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  1. tongboy
    BSID and NID will change when the 1x portion of the tower your connecting to gets a network vision upgrade. Are you in an area they are upgrading? Sent from my EVO LTE
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    22097 That is the same PRL my company has. It operates the exact same way as Iphones work. PCS is prioritized over SMR. I have not found a way to force SMR. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    How do I check the PRL on the duraxt? Menu - settings - phone info - phone #/user ID. Scroll down and you will see an entry PRL Version. What is the number under it (ie 22097) Sent from my EVO LTE
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    What PRL is your phone using? Sent from my EVO LTE
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    What phone were you using during this trip? Sent from my EVO LTE
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    What windfall? Sprint stock is already trading above the Dish and SoftBank offers, so anyone that wants to cash out can simply sell their shares now. And all the people buying now are hedge funds trying to get the current deals to collapse and get a higher price. Anyone buying Sprint stock now for more than any of the offers on the table is rolling the dice on a potential bigger payoff. I think you'd have to be stupid to buy the stock at the current rate. But I'm definitely a conservative investor. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta It would be interesting to see what the makeup of investors now versus what they were before all these deals began. I see a lot of the same players now as I did then. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    I'm pretty sure he is independent so they didn't put him on per say. It doesn't hurt being an "advisor" to a major shareholder. I don't regard him or the Sprint board at blocking or stopping opportunities as much as just doing there job of representing the shareholders. I do agree with you however if Dish makes an offer that far exceeds SoftBank then they will get it and SoftBank would potentially go after someone else. The tmobile leak is entertaining, probably the truth however the timing of the leak wasn't an accident. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    Hance is an interesting topic. He is on multiple boards including Ford and Morgan Stanley I believe. This article explains him a little bit... http://247wallst.com/2012/05/07/the-troubled-tenure-of-sprint-chairman-james-h-hance/ I believe he ultimately is really involved with Carlyle group which is a major investor in Sprint Nextel. That's probably how he ended up on the board. I think he was added after the Nextel merger. That said the MetroPCS deal was really unpopular with the shareholders and board since, although it makes a lot of sense to us, would have over leveraged Sprint even further than they are now. Had softbank thrown it's hat in the ring earlier the board may have gone for it. I am not sure if Dish may be able to line up the financing necessary to outclass SoftBank and I am not really sure they want to. Dish just wants a seat at the negotiation table. Of course I could be reading the events completely wrong and am leaving my money in my pocket for this. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    Like you I won't carry a Ergen wireless device. In this article they state a proxy firm recommends voting for Softbank and states they have not evaluated Dish's offer because it was "preliminary" and hasn't been entered directly though a tender. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100782122 Dish may be able to delay the vote but I will be surprised if they even able to do that. They will likely up their bid but Sprint may call the vote anyway and tell the shareholders that are raising a stink to put up or shut up. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    Or a reminder to Sprint shareholders that Softbank doesn't have to buy Sprint to enter the US market. Edit: I should probably explain myself. This happens with every interesting large buy that gets a competing bid. It turns into a massive game of chicken with the stockholders. I'm fairly sure most of Sprint shareholders do not want Sprint to be bought by Dish, however Dish's offer is realistic enough that the Sprint shareholders that want to milk as much money out of softbank as possible are using it to try and do that. I don't think Dish even feels it's a real offer, since Dish hasn't formally offered it yet or lined up the financing. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-softbank-eyes-t-mobile-193643098.html Music to to that rat bastard Charlie's ears I'm sure. I wonder what, if anything, Sprint would get if SoftBank walked away from the deal. Between the clowns at Crest, Mount Kellett, et al on one side and Charlie on the other, I certainly figure that it's conceivable that at some point that Son could throw his hands up and say, "To hell with this." The only thing with T-Mobile USA is that it wouldn't give Son his economies of scale in regards to 2.5GHz TD-LTE. This leak probably was not an accident. Its now a game of chicken. I doubt most stockholders want Dish to buy, however they would love for Softbank to up the offer. I am pretty sure this is a lot of the posturing going on now. This also includes Clearwire. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    I'm sure most of Sprint management isn't worried about the future if the softbank deal falls apart. They will likely exit stage left and not worry about this title. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    I don't have a Samsung device. Does anyone know what is that 2nd 1x rssi in the 3rd screen shot? Sent from my EVO LTE
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    This isn't good if true... http://www.sammobile.com/2013/05/30/samsung-processor-chaos-disappointments-and-their-current-soc-future/
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    I'm almost 100% sure they both came from the same site. There is not another Sprint site within 10 miles. That's a fairly strong EVDO signal. If there are not any sites nearby then you have to be hitting another sector on that same tower that is not pointed at you. As AJ said, we need to see some engineering screens.
