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Doesn't work that way unfortunately on my N6 with Nougat.

 

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Because of Nougat you can disable the option to use root and it'll work (I'm guessing it doesn't show the earfcn for you if you have root mode enabled?). If CellMapper shows the earfcn with root on Marshmallow, then whatever device it's using must be working.

 

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Not yet. Project Fi N6's haven't been updated, yet. Glad to know the end is nigh.

 

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Ahh. If you enable full logging for SuperSU for CellMapper (while it's closed), then run CellMapper for a minute and exit, then go to SuperSU, it should have logs. Look for the lines saying "cat /dev/______". Whatever that _____ is is the appropriate device name to give SCP.

 

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Did anyone ever figure out the dev/smd code for the Nexus 6 to show the EARFCN/Frequency data? It pains me that I cannot use this on the N6 in Cellmapper nor SignalCheck.

 

Robert

Is the N6 using Android 7? If so, cell mapper uses the new API and doesn't need root anymore to get the earfcn. Signal Check hasn't been updated yet for that.

 

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I've been noticing, and had slower services than usual these past 2-3 months at home. Well this morning, I was looking at SCCP, watching service dropping to very slow 3G, 1x only, no service at all, back to 3G, etc. I called Sprint about the matter. Customer service rep gathered all of my info, looked into the system, and told me there wasn't a tower outage or complaint. Weird! I said something is wrong here. She looks again, and found there is an issue. 5 others put in a ticket around the time I called in my area, and seen there is a tower issue, and it's going on day 2. She puts in another ticket for techs to check it out. To my surprise after hanging up, I noticed B41 for the first time ever at home going in and out at -116 dBm to -118 dBm for at least a good 25 seconds or so, then back to no service, then regular 1900 service is back on. I live by a golf course, and there is a GMO site mounted on a light post. The other nearby tower is a flagpole site probably exactly a mile away. Here's my question. Is this a sign of Sprint upgrading B41 in the area? Haven't seen anymore B41 again since early this morning.

 

Your screenshot are too small to see. It's certainly possible they're using a triband antenna on a flagpole.

 

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Has anyone driven through Squirrel Hill to test if service is active yet?

 

I always dropped to no service in Liberty, but maintained at least 3G in Fort Pitt and Squirrel Hill.

 

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/06/27/cell-phone-service-coming-to-squirrel-hill-tunnel/

 

From the article:

Work in the Fort Pitt Tunnel, and the Liberty Tunnel will be easier than Squirrel Hill because the conduits already exist. But Verizon stated that Squirrel Hill will go online first, with Liberty and Fort Pitt to follow. Each tunnel coming on line as soon as the work is finished.

The work is expected to occur through mid September.

I have, but unfortunately wasn't paying attention as I was driving [emoji23] next time I'll watch my phone and see. It may be a while though...

 

I'm 99% sure the site ID will be PT03XC407 (labeled as "Squirrel Hill Tunnel"), which would imply a regular macro site rather than a repeater, DAS, or small cell. But let's just say an internal source indicates it's not active yet [emoji6]

 

It also appears the Liberty Tunnel will be a repeater, PT96XR002.

 

For the Fort Pitt Tunnel, site PT59XC600 is right above the tunnel and is broadcasting 10x10 B25 only (no B26) and CDMA. From a Google maps search, this is the antenna https://goo.gl/maps/PFD4ByNkvUF2

 

Somehow it has 3 sectors that have been detected. So it could be a DAS extension from what goes through the tunnel. In which case, Fort Pitt would potentially have LTE on GCI 0A2107xx.

 

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Carriers put DAS in tunnels?

Sometimes, or they use repeaters if applicable. Pittsburgh does in a few of its tunnels, but they aren't updated for LTE yet. San Francisco finally does on all the underground portions of the BART (subway), including the tunnel that goes from San Francisco to Oakland under the bay. DAS is becoming more and more popular and we're starting to see them in a lot of places. There are a lot of ODAS installations as well. The distinction between ODAS and DAS when it comes to tunnels is a bit blurry, I guess it just depends if the antennas are weather proofed or not?

