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    The folks at http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5 are indicating that TouchWiz has undergone some interface improvements, and that the TouchWiz customary lag is gone. It remains to be seen, of course, but it looks like some Best Buy and ATT stores have demonstration models.
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    I picked up 4G from the site just south of VCCC this evening on the way home. That was fast!
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    I'm getting an S5 on the 11th. I work down in Pioneer Square near King St. Station, and there are a couple of B41 sites nearby (one being CenturyLink Field). I'm looking forward to the bandwidth and speeds... It has been a long time coming!
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    No telling. There should be plenty of backhaul available either way, so it shouldn't be long before it's all up and running!
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    In yesterdays acceptance report, it looks like Burien had some sites upgraded to 3G/4G that were previously only 4G, and the site on Vashon just south of VCCC was accepted as a 3G site. There is good progress happening in the area. Now, when the sites just above the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal and by the Alki Light House are finished, there should be solid coverage in the waterfront communities all the way from downtown Seattle through Tacoma.
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    Vashon has three towers currently broadcasting b25 LTE, but they're all towards the south (one up by the sports field just above Granny's Attic, and one on the south end of Vashon and another on the south end of Maury. The site at Pt. Robinson is still 3G. The tall site you can see from the road just south of the Vashon Community Care Center has no announced Network Vision upgrades, however it appears that some recent work has been done on that site, as the 3G signal has become very strong near it and there are now three levels of antenna on it (the middle row of antenna appear to be new). West Seattle is lagging, but we'll have better service both at Fauntleroy and along the entire route of the water taxi when the build-out there happens, looking at existing tower placements. There are maps in the sponsors area that can clarify this explanation.
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    I've been unable to send an SMS message all morning (3/24/14), starting at 04:30, and continuing until at least 10:00. I've traveled from Vashon Island to SeaTac Airport to downtown Seattle. Is this just affecting me, or are others affected? I do hope that this disruption indicates that there's some work going on in the area.
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    HTC EVO 4G LTE

    Bumbershoot replied to P_M_G's topic in HTC

    No overheating for me at all. Battery life actually seems to be noticeably improved, and the phone hangs on to 4G a bit longer than before.
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    HTC EVO 4G LTE

    Bumbershoot replied to P_M_G's topic in HTC

    You can indeed update your phone if you have a Mac. You need to have a locked bootloader for this to work (I had to relock mine). Follow the directions in this XDA post: ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ For those having RUU install issues.... For those of you having trouble getting the RUU to run correctly, follow the following steps to run in Bootloader instead.....I just followed Captain_Throwbacks instructions from this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...37&postcount=3 You must have a way to access your Micro SD Card from your PC so you can transfer and delete files from it. Of course make sure all your data is BACKED UP!!! 1. Download both files to your PC.... 2. Rename PJ75IMG1.zip to PJ75IMG.zip and place on root of SD Card. 3. Reboot phone to Bootloader Menu and run .zip file and let it do its thing.... 4. After file is done, remove Micro-SD Card and delete PJ75IMG.zip and replace with PJ75IMG2.zip making sure to rename it to PJ75IMG.zip again. 5. Place Miro-SD Card back into phone and reboot while holding Volume Key down for Bootloader Menu. 6. Run .zip and let it finish (this part takes a bit of time to complete). 7. Reboot phone into a fresh install of Sense 5 Android 4.3 Final Update - 4.13.651.3 Enjoy..... https://www.dropbox.com/s/ig9cd8rwxdksb0q/PJ75IMG1.zip https://www.dropbox.com/s/e2k4ndcrebitlzu/PJ75IMG2.zip
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    LG G Pro 2

    Bumbershoot replied to shocker45's topic in LG

    I'm in the same boat with my EVO as well, but the new EVO updates will help me hang on. If Sprint brings the LG G Pro 2 onto their network, and the specs are correct, then I'll look very hard at getting one. I had an LG feature phone years ago, and it was a very nicely built device.
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    54 updates in Kirkland, Redmond and on the Sammamish Plateau in two days! It looks like Samsung is bringing up the Seattle area in clusters.
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    LG G Pro 2

    Bumbershoot replied to shocker45's topic in LG

    It appears that there will be a MicroSD on this phone. Additionally, there's a report of a removable battery. If these two conditions are met, then this phone has checked all the boxes for me...
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    In the Premier Sponsors section there's a map of the Clearwire TD-LTE 2600 sites available. There are a few sites surrounding downtown Seattle (Belltown and Pioneer Square) that are currently broadcasting, with maybe 1/2 dozen more throughout the central business district scheduled for updates in the first 1/2 of 2014.
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    If you've got a little time and some wheels, you're not too far from an area where you should be able to get 4G with that phone. Once you drive south of Kent/Des Moines Road or S 272nd, you're starting to get into territory where your phone should work spectacularly. It looks like the deep south of King County and all of Pierce and Snohomish Counties should be be unaffected by the CSFB problem described in the link above (however, no one has tested this with a Spark compatible phone on this board yet, to my knowledge). For months now, there has been very little activity in the King County areas where 4G was originally accepted. Most of the rest of Western Washington appears to be NV complete, so one might assume that work to mitigate CSFB is being done in King County now, and that Samsung is preparing to light these sites up in clusters, as lilotimz described above. There's a great map in the sponsors area that will allow you to see where the problem should lie.
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    I believe there are a couple of band 41 sites in the vicinity, so Spark might have made a difference in the Pioneer Square/CLink field area.
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    Come to think of it, my building has a Sprint site in the building, which is probably why the 1xRTT signal was so good. Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk
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    I didn't try. I didn't receive any texts until the crowd dispersed, however. Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk
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    I'm working just across from the north lot of Centurylink Field. I have fairly strong 1xRTT signal (-80 dBm), but nothing else, and haven't had for several hours. I don't have a tri-band device yet, so I can't report on the band 41 sites that are nearby.
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    I got that text yesterday on Vashon Island. We've already got LTE here already, amazingly enough. I'm starting to think about a tri-band phone!
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    For those who're interested, this map that shows the northern International Boundary Exclusion Zone. For us in the greater Puget Sound area, it appears that they're be no band 26 LTE (800MHz) deployed until the necessary treaties and deals are in place to make this happen. This site has loads of information.
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    I'm guessing that the purple 4G King County sites indicate where Samsung ran into trouble with the Circuit Switched Fallback problem. King County seems to get a start on the rest of the market, then there was a big pause in the summer, after which Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap counties got attention, but those counties all got 3G or 3G/4G upgrades (red and yellow), not 4G upgrades (purple) only. Western Washington is a non-incumbent market for Samsung, if I understand things correctly, which is the source of the CSFB problem. If they have to circle back and restart work in King County, there may be new permitting issues to deal with, as well. Again, I'm just guessing.
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    I see that some 4G sites in the Seattle market are being converted to 3G/4G. I understand that to mean that the CSFB problem is being resolved here, and that tri-band devices should begin to work as intended. I'm due for a phone refresh in February, and I work across the street from a band 41 site, so the timing is great for me.
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    I see that Western Washington has the first 3G/800/4G site on S 38th St in Tacoma. It looks like the site is in the north end of the Costco parking lot. I'm not sure where the IBEZ boundary is, but I'm glad to see that at least one of the big urban areas in Western Washington will get 800 CDMA. Now, if we get 800 LTE, we'll be cooking...
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    Wow. I just did a quick count in my head - something in the vicinity of 140 updates have happened in W. Washington in December! Things are really cooking now!
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    I read somewhere that they'll announce when the area is 40% complete.
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