Joski1624

do you think you can find a way for it to show the exact frequency its connected to..for example ... 2140.0 mhz

because on my sprint lg g5 it dosent show said information..

The CDMA channel number in the engineering screen should tell you that. Here's a good resource to help figure out the frequency.

http://niviuk.free.fr/cdma_band.php

Not really anything mike can do unless you want to make a spreadsheet of all the SID. ALU and Samsung use different places in the BID to put the sector identifier.

Which is why I am sooo thankful for the database file that you maintain . Adding CDMA site notes were too much of a hassle to add to my personal database file.

[snip]Could a Mini-Macro fit in the enclosures you believe are small cells? The GCI you shared matches the MM pattern that has been identified, which is why SCP handles it that way. But that doesn't necessarily mean something hasn't changed. Things are constantly evolving.

 

-Mike

 

Mini macros and small cells share the same GCI pool here. They all are intermixed. All of our small cells have a GCI ending of 01 only. All of them are relay backhaul, so fiber or other backhaul may yield different results if the small cell supports multiple carriers. All our mini macro Gci suffixes have been 31, 32, 33/39, 3A, 3B depending on the carrier.

The final security patch for my Nexus 5 was like this (Dec 2016, I believe). It says up to date. I tried manually applying the update and it didn't work. The latest security patch still shown is November.

I wish a SCP beta thread would be considered. I'm not really interested in digging through 30+ replies to something I'm not a part of.

i switched to red but was wondering if there were any updates in the lima area? B26 or B41 being added, id like to come back to sprint some day but we need some improvements here first before im convinced to come back,

 

With Toledo now keeping track of network upgrades now, it's been found that many areas of the market now have a 10x10 MHz carrier for B25, and even some areas that have an additional 5x5 carrier for capacity. B26 has pretty much gone marketwide now too. blkkatana would probably have a better idea of what's around Lima.

 

Not sure how well VZW is fairing in the unlimited game, but AT&T seems to be suffering terribly in parts of Northeast Ohio from my observation. I use an AT&T sim mostly for testing purposes. Lately, I've had to push the device to HSPA just to have uninterrupted music streaming. I'm very glad I've got Sprint now to be honest.

Well, that just sucks.

But on an interesting note, my EVDO roaming with Verizon is gone (not that data roaming ever worked to begin with). Seems like my phone will no longer scan Verizon EVDO carriers in my neck of the woods after the PRL update. Just 1x and that's it. Data never worked while roaming, so I'm not complaining.

Anyone else seeing the same thing?

Data roaming on vzw hasn't worked in my area for years; only voice calls work. Fortunately, I rarely roam now, but vzw data roaming does work when I travel to other regions. Whenever I get EVDO while getting a 1x roaming signal, it ends up being Sprint anyway when I check the EVDO engineering screen.

I don't have a link but I remember a time when we jumped for joy when a new site was found broadcasting only 1900 LTE. Happy days!

 

Now there must be MOAR!! Ain't nobody got time for a lousy 3G forever site finally getting fired up with only 1900 LTE these days except for the die hards like myself

That's great. But the problem is when my phone does go to B26, I'll have half my bars, but the data is pretty useless (no data or very slow speeds).

 

Hopefully some optimization will fix that.

Ah yes, I know what you mean. B26 coverage at some sites is downright awful right now. I was in range (line of sight, literally) of the site in Parkman yesterday. I had one device on 800 (hydro icon - my best performer) and one on 1900 (Nexus 5 - best performer). I was consistently getting a 10-20 dB weaker on 800. I've been keeping my hydro on 800 at home, and I've noticed a vast improvement in 2 weeks. These were grabbed from roughly the same spot a few minutes ago. I'm only a 1/2 mile from the site.

 

 

Granted it doesn't account for antenna placement between devices, nor the margin of error in placement, but on average the signal is about 15-20 dB stronger here on 800, and so far the only site where I've found that 800 outreaches 1900. Too bad only one sector is active at my home site. So, there is hope. Just some patience is needed.

Here are some general stats of our user finds for our market. We still have 11 GMOs left. The rest are way off the beaten path, so nobody has recorded them.

 

1x800

444/627 Sites Confirmed - 70.81%

 

Band 25

602/627 Sites Confirmed - 96.01%

 

Band 26

132/627 Sites Confirmed - 21.05%

 

Band 41 (8T8R)

363/627 Sites Confirmed - 57.89%

 

Band 41 Mini Macro (formerly Clearwire)

101/155 Sites Confirmed - 65.16%

My phone has been bouncing back and forth between B41, B25 and ....B26! today. What looks like is happening is that it drop network connection completely then reconnects. When it reconnects, it's on B26 intially then goes to either B41 or B25.

