bigzeto

If you where dropping calls like i am you would see my frustrations i called to end my contracts but it would had been almost 600 dollars so i said ill wait but they need to get there act together my phone is my life.

If it were me, I would force roam until they finish with the upgrades.

I am surrounded by cell sites!

Your signal is amazing. You must be right next to a cell site!

 

Yep. I can watch the debug screen and even see the evdo signal strength and such. Just no data handshake.

 

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I have the same issue with my EVO 3D sometimes.

With tapatalk it is easy to post screenshots. Just hit the camera button on the post, pick gallery, hit tapatalk hosted, then pick the picture. Simple simple.

 

Not sure what sprint did here today...100kilobit or less even on towers that I usually hit 1000 on. Not the phone either as I checked with another phone too.

 

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What site? And what channel were you on?

i got in 1 little fight and my mom got scared she said your moving to a place with LTE in the air.

I too would be happy to suffer through Network Vision dropped calls and super slow data. But here I sit in New Mexico, likely one of the last to get NV in the country.

 

Robert

But not all of us have a Sprint tower in our backyards!

Well, so far, I have had no luck with custom PRL swaps on the EVO LTE. PRL swapping on the handset requires the EPST.apk. But only certain versions of the EPST.apk allow access to the PRL dialer code (##PRL#). For example, I had to replace the stock EPST.apk on my EVO 4G with an older version before I could swap PRLs.

 

I can report that the stock EPST.apk on the EVO LTE does not grant access via the PRL dialer code. My EVO LTE is rooted, so I used Root Explorer to replace the stock EPST.apk with the much older version that enabled PRL swaps on the EVO 4G. Unfortunately, it does not work with Android 4.0 or Sense 4.0 or both. In fact, the old EPST.apk not only does not grant access via the PRL dialer code but also removes access via the programming dialer codes (##DATA# and ##xxxxxx#, in which "xxxxxx" is your six digit MSL). So, the very old EPST.apk that allowed PRL swaps on the EVO 4G appears to be a dead end with the EVO LTE.

 

Back to the drawing board...

 

AJ

Ever since I put ICS on my EVO 3D, I have been unable to use the ##PRL# code. This is with the older EPST.apk as well, so I think it has to do more with ICS than the EVO LTE.

If I remember correctly, digiblur has stated that the tower spacing in New Orleans is not really ideal for 1900MHz PCS band. Maybe they are picking New Orleans since the spacing is more of a worst case scenario for an urban market?

The spacing is not that bad in the city of New Orleans as it was always a corporate owned market for Sprint. Baton Rouge, on the other hand, was built out by a network affiliate, and the tower spacing here is pretty terrible.

Hello,

 

I'm a newbie to this site. Could you possibly give me an idea when LTE will make its way to the Portland, OR/ SW Washington area? Am I looking at a fall timeline or mid summer? I use WiMax a lot and I want to know if I should hold on to my EVO a little bit longer. Thanks

Here you go.

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-81-portland-oregon-is-scheduled-to-be-in-the-second-round-of-sprint-network-visionlte-deployment-in-2012/

I'm hoping that some of the leases on the iDEN only sites don't expire for a couple years and Sprint could then use the existing structure to add CDMA equipment if their finances improve. I'm not an RF engineer, but it's not hard to see that Baton Rouge needs more sites. The iDEN only sites are all over the place here and would be perfect for filling in major coverage holes and making this market a very solid competitor to the big 2. If the leases expire and Sprint decides they want to add sites here later on, it'll be just like you said Robert in that the barrier to entry will be much more expensive.

Shows you how up to date I am on Clearwire...LOL.

 

Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

Come on Robert, you used to scour the maps and news sites to get all the new protection sites for us!!

Called sprint rep today and asked about ICS. I talked to a supervisor and she said they were rolling it out as we speak. Anyone confirm this?

Buying out versus building up is just another decision that has its pros and cons. One might think buying up is quicker and easier, but it does have pitfalls when you have to assume that company's debt and issues (ala Sprint-Nextel merger). Our market is a prime example of buying out done right AND wrong... Verizon in this market wasn't a major player until they bought Alltel and successfully integrated their network into VZW's-- now they dominate this market-- the buyout was a great success for them. On the flipside, Sprint bought out Gulf Coast Wireless here in 2005 and left the network untouched. As a result, myself and just about everyone I know that used to have and love Sprint here are now on VZW (and some have even subjected themselves to AT&T). This buyout did NOT go well.

