JossMan

Galaxy S3 is on PRL 33030, does 800 have priority over 1900 PCS or does 1900 have priority?  Also, can you flash other PRLs while using VM, I don't know how this works since VM doesn't have roaming and only uses Sprint's native coverage.

not to mention gas was ONLY!!!! $1.50 

I remember when gas was below $1.00/gallon around .90 cents/gallon...my how the time has flown by...

Forget the 3G, I want my .99 cents per lb Georgia peaches!!! 

Mike was looking at your Alpha testing list, can't wait to check out the new goodies you currently have!  Have to say I'm a little jealous   

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Thanks for the clarification, didn't realize I was getting 1900 Voice/Text on 1xRTT.  I do get a strong 1x800 signal in my office where my LTE is weak and borderline fallback, so right there in that instance the idea of 800LTE will probably broadcast a stronger more useable signal there.  Even if as you 800LTE will fall somewhere between 1900LTE and 800 voice, it will be a considerable upgrade in not only my office, but many high rises and urban structures downtown.  To bad I don't have a B26 device.  Oh well.

We are all here to help, if we keep gaining knowledge from each other we will be able to maintain Sprint's new network once all the new hardware goodies are installed and 100% completed.    But yes 1x RTT stands for "1 times radio transmission technology," which is 1900MHz PCS.  1x 800 will do a good job penetrating walls, buildings, dense areas, etc...but has its downs as well just as other higher frequencies.  I use to be a police officer/firefighter for 5 years and we utilized a county-wide radio system that was a Motorola 800 trucked system, every time we had to go down into a parking garage or apartment tower no radio service which was a safety issue.  But again this was a radio system and I'm 90% sure site/repeater spacing was the biggest culprit.  Sprint has plenty of sites here and 1900 does a good job around here so hopefully 800 will just make the experience even better.

Heading to Knoxville/Oak Ridge today from OC. I'm really not ready to trade my beach attire for jackets and gloves as I'm a beach bum.

 

I will report on my experience and how it compares to OC. From the looks of it, I'm in for a pleasant surprise.

 

I'm going to ORAU and Energy Solutions for training and benchmarking.

Enjoy your trip to Knoxville/Oak Ridge, Tennessee!  Its a shame your not going in the Spring/Early Summer very beautiful around here when everything doesn't look dead.  I have family in Oak Ridge, you should swing by the Y-12 National Security Complex (bad idea don't do that ) and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory which won't disappoint.  

Pictures of a Sprint repeater site in LA, California neighborhood known as "Kirkwood Bowl" in Hollywood Hills. Figured I would post them in this topic since some nice folks don't like reading the whole thread lol.  Not my pictures credits go to Laurel323 from the community.sprint.com forum.

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Fruit Juice 

Yes. Is this an issue for you?

Nope, I was under the impression the signal bars represented 3G EVDO and when on LTE.  

Any of you on the S3 with Android 4.3 notice the signal bars only indicate the strength for 4G LTE, and if it reverts back to 3G the signal bars indicate the 1x RTT voice signal strength?  

Got it.. are you able to see anything popping up in logcat when it happens? You can try going back into the app and sending me a diagnostic report right after, but it might clear out the log on a restart.

 

-Mike

I'll send a report when/if it happens again, I've tried exiting out of SignalCheck many times and it hasn't been freezing up lately.  It could have just been my phone acting quirky.   

Believe this is is already being discussed here----------------> Sprint Planning Layoffs

CON AIR 

I hadn't heard of that specific issue, but the freezing/crashing reports have been wildly inconsistent so it is probably all related. Did you have any alerts enabled? That seems to be the biggest culprit, but I'm not convinced it's the only one.

 

The version I have been testing the past couple of days suddenly seems stable.. not sure if it was something I did or something Google quietly fixed in the background, but it seems much better. Fingers crossed.. been spending hours and hours on this with little to show for it.

 

-Mike

I disabled the alerts as you instructed me to do last week or so when the app was crashing every few days, since then the has been behaving.  Instead of hitting the back button to close the app to the background but actually tell the app to exit is when it has been crashing.  

Mike, don't know if this is a known bug or maybe just my phone acting stupid but...when I go into SignalCheck and tap "Exit" the app wants to freeze up on me.  I've tried this 5 times, out of the 5 times I tapped "Exit" it froze up 3 times.  

Here in Northeast Tennessee its Food City, Kroger, Food Country, oh and of course Wal-Mart!

Been ready for spring, my business gets slow (lawn and landscaping) in the winter except for the commercial clients which require me to come out to their premises once a week to "tidy up."   Counting down the days for spring, did I mention I am pro global warming.    

Now that it is confirmed by Sprint that it is laying the Nextel name to rest for good, what about the VM USA and Boost Mobile merger into "Sprint Freedom?"  Any word on this yet?