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Well, in regards to the gps issue, the phone never shows a lock in the engineering screen. It doesn't say failed anymore though.

 

Google maps and 3rd party satellite apps work, but the phone itself apparently can't get gps. Rootmetrics can't lock, but sensorly can.

 

Weird.

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The only reliable way to fix it after disabling wifi calling is to do a data profile reset. Go to the phone and dial ##3282#, select edit mode, enter your MSL (if you don't know it you can either install MSL reader from the Play Store if you're rooted or call Sprint and ask for it if you're not). Go to Data Profile, click on Menu, hit restore, and hit okay to any warnings (this will only reset your data profile, your apps and data will be untouched). After rebooting you will need to go through hands-free activation, but the GPS should work afterwards.

 

Thanks for posting this.  Such a shame that its this complicated to get my GPS working consistantly.  This is the only thing I can complain about with this phone though.  Still love it.

Service has actually degraded around Springfield recently. I used to pick up LTE around the fair grounds as recently as June. Now there is nothing , as well as in numerous spots around Springfield , where there was once LTE now it is almost unusable 3G.

 

North central CT is suffering from the same issues. It does feel like the Sprint of old.

 

I am surprised you say that about North Central CT.  I live and work, spend most of my time between Springfield and Hartford, 10 miles on either side of I91, and service in CT has never been better.  Seems it even gets better everyday.  I know the Windsor Locks sector layout isnt beneficial for 159 or Warehouse Point, but once that tower gets B26, I cant see any issues around, as long as you have a Triband device that is 

This is pushing the market back up and up towards unlimited data allotments.  Not every carrier can play the unlimited game as well as the rest from an infrastructure standpoint.  I happen to know of a yellow branded one that has the spectrum to play that game though, gonna get even more exciting leading into Christmas and holiday shopping season.  

I know some people who switched to Sprint I never would of predicted. Ever. I think the iPhone launch is going to make sprint clear 300k this quarter and I am going a bold 600k next quarter, since Christmas is coming and a new generation of kids will need their data.

Anyone go to the Big E this year? Service was abysmal. They should of had some 8t8r up there. It was like going backwards two years for sprint.

 

I am in the area often, and when nothing major is going on at the fair grounds, service is good.

Get the tinfoil hats out for those paranoid of being tracked =D

 

Locaid is a LaaS (Location as a Service) provider that when a user opt's into service, can be tracked via their cellular device.  Many companies use their services, you can check them out here:  http://www.loc-aid.com/

 

My question for everyone here, has anyone ever integrated with them before?  I am a product manager for a piece of software that is integrating to their services.  We currently have things working, but feel like its not being as useful as first thought.  In a nutshell, they can return A-GPS locations and Cell-ID (base station).  For Sprint, its boasted to be over 95% A-GPS.

 

This is where my dilemma now comes into play.  We are seeing 4 Sprint devices, same model phone, and 2 of them are always A-GPS, 2 are never A-GPS, and this is running off the same towers in the same 1 mile radius of each other.

 

Just curious if anyone has ever worked on a project and was getting location data from Sprint, and what your accurracy success rates were.

The issue is the sector layout in Windsor Locks. The one near the firehouse is serving 159, and it doesn't have B26 yet. The i91 tower doesn't have a sector pointed at Warehouse Point and 159.

Site rental space, Equipment, install, upkeep and operation is not cheap. That's the nuts and bolts of it.

I would keep calling them daily until its fixed

 

Going to try, keyword try, to peek at the Slater St tower in Manchester today.  Been a very busy few weeks for me, not much down time from work.

I just want a loyalty program. I miss it. Got Nextel in 2001 and have been with Sprint/Nextel the entire time. Throw me a bone, somewhere. Something that says thanks. Like when I could upgrade once per year, or when public safety could upgrade anytime (well, that was insane, so no worries that it never returns) .

Could it be something to the tune of here are our new plans, we are offering great deals on XYZ triband phones and oh ya, we have XX 8T8R sites installed that are going live.... Now. And bam, 100 mil pop goal is hit for B41 early?

I didn't get to see the Manchester tower yet unfortunately, hopefully in the coming week. Been at my family place on the Cape for a real vacation

Done

Found out that tower in East Windsor had the Sprint legacy gear torn down, still wondering why it hasn't even been accepted 3G though. Odd.

No B41 between Providence and the Cape, been trying a few times this week to find some. Makes sense though, since wimax never made it here. No 8T8R sightings either yet.

I'm curious if the "lack" urgency in areas overlapped with better known TMO coverage. I mean why invest in an area that could be "fixed" with the merger.

 

Not saying that was a bad idea IF true.

If they did this, it would be stupidity. It would of taken a year for the deal to be approved, a year for benefits to take place. 2 years easily of stalled progress. The opposite of a network visioned to be superior.

I don't think this is a spending issue at all. I think the word needed is accountability. No one was held accountable for missing deadlines, particularly backhaul providers.

I have no problem with people calling a duck a duck. Sprint in Washington DC is abysmal. It's unacceptable. We are in Q3 2014 and only half the sites in our nation's capital have LTE. This isn't podunk territory, and most podunk areas are well past the level of conversion. Standing between the White House and the Washington Monument in June and I couldn't even load a Google search on the terrible 3G. We should call it like it is, and I am sure the new reigns of Sprint have realized it was botched in DC. Now hopefully they fix it with lightning speed.

For 49.99 Comcast will fix the issue on their end for you. Just record the call for us all to enjoy. ????

Also, check this thread on how to spot 8T8R equipment. If you think you found one, post the pictures, otherwise you don't have too.

 

http://www.s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5183-How-to-Spot-Sprint-8T8R-TD-LTE-RRHs-(Alcatel-Lucent)

ACH, take the site ID's out of your posts, they can only be posted in the sponsor section. You can post tower location here, but not the site id.

Yea they are, but its just not conducive to keeping a good discussion going, since there is so much cross posting.  Frankly, why Sprint has them seperate, is beyond me.  Southern CT did roll out NV 1 first, but both are in nearly identical states now, same vendors, even same sub-contractors from everything I have seen.

 

Was just an idea to streamline my area.  In the premiere section I am tracking CT as a whole, just makes no sense to do it the Sprint way for me.

 

If not, no big deal, but the Northern CT thread is dead anyway.  Only I post in it.  The southern guys are posting northern info into the southern thread.

Think we might be able to just merge the two Connecticut threads for Northern and Southern?  We are such a small area that most people end up discussing both in each thread.  Just a suggestion for a mod to consider.