WallsOfJonathan

Been reading as much info as I can, but just so I understand correctly, can anyone tell me if the network vision work in our market will progress any further than 46% LTE? Or are we all done?

 

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Got the update this morning. Smooth sailing so far.

Just as a status update, lollipop has not pushed to my phone yet. I have not done anything to either encourage or prevent it.

 

I'm a bit ambivalent about it anyhow. Not too thrilled with the color scheme they chose.

 

Anyone have any good or bad experiences worth posting yet?

 

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Just to contribute to the poll of who is also waiting, nothing yet here....

Band 26 will start deployment in a few weeks. Band 41 by the end of the year.

 

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Did this plan change as far as Band 26 goes? Its been 10 weeks shy of a year since this post and I haven't seen any 800 lte yet..... anywhere, actually.

I've never heard of that. Newer casinos have DAS so I doubt that they're actively blocking cell phone signals. Older casinos may just have poor reception due to construction or cell site placement.

 

As for sports books, it used to be illegal to use cell phones in them. However, that ban was lifted back in 2008. I've never encountered any specific problems using my cell phone in any sports books unless there was generally poor reception in the entire casino area, which itself is becoming rarer.

Yup, I second this. Even when sports books asked you not to use your phones I never had any signal problems. Now all they ask is that you're not on your phone while in line to the counter and my connection has always been great.

I'm hopeful this mean 800lte will show up soon. At my house, my mom's, and my girlfriends house, I have to set my phone to 3g only because my phone will try and grab a faint, unusable lte signal every min before switching back to (equally unusable) 3g. When my phone is in this state of Flux every min it doesn't allow for calls or texts until it's done with this charade.

Picked up band 41 at work today for the first time, telephone and market-ish area in Ventura.

San Bernardino County (SBC) has been the holdup. In late September an analyst from SBC posted on a P25 forum that the County was "Currently rebanding our 800MHZ fleet of 15000 subscribers and replacing our 15 SmartnetII+ systems with a 7.14 core."

 

So at least they're doing something. I have been unable to get a hard date from anyone with SBC or Sprint.

Good to know that there is at least some movement though, encouraging nonetheless.

I agree about Santa Monica, especially north of Wilshire. Parts of 3rd St. are spotty too in the Promenade. I'm sure since you're a Premier Sponsor you've seen why B41 has been weak in Santa Monica. Adding B41 to Sprint sites should really help. And whenever B26 can be deployed, we should see significant in-building improvement.

When is that 800 deployment going to happen.... Again? Refresh my memory, does it have any kind of timeline?

Band 26 will start deployment in a few weeks. Band 41 by the end of the year.

 

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If I upgraded now to a tri band phone, would I have any csfb issues in this area?

Band 26 will start deployment in a few weeks. Band 41 by the end of the year.

 

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Thanks great news, thank you.

Does anyone know if our North LA region has any band 26 or 41 yet? I'm thinking about getting a tri band phone but don't know if it would be of any benefit to me at this time or if I should just wait until further down the line?

I'm getting -105 dbm lte on Johnston and telegraph at My house in Todd ranch and it's sticking I get speeds around 6 mbps

 

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In woodbridge I can pick up a faint bar of lte if im outside, but inside I don't get a strong enough signal. My phone still struggles to get any sprint reception whasoever indoors at home. Im HOPEFUL that 800 will help me on both fronts (data and voice) but Im not so sure if it will yet. From my experience in the valley if my phone has even the slightest, faintest, tiniest, miniscule bit of reception, it doesn't want to pick up 800. My unusably faint sprint signal at home will probably keep my phone from kicking over to 800 me thinks. I wish the threshold would be raised a little bit to an unusable level of reception causing the switch, instead of having to have no signal whatsoever.

I sure hope no news is good news! It's been almost a month since the last post here

I usually check this, before I check this thread. 12%

Ive tried to read up/keep up on this thread as best I can, but I cant seem to find any info about something that I recently noticed that had happened to me. On two separate occasions now my phone has fallen back to an "X" with no bars and reported "Searching for service" as opposed to having switched to 800, or even roaming. First time I was in a warehouse in Chatsworth CA at the corner of Nordhoff and De Soto. I noticed the signal drop to nothing, show an "X" and then after a minute it picked up 800 and signal check jingled me as such to let me know. It showed 3 bars in signal check on my notification bar, stayed for about 30 seconds, and then went back to the "X", with 800 never again to return until I left the area and normal 1900 had returned. The second time was yesterday at Universal Studios Hollywood inside of the Jurassic Café next to the Jurassic Park Ride. Same thing as last time, it fell back to no signal, 800 popped up for a minute, I sent a few texts out and receieved them also with it showing this time 5/6 bars in signal check before jumping back to the "X". I also now have a different GS4 than I did when I had noticed this the first time. Does my PRL just prioritize 1900 that much that it wont even accept 800 and stay with it?