 

So SCP is contantly showing the 1xRTT connection with the LTE connection.

 

Anybody know of anything that's happening in the area?

B26 has been lighting up market wide. That's what's been happening 128 129 132 so far have been found. There's much more out there that hasn't yet been found.

My fear is that another spectrum auction will happen again in another decade once wireless providers have determined that they need more spectrum. Though I'm personally not thrilled with a sizeable chunk of UHF television spectrum being pulled from broadcasters again, I am hopeful that a repack this time around will be more efficient now that analog is not a factor. My question for broadcasters is how they are going to roll out ATSC 3.0

The app is called network signal guru and it does require root permissions. The center frequency is the same for both the 5x5 and 3x3 carriers, so it seems to be measuring bandwidth in some way, shape or form. It makes me wonder why stock android engineering screens don't show LTE carrier bandwidth if the radio has the capability. Samsung devices have been the gold standard for BW measurement, and I've already seen a 3 MHz bandwidth LTE 800 carrier in the engineering screens.

The debug screen on Samsung devices shows bandwidth

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It must require root. I can't get the app to work on my phone.

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Oh wow, I didn't know they were doing 3 Mhz channels.

To my knowledge, there's only 10 sites in the Cleveland market that even have 5x5MHz of 800 LTE. The rest are close enough, or within one of the IBEZ contours to be 3x3 only. Dkyeager was the first one to point out to me that a 5x5 B26 carrier is currently not feasible here because of the current CDMA voice carrier channel assignment, which is 526. The signals would overlap and interfere with each other.

And this is from a 3x3 carrier. I'm trying to enjoy it while I have the chance ????

I see he is reporting earfcn changes so it can be added to signal check. While this is awesome, you can also use the send diagnostic link in signal checks menu so your not cluttering or, as like me personally, getting people excited as there might be a signal check update. Your intentions are great, really, but the same can be done in the app and it gets to Mikejeep quicker. Glad to see more 10x10 popping up though.

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A reminder for me as well as I also did the same thing by reporting here that SCP wasn't recognizing a band on our mini-macros and B41 small cells

More B25 10x10 data for SC.

 

Nice to see that you've got 10x10. I'm just curious as to why you're posting these screenshots here instead of in SC related threads, or do they not exist?

I've seen BC10 for 3G service, but I haven't seen B26 LTE yet.

Keep your eyes peeled. It's still plugging away at my local site this morning.

How far are you from your home site? I'm pretty close at about a 1/2 mile, so I wouldn't have any trouble even with B41.

So I noticed yesterday, February 1st, that several sites in my area now have B26 live. I live in central Geauga county. I traveled to Parkman and then to streetsboro. I only saw one site where B26 was not live. It was the site in Hiram. That one does have 1x800.

 

 

Has anyone else seen B26 elsewhere in the primary IBEZ?

I've been meaning to mention that SCP incorrectly identifies B41 small cells here as either B25 (Nexus 5X), or just plain LTE on some of my other devices.

 

 

That is most DEFINITELY not the case.  They need B26 here.  To at least make their coverage map believable.

I couldn't have said it any better myself in regards to their coverage maps.

:crickets chirping:

I thought there'd be some interest in the what I thought was a long anticipated development here. Maybe that means Sprint's coverage has become good enough that nobody's concerned about the B26 expansion.

Band 26 update:

 

Last month, Sprint started deployment of B26 in the secondary IBEZ which is a zone that's 100-140km from the Canadian border. This means the cities of Warren, Youngstown, Alliance, Canton, Akron (southern), Wooster and Mansfield are seeing B26 light up. As of this post, there have been 45 B26 sites found so far by 5 guys including myself. 36 of these were found just since November 18th. 1x800 deployment followed the same pattern so far. It was a 6 month gap between secondary IBEZ deployment and everyone else, so it tentatively looks like greater Cleveland will start seeing B26 light up in May 2017.

small update, Lima ohio now has 10x10 B25 LTE running, still no B26 or B41 up as far as i can see. 

how do i know? the 40 down and 20 up i got at iHop

If you see 26640/8640 for the earfcn in the lte engineering screen, chances are good that 10x10 has made a splash. The 10x10 B25 carrier has expanded greatly here over the last few weeks, so these wheelin' and dealin' spectrum swaps are now being realized at the consumer end.

GO TRIBE!!!!