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I was in the Bremerton/Silverdale area on Sunday to visit my brother and my dad and I (he has an iphone5) picked up a REALLY weak 4g signal that was barely usable and I tried to map it but I'm not sure if it picked it up. He lives not far off of HWY 303

Will LTE be wherever 3g already is essentially? Like if I currently get 3g inside my office can I expect LTE as well?

I'll map it tomorrow for a bit.

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SE73XC007 is the tower and it is in southeast Marysville right off of Highway 9

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A tower by my house in marysville just went live within the hour. I'll get you the tower in a bit.

Fastest I've personally seen yet....

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I bought my brand new S3 for that price two weeks ago no contract. I'll be happy with this until the S5 or Note 4 come out or whichever comes with 800 lte.

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I'll be in Everett tomorrow so I'll check as well. See how much I can map.

I'm in Costco at the Smokey point tower and I'm getting decent 4g signal.

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I heard that custom AOSP roms have trouble with 4g handoffs or something to that effect. Can anyone here relate any problems that they have noticed with AOSP roms like CM 10.1 or the like and LTE? I love AOKP but since LTE is popping up in my area like herpes I don't want to miss out on it because it won't keep a connection very well.

 

Glad to see the speed has increased. When I tested it in early March, I got only 2megs down and actually had faster upload speeds. Doesn't it seem odd that they'd light up LTE in Granite Falls, of all places? Were you able to get signal in "downtown" Granite Falls?

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I know right. Don't completely understand the strategy behind that.

I didn't go that far. I was basically a the the southwest portion of the sensorly area that's lit up. Stopped at a gas station to get those speeds.

Finally got to test the tower near Granite Falls today. Wish it were further southwest, I'm jealous!

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I see that in the update thread that 3g only towers are being completed with very little LTE being done. Are they just trying to get the 3g out of the way first for some towers then coming back later to hook up the LTE? I thought they would complete both at the same time?

with all these updates mostly on software side except for a good few update hardware specs, will they be avaliable for s3 and/or Note 2, like s translate, s health etc...?

I'm sure a good Dev will port them

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Doesnt look impressive to me. No real wow factor. The 5in screen is a big let down... Its too big for most and besides, Samsung has the Note to cater to the smaller market demanding very large displays.

That's the only thing I'm impressed with really. Larger/better screen than the S3 but smaller in height, length and width.

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I knew it was octa for EVERYONE but North America. Such BS. What a letdown....

I'm excited but I think we'll be getting the same treatment that we did last year with the GS3, not that it was necessarily a bad thing but it was still a letdown nonetheless. I was hoping we in the US would get the octa but it looks like we may get the same setup as the HTC One, which isn’t bad or anything by any means. I just don’t know if it is worth getting the S4 when I can get basically the same thing in the Note 2 (besides a feature here and there). I’ll wait and see once they do unveil it but it is looking like we may get the shaft again here in the US.

I'm a new member with a little inside info. Here is what I know. There are currently 4 LTE sites in south King and north Pierce counties. These sites are as follows. Petrovidski road near the King county shops (north end of lake youngs res), S.E. 208th near Kent Ridge highschool, 7404 20th St E, Fife and the intersection of E. Fairbanks and E. Portland in Tacoma. The issue with having a few LTE sites on the air is this; Spring's existing 3G CDMA equipment is all Alcatel/ Lucent, as is the switch in Redmond. The new LTE equipment here is Samsung, as is the switch. While there is a way to emplement a soft handoff between the two systems, Sprint is opting not to do this. So, if you are driving past a new, operational LTE site, your call will be dropped, phone picked up by the Samsung site and if you redial and contenue to drive, it will happen again when you get in range of the next ALU site. Sprint had planned to turn up entire sectors at a time to minimise this issue but has recently decided to instead turn up the new sites as soon as they are ready. Expect handoff issues! The next regions in western Washington to deploy are south of Olympia down the I-5 corridor and SR-12, and north of Marysville up the I-5 corridor and HWY-20. I hope this was informative. More when I know more.

Wishful thinking on my part but I wonder if because of this issue you are talking about, Sprint will deploy their upgrades faster! I can dream right?!

If you do get a signal again could use sensorly so we can map the lte signal

I'll try and see if I can get my dad to download sensorly for his iphone 5, he lives in Edmonds and works in Lynnwood.

No ehrpd on my GNex up north. Been in Lynnwood, Mill Creek, Mountlake Terrace

 

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Is there a way to looks up EHRPD on non LTE phones? I have an E4GT and would love to report findings when I'm out and about in the north end (Edmonds, Lynnwood, Everett areas).

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I agree. Up in the Everett and Marysville area 3g data is at a crawl.

Thanks for the comparison. Verizons LTE network obviously would have more people saturating the network and Sprints LTE is still in its infancy so it will be interesting to see the same comparison by the end of next year!

Sprints coverage map is down right now, so maybe they will release LTE in the other areas earlier than expected!

Motorolas seem to have really good radios. I'll probably wait for the rumored Photon Q before I decide between the two.

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Be interested to know this as well. I live up north in Everett so I'll be checking out the local towers in my area to see if there is anything similar going on up here as well.