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It is disappointing, however as others have stated, CSFB is a Good Thing™. If you can't wait it out in your area, that's understandable; any Sprint LTE device other than those released within the past month should work just fine for you today. Just realize that these newer devices will be the better options in the long run, and Sprint's vendors are actively out there fixing the CSFB issues. -Mike
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Thanks, I caught that too. Happy to see that the Nexus 5 is able to connect to Band 41.. it took longer than I expected to see evidence of that to pop up. My N5 has been shipped (2 weeks early!), can't wait to see what I can dig out of it to improve the app! -Mike- 4,980 replies
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Yep, 32GB black. Ordered 11/7, has shown "Shipping by 12/3" all along; in fact, the main Google Play page still says that. Clicking "Info" does show that it has been shipped, so those of you still waiting for shipment, make sure you look at your order details and not just the summary page. Got the e-mail around 2pm this afternoon saying it was shipping. UPS had the package scanned heading out of Louisville KY 10 minutes after I received the e-mail, and it is already at the regional hub around here! I chose 2-day shipping, but unless UPS leaves it on the shelf for an extra day, I expect delivery tomorrow. Strangely enough, I haven't received the usual UPS My Choice notification I always get when a package is on its way to me, usually that arrives when the label is created. The tracking page also doesn't list a scheduled delivery date. Wondering if Google hasn't finalized their daily shipping manifest or something. Package logistics have always interested me.. think it's amazing what the carriers are able to do. -Mike
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Mine too, and I was scheduled for 12/3! Very excited.. -Mike
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Sure, it just means you are roaming on Verizon for data at that moment. You can be connected to different carriers at the same time just like you can be connected to different Sprint sites at the same time. -Mike
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It could be due to many different things. You appear to have decent signal strength on the site(s) you are connected to. This happens from time to time. Try turning on airplane mode, waiting about 30 seconds, then turning airplane mode off.. might be enough to re-connect. EDIT: This post in the sponsors forum reports others with a similar issue in nTelos areas last week -- eHRPD but no working data connection. Switch your device from CDMA/LTE to CDMA-only mode and you should be able to connect to EV-DO. -Mike
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I wish it was that easy! Apps cannot really pull data out of other apps (engineering mode is just a system app). I don't have anything to test yet. -Mike
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I have not had the opportunity to try pulling any "extra" data out of an LG device yet.. I have a Nexus 5 on order, hopefully there will be enough behind-the-scenes similarities so that anything I figure out will work on the G2 (and maybe older phones as well). We will see.. -Mike
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Forget the bars. Different devices represent your signal strength differently. And if you are comparing actual dB readings across devices, only compare 1X to 1X, 800 to 800, LTE to LTE, etc. Each technology has different readings. For example, 1X measures RSSI, LTE measures RSRP. Try SignalCheck (it's my app, just grab the free version) -- it will give you the data you need to provide equal comparisons between your EVO and N5. Somebody already mentioned this, but I will repeat it because it's kind of starting to drive me crazy.. The Nexus 5 you can get from Sprint is the same Nexus 5 you can get from Google Play. Or Best Buy. Or Radio Shack. Or Amazon. The "Early 2014" Spark update applies to all Nexus 5 devices, regardless of where you bought it. There is no special magic pre-installed on the Nexus 5 that Sprint sells. They are both an LG D820. There is one other Nexus 5 (the LG D821), but that is for use on networks outside of North America. -Mike
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Hmm.. that is disappointing. For some reason, HTC must use different LTE routines on their CDMA and GSM devices. Do you notice the app spitting out anything in logcat when you are connected to LTE? -Mike
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Does anything in your regular status bar usually change to indicate that you are on DC-HSPA+? Your screenshot shows 4G, but UMTS is not a 4G protocol, so I was wondering if perhaps that was really DC-HSPA+. I would love Tk show more GSM data, but the protocol doesn't really broadcast any more data. I grabbed AT&T and T-Mobile SIMs so when I get my Nexus 5, I can do a lot more testing on GSM networks. Hopefully I can find some more data to display. -Mike
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If there was, it would be in there There is no standard Android method to display frequency information, so I need to create manufacturer-specific "hacks" to get the data. So far, the only success I have had is with the LTE frequency info on HTC devices. Samsung has proven impossible to get extra data from. Hopefully I will make progress on the Nexus 5 when mine is delivered in a few weeks. -Mike
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Are you looking to identify the location of the eHRPD/EV-DO site? Unfortunately there is no way to do this.. only 1X connections broadcast their location. The only identifier available for these sites is the Sector ID, and right now the app can only display that on HTC devices. -Mike
