Galaxyguy

I switched late last year to T-Mobile and I've noticed T-Mo has done a lot of upgrades in the northern Shenandoah Valley within the past 2 months. I highly doubt they would have done the upgrades if they had any thought they would have to shut down the network within two years. 

Band 71 has been added to many sites in the area and I think I may have found a brand new site active near Winchester Medical Center, unless it's some sort of DAS. I'm not really sure yet. I'm inside the building and have a very strong signal on B66 and B2. 

2 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

I just got an update on my unlocked S10+ but I don't know what it was for. It's still on the April security patch.

No update for the Sprint branded phones yet.

If you are having any data issues, try doing a profile update again. I had to disable B25 because it just wasn't working, especially on upload. After doing a profile update last night and testing it today, my phone seems much better than it had been. I had a couple data glitches but nothing like it had been. It's definitely improved. 

The new update hasn't fixed the data issue for me. I guess I'm going to have to contact Sprint about my options. 

2 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

No issues here.

There's plenty of us who are having issues. I have zero data on Band 25 and on Band 2 with T-mobile. It's different for everyone though. Some have no issues, some have issues like me with only one band, and others have zero connectivity. Another weird thing is I have decent download data but my upload on B41 and B26 is excruciatingly slow. There's obviously something going on with this phone. There's plenty of people complaining about it on Twitter and reddit. I just hope the software update fixes it. 

I saw on reddit and another site that it's rumored Sprint/Samsung will be pushing an update for the mobile data issues on 3/27 (Wed). Hopefully that will solve the issues some of us have been having with slow or no data. 

I was having some serious data issues last night and did some reading. Apparently Sprint is aware of the issue. Someone posted to disable B41 and it is fixing the issue for some people. So far, that seems to be working for me. I had zero data on B25 and now it's working after disabling B41. Hopefully Sprint and Samsung can figure out what the issue is and get a patch out quickly. This is frustrating to have a new phone that I have to use neutered. 

I see at Best Buy they have the S10+ $100 cheaper than Sprint or direct from Samsung. They are also offering the same trade-in values as Samsung. I would get $300 for my S8+. It says on Best Buy's website that the trade credit would be given as a gift card. Does anyone know if the gift card can be used toward the cost of the phone? It would only be $600 for an S10+ if that's the case ($25 a month). If I can't use it toward the phone, then it's useless to me as I don't need anything else at the moment. 

1 hour ago, imex99 said:

Who has used VOLTE, what device are you using and where are you at?

 

S8+ in the Shentel area. I also travel to the Philly market to visit my parents and VoLTE works well there too. 

How are they using these 10MHz third carriers?  iirc the other two are 20 MHz each and are CA.  Is the third just for parking or does it perhaps act as overflow or load balancing?

I'm really not certain, but the tower closest to me also has it in Woodstock. I find myself on it fairly regularly. There is no CA when on the 10 mhz channel. It's not just for idling. It stays on the channel even when using data, so I assume it's used for load balacing. Maybe someday it'll be used as a secondary download for CA with B25. That would probably be pretty cool.

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The same tower in Front Royal mentioned above (306 N Royal Ave) added a 10 mhz 3rd carrier on B41. I noticed it last night. Front Royal has a lot of Sprint users and the towers do slow down during the day and evening. This should definitely help in the downtown area. 

26 minutes ago, Trip said:

That is T-Mobile roaming.  The tower on Royal Ave (340) at Academy Dr.

- Trip

Cool. Maybe the Sprint towers were down for a few minutes. That's the first time I've seen that. Thanks for the explanation. 

Can anyone explain this? I saw this in Front Royal just a little bit ago. I was able to screen shot it and it stayed for about 5 minutes but I can't get it to come back again. Not sure where it was coming from, but probably one of the towers in town. I was close to the Remount Rd tower, but it could not have been coming from there since the signal was too weak. 

SCP says it's a clearwire PLMN, but the engineering screen says Sprint. It also showed as Roaming, which is even more weird. Anyway, if someone knows what this is about, I'm curious. 

Yeah, that makes more sense. I hadn't heard of Sprint trading any G block.

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Just now, chamb said:

Not that I know of.  It does not make sense to me for that to happen, but I guess it could in some area.  I never seen any mention of it.

OK, maybe Tengen meant B25, not necessarily G Block. That would make more sense.

3 minutes ago, chamb said:

Sprint/Shentel did and still does owns the "G" block. In at least SOME of the Shentel area, this ""G" block is being combined with the "C" block they obtained in  a swap/trade with T-Mobile.  That combination is either showing up as a 10X10 or a 15x15 in some areas of Shentel.

