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1200 sounds about right to me. It probably will make a difference as to how dead your battery is. Easier to shove 1200 mA into a near dead battery than one that is near full charge.

Careful assuming that your car voltage is ok since you had your alternator and battery replaced. Your whole electrical system may be running at a slightly lower voltage than normal due to the rebuilt alternator. A 950ma charger may indeed be slower that a 2 amp charger. It can only output 950 ma and if you need more than that, you are not going to get it. Do you know how many milliamps your wall charger is supplying to your phone??

Does any packaging have a milli-amp capacity specified? I would think buying the charger with the highest capacity might help, but I am not sure that is easy to determine. I am not sure any of them tell you their capacity. If this is happening in the same car all the time, could you have slightly low battery voltage in the whole car??

From Aug 2, 2013 Shentel Earnings report Discussion. Publicly released info 4G Upgrade On Schedule; 81% of Cell Sites Upgraded "With 427 of our 525 cell sites upgraded as of June 30, we are on track to complete our portion of the Sprint Network Vision 4G upgrade by the close of 2013" Service revenues in the wireless segment increased 15.4% to $46.4 million as compared to the second quarter of 2012. Net postpaid service revenues increased $3.4 million due primarily to a 4.6% growth in customers and increased data fees on smartphones. Net prepaid service revenues grew $2.8 million, or 36.2%, with 15.3% growth in the pre-paid customer base as compared to the same period of 2012.

a -85 is a very good level to have. That should work perfect for you. I have that in my home and can even do down in a basement and still have a very usable signal. Your experience may not necessarily be the same, but I am betting you are in fine shape.

So many people wish they had your problem. And it may not be a problem but actually a good thing. If your 800 signal is at least decent and it works for you, just continue to use it and be be happy. It is desirable in most cases. You do NOT need 6 bars for your phone to work well. If the 800 gives you one or two bars and your phones do not drop calls, that is all you need and your service will be fine. 6 bars on your phones will not result in better calls than you are going to get with one or two bars on your 800 service. Actually, your calls should sound better over 800 than an over an Airave. Much of the time you have a delay issue on an Airave making it somewhat difficult to carry on the conversation. 800 does not have this issue. Also, if you have 800 , this probably means your EVDO is also upgraded. That is something we can not be sure about, but it probably has. if so, your EVDO is probably slightly better than it had been. You may or may not need an Airave anymore. Try turning your Airave off and see what happens to your EVDO. The signal may be weaker than on the Airave, but the EVDO may work fine. An Airave may be a unnecessary complication you no longer need. (Maybe)

EXACTLY. You nailed it. They pulled back, took the money & blew it. They should have been expanding deeper into the population.

Yes Deval, I have been inside many more Sprint network facilities than you have. They COULD have a Sprintlink network that extends much further, but years ago, they made some major mistakes. Now they have issues getting back-haul at many locations. They never would have had back-haul to the majority of the sites, but they could have had it much more closely available to them if they would have looked ahead and been able to see the explosion of data usage. Data exploded everywhere and they were interested in selling all local phone operations. Now they struggle with getting back-haul and pay excessive dollars for it. Executives that were highly paid could not see the growth in data transport that was going to be needed for cell sites and even other things. They had fiber with less that half of the pairs active. The pairs that were active could handle much more data if they upgraded the fiber equipment at each end. Selling all that and getting a bonus in their paycheck for doing it was very very wrong. Yes, this is old news, but Sprint still suffers from the mistake.

AJ, Years before your time, Sprint built a fiber network and was one of the first to do it. They were ahead of most everybody. But, like you said, they spun it off 7 years ago and burned through the cash while some of the executives got rich in all the dealing. I am saying they either were not smart enough to know what they had or were all in it for the quick money. It was a mistake to sell off everything and blow the money. Even if they did not see Network Vision, they should have been smart enough to realize that data transport of some type was going to be the growth area. They were not smart enough to see it. Many of those people are gone now.

Yes, that is the point. They once owned some local fiber and a very good nationwide transport system. Not any more. It was not in every city, but they had it some places. They wanted out to the local telephone business and they got it accomplished. Now they have to depend on Verizon, AT&T, Century Link. Even CenturyLink is not really tied to Sprint anymore and they mostly own the old Sprint Local fiber.

Yes, give Shentel credit, but then also criticize Sprint for allowing their own SprintLink nationwide Data Network degrade over the last decade.

But But, Can you have a mobile camped on 800 just for the bars and then send it a call on 1900 without causing any havoc. Is the system capable of doing this??

Hopefully it would be a passenger doing the video.

Yes, as long as they leave us all idle on 800, we all have a boatload of bars and great service. I question how long it will be until the 800 1X can handle the load and they have to do something. Right now, only some of the customers are on the 800, As more are able to get 800, can it be overloaded?? If they force some of us to idle on 1900, the bars decrease.

Never underestimate the value of having a whole pile of bars at the top of the screen. For years, Sanyo had an extra bar over the other brands not because of being a better phone. They simply tweaked the setting to make it appear that you had more signal. People actually believed they had better service when they actually only had a false extra bar.

If you really can buffer several seconds, then you might be ok. But video conferencing may not work well with it having excessive delay. One way video may be fine but two way may not work properly if we get into heavy buffering. I am asking about this more than trying to say I have the answer. Airaves(remember them) had a delay just on voice and it made them hard to use.

Yes, there is buffering, but how much??? Video does not wait around for any software to fix an issue. When a stream stops, normally the video burps and you can see it. If any significant amount of the stream is lost, the video is going to show it.

Sure, a slight blip can be overcome by error correction and resending a block or two of data. But any significant drop in the stream will surely bother video.

You may be correct on this and it may be the exact best way to do things. As long as they can pull off a smooth hand-off to 1900 or 800 without upsetting the data stream, we may really have something great. I question if they can make it work when driving at 75 MPH on the interstates since constant handing off would be required.

Robert might be brave enough to come to the East Coast, but getting him into JERSEY might be much more difficult.

The odds of success are very very low. I will NEVER invest in this project. Charlie may get rich, but then the project will fail. He will be gone and sitting around counting his money.

Yes, get that Note 2 to function on 800 mhz and try it again. You will be totally thrilled. And to make it better, Shentel tain't even done yet. It is going to get even better. I have a Galaxy S3 and it does work on 800. Shentel probably has the highest percentage of 800 sites active and it really really works well. And, did I say that they tain't done yet.

You sure are thinking the way I think. The phones should use 1900 for LTE as long as it is a strong enough signal to give good service. The moment you move into an area with a weaker signal that degrades performance on 1900, the phones should switch over to 800 LTE. So far, I have not seen any comments that confirm this will work as we suggest. Sprint sure should make ever effort to make it work this way. The 2600 LTE should figure into this too. I am not sure just where that should fit. Maybe even first priority, but it sure will not be available in many places for quite awhile yet. The key is to make the transfer between bands seamless and make the transfer happen BEFORE the service gets crappy.

If I were a Sprint Sales rep, I would probably show Sensorly to a prospective customer and compare Sprint to AT&T. Using Sensorly and a few carefully thought out comments would make sales for a Sprint Sales Rep. Sprint probably would not officially allow this to be done, but I would do it anyway.

Boosted20V - Shentel has 800 voice about totally rolled out. When they want to activate 800 LTE, I would think the cell sites would be ready with all the equipment wired up and ready to go. I would almost bet they could turn it up right now, but there are no phones around to use it. Seeing how they operate tells me they have to be further advanced with 800 LTE than anybody else.