Jump to content

boomerbubba

S4GRU Premier Sponsor
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    704

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by boomerbubba

  1. boomerbubba
    And the complete map is available here on S4GRU to sponsors.
  2. boomerbubba
    Yes, but in this case, the venue is much different than some one-on-one contact between a tech and a single customer. The comment came under the imprimatur of the tech's Sprint logo avatar, and it came in a stickied thread on sprint.com that was started by a Sprint admin expressly as a reaction to the firestorm over the early LTE rollout. Such a forum format, for example, is how they announce official OTA releases. So this was more like an on-the-record public announcement.
  3. boomerbubba
    FYI to you EVO 4G LTE users, I noticed this comment today on the sprint.com forum from a Sprint tech. I think this might be the most public acknowledgement from Sprint that there is a "known issue" with the device connecting to LTE and that there will be an OTA fix. BTW, I don't know what dialer code he is talking about to get certain devices to connect. I know that at least on the GS3 the ##DATA# menu tree with MSL code can force the phone to LTE-only, but this workaround borks it for voice and texting via 1x. (Note that this part of the tech's comment was not directed specifically at any device.)
  4. boomerbubba
    Well, there was this.
  5. boomerbubba
    Yes, that's how I meant to use the common metaphor. If anyone is offended, I am sorry. But the serious matter-of-fact point remains so I don't want this to be a distraction. There have been a few too many cases of sponsors repeating the private detailed data in the public forums. Anyone is welcome to become a sponsor, and if they do they need to be aware of the site's rules. When I need to discuss the privileged data, I try to make my comments in the privileged forums provided for that purpose.
  6. boomerbubba
    Perhaps the idiomatic phrase I used just went over your head? It's in the common vernacular, although originating from a biblical reference. Certain information is reserved for sponsors, that's all. That's why there are special sponsor forums for discussing that stuff.
  7. boomerbubba
    Great. When you do that, the best place to post is in one of the sponsor forums, where the map data can be discussed in detail. Posting confidential sponsor data in this public forum would sort of be casting pearls before swine.
  8. boomerbubba
    The easiest way to solve the mystery is to look at the interactive NV project map for that area, zoom in and see if that site is on it.
  9. boomerbubba
    There also are other S4GRU maps that show all the towers regardless of status. I sort of doubt that what you saw is a Sprint tower under construction, since there are very few wholly new towers in the NV project, and Sprint is not dong much to expand its tower footprint. The NV project basically uses the existing Sprint towers and refits them with new antennas and radios.
  10. boomerbubba
    That's the way I read it, FWIW. I actually have seldom experienced problems with Sprint on its voice coverage or even dropped calls, although I have nothing kind to say about the current state of legacy 3G data.
  11. boomerbubba
    Just become a sponsor here at S4GRU and you will gain access to the exclusive maps showing exactly where all the Sprint NV towers are. Then you can easily test your own theory about that.
  12. boomerbubba
    Try Better Battery Stats
  13. boomerbubba
    The IDS captured by the apps are from the CDMA network hierarchy. There is no resource we know of here that correlates them in a handy table with the Sprint tower IDs. But with the S4GRU maps in hand as a sort of Rosetta Stone, you know where the towers actually are. So when surveying with the apps to capture the CDMA IDs and the coordinates they squawk -- I prefer CDMA Field Test -- it is usually possible to figure out which tower is which. You might need to deliberately circle around each tower site to log all the BSIDs, which typically are sequentially assigned to the three sectors of each tower. Each tower usually fits one of two patterns: All three sector radios broadcast the actual coordinates of the tower. Each sector broadcasts unique coordinates that are offset some distance away, and the three points form a triangle around the tower.
  14. boomerbubba
    I wonder if this is what some of those so-called "signal booster" apps are doing under the hood. I have always figured their user payload to be some sort of placebo effect after toggling the connection somehow.
  15. boomerbubba
    Is this for real? Just read this at XDA in the Sprint GS3 Forum , purporting to be from a Sprint rep. It is supposed to be a new service that can improve your signal if you are at a stationary location, and somehow be related to NV. Looking for informed reaction and a reality check here. Edit: From subsequent comments on XDA, whatever this is it does not seem to be new. It sure was new to me.
  16. boomerbubba

    No 3g data?

    boomerbubba replied to aimbdd's topic in HTC

    I think you should consider yourself fortunate to get any exchange at all. That would be a gift. Does the warranty normally cover rooted and modded phones that stop working? The common sense rule is that folks who mod their phones are at their own risk from that point, especially for software issues.
  17. boomerbubba
    Offsetting that a little, considering the total changes effected by NV relative to legacy EVDO, I have read here that the radiated power should be about "20 percent" higher due to the proximity of the radio to the antenna. And presumably there is a similar improvement in the tower's receive strength since the coax losses go away there, too. But if that "20 percent" is a linearly absolute change in wattage, it would only amount to about one decibel. Am I right about interpreting that? BTW, I will be a natural test subject for all of this theory when LTE finally comes to Austin. At my desk these days, my RSSI dBm levels vary a few decibels up and down from -95.
  18. boomerbubba
    Yep.
  19. boomerbubba
    You are conflating two different issues: The accuracy of Sprint's maps and the completeness of the coverage to date. The sprint maps are over-optimistic, as Robert has stated and demonstrated matter-of-factly, But future coverage is not the same as current coverage. I will repeat my comment from the parallel sponsor thread on this very topic:
  20. boomerbubba
    Yes. And you also said, "Not sure why it showed up like that, but I would guess it was ehrpd." That's what I was responding to. I was explaining how LTE could show up on the Netmonitor screen while it also showed a CDMA connection to Verizon. It was all just a reporting anomaly. But Android and Netmonitor are capable of distinguishing between eHRPD and LTE. I believe that he had a Sprint LTE connection.
  21. boomerbubba
    He's looking at a Netmonitor screen that is very misleading. One field on the app screen shows the data type as LTE because there is an LTE connection somewhere. The other fields show CDMA IDs that the phone happens to be connected to at the same time. And further, because of timing issues in the underlying Android API, we can't even be sure that the device is updating all those CDMA data elements concurrently to provide data for an app like Netmonitor to display. The SID, NID and BSID values are not even updated in sync with each other. This is documented as a known issue with the Android API.
  22. boomerbubba
    Welcome. To see the Sponsor Forum, become a sponsor. Make sure your GS3 is running the latest update (baseband version L710VPLG8) . The LG8 update has been pushing out for more than two weeks, but still not all devices have received it.
  23. boomerbubba
    Oh. Looking back now I see that your are right. It just didn't register with me that anyone would consider CDMA 1x 800 to be "one of the biggest improvements of NV."
  24. boomerbubba
    I think they all will be clamoring for iPhone 6 models by the time Sprint's LTE service is ready in the 800 Mhz band. Maybe iPhone 7. I will probably be looking at a Galaxy S 4 or Galaxy S 5.
  25. boomerbubba
    Open the phone dialer. Dial ##DEBUG# In the Lock Code box enter SPRINT Tap OK Select LTE Engineering
×
×
  • Create New...