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while that could be true, i don't want to get his hopes up..... omaha and des moines would be higher on the pops list than the quad cities and would/should potentially get B41 before them. from what we are hearing/seeing i don't foresee those cities getting B41 for at least a year or more. maybe a "hotpot" here and there but no significant deployments.

i guess that depends on what you mean by "complete" the east iowa market is actually 100% "complete" since the network vision base equipment is installed on all towers in the market. but as far as LTE goes, LTE is only on about 44% of the towers. and its probably not going to move much higher then that for several years as its a low priority market. you location is listed as the quad cities, so specifically to that area, all but a few towers have LTE and it looks like both B25 and B26 should be on most of them. So other than the few towers left to get LTE i would say no, they aren't going to be coming back to do anything else anytime soon. based on their new plan i wouldn't count on seeing any B41 deployments for at least a year or 2 either. So basically what you have is as good as its going to get for the foreseeable future.

Don't get it...... It's still really laggy and gets hot a lot. I would stay away, glad I'm only stick with it for a year.... Going to be a long year though....

huh, i'm running mine in AP mode and didn't have to do any of that to get there. it asked me in the initial setup wizard which mode i wanted to run it in and i picked it from there. at the top of the screen it says what mode its in and you can click on that to get to the screen to change it.

i've seen this NGN (next gen network) term mentioned a few times and i feel like maybe i missed a post or something about it. Is this something different than NV 2.0? or just a new name for NV 2.0? if its something different what does it entail?

just checked my tracking # and mine says it was delivered. no idea why you are having such issues, i have 2 airaves on my account, both at different locations and not where i'll be using this wifi connect router. but as i said, the airave or where i was using this router never came up in the conversation, just called the number, asked for it, got put on hold while she checked with a supervisor, came back on and verified shipping address and email, and was done.

i have 2 airaves on my account and i got the wifi connect router no problem. the only time the subject of an airave even came up during the call was when i asked to confirm it was the asus wifi connect router and not an airave she was ordering me.

if anyone should have gotten denied it should have been me, i'm well over the "10 line maximum" an account can have. I have 9 phone lines, 1 tablet, and 2 airaves on my account and i had no issues ordering this wifi connect router. Got my shipping info last night and it should be here thursday. i had a coworker call yesterday and they wouldn't let him get one, they told him he didn't have the offer tied to his account? The only thing i can think of is he has never activated wifi calling on his line and i have on mine.

the tower direction arrow in LTE discovery is not accurate, there is no way for that app to know where the tower is, because LTE does not broadcast any kind of location information. The only what to know what tower each device was connected to is to look at the GCI that LTE is connected to, if the GCI is the same then they are on the same tower, you can then use the GCI to look in our spreadsheets for our market to find exactly what tower the LTE was coming from. one other thing you can do, if you have signal check pro, there was a post in the IA/NE premier thread in the last day or so where a member posted an updated signal check DB. if you import this into signal check pro it will have site notes listed for all of the towers that match up with the "name" column in our spreadsheet. then when you connect to LTE signal check will match the GCI of the connection to the entry in the DB and display the correct site note, that will give you a better idea of what tower you are connected to without having to remember the GCI and go look it up in the spreadsheet. you can see an example in this screenshot http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g442/bradmoses/signalcheck%20screens/Screenshot_2014-11-07-11-58-55.png the note matches up to the name column in the IA spreadsheet so i know what tower i was connected to then.

woot! and just like that mine is ordered

awesome! i have two routers in my house, one is AC the other isn't, guess i'm getting this to replace the non-AC one

so let me get this straight, i can call up this number and because i have a wifi calling enabled phone on my account they will send me this Asus AC1750 router for free??? and the only difference being that it has a sprint specific firmware on it that has QOS to prioritize wifi calls? any other catches or anything i'm missing?

so what does everyone consider the threshold for being an "abusive" data user on an unlimited plan to be? i myself use around 20 to 30 gig per month and consider that not to be abusive. I would consider anything 60 gig or more per month to be abusive. most of my data usage comes from streaming videos, and i stream a lot. getting to 60+ would take a lot of streaming and/or you are using it in place of home internet. i did see a few comments in that reddit thread where people on tmobile mentioned having to switch back to their home wifi because of throttling..... that i don't get, if you have home internet/wifi already why would you not be using it???