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Ah, gotcha.. my EVO LTE does that as well, and I don't have 4.3 and disabled the Power Saver. Thanks! I am most interested to see what the app displays when you connect to DC-HSPA+, so a screen shot of that would be great. When you have a chance, PM me your e-mail address and I will send you something else that will help gather data. Thanks, -Mike
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Ugh, I avoid talking to that guy, he has one of those crazy Bahstin accents! Ya can't undahstand anything he says.. what a loosah... I doubt his program is stuck anyway. Probably user error. -Mike
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Well you have me stumped for now.. I can't think of what would be causing this. Power saving functions wouldn't kill individual notifications, they would kill the entire app. Since your other icon is remaining, it's not that. Someone else was reporting odd notification icon behavior recently, perhaps they had 4.3 as well. I wish I had something else for you to try, but at the moment, but I don't. I will try to figure out what the latest HTC update might have included and go from there. Keep your app updated, somehow I have had good luck with unknowingly resolving minor bugs when I try to fix something else! -Mike
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I very rarely find myself on anything but 800 these days, my ALU area has actually been well covered for several months. But there are only a couple of sites showing 800 accepted around here on Robert's maps (and neither is broadcasting 800, ha).. I am optimistic about the status of the 800 rollout in ALU markets based on what I have seen. -Mike
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Nope, it's the same situation no matter what technology you are looking at.. like you said, accepted doesn't necessarily mean live -- and vice versa. Some elements (mostly 3G, as you noted) in certain areas need to be brought online in clusters for various reasons. Lots of different variables in play. I consider the Network Vision project to be very similar to the Big Dig highway project up here. Building a brand new highway isn't that crazy, although burying a tunnel under an existing city is some crazy engineering. And building a brand new nationwide cellular network isn't totally ridiculous. Of course, both are very expensive undertakings, billions of dollars. The REAL problem is when you try to build a highway or a network while the customers continue to rely on them every day! You get a little water leak, or a site goes down, and everyone loses their mind. If they waited until the very end to open the road or flip the switch, nobody would know about the hiccups along the way. But nobody wants to wait until the very end. Just like the Big Dig, Sprint is behind schedule, and probably over budget. Anyone in Boston will tell you that it was worth the wait, traffic is better and there's not an ugly giant dingy steel and concrete double decker splitting the city in half any more. NV will be worth the wait too. Just have a few detours to handle along the way.. -Mike
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I honestly have no idea -- I rarely hear from non-Sprint/Verizon folks about technical issues, seems like all of the nerds prefer CDMA! Someone did post a Google Play review mentioning that DC-HSPA appeared as "Other" in SignalCheck, which is actually promising -- that means it is being recognized separately from any other technologies, and I could probably incorporate it into the app. Unfortunately, they never replied to me, so I haven't been able to try anything. If you can convince Google to hurry up and ship me my Nexus 5, I have AT&T and T-Mobile SIM cards sitting right here waiting to be played with, and I could get you your answers pretty quickly. -Mike
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Not what you're hoping to hear, but it's a false reading on your EVO LTE -- actually I have noticed that many phones do it. There must be something buried within Android or a common radio routine that always causes the current network to briefly indicate LTE as airplane mode is switching. Last year I was clinging to the same hope you had, that my EVO was picking up LTE that was being tested in the area.. but it was not true. I tested it in several different areas where there wasn't a hint of LTE anywhere nearby (as in hundreds of miles from a Sprint LTE site, as well as underground areas that have never seen a cellular signal), and it did the same thing. Sorry! -Mike
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$76 in fees is pricey to rent a new phone for a week, especially when it doesn't work as well as your old one. I would hope they would waive one of them based on your reasons for returning it, but I imagine they will point out that their fine print does have the restocking fee and only allows activation fee refunds if returned within the first 3 days. Back in the day, you got 30 days and they would refund all of your fees.. but it's not back in the day anymore. -Mike
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I just hope if you sell it to someone, they don't get hosed when that phone ends up getting reported as stolen and blacklisted. -Mike
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Weren't you missing the entire back of the phone?! That might have had something to do with it..... -Mike
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When connected to LTE, you will not see a 1X connection because of the lack of SVLTE support on Sprint's G2. Your engineering screens show a usable -106 dBm LTE connection, not sure why SignalCheck isn't reflecting that though. Do you have mobile/network location services enabled in your phone's Location Settings menu? The app needs that to work properly. Not sure of the exact wording on LG devices, but it is separate from GPS location services. -Mike
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Hmm.. I was hoping this would circumvent the Samsung issues, but I guess not. If you don't mind, PM me your email address, I have something for you to try.. -Mike
