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    Someone seems to have sneaked out a new beta today, 4.262b.
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    That seems to have fixed it. Thanks for the help.
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    Mike, Could the "Neighbor Cells" list also include the GCIs? Then we could unequivocally see which sites/cells we are near.
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    Has anyone else recently lost WiFi calling? My GS5 stopped connecting to it a couple of days ago, and nothing I have done will reconnect, Including re-booting, cycling airplane mode, reconnecting to the router, re-entering address data. Nothing. Zip. Nichts. Nada.
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    Not strictly true. Some markets, including Chicagoland, had correct site locations before NV, and kept them through NV 1. Only recently has some group of genius engineers decided to #&$@ up the BSLs. I offer them my sincere and ongoing . . . Thanks.
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    I don't recognize the term "8T8R chain". Can you explain it, or link me to someplace that explains it? Thanks. If my decrepit EVO is still giving correct engineering data, Sprint has indeed re-farmed the Chicagoland Clear spectrum to 5 MHz blocks.
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    Part of what's weird is that the Milwaukee market went from offset locations pre-NV, to correct locations with NV, and now back to offset locations. Doesn't make a lot of sense.
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    Seems to have happened in Chicago, too.
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    1. You need the MSL from Sprint. 2. You must login to the Zing from a browser to navigate to the network settings, they are not accessible from the device itself. Hope that helps. EDIT: 3. You cannot turn off B25, which has the annoying by-product that you rarely see weak B26 & B41 signals.
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    Maybe this is all tied in with the service interruptions and bizarre texting behavior we have been having. Now the question is, "WHY WOULD THEY TAKE A TOWER LOCATION SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN WORKING PERFECTLY AND TOTALLY #@%$ IT UP??!!" Sprint, you got some splainin' to do!
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    Yes, on a GS5, and yes, on the previous version as well as the new release. And, like the next post, my GS5 has GPS issues with WiFi calling turned on, so it is likely that WiFi calling causes multiple issues (but it does great phone calls!).
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    I've been meaning to say something: If I have SCP turned on at home, and I leave, SCP gets "frozen" on WiFi and won't ever find LTE. I have to reboot the phone to make it work. At home, I always use WiFi and have WiFi calling enabled. When I go in and out of WiFi at other locations where I do not use WiFi calling, SCP updates perfectly. I think WiFi calling is blitzing some parameter and causing the freeze.
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    Not only can it do 9-1-1, but you have to go through a complete setup with address data before you can use WiFi calling through any specific router, so that emergency personnel can locate you if you are incapacitated..
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    Thanks for the reply, but I think you may have missed the point of my question. I am competent to work on data bases, and clearly recognize that at this time that is the only way to update the log, but the issue is that I don't want to root my phone, for whatever reason(s). My question essentially was, "If SCP can write a .csv file to a user-accessible location, can it read a .csv file from the same location?"
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    Mike, Thanks as always for your hard work & excellent features. (If only Samsung would actually use them.) Re, Logging: Since the app can write the log as a text file to a user-accessible directory, could it also read back an edited log file from the same directory? My thought is that I can easily edit the text file (particularly adding notes and deleting unwanted rows). If I were to export the log, edit it, and then be able to re-import it, it would help me annotate those sites that I see while driving, but for which I am never able to add notes because they are long past by the time I can actually play with the data. This approach would avoid rooting, messing with the .db files, and those other UNIX-y things I try to avoid. Just a thought.
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    The link comes up empty -- Did the FCC pull the post for some reason?
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    You can't decide whether to name your new baby "Robert" or "AJ" - and it's a girl.
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    Mike, When you export an SCP log, and load the csv file into Excel, certain dates do not load right: Specifically, any date between the 1st and the 9th of a month loads, for example, as " 1-Oct-2014 . . ", with a leading space in front of the day. For the 10th-31st, the format is "10-Oct-2014 . . ". Excel does not like the leading space. It is easy to fix by renaming the file as a .txt, converting the spaces into zeros, renaming back to .csv, and then importing. But I'm lazy, and would rather you fixed it. Not that you're busy or anything. Thanks for listening. Oh, and I reported some time back that my GS5 would "freeze" on a GPS lat/long for up to 30 minutes, rendering the observations taken during the "freeze" essentially useless. The problem is still there, but it seems that you can work around it by turning on Google maps after you start SCP, and the coordinates get recorded correctly. Happy programming!!!
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    I smell bribery going on here!!!
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    According to both Sensorly and the Milwaukee sponsor threads, you should have very good coverage. My daughter & son-in-law live near UWM and have a G3 and a GS3 respectively, and both get excellent voice and data all over the area, although my daughter's is better because she's on a tri-band. Nonetheless, my s-i-l has no connection or speed issues, even on a uniband phone. But, as Robert says, if you can upgrade, things will be better. EDIT: If you are on an iPhone 5s, life should also be good, (My wife has a 5c, and connects everywhere, but we live in exurban Chicago, not Milwaukee. We we do drive up, she has no connection issues.)
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    I have no knowledge of TMo coverage, anywhere. But, I have hung on while Sprint has struggled to upgrade service. In Chicagoland, when you have a tri-band phone, your service will improve, to good-to-excellent nearly everywhere. There is very broad coverage of all 3 bands, and 8T8R B41 is starting to take off, as you have seen in the Chicago Premier threads. My GS5 (and my 2 hotspots) FAR outperform the GS3 (for obvious reasons), and if you stay with Sprint in this market, you will be satisfied. I haven't traveled much outside of Chicago since last spring, but even then, and even before my GS5, I was getting fair to good data (and voice) nearly everywhere I went (Southeast, far West, around the Midwest; Colorado more recently). I could also connect to B26 & B41 in many places on my Zing. That was 6 or 7 months ago, and Sprint has upgraded thousands of sectors since then. There are holes (and Sprint users in the holes are not shy). I don't know what plan you are on, but if you replace your phone, you will start to consume much more data, and Sprint is also well-positioned to provide larger amounts of plan-covered-data than Magenta. Either choice would likely be satisfactory, at least most of the time, but IMO Sprint will be more satisfactory as the final stages of NV are completed, and from that point into the future. Many will disagree.
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    At his request, I repeated Travis' Netflix experience, and had exactly the same result: After about 40 minutes with on-line power, showing a Netflix session, the projector began to flicker noticeably. (The screen was rock solid). Current draw was initially very low, then all over the map. looks like there is a problem here.
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    I can only echo. It's worth every penny, and more.
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    It looks like they will break down whatever they are mounted on all by themselves. No need for anyone here to try. What a cluster -####. But I'll bet they can transmit lots of gig-o-bytes.
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