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I dont understand why they dont have two signal bar. Wimax with a separate 4G signal bar was perfect.

WiMax devices also had a completely separate radio chip for wimax only... Might have something to do with them displaying the two signal bars then...

Might pose more difficult with the integrated radios....but I honestly don't see why that would be the case since they display the signal levels on the ENG screens already, so it shouldn't be much of an issue to map that value to a signal meter really....

See if I can get a developer over on xda to tackle that possibly...

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I still get a kick out of this story every time I see it pop up. Lol

I mean either the employee was a complete idiot and asshat which was telling someone they were too fat for the phone...

OR

The employee used wrong wording just saying the screen was too small for typing on it and the customer too offense and blew it outa proportion...

OR

Neither and the story is a grand fairy tale. Lol

Like what'd been said. Sprint has no reason to push non iPhone's with the contract they signed...

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It was sent to me from a member.

 

Robert

I browsed their site a bit more and finally saw it mentioned in the agenda for one of the meetings and tracked it down that way. Had to search for cell site to pull the links up...

Still hunting on wakegov to see what I can dig up... About to just fold and email them asking what all has come across as it should be public record anyway.

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Check out this link: http://www.mywakulla.com/docs/PlanningCommunityDevelopment/TRC/11-15-12/SP12-16.pdf

 

In the Electrical drawings (E sheets) it shows RRU's and power. These are ground mounted RRU's, but the principle is still the same.

 

Robert

Now how'd u pull that there? Didn't even see a query for permits for wakulla when I glanced...

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Sprint's LTE network is LTE Advanced ready. It is just a software upgrade for them. However, Carrier Aggregation will require a site visit. But until Sprint decides to start making devices that support CA (and they may never do so), then this is a moot point.

 

Robert

Yup yup... If you don't have carriers all spread out on the spectrum within the band then you really have no need really...

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Battery consumption from regular LTE is also pretty bad. I honestly think if reg LTE was the standard with all phones it would turn into 3G speeds. But then again, they can raise that limit very easily but it's costly.

Maybe on the thunderbolt when you had separate chipset running the radios but on the EVOLTE LTE battery life is hardly any worse than 3G if at all...

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Wondering the difference between LTE VS. LTE-A? I know the advanced LTE will be higher speeds. Will latency improve ? Is lte advanced just basically more back haul to the towers or just different spectrums?

LTEA involves carrier aggregation so where sprint doesn't have a contiguous block of spectrum they could lump pieces together... Still haven't looked into if it can be done across frequencies or not though... But if they own 5Mhz contiguous in 1900MHz freq and also another 5 non contiguous in 1900 then they can essentially put out 10Mhz.... The thing is right now the spectrum needs to be in contiguous blocks and LTEA is supposed to eliminate that need...but it does at a cost lol

Downfall is battery consumption at this stage is not its best from reports....

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This seems to be consistent with I'm hearing anecdotally. That the EVO LTE connectivity issues seem to be solved. That the EVO can now pick up a connection mch easier and faster than before, as well as keep it much easier. It does seem from what I've read that is not a stellar LTE RF performer, but definitely still more than sufficient. I can't wait to take the EVO out for a spin in an LTE area for my own testing.

 

Robert

And the RF performance aspect I believe is something that will always be a constant with it too... Remember AJ saying that after the FCC docs were posted up.... First time I realized devices varied this much RF wise, but it makes sense in the end...

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Yes. From cabinet to RRU's is fiber installed by OEM subcontractors.

 

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Good.

Then like I said before, it could be delivered to the cabinet via string for all that matters as long as that delivers their spec requirement, there should be little worry on that front.

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I cannot prove you wrong. However, based on a conversation I had with a Samsung engineer early in deployment where he was talking about cable Ethernet installed at a site in Chicago, he said that sometimes they are installing coax directly to the telco box. He said final connections from AAV were not fiber very often. He is the guy I got the term "indirect fiber" connections from.

 

The connection from the telco box (demarcation) to the routers would be Cat 5e in this instance.

 

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That stinks somewhat but oh well... Long as the bandwidth at the cabinet is what they need and is clean/consistent then it could be fed by a piece of string for all I care...

From the cabinet to the RRU its Ethernet connection though as opposed to coax correct?...

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Raleigh is definitely one of the worst Sprint markets. Fortunately for you all, work is under way now. Can't go back in the past. All we have is the present. And presently, work is underway. Legacy sites may even get worse before it gets better. But the end of your terrible network is nigh.

