The Dave

I understand the whole priorities don't dictate where you park at compared to where the network can put you, but where I don't understand is why band 41 is set to 3rd by default. If the network doesn’t see a threshold met, but yet you are camped on 25 when band 41 is plentiful, it seems like it would be a poor use of spectral resources. There is a tower in town that I have passed by twice. Band 41 has a nice -79 dBm signal. Lots of room to park, but yet the device priority has me stuck on band 25. I check the engineering screen and see that I am on band 25 and go into the data menu and readjust priorities to 41>25>26. Bingo. I am immediately on band 41. Now, the next day I am at the same area. For some reason I am parked on band 25 again. I go back to the data menu and see my priorities have defaulted back to 25>26>41. It just seems that to me, if I were a network engineer, I would rather send any device capable straight to band 41 with all that spectrum to fling around rather than tuck it away to 3rd priority.

It is both hilarious and painful to hear northerners pronounce Okeechobee, Kissimmee, Loxahatchee, etc when moving down here.

The way I understood it was that it scans for a signal using that list first and whatever the network says second. So, if it is set to band 25 first and band 41 last, it will first see band 25 and pretty much camp there despite band 41 being present and strong. I am not knowledgable about how robust the network is with maintaining an optimal connection with regards to automatically deciding band usage. If you are camped on band 25 and the tower or network also sees a good band 41 signal, does it decide to switch you over to band 41? Or if you went inside and switched to band 26 because your signal went too low for usable band 25, does it automatically switch band to band 25 once you go outside or do you remain camped on band 26 since you haven't lost the signal yet? I guess the network's robustness will be an important factor with Sprint's new network once all three bands are more complete.

Laser Division Duplex LTE? I've been wondering why Sprint's new 4G core has been drawing so much scrutiny from NSA, EPA and NATO. SoftBank isn't playing around with their plans for world domination through Sprint Network Vision. The only downside is the odd effect that it has to local wildlife... I would hate to be Verizon or AT&T right now.

With the Spark update for the G2, the priorities are band 25>26>41. Is this for all tri-band enabled phones are are they set differently for the Max, Mini, S4T, etc? I keep setting mine to 41>25>26 because of the sheer number of band 41 in the area, but my phone always automatically resets back to the default order and puts band 41 dead last. I wonder if this is going to be normal behavior or if this is a temporary thing until Sprint decides to issue a different kind of profile or software update.

I updated my wife's G2 and her bands were still disabled as well. Her phone was virgin, never touched with any dial codes. I rebooted it 6 times and did a profile update but still no band 26/41. I checked it again 3 hours later and suddenly they were enabled. I guess they enable when they want to enable kind of how the umbilical cord falls off in its due time. Another issue I have. No matter how many times I set band 41 to top priority, it always defaults back to number 3 after a period of time. I wonder if Sprint is keeping band 41 on the back burner until they feel enough of the network has coverage?

It's not like Sprint has any control over how long it takes the fiber suppliers to get their posteriors into gear. When my line went out at my house, Comcast set an appointment for the following Tuesday to run the line and bury it. The actual time it took for Comcast to come out was 7 weeks. The same thing happened at work when they switched from AT&T to Comcast business. It took 3 months for them to run a line from the pole to the building. I would be surprised if it was 1/4 mile of line.

When I connected to band 41 today, my speed was only 19 mbps but when I changed it over to band 25, I hit 29 mbps. I guess maybe backhaul issues are afoot here in St Augustine.

I had to manually enable the other bands, too. I even rebooted twice and did both a profile update and prl update before I decided I would have to do it myself. I have the Spark splash screen, the icons and it shows ZVA in the software screen. It just never enabled the bands. However, yesterday I couldn't get band 41 to connect to save my life, but this morning I picked up band 41 automatically during my drive after updating. The Spark update definitely gives the G2 that special something that allows it to connect to sites that refused to connect before.

I set band 41 to first priority by the site and it connected right away.

First time connecting to band 41.

Boo. It makes sense that the pictures are fake, it looks too close to the original with just an extra hole. M8 does sound really exciting. If it has a better radio, it will quite possibly be the most perfect phone to date.

I just got the update and my other bands were still disabled as well. I restarted twice, did a profile and prl update but they remained disabled. I enabled them manually but wonder why the Spark update failed to enable them. Edit: I noticed that no matter how you set the priority, it always seems to default back to 25>26>41. I set it twice to band 41 first but it doesn't seem to like that.

It's funny how this thread just popped up on the same day my coworker told me his wife dropped her new G2 and smashed the screen and then got a Note 3 to replace it. Apparently the salesman at the Sprint store told them that the Note 3 was Spark capable and not to worry. I tried to tell him otherwise, but I guess c'est la vie.

According to http://device.sprintpcs.com/LG/LS980-SPRINT/latest it is still ZVA. If it were pulled and changes were made, wouldn't it show as ZVB?

That is what I am starting to wonder. The articles I've read from Google support say it is 1% first 48 hours, then 28/50/75/100% from there. It seems like it's been twice that time frame. I can see if it has been most phones are updated and a few are left, but the Sprint forum has doubled in complaints from lack of an update and in this thread, a small percentage received the OTA but most were done through sideloading. The Sprint LG G2 support page still says that ZVA is still the current firmware, though.

I am on the 1500 family plan and it is also a $5 add on for my account, too. I figured the newer plans would be free but now I wonder just which plans include it as a free add on.

Not to reopen old wounds, but have there been any recent Spark updates for those waiting for the OTA update? Just curious, it's been a week and a half and still haven't had the update on either my phone or my wife's phone.

I've been pretty excited ever since I heard Sprint was partnering up with NSN. The only thing about T-Mobile I was impressed by was the NSN equipment used. I expect more exciting things to come from this partnership. Spark is just getting started.

At this point in the game, I'd imagine Samsung would be better off concentrating on Triband in the Note 4 rather than yet another re-release of a previous model.

The problem is, even if there was Spark coverage, the testing company used a Galaxy S3. I've seen a few articles written that test Sprint's new network but they end up using some dated handset. I won't be surprised if next Superbowl we will see the same testing done with another non Spark handset.

I do remember Fraggle Rock. I was never a real fan. Something about Muppets just irks me. I do, however, enjoy Team America. It is a different class of puppet.

I am personally happy that live action muppet movies never took off and died with the 80's.

Money talks.