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    Samsung Galaxy Note 5 User Thread

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    RF wise band 41 is doing better on this device by a few db better than my S6, M9, LG Flex, or LG G3.

    Strongest signal and about double the speeds I normal get inside at home. I'll need to do some more testing, but so far a positive surprise!

    Anyone else notice anything about b41 performance good or bad?

     

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    HTC One M9 User Thread

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    Posted

    any word of rf performance, especially compared to the m8 or nexus 5?

    From what I've seen so far it's pretty bad compared to my G3 and Flex 2 and a smudge worse than my M8. Several dbm lower on rx band 25 and 41.

    LG G3

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    I really don't have much to add to this thread at this point, I had a chance to play with the G3 yesterday at work for a bit, and tested B41 on it, most phones there lock down to it even though the signal averages about -110 db in most locations   With the G3 next to my HTC M8, it was picking up B41 about 5db better or more.  I moved the phones around a lot and swapped positions and it seemed to remain that way at my desk over a extended period of time.  Speed tests on the G3 were always several megs faster, I guess to the better signal it was pulling.  The upload speed especially was more than double.   

     

    Later on I walked around with both, to a area that is very very weak for B41, and both the M8 and G3 seemed to be about the same at that point.  Regardless I was impressed enough with the G3 to order one to swap back and forth with my M8.  I miss a phone with removable batteries.

    HTC One M8 User Thread

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    Posted · Edited by k4ax

    For every complaint you will find just as many compliments about its rf performance, also keep in mind that the majority of the complaints has more to do with "csfb" issues which can only be rectified on the network side.   There is no denying that no device on sprint right now can come close to matching the n5 when it comes to lte connectivity but the m8 has improved substantially compared to previous htc lte devices on sprint with the exception of the one max which I would say is about the same as the m8.  Also, I have done my own comparisons and from what I can tell there isn't much difference between my m8 and a gs4 when it comes to holding on to a faint signal.

     

     

    Good to know, I've got one shipping in this week and look forward to testing it out vs my M7.  My house sits in between two Sprint towers that are less than a mile apart.  One of them officially doesn't cover my place with it's sectors due to the tilt of the antenna, but my device pulls a week LTE signal off it in the living room in a few places and jumps between to the two sites a lot.  I look forward to seeing what the M8 will do, or if it will latch on to a converted Clear Spark site, as we have about 50 of those running in the area now. 

    HTC One M8 User Thread

    in HTC

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    I find the reports of signal strength being less than the Galaxy phones disappointing. I'd hoped HTC would have had better performance this time around. Glad it's at least better than the m7.

     

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    HTC One M8 User Thread

    in HTC

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    That would make sense if 41 worked down to that level, which if accurate is a insane noise noise floor level for even a real radio much less a cellphone. 41 has much more bandwidth and less congestion.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Winston/Salem Market (including Greensboro)

    in Markets

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    For a market that started so late in Network Vision, the deployment in this market has gone quickly. It's farther along than some markets that started a year earlier.

     

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    I was going to say the same thing last night! lte @ 1900 mhz will be wrapped up soon in this market which is pretty amazing considering when it started.

    Band 41 (Spark) seems to be back on around the High Point rd area in Greensboro. It's been off for a couple weeks.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Winston/Salem Market (including Greensboro)

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    Drove down Battleground from New Garden to see where LTE may kick in. LTE started around Westridge and stayed on till just before downtown. Looking at Sensorly I think the active tower is near Battleground and Cone BLVD.

    You nailed it, one tower is directly behind Herbies on Battleground, the other is right of Westover Terrace behind the fire station, both are lit with LTE now. Nice to see the ruu heads on those towers. :) There's another Sprint tower near the water treatment plant on battleground near downtown.. when that comes online with lte it will fill in that small gap nicely between the Westover Terrace tower and the one downtown on the gov building on elm. From what I hear gso should be finished up soon with the 1900mhz lte updates. Then of course 800mhz voice and lte still be coming, and the 2.5ghz Spark stuffs.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Winston/Salem Market (including Greensboro)

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    Wendover and Westover Terrace has been on Sensorly for a while.  Don't know why it is such a small area.  I see a tower has been activated on Guilford College where it meets High Point Road in Jamestown.

    I mapped that when the first tower in Greensboro popped up on West Market St, and it's panels where not angled down yet.  At the time I didn't realize that.  It's been a long time since I've spotted LTE in this area. 

    Network Vision/LTE - Winston/Salem Market (including Greensboro)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Spark has a star looking symbol next to the LTE indicator at the top. It's working were there is no LTE signal picked up by any other device, and it's upwards of 35 down consistently. There are a few new LTE towers in town, ones out highpoint road near Jamestown, another out near church street. Next thirty days will see a lot of LTE work going on in GSO. Anyone here have a HTC ONE Max to test the spark signal?

     

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