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Wow. Netflix only requires 500kbps minimum? Cool. TIL.

Well that's only if Netflix palmed your ISP a c-note!

Can anyone tell me why Sprints 4G LTE maxes out at 38 mps download and around 9 mps upload? IT seems like every other carrier can surpass at least 40 in the right area and most carriers get more then 15 upload ive seen.... I guess sprint Spark can do much better but not many places with that.....

There have been plenty of posts on various market threads showing 75+ mbps download speeds on band 41. Also, what in the heck are you going to need that much bandwidth for on your cellphone. The most bandwidth intensive task for a phone is streaming video. Here is all you need for Netflix: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

I may be late on this, but did anyone else get the 51102 PRL update?

I believe it may have enabled full 3G roaming on Verizon and other regional carriers depending on your location.

The Nexus 5 is close, though it is missing band 12.

I believe that the current iPhone 5c and 5s support many of the bands and actually lists some of the signed carriers on the supported LTE Network page that use the same Sprint models: https://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/

To be honest if I were single in NY and had that time to blow then yeah I'd probably be there too.

Be honest, how many of you guys are in this line already:

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/03/campers-waiting-for-iphone-6/

Okay, let me rebut your response.

 

"Bill shock," in your provided example, may not be related to income.  Instead, it would pertain to customer ignorance -- since the change in roaming policies has been announced and amended to the Ts and Cs.  The base monthly plan cost is irrelevant.

 

A $50/mo roaming overage charge is the maximum.  Plenty of users will roam while accruing only minimal or even no additional charges.

 

A $20/mo savings, for instance, amounts to $240/yr.  That offsets over four months of maximum possible roaming overage charges.

 

But anyone who regularly racks up roaming overage charges, especially at the maximum level, is probably not a good fit for Sprint and should find a different wireless provider.

 

AJ

 

I don't disagree that someone who is spending any extra on roaming charges should reevaluate their provider.

 

And I guess I'm coming at this at the wrong angle since I'm on an old plan where there is a hard cap and no overage charge.

 

However $50 overage charge, regardless of maximum or not, would be a shock to me.

And on previous plans, it is now a hard limit of 300 MB, which is a large amount of mobile data, despite what anyone may say to the contrary.

 

In conclusion, I am not sure if many of you are just penny pinchers or if I am a spendthrift.  But if I were on a 100 MB roaming allotment, which is also a significant amount of mobile data, I would not "turn off roaming data" or worry in the least about accruing some roaming overages a couple of times per year.

 

First, I would rest assured that any roaming overage charges would be capped at $50.  No one should sweat $50 as "bill shock."  Anyone who does is overextended.

 

Second, I would realize that I am saving substantial money every month with Sprint, far more than offsetting any roaming overage charges once or twice per year.  If not, then I would recognize that I am with the wrong wireless provider and find a different solution.

 

AJ

 

I tend to agree with most of your responses to posts but this time I do not.

 

"Bill shock" is not necessarily related to your monthly income.  If you were on a say a $45 plan and all the sudden your roaming charge is more than your base plan cost, I would say that would be shocking.

 

As well, to claim that on one hand a $50 extra charge is not substantial and on the other hand state that $10 - $20 a month savings is sounds contradictory to me.

 

That's just my opinion.

This will help me a lot! I travel the KY parkways a lot for work, and large stretches are roaming on BG. I would love for Sprint to buy them out but that will probably happen. Can't wait to see LTE roaming.

 

Unfortunately BG operates on LTE bands that most of the current Sprint phones do not support.  I had a back and for with AJ on this and he educated me on the on what the circumstances would have to be: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5684-sprint-to-join-rural-operators-roaming-hub-cca-and-rrpp-thread/page-14&do=findComment&comment=337405

 

Read on down to the last couple of posts from AJ to me about this.

That is great cause bluegrass has great coverage in ky. I usually only get 1x roaming on their network past few times I was out of sprint native coverage. It would be absolutely amazing if bluegrass and sprint inked some kind of LTE roaming agreement between them. What prl were you on when getting 3g roaming?

 

PRL 51102 on a LG G2.  I saw posts in the Sprint PRL thread where people were getting 3G roaming on Verizon and decided to test at a location I always roam on BG and sure enough I was pulling down 2.3+ mbps and Signal Check showed CMDA instead of 1xRTT as it normally would.

 

I know BG is looking into the Roaming Hub so who knows roaming on BG LTE might happen!

FYI latest round of PRL updates for some phones have enabled real 3G roaming on Bluegrass Cellular. I think is a good thing for our market if you just want to check email or Facebook or download SMS attachments and in my IMO greatly increases Sprint coverage. However mind your data roaming limits.

Louisville, KY.

Really? Awesome!

Nope, don't own one lol. [emoji53]

 

I checked mine. Before clicking edit the value showed 3000,clicking edit and the box only had 3 in it. Wonder if some bug was causing the triple zero? Anyway I set it to 3 I'll gauge how it goes. I've been getting dumped to 3G ever since the kitkat (zvc) update though. Prior to that I could hang on to LTE even at 115-118dBm. In home penetration isn't good at my house, but I've usually got 2-3 Bars sitting on the front porch, again though. Before kitkat I kept LTE throughout the whole home.

 

This will be an interesting test.

