The_Chemist

Hey, that was a very well written comparison! I agree with you 100% as I too had a Note 3 before the G2. I actually had 3 Note 3's. The first one on Sprint had to be exchanged for a second GN3 because as you mentioned the "Home" button got stuck under the front bezel. I had to push the opposite side of it to get it to pop back out agian. This got to be really annoying after a while. My second GN3 on Sprint had a weak radio. Upload and Download speeds were noticeably slower than my original unit. I also have a Verizon phone line and had a Verizon version of the GN3. Theirs had abysmal RF quality. In places where my Motorola Droid Bionic would hold a 4G LTE signal in a fringe area, the GN3 would only get 1X or no service. That went back. Definitely not a keeper. I agree as well, that I do miss the large keyboard and screen size of the GN3, but Tri Band (if it ever gets up and running here in Harrisburg) far outweighs all other parameters. I also feel that the in-call sound quality of the G2 is slightly better than the GN3. From what The_Dave was saying, he can hold an LTE signal with his G2 very well below -120 dBm! That is indicative of a good radio/antenna system. I wouldn't worry too much about storage space as Sprint gives you unlimited data, so just keep everything on the cloud. I am grandfathered in with Verizon unlimited data as well, but from what I have read, it is pointing to BIG RED finding a way to dump us out of unlimited when they start VoLTE - in a few more years of course... WIth Sprint you are Guaranteed unlimited for life! Can't beat that. You really can't go wrong with the G2. The build quality is much better than any Samsung Device. I won't sit here and repeat everything that eml626 said, but I am in full agreement. Good Luck!

Are our LG G2 phones HD voice capable with a firmware update?

As big as Shentel is, I can't imagine that they would drag their feet on this.

Yeah, but they are getting there. Just have to be patient. Just the customer care you get from Sprint is worlds above Verizon!

A big THANK YOU! That's an awesome article. I wish I could have found it on my own, so as not to bother anyone, but I guess I didn't search well enough.

Thanks, Those speeds are something to look forward to! It just appeared to me that the 4G LTE signal was low, since I was so close to the tower.

I have a question for someone knowledgeable about cell signals. I was just experimenting here at work (No Pun) with the G2. The Shentel tower is about 0.25 miles down the street. On 3G I get a signal of -57 dBm. When I force the phone to fleetingly pick up LTE for 10 seconds or so by switching network mode, then back to LTE/CDMA, I get a signal around -89 dBm to -91 dBm 4G LTE. Of course the phone then falls back to 3G and parks there. My question is: I am so close to the tower, does the -89 dBm to -91 dBm sound correct for being as close to the tower as I am? AJ, Robert, Somebody? Thanks

That's awesome! I really hope it goes as quickly here in Harrisburg.

Thanks, I really hope it does go rapidly. Everything is in place in the Shentel area I'm in, including the fallback switches, they just aren't active yet.

Still no LTE for the Tri Band phones here in the Harrisburg Pa area. Every morning I turn the G2 on hoping that Shentel fixed the issue, but not yet. I wish somehow I could find out their timeframe.

I'm in Harrisburg PA. I do get 3G in the Shentel area on my LG G2. The towers near me have the 3G and LTE updates but no 800 MHz yet. The equipment is the same vendor for legacy and NV. but as Robert said: Triband LTE device is not able to connect to CSFB/eCSFB on the Sprint network, your device will park in 3G mode. Mine does indeed do just that. I've recently been in Hershey as well and did receive 3G there too. Hope this helps. I don't understand the system like the experts on here, so I can't say why you only received 1X.

Here is something very interesting I thought I'd share with everyone: I received a PM from a social worker at the Sprint Community in regards to my question last Friday why I wasn't getting LTE here in my area (Harrisburg PA) before we knew of the fallback issue. The gentleman told me that the towers I am on have received all upgrades except 800 MHz. In addition, the legacy equipment is the same as the NV equipment. He is going to have a member of the network team check to see what is going on.

Yeah, I know. I think that is some misinformation. I think he forgot about the legacy equipment.

Here is what a social care worker has posted on the Sprint Community about the fallback issue: All, Just an update, we have implemented a new technology, it?s called enhanced circuit switch fallback (eCFSB). The new tri-band handsets are now single radio devices, with only one radio phones will now have more antenna space and the battery lasts longer, in general these new devices are less complex. The new tri-band handsets need to detect eCFSB in order to pick up LTE, if this technology is not detected then the device will default to 3G. All of the markets that Sprint has officially launched have eCFSB implemented. There are markets where Sprint has started implementing LTE without the markets being officially launched. In these specific markets, LTE is still in the beta stage, this means that eCFSB more than likely hasn?t been implemented. This may be the cause to which many of you are not picking up LTE. To verify if your markets has been officially launched please visit > http://www.sprint.com/coverage www.sprint.com/coverage Once an address has been entered, click on the data tab and it shows orange then your market has been officially launched. If any user in this thread is in an official LTE markets and is unable to pick up LTE, please let me know. Eduardo C Sprint Social Care

That's so true! Sprint and Shentel are making WANT that LTE so bad!

The Sprint Note 3 came out in early October. I returned it because the Home button got stuck under the front bezel. It was replaced with another that had a bad LTE radio. (Samsung quality?). I returned the Verizon Note 3 for obvious reasons. Now I have the G2 Tri Band.

That's great to hear. The lab where I work is a steel building as well. The Shentel cell tower is right down the street about 0.25 miles. My Verizon phone (Motorola Droid Bionic) gets about 12 down and 7 up with -108 dBm. I'm really eager to see what the G2 will get. When I had the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3, I got mid 20's down and high teens up here at work. Back in the days when I could get LTE. When I had the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 3, I mostly got 1X or no service here at work. The phone was that bad!

After reading Robert's outstanding article on the fallback switch issue, I wish there would be a way for us to find out when each of our markets would be fixed! It would be really nice to have some sort of timeline as to when the upgrades will take place and our phones will start receiving LTE.

Robert, Absolutely outstanding article! Extremely well done!

I had the Nexus 5 in my shopping cart on Google Play, then went with G2 at the last minute. Live and learn!

Yeah, I wish I would have known this ahead of time.

Thanks. Bummer. I'm dying to see what kind of RF performance this thing has on LTE.

I'll have to re-install that app and check it out. AJ might know that off the top of his head.

I think around Harrisburg where I am it's Alcatel-Lucent.

Thanks, AJ. As others have said, that doesn't work on the G2. It must work on the Nexus 5 as I read that on their thread. Either the G2 doesn't have an LTE only setting or we don't know how to get to it.