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I honestly could do without snow for the rest of my life. I hate the cold so much. I just got my power back after not having it for 33 hours. Central Illinois didn't fare to well with the Ice and High winds. Hope to move to South Carolina within the next 2 years. Only Two more winters. Hopefully. 

Boo!!!!.

Okay, So I have a friend that I want to give my HTC One Max too but she wants to keep Straight Talk. Whenever I go to check its compatibililty on Straight talk under the sprint verification it says that it doesn't qualify. Anyways to get it to qualify. Or let the system let it go through. Its is fully paid off and wasn't in any bad standing through Sprint. Help!!! Please she hasn't ever used Sprint's service and I want her to come to a great network though it is through Straight talk. 

Attention everyone!!!!! I just had LTE in my house in Heritage Lake near Mackinaw for about an hour not great speeds but enough to do easy tasks. And it's at least a step forward. Im stoked. But I think that they are testing it cause it shut back off. Do they normally do testing at night for the tower turning it on and off. Ill post an image of my speeds they were near 5 Mbs at about 2 to 3 bars. Nexus 6 is my phone that it was on. Usually I can get LTE but it doesn't stay longer than five seconds so I think they are testing it thats why I had it longer than normal. Any opinions on what maybe going on. Am I correct that they may be testing. Things are starting to turn around for Mackinaw and Sprint.  

I have been trying to register and there was no luck getting past the first screen. There was an error came up a lot

I was having the same thing happen to me. So, I guess they have some website updating that needs done. 

I have an old phone I am trying to try this service with (cause why not its free) but when I go to register the account it errors out saying something went wrong. It says my phone is eligible for the program. Also for this plan you are charged 10 dollars then that is deducted if you going over your limits and once the account is at a zero balance it will charged another ten dollars. Pretty good if you dont use a lot of minutes, texts, or data. Only being charged 10 dollars for a year of service not to shabby. 

By Route 9 where?  If the US Cellular coverage map is any indication of the spectrum areas that was sold off to Sprint, then Mackinaw does not fit that bill unfortunately.  

 

 

My uneducated mind says that both Stanford and Danvers were located in the areas in which spectrum was sold to Sprint, but it appears that Mackinaw is not in that area.  

 

I know that USCC had a tower on the south side of Route 9 a little before the vineyard, but I do now know what happened to it.  I haven't been through that area for well over a year.  The only way to know for sure is to drive out there and poke around a little.  The way I found out about the tower in my town was that I physically went to the site and saw that some work appeared to be in progress and that there had been a new(er) looking electric meter put in and that it happened to have a printed 'Sprint' sticker next to it.

The one that you mentioned past the vine yard is what I am talking about. It is right on the boarder of where Sprint bought its U.S. Cellulars Spectrum. There is no longer any equipment on top of the tower. 

Standford was an old USCC tower (part of Project Ocean) IIRC, so it is fairly recent.

 

Edit: I believe Danvers was as well.

Do you know if the tower by route nine that was an old U.S. Cellular tower is part of project Ocean. It has been stripped of its U.S. Cellular antennas. If there is a page on here for those towers can you post a link. Also if you have to be premier Ill upgrade immediately. I want to know so bad if there is going to be a tower near Mackinaw. I want some 4G love in Mackinaw All of Mackinaw.  

So, I didn't know Stanford, Illinois has a Sprint tower and it is full blown Spark. The 70+ Mbs was from their and the other two was from Danvers. Has Sprint always had a tower in Stanford. 

Didn't mean to make it a Downloadable file. But Inside that file it shows my speed tests from those two towns. I want Mackinaw to have this. Maybe on day in the near coming future. 

So, I didn't know Stanford, Illinois has a Sprint tower and it is full blown Spark. The 70+ Mbs was from their and the other two was from Danvers. Has Sprint always had a tower in Stanford. 

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Well this is the site that makes magentrolls to hit themselves in the head because they can't infiltrate it.

