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Have there been any 2nd carrier b25 sightings in and around Orlando? Is that even possible? I'm in the airport right now and scp is reporting it.

 

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I'm in Minnapolis/St Paul market. I use an HTC M8 which I know Samsung gets better strength on Sprint than HTC but still.

 

 

Speedtest Aprox -105 LTE on 1900

 

Will flop between 1900 and 800 but 800 really not that much better at least at my home tower. I have wi-fi at home and work so it's not a huge deal but I can pull almost 20 on Verizon all the time with the Verizon tower being pretty much right down the road from the Sprint one.

 

EVDO -77 is the same spot I took the 4G speed test. I know LTE is more touchy but I'm not that far away from the tower. This by the way is not just my home tower, it's all over it is like this.

 

What is it about the Sprint towers that the signal is so much lower than say Verizon? Sprint has 800 LTE now but even that still sucks most the time.

 

As far as 1X coverage goes, most the towers here in my area are fixed now from last year and call coverage with Sprint is very good but the Data still blows. Do they want to go voice over LTE eventually but I can hardly keep a good LTE signal?

I was in downtown Minneapolis for a few days in February and had a very different experience. It was a mix of band 25/26/41, but I only saw evdo when in an underground parking garage. Speeds weren't great (2-5 on 26/25, 4-20ish on b41), but all the areas I went had good coverage.

 

I guess the network can vary wildly even within the same city. I was mainly near the convention center and on the skywalk , but we did a fair bit of driving around a couple days.

I flashed 5.1 yesterday along with the new radio. It looks to me like the signal indicators got tweaked and show a higher bar count for the same dBm. I'm not seeing anything appreciable different but my bars are mostly showing an extra step up than usual.

 

Other than that things are about as expected. I'm eager to see if the memory leak got fixed or not.

Either the battery is bad or maybe it's time to wipe and reflash the phone. The battery life on my Nexus 5 on lollipop actually rivals that of my iPhone 6.

I second this. I regularly get through 16 hour days without plugging in with around 2.5-3hrs SOT. Any time I see an abnormal drain it gets cleared up by rebooting and/or disabling location services until I need it.

Is there much of a possibility that band 25 and band 26 will show up as separate sites in some markets? In chicago my notes for band 25, 26 and sprint 41 are consistent on a per site basis. While in south Florida though, I either was connecting to a ton of brand new sites, or notes for band 25 and band 26 aren't going across. I didn't see the same problem with sprint 41 for some reason.

So in the 2 weeks between my south Florida trips I saw a ton of progress. The tower that serves my parents place went from overloaded and with coverage holes, to band 26/sprint b41 live. Surprisingly the b26 signal was pretty good already, and it filled in all the dead spots.

 

I rarely dropped LTE in my limited driving around Davie and Weston, and was more often than not camping on band 26. MMS worked with no problems, which was very much not the case 2 weeks ago.

 

Now they need to ramp up the back haul and optimize.. Speeds are still low enough that i am guessing thats still an issue. Still..that improved quickly.

 

 

So I'm back in south Florida for a couple of days and was obviously planning to be watching for band 26.

 

Well that was quick..

Band 26 picked up in the tarmac at fort Lauderdale international airport.

My observations from my town in South Florida (doing a fair bit of driving up and down the state visiting family):

 

I was shocked by how pervasive Band 41 is deployed, especially along the highways. I-95 from the heart of Miami to I-595 was wall to wall Clearwire B41 at very high signal levels (rare to get worse than -100dbm). Speed tests showed mostly unburdened sites with good backhaul, with an occasional clunker.

 

I-75 from Miami to 595 was covered by about 60% B41 Clearwire sites. I didn't drop to 3g at all with my nexus 5, but I the band 25 sites were almost universally overloaded when I tried to use them. The turnpike was a bit better, maybe 75% band 41 coverage along the Ft. Lauderdale-Maimi stretch.

 

Off the highways was far more problematic in miami/ft. lauderdale. I saw a mix of band 25, Clear b41, and Sprint b41. There are a number of areas where LTE drops all together, or where B25 barely reaches. Regardless, if you're on b25 down here, in my experience (and from talking with friends and family that use it) things are going to be spotty at best. Some pretty important places (Like Sawgrass Mills Mall) are still without even 3g acceptances, and are predictably horrible places to use wireless.

 

As I drove further north toward Boynton Beach I started finding more Sprint B41, even off the highways. There are enough B41 towers to give great service about half the time, and enough overloaded b25/not far reaching enough b25 to make it pretty bad the rest of the time. Maybe b26 will do enough to make things more consistent.. time will tell I guess.

 

Overall things are hugely improved from a year ago when I was down here last, but still frustratingly inconsistent. God help you if you're on a uniband device here..

