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    Samsung Galaxy S5 Announced - Launch Date 4/11/14

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    Changing launchers wont help with the pull down menu and that weird green on the toggles. I am not sure if it helps with the lag either. 

    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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    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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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.

    I picked up 4G from the site just south of VCCC this evening on the way home. That was fast!

    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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    That's good news, I was actually considering yesterday about switching due to all the forced roaming just to send a text (and 60% of the time I had to retry sending it) and all the dropped calls. I guess I'll send back my airave when it gets here. But has anyone picked up a tri-band phone?

    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!

    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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    Well I just got some lte from Vashon to my home in Burien and I can even send texts and calls now without roaming,

    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.

    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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    Any word about Vashon?

    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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    HTC EVO 4G LTE

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    I updated over the weekend, and on Monday my phone was overheating during my morning drive. Just my usual routine - phone in the car dock and charging, running Waze for navigation and Tune-In Radio. Vehicle temp set at my norm (cool). I've rarely had this phone overheat, and only in the summer previously.

     

    Having said that, I have had no overheating issues since Monday morning. May have just been a bunch of background services still playing catch-up since the update. I've also heard that the Qualcomm Enhanced location app sucks a lot of juice; it's possible that that was a contributing factor as well.

     

    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.

    HTC EVO 4G LTE

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    Can you run the RUU on a Mac? I haven't ever run a custom rom or anything, so I am concerned I might mess something up.

     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:

     

    ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+

     
    icon1.gifFor 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

    LG G Pro 2

    in LG

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    And if execs are saying April, then that means May. I'm patient, so as long as it's coming to Sprint and tri-band, it's all good. I've had to put up with the poor performing Evo 4G LTE for so long another couple of months doesn't make any difference.

     

    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.

    LG G Pro 2

    in LG

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    Ckmark.png6 inch screen size, 1920x1080 screen resolution

    Ckmark.pngSnapdragon 800

    Ckmark.pngAndroid 4.4

    Ckmark.png3GB Ram

    Ckmark.png32GB Internal Storage

     

    Looks good to me. (For myself, add external storage SD card support and it will be a winner.)

     

     

    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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    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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    FIELD REPORT 1

    Well everyone, I got some good news for you if your in Seattle. Here are some notes from my adventure tonight. So I decided to run a few data trips and here is what I got.

     

    While waiting for the Route 43 from Downtown (4th and Pike) I picked up my 1st Band 41 tower. I took screenshots on both 3G mode when in that mode, and when operating in LTE only mode I got some engineering shots. I also sent a diagnostics through Signal Check PRO up to Mike. 

     

    Field report 2 will include 3G information, band 25 information and additional stuff located in the same area of this initial report

     

    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.

    LG G Flex Users Thread

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    Thank you so much. So when you say Samsung you mean Sprint, right? I'm gonna return this phone tomorrow and keep my old phone, S3. It's really sad that Sprint's newer devices are useless in many places.

    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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    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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    Posted

    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.

    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

     

     

    Network Vision/LTE - West Washington Market (Seattle/Puget Sound Region)

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    Does anyone have any insight why nothing really seems to be happening in King County? Mostly the East - West corridor that stretches from just north of Lake Washington, South to the Kent/Renton area (the solid blotch of purple). Are the crews just busy in other parts of WWA? Are there issues that are holding up progress? Waiting for backhaul? Will the crews eventually descend en masse on King County?

     

    Just a curiosity as I've observed the maps over time.  Lots of purple and very little red or yellow, with lots of tiny red dots.

     

    I do like the small red dots for sites that are still waiting for upgrades, but it's also kind of sad just to see how many there are.  

    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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