Hydro

It's possible you are not connected to the site you think you are. How do you figure which site you are connected to? The bars in your signal strength indicator does not show your LTE signal strength, ever. It only shows your 1x signal strength. We discuss that in this topic here: http://s4gru.com/ind...ignal-strength/

 

You may just be at spots that have line of sight to a more distant tower that the one you are parked near. This could especially be true if you are in a hilly area and near the top of a hill. The next time you are in one of these spots, go check your actual LTE signal strength (as described in the link above) by going into the LTE Engineering screen. This will help us to determine if you are connected to the tower above you, or one further away.

 

One quarter mile is not a typical distance, except in a very dense urban deployment with lots of adjacent sites.

 

Robert

Thanks for the info.

I assume that I was connecting to the tower I was parked under, because anywhere else I dont get 4G.

The other thing that concerns me is that to get the LTE signal to connect, I am still having to go into Mobile Settings and cycle between "CDMA" and "CDMA/LTE". Even when parked right under the tower, I have to cycle this setting. I tested this by driving around near the tower last night. I had hoped the latest OTA update for the Evo LTE would have fixed this issue.

I will use the ##DEBUG# code to do a bit more testing.

I live 1.25 miles from a tower that is now live with 4G (in cumming). I can only get 4G when I am within .25 miles of the tower. This is on an Evo LTE, with the latest OTA update installed. Is a quarter mile the expected footprint of an LTE tower??

I have been running sensorly, which is how I found this tower...you can see on sensorly.com the absurdly small area around the tower that gives LTE connection. (Tower is the red dot).

Speeds are good when I get close to the tower. This test is when I am parked directly under it.

There is another tower about 1 mile from this one...I havent been able to find out exactly where this tower is, but its coverage is also about .25 miles:

I hope these towers are still in test mode, and will increase their range at some point in the future...neither show up on the s4gru "Sites completed" map, so I have my fingers crossed.

I drove to 2 more towers that are listed as 4G on the NV Sites Complete map, and neither let me connect to 4g. So I have now been to the 3 nearest "4G" towers to my house and none allow me to connect with 4G.

But, I did get a 4g signal last night for the first time. Was at Taco Mac, the one in Johns Creek (Mathis airport road and peachtree parkway).

Signal was intermittent, I was able to complete one speed test, but the speeds were worse than 3G. I could hold 4G signal for about 5 minutes and then it would go back to 3g.

Then when I got home last night, I was once again roaming on and off and bouncing between towers.

Ok I looked at the NV Sites Complete Interactive map and found the nearest 4G tower. Just drove out there, parked 10 feet from the tower and tried every combination of swapping from CMDA to CDMA/LTE, updating profile, updating PRL and power cycling the phone.

Was never able to get any 4g signal.

I called Sprint support and they suggested I do a factory reset of the phone, if that doesnt work then take it in to a sprint store and have them look at it.

On the EVO LTE, if you don't cycle your CDMA/LTE setting to CDMA Only and back, you likely will not ever connect to LTE when you are in a LTE area. It is a bug with the EVO LTE. We have discussed it liberally throughout our news articles and forums. Hopefully HTC will fix it soon.

 

Robert via Samsung Galaxy S-III 32GB using Forum Runner

Yep I am aware of this issue, and have tried cycling that setting every couple of days or so just to see if I can see 4G if even for a moment. It still has only ever shown 3G data after the setting change.

Still no hint of LTE in cumming. I have yet to see a 4g connection even for 1 second on my EVO LTE.

A couple weeks ago all the towers near my home appeared to be down, I was roaming for 3-4 days straight. I hoped that meant when the towers came back on that I would have LTE...but no luck. Towers are back, and I still havent seen an LTE connection.

My wife works in norcross and reports the same thing this week. She has been roaming while at work..normally she has decent signal.

So it appears there is work going on up here, but who knows when or if we will actually get LTE.

i checked netmonitor today, and the tower i normally connect to from my house appears to be offline. I am connecting to a couple of towers that are alot farther away.

Hopefully this means they are doing some work here in Cumming (windermere area).

I have not seen a 4g signal at all on my Evo LTE since launch.

Ok, so I'm not sure what the problem is. I live in Alpharetta, and I still don't have LTE even though I had it back in May using the same phone. Today I went to Atlantic Station, Buckhead, Doraville, The Forum in Norcross, and still no LTE. I'm so unlucky :/.

I'm in cumming and no 4g here yet. i have tried turning off wifi, and rebooting a few times throughout the day, have yet to see 4G.

Bro, you gonna be happy to hear this. It looks like that just about every sprint tower in that area has been upgraded to 4g lte months ago, I am talking as far back as march and april. No reason why you shouldn't get lte very soon.

Thanks!

So can any insider see if there will be any LTE towers in cumming (near buford hwy and windermere parkway).

When I bought my Evo 4g LTE the lady that sold it to me said probably no LTE this far north of ATL at launch.

Im in Cumming, no 4g here yet.

I did a 3G speedtest and got 900 kbps down, and 600 kbps up (average over 3 or 4 tests). That is about 5-10 times faster than I normally get...so thats something. Ping was 150ms...normally its at least 500ms on 3G.