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Nothing going on in either Charlottesville/Albemarle area or Ruckersville/Greene area's tonight just was in both areas the past 2 hrs or so and no problems that I could tell. 

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Hello All, 

 

New to this forum but I live at Lake Monticello and work in Charlottesville. When I upgraded to the 6S my phone wants to stay in 1X when I have the Use LTE switch on. I can confirm that my family that uses nTelos have band 25 LTE here.

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Hello All,

 

New to this forum but I live at Lake Monticello and work in Charlottesville. When I upgraded to the 6S my phone wants to stay in 1X when I have the Use LTE switch on. I can confirm that my family that uses nTelos have band 25 LTE here.

Are you a Sprint or ntelos customer?

 

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I am a Sprint customer. I have family members that use nTelos

Ntelos hasn't activated LTE for Sprint customers everywhere yet. There's a few places they have, and it keeps getting reported in this thread, but I haven't heard of any LTE for Sprint customers in C'ville yet.

 

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Ntelos hasn't activated LTE for Sprint customers everywhere yet. There's a few places they have, and it keeps getting reported in this thread, but I haven't heard of any LTE for Sprint customers in C'ville yet.

 

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I totally understand. I am recently new to Sprint after coming off of Verizon from work. It is hard to get used to 3G again but hopefully LTE will be online here soon!

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Ok so i am setting at exit 91 i-64 east in waynesboro va with johnnyp on this forum. He has lte on his galaxy s6 and i only have 3g on my iphone 6 plus... I find this very strange and want to know if anyone has any idea as to what is going on? I already performed a ##update# next i was going to try deleting all of the network settings and doing another ##update# any thoughts?

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How do you do that on an iphone 6 plus then... It does not have that in the settings that i have seen

Pretty sure you can dial ##update#. That updates the profile and the prl

 

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Hello All,

 

New to this forum but I live at Lake Monticello and work in Charlottesville. When I upgraded to the 6S my phone wants to stay in 1X when I have the Use LTE switch on. I can confirm that my family that uses nTelos have band 25 LTE here.

This is my issue with my 6s plus. Keeps dropping to 1x.

 

 

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Ok so I had no lte luck there. Called apple and they told me to update to iOS 9.0.2... Called sprint and they ran me through much of the same things I had already tried and came to dump phone and update to 9.0.2... Came home and iTunes restored which updated it to 9.0.2 and reset it at same time. Now in settings/general/about carrier says sprint 21.3 it was sprint 20.1 so apparently it updated the carrier settings (prl and profile for android users) it also update the firmware from 2.41.00to 4.02.00 I will be back up there tomorrow and will see if it works then.

 

 

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So I just got a iPhone 6s which I have upgraded from a iPhone 5.  I'm in charlottesville and noticed now that I never had a problem with my iPhone 5, that a lot of times I'm always on 1x.  Like with my iPhone 5 I would get some areas of 1x but not that often.  With the iPhone 6s I'm getting 1x all over the place instead of 3g.  You would think with the new iPhone there would be better band support and what not.  I wonder why this is going on.  My prl and phone settings are all up to date too.  Frustrating.

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Not sure but I don't think the iphone will connect to a roaming 4g signal. I thought the iphone was strict about roaming. The way I connect to the 4g signal there is lte only. I think iphone has to be jailbroken for lte only.

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nTelos LTE is not fully open yet to Sprint customers if Android users are having to go into LTE Only mode to get it. Since iOS will not let you into LTE Only mode, iOS devices will not likely connect until it is fully open.

 

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No it will roam you have to tell it to enable roaming for data

 

 

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I know it will roam I just thought I read that if there was a subpar signal it will hold on for dear life even though roaming would offer better speeds

 

I am not roaming tho when I am there and neither is johnnyp

 

 

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I applaud your efforts I just don't want you to get discouraged if it is a iphone issue. Short of going to a tower that is known to be broadcasting I am unsure what you should do to try and connect. There are only three GCIs that I could match to a site in that cluster but those sites are in the premier thread.

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