ericdabbs

Have you stood near a confirmed LTE tower and did speedtests? What were your signal levels when you did your speedtests? I mean you have to keep in mind that there are a ton of B25 LTE devices out there so does it really matter if you don't get 20-30 Mbps speeds? Being in the heart of LA, I wouldn't be surprised until more sites get upgraded to LTE.

It varies with me depending on how close I am to the tower. On my way to work I don't get encounter LTE until I get to work and inside my office I don't get LTE. Its only when I go eat lunch that I can do speedtests and what not. I am not too concerned about it since we have a triband LTE phone. Once we get the Sprint Spark firmware update, I am hoping stability of B41 and B26 as well as signal thresholds for all LTE bands are fixed in the phone.

But does the app work with a data connection? Sent from my LG G2 LS980 using Tapatalk

Thanks for helping me verify this. I guess that answers that question. Hmm I wonder why Sprint didn't flag the G2 as a FM radio capable phone. Ah well.

It tells you in the Play Store that it isn't compatible?

Calm down there Yoshi-san. It is coming and you'll be playing with it soon enough. I can imagine you being like the "Nintendo 64 kid" when you get your Nexus 5.

Does the Nexus 5 have FM radio capability? Anyone try using the NextRadio app to test it out on the Nexus 5? On the Sprint smartphones site, it said that the LG G2 doesn't have FM radio capability but I verified that it indeed the FM radio function does work with the Nextradio app with my 3G/4G data connection disabled and wifi disabled. Just used my headphones and I was good. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextradioapp.nextradio&hl=en

I am just hoping you will be able to figure out some LG hidden gems and hopefully be able to retrieve the UL and DL frequencies like the HTC devices.

Too bad I am not in NYC or else I would like to test that same tower with the G2. That is rather strange. It must be some configuration issue. Can you try to go to another B41 tower and see if you are running into this same issue?

Signal trumps all. That is the only difference between now and before.

Your damn well correct there is a benefit of eCSFB. You should take a look at this Qualcomm brochure in the link below that talks about eCSFB and 1x. You'll realize why Sprint is moving to eCSFB and will be thankful that Sprint is upgrading its equipment now rather than later. Lets just say that VoLTE for Verizon and Sprint cannot exist unless you have eCSFB installed. Does growing pains suck? Hell yes but unfortunately it is part of the process of revamping your network and doing it correctly. Read this response http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5001-breaking-band-tri-band-lte-ecsfb-issues-thread/?p=240187 Qualcomm brochure for reference that shows the pros and cons of eCSFB. http://www.qualcomm.com/media/documents/files/qualcomm-technologies-circuit-switched-fallback-to-1x-voice-network-architecture-options-and-performance.pdf

Mike. A new B41 EARFCN 39991 was discovered today in GregSmoov's B41 testing in NYC. This EARFCN 39991 translates into 2530.1 MHz. This means so far EARFCN 39991 and 40978 has been discovered for B41 LTE deployment. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4989-lg-google-nexus-5-users-thread/?p=241767

Thanks for the screens. You have identified another frequency set that Clearwire is using to deploy B41 LTE. The UL and DL channels in your screenshots is 39991. The majority of the UL and DL channels in screenshots thus far (including my testing) is 40978. This new EARFCN of 39991 translates into 2530.1 MHz.

I was talking more about tweaking the signal limits for LTE on each LTE band. I am not sure without doing a teardown of both the G2 and N5 if they use different antenna components for each LTE band. If they do use different antenna components for each phone, then the N5 just have better antennas period. If they use the same antenna components then maybe something in the firmware can be tweaked to improve performance. Might not be as good as N5 still but can at least reduce the gap. It could also be that the PA and filters are better on the N5 or can produce more power than the G2. Who knows.

Wow such high ping. That makes no sense. I didn't get high ping when I tested B41 LTE. Did you a take a pic of the EARFCN in the LTE Engineering page?

What do you mean by not completely upgraded? Post your screenshots so we can see.

There is no workaround on the CSFB issue that you can do yourself. I disagree that the CSFB is not coming anytime soon. Sprint is working hard on trying to alleviate the eCSFB issue in all the affected markets as we speak so it could be any day now that your LTE will be fixed. About the iPhone, the reason why your wife has LTE is because the iPhone 5C is not a single radio LTE phone that relies on eCSFB unlike the G2. Its an apples to oranges comparison. Only triband LTE phones such as G2, N5, Galaxy Mega, HTC One Max, and GS4 mini are affected by the eCSFB issue.

That is good information to know. I wonder if a firmware update can tweak the antenna on the G2 to make some improvements.

Its not an issue with the LG G2 per say but rather all LTE phones. All LTE phones have a "LTE Scan Frequency" timer in seconds in which the phone is programmed to scan for LTE periodically. Now on the HTC One Max that I played with at the Sprint store, one of the LTE menus in ##DATA# had the "LTE Scan Frequency" timer option set to 300 by default. This tells me that the value of 300 is in seconds which means every 5 minutes it scans for LTE. It seems like on the HTC One Max, you should be able to edit the value to say 120 so it scans every 2 minutes. The reason for the timer is so that the phone doesn't constantly scan for LTE and drain battery especially if you are in a rural area which won't have LTE for many many miles. So the worse case scenario which you might have experienced is that you were driving in a 3G area and right before you hit a 4G area, your "LTE Scan Frequency" timer just ran through and found zero LTE and stays on 3G. Now your phone has to wait another 5 minutes before it can pick up LTE even though you just entered a strong 4G area. However you said that by toggling airplane mode it does the trick. The reason why toggling airplane mode does the trick is because once you exit out of airplane mode, it forces the phone to search for a 3G/4G signal and of course if you are in a strong 4G signal area, your phone will pick up 4G right away.

Seattle is in market that has the eCSFB issue. Don't tinker with B41 and just leave it on B25 only for now until you can establish that B25 LTE starts showing up in Seattle.

Is there anyone here that is developing any ROMs for the LS980?

Yes B25 is 1900 MHz LTE.

Are you sure you are in an area where there is LTE? Phoenix still has limited areas of LTE. The eCSFB issue does not affect the Phoenix market at all.

My G2 Network mode sticks to LTE/CDMA with no issue. Ah didn't know that stock Android always has to be all weird. Does the "LTE" option mean just LTE or does it mean LTE/CDMA? I find the N5 network mode options very confusing. I much prefer the G2 network mode options. I guess for the N5, its probably safer to leave it on Global mode to ensure LTE/CDMA service.

ah i see. I just thought he went for the Nexus 5.