striker777

Thanks @mc_gusto, worked great!

Update! Crews sighted (on and around) the 78 / Holmes MLGW Water & Cell Tower

No chimes on my end.  I see that you're a S4GRU Sponsor so you should have access to the current deployment status for our area.  You'll see that there are no SMR 800 towers in our area. At least none that Sprint has signed off on. A lot more towers are getting the 3G Network Vision upgrades though which I think is helping. It looks like Sprint is trying get spread the coverage first and then come back and fill in the gaps.

Olive Branch is still plagued by having CenturyLink as the Local Exchange Carrier. I have another theory though.  There is major road widening construction on Hwy 305. Utilities and everything are having to be moved.  This is more than likely the path that increased backhaul will be using to get to the "main" tower. Any previous plans to get that tower LTE probably got put on hold.

Nope. I rely on the Signal Check Pro app to alert me if my phone connects to LTE or 800Mhz.  I thought the signals seemed a little better after the Nextel equipment was shutdown but that's probably just my crazy imagination.

Funny Robert.

I'm still here, just really busy with work and life.  3G is and will continue to be horrible.  Sadly the closest tower to Shelby and Lamar has been in an LTE pending state for months and months and months. I haven't seen any work on the MLGW water tower. You're picking up the the LTE tower by the Adesa auto auction place and there is another real close to that by the distribution centers in Southaven off Stateline Rd. I got 20Mbps Up and Down from that tower in the middle of the night when I was very close to it.  Until more LTE towers light up the coverage is spotty at best and I haven't seen much of an improvement lately when I drive around.

I continue to be disappointed with the coverage and speed in the Wolfchase area that is covered very well and that's where the LTE deployments started.

Here's to patience!

BTW, that Fiber from Cspire will not be coming to our area anytime soon. Even if it did Comcast still has their packages blown out of the water when it comes to bandwidth.

No problem. Their LTE isn't here yet but their 3G speeds are very impressive. I did confirm that the large amounts of fiber being buried from Southaven to OB and to Memphis was Telepak (C-Spire). I linked to an article about it in post #52.  The pathways do go to the Desoto County Schools and the C-Spire towers.

Not really Brooksman.  The best I've seen is near the tower by the airport on Hacks Cross (15Mbps down 8Mbps) but the coverage is very small. IMO, Sprint needs to move to the much taller towers by the Hwy 78 weigh stations. The city's water tower is just too short and the massive amounts of trees kill the signal in all directions. Even with more bandwidth I think we are still going to be plagued by signal issues.  Things are much better in certain Memphis areas. I'm sticking around for this current contract period but ATT and Cspire are the best in the OB area. I base that on using friends phones in different areas around OB.

TIL: KIRF

Keepin' It Real Fake

Hahah, love it

http://www.engadget.com/tag/kirf/

Tell your wife thanks and thanks for posting. No way that's legit. 1300mAh on phone back but battery shows 3100mAh = dyslexia and the best Note III disguise ever created!

Whos box is on the left? The box is for a black phone.

There is no Samsung branding nor a physical home key. This doesn't fit with the current Samsung design trend. The Samsung Mega at 6.3" or 5.8" have physical home buttons. Doesn't look like TouchWiz either. Would love a pic of the back of the phone and screenshot of the about page. Probable Samsung knock off is my guess.

....Just the other day I saw this site that isn't listed as "In Progress" with cables and pulley's hanging off of it. I don't have pics so I can't post about it in the Report In Progress thread. This site wasn't far from the trenching either. (Getwell and Goodman)...

Visited this site again. The pull wire and pulley were gone but nothing had changed from what I could tell.

Anyone know who is laying the fiber? I hope this means i can get real high speed internet and dump my satellite internet. I miss comcast internet everyday. Without ot I cant start my new vpn project.

Telepak / C-Spire possibly

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2013/mar/14/desoto-schools-improving-internet-services/

Yeah, that seems to be the consensus on what's available right now. I've been keeping an eye on the upgrade prices that are out on it right now. Most are back up to $249...yikes!! I'm kinda hoping that the S4 will be released soon, in hopes that it drives the price on the Note II back down a bit.

Still $199 at rewardzonemobile.com for an upgrade (You can do store pick-up with this too)

$99 for new service, $249 for upgrade, $149 for add a line at Amazon.com

That just means the Sprint.com coverage maps will include Memphis now. We've had some form of LTE since about September of last year. That leaked doc does indicate that Sprint considers 6-8Mbps down and 2-3Mbps up as good averages for speed. That's good to know. I get sad when my speed test doesn't go above 6Mbps. Then I get happy when I remember it used to be 300Kbps!

Finally got some real LTE in Olive Branch last week after my ice hockey game. Best speeds I've seen in Desoto County so far. 27Mbps Down and 8.3Mbps Up at 9:19pm from the tower in OB off Hacks Cross. I was less than a mile from it.

There was major cable trenching from Southaven to Olive Branch along Goodman Rd the past few weeks. It looked to be fiber(orange) and black conduit.

Just the other day I saw this site that isn't listed as "In Progress" with cables and pulley's hanging off of it. I don't have pics so I can't post about it in the Report In Progress thread. This site wasn't far from the trenching either.

Getwell and Goodman

Let the Sensorly mapping continue!

You need the MSL to use a non stock rom?

Nope, but it's nice to have. I used the easy method that kg4icg references.

Doesn't take me but about 15 minutes or so with Titanium Backup. I also use AppBak too as I only restore data with Titanium Backup.

 

Sent from my little Note2

About to check out your ROM so I can get rid of this dang "Update Available" nag. Any particular reason you don't use Titanium Backup for Apps as well?

I'm not showing an OTA update yet.

Exynos Exploit Security Update

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/01/16/samsung-patches-exynos-exploit-on-galaxy-note-2-epic-4g-touch/

New article from today seems to indicate the International Note II has the update now but some users are reporting battery performance issues.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/01/17/samsung-galaxy-note-2-update-n7100xxdll7-causing-battery-life-problems/

I think I might just hold off on trying to update via Kies unless any early adopters around here report no issues for the Sprint variant.

Thanks JohnHovah. This worked but what does ##702146# do?

I'm generally loving my Note 2 thus far. I'm just wondering if anyone else is having issues with their Note randomly not shutting the screen off/going to sleep on it's own? That's become a mild annoyance rather quickly. I've disabled Google Now, shut off location services and GPS as well as some other things that could be the culprit and the issue still comes and goes.

Do you have Sensorly installed and passive scanning turned on? I've noticed that it will randomly start scanning and due to a bug in android Sensorly can't scan with the screen off. If you try to turn the screen off it will just come right back on.

After you use it a while please update us on how it works out. Its over 100 miles to the closest LTE here. Im hopping its at least average on LTE with no need to cycle airplane mode but its past the two week return window so its mine for 2 years either way.

I travel to Memphis a lot and there are only a few LTE towers right now. The Note II transitions back and forth from LTE to 3G without any issue. I haven't even looked for airplane mode. I love this phone.

In case there is anyone out there like me that was waiting for Best Buy to release the Sprint Note II for one reason or another I have news! I'm finding inventory for the White one only at stores and confirmed that my reservation will be available for pick up on the 11th.