mdob07

Sprint still has G block 5x5 plus another PCS 5x5 live here. B26 and 15MHz B41 also still live in Louisville for now. B41 was just trimmed and moved in the past 2 weeks. 

6 minutes ago, S4GRU said:

Anyone have any ideas how to isolate n41 for mapping?  In my LG V60, I don't seem to connect to n41 unless connected to B2 LTE.  If I go into NR only mode, it will not connect to n41. Just n71.  If I disable n71, it will never connect to NR at all. 

If I manage to get connected to n41 with B2, then turn off LTE, it will drop the n41 connection. It seems without a live B2 LTE connection, there no n41.

So that means I cannot map n41 at all.  Because it will just map B2 LTE only. Any ideas?

Robert

Same for me here, N41 is still NSA only. I've got a few hits on cellmapper with what looks like valid signal data for n41 but I can't get it to repeat. Those points all happened when I was driving and wasn't watching, so no idea if it was just a quick hit or actually connected for a period of time. 

3 hours ago, S4GRU said:

So, I have re-uploaded with the new timestamp.  I laid down some fresh tracks from near Little Rock to Shelton at 4 AM this morning.  Only LTE trails populated, except for a few snippets when it went to NR only. 

I think the issue is either my device or SCP, but it is not logging trails of NR data when connected to LTE any longer.  It only logs NR trails when there is no LTE connection at all.  I could swear it didn't use to be that way, but maybe I am mistaken.  I thought I recall that it used to log both simultaneously when connected to both, the difference being that it would not log the NR TAC at all when it was also connected to LTE.

Maybe no one is mapping LTE and NR simultaneously?  Maybe we all are needing to double trip everything?  My LG V60 is 2 years old.  I'd totally be willing to upgrade.  But I would want a device that will log LTE and NR data at the same time, and have band access/control.  I do like that about LG's, is their modem control is very advanced.  No more LG's, sadly.

Robert

My experience with my S20 and now S22 is it only maps the primary connection. Either the anchor LTE band in NSA mode or NR when using SA. Cellmapper will map the heat trail for the NR connection when in NSA but nothing else. From what I can tell not much NR data is visable to apps like SCP and Cellmapper when using NSA. I've always had to double trip an area to map both LTE and NR data.

Also with Samsung as long as you're using T-Mobile firmware the *#2263# menu let's you pick what bands you want active. Right now I've got T-Mobile on esim and a physical Verizon sim and I can control them individually using the 2263 menu.

11 hours ago, mikejeep said:

EDIT: After I installed the new Android 12 update, I'm now seeing the n7 bug too -- I will reach out to Samsung. They were very responsive when I reported some related glitches with the initial A32 software.

How do you report an issue to Samsung? I'd love to report the LTE TA issue on the S22s but I had no idea how. 

1 hour ago, mikejeep said:

A new SignalCheck Pro beta release is rolling out now, and should become available on Google Play shortly! 

Update just showed up for both of my phones. So far I don't notice any difference, LTE TA is still reporting as 0, I was hoping the new routine might fix that. I sent a diag report from both phones in case you need any of that info. I'll let you know in a day or so if its crashing as frequently or not. 

I got an email to apply for the Project Genesis beta yesterday! Has anyone else gotten it yet and applied? 

11 minutes ago, PedroDaGr8 said:

Seems like updates have stalled out around here. A number of permits ready for issue or issued but none of the sites having installations done. For example, the Motel 6 site hasn't changed since they removed the equipment.

I've heard rumors that the chip shortage was impacting rru/antenna production. Not sure if it's that or something else but really have a dozen permitted sites are sitting unchanged right now. 

I've noticed that around here as well. Found 1 T-Mobile site being upgraded last week and that was the first in a couple months at least, it's been awhile since I've seen any AT&T work around here too. And no additional Sprint removals for awhile. Not sure if its equipment shortages or that Verizon has all the crews tied up around here right now, they're going crazy with C band equipment installs around here. Haven't seen much new Dish activity either in a bit. 

2 hours ago, chamb said:

Yes, at least for some things.  I am not in  a 5g area right now, not sure how it looks when 5G is involved.  But there are other menus that I had on a s9.  You could lock out one of the 3 Sprint bands for example.  You could disable or enable certain bands from aggregation. The 0011 is good, but it is not everything we had on prior Samsung phones.

By the way, Samsung band selector is not working for me on this phone.  Anybody else have this?

 

If your on a T-Mobile SIM see if *#2263# will let you select bands. That worked on my S20s and S22s.

1 hour ago, chamb said:

Have two new S-22's.  Trying to get into menus to see aggregation, channel width, etc. Similar to the old service & data menus in older S-9's.  Most of the info on the net is wrong or outdated.  Anybody have a good list of secret codes that actually work on a s22?  NOT the plus or Ultra versions.

Does the *#0011# not work?

20 minutes ago, gr8nuguy said:

May security update just hit my phone

And its not even May yet, what is happening??? That's 4 weeks before I expected to see it.

Mike, I sent you a couple of diagnostic reports tonight and yesterday, I put a Verizon sim in my T-Mobile S22 and when I switch to only Verizon service I see some neighbor info populate for the NSA N5 connection. I don't see this on either my AT&T phone or when I'm on T-Mobile in either NSA or SA N71 or NSA N41. I sent the reports incase theres anything useful showing that might help get the info to show all the time. Also, still no TA showing on LTE on the S22s, but that probably more of a Samsung issue than anything on your end. Let me know if you need me to send anything else in if you see anything useful. Still getting the force closes on SCP, but it mostly seems to be on my AT&T S22 Ultra, I don't think SCP on my T-Mobile phone has crashed for awhile. And even on my AT&T phone it doesn't happen nearly as frequently as it did when I first got the phone.   

