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  1. Trip
    Mike, Did you get my e-mails about the CDMA logging issue I've noticed? I haven't heard from you. I know it's a busy time of year but after Sunday it will be weeks or months before I can do any testing on it if you want me to. - Trip
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    In large parts of the nTelos Sprint overlay area, US Cellular is probably the company to go with. - Trip
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    Interesting that their test more or less backs up what I've seen in the DC metro area, which is that Sprint has better performance than Verizon. - Trip
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    I noticed the three towers nearest to me with only 3G are all cell towers sticking up through power distribution towers. I've been wondering if there's a special crew or special arrangement that needs to be made to work on those. - Trip
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    There are still a large number of untouched sites in this area. At home, I'm on a Clearwire site, as I am at the grocery stores at Beacon Hill, but not at Safeway in Rose Hill, which is still 3G only. There's a tower near L'enfant Metro which is 3G only still, as is the tower nearest to Smithsonian Metro (which grabs weak LTE from a more distant location), Pentagon City Mall is still 3G, and there are many others. Granted, these are just in places that I go regularly, but I can understand why Sprint might want to hold off until the LTE coverage is more consistent. - Trip
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    The beta has an option to ignore the TAC for neighbor cells and just get the nearest PCI match. - Trip
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    No, it's not complete, and was not claimed to be. The word "substantially" modifies the word "complete" to indicate it is not 100% complete. And while I wouldn't choose the word Paynefanbro used, you definitely appear to be nitpicking over wording. Building a new tower when one already exists and would make no difference in coverage in a location is not only wasteful and unnecessary, but local permitting boards would almost certainly reject it. Replacing all the equipment on a tower, including the equipment on the ground, is as close to "ground up" as you're going to get in many locations. - Trip
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    If anything, being behind US Cellular is more understandable, at least in my mind. Whereas the big four would need to upgrade thousands of cell sites they have in big cities presumably before moving on to the rural areas, US Cellular primarily serves rural areas, so it would understandably get to those rural areas faster since it wouldn't need to build out thousands of cells in New York, Los Angeles, etc. - Trip
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    It seems like every time I go out I find a new B41 deployment. Today it was on Rt 7 between Seven Corners and I-66. - Trip
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    I have an S5 and the new beta has fixed the bug where Clear sites would show as Sprint sites and the bug where it would show "No connection" at times even though it was connected. - Trip
  11. Trip
    Just got the new beta and it does fix the PLMN on the Galaxy S5. I now see "Clearwire B41" instead of "Sprint." - Trip
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    The outdoor stations do well. I commute from Huntington to Smithsonian every day via L'enfant Plaza and have B41 LTE service at Huntington (sometimes falls back to 3G while waiting on train since the station's built into the hillside) and Eisenhower. I usually see 1X 800 in the tunnel north of Eisenhower, then B25 or B26 LTE at King Street and Braddock Road. (Building permits suggest that B41 is coming soon to the towers missing it along the way.) B26 LTE hangs on very usably through the tunnel north of Braddock and then I get B41 LTE back as I approach DCA. Then it's decent 3G in the underground stations and roaming onto Verizon 1X (VERY slow) in the tunnels except for a few holes here and there when stopped in the tunnels. I get B41 LTE on the Yellow Line bridge over the Potomac. - Trip
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    I work for the government (see signature) and the only ways to get at internal e-mail while outside are to sign in with an RSA token on a computer, or use Good for Enterprise, access to which is provided by said government. I can't imagine what Sprint would need to do to enable it, because it works just fine over wi-fi both in and out of the building. I have yet to receive this letter, but I will join the ranks of the unhappy if I do. - Trip
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    SignalCheck attempts to look up the address for the coordinates provided by the tower. If it winds up in the middle of a field nowhere near a highway or something, it will just give the nearest location it can find. If you were to export your log, I believe it would show the transmitted coordinates. Additionally, there's no guarantee that it's broadcasting the tower location. Many of the towers transmit the coordinates of a point in the coverage area of the sector. If you circle the tower and catch all three sectors, you can find the triangle the three coverage points make and the tower would be in the center. - Trip
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    I was with you right up until this sentence. What does the FCC have to do with Sprint's build-out? Sprint's decision to build or not build new sites has nothing to do with the FCC. - Trip
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    10 MHz of B-block, if I read the database correctly. EDIT: You beat me to it! - Trip
  17. Trip
    I didn't get to buy anything yesterday because my parents' Internet connection went out and was out all day. It's running again this morning without explanation since we were told the wireless radio in the attic was toasted. - Trip
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    The GCI. No, I didn't have invalid records and was never prompted. My LTE is stuck at 310120, whereas I think you said that fix was for cases where it would stick on 311870. Sent my export your way. - Trip
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    Mike, Not sure if it's on your to-do list for the next release, but how about an option or ability to permanently remove those null records from my database? I have something like 2,000 of them in my database and I'd rather not have them at all. Looking forward to your new release whenever it lands! - Trip
  20. Trip
    Understood! I am glad you've found a possible avenue. Let me know if you need some help testing it, or the solid black background, or the below fix for the provider, or... Excellent! So I'm guessing you don't need me to send another one? I'll send one anyway just in case my S5 looks different, but it won't be until tomorrow. Related topic, I think Sprint turned down the power on the local B41 Clear facility when they lit up B41 on a tower down the road. My phone used to park on B41 Clear when I was at home, but today all I've seen is B25 from the same location. I actually haven't locked onto the B41 Clear tower here at all today; I checked my log from the trip home from work and while I usually see it on the Metro and then again walking down the hill from the Metro station, it didn't use that tower at all today. I still park on B41 Clear at work, so I can send you diagnostic data from that one still. - Trip
  21. Trip
    Right now it's a hair under $30 billion. - Trip
  22. Trip
    I tried another app that also sees 311-870 now, the name is slipping my mind at the moment. I sent you a diagnostic report right after my previous post; if you didn't get it, let me know and I will send you another. With regard to the other things, I certainly understand. I'm a person who values accuracy as well. I just wish there was some way to relate things together; to perhaps be able to manually say "TAC X overlaps with TAC Y so it's a safe assumption to use the site notes from either TAC". I suspect any such feature would be too complicated for the general public, though. I am greatly enjoying the neighbor cells feature now that I have it though! - Trip
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    Sorry for the double post... I just walked to the other end of the building where the Clear site my phone parks on in my office goes behind a building and an 8T8R site comes in. Because the TAC is different due to Clear versus 8T8R, no note shows in the neighbor cells going either way. I'm going to concur with whoever it was that asked for that to be a switchable feature. Does the neighbor site API give any information besides PCI, like who the provider is? One other thing, I just tried G-NetTrack Pro (trial) and it correctly showed the Clear site as 311870, while SignalCheck is still showing 310120. I'm guessing it's using a different method of grabbing it? - Trip
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    Confirmed! I now get PCI and neighbor cells, neither of which I had before the update. - Trip
  25. Trip
    I don't see the Nexus 5 on the website, so I can't do that math right now. But I did the math on my fiancee's Moto X which had been released a full year earlier and that also came out cheaper on the contract. You bolded and underlined the key word. You have much more faith in the market than I do. I'm not mad at them or anything like that. What I'm saying is the way the pricing is currently structured, as best I can tell, Sprint is asking people to take an increased price to use Easy Pay and I'm not entirely sure what the benefit is to Easy Pay for the customer. - Trip
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