JossMan

When is the last time you tried Sensorly? I had issues before and removed it about 6-7 months ago, but I decided to try it again and it works fine now.

I actually tried to use it today and still nada.

Refuses to map? That's a new one. They do have a support thread here on the forums. Not sure the last time they checked it though.

Refuses, failed to perform an action, "Sensorly refuses to map."  

On the same note I've emailed them many times without a response, so now I refuse to use Sensorly. 

I've had the exact same issue up here in Washington. All of a sudden it won't map LTE anymore.

I hope they fix it soon Sprint has been very busy firing up LTE 800 and there are tons of new areas to map here.

Sensorly refuses to map Sprint LTE here even in areas that have yet to be mapped.

RootMetrics is okay but they measure 1x signal and ever since the single path devices came out, they've been reading Sprint device signals as -120dbm or something like that because the 1x side isn't active.

 

OpenSignal's heat map is poor in general.

I let RootMetics run accidentally and mapped a large chunk of my town that now shows -120dB for call performance and LTE as the best technology.  

Mike, any chance we will see a refreshed widget design in 2015? 

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That is weird.. if you have notes entered for those other sites, I think you should be seeing them. The only reason you might not is if all of those other sites are on a different TAC. Have you ever seen notes on neighbor cells? Maybe I'm crazy and this wasn't implemented at the time of the last public update??

 

The next update has a lot of changes and might resolve your issue. It should be ready by early next week.

 

The PCI is the only value reported, so the app can't nail down what band you are looking at.

 

-Mike

Looking at floorguy's screenshots it appears he doesn't have the location service enabled in the first screenshot which is probably why the site notes are not popping up under neighbor cells.  The second screenshot he provided has the location service enabled and the site notes are coming through. 

Also, beta is working very well on my end.  I think it almost time to... 

Currently at the one known GMO site on Staten Island, upgraded 3G but nothing else. No new panels as far as I can tell... Found some aging looking ones though. Are these legacy Lucent panels?

 

You sorta answered your own question, if it is a 3G compteted GMO site then the legacy panels are still being used.  The "B" shaped panels I haven't a clue...

In other Sprint news...

"Local Somalis feel threatened by Sprint ads featuring weapons..."

If your going to live in the United States learn to speak English...problem solved.

Here is a great comment from this article:

 

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/watch-t-mobile-data-stash-lets-you-roll-over-105307553349.html

 

 

And that, by and large, encapsulates the tech press.

 

T-Mobile is also the worst for coverage unless you live the poor lifestyle in the ghetto -- and pay for no home broadband.

 

Those seem to be the two ends of the spectrum of T-Mobile subs...

 

AJ

So this explains why T-Mobile doesn't have any LTE coverage in Bristol, there is not an "inner city" and what the heck is a "ghetto" .

 All we have is cow pastures and fields so this area is the least important to Legere and company.

Personally I'm glad Sprint decided to end their sponsorship with NASCAR, I live 5 minutes from Bristol Motor Speedway and I think racing is boring.  Stock car racing isn't what it use to be during the era of Earnhardt Sr, there are two weeks out of the year that I absolutely hate living in Bristol and that is when the race is here during the Spring and late Summer.  

The only event that I am looking forward to is September 10, 2016 for the "Battle at Bristol," which is when the racetrack will transform into a football stadium hosting the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Tennessee Volunteers, and there isn't a better place to do it than Bristol since the city sits right on the Virginia/Tennessee state line.   

Considering that Sprint holds a large chunk of 2.5 spectrum they want to maximize the coverage with the 8T8R radios.  It would not be feasible to deploy 8T8R radios for PCS and SMR since its being deployed on 5X5MHz bandwidths and it some markets 3x3MHz for SMR.  

Less weight for similar capability. Potentially stronger signal at the edge but other than that not much changes except you drop a lot of weight from removing two or three old rrus11s which allow you to have more rooms for activities... You know... Like installing a new radio head and antenna.

Spotted a crew doing a RRU swap today, I believe it was Goodman Networks, they were working on the N and SE facing sectors, could only get LTE on the SW facing sector of the site.  I'll try to get pictures tomorrow depending on the weather and if they have finished up.

Do these new RRUS31 produce a stronger signal on PCS LTE Band 25 versus the old RRUS11?

T-Mobile Un-carrier 8.0 announcements:

• Announcement of "Data Stash," which comes with 10GB of data as a gift, data rolls over month to month for only a year, then resets.
• Announcement of LTE to 260M POPs
• Announcement that they have finally started to deploy 700Mhz spectrum in Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Minneapolis, and Washington D.C.

Upon discovering my first active B41 site the other day I suspect that this phantom PCI of "336" is another new B41 site that just came online sometime this morning.  

I'm 95% sure this is the case. I'm not quite sure why it hasn't been fixed yet though. Maybe future Lolipop builds will have it corrected.

I can't speak for Samsung but my Moto X2 received the Lollipop update a few weeks ago and I experience the same issue on AT&T's LTE, also my LG which runs KitKat on Sprint's LTE network is the same way, anything above -102dBm produces one single bar. 

Just a note I just go by MikeJeep's SignalCheck Pro app which can display my network type and signal bars the appropriate way.