CriticalityEvent

Hmm… not sure. You’re seeing that on the toolbar above the text box? When you say “local storage,” are you referring to your phone? I try to stay away from posting images directly on S4GRU seeing as how we only have 500KB of space per user and I’d rather not burden the site any more than I already have. Also, I inadvertently made a ninja edit while you were quoting me. I added a note to the bottom of my post that I was hoping you’d see, sorry about that.

I upload pictures to a public folder on my Flickr account, then copy the link ending with the .png/.jpg extension (might not be necessary). With the link copied, go back to the post you want to place it in. In the toolbar above the text box, select “Image” in the bottom row of icons (it’s near the middle of the row, next to the “Link” and “Unlink” icons) and paste the link in the dialog box that pops up. That should embed the image in your post. If you don’t see the toolbar, you may have collapsed it. If that is the case, look for a small arrow above the upper-right corner of your text box and click on it. Of course, this is just one way to do it. If you’re posting from an app, what I said probably doesn’t apply. EDIT: Also, I'm guessing that you've upgraded your phone, but your account still says "HTC Evo Shift 4G." Might wanna change that. :-P

Haha... You're jokingly upset, right?

They have about 38,000 towers, and all but 100 won't get LTE.

http://www.gsmarena....p-news-4812.php [quote} An image and some specs of the yet unannounced HTC phablet device have risen from the rumor pool. Currently the device is only known by its DIx codename, which when put together with the red stripe and naming history of HTC could coincide with Droid Incredible X. I guess I could be satisfied with a 5" DIx...

Correction: couldn't get it from the south-facing seats. This has been the one positive event at this game so far...we're getting thrashed. :-(

Confirmed- 4G at the Sox game right now! Just recorded some Sensorly data from the east-facing seats. Couldn't pick it up from the north-facing ones though...

Just out of curiosity, how will they do this? Will they see multiple IPs on a connection or something? Historically, I thought they did it by seeing the amount of data the phone was pulling down, but with phones being able to run BitTorrent apps these days, I’m not sure how they could keep distinguishing that way.

Oh shoot, really? My bad! I thought that since the BSID of the tower was recorded in the “LTE available file” list that it would correspond to source of the LTE signal.

What I do is go to the ##DATA# (##3282#) menu from the dial pad, then select View Mode->LTE record->LTE available file. You can get the BSID of the LTE-enabled towers that you have connected to. Once you have those numbers, you can correlate them to the towers that you see on NetMonitor. Note that the BSID number for a tower can be 1 or 2 values off, since there are 3 sectors to a tower. For example, you might see a BSID of 22753 in your LTE available file, but the tower on NetMonitor might be shown as 22752 or 22751.

Just out of curiosity, why wouldn’t we contact HTC directly? Aren’t they the ones that tailor the phones to the specific carriers’ frequencies? I would hope that the complaint handling process is not set up so that the problems can only be reported through the carrier…

Just to be clear, are you talking about the LTE scan timer and BSR max timer? I’m not sure what was going on last night, but my phone was automatically connecting fairly well on its own (relatively speaking). This was in an area where I hadn’t been before when 4G was active. This was with my scan timer and max timer set to 15 and 8, respectively. However, with these same settings, my phone was still having issues picking up LTE on my way to work through active areas. Is it possible that the EVO might only connect to towers in a certain area? Is there a difference between the towers in the Lake County area and the ones in the Palatine/Arlington Heights area? According to the maps, I apparently connected to towers with a different RF switch more easily. It’s your MSL password. You need to download “MSL Reader” from the app store if you’re rooted. Otherwise, you’ll have to call Sprint.

Well shucks. I don't suppose there are any custom radios that have been made for this thing? I might try re-flashing my radio to see if that helps. If not, I've been meaning to do a factory reset (I feel that there's a lot of app remnants that I need to get rid of anyway). As a side question, why do you delete the poster's name and post link of the post that you quote? I live for that little red notification at the top of the page! :-P

Meanwhile, would anyone think it would be worthwhile for EVO LTE users to fiddle with the LTE scan timer and BSR max timer settings in the ##3282# menu? I was thinking of trying to band people together on here and XDA to try combinations of settings. We could make it a coordinated effort by assigning people ranges of values to try as they pass by sites known to be active. For example, I pass by several towers which are known to be transmitting LTE. Starting last night, before I passed near these towers, I tried the following settings to see if my phone would detect LTE on its own: scan timer max timer 30 16 (default) 1 16 15 8 Someone on XDA already tried setting his scan timer to 60, so I know to try avoiding that. However, I have no idea what these values represent… does 30 correspond to 1/30th of a second? 30 milliseconds? Is it an exponent? Do the values have to be multiples of each other? Kinda shooting in the dark here. Of course, if someone here can tell me that this is just a waste of time, I’d very much like to hear it before I make an attempt at this. Even better would be a suggestion for a more effective test setup (e.g., ranges of values to try, different menus, slaughtering of a virgin goat, etc…).

