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And really you only have 2 crappy ones in that set, 1 just ok one, 2 good ones and 1 really good one. So overall that's really not that bad.

You are on the north end of merle hay in Johnston? If so that tower is B41 and has been for 8 to 9 months now. I always get 30 to 40 meg down on B41 from it when I drive by on my work commute. Even on the other 2 bands they are usually 10 plus meg. You must have some bad signal blockage or phone issues. Post a screenshot from signal check while at home so I can confirm you are connecting to the tower I think you are

These were some of my speedtests on the south side of des Moines a long e 14th st.

Of course that was testing 3 New B41 towers that recently came online there are at least 4 other B41 installs known that aren't online yet and several more coming.

Are you initializing airplane mode via root?

Nope, no root for my phone so just the standard one from the menu.

Airplane mode actually clears it for you? I toggle airplane mode and it's still there for several minutes even after.

minus a 5 day stint where airplane mode stopped working to fix it, yeah as soon as it happens i can airplane mode and when it connects back its normal and only shows LTE.

Still present, diags set. Did correct a minute later

 

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same on my flex 2, i got the updated SCP beta and an update for my phone and it still happens. i haven't left it alone enough to see how quick mine corrects itself, i either ignore it when it happens or do airplane mode right away to force it to correct when i see it.

Nice! I haven't been prompted for the update yet. Notice any improvements? I wish they would be more descriptive in the patch notes....

my wifes iphone 6 had a message on it this morning that a new carrier update was available and asked if i wanted to apply it now or not. i haven't updated her phone to 8.4 yet and i was on my way out the door to work so i didn't have time to check and see if this update would take it past carrier version 20.1. just wanted to mention it in case anyone else sees it.

when the NV was completed here I got good 4G (spark) all around here and better voice in the house using the 800.  situated right in-between 3 towers I got consistant B26. but for the last several weeks there has been only 3G (1x).  using a LG G3 and signalcheck pro, all updates and settings for LTE/CDMA. did they shut off the 4G, has anyone else seen this around town?

someone just posted in the G3 thread that there is an issue with the LG G3 and connecting to LTE, sprint is apparently working on the issue. so not much you can do until they release an update for it

Sprint needs to put up a new tower in the highland park area, there is a pretty big LTE deadspot. Has anyone been using the new sprint app to report troublespots, I have been ?

that area actually has 4 towers pretty close to it. it should be fixed once they get around to optimizing the sectors, mainly B26. also if your phone is still the iphone 5 you have listed then getting a new phone would give you access to B26 which would help a lot.

i've tried using the sprint zone app a couple of times to report things but since there is no feedback i haven't been able to tell if they did anything with it....

did the family share pack plans always have the same verbiage about always limiting video streams to 600kbps? if they didn't before they do now.....

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Band 25²?

 

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post an engineering screen shot here and your location and i'll add it to the list

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6891-b25-2nd-carrier-info/

also a little more info on the issue.....

 

i was watching my LTE engineering screen today and every time my phone goes idle the band will switch and say its on band 51.... then when data resumes it switches back to the band its actually connected to. it seems like this "switching to band 51" is what causes my phone to start displaying both 1x and LTE. 

 

i took a video of it and uploaded it to 

 

sorry for the lower quality, you can see that after i do airplane mode i'm conencted to B26 and only LTE is listed in the notification bar up top for SCP. then after a few seconds the connection goes idle and it switches to band 51 and the 1x and LTE icons both show up for SCP in the notification bar.

seriously this issue is so weird..... as my post above says, i was able to use airplane mode to consistently reset my connection when the 1x/LTE issue happened to take care of it, up until i posted the above post when every time my device went idle it started showing the 1x/LTE connections.

it kept doing this since the above post all the way through late yesterday afternoon, then all of the sudden its back to "normal". i still get the 1x/LTE when it loses LTE and reconnects back in low signal areas, but now its back to airplane mode "fixing" it and it stays on just LTE, no more idling to "band 51".

could this really be something on the network side? I would guess if its on the device side it should consistently work one way or the other, not change all overt he place like this?

one good thing though is i checked my signal check logs after it had been doing the "Band 51" idle thing for awhile and confirmed that it is not being logged at all, as far as i can tell things are still logging correctly so at least that isn't getting messed up

And as said here are the 1X Engineering screenshots. Again if anything big changes when it comes to the signal or when I test another device outside later this morning I'll be sure to take screenshots and post it.

 

yep, BID 2690 we have logged/confirmed already. its the very last tower in iowa along I-35 before crossing into MO. looks like it would be roughly 50 miles away as the crow flies. not impossible to get a signal that far away, when 1x800 started coming online around here i picked up a tower 62 miles away in my house, it was a very weak unusable signal, but it was there.

also a little more info on the issue.....

i was watching my LTE engineering screen today and every time my phone goes idle the band will switch and say its on band 51.... then when data resumes it switches back to the band its actually connected to. it seems like this "switching to band 51" is what causes my phone to start displaying both 1x and LTE. 

i took a video of it and uploaded it to youtube

sorry for the lower quality, you can see that after i do airplane mode i'm conencted to B26 and only LTE is listed in the notification bar up top for SCP. then after a few seconds the connection goes idle and it switches to band 51 and the 1x and LTE icons both show up for SCP in the notification bar.

mikejeep

 

A question please.  In the above screenshots, how much trouble would it be to add GCI to the LTE info when the LTE info is in the second position as in the above two screenshots ??

