The_Chemist

No Shipping info from Sprint yet either!

I'm having mine shipped here to the lab where I work, which is right across the street from the UPS hub.  It'll suck if I have to wait until Monday. 

Between my Evo dying after about 2 hours of use and my Otterbox ripping at every end, I am just holding on for that shipping notification email. It's so bad that I have a charger in my pocket, a USB cable in my car and a solar charger in my trunk wherever I go.

Keep your fingers crossed that we get those notifications soon!

Typically my orders from Sprint have shipped from Louisville, KY. And sometimes I will have the phone the same day they send me the shipping email (email will be sent 1-2 days after phone shipped).

 

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Ok, so there is hope!

When do you guys think Sprint will start shipping LG G2 preorders?  I hope it is not November 8th because I would like to get my phone by November 8th so I can activate it already.

Just checked mine this morning:

Status: Your pre-order for the LG G2 (Black) is at our warehouse. We expect to deliver your phone on or around Friday, Nov 8. Keep an eye out for a shipping email with your tracking information. Thank you for your patience. For the latest status on your order, please continue to visit www.sprint.com/myorder.

Any idea if the "warehouse" is one central location or multiple locations? Any clue where the G2's are shipping from?

He means it was only 22k devices that were stolen.

DUH!  I remember reading that on this thread.  It went right over my head.  THANKS!

Any shipping updates out there yet from Sprint? Still nothing here...Wonder if that truck ever made it safely to Sprint Distro? 

Mine is still listed as "In Our Warehouse".  They better hurry up if it's going to get here by Friday!

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/11/04/lg-g2-android-4-4-kitkat-update-confirmed/

 

4.4kitkat coming to G2 in November/December for a French carrier. I'd say Sprint may just take this opportunity to activate Spark along with update to 4.4 in January. Thoughts?

Let's hope so!  That would be awesome!

Even so, only 22k devices. There should be way more available.

What do you mean by only 22,000 devices?  Does this mean that some of our orders can go into backorder status?

Did you order from sprint or best buy?

I ordered from Sprint.  I'm really keeping my fingers crossed that this device turns out to be a winner.  Hopefully all the bugs will be fixed with an update.  The bad thing about ordering from Sprint is that your 14 days for return start from the day of your order, not the day you receive the phone.  I questioned the gentleman who took my order over the phone on that issue and he verified the 14 days start from the day your order is placed.  Wish me luck!

I Just re-joined Sprint and ordered an LG G2.  It should be here by Friday.

I think all of Harrisburg and the surrounding area is a shentel market.

Thanks, I thought that Shentel only did the 81 corridor.  I wasn't aware that they covered the surrounding community as well. 

I found some information on the tower site on UPS drive using antennasearch.com.  It turns out that Clearwire (Sprint), Cingular (AT&T), and Telecom Transport Management Inc., use that particular tower.

It's my understanding that Shentel is installing Band 26 (LTE 800) on every full build site (about 90% of their network) right now. Shentel is still working on plans with Sprint about Band 41 (2600/Spark). It will not likely be until later in 2014 or maybe 2015. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Robert, Thanks for that information.  At least now, I can purchase the LG G2 knowing that eventually it will work on band 41.

At least I'll have something to use until my next upgrade when I'll purchase the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Tri Band version (Hopefully).

The only problem is that I'm not 100% sure that tower is a Shentel tower?  Is there any way to find out?

It should enable them both.

 

It does not appear that one can enable them on their own, yet.

 

Most of the information needed for authentication on the network is missing on the device. That may change on launch day, so until then, it appears the bands will not work until the update. 

I'm following this closely as I want to join Sprint again for the Tri Band system.  The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 that I previously had just didn't work out well. 

I'm in the Harrisburg PA area.  The tower I connect to is a 4G LTE tower now.  How can I tell if that particular tower will carry the adiditoal frequencies that will make the LG G2 usable for me eventually?