You could follow the link in my sig, get a peek at the updates and be satisfied to see where and when upgrades are happening. 

 

If you wanted, you could suspend your account for the time being and use another month service until you are happy.  Just integrate the number with GVoice and set it up on another android.

I don't think Im able to follow your links if Im not a sponsor, correct? I assume you had meant the link that says "where your market stands?"

have you done a profile update and prl update? Have you contacted Sprint and ask them to reprovision your phone? You should trouble shoot the problem a little more and let us know what steps you have attempted to rectify the issue.

Oh yes, of course, I do profile and prl updates daily. In fact that's how I get my phone to pick up 4G when I get to work, otherwise it stays on 3g. I'm not the only one in the area I live in that doesn't have working data who is on sprint, I know of at least 3 neighbors in the same boat, one of them is actually the person who told me to try t mobile. I believe the towers just need to be fully upgraded but haven't been yet, otherwise why would it happen to me in just a few areas, and not in others. My work is great, full 4G lte and upgraded 3g that work amazingly, my home area just doesn't have the perks yet.

That's not true for me at all I'm like 10 ft from the Barranca and I never loose signal anywhere in ventura except here on occasion

 

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At home I lose signal, the other places I referenced are when I lose any kind of data.

i at least usually have signal but it gets dropped often and it's low speeds but your like 1/2 mile away from me.. so idk maybe it's just wood bridge are you near the Barranca

 

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I'm kinda halfway between Johnson and the barranca, on parakeet court. When I walk out of my house and head toward Johnson I can make a call, but still no data. Speedtests turn up "network communication issues" I cant pick up data until I head down telephone towards Victoria in front of Pacific Oaks credit union, and then when I get to Victoria data dies again at the intersection of Victoria and telephone.

You can always ask for an airave at home in the mean time. That will get you voice and 3g, but that's about it. It should hold you for the time being.

We got one when we first moved in, and it was worse than the reception we were dealing with, calls wouldn't connect and we would get voice mail notifications without our phones even ringing, so we sent it back and just did our best. My fiancé moved on from sprint to straight talk when her contact expired (AT&T towers) and she couldn't be happier.

 

Yea I tempted but I'm gonna stick it out with sprint a bit longer I believe you live right by Me and t-mobile service here is incredible my roommate gets really good speeds everywhere

 

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Yea I'm in Woodbridge at Johnson and Ralston. I don't get any signal at home, at all. It holds onto a zero bar signal for deal life and doesn't allow me roam either. I was hopeful that the 800mhz would help my problem but to tell the truth I'm just tired of waiting and paying a hundred dollar bill every month for a phone that I can't use for 14 hours out of the day.

 

Yea it sux I was gonna switch to t mobile before I signed into another 2 year and get stuck because I thought sprint would come through sadly not true

 

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I'm just doing a couple week trial run, see how it performs where I live, work, play, and travel and take it from there. I haven't left sprint yet, but if t mobile is going to pay my etf back to me there's nothing keeping me from exploring other options anymore.

Anyone else get a text today saying the upgrade will be done in the next month in our area? How true is this.. because I've yet to get lte where I live in ventura if anything I've been loosing signal a lot lately Sent from my SPH-L720 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2

I haven't gotten anything. I don't know if that text is specific to your "area" or North LA in general, but I don't think hey could be "done" unless they aren't adding upgrades to every tower after all. I still don't have any lte where I live, or at my family's house in South Oxnard, that being said I am going to give t mobile a two week try and see how it goes.

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ive got great news for us ive got it the past 2 nights an official lte signal off johnson from freeway exit to raiston but the strongest signal I got was -103 dbm but im pretty sure thats a good thing it should be near us soon I couldnt map it because sensorly said my battery was too low

 

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In Woodbridge I can't even get a signal.... Period, unless I'm roaming. If my phone is holding onto some unusable sprint signal (like it always does) I can't make a call or send a text. I'm hoping 800 can help me at home.