 

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I think the setting change worked for me and I am not seeing any adverse effect on my battery.

 

The places I went yesterday I was consistently connecting to LTE without having to flip airplane mode.

 

Even at my house my phone is ignoring the airave and connecting to LTE and CDMA 800 again.

 

This setting must have been inadvertently changed with the update. Hopefully they with the next update LG fixes the issue for general users who don't know how to change the setting.

That tracks which CDMA site you are connected to while being connected to LTE. So, at some point you were connected to Bluegrass Cellular CDMA while being connected to LTE. While you could have been connected to Bluegrass LTE at the time, it is more likely you were connected to Sprint LTE at the time.

 

It is definitely possible for your phone to be roaming on 1x but on Sprint native LTE. We see it all the time.

 

Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Really? I guess that make sense because all the IDs are related to CDMA sites.

 

Well they grossly mislabeled the list IMO [emoji6]

So with the newest system update with the LG G2 it has a new selection in the ##DATA# hidden menu called LTE Available List which lists SID, NID, and BASE_ID's for all sites that it has found LTE from.

 

I looked around through this log and noticed that there are some with a SID of 5, which corresponds to US Cellular.  It appears that the phone is noticing the LTE, but isn't authenticating?  Could be a sign of things to come?

 

Screenshots and proof below:

 

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I've been checking out the LTE Available list on my LG G2 ever since I got the ZVD update and tonight I actually noticed the following:

 

SID: 1280

BID: 2

BASE_ID: 6050

 

I tracked down the SID on the http://www.roamingzone.com website found it was assigned to Bluegrass Cellular. 

 

So I exported my SCP logs and found a CDMA entry for the SID/BID/Base ID and sure enough its the Bluegrass Cellular tower within site of my house!

 

I know Bluegrass utilizes 700 MHZ LTE, but I'm pretty sure the LG G2 does not support 700 MHZ. 

 

Is this something significant (like Bluegrass deploying 800/850 or 1900 LTE or some other band my phone supports or only a fluke?

Cross your fingers but I think this might actually solve the issue: http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-g2/general/fix-lte-issues-zvd-t2839374

 

This is different than adjusting the LTE scan timer. And when i went to set it 3 was actually the prepopulated value and not the 3000 shown as the current value. I would be curious to know the value of the bsr timer prior to the ZVD update. I saw a screen capture of another phones data engineering screen and it showed 3 for the bsr timer.

 

I will be doing driving around today so I will see how it behaves switching from 3G to LTE.

Anyone that calls me while I'm connected to LTE (band 25 is the only one up on my area). It rings once on their end and then forwards them to my voicemail. Never ever get an indication of having received a call on my end unless they leave a voicemail. Then I get a random vm icon with no explanation.

 

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

 

I just got the phone back yesterday. LG replaced the board chipset because when I received calls the phone would ignore my attempts to answer it. Outgoing was fine, incoming couldn't be answered.

By chance are you using an airave where you are receiving your calls?

Cool, downloading now, will flash tomorrow!

Any news from your flash? My phone still seems to prefer 3G over LTE.

I believe in Washington State COW's now smoke digital grass.

 

Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

 

Google is awesome.

 

this happened at one of the GMO sites around me. It was a water tower site and it got installed as a GMO last December. Then about 2 months ago and temporary tower showed up and went live and the legacy panels were taken off the water tower. Turns out they were painting the water tower. Once the painting was done a crew showed up and installed NV panels on the water tower and it is now live as a full build site.

 

a temporary tower is not always needed to convert a GMO, as there have been several other GMO conversions around here where the new panels get installed and the site gets cut over to them. If they have to do any significant work to the tower to support the NV panels and the legacy panels have to be removed in order to do that work they you would get a temporary tower setup.

This makes sense.  The legacy panels have been removed so either they need to paint or need to sure up the supports at the top of the tower to support the new panels.

One of the main towers that supplies service to my home is a GMO water tower site.  About 6 months ago the ground mounted RRUs and new cabinets were installed and the site was operational.

 

About 3-4 weeks ago the site was completely down again for a bit (not showing up on SCP) but about 2 weeks ago it came back online.  I drove by the site and noticed a temporary tower on a trailer was stood up with cables attached to huge concrete blocks anchoring it down.

 

Has anyone else seen such a temporary setup and would this be needed to convert a GMO to a full build?

 

 

Well it's been over a month since someone last posted in this thread. No news could be good news meaning that since this market is almost complete with 3G NV and close for LTE no one has any new site info or anything to complain about. I guess our next watch will be for those fancy B41 NSN setups to start popping up in the next year.

My HTC resized and spaced words so that all the words would fit and all I would have to do is scroll down. Does the G2 do the same?

Are you talking about text in a browser? I use Chrome and it spaces text just fine and that is not phone specific.

If you can wait, don't factory reset. My G2 is out for GPS service. I wiped the phone before I sent it in. When I get it back I am going to do a fresh install of everything. I can let you know if the problem still exists, if you can wait that long.

I can wait and thanks for the heads up.

Agreed, after the update I'm not connecting to LTE as well as before. This and not getting Wifi Calling are very disappointing. I haven't changed the timing in the LTE menu as another user in the thread did yet. Supposedly that helps

I tried setting the LTE timing as well and didn't help me. I'm almost wondering if a factory reset is in order.