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Okay so I have dealt with this for awhile, and I thought I would see if anyone else experiences it. 

I have a Nexus 5 with SignalCheck Pro running in the background at all times.  Whenever I am on a phone call for awhile (more than 5 minutes), upon ending the call SCP sort of tweaks out and it shows 1x and numbers fluctuating extremely fast even though I am back on LTE.  If I try to open the app, it will just sit there with a black screen until I hit the home button to back out of the app.  I typically have to force stop the service and process and restart it to get everything working again.

Is this something others experience with a N5?  I never had this issue on my G2.  Anyone that has had this occur, did you fix it?  If so, how? 

If it turns out I am the first one to report this, I will try to take a video of it on my old G2 and post it here for others to see.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/lowensteins-view-memo-new-sprint-ceo-how-turn-things-around/2014-08-14

 

 

Naturally, Doug is one of the first to comment. 

Hey it wasn't me!    Have to hate people out there that bring down a perfectly fine name. 

* Improved Android L compatibility; SignalCheck alerts are not yet available on this OS. (Pro)

 

Anything special that we should have to do to get SignalCheck working on L with the new update?  I just restored a backup of L on my N5 and updated SCP, and it still forces a restart upon opening.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/08/12/latest-purported-leak-shows-scuffed-up-iphone-6-rear-panel

 

 

Vomit at those lines. Hope they make them beautiful.

Yeah...  But if it results in fantastic RF performance, I won't care one bit.  I wish every OEM made RF performance the #1 priority because if we get crappy reception it pretty much turns your phone into an iPod. 

I just received a brand new nexus 5 from sprint.

It has tons of stuck pixels. mainly on the top of the screen

Its only noticeable on a black screen with the brightness turned all the way up.

Is this something I can get fixed or should I try to swap it for a replacement

I had that with an iPad Air I bought from Sprint. I went into a Sprint store and got it exchanged in under 10 minutes.

They should easily replace it.

It works with the zvd radio or do you need to downgrade? I assume autorec still restores download mode correctly just like it did with ZVC? Had to get a replacement device and took the zvd ota but thinking of rooting again.

Autorec will install recovery again like on ZVC but you'll end up with the ZVC modified kernel which will break Knock Code. I do believe there is a custom kernel that will restore it but I can't say for sure.

Just rooting ZVD is fine but it's the recovery and restoration of the laf partition that is needed that will break one of the main features of the update.

Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk

Yeah it works with the ZVD radio, but no Knock code as mrrogers1 points out. I would've never used knock code though so it doesn't bother me.

I just installed the Mahdi ROM on my G2 with ZVD. Love the Nexus feel to it with the added customizations.

Anyone in the mood to try something new, I'd give it a shot.

Like I said for us that live in suburbia, Band 25 and 26 are more important. For my daughter that lives in midtown NYC, Band 41.

Completely agree.  Around where I live, in a town of approx. 13,000, B25 and B26 are active and the data speeds are great.  Consistently 20-30 down and 6-10 up. 

Now in the metro area that I work, where B25 and B26 are also active, we could definitely use B41.  The network gets a little bogged down during business hours downtown, but it recovers quickly in the late afternoon/early evening time frame. 

While I would like to see B41 at my home site this year, I completely understand that the goal should be to get them active in the metro areas.  At some point every site will get B41 so I can wait and let the areas that need it get it first. 

Some of you may remember the 1x issue I was having that I posted about a few pages back.  Well, I managed to fix it on accident.  I switched over to my T-Mobile prepaid SIM for some testing today, and upon switching back to Sprint, the issue was completely fixed!  Something funky must have happened with the last transition from T-Mobile -> Sprint.  Glad it's all fixed now. Remembering to put my phone in 1x only mode when rebooting was really annoying.

Quick question for you.  I also put a T-Mobile prepaid SIM in my N5 for a couple weeks (while going back to my G2 on Sprint).   I had a very difficult time getting the N5 to properly activate on Sprint afterwords.  Did you have a similar experience? 

When the handset finally did activate (after several profile updates and reboots), I didn't have any LTE data.  The signal was there but no throughput.  Luckily, I had a EFS backup from a month or two ago and that patched things up. 

I wanted to bounce something off of you guys. 

Here in WI, Airadigm was sold to USCC (technically sold to themselves since both are owned by TDS), and it has been known that USCC intends to shutdown Airadigm's GSM network in September and sell off some assets that it doesn't want/need.

Airadigm owns the PCS C Block (1895-1910 and 1975-1990).  USCC is in pretty good shape in MOST of the areas that they have this spectrum (A and B block 700mhz and the cellular A block, some PCS and AWS).  What do you guys think are the chances that USCC would maybe be looking into selling that spectrum to Sprint?  Do you think Sprint would be interested in such spectrum given the limited geographical reach of it?  It literally is only about 2/3 of WI and the northeastern portions of IA. 

Just a thought.  Or maybe USCC puts the spectrum to use with LTE and they start their LTE roaming deal with Sprint (and have it be treated as native )

So with the newest system update with the LG G2 it has a new selection in the ##DATA# hidden menu called LTE Available List which lists SID, NID, and BASE_ID's for all sites that it has found LTE from.

I looked around through this log and noticed that there are some with a SID of 5, which corresponds to US Cellular.  It appears that the phone is noticing the LTE, but isn't authenticating?  Could be a sign of things to come?

