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The other tower is the carrier that just went bankrupt. I forgot their name. Cricket?

I have a snicky suspicion that there's some political crap going on with that site. I work in Grandview Heights and deal with the city for some building projects. For the most part they are easy to get along with. Maybe the school is being a hiccup in upgrading that site.

You could acquire root and flash back to stock ZVA even rooted stock. Then disable the nag screen about upgrading to ZVC. I've flashed to liquid smooth so I can't see if this exists but can you change or force modes with ##data#? Edit Never mind. You need data centric control. Have to flash back.

That is not true. There is rooftop work being done in addition to new premier discuased work.

I went through there last night for dinner. Looked for sasquatch, couldn't find him. I can say that here too and not get into trouble!!!!! Data wasn't bad and that is a HUGE improvement for Lancaster. Abysmal would be a honest description on a good day previously. I was hoping to pick up LTE from Marcy Rd. All I got was a bunch of hill jumping jollies for the kids and the wife screaming "slow down". I'll end with, it's awful nice outside. You'd think there'd be a lot of work being done.

It's now a hi-cap site and still doesn't perform very well. It gets across 33 into the shopping area around Walmart. Considering that there's all flat ground around the tower and Sprint's the only thing on that tower and the antennas are at the top, the site should be a good performer. Bowen road is just as lousy for the same reasons. There's so many dead spots still that NV has not fixed that only more towers will fix. Come on Sprint learn by example. Between every Sprint tower is 3 AT&T towers.

If I don't have voice service calls do not go through. If I manage to have enough voice signal for a call to go through, the quality of service is still subject to the quality of the voice channel connection including being susceptible to drop calls due to bouncing towers and eventually to one too far away or a jump from legacy to NV. This while being connected to a full strength wifi connection sporting a 30/3 broadband connection. Now when I got through the trouble of setting up SIP, calls will go over wifi and they sound amazing compared to the cellular calls. All from within the same office, same desk, same chair. Just my experience. I even went through the Sprint and Google FAQ's. They go over all the extra features that integration brings but none of them are voice over IP. That's how I meant misleading.

That's misleading, the whole Sprint/Google Voice integration at least. Voice calls still use 1x. The SMS and voicemail uses data. The integration allows one to use their data service for SMS messages instead of the 1x network which if you're in an area that is bordered legacy and NV you would know is a miserable experience. It also affords the user to have other devices tied to Google Voice to expand your voice capabilities. Such as adding a home phone number to your GV so that when your cell rings, your home phone will as well, either can answer the calls. Or getting a service that forwards a virtual phone number to a SIP account allowing you to get calls to and from a SIP server enabling VOIP calls to take place over cell data and/or wifi.

Done up to hither.

I'll be happy when I can just have voice service when I need it and enough data to stream some music or surf the internet. Of course, at home that was all NV upgraded in August-ish and it's no better than legacy was. Getting a little sore lately from the recent NV rollouts around Columbus. Brings my office into the middle of Moto/Sammy no phone workie land. Dropped calls. Calls straight to voice mail. It gets old.

All the BID's to this point are entered. Some super duper verified.

I think I read that you already took the G2 back and exchanged it for a S5. In case you didn't some notes from out market. Yes all turbans phones going forward for now will have a single radio. This brings up Ecsfb. I know you've seen the term thrown around in our market pages and chat, maybe you've done like me and ignored it because it was irrelevant until now. All that means is since there's a single radio and your phone's primary purpose is for voice use, it will go to LTE mode if the site you're connected to has voice also. This is so while in a data session and an incoming call comes in, the site switches you to voice for the call, else the call goes to voicemail. Enter band 41. If the band 41 site is co-located with NV site then you could also connect to either technology for LTE while being on standby for voice. If the band 41 site is not co-located such as the case for many wimax sites in Columbus, you will not connect to band 41 with triband phone because of ecsfb need of having voice available. Enter voice centric and data centric. The triband default is voice centric. Makes sense considering above. By accessing the hidden menu on <kk roms you can force phone to data centric as in, connect to data as priority. That is how we've connected to b41 in our market. Now enter band enable/disable and priority. The enable really needs no explanation. I set my priority with b26-1 b41-2 b25-3. This priority is applied after reboot and airplane toggle I think, that's it. Once the phone is on, it will do as the site controllers tell it. All that was a huge learning curve for me coming from S3 and a period of wtf. With all the additional b25 in our market, I rarely connect to b41. Usually only where b25 doesn't exist or after airplane mode toggle. Experiencing this I have to ask the question, what good is b41 with ecsfb present and no co-lo sites? Mifi and modem cards for internet only access. Another topic altogether. I've tried to keep premier info out of my post. If I crossed that line I'll edit.

Thanks for posting the pics. There's a slew of sites with permits in central Ohio and now we know what to look for instead of guessing.

