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AT&T is officially running 20x20 Band 2 LTE in the DC market

Ran into a little issue connecting to band 30. The indicator in the status bar had this icon instead.

Hey Mikejeep I have an idea. What about alerts for connecting to specific LTE bands? It would be helpful in spotting new LTE bands (I'm on the hunt for att band 30 in my area) or even an alert when connecting to a second or third carrier of a band. Just a thought

Two things that have helped me with battery life.

1. I noticed that when I take my phone off the charger, according to GSAM the phone never sleeps. Usually a restart and it will fall into a deep sleep.

2. I changed the location mode to GPS only, and this cut down drastically on the Google Play services usage. 

Battery life has improved significantly for me after these two adjustments but I am still getting High Android system drain.

Spotted some band 30 in downtown DC

 

http://imgur.com/a/AdVT0

Screen protector options for the edge version? 

I have to say the RF performance of this phone is really good. Only had it for a day so I'll run it through some different scenarios today and report back. But so far I can say it's better than the S6E

My S7E  pre-ordered through best buy is scheduled to be here tomorrow. Still awaiting pickup though.

Last charged 10 am PST yesterday.  Today still clinging through.  Yesterday was streaming Nascar, streaming Pandora, using navigation through Google Maps, web surfing, and e-mails on LTE.  Today, usual work day, e-mails, text messages, chat and surfing the net.  I can consider myself an average user.

 

Screen on Time?

Exactly. What a foul up by sprint.

 

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I did it through best buy but had it shipped thinking it would get here before it would be available in store

If I had known best buy pre orders would be able to be picked up in store first I would've done that. I thought it would be shipped before it's available in store

Hey guys, I saw this page about Qualcomm's TruSignal feature with the Snapdragon 820. Have you guys noticed better RF performance overall with the s7?

Did any bestbuy units ship

 

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Not mine. Patiently waiting...

Got my preorder through bestbuy...FYI Paypal has a nice option through their credit program that offer 6 months no interest on items $99+ and Bestbuy takes paypal payments.

My area now shows on AT&T maps as HD voice. Just haven't experienced one yet.

 

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I would assume you have it turned on in your settings? You may have to call and have it enabled on your account.

I still have not experienced VoLTE on AT&T.

 

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It's nice when you have a call with another AT&T customer. Haven't had any fallback to HSPA during a call so i can't comment on that but part of that is because they seem to have their Band 2 LTE cranked up really high around here, a lot of times stronger than Band 17

How has VoLTE been for everybody else? I just got my first taste of it as I moved from Gophone to Postpaid. Coverage has been solid so far and calls super clear.

Why would you need additional low band? If the goal is to densify the network, adding low band is only part of puzzle.

in building penetration for situations where placing a tower is not feasible. No matter which way you look at it the more customers they bring in the more will be on that small slice of low band spectrum. They can't put towers on every street corner. Densifying will only do so much.

Why sink billions in spectrum you can't use for at least 3-5 years when you can spend the same billions to deploy 20-40-60-80mhz of prime high capacity spectrum TODAY.

Because only 5x5 800 isn't going to cut it. At some point they will need additional low band spectrum. Not thinking about the future in that department will cost them down the line.

AT&T holds both Cellular 850 MHz A/B block licenses in Miami-Fort Lauderdale.  It is easy for AT&T to expand band 5 from 5 MHz FDD to 10 MHz FDD.

 

AJ

Question for you AJ. Before AT&T moved to 15 MHz FDD for Band 2, my phone use to use carrier aggregation with Band 17. Now this no longer occurs. Is this a limitation of aggregating with 15 MHz and 10 MHz or strictly AT&T limiting this? 

I recently visited Fort Lauderdale FL which is a Band 5 market for AT&T. About a year ago they were running 5x5 and it is now 10x10. I have a screenshot if anybody is interested. 

Sorry to resurrect this old thread but I thought it would be good to point out that I've noticed At&t is using 15x15 for its band 2 LTE in the Baltimore and DC market. Screenshot below

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zzjp0bp7p2f5h3r/Screenshot_2015-11-21-23-00-46.png?dl=0

So is Verizon deploying a full 20x20 in AWS-1 where they can? What about 15x15s? AT&T? I can't seem to find anything about the duopoly's AWS LTE deployments past 2013. And has anyone seen anything bigger than a 5x5 in CLR or PCS from either of the big two?

AT&T runs 10x10 on PCS in the Washington D.C. area.

That is the problem of using individual experiences in one market (and often a specific subset of places one tends to frequent in a market) to extrapolate generalities about the state of a carrier's network elsewhere.

well when you experience an issue over the course of a couple years, on multiple towers, multiple phones, in multiple markets then you'll see why it's a problem. I'm not here to start a battle over this but just to say RCS would be welcomed on the Sprint network from this user.

CDMA in general? Not particularly. AT&T's W-CDMA is often the favorite of many after their better LTE areas or sometimes spotty/lacking rural LTE. This often applies to T-Mobile as well.

my run in with CDMA networks hasn't been great. W-CDMA is a whole different story and performs much better with texts for me