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  1. boomerbubba
    Yes. All sponsors at S4GRU have access to precise maps of virtually all Sprint antenna sites. These are not the Clearwire Wimax sites.
  2. boomerbubba
    I don't understand. What "Sprint map" are you referring to? Sprint does not pubiish maps of all Sprint towers. If you look at the sponsor map at S4GRU you will find the Sprint tower in the nearby area, and it does not look like your photos. Your photos do not look like typical cell towers to me. What makes you think these photos show a Sprint tower at all?
  3. boomerbubba
    Yup.
  4. boomerbubba
    No,,you will not find most towers, only the small subset that Sprint has scheduled for band-aid maintentance work. These are a small fraction of Sprint's towers overall. If you want to see all the towers, you need the sponsor-level maps at S4GRU.
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    The Running List thread here at S4GRU still shows Memphis as a Second Round market with an "Anticipated Launch" in November. And there are a lot of caveats associated with that projection.
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    Apparently you are referring to Sprint's own map of local upgrades accessible here? Those scheduled upgrades have nothing to do with the Network Vision network rebuild project that includes LTE, but rather "band-aid" maintenance upgrades on the legacy network.
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    Open Signal won't do that job. Period. If you want to know the precise location of Sprint towers, S4GRU has all of them mapped precisely. You just need to become a sponsor.
  8. boomerbubba
    There already is an FCC Broadband Test app for Android. It was developed by Ookla, and I thought it was basically a rebranded SpeedTest.
  9. boomerbubba
    I suggest that it is not pointless to report the facts on the ground if that is the story. If there are more past due sites, I think that should be published on the monthly schedule maps. S4GRU is not just about good news, it is about facts and fact-based analysis. And this site is uniquely situated to be able to compare actual project performance with scheduled performance.
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    Without a link to the map you are looking at, I suspect you are seeing these maps from June 20. They merely showed the sites that were then completed in the L.A. market or were then scheduled for completion in time for a possible September launch of the LA market with a fraction of its total sites complete. That did not include every site in the whole project, which would take longer for ultimate completion. There are other sponsor-level S4GRU maps -- to which you now lack access -- showing all the sites in the whole project and allowing interactive zooming. Those are essentially all the current Sprint towers, because that is the scope of the Network Vision project.
  11. boomerbubba
    Welcome to S4GRU. Which maps are you looking at, specifically? Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley are certainly covered by the Network Vision project. (Also understand that without sponsor status, you don't have access to all the maps on the site. And some maps only show certain subsets, such as those sites scheduled to be completed during a particular calendar month.)
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    @digiblur: Could you include a brief primer on what the heck "MCC/MNC records" are?
  13. boomerbubba
    There is another piece to this puzzle that I have never understood, which might be relevant. Those with EVO 4G LTEs report that there is a screen under the hidden LTE menu labeled CDMA List, which is a dynamic table of CDMA SIDs and BSIDs . (This screen is absent on the GS3.) The relationship of these CDMA records to LTE, I think, has been a mystery. It is not as if anyone has shown that LTE node base stations broadcast the CDMA IDs of the towers where they are colocated. I have surmised that this "CDMA list" is a list of the CDMA sites the phone detects while it has an LTE connection. But of course I really don't know.
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    I looked at Real Signal. Found the permissions list way too risky, an open invitation to allow the app to harvest personal data fulltime and upload it anywhere if the developer chooses. If they made a similar paid app without full Internet access that would be an attractive utility. BTW, it would be tricky for any developer to write an app that reports LTE diagnostics across devices, because the Android does not have a decently standardized telephony API for LTE like it does for GSM and CDMA. Developers have to poke around the nonstandard, hidden APIs that OEM manufacturers have created to find the LTE data..
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    Ditto. You will not find such a unit in my vehicle, but on the open road you would find a radar detector. I do have a cheap ODB2 unit for use with the Torque diagnostic app on my Android, but I don't keep it plugged in all the time. There's too much battery drain when the app is in operation.
  16. boomerbubba
    Here is a description from the site admin.
  17. boomerbubba
    Your handset could be partly to blame. I notice that you have an EVO 4G LTE. It is well known that this model's ability to connect to and hold an LTE signal has been gimped. They just released an OTA today that is supposed to help this.
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    The release notes, typically skimpy, can be found here. Notably they include "LTE Scanning Improvement."
  19. boomerbubba
    I noticed that the Baltimore announcement was more carefully unhyped, specifically noting that LTE service is available in certain areas and still a work in progress: Maybe the Sprint marketers are learning some lessons from the overly optimistic expectations created by the first launches in July.
  20. boomerbubba
    The easiest way to find all the Sprint towers is simply to become an S4GRU sponsor, which opens access to all the towers mapped precisely.
  21. boomerbubba
    I think he is just expressing chagrin at your new projections for "Current Production Rate Completion" juxtaposed with "Original Scheduled Completion." On its face, the unavoidable implication is that this project in several areas is seriously falling behind schedule. And on a parochial note, I must say I am disappointed myself to see Austin expressly flagged as "DELAYED." BTW, I congratulate S4GRU for reporting the news and analysis straightforwardly..
  22. boomerbubba
    There is no need to do any toggling on your GS3 --assuming that you are running the latest firmware, LG8, and have selected "LTE / CDMA" under the Settings menu . (EVO LTE devices still have a problem and are awaitng an OTA fix.) If you ever pick up an LTE signal, the phone will just use it and the 4G icon will show up on the notifications bar. I know of no app that will automatically, hands-off, log LTE connections along with other data showing where the connection was coming from. Don't worry, you haven't missed anything. No one has yet reported any live LTE in Austin itself. Waco is officially in the Austin market and is completely up and running, but that was deliberately done as a test sjte. The OP on this thread reported a single, brief sighting in San Marcos a few days ago, but there is no repeatable evidence. As for your wish for a tower list in southwest Austin, just become an S4GRU sponsor and that will be available to you mapped precisely.
  23. boomerbubba
    The server name and location are coming from Speedtest. It is just the remote server that Speedtest app is using to measure the upload, download and ping. This location has nothing to do with the Sprint network.
  24. boomerbubba
    First, undestand that no app, including Netmonitor, can map LTE towers directly. Your Netmonitor screenshots are mapping the coordinates broadcast by CDMA towers, which may not have LTE signals at all, or may not be on the same tower that your LTE signal is coming from. (Eventually, all CDMA towers will have LTE, but that doesn't mean this app can map it for you.) Second, the reason you can't correlate those sites to the S4GRU maps (assuming you are looking at the complete map for the area) is likely because the coordinates squawked by the CDMA may not be the actual coordinates of the towers but rather offsets for each sector of the cell some distance away. See this thread in the Sponsor forum: CDMA towers that squawk the wrong coordinates
  25. boomerbubba
    In my experience dealing with carriers -- about whom I am just as cynically jaded as anyone is -- the act of admitting in writing in their own public space that some problem is a "known issue" is significant. The use of that term of art can trigger more business concessions, especially if the customer has any leverage at all. (Two years ago, for example, there was a "known issue" with 3G upload speeds on the new Epic 4G, and Sprint extended my 14-day trial until two weeks after whatever time they released a fix so I could confirm that it worked. The fix was released shortly.) Up until the point of saying "there is a known issue," no matter how unquestionably and widely established any problem really is on all the user forums, the reps' script always call for them to say, "This is the first report I have ever heard of that issue, sir." Because in their alternate vocabulary, an issue is not a "known issue" until management officially decides it is "known." And management doesn't do that until there is a solution in the works. BTW, I note that one thing Sprint's thread did not say was when this OTA fix will be released.
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