I looked at the FCC ID tag on the tower and is is FCC Registration Number:  1002504.  Its physical street address is 1851 A UPS DRIVE Harrisburg PA 17104.  From what I could find, AT&T owns the tower but it is used by Sprint.  I'm not sure if Shentel is the company that services this particular tower or not. 

Last year, late 2012, when I was taking a walk at lunch time, I spoke to the guys that were installing the new equipment on the tower.  They said it was goling live Sprint 4G LTE on December 19th 2012.  The guys had sothern accents when they spoke which may hint at Shentel. 

Does anyone know how to tell if this tower will get the two additional bands?  This stuff fascinates me. 

No difference. Google/LG is making one model for the American market, in 16/32GB, white or black. Whether sold by AT&T, Tmo, Sprint, Best Buy, Google, they are all the same. It's the first unlocked CDMA/GSM device that runs on all networks (except VZW) ever sold in the US.

 

Robert via Samsung Galaxy Note II using Tapatalk

Thanks very much for a replay Robert!  I appreciate it. 

I didn't want to take this thread off track by speaking about the Nexus 5, but I just wanted to make sure that it would work with Sprint's Tri Band as it is deployed. 

I'm going to hold off a little bit longet so I can see how the LG G2 performs for all who own them after the official release date on the 8th.  Then it'll be decision time. 

Thanks

Hey!

 

I just wanted you to know...

 

My Nexus 5 shipped!!!

 

 

Robert via Samsung Galaxy Note II using Tapatalk

Hi Robert,

Is there any difference between the Nexus 5 (other than you can get a 32 GB version) that Google Play sells vs the Nexus 5 that Sprint is pre-ordering now on their web site?  Are they the exact same phone?

I'm a little frightened of the LG G2 at this point after all the issues Koiulpoi had with his!  I saw a "Bust Buy" review from a person who had a Verizon version of the LG G2 with similar issues to Koiulpoi's. 

Thanks

The Sprint Galaxy Note 3 seems to have stronger LTE RF characteristics than the VZW GN3 based on FCC docs of uplink EIRP testing.  So I believe you may have been encountering accurate Sprint LTE performance with the GN3 (perhaps slightly subpar) and experiencing the poor RF performance of the VZW Note 3.  I recently moved to a place with no Sprint coverage and was going to get the VZW GN3, until I found out how bad the LTE RF performance appeared in FCC OET docs.

 

Sprint LTE on 1900 only is going to be pretty paltry indoors unless you are near the site.  That's why Sprint is adding service on LTE 800 as well.  That work has just started though nationwide, but is pretty far along in Shentel areas.  According to one of our sources there, they should start firing it up there in the next few weeks and run through Spring.  Shentel LTE 800 is going to be awesome and blow Verizon out of the water.  Because Shentel's tower density is unmatched by any carrier I've ever seen.

 

So for you, it will be all about finding the Triband device that best fits your needs and whether you want to get it now and start using it as LTE 800 fires up in your area one tower at a time, or if you want to wait until service is everywhere on LTE 800.

 

Robert

Thank you Robert!  I really appreciate all the useful information that you provided.  I work literally 0.3 miles from a Sprint 4G LTE tower.  I live about 0.6 nautical miles on the other side of that same tower.  I can't wait to re-join Sprint as a customer.  I don't mind waiting for the 800 MHz to come along from Shentel as long as it wlll eventually.  You are correct in saying the tower density of Shental is unmatched.  When 800MHz goes live it's going to be phenomenal. 

This is why I'm trying to find how the RF performance of the Sprint LG G2 is going to be.  I see here on this thread that there are some issues with the beta firmware that is on the G2 now, before launch. 

I would greatly appreciate if anyone could share their thoughts on the radio and antenna systems in the Sprint LG G2. 

Thanks for all the help!

