bigdaveyl
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Unfortunately that is the case. Wife still has hers and is somewhat happy with it. We are on Ting and unfortunately, with the FEC debacle, I moved to a GSM phone.
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Well, don't HTC phones have weaker antennas or that has been my experience with the EVO 4g LTE (model before the M7). What might help is a more modern phone that supports Sprint's 3 main LTE bands now. The M7 only supports one. I had a LG Volt that did well in the area. I do not know if the iphone currently (or will support) supports that.
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Sprint LTE Coverage Maps via Sensorly
bigdaveyl replied to S4GRU's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
Haven't been able to map for quite awhile here on Sprint... -
Yeah, I didn't quite remember the lineage, but know that the local phone company (whatever they were called at the time) built towers that ended up as VZW towers. Kodak is definitely a poster child for epic failure. I always wonder what it would have been like if they actually had gotten into digital photography/printing/software earlier and gave it the investments it needed. There are a couple of guys that attend our LUGOR meetings that worked in the Digital Movie group and some of the stuff they were doing was cutting edge at the time but the higher ups never continued development of the projects.
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IIRC, "Rochester Telephone" had set up cell towers way back when in the area. Eventually, I think these got sold to VZW, so they had a head start in the area.
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Sprint LTE Coverage Maps via Sensorly
bigdaveyl replied to S4GRU's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
I too have been having some issues. Looks like I can map fine, but the maps themselves won't update. -
It is my possibly incorrect understanding that most/all of the towers that have LTE now are already upgraded. There are probably some towers in the outlying areas that need to be upgraded. I have noticed with my new phone that has a better LTE antenna that most of the city/main suburbs are mostly covered.
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I got a new phone, and have been seeing Band 41 pop up along the Lake Ontario State Parkway and 390
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Well played
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This ^^^ I have WiFi at home and at work, so having consistent LTE is not a deal killer
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Yes, I can attest to it being spotty and I don't think all sites have been deployed/optimized yet. For example, I don't think the main tower I connect to at the Paddy Hill Fire Dept. (1766 Latta Rd.) has been fully updated. But, the one at Greece Police HQ has been updated, but it seems like the signal is pointed west, which I can understand - you can see the two towers depending where you are. But, it also depends on your device as well. My EVO 4g LTE is notorious for it's bad LTE antenna, so I can understand why it may be spotty for me personally.
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I think they have been playing games with the network the last 12 hours or more. I keep jumping between ehrpd and evdo.
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I think there is still one tower in Greece that needs to be updated. The one up on Paddy Hill, behind the fire station. It's the one I connect to most often when I am around my home. The large tower at the Greece Police HQ is already transmitting LTE.
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Good. I know they are playing with their systems based on the issues I've been having with 3G/4G connectivity. Sounds like full 3G/4G services were down but 1x is available, near both my house (greece) and my office (brighton).
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I called Ting and actually got someone that didn't say "just put it in CDMA mode." She had seen the same issues with the S3 not to long ago. They suspended and re-enabled the device then did the normal resets. Since we did that and nothing happened. Still no 3G/4G icons. She had the idea to go check on the status of the towers. Checked both home and work for me and said that the 3G/4G services were down in the area but 1x was available for at least the last 24 hours or more. Maybe that would explain why I was able to get LTE/CDMA mode working in Ithaca yesterday but as I got closer to home it was not working any more.
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Thank you for your feedback. I did send you a report while I was on WiFi just for completeness. I will forward this response onto Ting along with the screenshot. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
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I'm not seeing it anwhere obvious in the settings other than at the top, where it says "Mobile Data" and it is turned on and everything is checked that should be checked in there is. Should I connect to my wifi to send you the report, but doesn't that shut the radios off? (I get inactive vs. unregistered). Do you mean I am not authenticating to EHRPD instead of EVDO? It seems if I shut off EHRP in ##DATA# it will fix the problem. I did drive to a town 2 hours away for a job interview. The phone, I swear, worked for a bit when I did ##72786# outside of ithaca.
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Hello Mike, Yes, this is an HTC EVO 4G LTE. I completely went back to a clean stock, using the latest RUU executable from Sprint's site last night, just to make sure nothing was corrupted. I completely wiped the phone using TWRP before I completed this step. If I do a factory reset or ##72786#, it will show a 3G connection, go through Hands Free Activation and get a PRL. Then the 3G symbol goes away and I cannot access anything through data. I have WiFi off throughout the process. Text and voice are fine - I can make and receive calls and texts. Now the weird part: If I go into settings and select "CDMA ONLY" I can get on the network. I am from the Rochester, NY area, and I do know that they are aggressively rolling out and tweaking LTE here. I am also a Ting user. My wife has the same phone and I do not think she is having any problems, or else I would hear about it! LOL Could there be a glitch in the Matrix and should I call Ting or do you all think I have a hardware issue? I did send diagnostics, under the username "bigdaveyl"
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Any way to get "registered" other than going into CDMA only mode?
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Yes, did a profile and prl update.
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Hello all, My phone isn't registering a data connection unless I do CDMA only. If I have LTE/CDMA mode on, I get this from signal check pro: Does anyone have any ideas?
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Going back to my off topic issues from the other day. Has anyone seen this?
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Yep, we are generally happy with the phone and it works well for our use case. Thank you for the additional information. It was just weird that if I turn off LTE, things work normally, when before I didn't have to do anything. Things seem to be working as expected in Cyanogenmod, so it could be that stock could be a bit buggy. Maybe someday we'll get the Nexus 5
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I think I paid $250 (shipping included) for two phones the wife and I use. The performance of the phone is a lot better than the old Gingerbread phones we were using, and at least we can use Android 4.x. I was figuring with all the ugrades Sprint was doing 3G would become more usable (less people on it, more bandwidth to towers, better antenna, etc.). We both use WiFi at home and usually use other devices there as well since we have 30mbps up/5mbps down through Time Warner. And we have WiFi at work as well, so that's a good chunk of our time anyways. I looked at Senesorly and it looks like my office is right in the middie of an area with "weak" LTE signal (light purple) and I go to work through "weak" LTE signal. Maybe the RF issues of the phone confuses it - it gets enough signal to switch off 3G, but not enough signal to latch on to 4G. And who knows what Sprint is tweaking in the area to maximize coverage. I've had times where I picked up a strong LTE signal one day, and the next day, nothing.
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Yeah that's what I heard, but we bought them second hand and use TIng because that's all we can afford at the moment.
