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I drive a semi in Chicago every night. Sometimes carrying on long phone calls with my girlfriend. My calls never drop. Phone calls is the one thing I praise sprint for.
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20989 was not being replaced no matter what I did. I've had the phone 3 weeks and was doing ##update# every day. It wasn't until the iOS upgrade that it changed.
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The android folks do a great job at mapping sensorly, especially for sprint. Yeah, the database would probably be double, but it's fine how it is now. -
Just updated to iOS 7.0.3. Sprint carrier went from 15.1 to 15.5 and prl went from 20989 to 51098
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Just a quick question: In light of this band locking topic, does anyone know if sprint locked band 26 on the iPhones?
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Maybe I'm not educated enough in this category, but how would turning things off cause all this interference?
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Isn't that what a forum is for? Discussing problems related to the network? We're here stating our problems, hoping that just one or a few of the many knowledgable members we have will jump in with a good answer as to why we have such a terrible data issue in this city.
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But, widening the pcs band to 2x10mhz will greatly improve speeds and alleviate some congestion on that band. This is only if sprint chooses to add a 5mhz carrier to LTE.
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The iPhone 5c/s is sprint's first multi-band LTE phone, adding band 26. Some new androids will add 26 and 41 making them tri-band. I've been reading that the new lg g2 has bands 26/41 firmware locked out of the box. If that's true, then that's terrible.
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That's what I thought, too. But it's wrong. Check your "songs" under "usage" after playing some music. That number goes up, while your available space goes down. It's kind of stupid when there's a "cloud" icon specifically for downloading. Edit: settings - general - about shows the number of songs that increases with play. You can right-to-left swipe in settings - general - usage - music to clear the cache. It's more of a caching than a local download.
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iTunes Match comes out to about $2/month. The only problem with spotify is I have to make a playlist and search music. I like just having my 3,000 songs and hitting play.
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I had the same thought as you. Just started using iTunes Match a month ago. While my collection is stored in the cloud, every time you play a song, it downloads locally. I noticed this under "usage" when it said I had 150 songs on my phone. You could always just keep deleting them, but I think apple should have an option to only stream.
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I'll tell you right now, if T-Mobile functioned well deep in buildings, and outside if city limits, that's where the real deal is. Their speeds are incredible in Chicago. But I must say: after spending most of my evening in Christ hospital in oak lawn, the signal was incredible. There's a tower 3 blocks from the hospital and I has solid voice and 5mbps DEEP inside that emergency room. When the signal is strong, sprint performs well. Just has serious capacity issues in Chicago. Hopefully the spectrum purchase of USCC will alleviate that, as well as iPhone 5s and other multi-band devices unloading pcs lte. Overall, I'm semi-satisfied. No provider works everywhere. But yes, sub-3G speeds on LTE is a problem.
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Sprint TD-LTE 2500/2600mhz Discussion
Vince replied to IamMrFamous07's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
It can be because of the channel width. But like pcs LTE, can be deteriorated by site traffic, terrain, distance, etc. -
Sprint TD-LTE 2500/2600mhz Discussion
Vince replied to IamMrFamous07's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
That speedtest app can be goofy sometimes. I have also seen that -1ms ping on pcs LTE in Chicago. -
Although, there are probably tens of thousands of gs3's in Chicago. I still don't get how that could suddenly be the culprit. Also, if such a device was that kind of culprit, and the cell provider was hit with a multi-million dollar lawsuit, that device should be removed immediately, either by ein blacklist, or immediate return/exchange.
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They absolutely do. Every iPhone gets 5gb of cloud storage for pictures and your backup (every time you're plugged in and on wifi). I own the 64gb 5s and enrolled in iTunes Match for $25/year. It's incredible. It takes your whole music collection and puts it in the cloud. It even will turn crappy sounding versions that you have on your computer and converts them to 256k which sounds great. I have 1500 songs taking up zero local space on my phone. They just stream when you play them with the option of downloading them locally.
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At least you're getting the right phone for this city. You'll be able to get high speed LTE on the 2600 band in a lot of places you go. Also, once bc26 gets turned on, that should alleviate crowding on the pcs spectrum. Chicago is "done-ish" to say the least. We've been "launched" for 10 months now and they're still not 100% finished.
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Is my snr on this screen? I can't seem to find it on an iPhone.
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If I wasn't a data pig, I wouldn't be on sprint. And my other choice: T-Mobile, is kind of garbage. 2gb/mo users should be on AT&T/verizon, or one of their mvno prepaid options because their infrastructure is simply better.
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Network problems should last more than a few hours. They can do a lot of tinkering remotely. It's like sprint bulldozed it's way through all the towers, finished up, then just took off to the next town.
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But when it boils down to it, that device in everyone's pocket is still just a phone. Call clarity/coverage still does carry a weight when determining a carrier. And I'll agree, I make maybe 4 calls a day so data is kind of more important.
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This intrigues me. Do you have a source so that I can read in to it more? Is this a localized Chicago thing? Or other cities as well.
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I will give sprint one positive. Voice calls are crisp and clear and don't drop for me. It seems like no matter where I am, about 10 seconds in to a voice call, my signal goes full strength (I'm assuming that's when the phone switches to 800 voice). Texting really isn't an issue for me, either. The data is just flakey at times.
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It was tolerable in most places, and still is. The problems are mostly in or near city limits during peak times. And yes, that time frame seems about right.