couple more observations for those following along i don't know if it was the new radio with the ZV5 software update, or if my previous phone i did B41 testing with had issues, but on this latest phone with the ZV5 update B41 performance is much better and pretty much matches what i observed with my original Flex. I did testing at my daughters dance the other night where before i would lose B41 by putting my hand over the back of my phone, this time not only was the signal better, but my hand placement didn't affect signal at all. so thats good. as to the phone getting warm/hot and overheating i've found that its using the radios that causes the phone to heat up the most. I can play any number of games and the phone barely gets warm, but download some app updates or do a few speed tests and it will start warming up and lowering the screen brightness due to temperature increase. it doesn't matter if its 3G, LTE, or wifi, any kind of sustained data activity is what causes it to heat up.

lol! it is a really great phone, just wish it came out of the gate with the update and better QA to get rid of the lemons :/ i tend to use my phone a lot so it makes it appear that the battery drains fast, but really when i check the stats i'm getting anywhere from 3 to 4 hours of screen on time, which is pretty good/standard anymore. if/when i do leave it alone the standby time is great. i posted a screenshot early on where i left my phone unplugged overnight after it charged to 100% and 8 hours later it was still at 100%!

How is the S6 on B25 and B26? We don't have B41 around here yet and I have a couple of family members interested in upgrading to this from their non tri band S4 phones. I don't want them to get this phone and have signal issues.....

my replacement phone came in yesterday so i went to pick it up. I was able to get updated to the ZV5 update and it has made a ton of difference so far! i've only had it since last night but lag when scrolling home screens and switching between apps has been greatly reduced! i still see one spot of lag on mine when i scroll the home screen after having certain apps open, but its so much better overall i can live with that. if this phone had better QA for the screen issues and had come out with the ZV5 update already applied the reviews and user experience would have been much better! unfortunately i feel like the damage has been done already a couple of things to note on this one. my one i traded it had poor B41 performance compared to my original Flex. I'm not sure if it was the ZV5 update or something with this new phone but so far it *appears* that B41 performance is better. not quite original Flex better, but almost there. I need to do some more testing to be sure but it looks better so far. on last thing i noticed, probably doesn't mean anything but i thought it was interesting. When i first got this phone i went into ##DATA# and checked the LTE settings and verified they were all default and LTE roaming and CA were turned off. After i was all done activating, restoring, and updating my phone i went back in there to check the LTE settings and LTE roaming had gotten turned on. Not sure if it was the ZV5 update or one of the many profile updates i did, but thought that was interesting.

no problem it took me forever to find that you could pull that up and see the median speeds for everyone. It was always annoying that on some reports they would list out the speeds and on others they wouldn't. until i found that link anyway

towards the top right of the screen if you click on the link called "how RootScores are calculated" it will open a window that shows the median download and upload speeds for everyone along with the blocked/dropped calls and text data. that will be specific to denver and clicking that same link at any other city/report will give you the data specific to that report.

wow, they actually had the fastest median download speed there! it looks like if they had just done better at call performance they would have actually gotten first in Denver O_O

its definitely not sprint, the tower is showing up on satellite view and there is an equipment shelter there and sprint doesn't generally install equipment shelters. plus being a new tower there are too many and not the right type of panels up there it could be verizon, they have a 2 large, 2 small panel configuration they have been installing all over the place around here.

you can use this guide http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3767-adding-images-to-posts-imgur-links/ for adding pictures to posts. where is the location of this new tower?

well i traded my original Flex in for a Flex 2 but i can give you my observations comparing the two. B26 appears to be about the same between the two, the Flex 2 seems to favor B25 over B26 though where the Flex favored B26. B25 is better on the Flex 2 and B41 is better on the Flex. i'm thinking the switch between those two is antenna placement. B41 antenna was on the top of the Flex and is on the bottom of the flex 2, and the B25 antenna is on the top of the Flex 2 and was on the bottom of the Flex.

woke up to a notification that there was an android update this morning. apparently ZV5 was released on 3/25, the sprint site just lists "bug fixes" in the update, it was around 120meg. since i'm rooted the update failed to apply so i'm waiting on someone over at XDA to post steps on unrooting and manually applying the OTA so i can get updated.

i've been having the same thing happen on my LG G Flex 2, mine usually happens when i start to lose LTE and it picks it back up as its switching to 1x