I still have not proven that it is aggregated with a 10X10 block in the "A block that Shentel already had established.

Yes, that's what I had read previously. Just wanted to be sure. I know G block can and has been combined with adjacent spectrum to make 10x10 or even 15x15 in some areas. I just had never heard of T-Mobile owning any of the G block previously. Did T-Mobile swap G Block with Sprint anywhere?

7 hours ago, Tengen31 said:

TMobile owns 10x10 G Block so that would allow that carrier to go 20x20. 

Not trying to argue, just curious...

I thought Sprint owned the G block nationwide? Also, isn't G block only 5x5?

11 minutes ago, jreuschl said:

Nope!  Impatiently waiting, and I received the same text they did.  Of course Sprint Twitter support wasn't helpful, they just confirmed that was the latest.

I'm guessing the S8 Active isn't the most popular device, so updates are slow to come around.

The T-Mobile version has had two since our last one!

Hopefully it'll be released soon since VoLTE was just activated today here. It's working on my S8+. My understanding is only the screen and the battery are different between the S8 and S8 active models. If that's true and all the other internals are the same, I don't know what the holdup could be. 

On 11/20/2018 at 12:11 PM, jreuschl said:

Apparently the next update for the Active will be coming out 11/27, since I received a notification about Calling Plus discontinuation.

Perfectly fine with me, because quite a few times a caller couldn't hear me when I was connected with Calling Plus over LTE.  I'm not sure if it was buggy on this phone or it is an issue with CP in general.

Have you received this update yet? My wife has the s8 active, and still hasn't received the update. Her last update was in September and the phone says it has the most recent update. 

1 hour ago, bbostwick8 said:

 

I was told that soft launch was taking place 12/13 overnight into 12/14 for select devices. (Samsung S8 and above, iPhone 8 and above and LG V30). Coming in OTA update. I can’t verify this... maybe someone else can verify this? VoLTE will need to be enabled in Network settings.


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Your information was correct. I had to reboot my phone, but as soon as it booted back up, VoLTE was working, at least in Woodstock. I'll be going to work later and will look to see that it's working between Woodstock and Front Royal, but I expect it will be. 

VoLTE isn't enabled yet in the Shentel market. I can carry over a call from Wifi calling to VoLTE (voice call continuity), but can't start a VoLTE call straight from LTE. I would think it will come soon, but it's not here yet. I live in the Shenandoah Valley and travel to Allentown, PA quite often so I go through a good chunk of Shentel's original area from Woodstock, VA to past Harrisburg, PA (where the Central PA market and then the Philly market pick up on I-78) and have yet to see it. I've been in the DC and Philly markets though and have used VoLTE and it seems to work well. Hopefully we'll get it soon.  

I don't get to follow every thread on here, but I think this is the first I've seen B41 upload CA. I don't recall seeing this posted anywhere. Looks like Shentel added the 3rd carrier 10Mhz (as I posted above) and upload CA as well. Seems cool, but has anyone seen this anywhere else yet? 

On 10/21/2018 at 3:57 PM, chamb said:

OK, the suspense got to me. I went back and got serious about tracking this down.  Took awhile to get the 3rd carrier again.

When i did , I drove toward the cell site. Signal got better, got worse when directly under the antennas, but that is normal. As I drove away in another direction, it got better again and the PCI changed. again this PCI matched the PCI used by the other 2 carriers.

Then I stopped and did a speedtest and got into Service menu and  then LTE.  Results are attached.

Conclusions, this is a valid 10 MHZ 3rd carrier in Rouzerville, Pa at a Shentel site. Hard to prove, but it appears it is not aggregated with carrier 1 & 2.  Maybe my S-7 is the cause of this or maybe Shentel has not configured it to aggregate yet. I ran some data while trying to see if I had 3 carrier aggregation. I only saw 2 carrier aggregation and that never involved the 3rd carrier.

 

screenshot band 41 3rd cxr.pdf

CA isn't working on the 3rd carrier here either (Woodstock, VA). Maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in on if that's even possible with two different carrier sizes. I would think it would work, but I could be wrong. 

On 10/13/2018 at 7:14 AM, Trip said:

Yes, Shentel uses 41/42/43 for third carrier.

- Trip

Have you seen any other instances of a 10MHz B41 carrier? I don't remember seeing anyone else post about them anywhere. Of course, I don't get to read all posts on here so I could've easily missed it. 

On 10/10/2018 at 10:21 PM, lilotimz said:

So SCP screenshot?