Welcome.  I am the author responsible for most of S4GRU's FCC spectrum licensing and device authorization articles.  We are not VZW4GRU, so we do not run articles on the RF capabilities of VZW devices.  However, I do come across VZW handsets frequently in my FCC database research.  And while high ERP/EIRP metrics do not necessarily define real world performance, do know that the VZW variant Galaxy Note 3 fares surprisingly low in its uplink power figures.  And that may correlate with your hands on experience. 

 

AJ

Thanks for that reply.  I was only interested in the Sprint LG G2 performance.  The Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 3 was returned the very next day after I purchased it for its abysmal performance.  I had the privelege of paying that "poor" company Verizon, $35.00 for the use of their abysmal GN3.  I appreciate the time you took to answer.  Thanks. 

Hi Everyone! 

I found this forum when I was searching for information on Google about RF signal quality (strength) on the LG G2.

I read the entire thread from start to finish last evening.  I couldn't stop reading.  The information was so interesting and useful to me.

I also want to ciompliment each and every one of you who has contributed to this thread.  Your knowledge and intelligence is awesome!

Please forgive me, I don't mean to jack your thread, but I was hoping to gain information about Sprint and the LG G2.  I am interested in purchasing an LG G2.  I couldn't have come to a more educated group of people. 

Some Background:  I joined Sprint and lasted 12 days.  I think that I really chose the wrong phone.  I chose a Samsung Galaxy Note 3.  Meanwhile I kept my Verizon contract going just in-case.  I have a Motorola Droid Bionic on Verizon. 

I live in the Harrisburg PA area and am served by Shentel.  I went around comparing signals with my new GN3 and my Bionic.  I live in a horrible Verizon signal area, but an outstanding Sprint area.  I found that when I went into buildings with the Sprint GN3, I would lose 4G LTE and drop back to just a few bars of 3G at best, while my Verizon Droid Bionic maintained 4G LTE at a few bars.  I was blaming this on Sprint not having the lower frequencies for good penetration in buildings.

I had to return my first GN3 because the "Home" button would get stuck under the front bezel.  You had to pop it out again by pressing on the opposite end.  I checked the same areas with the second GN3 against my Verizon Droid Bionic and obtained the same results. 

At this point I figured that Sprint had an inferior signal, and since the GN3 was a single band phone - there was no hope for me.  I cancelled my contract with Sprint.  I'm really sorry I did now and am going to join again as soon as Sprint will let me.

I liked the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phone so much that I got one from Verizon.  That was a BIG MISTAKE!  The first day I had the GN3 in the building where I work in Swatara Township, I got a 1X signal or "No Service" on Verizon where people around me were getting a few bars of 4G LTE from Verizon.  My own Droid Bionic was a signal magnet in these same places.  I could always maintain a 4G LTE signal from Verizon.  When I checked my signal at my house, I could barely maintain a 4G LTE signal from Verizon with the GN3 as well. 

The GN3 has horribly poor RF reception in fringe and marginal signal areas.  With a strong signal it was great, but if you get it in a less than perfect signal area, it doesn't work well at all.  Problem is, I live in a Verizon fringe area. 

Then a light came on in my head!  I thought that the test on the Sprint network I did was totally unfair, because I used the GN3 which has abysmal RF receprion (didn't know this until I tried the Verizon version where I knew what my Bionic would do).  Now I realize that all the places the Bionic would maintain 4G LTE and the GN3 could barely hold on to 3G from Sprint was the GN3 iteslf - not the Sprint network.  The GN3 is not worth the price at all!  A flagship phone with poor radio sensitivity, poorly designed antennas - or both!

Now I am looking to come back to Sprint and future-proof myself with the LG G2.  That's why I came to this thread.  I was hoping to find out how sensitive the radios and antennas are in the G2 and how well the phone performs. 

As Shentel builds the network in my area, the G2 should eventually be able to make use of the additional frequencies.

I would be very appreciative to anyone here who could let me know what you think of the LG G2 radios and antennas as far as sensitivity and RF performance in fringe areas.

Again, I apologize for posting such a large litany here, but I hope I will be welcome to share information.

Thanks so much!