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Well it's looking better and better for a jump to Sprint in the near future. My area has to be close to starting NV and since there's only 4 sites I would use during any regular week I really hope it won't take too long after starting to get to that level. I will be going back to my home town of Colorado Springs for a little bit this coming spring/early summer which is very nearly complete with NV so I should be able to enjoy it down there while hopefully they get some work done up in the Denver area before I come back.

Ouch, is this on your pre NV site or a post NV site?

Well that is great news. I guess I thought NV 3g speeds would just be closer to 1mbps rather than below .5Mbps like pre NV speeds seem to be, but 2Mbps is great. Tmobile's HSPA Is faster but it isn't in nearly as many locations so a more ubiquitous 1-2Mbps is a lot better than 5-15Mbps in concentrated areas.

Wow that would be totally enough speed for me on 3g. I hope thats what I can expect or close to it consistently.

Are your speeds at least decent before and after? Or are they unusable even after upgrades? I know I need access to the premier sponsor forums to get all the B26 info but is there any rough estimates of when my market would be receiving the B26 upgrades? Unfortunately I can't swing the 100 bucks as a college kid just to see the B26 deployments as much as I would like to.

So basically I can assume if I have good or decent signal before NV, I can reasonably expect solid performance and reliability after NV is done? That isn't even factoring in 800 mhz LTE/1xA obviously which will definitely increase my coverage.

Yea I figured, I literally could see the panels less than a block over from me when I was outside of the store and thats when I had the -44 dBm signal, inside I had the -75dBM which is still very strong. It is the main shopping and restaurant area for my town so if anywhere is going to be overloaded its that tower and the tower on the University campus. It was honestly the first time I was starting to doubt my switch. Last night I was actually considering switching before the new HTC One and just using the EVO until then because I hadn't had any issues. The data was noticeably slow but not significantly worse than Tmobile and I had coverage in more places which is more important to me than the fastest speeds in a few locations. This experience gave me hold though and wanted to make sure that I can expect to not experience these kind of issues as soon as NV is underway.

I hope so. I just had my first unfortunately bad data experience. It's in the downtown area of my town that I only go to on weekends really (it's where the bars are) and I had great signal on eHRPD, -44dBm to -75 dBm to be exact depending on the area, so I was excited. I went into a shop and had to wait a bit and I simply could not get anything to load in any reasonable time. My t mobile phone dropped LTE to weak HSPA signal but had no problems loading XDA and s4gru in a matter of seconds. It took ~2 minutes to load XDA developers. I ran a speed test when I was back outside and got .04 Mbps down and like .2 Mbps up. Do these kind of speeds still exist in a NV area while on 3g? Obviously LTE should be better but LTE drops easier, like on my tmobile phone, so 3g needs to be reliable still.

I figured it wouldn't get weird until they actually start NV lol. I haven't seen any evidince that they have even touched a single tower in my area. It is a bit hard to tell, however, since the towers I would regularly use are roof top mounted ones since there are very strict height ordinances to prevent blocking the mountains and a lot of NIMBY types. No way to see the base stations really and the antennae are hard to see as well.

So I should be sitting around -85 to -95 dBm with a nexus 5 or something comparable which isn't bad it seems. Now it looks like I'm within a mile of 2 towers to my south and west( I live close to 30th st and Colorado ave in Boulder, CO if you look at the site maps ) but I don't seem to connect to the one to the south of me ever and instead fluctuate between one much farther south east and the one to the west of me. I know it has antennas pointed directly at my building since I go by it nearly every day. This is based off signal check so I could be wrong since my market has the BSLs offset for each sector but I'm pretty confident I'm connecting to the further tower and getting the lower signals from it.

That's good to hear. My whole area is still pre NV so it's definitely not LTE yet haha. The sector is most likely over crowded since there doesn't seem to be another one to serve a very densely populated area of my college town. It serves a large majority of my campus and almost the entire region where the Greek houses are as well as college kid houses which are ridiculously over crowded with 5+ people in each house originally built for a small family. Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk

So I used my Ting HTC EVO mostly normally for 24 hours and I'm pretty happy. I had great signal almost everywhere and never terrible signal. In my house I'm at -95 dBm mostly but I got a .4 Mbps down/up speed test on a legacy site(was off peak however). There seems to be a sector of a tower that just doesn't work for data though. Twice now I've had perfect signal but still was unable to even refresh my twitter feed which I have no trouble with on the other sector from the same tower. Overall I'm happy so far but am going to try a bit longer. Is it possible to have worse service post NV? I figured if I'm ok with pre nv speeds then I'll be very happy post NV.