 

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I got it today on S7 with google messenger.

Did anything change in your Messenger settings? Any new options appear?

 

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Wait, I thought band 41 was all 4x2?

All B41 has been 2x2 according to that app since I started using it. Which was right around mid-summer, when the third carrier was rolling out. On T-Mobile I know it shows the correct MIMO information. So it's either a bug with the app, or if it showed 4x2 previously, then Sprint actually downgraded to 2x2 for some reason.

 

It's a pretty neat app, let's you are carrier bandwidths on Nexus devices for example (you need root though). You can look at the MIMO transmode to figure out if a site is triband or not (in Pittsburgh they don't denote it with a different GCI ending, and I think based on that split sector site in SF that they're eliminating that indicator of triband sites all together). If you ever see TM8, then it's an 8T8R antenna.

 

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What app is that?

Network Signal Guru

 

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Btw, I found the first split sector B41 site in the SF market. Has at least 4 B41 carriers.

 

 

 

 

 

GCI endings of 0C, 0D, 0E for one of the carriers. I might be able to dig up more in my logs.

 

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I'm going to post in there again as I have noticed that as soon as I initiate a phone call, my phone is activating DND now. If I change the "Sound" setting to speaker or bluetooth, it goes off but if it's on phone, its on DND.

 

Really weird

It's a feature. However I can't get it to work on my phone. I actually wish it would go to DND mode while on a call. People on the other end of the call can hear my phone vibrating.

 

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Just curious if anyone's had RCS get enabled in Google Messenger yet? I have the latest version (2.0.069), but still no RCS. Google and Sprint seems to indicate having the newest version is enough, but I'm wondering if there is a server side switch as well?

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/blogs/devices-apps-and-services/sprint-is-the-first-carrier-to-launch-rcs-messaging-with-google.htm

 

https://blog.google/products/android/partnering-global-carriers-upgrade-sms/

 

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Anyone here get RCS enabled on their account yet? Is there a server side switch in addition to needing the latest version of Google Messenger?

 

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Wow, that is a pretty bizarre situation...I think they will probably drop the charges.

Yeah, I'm not too worried about it either way. It was only about 1MB (~$15 ish), so basically background data, not active phone usage. It's still a pretty absurd roaming rate though.

 

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Get the charges removed on what grounds? Your line sounds like it incurred legitimate data roaming charges. You know, getting courtesy credits may be one contributing reason why roaming is so limited and/or expensive. Somebody has to pay for the courtesy credits.

 

AJ

There was no indication that it had switched countries. It was still the MTN network, but it happened to switch to a site in another country where Sprint has different roaming agreements for Open World. Even though it's the same company in both countries. No way to lock it to just the South African MTN network (normally you can lock it to a provider or set it to automatic to let it auto select). It was set to MTN.

 

From looking at details on Sprint's international roaming partners, they just added Swaziland MTN to Open World roaming partners in their list, but it's not officially listed yet on the main page so is billed at the non Open World rate. https://www.sprint.com/popups/pop-gprsCarriers.html

 

My impression is they're in the process of adding them, but it's not official yet. In other words, it was a bug and should not have used that network.

 

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Looks like the those using the stock Google Messenger app for SMS on Pixel now get RCS support on Sprint:

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-messenger-rcs-726627/

 

Has anyone played with this on their Pixel?

Was hoping to see it active for me, but alas it's not there yet. Typical Google rollout, probably 5-10% of users per day will get it enabled with a server side switch.

 

I didn't realize Samsung devices have had it for a while. Does this also mean picture and video quality will be better sent via RCS than with MMS?

 

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25¢?! That's a bit too much when you consider that their international roaming is a lot cheaper.

Depends, in some countries it's $15/MB, such as Swaziland. Meanwhile the country is surrounded on all sides by South Africa, with Open World roaming rates of $30/GB. Get too close to the border and it hops over and you get billed at $15/MB. It just happened to a line on my account. Thankfully it was only 2MB. Trying to get the charge removed.

