bitslizer

has anyone confirm 800mhz LTE for Chicago loop area?

I have the LG G2. I would really like a device with a large screen. I'll be paying full price, so I need to weigh all options carefully.

Have you consider the galaxy Mega? the hardware spec not as nice as the one max, but it does have a big screen, not sure about the RF (I have not research it)

What post or page are you looking at?

 

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page 92, post 1826, the link should be direct to that post, talking about using modded PRL to set the band priority

Picked it up at a corporate store add suggested... How do I change the band priorities, already got my msl if needed.

 

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Just came across this

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2358-everything-800mhz-1xa-lte-coverage-timeline-etc/page-92&do=findComment&comment=250261

I'd be very interested to hear your impressions of this phone after you have had it a few days.  I'm especially interested in how you feel the RF performance is.

 

Thanks...

My personal impression is the RF for LTE is not as good as the Galaxy S4, I remember looking at the LTE side by side and the RSRP is 5-10dbm worse than the S4

a couple post above zodiac say he feel it is better than the Galaxy S3

What car charger are you using to charge your phone ?

 

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Any decent one that can push out at least 2 amps should work fine, be aware that if you are using detachable USB cable type, you need a high quality cable (real OEM for example).  I was using some generic cable yesterday on a road trip with a new charger and it could not keep up with me using Waze for GPS... draining the battery at a rate of about -500ma even plugged into the charger.  

After I got home and before I head out to dinner I grabbed my trusty HP Touch pad's cable which I know for sure is capable of delivering high current, plugged back into the same charger and I was getting +500ma when using Waze.

Picked it up at a corporate store add suggested... How do I change the band priorities, already got my msl if needed.

 

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I would like to know as well, I would set mine to 2500, 800, 1900 in order of preference, 1900 is too bz in my area

Going to attempt to buy the phone today..... Struck out at my local best buy, preferred wireless (sprint store) and radio Shack yesterday.

 

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You need to hit a Corporate Sprint store, online with HTC (they have a $100 Best buy gift card promo) or buy it ONLINE with best buy, Best Buy's brick and mortar don't carry the phone

I know you guys have more experience with snr down in Chicago and how it effects signal and speeds. Do I want a lower snr or higher? My home tower is close to 20 the majority of the time.

Then yes, you're using a tri-band device, and were likely connected to band 41. Speeds like that downtown, while not impossible, are highly improbably on band 26 LTE.

No, my original post that was being referred to clearly stated that I was on lte 1900 / band 25, I confirmed that with the engineering screen. I was very surprised myself

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Are you using a Tri Band to Dual Band LTE Device?

What do you mean? I'm using a htc one max

but down the street where the signal was stronger I was getting 40 down 15 up...? would that mean my 40 down is in fact due to backhaul capacity and if given enough back haul i could have gotten 15 x 8.... ~120mbps up?

I found the TDLTE upload to be greatly affected by signal strength with signal strength weaker than -113db my upload would be lucky to break 2mbps where the download can be greater than 20mbps

in the -90db range I can crack 10mbps

1 test in the -80db range I was getting 15mbps upload

This was on the HTC one max (reception not as good as the G2/N5 i think) and downtown chicago

No, unless circumstances have changed, that is not accurate.  Our understanding of Spark Turbo is that it highlights band 41 TD-LTE 2600 with backhaul improvements.  It does not indicate all band 41 TD-LTE 2600 deployment.

 

AJ

Thanks for the clarification!  So if its turbo, you "should" get B41, if its not Turbo, there's chance you MAY get B41 if its in a deployed market?

What time of the day?

1PM, I was waiting there to meet somebody for an appointment

No, that's good. Thanks for the explanation Dkoellerwx. Is there a map that shows B41 deployments or will the NV Sites Completed reflect that at some point?

If its one of the launched market like Chicago, if you use Sprint's coverage map on their website and zoom in enough it will show it as Spark Turbo where band 41 is available.  but hard to get that if you are in door.

surprisingly, today I was able to pull 12mbps while in the ped bridge between Merchandise mart and IIA on 1900LTE

Monticello, Pesotum, Farmer City and, east of Springfield along I-72 have 4g now.

Wish they would get the Mahomet tower activated.

Really? How about the stretch along lake springfield shared with I-55?

Will be great if I can have 4G while I'm in Springfield in Jan for business travel

14 day return window, get your money back.

They don't price match previous sale from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, and the price already went back up to $249 today

Sprint said 800 lte by the end of year, if your premier sponsor you have a inside track of what is going on. Sadly I can't share much about it. 800 lte got delayed due to issue with the new phones and not being able to connect to 4g stand alone sites. I would say by christmas Chicago and a lot of Michigan will have a good amount of 800 lte turned on. Honestly it will be a great present for a lot people in Chicago, sprint has a lot of customers in Chicago.

Good to know! being able to get on 800 will defintely help with the congestion on the 1900 band and with the One max seeming to have worse reception than the S4, would help to hold on to LTE in more places (in door especially)

I am a little confused by the question? Chicago has had lte for long time now, They also now have lte turned on from clear and turning on 800 right now.

About the LTE800... that can only be treated as rumor right now, I have yet to see any LTE800 myself and I have not seen any post confirming LTE800 being turned on in chicago either.

Is there any technical way to physically see and confirm over saturated airlinks.  We know the poor SNR is likely the cause of too many LTE devices trying to access to few LTE airwaves to the towers on 1900 PCS G Block, but is there a technical indicator for this.  Some sort of tool or device that can be used to say ahhh yep, I see the airwave frequencies are jammed up with data requests........

Yes.... have a Device with Spark connect to Band 41, another device without spark connect to Band 25, confirm both are on the same tower, run a speed test on both device, if you are pulling 10-30mbps on the Spark device and like 300kbps (typical of what I observed the past 2 days when my One Max is on band 25 in downtown chicago) on the none-spark, there's your evidence.

Finally got this phone... of course I had to order it from Best Buy a few days before thanks giving.... never expected them to drop the price by $100 for Cyber monday.... sigh $100 out the window....

About the finger print scanner, you can swipe UP or DOWN either/both direction and still work, but you can't swipe side to side from either side.  Doesn't matter how you swipe during the initial setup either.  So for those who hate swiping down i found a push/swipe up to be easier and less likely to touch the camera lens by accident.  The only thing I don't like about is A) its in the back meaning if the phone is laying down i can't scan my finger print... if A happen, i have to type a password, I can't fall back to pin number or pattern unlock.

FYI comparing it side by side to my Galaxy S4, the Band 25 LTE 1900 reception is about 5-10% worse than the S4 (percent reported by Network signal info app) and it seem not able to hold onto LTE signal as well as the S4 and drop to 3G earlier (no surprise there if the reception is not as good as the S4).

On the other hand, I'm working in Downtown chicago this week and I was able to confirm the phone uses Band 41 TDLTE and pull 10-30mbps, at least if i'm outdoor,  Indoor in the office building I'm only getting Band 25 LTE. 

Anyone know when are they turning on LTE800 around chicago?

I was at Clinton and Monroe this morning on my One Max and I pulled > 20mbps download, confirmed via ##DEBUG# that i was on band 41, signal was not great though, under 50% (-100db ish?)as reported by Network signal info app