Hey guys, just quickly wanted to say thanks for answering all my questions, this community is by far the most helpful of any I've been in. Now I have some more questions that I have now that I actually have a sprint tester phone. In my house I have about -95 to -105 dbm signal on eHRPD. Will this translate to a decent enough signal post NV to get reliable LTE/EVDO speeds and calls(im guessing this will be true since my signal will go up with 1x800)? I know my ATT phone when on HSPA at -100 dbm in my house my calls would drop with almost certainty eventually during a call and I would miss texts/calls all together at times. I understand the HTC EVO 4g LTE isn't the best when it comes to signal strength, so what could I expect if I had say a nexus 5 in terms of signal strength in here also? My other question is, are post NV EVDO speeds noticeably different? I was sitting with about -75dbm with almost LOS to a tower and google loaded ok but I tried to load XDA developers and it just would not load. I didn't have enough time to sit there to see if it would but it definitely loaded fine on my Tmobile phone with a very weak LTE signal. I don't know the exact speeds because I don't really care about speed, it's all about the user experience ultimately(plus speed tests would really rack up the cost on Ting quickly), but the pre NV load times are unbearable on 3g it seems but if the post NV 3g speeds provide a zippy internet experience even without LTE then I would be willing to wait, unfortunately I don't know how long I'm going to have to wait since I haven't seen any work at all on the towers I'm connected to most of the time. EDIT: Also it seems my signal is fluctuating wildly because it switches towers every few minutes and even when on the same tower my signal could be -110 or -90. I knew UMTS was subject to cell breathing but is this true for CDMA2000? The tower in particular is one on the local Universities campus and seems to be the only one to serve the whole campus and the population of the student body is around 30,000 so it seems like this tower could be easily over loaded.

Wow great explanation thank you. And I love the app it's been something I've wanted forever.

So I have been playing with signal check pro now and the addresses and locations even when I click show site on map are completely wrong if the sponsor maps are to be believed. It shows me connected to a tower at a location that the sponsor maps don't even show a site existing for there. I thought signal check used s4gru databases or worked with this site to get site IDs.

Cool thank you, I ended up finding another one for 75 bucks and the sprint store said it was all good so I bought that one and I am currently using it on Ting to try out the service for a while before jumping ship.

So I'm hoping you sprint experts can explain this since I'm not used to the CDMA carriers. I just tried to meet someone on craigslist at a sprint store to buy a nice condition EVO LTE (yes I'm aware it might have bad radios but I like the phone) and the ESN checked out with Ting who I was going to activate it on as well as Swappa both said it's ready to be activated. It also still displayed sprint as the carrier even though it wasn't activated in the settings. However, the phone rep as well as the store sales associate said that the serial number wasn't in their database anymore and was most likely flashed to Cricket. The guy was shocked at this and I didn't really know what the serial number had to do with whether or not it could be activated on a network, I thought it was all tied into the MEID/ESN and as long as it wasn't blocked Sprint could activate it. I didn't buy it because I didn't want to risk it but I'm still confused as to why this phone wasn't eligible to be activated on Sprint when it was clean and was already connected to sprints network just not activated on a number.

So I have a question that I had while I was at the sprint store playing with some phones and installed signal check on a few of them. The LG G Flex the internet was almost unusable with about .15 Mbps down and -85dbm connected to a tower literally across the street on eHRPD according to signal check. The Nexus 5 was about -75 dbm right next to it and the web pages seemed to load quite snappily connected to EVDO according to signal check, unfortunately I couldn't get speed test on it since it was locked down from running pretty much every app it seemed. The HTC One max was also almost unusuable speed wise like the LG G Flex with around -85 dbm on EVDO according to signal check and speed test was around .15 as well. Then the HTC EVO 4G LTE was around -85 dbm and was on eHRPD but got 1.0 Mbps down and websites loaded quite quickly as well. Lastly the G2 was quite slow as well loading pages but I didn't spend much time with it. All of this was on eHRPD or EVDO and this is definitely not a NV tower based off of the sponsor maps and all phones were within a few feet, so my question is why were some of these phones on EVDO and some were on eHRPD. The other one is why was there such a large difference in terms of web page loads and speed test results even among same models of phones?

Seems like an apt analogy indeed. Unfortunately my suburb of Boulder hasn't even started yet and Denver only has only over half of the sites "In Progress". How rough is the transition process realisticall? It's supposed to start soon I have a feeling since it's already 2014 and the whole region is majority legacy equipment. Denver is getting Band 41 simultaneously with 25 it seems since Clearwire decided to do that for whatever reason so hopefully it will jump from nothing to spark within a short period of time. Now I am actually planning a move in ~ a year to either Fullerton, CA. Ft Lauderdale, FL or Phoenix, AZ for continued graduate school depending on where I get in so if anyone is from any of these areas it would be relevant to me as well as Colorado.

Thanks guys I like hearing all these stories since the main reason I'd switch from Tmobile is better coverage. Keep them coming if there are any more .

I have a feeling most people on this site are long time sprint customers, but I'm curious, has anyone made the switch to sprint recently from another carrier and could weigh in and what market they are in? I see so many just switched to tmobile posts on the various tmobile forums I frequent (HoFo and reddit, not nearly as good as here in terms of network info).

Hm, I remember activating my phone simply using the *228 or some other code like that when I was on Verizon I thought. It would ask for your phone number and account password then proceed with activation if I recall correctly, it has been a while since I've been on Verizon though.

Hm this is discouraging. It definitely would be an issue. Does Sprint not have the *228 option to program it without talking to a live rep just in case online doesn't work? Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

Yea I know I'm an outlier haha, to be fair I feel like pretty much this whole site caters to outliers though since most people don't even know what OS their phone runs let alone the network technology their carrier is running. However, what kind of issues are there when switching online frequently? If I had to call CS every time it would certainly be a no go but I don't mind logging in to my account to switch assuming its a relatively painless process.

Thank you, I think I'll probably just wait and buy the New HTC One if/when I switch, its being announced in a month so it probably would make more sense to just stay with my Tmobile one for now. If he wanted to let me borrow then that's a different story , however I have a strong feeling he wouldn't. It is good to hear from someone they don't have any problems in Boulder with sprint though, where about town were you roughly?