greenbastard

If I roll back to the older radio (pre 7.1.2), will LTE roaming still work on the N5X? The new update has made both Band 41 for Sprint and Band 17 for At&t a lot weaker.

The option is still open for both to make a pitch for Sprint. The debt is down and sprint has managed to stop the subscriber bleed.

Mobilitie will likely come around. Right now, they seem to be going around the country looking for communities that will allow their cheap deployment of incredibly tall and poorly hidden utility poles. Of course these deployments aren't aesthetically pleasing to the eye, but they're cheap. Mobilitie is just trying to get away with building as much of these set ups wherever they are allowed to. Once they're finished and there are no more communities willing to put up with these eye sores, they'll likely come back and spend the necessary money to meet zoning laws in cities that rejected their original ridiculous proposal. Can you really blame communities for denying mobilitie a permit to install poles that are as tall as urban freeway lighting masts?

Another solution to your problem would be to root and install Network Signal Guru. With this app, you can turn off any band on the go without the hassle of restarting the phone. Turning bands on and off is very simple with this app and doesn't require the reboot that the Sprint menu requires. I use it on the Nexus 5x a lot when I'm stuck on useless B25 and want to force my phone into a fringe B41. It also shows some very useful information and tells you when your phone is using CA and how much data is being sent through each stream (MIMO). Another plus is that if you want to roam on Verizon voice, you can simply turn off BC1 and BC10 and your phone will only work on CDMA 850. It's very useful when I'm in the hills and my phone holds on to a weak Sprint 1x800 from far away. (A side note, leaving LTE on and forcing any of the CDMA bands off will cause you to experience missed calls) One downside to this app is that it is a battery killer and it makes the phone hot when running. Fortunately, turning the app on, selecting the bands you want on/off, and then exiting the app works flawlessly too. It's a breaze. Give it a try.

I got this huge booklet-style advertising in the mail from Sprint today for the $200 upgrade ($8.33/month). I will say this is a pretty neat piece of advertising. Sprint must be going after lines that haven't used an upgrade in a while since the last upgrade I used was when the Galaxy S5 came out. I've been BYOD since then.

Why do you want B17? At&t is the only carrier in the US to use Band 17. Now that they allow B12 devices on their network through MFBI, wanting B17 is just redundant. Any device that has Band 12 will do just fine on At&t.

Even you know that towers being denied a permit due to health concerns rarely happen. All these folks ever manage to do is just delay a tower from being erect. The real issue is zoning. Mobilitie is making the rounds first with communities that will allow 70 ft. tall poles. It seems for now, they are just skipping towns and municipalities that object such tall poles.

I don't know which city council meetings you're talking about. The only two I've seen or read the minutes for are for Cave Creek, AZ and Navasota, TX. And both meetings only showed concerns for aesthetics. The "radiation" folks of these meetings don't usually end up winning. We all know that. What it usually comes down to is zoning and HOA rules. Mobilitie wants poles on the side of roads that tower over current utility poles, and that is the issue I have seen on both meetings. If they hide them and promise to comply with zoning laws, they usually have no problems.

I'm not expecting anything. I'm just pointing out an incorrect statement.

I don't think most NIMBY folks care about satellites since satellites can't be seen in their neighborhood. You may confusing NIMBYs with people who claim to have high electromagnetic sensitivity. Depending on the type of campus you speak of, it wouldn't be too hard to easily hide cell panels and DAS equipment inside buildings or outside of a general campus area. Seems like the blame also lies with uncooperative wireless carriers. I don't get the demonization of NIMBYs. People have every right to protect their property and anything that could lower the property value/attractiveness. Wireless carriers need to do a better job of hiding their equipment and meeting zoning/HOA rules if they want to do business in that area. When I build a house, I don't go crazy and build a 5 story apartment in the middle of a suburban residential neighborhood! I follow the rules set in place and pay all necessary permits. Why should carriers play by different rules?

They are dead, and that is the point. A lot of protection sites were located in areas where Sprint offers no service. After the wimax shut down, a few rural protection sites didn't get LTE and just stayed silent. Thus making this statement not entirely true;

The MagicBox did seem silly at first. But the more you examine it, the more genius it actually becomes. For large businesses and commercial strips, a small cell or even a DAS would make sense. But for a small, stand-alone business, a DAS is just overkill and doesn't make any financial sense. With the MagicBox, Sprint can distribute these devices to restaurants, small retail stores, and even mom and pop shops without much of a hassle or financial strain.

It has everything to do with your prior statement as Sprint may still have a few Clearwire sites that need conversion in order to broadcast LTE.

Technically, this may not be true. I believe there may still be some wimax protection sites that never got LTE conversion.

I have read nothing alluding to this. The only thing that has been confirmed is that all first responders and FirstNet users will have access to all of At&t's current bands. As a matter of fact, the following is from the first press release. See the bolded area. Unless someone can show me where at&t says the FirstNet network will be open for commercial use, then this will do nothing to enhance at&t user experience. If anything, it hurts the at&t subscribers as first responders will be able to access at&t bands and get first priority. So if a cop who is eating lunch decides to watch YouTube, at&t users in the area are SOL.

This is a first responders only band. I'm not sure why people all over the web are talking about it as if it At&t is going to use it for public use. No at&t subscriber will have access to it.

There is a way to turn off Band 26 on Nexus devices. Dial *#*#3282#*#* Go to LTE and select Edit. For ServiceCode, just type in 000000 From there, select Band 26 Enabled and select Off. Press the home button and the phone should restart. Your phone should only scan for B25 and B41 after this. If you wish to turn it back on, just go back and turn it on using the same steps. As far as load balancing, the network can move you around, even during data sessions. I've gone from ehrpd to LTE during active data sessions without a hiccup. LTE 25 and LTE 26 swap back and forth without any issue either during active data sessions. The same happens with B41, but I find it more iffy. But now that you mention it, I have seen the network act a bit funny with load balancing and LTE hand offs in my area. I'm sure it's just regular nationwide maintenance since I believe there was an update to the network to accommodate HPUE devices.

This bump definitely proves Sprint was hurting bad in 2016. I never bought the excuse of NV being done and cheap small cells as the reason behind the low capex. Sprint has fallen way behind T-Mobile and Verizon when it comes to macro cell density. At&t has gotten by with their large swaths of low and mid band spectrum in my area. Unfortunately Sprint doesn't have that luxury and 2.5 GHz is going to need an extremely dense network just to achieve decent coverage.

Contact Google, then LG to see if they offer you anything. If all fails, join the class action lawsuit and get whatever few bucks that come out of the settlement.

Is that two B41 mini macros per sector?

Will heat kill these little boxes? They are meant for inside use after all and attics get scorching hot in the summer months.

If you're going to go through all that trouble, you may as well look for a provider that works for you. In our farm, we are close enough to the main road that B25 still reaches us. Our neighbors land, which is physically closer to the tower, doesn't get any Sprint LTE. Those 2 sector antennas are directly aimed at the highway and not the farmland around them.

New PRL ending with ###62. Unlocked BYOD Android phones now on 55062.

It sucks big time for those that were expecting the bonus, but it's probably a good thing for the cash strapped Sprint. 8 Million was the bonus just for Claure. That's not chump change.

You can test all you want, but the user experience will come down to where Sprint decides to set the B41 RSRP signal threshold for HPUE handsets. Current non-HPUe devices drop B42 at -117 RSRP. For HPUE devices, it should be slightly lower.