 

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Just wish the permit search for Raleigh was more detailed and we could get a better idea of where and when some of these things are going on... Also would help to know the subcontractors being used here... I can see a handful of ones tagged with sprints name but not near as many as I'd think to see...

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No offense, but your comment sounds dumb... Sorry, but think about it; the update is there. If your phone doesn't automatically notify you, that doesn't mean that it's not officially out. I see as any other product, you go out and get. Now if it comes to my front door, then that's just an added benefit.

 

If a company says "The update is out....", that pretty much says it's 'officially' out there.

 

-Luis

 

 

P.S. this is an afterthought, but when HTC released JB for the EVOLTE, Sprint supposedly was going to start pushing it out on January... I had to go out and get it, does that means it wasn't officially out?

People should realize when you say "no offense...." You likely should just stop there as your about to offend someone...

I'm not talking about it being pushed. I'm strictly saying if the phone can PULL it which at this point in time it can't. The only way to get the update is to go download the update and force it. ...

If you wanna put that more on ATT then fine, but the fact ATT isn't allowing it to be pushed or even manually pulled via OTA says something in itself...

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Yep. I think they announced it as the market. So that implies the tiny towns.

But I can't even send sms on a lot of the towers in n Raleigh lately. I'm going on vacation a lot (snowboarding) but if it's not better soon I'm going to end up giving up. I'm not alone on this either.

It's ridiculous that I had to find wifi last night and Google voice to send a text.

Few months and you'll feel silly for saying that likely...

You should of gotten a text too from them saying they were doing work in the area upgrading things....you've held on this long it'll be a shame to miss out on what's coming when its sooo close now...

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That is because AT&T did not push it out as an OTA Software Update. You have to get it via Kies. The GS3 has JB on every major carrier in the U.S.

If you have to go and get it, its not officially out for it...

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I honestly don't see what's to complain about here to be honest. If you read back they initially projected something like 2015 to be complete... To be able to bump up schedule 2 yrs possibly was amazing, thus having it trickle into 2014 is no big deal...

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What all does NV 2.0 involves? I'm going to guess 2500 LTE goes along with NV 2.0

800LTE, LTE Advanced, VoLTE...that's the pipeline of things to come in the future down the long road...

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So Samsung gets it right with one new device.... Let them keep that up before you praise them as HTC on average has been ahead of the pack.... Numbers don't lie my friends...

Gotta love the carrier numbers too! I have a coworker that has the SGS3 on ATT and STILL has NO JB update!! Haha

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I wonder if Raleigh Cary would indicate all of Wake County since those two make up about 75% of the county.

This is where you run risk by announcing cities too as you literally can't list every single small town/city... Though as mentioned it likely includes it all. Remember the whole market here is scheduled to start picking up real fast in next month or two, so I wouldn't read too much into surrounding cities not mentioned...

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Taken the wrong way. Poster said it was a simple fix and HTC just lowered a setting. I should have said, the change was much more than that. Changes were done in the modem code itself as well.

 

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Yeah soon as I replied I realized after the fact it was you.... Obviously you'd of known that...its never as simple as ppl think the changes are. Lol

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Much more than that.

 

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Its not lower than 5 its set to 5 now.... Though that's not the only change...

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Is it possible they are waiting until new phones that have 800 LTE and or Clearwire's LTE built in before reinstating the program?

Should/would have zero to do with the program btw... The program is all about them being able to offer the customers something where they don't have to bend over and take a loss overall on the deal... Most likely they have seen something they wanna tweak after running extensive numbers on it...

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3 things

1) battery life is misleading after doing a full wipe

2) sprint connections optimizer got in a fight with my Tasker profile.

3) these numbers have changed. If anyone waited on updating I would appreciate confirmation on that.

 

Typed with Swiftkey flow beta

Yeah the scan time was 30 before the update I believe.

And BSR was 16.

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Haha little knowledge used to write this article up here....

. http://bgr.com/2012/12/18/sprint-spectrum-holdings-analysis-257774/

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That is very good to hear! Thanks.

 

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Its one instance though ya know. But like you I take most comments on the matter with a giant grain of salt as usually there are a hundred other things at hand that could cause the difference in experience...

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That is correct, if by "in used", you mean "unused"

 

Not trying to be a grammar Nazi, but it can make a big difference in the meaning of the sentence.

Correct...

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