Update is out for T-Mobile now.

My AT&T S22 Ultra is downloading an update now. It's another big one, 1518.54MB.

7 hours ago, PythonFanPA said:

Just noticed this as I hadn't tried using it since, but is the Flashlight option broken after the update for anyone else?  Hoping this is just a software issue and not hardware on my end.  I'm on the direct from Samsung unlocked version particularly here.

Working fine on both of my 22 Ultras. AT&T and T-Mobile.

I believe I found some Verizon C-Band gear this week. I'm surprised by how fast they are deploying these here unless they aren't as affected by electronic equipment shortages as others are. I thought they'd focus on markets were C Band is already live. Louisville isn't one of the early clearing markets, I'm pretty sure they can't turn it on here until late 2023 unless I missed something. This particular site was actually just a bit south of Louisville, next to a Pilot station off I-65. There's another site about a mile south of this one that also has C Band equipment already. Both looked to have been complete rip and replace of the existing equipment as well. Also I'm not quite sure what the smaller unit is under the Ericsson 6449, unless that's for CBRS. (Pictures are from my S22 Ultra, I'm very impressed with the camera.)

I'm surprised we still haven't seen the February update. Neither of my phones have received anything since I set them up initially. 

HSPA is still live here in KY and Nashville, TN. I'm surprised they're waiting this long to shut it off with how much communication they were sending my aunt who had some phones that needed to be updated. I'm sure there's some people that took the wait and see approach to see if their phone really would stop working on Feb 22nd that will now be caught off guard down the road when they finally do shut it down. My uncle was going to go that route but he ended up getting a newer Samsung, (A32 5G I think?) AT&T had sent him a Fusion Z as a free replacement and it was a pile of crap, which is why he was originally going to wait it out and see if his old phone still worked on the 23rd. We ended up using the Fusion Z to replace my grandma's cracked S7 which also supposedly wouldn't work once HSPA was shut off. The phone is so slow and clunky that even she is asking to get a better phone now lol. And yes they are going to go get her the same phone my uncle got and put the Fusion Z out of its misery.    

Also, I had an interesting experience down in Nashville Friday night. Out on Broadway AT&T and Verizon have small cells everywhere but no one in my group could get data to work on any carrier. T-Mobile had 100+ on download thanks to N41 @ 100MHz but kept failing on upload which is why nothing worked. My AT&T phone had great signal (we were actually standing again a pole with a SC on it) but again nothing would load and speed tests wouldn't even start. Not sure if whoever provides backhaul for all the small cells had a hiccup or what. Seemed to affect both Verizon and AT&T small cells though not just one carrier. SCP did confirm I was connected to multiple small cells during the experience. We were trying to find a place they wanted to go to off the strip and trying to figure out if we could walk or needed to Uber. Ended up walking just over a mile in sleet and snow but we made it, by the time we got far enough to get working data were were halfway there so we figured what the heck and walked the rest of the way there. 

These Dish crews around here are killing it right now, they just completely installed a new site by my office in two days, and did everything including lifting the pieces of the rack up by hoist ropes instead of a crane. By comparison I've seen crews on site 2-3 weeks to add just N41 to an existing site that already has 2/12/66/71, and the T-Mobile crews seem to use a crane a lot more than I've seen for other carriers. Just searching one particular electrical contractor the other day I found 50+ permits for electric for dish sites just in metro Louisville. Still nowhere near as dense as the other 3 but should provide decent coverage inside Louisville and I'd assume they'll keep densifying as their network load increases in the coming years.  

On another note I was down in Nashville over the weekend and I didn't really see much Dish equipment, but I was also with a big group of people and not actively looking for it either.  

I got it on my S22 Ultra.

Starting to see a lot of C band gear going up on Verizon sites here in Louisville. Interesting since this isn't one of the early markets. 

On 2/25/2022 at 9:47 AM, mdob07 said:

HSPA still working here in Louisville KY also. 

Still working here a week after the shutdown date. Hopefully they shut it down soon, I'd much rather have the extra bandwidth on N5. 

I've been getting intermittent Signal Check Pro is not responding errors on both of my S22 Ultras. Hopefully the crash reporting shows something useful. It's not constant, just once a twice a day for now.

Has anyone gotten the February update yet? Both of my phones are on the January update. No issues with my T-Mobile phone, it seems pretty polished at this point. My AT&T phone however has had a few quirks that I'm hoping are fixed soon. Was getting weird GPS loss of signal error when using Google maps the other day and battery life seems not as good as my T-Mobile phone. On both phones on the engineering screen there's a line that says "Code review required". I will say I love the camera on this phone, got some really long range shots the other day I'll post soon. Was far enough away from a tower that at 1x zoom you couldn't even see it. Huge improvement over my s20 Ultra. 

I have notices the UC icon on my T-Mobile phone seems to under report N41. Several times I've confirmed via the engineering screen that I'm connected to N41 but the UC logo isn't there. It usually pops up after doing something like a speed test or something that uses data for a few seconds, it doesn't usually show up when phone is idle. 

Also on T-Mobile sim and esim the *d2263# menu still works to band lock. I still have the pull the sim and reboot my AT&T phone to get to that menu. 

HSPA still working here in Louisville KY also. 

One issue I have noticed so far is that in SCP it always shows TA: 0. Hopefully that gets fixed in a future update. My s20 did not do this and since both my S22s do on both AT&T and T-Mobile I'm assuming it's a small bug in the S22 software.