 

impossible..... thats the bug, the information being sent to signal check is all whacked and not correct, otherwise if it was you would only be seeing the LTE connection and the correct info for your LTE connection

Quick question for the GF2 owners: with this phone, and lollipop, do you get a list style of notifications on the lock screen? If you get a text, will the message be on the lock screen, and does it light up the screen? I'm probably buying this phone soon, and I'm an iPhone user, so I'm used to having all my notifications light up the screen (easier to see while driving), and this is a big factor as to whether I'll daily drive the phone, or have it as a side device.

 

 

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the message will be on the lock screen depending on how many other things are on there. initially it will show the message but then other notifications take over and there will just be a message icon. i don't think i have ever seen it turn the screen on when getting a text though. while at work i have my phone on vibrate and when i get a text it just vibrates and the little indicator light will flash every few seconds, but no screen turn on.

i'm starting to wonder if the 1x and LTE connections showing at the same time has something to do with the network? I don't know how thats possible but its just weird the way it acts on my phone.

so for example, the 5.1.1 update did not fix the issue for me, but it did help in the sense that prior to 5.1.1 it was random on when both connections would show and nothing i did would consistently make it show just LTE, aka airplane mode wouldn't always work to get things displaying correctly. after the 5.1.1 update the issue still happened but now i could consistently fix it with airplane mode so it would only show LTE again. after getting it to a state where it would show just LTE it would stay that way until my phone lost LTE and reconnected to it or i entered a weak LTE area.

today however my phone is showing both 1x and LTE and i can't seem to get it to stop. doing airplane mode gets it back to just the LTE connection for about 15 seconds and then the "no calls" icon shows and if refreshes and i'm back to both 1x and LTE displaying. i've repeated this several times throughout the morning and its been the same every time.

since i haven't changed anything on my phone and no updates or anything i'm wondering if something is happening on the network side could be causing this behavior?

definitely interested to see what this ends up being.... the "closest" current sprint tower to you (and i use the term closest loosely) is by Lancaster, MO. There isn't even a sprint tower in Unionville, MO. on the iowa side you have ottumwa, IA and I-35 near decatur city, IA.

so yeah, either some fluke, a new tower, or some roaming partners service thats now showing up as native.....

yes, please post signal check screenshots of the signal and your location. if you can make sure the screenshots have the BSL address in signal check on them. so far in iowa (at least in the des moines metro where i am) the BSL addresses have stayed accurate to tower locations.

How much of that though would be downlink vs uplink?

to answer your question you need to learn the difference between FDD and TDD. B25 is FDD LTE, which stands for frequency division duplex. so in a standard B25 carrier that sprint is deploying its 5x5 FDD. this means that 5 Mhz is dedicated to download and a different 5 Mhz is dedicated to upload.

TDD LTE, which is what B41 is, is different in how it uses spectrum. TDD stands for time division duplex. so for the typical B41 carrier that sprint is deploying initially its 20 Mhz. since its TDD this means that the ENTIRE 20 Mhz is used for download and the same 20 Mhz chunk is also used for upload. They are able to use the same spectrum for both download and upload because its divided by time. So there are so many time slots used for download and then it switches and uses the time slots for upload and back and forth like that. Its so fast though that the user doesn't notice a difference. 

thats why people are saying "drop the x" when talking about B41 and TDD LTE, they set the carrier size, in this case 20 Mhz and its all used for both download and upload. then when you bring carrier aggregation into the picture it will be 2 20 Mhz carrier aggregated together to create a 40 Mhz carrier. 3 CA would be 60 Mhz and so on and so forth.

Since my phone was rooted, I decided to start fresh with the zv5 TOT but it just sent my phone into a minios bootloop. It stays at the minios booting screen, reboots and keeps repeating the same process.

 

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i want to say that i remember reading someone posted in the ZV5 TOT thread on XDA they had the same issue and there was a way to get out of that but i can't remember what it was. might want to double check that thread.

Does anyone who owns this phone on this forum has the zv4 or zv6 .tot/.kdz file?

there is a ZV5 TOT on XDA forums, but i haven't seen one for ZV4 or ZV6.

What do you think about the update?

still evaluating battery life and heat, but as far as lag, locking up, and responsiveness go it is 99.9% better! i've just had the slightest bit of lag swiping between home screens every once in awhile, but thats been about it. no lockups so far, even tested scenarios that were guaranteed to lock up before and they all worked OK. and responsiveness is so much better, apps open when i tap on them the first time, especially after unlocking the screen.

as far as heat so far its been better, still a little warm here and there but nothing like before.

today was my first full day on battery. right now i'm at 21% left and have been on battery for 11h 46min, SOT of 2h 50min. google play services is the next highest battery usage at 18%, so i'm guessing it would be better if that hadn't eaten some battery.

well that is a big fat NO to 5.1.1 fixing the double connection issue happened last night as i was leaving work and its currently showing 1x800 and LTE on my phone now