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No that is crap. It isn't a bad update. I didnt update via OTA. I odined the full ND8 tar file. They just gave us a line of crap on that one. If we can just get someone over on xda smart enough to figure out how to flash the MK3 modem back to our devices we would be set.

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I always forget most people here are stock. Im on 4.1.2 bootloader so I do what I want. Stock is bad, mmmkay?

 

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I don't like AOSP and prefer TW ROM's with a custom kernel. I also like KK so I upgraded. No way to downgrade now.

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What sucks is that other than the radio issue the update brought new life to the phone. Smoothest ROM yet besides the connectivity issue.

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I don't know exactly what the issue is but I've had enough lol, it's like being back on the MK3 modem now with my iPhone I'm happy for now until they maybe fix the issue but I doubt it.

 

 

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I'm personally back to the problems I was having when LTE was just rolling out in the Atlanta area, basically even if an area has LTE and I'm driving through I won't be near that tower long enough for the phone to actually switch from 3G to it.

My whole commute is LTE(32 miles) , but some days if I had left my phone low or in my pocket before I get in my car it will have connected to 3G (which is still horribly unusable in Atlanta even after upgrades) and then even if I sit it up high in my holder in my car it never reconnects to LTE without forcing airplane mode which I hadn't had to do the last few modems before.

Now with the issue with not being able to swap back and forth between modems anymore without possibly bootlooping or bricking I'm just glad I will be getting a new phone in a month or so hopefully.

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Has anyone noticed the difference phone calls sound on the other end now? The person sounds louder but more high pitched. My wife is on the S3 also and when she calls me or vice versa the way she sounds like she is in the room with me talking to me directly in my ear. Sometimes I like it but others it just sounds weird. Wish I knew how to mess with it to make it sound like it used to.

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They'll deknox ND8. If my reading was correct, they may already have, but if not it will happen.

On 4.4.2 they could not find a way to get the ROM to boot with any type of bootloader besides the newest Knox one. Once that bootloader is flashed you can never go back to a non-knox bootloader or you will hard brick our phone. The stuff in the bootloader is what trips the warranty bit.

The Knox apps can easily be frozen or deleted with no problem and that may be what you are talking about, but I'm afraid from what I am reading the bootloader with Knox on it is here to stay if you want to run TW 4.4.2 ROM's. Not a big deal on a 2 year old phone since my warranty is already gone anyway, but this Knox crap is probably what will keep me from ever buying a Samsung device ever again.

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I can confirm I have seen my phone not switch over to LTE as quickly after losing it with ND8. I don't believe we can simply flash MK3 modem back on this build like you could previously due to Knox.

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I hate the notification bar icons now. All white and gray! Yuck. Why did they get rid of the colors. Now I'm gonna have to root and fix it. Overall speed is better though.

Unhappy that I was forced to Knox though when developers were able to get rid of it in 4.3

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Whatever was wrong has fixed itself near my work. They did tell me it took up to 72 hours to get back to full capacity after being down. I guess that is what it was. Anyone with enough technical knowledge to tell me why it takes up to 72 hours after they fix a down tower for it to be back to full speed data/voice?

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The thing about capacity issues on LTE right now, is that since not all towers are upgraded, there will be many more people than intended on each the towers. Increasing backhaul and adding LTE carriers now on every tower experiencing lower than intended speeds and such would be a waste of resources that could be better used to instead upgrade other towers nearby, which would have the same effect of reducing strain. So you get one or the other, either a higher capacity single tower that still only covers what it does, or another upgraded tower nearby that also takes some of the strain off while increasing overall coverage.

 

Once all neighboring sites are upgraded, if speeds are still low then they will go through determining where the issue lies and correcting it. The new equipment is capable of self-monitoring everything from call blocks and drops to data throughput and ping, all automatically, and alerting the network teams of issues as it reaches set alert levels. Unlike the network of the past that had limited monitoring capabilities and very much relied on customers calling in, the new system does not require that in most cases. This system relies on the majority of towers being active and NV complete however, otherwise they are operating on incomplete information, and making thousands of dollars of upgrades based on incomplete info isn't what we want to see.

