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I'm at my parents' house in South Windsor.  Tried getting any signal on my mom's S3 and not even getting data connection.  We're in that grey spot on Sensorly.  I got fed up and switched to T-Mobile and they're turning on LTE towers daily here.  Hopefully your speeds are similar when you get it.

Some good news!

North Stamford and Stamford CT are getting a Network Vision tower very soon. It is being built and worked right now.

 

[Our regular 3G tower has gone completely Kaput here, it was NEVER properly fixed after Storm Sandy which took it down, apparently just a temporary fix. I had 5 bars before Sandy and only 2 after (of course I JUST got a new phone and blamed the phone). When it went completely out 2 weeks ago, I called and bitched, they opened a ticket, It was fully fixed for ONE WHOLE WEEK. And guess what 5 bars!! So I told customer service obviously it was never fully repaired after Sandy and it was NOT my phone not receiving the signal and I was not paying for 5 months of 1/5 the signal i should have had. After not backing down, I recieved a $75 credit to my account. Sprint REALLY needed to get a team out there again at some point during the 5 months and properly repair the tower. That was a big FAIL]

 

The service (3G) was down again completely (still is) as of Monday this week, about a week after the "fixed" it. I called again, got another ticket opened and they already had tickets opened due to others reports. This time the tech explained to me what they were doing and gave me the scheduled restoration times which is tonight at 11pm. Then she said, that does not include the Vision Network tower, that has a date further out. I didn't care when that date was so I didn't ask, I just wanted my signal back.

 

So I can absolutely say that they are workng right now on a tower that will serve the North Stamford area and probably others near it that serve other parts of Stamford.

 

I think they may be working on Vision sites up through Norwalk because another tech kept mentioning a ticket on a tower that served Stamford through Norwalk (there is no such 3G tower, I don't know if there is such a thing as a super Vision tower, but maybe it was one ticket for a series of towers). I will have to find out what the anticipated completion date is the next time I call Business Technical support.

 

I have no idea if these Vision sites will be deployed as 3G or 4GLTE.

That's great and all but doesn't this belong in the Southern CT thread?

I doubt that it will. It may but I doubt it. I found out at work I get the same discount with Att and it will be actually cheaper for the 3gb plan. Im starting to question it they have lte and best coverage in my area. Im not bagging on sprint I been with them 8 years but Im away from home a lot and I need something reliable.

It's not that I wouldn't be willing to come back someday, but I called and they can't even give an estimate if it'll be a a couple months or a year. I know it probably won't be a year, but still... The fact that they admitted that they don't look at the towers ahead to see what level of work they're going to have to do annoys me as someone who has studied public planning.

If things don't look better by May 1, I might have to switch to T-Mobile. I can't live with 150 kb/s for an extended amount of time.

On the ct site there has been no permits for Hartford yet but it doesn't mean much work could start before the website gets updated I will post when I see something

I think they've started downtown. My signal has gone to hell in the way people have described before.

Any way to know when downtown Hartford upgrades might start and how to keep up to date? I have a good view from my office to observe.

I was in Cromwell yesterday for the Football games and the service was horrible. The 3g is usually pretty good in the area but yesterday it was not usable. Don't know if it had anything to do with NV but it was not the norm. Also if you went into any building you automatically went into roaming. All 3 of the people with me that had Sprint had the same issue, 2 of us with s3's and one with Evo LTE.

We Were at Chicago Sams right off rt9 and I91 so it's not like we were in the boonies.

I've never gotten any signal in Chicago Sam's (I still call it Rookie's. lol) I have a feeling the rollout is all of CT. I'm seeing towers approved for 4g LTE in South Windsor and other east of the river towns. It also follows their idea that they are doing rural areas first since no tower notes for Hartford, West Hartford or Manchester.

http://www.ct.gov/pura/site/default.asp

This is the department that regulates tower upgrades. They are who you want to call an show support for the tower upgrades. I got this link from a friend who is a state rep.

Sweet I just received my phone today and activation will be implemented and complete tomorrow. My phone says updated on the box so I would imagine it is fully up to date is there something I should look for to know for sure that it is? Thanks!

 

I'm look forward to getting this up and running and all settled in tomorrow. Anything like tips or tricks I need to know please let me know. THIS IS MY 1ST SMARTPHONE!

 

Thanks again.

Take your time and get to know it. I read a lot before doing any customizing on my original Galaxy S and have never had any issues because of it. No need to make a paperweight of your first device when it's this amazing.

It should be LI3 which would be the most recent ICS update. JB is only in leaked form right now. LI3 has some security and bug fixes.

Sprint is not selecting preferred communities first, they are doing the sites that are ready and have the least obstacles first.

 

Robert via Samsung Galaxy S-III 32GB using Forum Runner

Yeah, they just happen to be rich AND conveniently obstacle free. :-p

jp

I line

 

If I had yearly upgrades instead of the standard two years, I probably would have ended up with an E4GT. Or maybe a Photon...who knows. Seems like I like to stick with phones in the same series though...my HTC Touch Pro (6850 I think) replaced the Mogul (6700) and now my GSIII has replaced a Galaxy S variant. Yeah, Samsung had me at AMOLED.

I got my E4GT through a themer who was switching to Verizon. Got it for about the same price as an upgrade.

Time to test a possible OC kernel.

That sounds like me saying "Tequila is actually pretty great. I'm not sure why I always thought that I didn't like it."

 

 

AJ

Yeah, but how and who you wake up with from it are why...

Remember, always reset Google wallet from inside the app to avoid bricking your secured portion of the NFC chip if you're going to factory reset or flash a new Rom. Clearing data from Titanium Backup or Settings WILL NOT prevent bricking. Only from within the app. If you never set up Wallet, you don't have to worry.

And about the time the first contract buyers of the OG Epic are starting to come off contract.

 

Robert via Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

I've become addicted to having each Galaxy S variant for Sprint.

This is a great write-up.

Thanks, that's my write-up. I left ACS (nothing bad, just different direction than where I am and may be helping a friend out soon in their team) but will probably be writing again soon. Thanks again for the support!

I had a pebble blue Samsung a long time ago and loved the color. I almost think black is getting overdone. I think it's cool that it comes in 2 colors off the bat and that they shunned the base black...

 

Nowadays, it seems like color is irrelevant because everyone slaps cases on their phones anyway...

I love the blue as well. Despite people putting cases on the phone, the face holds that color too. I wasn't impressed with the way the capacitive lights look on the white plastic. I think the darker faces look better due to lack of light bleedthrough.

From what I've heard Samsung relied on Google's coding for GPS and it had issues. HTC did well because they wrote their own code for it. Going forward, I believe Samsung is writing their own GPS code, thus the vast improvements by build and device.

I live in Downtown Hartford. At least I have a WiMax tower 2 blocks away...

Any recent word on Central Connecticut?