TheCUJuan

So a couple of months ago, I went to visit some folks in Binghamton and the service is relatively spotty in the area around Matthews street and Leroy St. So spotty that my parents wanted to inquire about switching to Sprint and getting a signal booster for their house and the Sprint store said they couldn't b/c there was no service there. Any idea as to why there's that dead spot in the middle of the city and if the NV upgrades will fix that?

So I got another text from Sprint yesterday that said: "We're continuing to make network upgrades in your area. See how this affects your service at: sprint.us/networkupdate3" The website that it sends you to says:

"Network Update

In the next few days we will be updating one of the towers you use most. This construction may cause temprary service disprtions. We are working to ensure the udpates are made quickly to minimize any inconvenience to you. Visit sprint.com/network for information about network improvements."

Anyone else get this text? AFAIK the two towers nearest to me are the one on San Pedro south of Paseo and the one by the Del Norte Plaza on San Antonio and Wyoming and neither had been upgraded yet.

Just wondering if there has been any changes to this? I'll be in Alaska for a week starting Friday and want to make sure I know all the terms before I go.

Although it says LTE it doesn't really work. I have to force my phone to 3G when at work. The 3G seems to be much faster than before though!

I notes last Wednesday that pings went to the 1000's. On Thursday and Friday, 3G at masthead went to above 1mb down. Awesome news.

That said, the downloads seem all over the map and much slower than they should be on LTE, so I'm guessing they are still testing the site. 

Just this afternoon I started having full bars of LTE on Jefferson/Masthead area at work. So a new tower must have just gone live!

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Wow, very cool! I haven't quite seen speeds that high, but I've been encountering reliably high speeds, which is awesome! 

Just had lte on i25 and San Antonio and San Mateo !!

Had some lte today around paseo and coors/golf course area

I also have determined that I am in need of a Spark phone. i am heading to new york next week and I really want to try it out.

I could sell you the nexus 5 I tried out for a couple of weeks. Decided to come back to iphone afterward.

I agree. knowing what it will be is hard to wait.

 

I was sitting at Las Salitas for lunch today and I was able to have a consistent LTE connection. It was low but I was able to do a couple of things and definately faster than full 3G I had.

That's funny. Last time i went to La Salita was the first time I saw LTE in ABQ.

And I woke up to no service at my house near San Antonio and Louisiana

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Ok, so the weird thing is that I just tested it again and it now seems to be working fine. I'm not sure if they turned something on when I called Sprint customer service or what, but it now seems to be working fine... Has anyone experienced this issue before? 

I've had an iPhone on AT&T since the very first one and was always able to easily do 3 way calls on each iPhone I owned. However, since switching to Sprint I find that when I try to conference/merge the calls it ends up dropping all the calls. Is this a common issue? Is there a way around the problem?

The doctor told me I have been exposed to too much 3G and I might not live too much longer.

Get some wifi into your life!

So I went ahead and got the 32g from Google play and returned the one from Sprint. Well I think some things may be a bit off.. It seems to hold on to 1x when driving far longer than the other nexus 5 or even my iPhone. It also does not show the little r that indicates roaming when I'm roaming like the other nexus did. Finally last night I set the phone on the wireless charger and woke up to a dead phone. When I plugged it directly to the wall I got a quick flagging red light and then a couple of minutes later I was able to turn it on and it showed 20% battery.

Any how. Are there any network settings I may be doing wrong?

So has anyone else had trouble making a three way call on this phone? Both times the phone dropped the call each time that I tried to do this...

Start here http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3059-800smr-s4gru-sponsors-prls/ . What phone did you get?

The Nexus 5

I've been using the regular sponsor prl which prioritizes scanning for smr. The few times I've been connected I've been unable to place a call.

 

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Soo... now that I have an Android (new to android) I have no idea how to do this. Where can i read how to do this?

You can use a Sim card you already have?

I talked to sprint on sunday, and they shipped the sim card on monday and it'll be here on thursday.  So...not backordered

You are looking far back in the posts there buddy.  Go ahead and buy the 32GB one, there is no issue activating it on Sprint now.

So I got mine from Sprint. Should I get it from Google and then return this one?

Makes me wanna dump them for my home internet lol

Yes.  They did pretty well in Austin, Nashville, Jacksonville, Minnesota (except Duluth).  They are still waiting for backhaul in Duluth.  But the majority of the cities with little to no LTE sites in the Sprint network are CenturyLink.  CL also has a lot of sites in some major cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas too.  They are going to need to get theirs going soon, as Cox is nearly complete on all their sites in those markets.  CenturyLink is a factory of sadness.

 

Robert

So have there been any sites anywhere in the country where cl backhaul has been installed that anyone here knows about??

So I understand that on android you can set up more than one user account and have one for guests etc. I can't seem to find that on this phone. Is that feature still around? thanks!

So as I posted a couple of days ago I switched from iPhone to the N5 and today I took the train to Santa Fe and was able to use the phone in places where I knew the iPhone struggled. What a difference! The reception was much clearer and was present in many places where the iPhone either had no reception or really struggled. Overall I'm pretty happy so far.