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  1. tongboy
    I honestly forgot what thread I was in. Sorry :-) Sent from my EVO LTE
  2. tongboy
    The thing is, Qualcomm doesn't necessarily make the best 3GPP modems. However, because the US is really the last big bastion of CDMA (3GPP2), Qualcomm Snapdragon thrives here. I believe Qualcomm 's advantage wasn't cdma since other chip manufacturers made SoCs with cdma for years. Qualcomm was the only one that had a competitive performance and LTE on their soc when the last generation of smartphones came out (evo and s3). I'm not sure if that is still the case. I agree though, the more chip manufacturers in the us market the better we will all be Sent from my EVO LTE
  3. tongboy
    Almost all the 300 devices I support are not LTE so I could be completely in the dark, however I use my personal evo lte for testing airaves all the time and never notice any significant issues. The only interesting thing that happens on my evo as opposed to the dumb phones is it tends to hang on to whatever network it is connected to for much longer than I think it should. All the phones we have seem to have trouble handing off from an airave to the rest of the Sprint network. Do you have any details of the bug you have seen? I believe you, I am just curious as to where it has been reported. Sent from my EVO LTE
  4. tongboy
    After deploying about 10 or so airaves around where I work (half were version 2.5 the other half were 2.0). I can tell you the 2.5's just work and work reliably. The 2.0's will die about once every two weeks requiring a restart. Of course this is a small sample... Anyone seen any differences from my observation? Also, has anyone had any luck getting an airave to Sprint network handoff to work reliably on any phone? Sent from my EVO LTE
  5. tongboy
    Will it restrict bandwidth needed for calls while a data session is in progress? In other words, it will start restricting bandwidth and killing data sessions if the data sessions are already in progress?
  6. tongboy
    <br /><br />I seem to remember the rebanding was caused by Nextel starting as a two way trunked radio system with phone patching capability into a cellphone company that had PTT capability. The spectrum they occupied wasn't licensed for what it was being used for. Nextel wasn't entirely innocent.<br /><br />After some arm twisting Nextel agreed to pay to reband the public safety radio users that were in nearby radio spectrum. The FCC threw them some additional spectrum to cushion the blow.<br /><br /><br /><br />Sent from my EVO LTE<br /><br /><br />
  7. tongboy
    Lol! I was very much alive however i guess i had not contracted the sickness I have now where I pay attention to these things. I did not realize they carried phones with antennas. I always thought that was a benefit to pcs since extendable antennas were not required. I do have to confess that most of that era I was a Verizon or Nextel customer. Neither of those companies at the time I was a subscriber had phones without extendable antennas. Sent from my EVO LTE
  8. tongboy
    Did Sprint ever have handsets with pullout antennas? Memory could be failing me but I don't remember any sprint phones with them. Sent from my EVO LTE
  9. tongboy
    I have had made it work for a while after clearing map cache. Logcat seems to say it ran out of heap space. Sent from my EVO LTE
  10. tongboy
    The antennas on the shaft of the tower look exactly like one I have seen in the Chicago area that is confirmed sprint. The tower went from legacy to NV without antenna replacements. The tower is similar to that one, all the usual places were full. It did not get 800 service. Sent from my EVO LTE
  11. tongboy
    This is probably getting a bit off the original topic but since we are talking back haul... http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_14-3/143_backhaul.html from my EVO LTE
  12. tongboy
    My evo lte feels awesome when I take it out of my otterbox commuter once a month! Lol In my experience plastic seems to take more punishment then aluminum. Plastic seems to absorb a lot more energy without getting permanent damage. Drop the evo lte and it will scratch the paint or get a major dent. I still love the evo though. Sent from my EVO LTE
  13. tongboy
    It is also a good survival tactic. You never know who your next boss will be. Especially when you work for a local government body, they remember what sign you put in your yard. Sent from my EVO LTE
  14. tongboy
    Wow... I wonder why Chicago is so unique. I guess it could be my memory being "unique" though. If you look in the Chicago area around the i290 and I 90 intersection i could swear all those towers two days ago were saying voice upgrade in the next six months. Sent from my EVO LTE
  15. tongboy
    Based on how often I looked at the network upgrade site I recognise a lot of the upgrades in the nw suburbs of Chicago. Even though it says "last six months" in the key, they appear to be both last six months and next six months of upgrades, at least with the voice upgrades, although it doesn't differentiate between the two. Weird. These voice upgrades were in the old upgrade map also, but always seemed to coincide with smr CDMA being added to the tower when the tower had NV done to it. As you said, I do see data speed upgrades with towers that had huge speed increases when NV rolled though... Sent from my EVO LTE
  16. tongboy
    The only setting I have found with a evo lte that I had to do a factory reset on was in *#*#4636#*#* and from the phone information screen, going into the menu and then changing the radio bands. If you select a radio band your phone will not scan outside that band until you do a factory reset. I found that out the hard way. Has anyone else found others that weren't obvious
  17. tongboy
    The screen is awesome, and blows anything else on Sprint out of the water IMHO. That and it was the first device on Sprint with Qualcomm's new SoC made it a no brainer decision for me. The LTE is a major issue, however I would still buy it again. In Chicago where I live and work, the 3g improvements with NV and wifi at work and home have made it much easier to not notice it as much. That said, they need to fix it! Sent from my EVO LTE
  18. tongboy
    Yeah, those were the settings I was talking about. I guess it is possible, however I pass by this same area twice a day. (route 62 by Hoffman Estates). It was the first time I had seen 4g in this area while in my car. If more people are experiencing this maybe something changed on Sprint's side? Sent from my EVO LTE
  19. tongboy
    Has anyone tried changing both LTE options in ##3282# to 1? I did that this morning and during my commute in to work it seemed to switch to 4g in an area it never had before and kept it constantly until I was about four miles from the tower. I only encounter one area during my commute that has 4g so it may have been a coincidence. Has anyone else tried those settings? I did not do any airplane mode/reboots to force it to 4g. Sent from my EVO LTE
  20. tongboy
    Do you know if there are any markets with existing moto equipment that lucent or Ericsson are doing? I wonder if they would have the same issue... Sent from my EVO LTE
  21. tongboy
    Although it is going to be an incredible network when it is done I can definetly understand the complaints. This has not been an easy rollout at all. Slow data speeds is one thing, dropping a 30 minute call 6 times while driving extreamly frustrating. That said I'm sure a few people on this board would love to swap places with us. I have often wondered, what was it about the way Motorola implemented the CDMA standard that caused so much trouble? Its not like the standard is new! I guess I am also assuming that it was Moto's problem and not Samsung. Sent from my EVO LTE
  22. tongboy
    I had 4g all the way down route 14 from Fox River Grove to Palatine. 20 meg download speed in FRG. Sent from my EVO LTE
  23. tongboy
    I keep reading on here about network.sprint.com not having anything to do with NV upgrades. I live in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and have a ton of towers on that site that say they are getting additional voice capacity which I assume is an additional voice carrier. Quite a few of these towers now have network vision complete on them and are using the SMR band and a good chunk of them correspond with the voice capacity improvements at network.sprint.com. Is there a chance that the two can be related in areas that nv is going on? Sent from my EVO LTE
  24. tongboy
    I ment the newer NV radios are active. Although anything is possible I doubt it is related to back haul improvements. It seems to be really widespread. I can tell you that once the back haul is upgraded the data speed is awesome. Sent from my EVO LTE
  25. tongboy
    No, just flying monkeys. Sent from my EVO LTE
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