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    Your 1x and EVDO do not look like they were connected to the same cell site. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    I would be extremely shocked if these areas aren't live with upgraded backhaul within 90 days. Most of then appear complete with the old panels removed. We can then, in Chicago all stop complaining to Robert who, despite running a site dedicated to Sprint LTE info, can touch his nearby gmo only site. Lol! Sent from my EVO LTE
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    Is it like this in other markets? Sent from my EVO LTE
  19. tongboy
    This man speaks the truth, I messed with those preferred band settings and my evo lte would not select different bands or roam properly after that until a full factory reset. There is no other way to undo it. I played with fire and got burned. Sent from my EVO LTE
  20. tongboy
    Maybe Robert knows why the mw backhaul seems to be lagging in the Chicago area (or if that is even a correct statement). Ethernet connected towers seem to have fired up much faster then mw towers. Large areas like Crystal Lake and Dekalb that have groups of interconnected towers with mw seem to be lagging. Crystal Lake is almost unusable for data. I have seen some towers fire up with microwave, such as the one by 25 and 62, so progress is being made. They all seem to be a mw tower by themselves though and not a cluster. My phone switches to 1x in that area so I imagine that is why SMR service makes that much difference with apps. I understand the frustration. I hope one day you wake up and suddenly it's a different network. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    Did she say what two sectors are failing? That tower is garbage right now. Data speeds are horrible. Most of Crystal Lake is waiting for them to fire up the microwave backhaul. If you are at the Walmart on 31 you can't even get Google Nav to load up. The cog Circle tower feeds that area. If that is your home tower I feel bad for you. If you go to the tower by the Lake in the Hills airport data speeds are flying. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    I thought this looked familiar... So, realistically, what's stopping a manufacturer from combining NVidia's Tegra 3 or 4 with a Qualcomm modem? Or do the same thing with The Exynos Octo in the GS4? I had read that the reasons they went with the Snapdragon Dual in the USA GS3 instead of the Exynos 4 Quad was that the Exynos had some issues with LTE, which were later resolved (obviously, as we can see with the Note II). Is there some other issue? Some other hurdle or manufacturing issue? From my point of view, it's just Samsung using Qualcomm SoCs out of, well, laziness. That was what I understood also. Qualcomm was the only manufacturer with the last generation of phones to have figured out how to put LTE in their SoC. Att phones also have Qualcomm chips but they do not use CDMA2000. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    If its symptomatic I would let Sprint know ASAP. If they dont know how can they address the problem. It happened a couple times two weeks ago and when network vision came though it was happening fairly frequently for a few weeks. Both my wife and I run custom roms on our phones and it happened sporadically, for only a couple weeks or so. Not often enough for me to flash back to stock and call it in. I was trying to tell the OP that I had seen something similar in the area he was having the issue and a work around that he could try using. Sent from my EVO LTE
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    My wife has an OG evo and has had the time shift on her phone in that area. I seems like it picks a different time zone. It seems like it messes with the course location in android and switches it to a different time zone. I have never seen the time change that much though, usually it only is an hour or two off. If it is months off the apps are likely not able to communicate because of the ssl certs are not being validated due to the clock issues. You could try and turn off getting the time from the network. It is in the android settings under date and time. Sent from my EVO LTE
  25. tongboy
    Do they have LTE at the track? Sent from my EVO LTE
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