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So you're saying the last hurdle to this (is it actually going to happen? Honest question, I'm seriously considering moving to T-Mob) is the fact Legere just wants to get stoned to the bejeezus at his HQ? There is no such thing AJ, sausage only induces dreams, not nightmares. HAHAHAHA! Fantastic. Those dart boards they're throwing at must be getting pretty worn out. Once they start with a new batch of one-liners, we'll know they finally had to be replaced.
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I live on the NE side of Elgin and SNR is usually pretty bad around there. I was driving b/w the Beverly and 25 exits last night and SNR was somewhere around 1.0-1.5. Data speeds were awful as expected. It could barely keep up with streaming ESPN Radio.
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Same boat as me. I think my renewal is up sometime around July though as I got the GS3 literally right when it came out. I was sitting on an upgrade for probably 18 months previously to that, but nothing came out that really piqued my interested until the GS3. Anyway, I'm on contract through then so I'll abide by it. If things don't drastically improve, consider this 10+ year Sprint vet jumping ship. Which is a bummer because I've been a big supporter of theirs for years always thinking things would get better...and they just don't. I did notice one thing last night though. While around the Hoffman Estates/Elgin/Schaumburg areas, the speeds are pretty brutal for LTE. I was at the Des Plaines Oasis last night for a few minutes and tethered my Galaxy Note 8 to my phone. LTE was a strong signal and speeds were solid. I didn't run any tests, but I was getting around 5Mbps down through LTE, which is a heck of a lot better than I'm used to seeing, being far less than 1.
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I responded to two people (one about developer phones and another about carrieriq) in the same post and the whole thing got deleted? Dang, pretty tight around here, eh?
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Exactly. And yeah, Verizon provides "developer" phones for a higher price to do the same thing you can do on any other provider for the regular price of any phone you buy. The "developer" edition of the GS3 on Verizon for example is the same exact GS3 I bought on Sprint...it has an unlocked bootloader and Verizon charges a serious premium for it. I didn't personally buy a GS3 because of all the bells and whistles it has to go with it. I bought it because it was the best phone that has a removable battery (so I can put an extended one in there) AND expandable storage. Some phones have neither (Nexus) and other phones have one but not the other. I'm with you 100% on that one. I'm around wifi most of the day as it is, so I didn't notice the bad speed drops for a while because of this reason. The only things I was doing while on the road (not at work or at home) was streaming ESPN Radio and Pandora, but even now those are becoming less and less reliable. I was originally thinking it was the apps themselves, but now I know it's because I'm not getting jack for download transfer
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I absolutely refuse to go with Verizon. I don't like the way the completely lock everything down (also why I don't like Apple) among other things. I probably stuck with Sprint so long because they were pretty friendly with the rooting community, but TMob is too. AT&T I don't know if I could go with them either. It's like I hate big establishment, but they seem to offer the best service...dang it!! I'm looking forward to Sprint figuring out whatever this issue is, more than likely because of what's going on here, among us. Hey, the whole CarrierIQ thing totally blew up because of a few people noticing things weren't quite as they seemed. This isn't that, but it's not like it takes thousands of people complaining to get something to change. Provide some real evidence and maybe things will change for the better.
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There's been other people reporting it with other phones as well, but some are alluding to the fact the GS3 might be to blame which would make me a sad panda. I love my GS3. I'm still about 99% certain I'll be heading to TMob when my contract is up next summer. I've been with Sprint for over a decade now and I've been holding on as long as I can. I had to sway wifey into sticking with them last summer when NV was at it's worst. Now this, and she's been telling me about more and more dropped calls lately too. It's just too much when you rely on your phones as much as we do.
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Hey fellas. I've been away from the site for a little while and just popped in earlier this morning. I saw I had about 12 pages of unread posts in this thread and I thought somehow my last unread place was lost...not the case. I haven't been as much of a power user lately as I have been previously, but I've been seeing some serious issues as well, and it's ridiculous. I'll run with the Open Signal thing too. Just for kicks, I installed the Signal Lite and SpeedTest apps just a little while ago and ran some test. Like you guys, things aren't looking good. Bit about me: Running a GS3 I got pretty much right when it came out. Rooted and running SlimBean, so it has Android 4.3 on it right now. I'll post this here from my laptop and I'll try to update it with some screenshots in hopes it might shed some light on things from another perspective. I work right by Woodfield Mall and have a few towers pretty close to me. Both of these tests were done at my desk, which is pretty close to a few towers, but I'm also on the 10th floor, so I don't know how that affects things. Since I've been sitting here, I've seen that SNR number go from about 0.5 up to a little over 6.0, for what it's worth.
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Yup, that's a pretty horrid stretch. Even worse considering the whole freaking part is under construction. As the other guy said, once you get past Randall Rd, it's pretty much no good until you get around Rockford. I'm moving out to the Huntley area in a few months so I hope they get everything figured out by then. You can stream something like Pandora, but that's about it, and even that skips and has to re-buffer now and then.