Screenshots and proof below:

So out of everyone here planning to get an iPhone 6 ---  If the specs are the same, which size do you plan to pick up?  The 4.7" or 5.5"?

I am thinking about scooping up this phone whenever it comes out.  2/3rds of the way into the Apple ecosystem with my iPad and MBPr.  I am definitely leaning towards the 4.7".  I have both the G2 and the Nexus 5 and the G2 is about as big as I would ever want to go.  The 4.7" seems like a good compromise between the N5 and my old work iPhone 4s (god, that was way too small for easy web browsing).

That must be a house of pain.

 

*Video removed

 

AJ

Now you got me all excited...

Grrr...  Never embedded a video.  Work in progress.

Edit: Figured it out.

True, but also seen update roll out on Fridays also.

The last two updates went as follows:

ZVC - Source Code Released 3/25 (Tues) -> Roll out started 3/31 (Mon)

ZVA - Source Code Released 1/24 (Fri) -> Roll out started 1/27 (Mon)

I hope it is tomorrow.  Would give me an excuse to switch back to my G2 for awhile. 

Keep an eye out.

Based on the previous updates, we are probably looking at early next week for it to start rolling out.

Yup:

 

ZVB/C: M8974A-AAAANAZM-2.0.20046

 

ZVD:    M8974A-AAAANLYD-1.3.11326.1

Thanks!  Come on...  Be a RF beast in B26 and B41!

According to the Sprint Device Testing site: http://device.sprintpcs.com/LG/LS980-SPRINT/latest

 

M8974AAAAANLYD1311326.1

 

That is the modem version with ZVD:

I'm at work and don't have my G2 around...  Is that different than ZVC(or B as Sprint likes to say...)?

You guys will have to let me know if there is a new radio with the update. 

I have been using my N5 since buying it, but with the latest N5 radio the RF performance is about on par with the G2.  Any noticeable improvement in RF might get me to switch back to the G2 and sell my N5 now that I know how to customize phones a little better.

Has anyone used the radio off the L Preview?

 

M8974A-2.0.50.2.08

I have...  Seems roughly the same as the 2.16 radio.

Actually I am currently running the .17 radio but regardless it really is amazing how the nexus performs on the network.

Ahh that makes sense.  With the newer radios, the N5 is about equal to the G2. 

The .17 radio gives me better coverage on B25 than the newest radio does on B26. 

Just a few minutes ago with phones side by side. B25 , i get fringe B26 at home so i can compare it tonight.

 

G2

 

G3

Very nice for B25...  I will be VERY interested in how the two compare with B26!  Can't wait to see that tonight .

The G2 is currently about the same as the N5 on its newest radio...  Looks like we may have a new RF champ.

I don't see how us cellular (USCC) would fit here. They overlap with sprint in several places and compete. If they went full native for sprint, why would one even bother getting a USCC plan? I would think that would be one of the major obstacles in their negotiations with sprint.

Sadly, I have to agree with you.  I am sure they will work out some sort of agreement with them, but I think it will be as just a CCA member.  I would be satisfied with a 500MB - 1GB roaming allotment with them though. 

I'm still hoping for them to be a RRPP member though.  USCC coverage treated as native would be great around here.  Also, it would give Sprint an instant upgrade in LTE coverage in many areas the day they start it up compared to a lot of these RRPP members that won't have strong LTE networks for awhile. 

Mike,

 

I just got a replacement Kyocera Torque, but it is not displaying the network provider, Sprint, correctly. Instead, is showing Chameleon. As you'll see in the screenshots, engineering screen is displaying correctly.

 

This phone is using a different software/baseband than my old Torque. Knowing Sprint, I may have a bad replacement. Just trying to eliminate possibilities; I emailed you debug data yesterday.

I had that when I first activated my G2 after receiving it in the mail.  The issue was that I never went all the way through self activation.  I had data and could use it, but I never let it install all of the Sprint bloatware.

If I was you, I would give the self activation a try again (and if that doesn't work, try the good ol' update profile).  Completely painless, and it might save you a trip to a Sprint store.

I am pretty excited for this phone to get released...  Having an iPad and a MBPr, I could definitely use an iPhone as my daily driver so everything is available for me at all times. 

I went with Android when joining Sprint just for the tri-band LTE.  If this has B41, which it should, I will probably be going with the 4.7" variant.

Anyone have any comparisons with the 5S and the iPad Air in terms of RF performance?  I have the cellular version of the iPad Air and it gets the same or even better LTE connectivity than my Nexus 5 does on the .15 radio.  (Probably worse on B25... Unable to get to any engineering screens)  I feel like the iPad must be pretty strong in B26 though, which is probably the most important at this moment.  Basically, if the 6 can pull in LTE in places my iPad Air does and has B41, I will be a very happy camper.

I tried this and it totally screwed up my phone. I can't call or receive calls or texts. I have no data. Signal check pro says mobile data is unregistered. When I try to make a call I get error 16 switch 384 message. When I go into status my phone number and MIN are wrong. Changed them to correct value and I have voice, but no data connection. Did another 72786 and the number and MIN are again screwed up. Anyone have any suggestions?

I had this last week, but it was caused by network issues.  Pretty much the whole state of WI was having some sort of network problem which caused no one to have any service at all for about an hour.

However, I do not think this is what you are experiencing because if it was anything on the network side, it should've been resolved by now.  If you have a custom recovery, you could backup your phone and then save it on a PC before factory resetting.  This way, you can always flash back to your backup if the factory reset doesn't fix your problems.