That's all well and good but I'm in Atlanta the 1st market for LTE, maybe I'm mistaken but single band LTE is almost 100% complete in this market. I know Spark isn't, but single band is. Also it doesn't make sense that I would get great service and speeds in this particular area for all this time(almost 2 years) and it starts sucking just now.

I fully believe this is a capacity issue that will only possibly be solved by tri-band.

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This. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/727536094

This looks exactly like my tests near my work in SW Dekalb County, GA. I have called and told sprint of the problem. They said they would get engineers out. I called back about a week later and they told me there was a tower out and they were working on it. They gave me a completion date. I waited two days after the completion date, and I still have these type results and my LTE signal levels are always around -84 to -92 usually in my office. I should be getting better speeds with that kind of signal. I called them back and they told me the work had been completed but they would tell the engineers my issue. Told me to wait a few more days and see if it stabilizes.

I discussed with tech support that I was starting to think it was capacity issues. I have noticed all over the Atlanta area the speeds when close to a tower have gone from 30-50Mbps to around 10Mbps usually and obviously the further from the tower I get it now peters out a lot closer to the towers than it used to for useful speeds.

I was thinking of re-upping a 2 year contract but if they can't even give me enough speed to stream Spotify in my office than there are issues. I hope the problem is localized but I fear it is capacity problem just like I experienced on 3G. The funny thing in my office if I toggle LTE off I get faster speeds on 3G though it is still sub 1Mbps....

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I have the S3 and my 2 year contract is up.  I still like contracts and will sign another 2 year contract when the LG G3 comes out.  As soon as Samsung introduced Knox for all without choice for us non-business users I was done with them.  I was wanting the Note 4, but I won't wait for it due to Knox.  The G3 sounds like exactly what I am looking for.  Hopefully their support/updates gets as good as Samsung is today though.

Well I reported the problem in my work area.  Several other co-workers are experiencing the same type issue around here.  It might be a bad local issue, but I agree overall speeds/latency has been worse over the last 2-3 weeks in the metro area.  Although on most towers I get decent speeds.  If people are being routed through Atlanta that might make sense then.  

As for a tri-band phone.  I will be getting the LG G3 probably when they start selling it in June or July which is right around my contract end date anyway.  With the way phones are these days I have no problem keeping a phone for 2 years and signing another contract, not to mention with my corporate discount changing my plan now and paying a monthly payment on a phone for no contract will cost me more money.  I am plenty happy with my S3 still although I have rooted and done several mods to it.

I am getting bad latencies and speeds at work now here at work now near Decatur, GA.  I'm on the 3rd floor and my office has a window.  Normally I get a LTE signal and it will be in the 92-100db range which gets me anywhere from 1-10Mbps generally.  That is perfect for streaming audio etc..., but in the last few weeks I have noticed every app streaming wise is starting to buffer more often, sometimes to the point of being useless.  I check my speeds and I am getting 253Kbps and lower download speed with anywhere from 90-900 ping times.  One time I updated my profile and PRL and it fixed it for a few hours but it has since gone bad again.  I tried to stream a live feed of the NCAA bracket tournament and it won't do it because of the crappy speed.

I've noticed decreased speed and higher latencies through the Atlanta metro area in the last few weeks also.  I am wondering if something is going on?

Anybody had latency and speed issues in the last 24 hours with the LTE network in the Atlanta area?

The reason I ask is because we had a storm come through in northern Coweta county and it pretty much did something crazy to the tour close to us, where the signal was low and it kept flipping to 3G for both my phone and my wife's.  When I could get 4G it was 1.5-2Mbps speeds at most with huge latency issues 150-700ms pings.  

