TheForce627

This is absolutely awesome!

 

 

 

But this absolutely sucks!

were you connected to band 25 or 41 when you tried calling out?

Edit: Jeremy beat me to it

.15 messed with my band priorities and made band 26 priority 0, band 41 priority 1 and bank 25 priority 3...what happened to two!

That is one bad side effect unfortunately. But this should be good for finding sites. I wonder about b26 now with .15

Going to have to give this a try. Be sure to post if you see any negative effects from this baseband.

Ok I connected to a few band 41 sites in DC today but many are in donut mode.

I'm still on .17 and have not been able to get on Band 41. Did all kinds of profile/prl updates resets and whatnot. I was in KC in an area marked "Turbo" on Sprint maps, and where I know there are live B41 sites.

Not true. It's a ymmv situation.

 

 

 

Sent from my Nexus 5

I connected using .17 but it was difficult to stay connected

Great to see! Did you have to do the prl trick to latch on, or was it by itself?

I've had a hunch that .15 had spark enabled for testing but got disabled in the .17/.23 updates for whatever reason. Thanks! If some more people could flash the .15 baseband to Double check.

 

Edit: if possible try for screenshots too!

Just in case you guys don't check the nexus 5 thread. I've been connected to b41 by switching to the .15 radio

I'll be running speed tests on sensorly in DC for you guys to check out

If you pass by any b41 sites, try and see if it connects to it as well, if you can.

If you pass by any b41 sites, try and see if it connects to it as well, if you can.

hmm interesting. Not sure why it is doing so

Try sending your number a text, and see if it sends.

Did you get LTE from the site before .15?

Well I'm on .15 and my phone wants to stay on my closest lte site despite an ecsfb issue. No calls or texts unless I'm on cdma only

Any battery drain issues with .15? Just wondering before I move to it

Really I didn't know texts are delayed over 1x!wow!

Nexus 5 reception is incredible, my gs3 could barely see lte at my place and this phone it's usable

 

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So is it better to use 17 and hold lte signal of - 112 or use 23 which sits on the 3g only tower right next to me? Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Well, even if it did detect that, switching you to 800 while talking on the phone would cause the call to drop anyway...

 

-Mike

I disagree. Of course it helps their coverage. It changes roaming coverage to native coverage. That helps! When you have native coverage you're more in control of the quality of your subscribers' wireless experience. Moreover, roaming roaming had always technically been limited, but it's gotten even more restrictive with the MyWay and Framily plans with only 100 Mb of data roaming allowed. That roaming also is usually only going to be at 1x. Going from a 10 Mbps LTE connection to 100 kbps roaming can be inconvenient to people. Buying the smaller carriers also gives a subscriber boost and the reach to potentially acquire more subscribers. Buying the smaller carriers also should give them a swath of 700A spectrum that they could use to bargain with T-Mobile for cash to offset the purchases and/or PCS spectrum.

 

Verizon and AT&T also could've gone the roaming route in the majority of the lesser populated parts of the country, but instead chose to make strategic acquisitions to offer the broad coverage maps. A lot of people desire (perhaps irrationally)that kind of coverage despite the fact that most of those people will never even use it in a lot of those off the beaten path places. Select acquisitions to help Sprint broaden their native coverage map could also help them shed the poor, highway only coverage stigma.

 

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I wish Dc could be launched so I could open a ticket for the stupid site serving my house. It's the only one in this area I can find with the eCSFB issue but they won't let me open a ticket until the market is launched. Anyway it's nice to hear some good news from Sprint

Too bad it jumps straight from winter to summer here. I can't wait to move. I'm sick of going from one extreme to the next

She did have the Apple 5s but she might get the g2. I been trying to sell her on Sprint so I think it's working. Of subject really quick. I'm in Denver and the past few days my 3g goes away and lte shows up on debug mode but not strong signal to show in status bar. Also it's been connecting on its own the past couple days. Doesn't stay on long. Does this mean they are testing or getting close to turning lte on? Thanks

Next time check to see what band is. It could be that your phone is simply searching for lte and that's why u see it in debug but not in the status bar or you could be connecting to band 41 but there could be an eCSFB issue so it kicks you off.