely still ongoing in and around the Knoxville area.

[mhuling]

CDMA 3G integration is more than likely still ongoing in and around the Knoxville area.

 

So that would directly effect my m8's ability to place and receive calls, text message timeouts, and 3g data drops? I'm worried I got a faulty unit.

[JossMan]

So that would directly effect my m8's ability to place and receive calls, text message timeouts, and 3g data drops? I'm worried I got a faulty unit.

Have you read the following article here, I doubt you have defective device.  

[mhuling]

Have you read the following article here, I doubt you have defective device.

Yes but the way I read it it's speaking more on the ability to connect to LTE. I understand my phone disconnecting from LTE and reverting back to CDMA, but it doesn't mention CDMA itself being inoperable, unless I'm missing something. I've set my phone to CDMA ONLY and it absolutely cannot stay connected period. As I'm typing this it just disconnected from all services and is now searching for CDMA again. 3g has worked properly and let me access a simple Web page for about 30 seconds grand total today. The rest of the day it's been working with all its might to just connect to 3G and actually have a working Internet connection. There's no telling how many calls or texts I should've gotten today. This is all happening while I'm set to cdma only. No LTE involved whatsoever. Again I could be reading it wrong but this seems to be something more. I wish someone in my area with a triband device could chime in and say yes mine is the same or no that sounds worse than mine.

[NanoVirus]

Yes but the way I read it it's speaking more on the ability to connect to LTE. I understand my phone disconnecting from LTE and reverting back to CDMA, but it doesn't mention CDMA itself being inoperable, unless I'm missing something. I've set my phone to CDMA ONLY and it absolutely cannot stay connected period. As I'm typing this it just disconnected from all services and is now searching for CDMA again. 3g has worked properly and let me access a simple Web page for about 30 seconds grand total today. The rest of the day it's been working with all its might to just connect to 3G and actually have a working Internet connection. There's no telling how many calls or texts I should've gotten today. This is all happening while I'm set to cdma only. No LTE involved whatsoever. Again I could be reading it wrong but this seems to be something more. I wish someone in my area with a triband device could chime in and say yes mine is the same or no that sounds worse than mine.

 

A friend of mine has a triband phone and his is doing the same thing as yours. Which is one of the reason I am holding out on buying the new HTC phone.

[mhuling]

A friend of mine has a triband phone and his is doing the same thing as yours. Which is one of the reason I am holding out on buying the new HTC phone.

Is this the kind of thing that happens to all tri band phones if the fallback switch isn't installed yet?

[NanoVirus]

Is this the kind of thing that happens to all tri band phones if the fallback switch isn't installed yet?

Appears so. 

[mhuling]

I've switched to CDMA only mode exclusively for now. I've found that if I'm going to be staying in one place for a while like my home or my in-laws' home, I can restart the phone and 3g connects and stays connected fairly well, though it's still not 100%. 

 

When traveling after that and moving throughout town and moving to different towers, that seems to really cripple any ability to get a 3g data signal, a phone call, or a text, and really truly won't reconnect until I do another restart.

 

Does this sound like CSFB?

[mhuling]

Driving home tonight I dropped no less than 10 calls. I'm on cdma only. Wtf

[bucdenny]

Driving home tonight I dropped no less than 10 calls. I'm on cdma only. Wtf

 

Sounds pretty bad.  At one point I had dropped calls every 2 minutes at home for 1 week.  Once LTE showed up in the neighborhood everything started working normally.

[millers_35]

For the first time this morning I am seeing LTE on my Nexus 5 in Knoxville and Maryville. Service has been pretty bad the past week, hopefully the upgrades is the reason why and it will take care of all the issues as of late.

[mhuling]

For the first time this morning I am seeing LTE on my Nexus 5 in Knoxville and Maryville. Service has been pretty bad the past week, hopefully the upgrades is the reason why and it will take care of all the issues as of late.

 

Where at in Maryville were you seeing LTE? I was in Walland when I connected to LTE, though it didn't actually work.

[rhamej]

Got to work today in Oak Ridge and noticed that my phone now is connected to LTE. Called the local Sprint store and they confirmed that Tri-Band phones are now officially working in this area. So far I have had about 6-up and 3-down. Hopefully it's not just Oak Ridge and it's enabled in Knoxville too. Won't know till I get home tonight though. 

[millers_35]

I was in front of National Fitness when I tested it. And almost all the way down HWY 411 to Vonore.

Edited April 4, 2014 by millers_35

[millers_35]

Sorry National Fitness..

[NanoVirus]

Checked a Tri-band phone, it was working from Lenoir City all the way to Powell.

[mhuling]

I swapped for a new m8 and have gotten much better results in Knoxville and Maryville. Lte almost everywhere now and incoming calls actually work!

 

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[denali]

I think LTE has went live in Chattanooga.  I've had occasional, fleeting connects over the last few months, but now it's a solid connect over the last 8 hours or so.

[norwoodsteel]

I think LTE has went live in Chattanooga.  I've had occasional, fleeting connects over the last few months, but now it's a solid connect over the last 8 hours or so.

somethings up, my nexus 5 [tri-band] picked up LTE automatically for the 1st time today. i got a great signal from Costco in Ringgold to the base of Signal Mtn where it switched to 3g. about a  1/3 of the way up the W Road it [unbelievably] switched back to LTE and stayed there till i got 2 miles from my "dream shack in Sequatchie County with the country's fastest internet [well its a Gig up and down]". when i got out of the car in the "driveway" it switched back to LTE. this is pretty cool, now i can wait for spark in Chattanooga, ha ha ha

[NanoVirus]

somethings up, my nexus 5 [tri-band] picked up LTE automatically for the 1st time today. i got a great signal from Costco in Ringgold to the base of Signal Mtn where it switched to 3g. about a  1/3 of the way up the W Road it [unbelievably] switched back to LTE and stayed there till i got 2 miles from my "dream shack in Sequatchie County with the country's fastest internet [well its a Gig up and down]". when i got out of the car in the "driveway" it switched back to LTE. this is pretty cool, now i can wait for spark in Chattanooga, ha ha ha

eCSFB was activated a couple of days ago

[ddaniels3968]

Maryville has had LTE for at least the last 6 month's. It's good around the Denso plant where Verizon LTE is non existent

 

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[denali]

eCSFB was activated a couple of days ago

 

Yeah, and it looks like we're having all the same problems listed in the eCSFB Issues thread (disclosure: I own a Nexus 5).  So, I'm having to change my settings to 3G in order to get texts and voicemail notifications.

[norwoodsteel]

Yeah, and it looks like we're having all the same problems listed in the eCSFB Issues thread (disclosure: I own a Nexus 5).  So, I'm having to change my settings to 3G in order to get texts and voicemail notifications.

damn, me too just tested it. but since i've got texting turned off (saves $ on Ting) and use my google voice # for texting and all calls i'll get the notifications. 

what's weird  is outgoing calls work fine on LTE

[mhuling]

In Maryville and my LTE is back to reverting to 3G. I'm on a new M8 which is a spark device. Are they doing more work to towers? It worked great for me for almost a month then suddenly LTE is bad again for me.

[caspar347]

Edit: Wrong thread.