My only beef with Samsung is the Knox bootloader. On the S3's they figured out how to get around Knox eventually because it was an OTA. The S5's will have Knox out of the box. I don't trust the fact that a bootloader was developed for a manufacturer by the NSA. I don't do anything illegal but at the same time I like knowing they're not watching what I'm doing out of boredom. I've not seen the S5 but let me tell a brief story. I had already bought the G2 but it had no SIM, it was used. While at a Sprint store getting a SIM installed and getting the phone activated I had the opportunity to talk to the LG rep. I deal with sales reps all the time. When I was done, I was glad I bought the G2. Now that I've used it for two months, I can't recommend any other phone. I can't imagine what's coming in the G3...

without getting into trouble about what I'm discussing where since certain people lead me down the path of the forum cops.... Each band has it's own cabs. Since Sprint now owns several of these little companies and each of those former companies had leases protecting the landlords should a buyout happen, a site is a site and that's all there is to it. Since Clearwire was it's own thing, they had their own sites, Sprint had theirs, etc. So now you'll have WiMax sites being upgraded to B41 "in-place". Some happen to be co-located with Sprint cells, some don't. How this weighs in with the ecsfb has me wondering since it could be possible to be on LTE B41 but not the same tower that has voice, but that's for another post. Now my instinct is that somebody, a project manager at Sprint in our market got fired and someone replaced them. That someone changed up the deployment for our market. The two previous sentences are all speculation and instinct. Sprint is doing the original NV 1.0 work still which encompasses 800 voice, 1900 voice, 1900 data, 1900 LTE. In the middle of that, they started another crew on 2500 LTE (B41) patching for Clear sites. They're starting another implementation of 800 LTE and another implementation of 2500 LTE replacement. AT&T, TMO and Verizon are also all rolling out new services still. Contractor wise, AT&T and the big V use 100% union labor and won't affect Sprint's deployment. TMO however uses the same contractors as Sprint so whoever pays the most gets the most attention. John Legere being who he is, will pay more to get his sites done before Sprint at all costs. Sprint rolls out another project and spreads the contractors thinner slowing down progress on everything else. Does that help?

That would be a no. One would think that with multiple Sprint projects running they wouldn't spread resources thin and start another project. My instinct says somebody got fired, somebody else got hired and they changing the game up. Where that lands things, well its a coin toss in my book.

I have all the BID's to here in a spreadsheet. I'll get them entered. It's a process to find the sites without the site ID's. If you happen to have the site ID's and can PM them since we can't post them here.

get a tri-band phone and call it a day. At Lancaster/Broad getting my car worked on and pulling over 40 mbit.

Updating maps... [edit 4 mins later] done. Sorry it took so long.

Anyone know of a ZVA TOT file? A friend took the update, discovered the removed hidden menu and would like to roll back. We get B41 here and it fills in where we don't yet have B25. That for me is a deal breaker as well. Definitely waiting on the stock rooted with hidden menu.

A few more. I guess everybody else has left. Address is wrong. WAY wrong.

This is true on an "open" network. Experienced this yesterday. In Columbus, some B41 sites are put to "open" or "public" view for a period of time then closed up. I even went as far as disabling B41 and because the site near me was open I was sent to that B41 site instead of a more stronger, closer B25 site even going as far as making B25 my only priority. B41 is not officially launched here but is active on I think 45 sites. And with that, I have to stop speaking of B41 fun now before I get into trouble since it's not the Premier side.

Just so everybody knows, yes we post this stuff in chat too but credit occurs when it's posted here. Not that we're a bunch of credit stealing pirates or something.

All of BID's to date are in the spreadsheet. At least the ones posted here. Seems like BID's were added from other verifications too.

The random reboots I'm told are because of using an unofficial kernel with the AOSP 4.4.2. It is expected to not be a problem once the official kernel is released. The furnace and dr87 kernels are expected to incorporate the 4.4.2 kernel to resolve this. I'm looking forward to 4.4.2 just for the power management. The ROM I was on was crazy, power management stats showed using only 2/4 cores and spending most of CPU time asleep or at 300 MHz. Very little time was needed running at full speed. The crazy part was this was so un-noticeable. As for LTE, Spark & eCSFB: The only way you'll connect to any LTE while voice centric (VC) is if the same site has NV PCS. If this is not the case you will not connect to LTE because voice takes priority. But when you go data centric (DC) you will get LTE based on your priority because you've made data your priority over voice. If your phone is on a LTE site that does not have NV voice, your phone will not get the notification to switch to voice channel and pick-up the call and the call goes to voice mail. This is the future for now. Tri-band phone with a single radio. This is exactly how my phone has worked for 12+ months, incoming calls were blocked a good portion of the time going to voice mail. Happened after the eHRPD rollouts in our area.