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  1. mfield
    It's the same in the south half of San Jose after the cluster launch down here.
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    For no good reason, I checked the coverage map at coverage.sprint.com, and it shows that pretty much ALL of San Jose should have LTE coverage right now. I am still getting 3G in the south half of San Jose, for the most part. Is it worth opening a ticket with Sprint support? In the two months since the cluster launch of NV sites, and since the official LTE launch of San Jose, nothing has changed in terms of my experience on the network. Marc
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    Has anyone driven from the Bay Area to LA lately? Just did the drive and was surprised and disappointed at both voice and data service most of the way on the 5. Call quality was generally terrible (garbled and dropped calls) and data throughput was literally zero almost the whole time except for patches 5 or so minutes at a time. Was something odd going on, or is this just the current state of service on that route? My phone was mostly not usable.
  4. mfield
    Maybe this is a dumb question, but how do you know? When South San Jose launched, there was no difference in coverage, speed, quality, etc.
  5. mfield
    This is true even after the cluster launch. On an iPhone 5s, south San Jose is still not good. Hopefully the NV launch will lead quickly to an LTE launch and actually improve things for us.
  6. mfield
    Any carrier or modem firmware updates with 7.1.1? Anyone notice better performance on Sprint network with this update? I doubt it, but you never know...
  7. mfield
    I have seen a lot of the same over the past week or so... lots of roaming where I normally would not, many times no LTE where I normally would have it, and having a terrible time making/keeping a call in certain spots where I would not normally have that problem (although the last item has been happening in an area where data is terrible so I have been thinking it's just intermittently part of the deal in that area).
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    As we rolled past ------- this afternoon (Bascom at 85, currently a brown turd on the map), I'm pretty sure I saw some guys on the ground working on panels. I will try to get a better look next time we go by. Maybe that one is starting the upgrade process.
  9. mfield
    There has been a noticeable improvement in the area N/NE of SJC (e.g., Orchard Parkway). As for the south part of San Jose, does anyone else feel as if Sprint has forgotten us? 5 LTE updates in the last map update, and zero in the south part of San Jose (and zero in all the ones I can remember for the past several months). I hope one day I leave home and find that a big cluster of LTE sites has been turned on. Would they launch the South Bay market with such a large area still not updated? Areas such as Hamilton Ave near Bascom (with a Sprint corporate store!) with near zero data speeds most of the time... Marc
  10. mfield
    Definitely let us know whether the updates help with voice or data! I'm wondering whether that radio update will get us better reception, the ability to use 800, etc. (Regarding 800, I know we need an updated PRL to really take advantage of it, but I have NEVER seem my phone use it...it will roam or say no signal sometimes but I've never seen it actually grab an 800 signal...so I have this conspiracy theory type suspicion that 800 isn't even enabled in the radio though of course I have no real data to support it.) Marc
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    ok - maybe a dumb question - but how did you actually get a copy? I don't see any way to have Cydia install it. I looked for a way to force the install per kojitsari's suggestion but don't see that option... Thanks, Marc
  12. mfield
    Has anyone noticed better reception or 800 MHz connections with 7.1? I'm wondering whether the update modified the radio firmware or otherwise did something so we can use the 800 bandwidth (though maybe we won't know until there is also a prl update). Marc
  13. mfield
    MacinJosh, Are you on ios6? I want to put Signal2 on my device (7.0.4) but it says that it's not compatible with my is version. Marc
  14. mfield
    ok - maybe not...at least not without some detective work. I don't see the PRL in the place it normally would be on pre-5s phones. In the Sprint carrier bundle directory, there's a file called carrier.pri (note: last letter is "i"), which is a plist XML file that has a lot of data that a PRL would have (based on reading digiblur's awesome article). However, I don't think it has even close to everything. I'm happy to post a copy if anyone is interested. In the Verizon carrier bundle directory (looking just for comparison - no interest in using their PRL), there is a carrier.prl file (last letter L), so it's not an across the board change to put the PRL file somewhere else. I'll keep digging... Marc
  15. mfield
    One more question and then I promise to find something better to think about Would it make sense to try loading the PRL used for Andriod devices (which gives 1900 and 800 even priority) and see if that performs better? Would there be any harm in doing so? (Based on what I've read, I think I will be able to load a different PRL even though it's an iPhone...that's not the question I'm asking.)
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