swintec

I really wish it would happen, assuming they maintain the USCC network and not just shut it down.  The coverage for USCC is decent for southern maine but i was up north last month and it was crazy good.  Like LTE in the middle of no where, every where i went good.

the other problem is that roaming data accounting takes a couple of days or so to be updated versus a couple of hours with sprints own data accounting.  The texts are a nice touch but you can easily blow way over your roaming allotment before the roaming carrier even sends the usage to sprint.

I could be wrong but I thought I myself was on just a plain Jane regular plan and I get EVDO roaming. Never had an issue with getting just 1x roaming. Idk if my target corporate discount has anything to do with that, but even before I put it on my account it had EVDO roaming.

Some roaming carriers have EVDO roaming.  I dont have any up here besides US Cellular and Verizon and they are just 1xRTT.  Wasnt Alltel EVDO?

It's such a shame that Verizon treats roaming traffic like a 4th-class citizen. When Sprint customers are roaming, we only get 1X.

Sprint chooses to keep speeds at 1xRTT when roaming on consumer plans.  Just know that on some business accounts you get EVDO roaming.  The roaming carrier has nothing to do with it....well, i guess maybe it could be in the agreements but I would guess the roaming carriers would be happy to g3et paid for EVDO traffic.

 I got the G3.

 

Sent from my LG G3

Is the G3 not able to roam on some carriers for data?  The sprint maps lose a lot of roaming coverage for data for the G3 (shows white for no coverage) but come back when the Nexus 5 is chosen.

 tells me that Sprint has some involvement in this.

no doubt they do.  this is usually done by the ISP as another revenue stream.  Although, an opt-out is usually provided for the end user but i am not sure how this could be done on a cell device / connection.

Seems like a great way to stop the d-bags from slamming a bunch of roaming traffic through to get out of contract.

Will all roaming traffic be EVDO now since it is capped?

Market:  VT/NH/ME

Location:  Alfred / Sanford, ME

TAC:  5895

LTE Band: Band 25

If Sprint/TMO can do a joint bid, then T and Verizon could do the same thing just to stop them both in their tracks couldnt they?

Couldnt a single company / entity owned by the two, and put together only for this auction bid on the spectrum?

Nobody really knows how long the LTE scan time is. I also think it is dynamic based on the conditions under which you drop to 3G. In addition, it won't switch to LTE if data is being used. It could take anywhere from a few seconds to 5 minutes or more to go back to LTE. It all depends on where the scan timer was when it dropped (scan timer keeps going while on LTE). Of course you can get it back instantly by toggling airplane mode.

We know the network will swap between LTE bands as needed.  We know the network will swap between 1x800 and 1xRTT as needed, etc.  Why cant the network switch (or initiate) the phone to swap over to LTE when in range...why is a timer internal to the phone still used for this part?  The network handles everything else now it seems.

Why be on 1xRTT instead of 1xRTT?

 

Think about it.

 

Sent from my LG G3

you just blew my mind.

But why would you want to be on 1x800 if you don't NEED to be?  There is no point if the phone is performing fine on 1xRTT.  

Well why be on 1xRTT if the phone is performing fine on 1x800?

But...I never intended to be on 800 all the time and i really only run the PRL for scouting out the progress of 1x800.  I think I have discovered that since my local tower has been 800 accepted since last week, the side broadcasting towards my house is blocking connections in some way (connects for a second or two and then throws me off) while the other two sides are perfectly fine.  Not sure what the deal is.

The network tells you what you will be on Band/band class wise. You have very limited control. The PRL is a scan priority, the 513 scans the 1x800 first, with a higher priority than 1x1900. But in the end the network tells you where to park. Same with LTE band priority, it is just a scan this first, then this, then the other. But Network picks which one it wants you one based on available capacity, signal strength, and such.

Running this PRL on my old(er) photon Q and even the nexus when I first got it would always put me on 1x800 as per the PRL set up.  It just lately seems to ignore this however the towers around me just recently became 800 accepted so previously this may not have all been set up correctly in regards to the auto shuffling around between 1xRTT and 1x800.

But..slightly OT...does anyone know the behavior of a tower when all or part of it is blocking connections?  Would a phone connect and then be shunted off of it within a matter of seconds?

Does the Nexus or any tri band device, or maybe even the network shuffle around 1x connections like it does for LTE?  I am using the sponsor PRL (513) with 1x800 prioritized over 1xRTT and this has simply stopped working  as of late.  The phone always chooses 1xRTT.  Sometimes, I see it connect to 1x800  briefly but it falls right back over to 1xRTT quite quickly like it realized it wasnt supposed to be on there.

I want to say that maybe this all started when they took my area off the testing SID but I am not sure if the sponsors PRL prioritizes all 1x800 SIDs or just the test SIDs.

No it actually gives a slight boost.  The 1.15 radio had a huge discrepency in LTE readings from all the others, so we know it has to be wrong.

but the 2.xx radios give a different EVDO / 1x reading than the others to, just like 1.15 does with LTE readings or is there a different peace of equipment being used to set a baseline for readings?

 The 2.xx radios also give a boost to 1x and EVDO reception and work fine with B41.

We are told the 1.15 radio provides false LTE numbers so they are not reliable on that radio and it is not correct to say it gives better LTE reception...how is it okay to say the 2.xx radios boosts EVDO?  It would seem they simply provide false readings like 1.15 does with LTE, right?

It's SERO-P without the subsidy. That's the difference.

Good catch, thanks.

$50 for an unlimited individual plan? I'd definitely be in for that. Only $5 more than unlimited in a maxed-out Framily without the need to add people to your group. Hopefully they expand that offering or make it permanent at some point.

This is precisely what SERO-P is at price wise...actually this plan IS SERO-P.  Strange they are offering it when they just couldnt be making money on SERO isnt it?   The only thing I wonder is if this plan has any roaming.

After I did the 72786 my status in about phone shows my phone number is 000-000-9576 and my MIN is 0000009576. I spent about an hour in a Sprint store this morning. He tried a 72786 on a LG G2 and it broke it also. He thought it was a network issue. Does that sound reasonable? I also spent an hour on the phone with Sprint tech support this evening. She was going to check on network issues and call back. She never called back. I don't want to reset the phone if it won't fix the problem.

Did you try a profile update in the settings menu like i posted above?

do a profile update in the settings screen.  this will pull down all the correct parameters.

Messing around last night I only just found the little easter egg when you tap "Android Version" several times under "About Phone".  Android Written into a kit kat bar logo is a nice little touch.   Learn something new every day i suppose.

just flashed new radio only.  limited testing not as good as .15 still.

My .13 radio has 25 at 1, 26 at 2 and 41 at 3. Under edit, every band is set to 1.

 

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Sorry, thats what i meant as the default values for .13.  The only radio that I saw that had a 0 for a value when viewing priority is the .15 radio.  That one used 0 1 2 versus 1 2 3 like the others.

I think it was sent to everyone. Changed my priorities.

 

I did have:

B25: 0

B26: 1

B41: 1

Now they're all listed as 1 (under edit)

 

Under view its

B25: 0, B26:2, B41:1

 

Sent from my Nexus 5

That is the default values that came with the new .13 radio so i dont think any of that changed.