 

There is a troll at fiercewireless that mentions S4GRU on every comment. His latest attack is that some S4GRU members give this site a bad reputation. Of course we know why he attacks Sprint , and members of this site fiercely.He or she can't can't post here.However he always put the bait on the comments section, and some of our members fall for it.

 

The best weapon is to ignore him.

Would this person name start with a F and end with N. LOL. 

Wouldn't you guys think that this would work with Sprint. It has TDD-LTE in the 2.5Ghz. Its a booster similar to the Airave but capable of 4G LTE.

http://www.airvana.com/products/home-and-small-office/s1000/

More on the east side of town. It wasn't there before was it?

No there was a new tower put up in Danvers so that could what you are connecting to. I have connected to LTE near coil RD and fast ave intersection from the tower in Morton with decent speeds.

Anybody else seeing lte in Mackinaw?.

You can in some spots of the town. Why have you been seeing it more. I live in Mackinaw out in Heritage Lake.

How are you seeing that it was classified as on the Sprint Network?  Interesting that SCP notes "Domestic Roaming" but you are saying your phone indicated 'Sprint' ?  Innnnnnnteresting.

I had other pictures showing it. I took these in Abingdon. I dont know why they didnt post. Ill post them. 

How are you seeing that it was classified as on the Sprint Network?  Interesting that SCP notes "Domestic Roaming" but you are saying your phone indicated 'Sprint' ?  Innnnnnnteresting.

I had other pictures showing it. I took these in Abingdon. I dont know why they didnt post. Ill post them. 

So this is happening lately in Mackinaw with Sprint Roaming on Sprint. And I had LTE in Mackinaw. Its about the same coverage signal that U.S. Cellular had but lately it has been reading Sprint. Before it was just 1xRTT now it is EV-DO. With great speeds for 3G any thoughts what the case may be. Wonder if the roaming is classified as on Network since it is reading that it is on the Sprint network. Have screenshots below. 

So I am in Myrtle Beach right now and my speeds here are horrid. I live in Central Illinois and always ride on Spark which I get about 50 Mbs down. Sprint needs to upgrade to spark asap.

My Nexus 6 wont upgrade to the new. PRL's. It stays in 25025.

Does this count?  A COB (cell on balloon):

 

Am I just tired or is this real. Am I gullible. I cant tell if this is photo shopped. LOL

I just like the Idea of having unlimited data for the fact that I can do whatever, I want without being charged for going over my allowance. So for me its a way to ease my mind from overage fees. If all carriers would get rid of overage fees then I think it is more acceptable. 

I'll go see if I can find how much. I'm positive I use a lot.

 

From January and back, I was through straight talk.

I thought I used a lot in a month. I use 10-15 Gb because of Speedtest.net but I don't live in an area with a lot of Sprint coverage. I only have 1xRTT most of the time. I would love to have Spark while in my house I would use it all the time. BUT Dang 141 GB. 

It's all over in B/N.

Yeah just went there again today and noticed it more. Also Danvers has a U.S. Cellular conversion up and running. A town where signal was only 1x800 now has full bars B41 in it. Wish they would bring a tower to Mackinaw. They still have a ticket for land around Mackinaw to be looked at for a tower. Im feeling hopeful. 

Had B41 in Blo-No last week near I-74 and I-55 North meet by Heartland Community College. Haven't been back there this week but its spreading fast. 

Get the file of the current firmware for the phone which can be found if you google it. Then when downloaded put your phone into download mode. Use Odin to download the firmware. it will wipe the phone 100% from recovery to UI. It will be like brand new as you are looking for. Look Up QBKing77 he has videos of it. Will be the same for any Samsung phone or Tablet. 

Youtube link:

But Instead of the Tar File put the stock boot loader file into the boot loader area. I have done this on my GS3 and it has worked it. This will put a new version of the UI onto the phone. Same steps occur when going from CM back to stock. There are how to videos just google it there a lot out there. \

Hope this Helps.