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Was in the Sprint store in Creve Coeur today, playing with a GS5. I also played with a few others. After turning off the WiFi (sneaky!), it was one of the only phones getting usable LTE. Since the phone didn't have a play store account, I tested via: http://i.dslr.net/iphone_speedtest.html with about 3m download, while my M7 held in the vicinity couldn't even connect to LTE. Also, the M8 nearby showed LTE, but couldn't connect. A nearby G2 was connecting, but I forget the speed test result. Not the most accurate test, but at a glance, it looks like the GS5 gets better LTE reception than the HTC lineup - something I'm going to be thinking about in the coming weeks (reception on my M7 has been frustrating).

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1. Tri-band phones will not be able to do simultaneous voice and data(except for wifi)

2. VoLTE is still a ways away.

3. When you are on LTE and you get a call, it falls back via a technology called CSFB. When the call is disconnected you get LTE back almost immediately. Texts do not require a fallback.

No problems with a single transmission path. The switch back and forth for calls is seamless, and texts are tunneled through LTE.

 

SvLTE is on the way out. No tri-band device will support it, and most new devices on other carriers will not support it either.

 

If it's an important feature, you'll have to stick with an older device.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll have to think about it. Glad to hear the LTE connection comes back fast, right now I've had periods (more than a second, less than a minute) with my M7 where it showed the "no data" warning switching between 3g and LTE and back, as I drive around west county. May not be a directly related issue, but I'm sure you can see where I would have had a concern.

The biggest gain with SVLTE for me is when I'm using Google maps navigation to drive somewhere unfamiliar, and the person I'm going to see calls for a status update right when I need the navigation the most. :-) I suppose maps caches the route, but I'll probably want to research how much. Also, it would be lame to have to hang up to research restaurants/attractions in an area while coordinating with someone on the phone, but I guess that's what SMS is for. :-) Anyone have any luck with a good Android VOIP app/service?

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I'm considering upgrading to M8 or GS5. My hesitation is the whole no data while talking thing - I can currently be talking (over Bluetooth) while browsing or navigating via LTE on my M7. I read somewhere that the GS5 supports VOLTE, but no one uses that yet, and who knows when it'll happen. Or I could switch to another carrier. :-) Bleh! Any input from those with Spark phones? I was also reading that since Spark phones are single path, the whole switch-between-3g-4g for voice/SMS can mess with your phone's LTE connection. Anyone have trouble with that?

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Great Blues exhibition game tonight, poor Sprint coverage! Tried to check the score of the Cardinals game at the breaks, but so did everyone else. :-)

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Downtown has that sweet-ass 2.5/2.6ghz spectrum LTE on Band 41. I had it from my seats at Busch Stadium all the way down past the federal reserve bank at Washington ave.

I sat in section 340 last Tuesday, and could barely get service on my HTC One, despite getting excellent LTE along the 3rd base line a while back. On Wednesday, I sat in section 1, and saw the worst game ever, but the food and halfway decent 3g helped me bear the pain. :-)

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Just mapped Ross, part of Fee Fee, Bennington, and Olive. Looks like it's at the edge of the cell.

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When you have a chance could you drive northwest towards Creve Couer Park?

Sure thing - I should be able to in a few hours.

Just down the road from where I was....and connected to the same tower I posted about

 

Hopefully you can help get more data on that since you live right there. I will be back there tomorrow afternoon for work though.

I'll be out and about shortly, I'll pop on sensorly if I can get it to hold the LTE signal.

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Thanks for the report!

 

For sure! I live near Olive and Ross, and noticed I'm getting LTE on and off in my house. Also, 3G is ridiculously fast!

 

 

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I went to see a movie at Chesterfield mall tonight, and noticed LTE fading in and out while I was waiting for the movie to start. Also noticed LTE fading in and out near Olive and Ross. I'll try to remember to turn on Sensorly tomorrow, and map some points.

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Busch Stadium, section 159: -110 to -120.

Kept switching between 3g & 4g, but actually usable now.

Go Cardinals!

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They said it was a pricing mistake.

 

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Looks like they "fixed the glitch." I just tried it and it says $259.99. I also missed the Chromecast/Netflix bundle - I had assumed the 3 free months were for new accounts only. I need to get more trigger happy, lol.

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Most phones have had updates to change the scan timers down to 5 minutes or less. Then once LTE is found there the LTE available file makes the scan time even less there.

 

I have noticed on the Note2 I can have an constant ping session going and it still manages to step up to LTE pretty quickly.

This is interesting. I thought there was some form of mapping involved - the first time I drove best the Flushing Meadows site, I was on top of the site before it switched. After driving past it several times, I noticed it consistently locks on earlier. Too bad this can't be done through PRL, or a similar mechanism. Of course, once LTE is the norm, this won't matter anymore.

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Blast again! Just completed. It was about half the reported size of the international 4.2.2 update, and no 4.2.2. It was a red stick of an update!

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HTC One update dropped, hope it's 4.2.2 (sorry for off topic)!

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Blast! Thanks for the update - it'll come one day! :-) It would be nice to have continuous coverage on the drive home - maybe I'll just have to move... j/k

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Anyone hear anything about Creve Coeur? Work sightings, permits, etc? I'm most interested in the areas around 270 and west.

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There's a guy up on the Flushing Meadows tower in Des Peres, and the ropes are up. Kind of cool, they were hoisting up a small cylinder as I drove by. I got over 20Mbps sitting at the light next to the tower, my guess is they have 30M back haul.

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Long time lurker. I work across the highway from Flushing Meadows in Des Peres. I picked up LTE on my HTC One shortly after passing Ladue coming in on 270 this morning, and had it all day. Granted I was working, so if it dropped for a period, I wouldn't have noticed, but every time I used my phone, it said 4g. Yesterday's speed test broke 14Mb/s, which made me happy. I tried using LTE discovery on my drive in yesterday, and I didn't get LTE until I stopped it, so it must not work right with my phone.

 

 

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Welcome to the party! I'm curious how the speed tests will be from the start vs a few months down the road. Gonna hopefully start getting some baselines to reference later.

Thanks for the welcome! When we were in Fort Worth last December, my wife clocked over 20Mb/s on her iPhone 5 on LTE (I was still on WiMax). I ran the test multiple times to make sure it wasn't a fluke. In Des Peres, she hit 7Mb/s. Obviously there are many factors that can affect a speed test (proximity to tower, tower load, location of test server, quality of backhaul, etc), but one can hope. :-) I'd be perfectly happy with blanket LTE coverage around 10Mbps, although 20-30 from time to time would be pretty sweet.

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Long time lurker. I work across the highway from Flushing Meadows in Des Peres. I picked up LTE on my HTC One shortly after passing Ladue coming in on 270 this morning, and had it all day. Granted I was working, so if it dropped for a period, I wouldn't have noticed, but every time I used my phone, it said 4g. Yesterday's speed test broke 14Mb/s, which made me happy. I tried using LTE discovery on my drive in yesterday, and I didn't get LTE until I stopped it, so it must not work right with my phone.

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