jawknee530

Is there a thread for flashing a PRL to an HTC One? I would like to put 56015 on it instead of the 55015 it currently has.

Funnily enough I looked up band 3 and saw that it was for Japan. So I assumed one of three things. 1) I messed up. 2) The phone messed up 3) I had teleported without my knowledge. Thanks for clearing stuff up. So MIMO will be workable within carrier bands. And if I'm not mistaken carrier aggregation is having MIMO using connections from separate bands?

Yet again you have proven yourself a wizard in my eyes. Can you explain your impressive grasp of the situation?

Mostly my first question stemmed from a momentary lapse in brain function. I'm familiar with carrier aggregation and have actually read both of your "whats the frequency" posts. A question about those I have is that when I look at my EVDO engineering screen its showing that I'm on Band Class 3 and Channel 2262. What's Band Class 3?

How much of the 2500 spectrum does clearwire have?

Would you mind sharing the site spacing and channel width for 800, 1900 and 2500? Or provide a link. In the mean time i'll be diligently googleing for answers myself. Thanks.

I was wondering about connection throughput. Will a 5x5 LTE connection in the 2.5Ghz band give faster throughput than the same link in the 1900 PCS band? And if the higher frequency gives more throughput how much higher is that throughput?

I just googled her and read a few of her articles. Does she exist in our world?

Oh man you are lucky then. I work for a Sprint reseller and there's a steady stream of customers all day every day complaining that they don't have proper coverage/are roaming too much/ and most commonly that they have to try four or five times to get a call out. I experience the same issues especially attempting to make a call only for it to ring once then give me a busy signal. It takes multiple attempts to get a connection probably 70% of the time I try and make a call. I'm really hoping 1xA helps with that issue.

Man, you're just a fountain of information. I have two (maybe three) more questions then I'll close the site for the day. First, those 1x carriers will be advanced and not RTT right? And is there somewhere that has info on a good comparison of the two 1x carriers? I can't find anything decent in my searchings. And finally, who is the SMR squatter in my area? I will find them and start punching faces if I have to.

So a realistic best case senario up here would be an LTE 5x5 carrier in the G block, an LTE 5x5 in the 800 X block (I know that this wont happen until after NV is already done), a CDMA1x-A in the 800 X block, and six or seven CDMA2000 carriers in the A block which would be a mixture of 1x-A and EVDO? Also I've read about Sprint being the favorite to buy the PCS H block. If this happens would Sprint up their 5x5 to 10x10 in the PCS spectrum?

No single provider should be able to hold the licences to more than 50% of a spectrum in an area in my opinion. Holding both sides of the Cellular is just plain wrong. Having that along with ~ 30% of the PCS and all of the 700? And throw in a bit of AWS for good measure, it's just ridiculous. Regulators should never allow something like this.

I have been searching and searching and I am at wits end here. Is there a simple way to find out what spectrum sprint owns in what markets? I would love to know how much is owned up here in Redding but I also just want to know as much as I can about what Sprint owns and where.

Redding is still pretty great I think. About 90k people with two mountains and two lakes within an hour and plenty of trees and hiking. Those bars just attract all the idiots in the area on the weekends. Most of the town is pretty damn safe and Cal Trans if finally upgrading all of the freeways and bridges in the area and are about 90% done with the work.

I definitely plan to donate Friday once I have the cash. And yes I have been to Jacks. Pretty good food. Unfortunately that street has been taken over by five or six bars and has become pretty crappy. There's a "rodeo" bar that attracts all the wannabe cowboys in the area and across the street is a punk/metal/meth head bar that likes to blare music and host rediculous dj parties. There's also several bars in between and the cops are called to that street multiple times per weekend. I actually walked out of Jacks once and was lucky enough to witness a mass arrest involving a dozen patrol cars and about 30 dudes in cuffs. Mass brawls in the middle of that street are kind of common unfortunately. Jonny's ( the cowboy bar) was actually shut down for a few months because of the level of violence going on in and around it. On a slightly related note I used to work for Geek Squad in the area and actually set up all of the PCs, Networking and POS systems for that bar. Too bad its such a horrible place to go.

I see. Thank you so much for all of the clarifications that you have provided me in various places so far.

Oh man, I get one thing explained and it brings up two more questions. It's like I'm fighting a Hydra. So each Site is a tower or whatever the antennas are on right? And each Site has three sectors? That's why the antennas are in a triangle on the tops of the towers because each face of the triangle is a sector? So it's trying to find the best PN or in other words the best sector to use and it compares the Ec/lo of each sector that it has in range regardless of which tower the sector comes from?

On an unrelated note I used CDMA Field Test App to map my base station and it gave me this location on google maps for BSID 635 in SID 4183/12 http://tinyurl.com/cbxacwq. I went there and all i saw was what looked like a power cabinet which I've attached a picture of. There weren't any towers in sight and this is where the google maps pin sent me.

PN? Is that short hand for a tower or for what? Like I said if there's any recommended reading for a newbie I could gladly chew it up. I read the FAQ but it didn't list PN under any of the acronyms.

Ok, so the RSSI is like the power of the signal at my phone and the Ec/lo is the quality of that signal if I'm understanding correctly. And two towers could have an RSSI of -101 dBm but one could have a slightly higher EC/lo so my phone chooses that one. But not being satisfied my phone is constantly on the prowl for a signal with a better connection so it's jumping around because "the grass is always greener". Is there a simple way to compare two signals with different RSSIs and EC/los?

Thanks for the input. The tower I use at work is dead smack in the center of town with plenty of towers surrounding it. If I were sprint the first towers I'd upgrade with SMR 1x would be around the periphery of town so maybe my phone will be trying to decide whether to use the closer PCS tower or a farther off SMR tower. That's what you were saying right? Can't think of a possible complaint for a situation like that. Well, I'm an American upper middle class white 6' 4" male with a full head of hair, a job, a car (1970 VW Bus), and a girlfriend so really any complaint I have is pretty insignificant anyway.

Interesting. I'm new so excuse my ignorance but what exactly is the Ec/lo? If you can link me to some reading that you'd recommend I'd appreciate it. I definitely have dropping calls at home and often have calls going straight to voicemail which I know is not only caused by low signal but can also be caused by network congestion correct? Are the dropped calls caused by my phone trying to jump from one tower to another during the call or just because it loses a connection entirely?

I understand that it's definitely strong both ways where I'm at. I work at a Sprint reseller and the tower is a block over. I was just curious as to how smr would compare to pcs. At my house my 1x PCS signal is usually hovering around -101 dBm and jumps a dozen times per hour between four base stations trying to improve but never does. So smr should help me greatly there.

At my work outside I have a -63 dBm signal on PCS and when I go inside the signal drops to -79 or -82dBm. Is this a normal drop for 1x on PCS? Once smr800 is available what kind of drop will be likely?

So this added 1x 800 smr for california?I noticed that it adds SID 22431 with Redding, CA listed after it and 1x on S/476 S/526 which are smr channels right? CDMA Field Test App shows me on SID 4183 which I'm assuming is PCS band. Does this mean that SID 22431 just hasn't been turned on in my area yet and this PRL is just in preparation for physical upgrades to come in the future?