I made a more detailed post about this in the sponsor’s section, but I can’t re-post here since I’m citing info found on the interactive maps. I have a hunch that this is a software issue since my phone seems to have trouble finding LTE signals from towers which are known to be transmitting LTE. When I use the *#*#4636#*#* menu and choose “LTE only,” I am able to lock on to a tower about 1.5 miles away when I’m near a window at work. Then, as I move deeper into the building, the signal goes down to -131dBm RSRP before cutting out entirely. There is a closer tower that’s supposedly transmitting LTE is about 0.75 miles from me, but my phone can’t seem to detect the signal. I think that the phone is sensitive enough to detect the signal and maybe even strong enough to hold it, as evidenced by the phone detecting and holding LTE after cycling through airplane mode. However, whatever is telling the phone to jump to LTE is majorly flawed. There are a few threads on this subject over at XDA that I'm also involved in- http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1898433 http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1901905 http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1905007

I'm not sure if dialer codes work in CM10, but on a stock ROM, you'd enter ##3282# (##DATA#) into your dial pad, then select View Mode->LTE record->LTE available file.

Just to be clear, I think that he’s speaking out against people who refuse to use their home internet connection in favor of Sprint’s network. Just out of principle...I feel I shouldn't have to...that's part of what I pay Sprint for. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 I really think we are the ones who started this whole thing.

WiMAX is a whole other animal. Sprint licensed WiMAX from Clearwire. Sprint is now building its own LTE network. There are only about 100 towers out of 38,000 across the country that won't get LTE by 2013/2014.

First of all, the whole post was GREAT, I just truncated it to the part that I wanted to discuss a bit further. I don’t know if Clear’s home internet service is capped or not, but I kind of see that as the first (or one of the first) attempts at home internet via cellular connections. It was a great idea; reduce costs by not having to run wires to a home/business and just sending the customer a modem-like device which was simple to set up. Unfortunately, this system didn’t quite perform on the same level as a “traditional” wired home/business connection. Several friends of mine (who are somewhat technically-minded) tried it and were having connectivity and speed issues. Granted, this was in densely-populated areas of Chicago during Clear’s nascency, but it still showed a lack of preparation from my perspective. Are the majority of Clear’s customers satisfied with their service? I am absolutely positive that they are, but the same can be said for Sprint. We, the people of forums like this and XDA, are much more aware of things like lags in data speed and signal strength. My fear is that the wireless industry will continue to provide experiences that ebb and flow. As customers’ usage increases, the network performance goes down, which then prompts a network upgrade. I’m sure that improvements would occur regardless of whether or not demand increases, but I don’t want another 2-3 year stretch where my service was terrible. I’m hoping that by educating people to use Wi-Fi, we can help stave off another pre-NV dark age. Anyone here read Asimov’s Foundation? No, you haven’t failed, I’m extremely critical in my negativity. :-P I can’t speak for public access points, but if you’re on your home Wi-Fi, I certainly hope you know what’s connected to it. For the sake of this argument, I’ve regularly had 5-6 devices connected to my Wi-Fi, all in active use, and there was no service impact that I could perceive. Granted, most of those devices were just doing relatively light browsing/streaming, but if people can host WoW parties over their Wi-Fi, I don’t see it being much of an issue. And you are right again; you are paying for the mobile network. However, there will ALWAYS be an instance in which you have no choice but to use it. When that happens, you are going to want the best experience possible. For that to happen, there should be as few people using your tower as possible. Where else would they go if not their personal Wi-Fi, if they have it available?

You are correct, so if you are paying for an internet connection/Wi-Fi in your house, you are wasting resources that you’ve paid for in addition to burdening the cellular network unnecessarily.

I think your problem is that your assumptions are all wrong. I am all about going to an extreme for the sake of an example, but this extreme you’ve gone to simply does not apply. Wi-Fi has a fraction of the coverage that a cell tower provides. In a vehicle or in a park, you will never have a Wi-Fi connection. In the vast majority of public places (bars, restaurants, etc…), you will never have a Wi-Fi connection that you are allowed to access. This being said, there will ALWAYS be cellular usage. No. Area 1 does not exist. The majority of people in area 1 will, at some point, be in an area with Wi-Fi available to them. The people in area 2 (which apparently doesn’t include you), will use their Wi-Fi to ensure people in area 1 have data. Why do you think that this area will have “degraded and unreliable” data if they are offloading? When I had 4G on my WiMAX phone, I used between 9-12GB/month. Watch how I broke it down: I used 1-2GB/month of cellular data and 8-10GB of Wi-Fi data. Please tell me that I did not help other people who didn’t have access to Wi-Fi.

I'm not sure what you're saying here with the "use<>abuse" line. Before people began piling on Sprint's network (pre-2010), I was getting amazing speeds pretty much wherever I went. Then people began taking advantage of the cheap, Verizon-like service without a care in the world thinking that nothing bad would happen. If more people begin using the network and maxing it out, that will result in increased network upgrade/maintenance costs. These costs eventually get transferred down to the consumers. But I will concede that a significant portion of prices might be based in competition. Uhh... Nice for the people who don't have access to the Wi-Fi connection that you do? No, this just puts them in the same category as people who don't have access to Wi-Fi. Yes. Please explain how by not offloading when you can you are not negatively impacting someone else's quality of service?

So, instead of doing what you can to help ensure low service costs and unlimited data, you're going to almost actively do what you can to use as much network resources as possible? No, we might as well not go to Verizon because they are significantly more expensive. However, they are faster, at least partially due to their policies. How exactly do the economics of an unlimited, faster, yet somehow cheaper carrier work? You seem to have some idea as you admit that Sprint might raise prices. But this is the weird thing, and it might really set me apart here: I don't want to pay more.

naw, got to bed around 2/2:30. :-P

Way to fight the machine. Even if you pull out of your contract?