Craig

Saw some people looking at a tower along I-70 in the Denver area yesterday morning. Confirmed it was a Sprint tower, so it looks like there could be some tangible progress of some kind soon in the Denver metro area.

Now that Samsung has begun some advanced work in the CO market, this app is installed for my drive to/from Denver Intl Airport. Looking forward to utilizing it to its fullest.

FreeGS3 by SonicTeam is an excellent CM alternative. Stable, dialer codes work, lots of support and active, mostly friendly forum. All kinds of user selectable customizations during flashing process. Thought about CM on the GS3, but after using FreeGS3 for a few months now, I'm not changing to anything else.

yep. Four of them.

 

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Just checked it out and it works! I'm the 4G blip at the Hilton Garden Inn in South SFO.

I fixed it by going into the /data partition of the phone, editing eri.XML and changing "Freegs3" to "Sprint". Make sure you reboot.

 

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Just did it. I saw four occurrences. Does that sound right?

Thanks for the info.

The reply I got back from Sensorly says that some ROMs will override the network provider with the developer ID. So the data they would be getting from my phone would not be reported to them as a Sprint signal, rather as a signal for "Team Sonic", or some other identifier.

BTW Team Sonic FreeGS3 is the only ROM for the SGS3. Hands down best available.

I've mapped a few trips with Sensorly in places where they don't have data for Sprint 3G and LTE coverage. I have yet to see any of my data show up in their maps. I sent them an email asking about it, but I'm curious if it might be due to my phone being rooted and they automatically invalidate data from rooted phones due to the possibility of bad data through GPS spoofing. Anyone else with a rooted phone have success with mapping a trip and having the data show up in their maps?

A dollar says they just want to complain and not spend any time trying to let Sprint know about it. It's easier that way, after all.

In other news . . . Any reason why eHRPD would be turned off temporarily after it's been deployed? It could have been a bug with RF Signal Tracker app, but every tower in the west/NW metro Denver suburbs I was connected to this morning had reverted to EVDO. Two hours later, they had been switched back to eHRPD. Found it kind of curious.

Westminster and Wheatridge as well.

eHRPD is alive in the Arvada area!

I think I was confusing Medford with Eugene. When I was there this weekend, my Sprint coverage was horrific. Reverted to 1 x most of the time. It was essentially useless.

Medford doesn't strike me as an area that I've had problems with. I fly in there once every two months or so. I'm going to be there a few days after Thanksgiving. Are you near the downtown area? That's where I stay and as I said, I don't recall having really bad 3G speeds there.

My signal strength was about -113dB (via the LTE engineering menu), yet it showed full RSSI bars. I'm not sure it's calibrated correctly if that is the case. Not that it really matters, just more a curiosity.

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/212-network-visionlte-deployment-running-list/

Orlando is a second round market. Could have some LTE towers live, but not accepted, meaning you might see a brief LTE connection while they are testing it. I'd bet you'll have some towers online before the end of Nov, maybe even within a week or two. It's variable.

Running speed test from my hotel at Congress street bridge on the 11th floor facing south, I only get 385ms ping, 1.15 down and it shows nothing going up. Anyone else having issues in Austin lately?

Question for ya. When I go into the ##3282# menu and set my SGS3 to LTE only mode, what do the bars represent then? There is no CDMA/EvDO signal at that point, yet I get signal bars in the notification area. The site location is listed as unknown in RF Tracker when connected in LTE only mode, so I know it's not getting any info from an EvDO signal.

Return of the Premiere rewards (12 month upgrade, etc). I've been with them for 13+ years. I was very bummed when they suspended that program.

Sitting in my room facing north toward SJC in the Hyatt Place near the convention center at downtown San Jose and I've had a 4G signal that is usable for the past few hours.

I rarely get down there, but I will certainly have it in the back of my mind to check it out when I find myself out there again.

Would any sites nearby be eHRDP, or since this is a sole LTE site would there be no upgrades to neighboring sites?

Sensorly shows one LTE hit in southern Denver. I have yet to see any eHRPD towers and nothing in CO has been scheduled for upgrades as far as I know. Certainly this is not legit?

Check out the sensorly website too. It has real world reports from users about where LTE/3G coverage is for any given carrier.

No LTE in Rosemont just SE of ORD so far today. This is kind of on the fringe of where the NV sites have been accepted, though.

Parents' DSL is 1.5M down, 384k up. It's the fastest speed possible given line conditions (sometimes it gets slower due to weather issues etc.). It's not terribly expensive...$35 or so per month plus a $20 landline...but it's all they can get. Satellite...don't get me started. We *might* be able to get 2M down, 384k up service for $60 per month here, but that's uncertain and seems overpriced compared to what they're paying now (also, no more upload speed). The other wireless ISP in the area wants $100 for 2M, which I'm pretty sure they can't deliver anyway.

 

What's your response in this situation? Not everyone has access to $55-per-month 10Mbit cable.

My response? My response is that I don't know how fast you think 3G is, but all of those speeds you quoted are faster than a typical 3G connection. Even after NV is complete, you're not really going to see over 1.5M-2M with any consistency on a 3G connection.

My point is, if I can stream a bandwidth intensive service like Netflix over a 3G connection in Denver where NV hasn't even begun, then any home wifi will be as good as, and 99.9% will be better than my lowly 3G connection. So, you get better performance for whatever it is that you need more than 3M on your phone, you save your battery, and you free up capacity on the local tower. I see no losers in that situation. You?

I"m still not sure what you're doing on your phone that you need so much more speed than you can get off even a slower DSL connection at home? I've streamed Netflix over 3G with no issues, which is certainly slower than even a crappy DSL connection. And if your DSL, or whatever pipe you use to access the internet, is slower than a 3G connection, then you probably are paying way too much for it and in that case, you should just ditch it.

URL is no good anymore . . .