schalicto Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 While updates in Minneapolis are not complete, this sounds awfully bad. You might want to consider backing up your phone and resetting it to factory and seeing if that improves things. It is possible that you have a lemon, and not just issues with the network. There is a difference between your phone and you wife's iPhone, her phone isn't triband. It's not his phone. He is describing what everyone in downtown minneapolis is experiencing with sprint, and has been since about October of last year. We keep hearing 'soon', and 'be patient', but I think 6 months of unsable service fully qualfies as being patient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siems Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I was just wondering how long a new rollout generally takes and what happens during them. I live in Fergus Falls, MN and LTE has started to show up on my iPhone 5 as of today. There a spotty areas around town (I've found 5 just driving around) with varying speeds. I also noticed a new tower north-east of town, but I'm not sure what it is. Probably popped up about a week or two ago. What would a sort of timeline be on this? A few weeks or months until it starts to show up more and more? What have you noticed during your rollouts of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JossMan Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 LTE rollout can take weeks or even months depending on how many of Sprint's sites have the high-speed backhaul installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozamcrew Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I was just wondering how long a new rollout generally takes and what happens during them. I live in Fergus Falls, MN and LTE has started to show up on my iPhone 5 as of today. There a spotty areas around town (I've found 5 just driving around) with varying speeds. I also noticed a new tower north-east of town, but I'm not sure what it is. Probably popped up about a week or two ago. What would a sort of timeline be on this? A few weeks or months until it starts to show up more and more? What have you noticed during your rollouts of it? What tower are you talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siems Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 What tower are you talking about? Not sure if it is related to sprint or even cellular, but past lakeway going onto county rd 1 there is a newer tower. I hadn't noticed it until a few weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachGalifianakis Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 (edited) Something amazing happened today by my home close to the riverview theatre. Dang it, I tried the attachment thing on my phone and maybe the file was too large, but got full bar LTE and 67ping 22down/4up I'm a happy man. Edited April 12, 2014 by ZachGalifianakis 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachGalifianakis Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 (edited) Here is the ss btw. Still having issues downtown by my work though I do somehow switch to it in my breakroom automatically which is nice. So something is definitely getting done down there as well. I must also note that the range of the LTE by my home is VERY small, and switches back to 3g after a few blocks heading in to work. Edited April 14, 2014 by ZachGalifianakis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooeydj Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 There was a lot of LTE turned on this weekend around the St Paul area anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonk Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I got a really strong LTE connection at Target Center. More towers going live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njjdnt Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I got a really strong LTE connection at Target Center. More towers going live. Yup, I had been getting LTE near the downtown Minneapolis Post Office for about a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachGalifianakis Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I still have issues downtown around the south east side. I must say though since my previous posting about losing it a few blocks from home has stopped. It dips down to a bar or two for a while but then gets very strong again, which is obviously acceptable and normal. The downtown thing is a bit weird because I can now toggle to force lte when in my building at work then back to standard setting and the lte will hold pretty well at 1 to 2 bars but nothing as good as I am experiencing on the way in to downtown and home. Overall very pleased with this. Now if I can get the 4.4.3 sprint update for android which is supposed to get those extra 2 bands enabled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dkoellerwx Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I still have issues downtown around the south east side. I must say though since my previous posting about losing it a few blocks from home has stopped. It dips down to a bar or two for a while but then gets very strong again, which is obviously acceptable and normal. The downtown thing is a bit weird because I can now toggle to force lte when in my building at work then back to standard setting and the lte will hold pretty well at 1 to 2 bars but nothing as good as I am experiencing on the way in to downtown and home. Overall very pleased with this. Now if I can get the 4.4.3 sprint update for android which is supposed to get those extra 2 bands enabled Get your MSL and enable them on your own. You may be pleasantly surprised. Sent from my Nexus 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachGalifianakis Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Get your MSL and enable them on your own. You may be pleasantly surprised. Sent from my Nexus 5 Not sure I know what this is or if it is something I should even consider if the update is supposed to be rolled out nationwide very soon, but what I have read where it said sprint and more specifically sprint nexus users were supposed to have gotten it already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachGalifianakis Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Not seeing an edit option on my post so I will update here. I looked in to the msl code thing and may try that I guess. But I am wondering if others have gotten this android update and why I may not have yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanyo M1 Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Not seeing an edit option on my post so I will update here. I looked in to the msl code thing and may try that I guess. But I am wondering if others have gotten this android update and why I may not have yet? No one has gotten that update yet. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachGalifianakis Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Looks like it was as easy as installing and using the nexus 5 field test app from the play store. Bands now enabled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dkoellerwx Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Looks like it was as easy as installing and using the nexus 5 field test app from the play store. Bands now enabled Set B26 to first priority and see what happens. Also, the update was delayed by Google. No one has gotten it yet. Sprint unfortunately doesn't have control over when the update comes out. Sent from my Nexus 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachGalifianakis Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 All it did was instantly give me lte where I wasn't getting it downtown by my work! Tyvm! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjplaetz Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 So I was looking on the update map for Marshall Minnesota and noticed there is a new tower there out by the Walmart. My 3G speeds are over 2mbps but I was wondering why if they built a new tower, that they didn't just put 4G in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooeydj Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 So I was looking on the update map for Marshall Minnesota and noticed there is a new tower there out by the Walmart. My 3G speeds are over 2mbps but I was wondering why if they built a new tower, that they didn't just put 4G in? They may have, might just not be accepted yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbiting234 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 So now that the LTE is finally officially launched in this market http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/4glte-launchedmarkets.htm who can I complain to that there is still a tower over by the MoA that eCSFB still doesn't work on? (in otherwords my Nexus 5 jumps on LTE there for a brief second or two before dropping back to 3G because of this issue) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njjdnt Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 So now that the LTE is finally officially launched in this market http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/4glte-launchedmarkets.htm who can I complain to that there is still a tower over by the MoA that eCSFB still doesn't work on? (in otherwords my Nexus 5 jumps on LTE there for a brief second or two before dropping back to 3G because of this issue) You can call Sprint and have a ticket opened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schalicto Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Sprint just informed me that the tower near my work, 619 marquette ave s, has not been upgraded to LTE yet. Schedule to begin in the coming months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjplaetz Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 I work in the Marshall Minnesota area. And they seemed to have built a new tower on the south side of town (added to a att tower) it shows roaming for that area south of town but I get a full signal down there. And today when I was at work I saw 4g on my phone it was crazy! What market is Marshall Minnesota in? I noticed most of this thread seems to be all Minneapolis. Why wouldn't that tower show on the coverage map for sprint. But it's on the map for this site about tower upgrades. Random questions I know but curious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooeydj Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 The Dakotas market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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