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I was wondering if the US Cellular acquisition would play a part in this or not. I live out towards the Hoffman Estates area and things around here are better than they were months ago, that's for sure. I still run into issues here and there with LTE not providing much speed (we're talking less than 1Mbps) which is disappointing, but it's better than the literal non-existent speed I'd get from 3G. The most disappointing thing is at my office. I'm up on the 10th floor right over near Woodfield. I used to get awesome speeds from LTE sitting at my desk, now I get virtually nothing. Sometimes it's okay at best, but most of the time, I have to hook on to our guest wifi and use that to actually do anything data related.
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Felt like I should come in here and give a little update. I live over in the West burbs, near Hoffman Estates/Elgin and work in Schaumburg. My wife and I were having MASSIVE issues a few weeks back with people not being able to hear us when we would answer the phone, and all sorts of other issues. I wanted to write and update and let anyone know who may be having similar issues to ditch the Google Voice integration. I'm not 100% this was the sole culprit as it could've been the updates around us being completed, but I haven't had a single issue in the past 3-4 weeks or so. Not one. Not one dropped call, not one person not being able to hear me when I answer their call. Nothing. As far as I'm concerned, the network around where I am is pretty solid. I have LTE probably 98% of the time and the last few times I have been on 3G, it's not only been usable, but fast (1.5Mbps, which I think is pretty darn good for Sprint 3G).
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Are you integrating with Google Voice by chance? Both my wife and I noticed things got better when we ditched that integration. I don't know if it was that or Sprint's network actually getting better, so it could be a coincidence. Also, as you stated in your post, you know it's not a problem with your phone as you didn't have this issue a few months back. Upgrading to the S4 wouldn't fix the problem (outside maybe the LTE part) since it's not a hardware problem. Since Sprint started the rollout in the West burbs and moved in towards the city, I'm guessing this issue will be solved in the same manner. You're a bit further East than me, so I would think it would start getting better for you shortly as it did for me. Not 100% yet, but it is better.
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Yeah, I think it'll take the rest of the year as well. However, once all is said and done, I honestly believe Sprint will have the best network in Chicago, and that's a big deal. Especially when they can get all their 800mhz working to get better building penetration as well. That's a big deal too. I don't care too much about data speeds I just want the actual phone (voice) to work! I'm bathing in LTE almost everywhere I go. The only time I see a 3G icon is in the elevator at work, or maybe a conference center over near O'Hare.
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I think they have a lot of work left to do in the loop area as well. It was the last place they started work in the Chicago market and is probably much more complex than the burbs. A short update on the issues I was having before (people not being able to hear when I picked up, dropped calls all the time, etc) it does seem to be getting better. I don't take as many phone calls as my wife does, but I don't think I've had someone not hear me when I answer in probably a week or more, which is AWESOME. It's kinda sad when you're excited your phone service works as it should, but given the massive undertaking this is, I'm hoping just a few more weeks and it'll all be straightened out in the NW burbs.
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So does anyone have any reasonable ball park date when the rollout will be complete in Chicago? Anything, even a month?
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Truth. And oddly enough, I carried on a 45 minute phone call from there yesterday. A few days ago, I was upstairs on the main floor and dropped a call about three times in a row. Consistency rocks
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In a good way or in a bad way, in your opinion? As an update from some of my recent posts...I worked from home yesterday and had to take three calls where people called me. All of them went through and they could hear me! Sounds like it's a lot to get excited about, but I'm glad I was 3-for-3. Someone was asking before about my cell level with numbers: It was right around -86-88 (I think, I can verify tonight) while on the main level and about -103 when in my basement, which is where I took the calls. No drops, no answering the phone and not being able to have people hear me. Maybe things are on the up and up!!
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Shouldn't by itself unless the new Samsung equipment is complete garbage. The handoffs between legacy (Motorola) and new (Samsung) equipment was causing problems right out the gate.
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And that would make sense except we live in Elgin. I posted earlier the two most likely towers we're most likely connecting to at home and they're both 3G/4G upgraded (yellow dots).
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Nah, my wife is on her third phone and it's still all the same thing. With regards to your calls going right to voicemail...I'm betting your further East than me, closer to the city than the Elgin/Schaumburg area? I ask because that's the problem we were having a few months back. Calls weren't even coming in, the only way we'd know someone called is if they left a VM. Now the calls come in, but they can't hear us if we answer. Hopefully it's not a pattern, where as you'll see the "can't hear you" problem in the upcoming weeks. So it looks like it isn't just me in my area afterall!!! Sorry for you guys, but I'm actually a little happy to hear that. I agree 100% it has to do with the switch to Samsung towers. They found out real quick there was a massive handoff issue when going from Moto to Samsung towers which is why they had to change their entire rollout plan. However, now that more and more towers have been updated to Samsung towers, the issue is still there, and seemingly all over the place. I was beginning to think the issue may be with the SGSIII (which would make me sad as I love this phone) but I see one of the guys (wtsguy) who posted was using an EVO LTE so it's not a phone thing. People in different places, with different phones leaves only one thing left...the network. For what it's worth, on my wife's first phone, it was rooted with a slightly custom ROM. Second phone was just rooted, but a stock ROM. Third phone isn't even rooted. Same problems regardless of ROM or root. My phone has been running an AOSP ROM for a while and the issues don't seem to be as bad for me as for her, but she uses her phone a lot more than I do too. As I mentioned before, the way we "fixed" this at home was to get GrooveIP for VOIP calling so all our calls now go through wifi. It's been great since that, go figure. However, that doesn't help when we're away from home and the issue is still there. Does anyone know if Sprint allows VOIP calling over their network? I could technically use GrooveIP over Sprint's LTE network, but I'm not sure if they even allow it or not. Right now, I only have it set to work over wifi.
