greenbastard
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I sit right in the middle between 2 B41 Clear wire sectors (walking to the back of my property makes my phone switch sectors). I could probably see the tower if there were no trees covering the LOS. While B26 (mid -70 dBm) and B25 (lower -80 dBm) originate from the same tower, they provide extremely good RSRP. Clearwire B41 unfortunately doesnt. B41 hovers around -115 dBm outdoors and drops out consistently. B41 is just one of those things that not everyone will see at all times. Fortunately B25 works well enough for me.
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This whole "consistent" argument is all relative. There are areas where Sprint has coverage and tmobile doesn't and vice versa. It's an argument that neither side is going to win.
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In rural areas, there is less interference from other devices and surrounding towers. So while you may get lower RSRP as you drive away from a tower, you probably maintain a really good signal to noise ratio for the most part.
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Wouldn't T-Mobile users have to have a very good and clean signal to benefit from 256QAM? Seems like it may only benefit users who live really close to a cell and don't have much interference.
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It is important to note that this only applies to Band 41. All Triband phones benefit from beamforming on Band 41 regardless of CA or not.
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It most certainly doesn't. Beamforming ≠ Carrier Aggregation. Not the same thing. If Johnner has a triband phone without CA capability, then he won't see a difference in coverage if he were to pick up a CA capable phone.
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Won't help with coverage. Just speeds As far as boost, some of their low cost phones may not have CA.
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Once I get past 128 kbps in MP3 quality, I stop noticing the difference in audio fidelity. And this is coming from a guy who gets easily bothered by XM Radio's 'underwater' audio quality. 320 kbps is overkill with todays compression technology. Anyone that notices the difference is being picky. Most iHeartRadio live streams are 48 kbps AAC and they sound way better than what is coming out of the FM dial.
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Both. Band 41 suffers from shadow fading a lot more than mid-band spectrum. Heavy foliage can really take a toll on RSRP. Not much you can do to counter that unless you crank up power on both ends.
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They're pretty straight forward. Anyone that doesn't understand them should just buy voice and text only plans since it doesn't get much easier than that.
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On the current set up with the devices sprint offers, that's not true. Outside of having line of sight, B41 does not cover the same as B25. Coverage will improve with new 3GPP Rel 14 devices coming out as early as next year. But as of today, I have yet to see Band 41 achieve the same coverage or propagation as Band 25 anywhere in Texas or Louisiana.
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B26 in other markets doesn't work that way. Phones tend to stick to B26 even though a weaker, yet faster B25 is available. B26 is extremely congested (sub 0.10 Mbps speeds) in many markets. Las Vegas is just lucky that whoever is in charge of the network actually knows what they're doing.
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It's also the reason why Carrier Aggregation won't work while our phones are "sniffing" 1x while on LTE. CA capable phones can only receive from 2 different sources at a time, so CA is sacrificed while our phones are sniffing both 1x/LTE. While SRLTE is more dependable than eCSFB for receiving phone calls, it kills CA capability, which hurts user speeds. So why have SRLTE at all? Every CCA/RRPP capable phone was designed that way since not every roaming partner has eCSFB. No SRLTE while roaming would mean no phone calls/texts. Non-CCA/RRPP phones didn't need SRLTE (and didn't have it) since they were never meant to roam other LTE networks.
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Tried installing twrp on this phone with Nougat but everytime I did it would revert back to stock recovery. I gave up. Anyone have any success with twrp? Or do I even need to have a custom recovery in order to flash an older radio img? Could I OEM unlock and then just flash the radio? If it corrupts or something goes wrong I should be able to just flash Nougat back without twrp....right???
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If Sprint announces that the Nexus 5x and 6p are also 3CA, then I may just keep the 5x a lot longer than I expected. I only purchased the Nexus to replace my broken GS5 until my contract ran out. I guess there may be more life to this phone than I initially thought. Fingers crossed.
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It doesn't work in Texas, but I have had a better experience with Band 41 in Las Vegas and others claim the same in New York and other Yankee areas. Its all about location and network management, which isn't consistent throughout the Sprint Network. B41 Indoor coverage should also improve with 3GPP REL 14. Unfortunately, the increase in power still won't guarantee indoor coverage everywhere. It will definitely help, but at the end of the day the rule of physics still applies to the 2.5/2.6 GHz bands. With VoLTE being the future, Sprint needs more low band spectrum and it may regret skipping the 600 and 700 MHz auction in the near future.
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Did the new Nougat update include an updated radio img? Seems like in weak places my data will drop and only connect to 1x whereas before it would hold on to weak, yet usable EVDO 3G.
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Just a quick update about small cells. Looks like Mobilitie is hiring a Senior Project Manager in Houston. Whether that's for venues/stadiums or small cells remains to be seen. Still interesting nonetheless.
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Keep in mind that network quality varies by market. I've seen 3G (eHRPD) to LTE handoff in the East Texas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio markets. This may not be the case in the Bay Area. For example, some people claim B41 is very reliable. But here in Texas, B41 is pretty useless for the most part. B41 acts like a glorified wifi hotspot when it comes to coverage and it can't penetrate a wall once you get past 1,000 feet away from the cell tower. Tall trees with heavy foliage can kill B41 extremely fast as well. The network still has a long way to go. I personally don't recommend Sprint in my area to friends.
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Nationwide 10x10 750 MHz deployment provides greater reliability for Verizon's VoLTE. Unfortunately for Sprint, they don't have that luxury and they have intentionally missed every opportunity to acquire more low band spectrum and gone all in on BRS/EBS. Great idea for capacity, terrible for indoor reliability. We'll see how this plays out long term. Sprint will need to implement some sort of VoLTE eventually for roaming purposes as roaming partners shut down CDMA.
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Anyone else notice that CA doesn't work when the phone is actively using SRLTE instead of eCSFB? I've noticed my speeds are half of what they usually are if I'm connected to both 1x and LTE B41 on SCP.
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Yes it has, but not entirely smooth handoffs. Last year, you could lose LTE and go to 3G immediately but unfortunately any media streams or videos would get timed out. Fortunately early this year, Sprint managed to fix that. LTE to eHRPD hand offs (and eHRPD to LTE) are all smooth now. I can have a video chat or a live stream and not get timed out if I move from one technology to another. Also, going back to LTE from 3G happens automatically now, even if you have active data sessions.
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That's what I figured. SCP did display a B25² display. I quickly went to the DEBUG menu, but by the time I got there I was handed to Band 26. That GCI is the one associated with the B25² on my logs. There's also another one in the Katy area, but I can't access my logs at the moment.
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It actually makes a bit of sense in some weird way. If Sprint ultimately wants to merge with T-Mobile, then building out their macro network doesn't make much sense as Sprint could just buy out T-Mobile and use their infrastructure to compliment their current one. It would explain why they've slowed down spending for this year and focused only on small cells (which don't help with indoor coverage as much as 1900/800).
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When I talk about conversion, I mean from B41 Clear-only to a full Sprint build out of B25/26/41. There are a few deep inside Houston that could benefit from a full conversion. The heights has one near the farmers market on Airline, just south of 610. Another one on Studemont and the Katy Freeway just west of downtown. Those could really benefit the entire area as Clear doesn't penetrate indoors and you have to rely on congested B26 cells from sites farther away. I did forget to mention that I MAY have possibly sniffed out a B25 Second carrier in Katy a while back. SCP caught it but I couldn't check the engineering screen to confirm it in time. It may have been testing since it was right at the county line or maybe an error on SCP since I have yet to catch it again. Be on the look out for GCI 04E01205 in this area.
