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11 minutes ago, lilotimz said:

The essential phones does not use VoLTE. It's calling plus with no QOS.

 

This was verified by a help enthusiast who downloaded and used NSG.

 

interesting, but no big deal I guess.  Main thing is the ability to talk and surf at the same time as needed, when away from wifi, finally.

i only noticed today but my essential phone has VoLTE operating now.  I was in Puerto Rico and Baltimore last week so I am not sure if it got updated there to be VoLTE active or not (visiting a VOLTE active market activates the feature, would that happen?) or if someone is trolling the northern new england market and thought VoLTE would work at all reliably but...its active, at least for me.

this should work on the essential phone to then, i would imagine (or maybe really any rooted phone?).

my essential phone, since last weeks feb update, has been showing as native ( no R indicator) when connected to T-Mobile or USCC LTE.  If voice is also roaming then the R indicator will display.

5 hours ago, dbsynergy said:

My phone is showing native coverage while connecting to a T-Mobile tower. I just did a software update on my Essential PH-1 this morning. Right after completing the update, it shows native full signal on T-Mobile AWS. 

 

 

My essential has done the same since last week, with feb update. honestly i could not remember if this was how it was before.  Glad you confirmed this.  Fwiw, it does the same on USCC roaming as well UNLESS voice / 1x is also roaming then the R will be displayed.

On 12/6/2018 at 10:00 PM, Oakley707 said:

First, wifi calling enabled with Google Voice for voicemail doesn't work. More specifically it looks like the conditional forwarding doesn't work... When people call they either go nowhere or to the voicemail from Sprint.

ive been dealing with this for the last month or so and it has driven me mad.  This all stopped working around Nov 1st.  I had google handling my voicemail for years.  Ive had it set up on the Essential phone for the last year and Nov 1st it stopped working.  I noticed the same about the wifi calling thing.  I really do not understand why it broke all of a sudden.  I *think* call forwarding is working because a google error comes up about unable to complete your call.

If I had to guess, some one deep in the bowels of sprint made a config change on something and has no idea what he broke.

I begrudgingly went back to the sprint voicemail service but that also has problems that I have been unable to figure out.  It seems like if i am roaming the caller does not get sent to voicemail, they get sent to dead air or a call cannot be completed message however i get notification of a voicemail and all i get is the dead air.

Naturally, the sprint visual voicemail app is not available for the essential phone in the play store.

tried to order the gen 3 hoping they work in maine now....no go.  their qualification tool still says no go.

the 3rd gen MB is the one that will work in Maine, just not with LTE backhaul correct?

i like the voice band mode selection feature and to me, should be #1 on the above list of changes.  testing for adding LTE band selection in the next release?

does this become the airave replacement as well?

i suppose with the wifi backhaul option this will finally work in places like Maine where the relay stuff was not possible?

18 hours ago, Thomas L. said:

They will be supporting upload carrier aggregation in a coming update, but are not planning on supporting VoLTE for Sprint at this time.

Does VoLTE even need Essential help to get working?  I was under the assumption it was simply a sprint network / provisioning thing.  I mean, it already supports Voice call continuity and has for awhile.  Shouldnt be that big of a hurdle for full on VoLTE.

T-Mobile roaming active for me, started today, in Maine.

Fwiw, it wouldnt be a sprint change / enhancement if it didnt cause me some minor annoyance that I need to deal with.  In this case, when connected to t-mobile lte, it seems to be running on GMT for time so the phone rolls ahead 4 hours causing issues with texting (and probably other stuff).  Progress I suppose. lol

EDIT- I did see some quick connections to band 12 as well.

2 hours ago, shaferz said:

Sucks that Central Illinois is not included.  

 

Wonder how the opt-in will work.  Live in a non-soft-launch market but am in a soft-launch market for work every week.  If I opt-in while in the soft-launch market, I wonder what will happen when I go back to the non-soft-launch market.  Hmmmmm  

As ive been told, the IMS core will verify if a VoLTE call is allowed to complete or not.  If you are in a non-VOLTE market you will just be on a call on the legacy network.

ive been seeing the same lately but with USCC.

I got to thinking maybe this isnt that huge of a deal though in the grand scheme of things.  They have voice agreements with these networks already so maybe VoLTE falls into those agreements and we just didnt realize it?

one day i hope to be blessed to see an announcement about a MB that works in Maine in some way shape or form.

2 minutes ago, ingenium said:

Is 1x800 broadcasting?

Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
 

Yep, only thing down is band 26.

Which portion of a cell site could go down so band 26 no longer works but band 25 does?

My local site that has some problem every few months (usually voice / evdo) went completely down a couple of weeks ago.  Using the sprint app i reported it and either coincidentally or not, they got voice and evdo working once again as well as band 25 10x10.  Band 26 has been dead since.  I report it every day / every other day.  Middle of this past week band 26 popped up back online mid-day only to die again within a half hour and it has been offline since then.  Tech probably got it working and high tailed it out of there.

So...which band 26 only part could possibly break which doesnt effect anything else, including band 25?

12 hours ago, Grabber5.0 said:

I really hate to see that. We need more choices, not fewer!

 

A digital camera with a POS cell phone embedded in it is not a viable choice. 

2 minutes ago, belusnecropolis said:

My market shows as 10x10 second carrier as well, centered at 1990. There is no other carrier present yet. I believe user:ingenium explained above why it shows that way in our area in scp as ^2, our sectors now end in 11, 12 and 13 on band 25; previously at 01, 02 and 03. This is all exciting to see. Great find!

that is possible.  last 4 of the GCI used to be FC01-03 for band 25 and now it appears it was changed to FC11-13.

31 minutes ago, Dkoellerwx said:

 

Are you seeing a 2nd carrier on any other frequencies? 

No, not yet.  However, on a walk around town this evening, my "home" site now has the 2nd band 25 carrier as 10x10.  this is a fairly recent change.  Same frequencies as my above screenshot.

up until now, my two most used sites had the first band 25 carrier at 10x10 and that happened within the last 3-4 weeks and now i am seeing this change above.  So...they either undid their previous work, changed the 1st carrier back to 5x5 and then launched this 2nd carrier today and made it 10x10 or we just have two band 25 carriers at 10x10 each.  I wont know for sure until i can some how get placed on the 1st band 25 carrier when i am out in my travels this week.  do the resources exist up here for two 10x10 carriers?

38 minutes ago, Dkoellerwx said:

what you have there appears to be a 10x10 carrier centered between the G and C blocks.

is this significant and out of their norm?

5 minutes ago, nexgencpu said:

Sprint has been expanding B25 to 10x10 all over the country where available, and yes, many places do have 10x10+5x5. 

i knew that, just never seen the 2nd carrier as 10x10.  they had a big push here in the last month or so where the first (or only) band 25 carrier is now 10x10 so i only assumed in this case they did a 2nd 10x10 for a total of 10x10+10x10 and i thought that wasnt possible.

7 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Could you maybe post pics of both carriers?

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this is all that i grabbed.  im only down that way on the weekends.  i even exited Signal Check in case it was a bug but it persisted even through the relaunch of it.  no chance they would make a second carrier 10x10 while the first is 5x5?

Signal check showed me a Band 25 second carrier but reflected it as 10x10 in maine..is that something fairly new being deployed?  I can only assume the first carrier is also 10x10 and i didnt think they were able to do 10x10 on both.

tmobile shows up when i do a network scan on my Essential phone but in the network list it shows "T-Mobile (forbidden)"...same thing it shows for verizon and a couple others