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  1. it didn't hit me until now that you are the same user on reddit i've been replying to about LTE roaming on US cellular i contacted t-force on facebook when my wife's iphone connected to us cellular but mine didn't. i have no idea if they did anything or not but after talking to them it started working for me. now every time i go back up to the huxley area all i have to do is search for networks and pick us cellular and it connects right away. i don't know how it happened but i did notice that at some point while i was messing with things my data roaming option got turned off. not sure how that happened :/ only other thing i can think of is to go somewhere where its confirmed working and see if you can get connected?
  2. woot! good news for me using t-mobile in iowa! http://www.tmonews.com/2017/09/t-mobile-acquire-remaining-interest-iowa-wireless/
  3. i would not get the Flex 2, it was a terrible phone. a V10 or V20 would be a much better option. sorry i can't help you on the tower question, i don't ever get to knoxville and i've also switched to t-mobile last fall so i don't have any way of tracking sprint stuff anymore.
  4. only the 03 B25 sector doesn't identify as the 2nd B25 carrier. This is because in Ericsson markets they use 01/02/03 for their first set of carriers where the other markets use 00/01/02. signal check can't determine what market you are in so it just defaults as showing 03 sectors as regular B25. the 04 and 05 sectors should show as B25^2.
  5. i can't answer to that area but assuming its similar to des moines they probably haven't finished switching the rest of the towers over to 10x10. so some areas will be better and others will be the same. we are still sitting here with about half of the towers switched.
  6. have you seen any towers that didn't have it wednesday get it since then? So far it seems that whatever towers got it wednesday have been it, all other towers that didn't get it that day are still sitting on the 2 5x5s. it appears to be causing a few issues too, it seems like if i'm on a 5x5 it won't hand off to a 10x10 and either has to drop to B26 first or i'll drop to 3G.
  7. for those still around they started switching towers from 2 5x5 B25 carriers to a single 10x10 B25 carrier today! not all of them are done but they should hopefully be over the next few days.
  8. Lol I had the same thing pop up on my way home tonight. It seems that not all towers are done though because I'm getting it from some but not others.
  9. very nice! the 1x and EVDO channels for central iowa changed this morning so we should be right behind you with the 10x10 B25 carrier.
  10. they attempted to turn LTE on some of the GMO towers in my area about 4 months ago. It ended up making things worse when traveling to/from the areas covered by the GMO so they ended up turning LTE off on them. I had heard they were going to come do something to them in June but nothing every happened
  11. what channels should we be watching for on 1x and EVDO to know that this has happened? right now i'm on channel 425 for 1x and 650 for EVDO. I'll be leaving for vacation tomorrow and won't be back to the des moines area till july 10th, hopefully when i get back some of these changes will have already taken place. and related to this, will 1x/EVDO channels change first and then later the B25 LTE changes will happen? Or will all of them happen at the same time once they do?
  12. has anyone heard any updates on timelines to when the PCS spectrum swaps will be complete and areas will go live with the 10x10 B25 carriers?
  13. i only hit 1 B41 tower on a daily basis, i rarely ever get to where any other B41 towers are, so my experience is very limited. but the 1 tower i do frequent always has random issue of kicking me off B41 down to B25 or B26. its been doing it for months. it also has random performance issues, sometimes i'll only get ~10 meg and other times i'll hit 80 meg. its not a busy area either so i doubt its usage. anyway, sounds like with what you are seeing there are some issues in the area.
  14. has there been anymore news on all the spectrum swaps? like as far as timing goes as to when they will be implemented? looking forward to see what kind of improvements a 10x10 B25 will have over the 2 5x5 B25 carriers we currently have.
  15. i have this phone and CA works with it. however unless you get a really great deal on it i would stay away from this phone. its just "all right" not amazing by any means and still has lag that gets worse as time goes on. basically you have to factory reset every 4 to 6 months to keep acceptable performance.
  16. i've been testing them out and mapping their towers in the des moines metro area. their tower density is just insane compared to sprints. fastest i've seen for speeds is in the upper 60's, most of the time its 20 to 30's, sometimes down to the teens, but you are right, they aren't always the fastest but they are more consistent in their speeds from what i've seen. plus the unlimited tethering option is awesome
  17. mike, just wanted to pass along a GCI pattern to you. i've been checking out iWireless in Iowa (which is T-Mobile) and so far everything has worked great for identifying the sectors for AWS which is what they are deploying. the only issue i've found is that they have deployed quite a few 4 sector sites. on these sites the 4th sector has its own GCI that is different than the GCI of the other 3 sectors of the tower, but it ends in 04 and so its not being identified as AWS, it just lists LTE when connected to those sectors. any questions let me know, thanks!
  18. i assume that once CA is enabled for this 3rd carrier since CA has to be adjacent 2xCA devices will see CA between the 1st and 2nd carriers or the 2nd and 3rd carriers but not the 1st and 3rd carriers?
  19. new beta looks good so far! all the LTE data is showing when a 1x connection is also showing. also a side affect of the changes you made, my verizon galaxy S5 is now showing me the GCI and PCI where before it wasn't able to show them! i did send you a diagnostic report, the only "issue" i see now is when i have the 1x and LTE connections going on it was showing a 1x800 connection from a tower that is a GMO so it doesn't have 1x800 at all.
  20. lol yeah they seem to have gone the opposite direction this time, wouldn't surprise me either if they forgot they had a tower there i just drove up to huxley last weekend along I-35 and between the ankeny towers and the new GMO LTE i had LTE the entire time.
  21. must just be a map issue then. being a premier sponsor you can check our maps in the IA/NE threads to see where the towers are. trust me there is one there and it has 1x/EVDO and now LTE. and yeah it could use a full build conversion to get 1x800/B26 to help with coverage but its a low priority tower that just finally got LTE 3 years after all the full builds did around here, so its not going full build anytime soon.
  22. their coverage map hasn't updated yet, but there is a GMO tower just north of huxley, IA that just got accepted with LTE as a GMO last week. it fills in most of that gap, not all of it, but enough to make it better than it was.
  23. I-35 between Ankeny and Ames now has LTE, its native, they turned LTE on a GMO tower that didn't have LTE until now.
  24. heads up to those still in the central iowa market they have started firing up LTE on GMO towers outside of the metro area. so that nice giant LTE hole along I-35 between the des moines metro and ames is now mostly covered with LTE
  25. nice! i'm seeing the same thing on our rural GMO sites in central iowa, we have picked up LTE from 5 GMO sites so far.
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