tommym65

Someone seems to have sneaked out a new beta today,  4.262b. 

Mine still works. Reprovision it. ##72786#

 

You do have location on?

That seems to have fixed it.  Thanks for the help.

Seeing the PCI twice (the one your connected to and the neighbor cell) is normal.  An example:  Say your on Sprint's 1900 LTE band with a PCI of 100 and you see the same PCI (100) under "neighbor cells" with the signal strength this is PCI 100 on Sprint's B26 800 LTE.  In my market I will see the same PCI for 1900 and 800 LTE so this is normal, I don't know if this is the same with Sprint B41.

Mike,

Could the "Neighbor Cells" list also include the GCIs? Then we could unequivocally see which sites/cells we are near.

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. 

It was normal before NV upgrades. BSL went to exact location after, now for some reason they are offset again.

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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So assuming the Clear B41 carrier has to be on a different frequency from an 8T8R carrier (I believe it does due to a slightly different TDD timing ratio), you'll have 20 MHz (Clear LTE) + 60 MHz (one Sprint 8T8R chain) + ~90 MHz WiMax = 170 MHz of EBS/BRS.

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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.

The offset locations (each sector gets it's own coordinates a variable distance from the site) have been the norm in many markets all along.. perhaps Sprint decided to make this standard across the country. Too bad, those of you with exact locations had a nice perk..

 

-Mike

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.

So, I know this doesn't exactly fit in here, but I don't feel it warrants its own thread.

 

Our market (Milwaukee market) has been NV complete for some time now.  However, yesterday it seems they did a huge "update" to the address given from the 1x site.  Most addresses were spot on, and are now in some cases 5 miles away from their real location.

 

Has this been happening anywhere else?  Here in the Madison area everything just went bonkers! 

Seems to have happened in Chicago, too.

When I first received my Zing Hotspot, it was set on AUTO meaning it would pick up any available signal, i.e. B25, B26 or B41.  However I learned I could go in and specify the order, by channel, I could connect, so I turned off AUTO and selected the channel to connect (if available) in this order B41, B26 and then B25.

 

I wanted to experiment because someone told me they got 35mb download on the same tower I am connecting to... but I can't remember how I made the changes to my Hotspot.  I just spent the last 20 minutes going through every screen and setting and for the life of me can't figure out how to change the channel preference to hooking up to the Sprint network.

 

Can anyone help?

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.

Anyone else notice all the base station locations broadcast from the cell site are offset now?

It changed after friday night.

 

I was shunted to 1x800 all night and when I woke up it was back to 1x1900 with offsets where before both 800 and 1900 had dead on accurate addresses. 

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!

Actually, it looks like there are more issues than just a frozen icon -- the app says LTE but is displaying a 3G connection, and the system icon is showing 3G.

 

Is this also on an S5? Did it happen on previous versions of the app, or have you only seen it on the new one? These are the first reports I've heard of this sort of thing. Hopefully we can at least narrow it down to WiFi calling on the S5 and/or the latest app update.

-Mike

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!).

Mike,

 

Just sent you a report. My main icon in the status bar has not refreshed since I turned off WiFi calling about 10 min ago. This is on S5 Sport, and the only time so far I have not seen it refresh (just started play with WiFi calling today though).

 

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. 

911 over WiFi, cool! I didn't know they would do that.

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..

I don't think that is possible the way it is set up.  The log file is just a .csv file created from the database (the .db file).  It is a one time thing...  a snapshot basically of the database.  It's a one way street.  It won't read from the .csv file.

 

As of this moment, you need to root your device and find the .db file and then edit it.  If you know any programming or SQL it is pretty easy.  I took my market's spreadsheet and easily converted it into a usable .db file so all of my site notes are there.

 

Of course, if I am somehow wrong, I am sure Mike will correct me. 

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?"

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.

According to a posting that went up today on the FCC’s official blog, the start of the incentive auction is now being pushed back to “early 2016.”  Here is a link to the blog posting: http://www.fcc.gov/blog/incentive-auction-progress-report.  The new timeline is mentioned towards the end.

The link comes up empty -- Did the FCC pull the post for some reason?

You can't decide whether to name your new baby "Robert" or "AJ" - and it's a girl.  

Did you select the Excel timestamp option under Preferences > Logger Settings?

 

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!!!

5 got bumped off just like that. Damn, what a massacre (or a victory depending on who you talk to). 

 

TS

We raised almost a month's expenses with the map promotion.  Although I nearly killed myself to do it.  I'm going to bed early tonight to celebrate.

I smell bribery going on here!!!

I'd settle for something better than 3G data speed in so called LTE areas. And I'm talking Milwaukee / Waukesha not the boonies.

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.)

I wouldn't say that, I just want a network that performs consistently no matter where I am in the USA, my needs have changed, I am not rooted to Chicago like in the past.  Have heard really nice things from Spark users, have heard nice things from TMO users.  What will work best for me is the network that is the most consistent from city to city without having to be in one of the carriers known "good markets".

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.

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.

I never thought I would make Honored Premier Sponsor.  I feel proud to support this site.  Thanks!

I can only echo.  It's worth every penny, and more.

Can someone break down what is in those pictures?

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.