Craig
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Strange happenings at DIA the last two nights - aside from the underground alien city. My S3 will not connect to 3G out there at all. Looking at signal check, it reports an eHRPD signal, but says the eHRPD data connection is "unregistered". It ends up connecting at 1x. All along Pena to and from I get 3G and LTE. As soon as I turn my phone on in Aspen, 3G is there and usable, but DIA - all over the field- no 3G. Anyone else experiencing this? Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk
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Happened to me running MOAR ROM a little less than a year ago. Anytime I was in SFO and it would try to connect to LTE, it would reboot. Found out it was a kernel problem, but I elected to go to Cynaogen Mod and have had no issues since with the stock kernel that installs with it. I tried multiple modem flashes, none worked. Radio update didn't work, either. Look into other kernels, or other ROMs to fix it. If you haven't tried CM, I'd highly recommend it, just stay away from the KitKat builds for now. I'm running 10.2 stable and it's great.
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Don't read too much into it, unless it remains on evdo after you reboot and/or cycle airplane mode a few times. I've had my phone revert to evdo multiple times each week for the past 6-8 months and nothing new has happened with the towers near me. edit: If it does remain in evdo, I would tend to think it would show more of a "behind the scenes" work in progress being done in the metro area. Prior to the first LTE tower lighting up, my phone had stayed on eHRPD and then suddenly went to evdo for hours on end. Within a day, the tower, which is 25 miles from me, was broadcasting LTE. FWIW, I'm showing eHRPD in Arvada currently.
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Nothing from CES so far in the realm of potential future Sprint handsets?
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Who's got a break down of known, or reputably rumored soon to be Spark devices? I heard the S4 was going to be re-released with Spark capability. Any word on something along the lines of the Note 3 being redone? That is the only thing holding me back from getting the Note 3 when my upgrade is available in March. I'm not looking for Samsung exclusively, although it might appear that way. I just like the Note form factor.
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The 8/19/25 you've heard about are all the "same" LTE network. Each band has its own advantages. The 800 band will have better in-building coverage and longer outside coverage, but a lower theoretical peak speed. The 1900 band is a decent compromise between coverage distance and speeds. This is the LTE that single band LTE phones currently utilize. The 2500 band is for short range/high density high speed coverage. If you get a tri-band LTE device, you will be able to utilize all of the bands in the Denver area. We have a very large number of the 2500 sites already active, and the 800 LTE should start going live soon. Maybe someone else has better info about timeframe on that, as well as what the upgrade to LTE Advanced entails and what those benefits will be.
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Do you have any way of telling how strong the signal was? Signal Check app or something similar? You may have gotten a weak signal from some other tower that was lost quickly. I've gotten a random, very weak LTE signal on I-70 right near Harlan before. I would bet that your LTE is from some distant tower. As for a time frame for going full time active, everything LTE is on hold for the time due to some switching issues discovered when the tri-band devices were released. If there is an LTE tower ready to go, it will be brought online as the clusters of "fixed" 3G sites are accepted and activated. Consensus is that things are moving along very fast with the switching fix and majority of the towers in the Denver area have the NV equipment installed. Whether or not the upgraded backhaul is in place is another issue, but by the end of Jan, it sounds like a bunch of the 3G clusters should be online, and thus, any additional LTE sites that are ready to go as well.
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I've never had good luck in the DFW area either. I can connect to LTE, but often I get no data transfer or very very slow data. This is between DFW and a few miles north (Grapevine) and out to the NW in the Trophy Club area. Chicago on the other hand is killer from ORD along the L to downtown. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
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To me, an "all at once" turn on seems like a much more likely way to implode the network instead of a piece by piece approach, but I'm not privy to the technical details of what goes on behind the scenes. edit: I'm now sorta-kinda privy to the behind the scenes now that I read the blog entry about the issues with the tri-band devices. That makes a little more sense now.
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Not sure of the carriers - Telus, Novatel? Pictured in downtown Calgary. Figured it might have some appreciation here. In other news from north of the border, I noticed a large Telus buliding with the words "Telus SPARK" in bright lights on it between downtown and the airport. Interesting. . . https://www.dropbox.com/s/ik4y4846i6m1zth/IMG_6992.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/8wwbdfqr5wzpp2a/IMG_6993.jpg edit: Just looked up Telus Spark - It's a museum, nothing to do with the Canadian cellphone carrier aside from sponsorship.
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I've been so wrapped up with the LTE deployment and the multiple bands involved, that I haven't heard anything about which recently announced handsets will support HD voice, and when will that be the norm going forward? If this is in the wrong forum, please feel free to relocated it, mods.