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Sprint has been adding a second carrier of B25 to the areas of the country where it has enough spectrum to do so. It is another 5x5 carrier, just like the primary carrier. The "2" in SCP just notes that you are currently on the 2nd carrier.

 

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I have a Nexus 5 I can't and it's seems to be back up.

I forgot about the nexi not be able to use the Sprint app.

 

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So this amazing thunderstorm pretty much knocked out LTE for me I'm stuck on evdo and 1x800 right now. I can toggle airplane mode and nothing. This is great.

 

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Send in a network problem via the Sprint app.

 

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You can now get a car charger online that is fast charge adaptable. Or you can get a car chargeer with wall charge units and use your home unit.

I actually just bought a quick charge 2.0 car charger this week on Amazon. It's made by Aukey. It was around $17 so the price was pretty good too.

 

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Is that Lancaster?

 

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I was trying to get into the stock recovery to clear the system cache. I must have hit volume down instead of up. My phone got so sluggish but it seems better now that I deleted the system cache again.

 

It was taking me about 15 seconds to be able to answer a phone call. It would ring but nothing would come on the screen for what seemed like forever to be able to answer the call. If this doesn't fix it in the long run, I may need to do a wipe and start over again.

 

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Thanks

Anybody know how to fix my error? I hit the wrong combination of buttons and ended up in a screen that I don't know how to get out of.

 

At the top left of the screen, it says Odin mode (high speed) and I see a large android guy in the middle. It says downloading... Do not turn off target.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

I don't think it's downloading anything but I'm afraid to try to turn it off without somebody telling me if there's a specific way to do it without bricking my phone.

No issues here.

 

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Same. I haven't experienced GPS issues on any of the different versions of software. It locks within about 3 seconds of me turning it on. I usually leave it on power saving mode and just turn it on as needed.

 

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Still 5.01

 

View the link in Internet Explorer for it to show up properly.

I'll try it later when I get home. Thanks.

 

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http://device.sprintpcs.com/Samsung/SM-N910P-SPRINT/OF4.rdf

 

OF4 now.. obviously they are working on yet another update ASAP.

Can you tell if it's 5.1 or still 5.0?

 

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I never had that issue when in the Weyers Cave area. The only problem I have in the Weyers Cave area is it keeps switching between ntelos and Sprint 1x800. That is seriously annoying.

 

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Sprint should just sell the market here to shentel, who I believe would want to have the same level of service they currently provide in their current service area. It would be an opportunity for shentel to expand (if they don't buy n-telos, which I know was rumored) and sprint would collect the royalty... which might be more than they get from having a 3G network that the few subscribers left are fleeing.

If Shentel could afford 2 additional markets, that would make for a huge swath of Shentel-land. It's all happens to be contiguous too. I'm sure those who live, work, and go to school from State College to Erie would absolutely love for it to happen in the Western PA market.

 

I was hoping Sprint would have at least upgraded the cities in the market by now. Maybe a sale or even just a straight up transfer to Shentel is what's needed to get that market going.

 

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Well today was a proud day to be a sprint customer, was at York college for a friend's party, Verizon....

Roaming, AT&T....3g,t-mobile......edge,me with good old sprint....LTE!!!!! And the signal was great around - 92, yet they were still saying that sprint was bad...this is why I'll stick with sprint for the long haul!!!!

Was Verizon roaming on Sprint?

 

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How long does it usually take for Sprint to actually ship these routers? I ordered mine several days ago and haven't received word that it has shipped. The Sprint rep stated that Sprint would email when the order has been fulfilled.

 

 

 

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Mine shipped the next day. If they didn't copy your email address correctly, that could be a reason why you never got the shipment email. Call them tomorrow and see if it shipped.

 

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It's not. I shared a link that did talk about modifying the firmware and it was removed by the admins.

OK, I thought you were referencing the post above about IP addresses. I never saw your post.

 

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Just FYI.

 

 

I don't believe talk about changing IP addresses would be considered "modification." They banned talking about modifying firmware.

 

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Abit confused, your saying that the second carrier is slow or that the network is slow in general.

 

My guess is that your being parked on B26, and yes that has slowed down considerably. Its more of a lack of load balancing between bands.

 

I also believe that peoples obsesion with signal strength bars has lead sprint to allow people to park on B26, just so that the device can display a higher signal strength without any actual benefits to performance.

 

All device manufacturers should switch to a better way of displaying actual signal quality (like the nexus 6)and not just strength, personally I don't care whether its 1bar or 5bars as long as the network is performing well enough to get the task completed.

 

Unfortunately, I'm in the minority.

I've been noticing much better load balancing in my area. I've been pretty impressed with how each of the three carriers are pretty equal in speeds. I've been able to test all three carriers back to back between our phones. All are within 1 or 2 mbps of each other.

 

Edit: For those not in our market, by 3 carriers, I mean both PCS (B25) carriers and the SMR (B26) carrier. Still no B41 that anybody has found yet.

 

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Well, the last few trips I had to york...band 25 second carrier is well.....really slow, feel like it was a step back honestly...

It could be that they haven't increased the backhaul yet. I would hope they wouldn't even add the second PCS carrier without doing so, but it's hard to tell.

 

It has helped speeds in my area. The tower closest to my home, and most towers around me, now have three 5x5 carriers and speeds definitely bumped up since Shentel began doing so.

 

Have you seen any 2nd carrier B25 in Lancaster yet? I realize it's central PA, but I'm curious if Sprint has activated it yet there.

 

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Looks like the site across the street from the LV Mall has finally gone live with LTE.

Confirmed. Just went by there. I only latched onto B25 on the way by so I'm not sure if the other 2 bands are active there yet.

 

I'm in Egypt (PA, not northern Africa) right now and I'm connected to a tower with all 3 bands live. It's good to see progress when I come visit this area.

 

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Nice to see you report some South Jersey B41. I have the same problem with a home tower not being upgraded from 3g but it's still nice to see some upgrading getting done in this area.

 

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We try to go there every year for at least a day. We really like the family atmosphere there. I didn't get there last year, but I was impressed at the difference 2 years made.

 

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lucky you lol mine is just PCS for everything and no lte

I'm sure your closest tower will get upgraded soon enough. I was on LTE for 90% of the trip from Philly to Ocean City, NJ. Only a part of the Atlantic City Expressway just had 3G. 

Here is the link to a post I just put in the Premier section about this site. Sorry if you aren't a premier sponsor but those are the rules. 

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6896-premier-report-sites-in-progress-or-live-for-lte-800-2500/?p=423703

Yeah. I wasn't paying attention to which tower it was but I did notice it a couple times. There's only 2 towers here so I guess at least 1 of them has it.

 

Edit: I just connected to 800 again on the north end of the boardwalk so the more northern tower must have all 3 bands (it's not really a tower but antennas on a building). Not sure about the more southern tower.

 

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I was last in Ocean City 2 years ago and had terrible roaming service on Verizon. I think they were replacing the equipment at the time. We came for the day today and all three bands are active here. What a difference!

 

For the locals: Had to have some Manco's pizza while I was here. I wish someone could make pizza like that around where I live.

 

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