 

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I have noticed, at least in Pittsburgh, while walking through by the park it will randomly drop from strong B41 to B26 (with an rsrp in the -60s). It really doesn't seem to like B25, unlike my 6P.

 

I did a test and disabled B41, and the phone locked on B26 and refused to budge. I didn't run a speed test, but it felt overloaded. I then eventually disabled B26 as well and then finally got on B25 10x10 carrier, got around 20mbps down and up.

 

My 6P would often load balance off of B41 onto 10x10 B25 because it's faster at times. So it seems Sprint still has some optimizing to do with the Pixel.

 

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Just got the google pixel phone which can do 3xCA, but not seeing any decent speeds in SLC. I guess I could drive out to Sandy or Murray, but would prefer to have some decent signal here @ SLC.

The software on the Pixel hasn't been updated to do 3xCA yet.

 

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Just to let everyone know, I talked to Mike and he definitely has not abandoned the app. He's just been busy (in a good way!) and hasn't really had time to update it or get on s4gru. He said he'll try to find some time to catch up on everything in the next few days.

I believe it's all or nothing.

 

For what it's worth, I also switched from the 6P to the Pixel XL today. It's the first time the online activation has ever worked for me. So far battery life seems drastically better, and I migrated everything over via USB. A lot of app data unsurprisingly didn't copy over (only ones that backup to Drive and are compiled targeting M or higher), but all my settings did. All media (images, audio, etc) copied, but not other files on internal storage. Some apps restored with data (such as Tapatalk) but had broken notifications until I signed out then signed in again.

 

Only my primary Google account copied over. I had to manually add my other accounts, but it at least then "remembered" the sync settings after adding it.

 

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I am not sure who put up the ODAS sites but there have been a few found across the US in Premier threads.

The ODAS in SF is Crown Castle. Was installed around 2011-2012 time frame I believe, and was upgraded to have LTE. The ODAS nodes seem to physically tie into a nearby macro site.

 

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In Pittsburgh and some parts of Ohio they have a 10x10 B25 carrier. Other parts of Ohio have 2 5x5 carriers or both a 10x10 and a 5x5.

 

San Francisco is spectrum poor for PCS (Sprint sold a chunk to ATT back into the day), but they just rolled out a second 5x5 B25 carrier there. In most markets they're now rolled out either a second 5x5 B25 carrier or a 10x10 B25 carrier (or in some rare cases both), depending on if they can do spectrum swaps for the C block next to the G block.

 

In SF, they had to drop down to 3 CDMA carriers to do this (1 1x and 2 EVDO). Other markets may allow more CDMA carriers to be on the air, but we know they're willing to drop to 3 and launch a 10x10 in addition to a 5x5 if possible (depends on site spacing, load, etc).

 

Figure each CDMA carrier uses 3 MHz (1.4 FDD plus guard bands). So that's 9 MHz minimum for CDMA. San Francisco only had 20 MHz (I think) plus the 10 mhz G block, so that spectrum is all completely used. In markets with 30 MHz plus the G block, it's possible they'll roll out a 5x5 and later expand it to a 10x10 and a 5x5, or even merge it with the G block to get 15x15 if the equipment is recertified by the FCC.

 

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I wish there was this much movement in Boston. While the network is certainly not bad (I get 20 Mbps indoors in my room) the suburban areas could really use the extra density provided by it.

I think it was so quick in NYC because they reused existing Clearwire small cells. In areas that don't have the existing infrastructure, rollout will be slower and more in line with other cities most likely.

 

Some areas of SF (residential) also have Clear small cells, and one area saw deployment well over a year ago. It's in an area that none of our members really pass through though. One of our members lives in the other part of SF that has Clear small cells, but nothing has been picked up there yet.

 

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Has anyone gotten an estimated ship date earlier than Oct 26-28 for Pixel XL 128GB?

Nope, that's the date of mine (128GB Black).

 

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