Geekslayer

I have the My Ford Touch system, and it's still working the same. Maybe you should remove the phone from your system, then pair it up again.

Yes, sometimes I go even further and go into the dialer and do ##786#, press reset, enter my msl, press enter and this will completely erase the phone, and then the phone re-activates itself when it reboots.

For me the KitKat update has been wonderful, performance is ok, it's not dropping calls on 800MHz anymore, and the battery life is really good. I completely erase my phones after doing a major update like this though.

I've had the phone since Jan, and it was always dropping calls. I downloaded the tar for the official Kitkat update today, installed it on my phone using odin, and poof it hasn't dropped a call yet.

Looking at the SID, it looks like you're roaming on Verizon's network

I can understand why Eagle Lake hasn't been upgraded already, since it's a remote site. But I have no idea why Austin isn't up yet, I thought that would have gone live when Albert Lea did. All I can say, is that I'm expecting issues over the next few months, while Sprint is upgrading, and knowing that they're upgrading makes the issues a less painful for me.

The Eagle Lake site has all the new Samsung equipment installed for Network Vision. Since it's in a remote area, I'm not sure if they have fiber to it yet, and that's needed for 4G. I'm thinking they may just do the 3G/800 upgrade for now, just like they did in Waterville on Hwy 60, and Mapleton on Hwy 22. Next time your driving by, you can see it on the northside of 14, it must be a 250-300ft tower. Oddly enough this all happened when they shut down the old iden network.

I talked to Sprint, and they're working on the site (northside of Hwy 14) just outside of Eagle Lake, which real close to Mankato. I roam from Smith Mill to Eagle Lake. Downtown Mankato is working really good for me. I haven't been through Austin lately though, but I do know that the new equipment has been installed on the site, it's on the west side of Austin, on the northside of I-90.

I'm wondering if I was experiencing whatever issue that ran into. I made this post around June 6th. I have screenshots further down the thread. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3916-before-after-cdma1x-800/page-2&do=findComment&comment=149947

My wife works for a large printing company, and they provide her with a phone. It must have been about 2-3 years ago, when she threw her phone into the fireplace, after it kept dropping calls from her customers that night. I started laughing so hard, because it's something I never expected her to do. She looked at my phone, and I said "NO FRIGGIN WAY YOU'RE USING MINE", and she busted up laughing . I think it was a HTC windows phone, If I remember correctly.

I know it sounds far fetched, but it really happened. I live in a small town, and I doubt she drove faster then 30mph. My daughters were really giving me a hard time about it. I'm usually really busy, and I have a problem with laying things down and forgetting where I left them. I told my daughters that I had that same problem with car seats, when they were kids.

I went into my garage, laid down my phone, then began filling my mower with gas and started mowing the lawn. Then waved to my wife as she left to go meet a friend. I finished mowing and started looking for my phone, I looked all over and couldn't find it. My wife pulls up into the driveway, and my phone is sitting on her sunroof. I tired calling the phone about 10 times too, it's a good thing it wasn't on vibrate.

I'm not an expert in any of this. In my area the phone had weird signal issues when using 800mhz. I'm certainly not going to call sprint about it, I can wait. Hopefully whatever the issues is, it's an easy fix.

I'm thinking they have 800mhz on the north side of Northfield, and I don't think it's listed on the maps here. I know the one on the west side has it, it's about 3 miles from my brother-in-law's house. I had some weird issues with my Note II on 800mhz though, and I see they downgraded my PRL to 2000 about a week ago. Which doesn't have any 800mhz scans in it.

That's pretty good, isn't that about 5 miles ?

Eye hate auto correct two, sometimes it works, and sometimes knot !

The 1x RSSI is in the third picture

I updated the post

I think there is something strange about how the Note 2 is reporting the 1x800 signal. 1/4 mile from the site, or 2 miles from the site, same signal.

Thank you digiblur, I'll do that.

I can do that, which screen do I use. I have a Note 2 a.) 1x Enginerring RF b.) 1x Enginerring Protocol c.) EVDO Enginerring RF d.) EVDO Enginerring Protocol. I'm aware of the typo's, I'm just having a little fun with Samsung.

I'm almost 100% sure they both came from the same site. There is not another Sprint site within 10 miles.

I thought would take the newest PRL out for a spin, and now my phone connects to 1X advanced 800mhz. However I noticed a few strange things. It took forever to get 3G data connection from the site, and if you look at the photo below, you'll notice that my 1x800 signal was weaker then the 3G signal. The site in question is in Waterville, MN and has been 3G 800 accepted. This area has always been a signal issue for me. I was hoping for a little more signal then what I saw. I'm really not worried about it yet, since they haven't even launched the new service yet. Do you think they're still testing the site?

I understand you an AJ have disdain for Charlie (haha), and maybe rightfully so. For me, If it wasn't for Dish we would still be with our Cable company or DirecTV. I'm glad they're putting pressure in that area. In the end though, it's really up to the content providers..ABC,NBC, FOX, USA....etc. and what kind of contracts they can work out with them. My wife wanted to get the Hopper, and I was dragging my feet with it. I might be revealing my age when I say, I would never pay a fee to record something, but it really does have value, because we can watch our shows, when we have the opportunity, and that is where video is going. As far as your fee goes, I think the cat is out of the bag, since we can watch on our mobile devices now. On the other hand, the content providers could see the value in that and charge or block Dish from doing it I guess.

I've been following all these posts about the Dish's proposal for Sprint/Clearwire, and I think it's horrible idea. Dish really doesn't have much to offer, even if they built a fast network, they don't have any "video content" to offer wireless subscribers anyway, except the video on the DVR Hopper. That Blockbuster purchase a couple of years ago didn't go very well. They don't have "anything" of value and that was 1-1/2 years after the buyout., so we stayed with Netflix. Having said all of that, I was in Chicago for three days last month and when I got back to the hotel room, I was streaming video from our Hopper at home to my phone, and I have to say that worked really well, that's the only angle I see in Dish's video quest right now.