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Yup, gone through the updating of PRL and Profile and all that jazz. I don't know it's just me that's having this issue, I have a feeling it's quite a few people around this area who have Sprint. Thing is, most people don't use their phones as phones as much as we do, so the problem is a pretty big one. If you only make 1-2 calls a day, it's no big deal. But when you're making 40-50 and over half of the calls you receive run into this issue (the other person not being able to hear you when you answer), it creates a big problem. And frankly, Sprint hasn't had exactly a shining reputation around Chicago, so I don't think there are all that many people using Sprint in this area to begin with. Chicago has always been a thorn in their side, but that's expected to get better with the NV upgrades and the US Cellular spectrum deal as well. Verizon rules around here hands down.
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That's the thing is we always have pretty legit signal. I haven't verified with dB ratings but I certainly could. I hear you on this seeming like a very old problem, but I can assure you, it's very real and very relevant. The dropped calls is one thing. Answering a call to not having the other person be able to hear you is another thing completely. My wife is on her third phone. I have a hard time believing the same problem could happen on three separate devices. We live in the burbs of Chicago, there's nothing but flat land and small hills around so I don't think the topography would be an issue. What I do know is this was never a problem before the upgrades to NV started. Everything worked well as far as voice was concerned. Data was pretty much nonexistant, but that wasn't just us...that was Sprint 3G as a whole. Not sure if this was directed at me or not, but yes, we do have an airave at home too. Phones would only connect to it a very small percentage of the time, and when they did, voice worked fine, but SMS was a crapshoot. I would randomly receive about 10 text messages at once as it was like they were all held and delivered at the same time. I would respond and someone would ask why it took me hours to respond or something like that. If that wasn't the issue, there were many times where when connected to the airave, we couldn't sent text messages out, so I had to revert to Google Voice to send them instead. All in all, I ended up buying GrooveIP so we can can make calls via wifi while at home. This seems to have worked fine for now. I'm just hoping this will all get fixed up in the next few months around the area. The problem still persists while out and about, specifically around the East part of Elgin, and the southern parts of Algonquin.
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That's unfortunately the same conclusion I've come to as well. Right now, the problem seems to be worst at our house, so I bought GrooveIP to route calls though wifi instead. It's only been this morning, but so far so good. I REALLY want to keep Sprint because I like my unlimited data and I honestly think they'll have the best network in Chicago in a short period of time, especially with the US Cellular deal going through as well. I've been with them for about 12 years now, and I just don't want to quite put up the white flag yet. I like what T-Mobile is doing with their plans (especially since you can get phones off contract and their prices seem pretty solid) so they're an option, but I question their nationwide coverage as well. Verizon is going to be the best of the best, but I don't like how they treat their customers, nor do I care for their practices of castrating phones and severely limiting what you can do. I can live with their prices, although I do believe they're quite high.
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Out of curiosity, how much do you use your phone to talk? I ask because my wife and I are right now doing everything possible to try and get rid of Sprint. I've been one of the biggest backers/supporters, etc for Sprint during this whole ordeal, but it's come to it's head now. Now that we're actually getting phone calls (which previously, would frequently just show up as a voicemail or we wouldn't even know people called) the majority of the time when they call us, they can't hear anything. Example, someone calls me, I answer and say "hello". Nothing. I can hear them and they can't hear me. I'll call them back right away and everything is fine. It's been like this for months, and I simply cannot take it anymore. We run a business through our phones, and this just can't happen anymore. If we used it mostly for data, I'd be happier than a pig in slop, but when it comes to actually using your phone as, you know, a phone, it's absolutely horrendous. Robert, any idea why this might happen? We both have GS3s, and she's had hers replaced twice now because they keep thinking it's the phone. It's not the phone. It used to only happen at our house, now it's all over the place. We live out near Elgin/Hoffman Estates. Got an airave at our place too. Problem is, phones only connect to it maybe 20% of the time, and when the phone is connected to the airave, text messages will only be sent out maybe 10% of that time. She's at home most of the time where the problem happens almost all the time, so I'm going to try and get her setup with GrooveIP so calls will go through wifi instead. It's our only choice for now as their voice service is absolutely atrocious. EDIT: For what it's worth, I believe the two towers we would have the best chance to connect to at home would be CH13XC509 & CH03XC493.
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I see you're running an EVO LTE, which would explain your issues. If you look at the map on Sensorly, you'll see the Woodfield area is very well covered with LTE. @mhammet - Whoa, talk about turning the clock back. You're replying to posts from literally five months ago. Thanks for the information though nonetheless.