I called and put a ticket in, and it seems it is better this morning, but speeds still are not what they were at my house.  Now getting Latency about 70-150ms and speeds 7-15Mbps when I was getting 20-30Mbps with at most a 50ms ping.  

I get to work in southwest Dekalb county and I work in a building by a window, so I get decently ok LTE signal, usually 4-10Mbps which is plenty enough to stream high end music or netflix.  I am now getting a pause in the middle of songs while it is buffering which never happens, and the latency is pretty bad up here also, probably 150-300ms pings.  

I am just wondering if there is something overall going wrong with the LTE network right now.  Anyone got similar experiences?

My wife and I both have an Galaxy S3 still, and I would think since both of our phones are doing the same thing, it isn't the phone.

I suspect the primary differentiation will be the 'note' devices get stylus, while everything else doesn't.

 

 

 

I am considering selling my n7/32gig also, I am using it less and less lately thanks to the note2.

 

On a side note, has anyone tried using the note2 with a mhl/hdmi adapter?

It looks as if they only have dualcore processors versus quadcore Note II, so maybe it is a more budget oriented phone.

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I wouldn't worry about data speeds there. The GT wireless network is extensive. Their backbone is pretty much the fastest internet connection in the southeast. I would assume you will be WiFi the entire time. I went to UGA and their wireless covered every ounce of campus.

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That's correct, and if you are a student or an employee there it is free just not for normal people like me. We have to pay.

Anyone know how the LTE coverage at Georgia Tech is? I might go there next year

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Pretty decent when I tailgate there for football games. Good enough for me to tether and stream video and audio from my laptop.

I was at my brother's condo at 1280 West Peachtree a couple of weeks ago and I had good LTE signal. He lives on the 39th floor. That is probably less than a mile from you.

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To be honest I don't frequent the middle of Atlanta much, but I will say this. I tailgate at Georgia Tech games and I get 4g while tailgating. My brother lives in the big Condo 1280 west in one of the penthouses that overlooks Atlantic Station and I got 4g there also. Most of my 4g experience is outside of Atlanta proper.

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Yes 20-30 when with a good sigal

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I can't wait until the coverage is common in Atlanta, wall to wall in the way that 3G is today. I know I've read it a million times, but it bears repeating: because the initial LTE rollout is in the 1900mhz band, 4G LTE should be just as ubiquitous (sp??) as Sprint's current 3G coverage. Which, all in all is pretty decent despite what some people say. So I'm pleased....it's just that I don't understand why it's taking so very long (launched in mid-July as we all know) to complete in this market?

To be honest, other than in a few buildings where 4g doesn't penetrate I get LTE everywhere I go with no exceptions in the metro area.

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Leaked LIH build of JB with LIH modem has a very hard time of going between 3G -> 4G. Doesnt like to connect initially when 4G is available....and when I go between towers....it loses 4G but then after driving into another area with 4G, it wont reconnect. Super frustrating. I know its a leaked build....but I would expect improvements from LI3....

 

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Use LIH build with LIG modem and you will get better results, and if you don't then keep flashing modems on that build to till you find one you like.

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I highly recommend turning the sprint optimizer off. There is nothing like driving around and using Google Navigation or a collision avoidance app like iOnroad or Waze and having a damn mcdonalds wifi or other obnoxious hotspot browser window pop up because you happen to drive by it. I'm sure at some point this will lead to LITERAL drive-by malware infections because of the autoconnect feature. TSK TSK

Completely agree. It was just saying this leak seems like it is either hard to keep it off or is turning itself back on. I have not had this problem but others were.

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Well it wont latch onto 4G when I go into an area where I have had it before. Ibhave to cycle airplane mode when I have not had to do that in the past.....

 

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You made certain the Sprint optimizer was off?

I have found that on this leak that people are reporting the optimizer being checked every time they go into it to turn it off, and and then for others this wasn't happening at all.

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