Verizon was "ok" in our market before the Alltel buyout, but I agree with you in that they are the best carrier here now. ATT probably has the most cell sites, but I will never be on their network (dropped calls, data capacity issues, dropped calls). Sprint bought Gulf Coast Wireless, whom we all can agree may have been the worst regional wireless provider to ever exist. You are correct in that Sprint put no money into the network after the buyout and just let it get worse and worse. The introduction of the EVO really exposed how bad it was. But Sprint's biggest mistake in the Baton Rouge market was not utilizing any of the iDEN sites to beef up coverage and fill gaping holes in the middle of the city. I believe they did add CMDA to iDEN sites in New Orleans, but I don't have the details of which sites.

I'm eagerly awaiting some sort of announcement from Motorola and/or Sprint on some sort of high end Motorola LTE device to be released on Sprint. I absolutely love my Photon. They'll have to work very hard to pry my Photon from my clenched cold hard dead hands.

 

Seriously, I'm waiting to see how LTE actually gets implemented and to see how Network Vision actually works in the real world. I'm in Oakland, CA and where I live I get very crappy 3g speeds. Usually I see only about 250kbps down and 200kbps up. 4g is terrible averaging at only about 500kbps down and sometimes only 50kbps up.

 

If the Network Vision doesn't improve things, it won't matter what Sprint and Motorola come up with. I may have to leave Sprint because I hate not having speeds that my friends on ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon beat every time.

I hear most people are very happy with their Photons. I like my Evo 3D, but I am considering picking up a used Photon to play with for a little while. I'm curious how much better the RF performance is in my area. I know the development community is not as active for the Photon, but are there good roms out there for it?

Why would they decomission all Nextel towers when some of them are in prime locations which sprint has poor coverage?

It's a great question. I hope somebody asks Mr. Hesse at the 1st Q earnings report.

I live next to a cell site, and have yet to notice one affect of it. And my site is 270' tall. But my neighborhood fought it too. NIMBY-assed people.

 

Ironically, the people who fight the hardest typically have smartphones. They seem to be pissed at their carriers about coverage, but want the tower somewhere else. To be a nuisance to a different set of NIMBYs.

 

Robert via NOVO7PALADIN Tablet using Forum Runner

Yep, and it's the same thing with roads. "I want better infrastructure...........but just don't put anything around here"

I also think that upload speeds are capped at 1.5 Mbps.

That's correct.

I'm still amazed at how clear that pic is. Nice job.

I wonder if it will be as light as the E4GT. That thing is so light compared to my 3D.

Thanks for sifting through the data to find that out. Now, does anyone have these relatively obscure devices?

 

Robert

They could have put some network engineers on it and really optimized the network. I'm sure there are a lot of places that the iDEN tower has better location or a lower monthly cost or better position for cheaper backhaul. I wonder why they didn't figure all that out? Not to mention the sites that are currently outside their coverage area.

Right, if you're going to modernize your entire network, use what you have in front of you to make the best possible decision. When Verizon bought Alltel, they integrated this entire market. They decommissioned some Alltel sites where a Verizon site was nearby, but they utilized both sites to attain maximum coverage.

I agree with you in that Sprint should keep some iDEN sites that are located much better than CDMA sites to provide better coverage throughout the area and convert those to Network Vision. However I don't agree with keeping all 68,000 towers and converting those to Network Vision because there is too much redundancy and keeps the operating costs too high. Sprint needs to cut down dramatically on operating costs that are causing a huge cash drain. Most of the areas where there is a CDMA tower there is an iDEN tower nearby so there is no need for that and probably would cause too much interference. I wish Sprint would keep at least 40,000-42,000 towers instead of just a little over 38,000 towers.

Agree completely. I was never insinuating they need to keep all the iDEN sites. That would make no sense. You live in Los Angeles where Sprint has lots and lots of CDMA sites and many of them were created from co-locations. Here in Louisiana and a lot of other areas, there are not enough sites. With all the money Sprint spent on the planning of NV, it would have made sense to use the best location possible, whether that is a CDMA site or an iDEN site. This would have been a great opportunity for Sprint to correct the mistakes Gulf Coast Wireless made in this area.

Robert, a guy on Hofo started this thread. http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1758587-Changes-in-Chicago-NID-Changes-and-Dropped-Calls

Could NV be causing the problems described there?

Completely Agree, but maybe it is slated for after NV completion. I wonder if the lack of iDEN sites being included is because the investors are breathing down Hesse's back. I would think they gotta use some of the towers in the future for better capacity and coverage.

 

 

I know they are decommissioning sites, but do they still own the rights to put up towers after they are decommissioned or is it like they are giving up that tower completely. If it is the latter, then I am upset, because they have a great chance to at least close the gap on ATT for coverage.

 

also I assumed the map would have more coverage with the LTE 800 added. I was not expected a lot, but it seems exactly like sprint's cdma coverage. I thought the 800 would have a larger effect.

Depends on the lease agreements.