I've been in south Florida mainly for the last couple of weeks, and have been keeping an eye on scp like any good s4gru geek would. I'll post some more of my observations later, but for now, this is the first band 26 LTE I've seen. This was near a major highway in the greater ft. Lauderdale area.

 

 

And the speed test

 

It was obviously at low power, as I was getting 7-10dbm worse than band 25 from the same site, but I did connect to it from 2 different sectors on band 26, and was pushed back and forth from 25 to 26 a bunch of times. Hopefully that's the beginnings of the band 26 floodgates in south Florida!

So for people with battery issues, I seem to have resolved my horrible standby time by 1) uninstalling Facebook messenger 2) disabling location services for a few days.

 

I have location services on the battery saving setting now mainly because secure locations is useless if you set it to device only because it keeps having to turn GPS on, check, then allow it (which makes it effectively worthless). My problems appear to have been solved and I get the normal 3:30 - 4:15 SOT depending on usage. On a light usage day I will lose about 1-2% battery life per hour on standby. Off charger 3 hours ago and I am at 20 mins on screen with 95% remaining. Nice.

If you want to try and keep fb messenger but stop the drain, try greenify. If you're rooted it works really well, but the unrooted version might still do the trick.

Ever since the lollipop update I've noticed two things. First when I clear my recent apps sometimes I get a lot of lag and it has to reload the homescreen which never happened before at all. Second my battery life seems to have taken a hit. Granted I do have some of the new features enabled which may not be power friendly but before my average on screen times were 3-4 hours now its more like 1 1/2-2 1/2. I'd like to hear if anyone else is seeing this.

Are you clearing all the recent apps? If so that could be a problem, the system memory management doesn't like force closing apps and often reloads them immediately causing lag and potentially redraws.

 

I've updated three devices to 5.0 so far. Two handled it fine, and saw the performance gains after a day of settling. The third one kept lagging and having battery issue until I did a factory reset.. It had been a dream ever since.

 

With the same settings on 5.0 as on KitKat I'm seeing performance and battery gains across all 3 devices.

Have you turned off always on WiFi scanning in settings -> WiFi -> advanced?

I did a flash if the factory image for 5.0 last night and so far things have been pretty smooth. It will take a few days to figure out battery life as there will be lots of caches building etc.. I'm staying stock kernel and no root until I get s feel for how stock performs.

Last night I picked up a lte 800 signal inside the sushi place where the wifey and I were. The tower I connected to was a solid 3 miles away, yet still provided a solid and usable connection. I also now get usable LTE in the basement at work.

I just had a similar type of drain. Turned out google location services had gotten a perma-wake lock that wasn't showing up in wake lock detector.

 

Got that fixed and am back to my usual 6am-10pm with 3-4hrs sot

Thoughts on the claims in this article?

 

 

http://news.investors.com/technology/091214-717167-sprint-pulls-back-nationwide-4g-deployment-tokyo-like-speed-in-only-5-cities.htm?ven=yahoocp,yahoo&src=aurlled'> http://news.investors.com/technology/091214-717167-sprint-pulls-back-nationwide-4g-deployment-tokyo-like-speed-in-only-5-cities.htm?ven=yahoocp,yahoo&src=aurlled

 

 

Never mind it softened in the second page of the article to more like what we expected.

Spent some time in Geneva yesterday and overall things were better than when I was there last year. There was a fair size crowd for the festival (dunno what its called but it's on the island on the south side of town) but things were always useable.

 

B26 filled in several coverage gaps that were annoying walking around down town last year, but my guess is the tower spacing still isn't good enough to get useable LTE in all the shops. Overall a big improvement though!

Glad to see 1x800 in that area.. Voice service has been horrendous during nv 1.0 and this should help things greatly!

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I'm surprised it works that way. If the Miami dade PD satisfies the requirements for another extension will sprint just have to shut down 800lte/CDMA on the accepted sites?

Anyone hear any updates about the Miami police dept and their vacating the 800mhz spectrum? The last references I saw were saying their new system had issues and they were "temporarily switching back" to the old one.

Found a site broadcasting b26 and both b25 carriers in Glen Ellyn. Seems to be the water tower site.

 

 

 

And as mysteriously as it started.. It's back to normal.

There seems to be some kind of LTE outage in the south suburbs. Started around 0330. Anyone else having an issue? Connecting to LTE isn't the issue, it seems the connection is just dead everywhere. 3G works.

I had working LTE an hour ago, but now I'm experiencing the same thing you are describing out here in the western burbs. Connects to LTE no problem but won't send or receive anything. MMS was also about 10 minutes late but eventually came through.

Any word on the Miami Dade police dept and their issues moving off the 800mhz spectrum?

 

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