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I wish I could get on the roof of the building below that smokestack to see if I could get any better pictures of the bottom of the antennas.  Maybe I'll venture out this week and see what climbing is available.

There's 4 RF ports and 4 cable connected to each of the 4 RF ports on the antenna. The two ports with the metal brackets in the back are the ACU's that control downtilt. Plus Lansing is way out of range of the Canadian IBEZ so you wouldn't get PCS only antennas either way.

Well then, it will be interesting to keep my hotspot with me looking for TD-LTE

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It's different because it's likely a TD-LTE setup. 

That would be very cool, but each antenna has the standard six cables on it for PCS and SMR.  I figured the BRS/EBS antennas only to have a single set of cables to the RRUs on them.

Holy crap, they got a ton of work done on Saturday.  For as long as it took them to run the cables on Friday (which is all that was done, I thought one antenna was up), I expected one sector to be completed.  This is the most interesting NV site I've ever seen.  It is a high capacity site in the middle of downtown Lansing with the standard three sectors, but each sector has two full size Samsung NV antennas.  When ever I've seen high capacity sites, they've been a full sized antenna and a much skinnier legacy looking antenna.  I'm hoping with all the Fiber that is available in downtown Lansing, it won't be long before this sucker is lit up like a Christmas tree

East Michigan got 45 3g sites accepted in the last two days. No more bitching about no work being done...

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Drove by after work, only one sector done today. Will get SLR pics this weekend

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Looks like the "lugnut" downtown Lansing is finally getting some love

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What is the old saying, Fast, Cheap, Good; you can only pick two.  One way to get things done fast is to skimp on safety and as seen, it can be deadly.

I get a TINY amount of LTE signal around the Mason area (where I live) but it's extremely spotty and doesn't travel much beyond the Kipp Road exit. Hopefully Sprint is going to ramp up the signal soon.. ;D does anyone have any info about the 4G status of the Mason/Dansville/Jackson area?

Become a member and check out the sites complete map, along with the maps of all the Sprint towers nationwide.  The schedules that are posted in the Premier sponsor section are terribly out of date because the data is no longer provided, but regular sponsors get almost daily site acceptance reports

I think all of my experience is with my Note 2.  I'm typically the driver in my family, so I don't get to play with my wife's Photon Q see how the hand-offs are there.  As always Robert, great info!

I've always read that eHRPD is the CDMA technology overlay to allow seamless hand-off to and from LTE so that a user doesn't experience and data drops.  When on a previous 4G device (WiMax) there was always a hard drop and the device had to acquire the EvDo signal then attempt to restart the network connection, it was not seamless at all.  When I read that the eHRPD should lead to a seamless hand-off, I would expect no data session drop, just a slowdown or speed up in the flow of the data, however, I've never experienced that.  Whenever I lose LTE and drop back to eHRPD (or come into an LTE area), it involves a data session drop, web pages don't load, streaming media stops, VPN connections are dropped, etc. until the device is fully connected.  I have experienced this both on Stock ROMs and AOSP/CM ROMs.

My question, is my understanding of the seamless hand-off technology incorrect or is something not functioning the way that it should be?

Geez, you guys just love pissing in my Wheaties don't you!

Just being honest and trying to set a realistic expectation based on the current available data.

Now that I think about it, back in about late June there was a crew there doing some work. They replaced the lights on top. The red light and white strobe are much brighter now. I can't see it being completely taken down with that work being done. Maybe another carrier will be on it now. Who knows.

 

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That was probably due to the FCC/FAA requirements to replace a burned out bulb running on low power or they replaced a bulb with LEDs to save costs.

I spend the last hour or so researching PCS boosters because I need one for my new house and the only current device is the Wilson Sleek 4G, which is a cradle type device.  It's designed for in car use, but could be in home for a MiFi or a phone with a headset.

I emailed Wilson tech support about anything upcoming for the PCS G Block.

Crazy LTE readings in downtown again today, was anywhere from -85 to -100 with Signal Check going crazy.  Something is going on somewhere...

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He says it takes all day to charge the panel, but only an hour to charge his phone fully.  He gets 2x charges for his Viper.  He has actively charged from the panel while the panel is charging.

My former co-worker had a small solar charging pad just a bit bigger than my Note 2.  I've emailed him for the specs/make/model info.  He seemed to like it, saved his butt camping once.

I've always been a big CM fan because I hate the bloat of TouchWiz.  Even Digi's ROM is still over 600MB and that is really stripped down.

I'm letting CM10.2 mature for a few weeks before jumping in.

Nobody sells infinite data. Sprint has a data cap on its current PCS G network of approximately 12,260GB (12TB) per Month. (37.5mbps*60*60*24*31=~12,260GB)   

But what about February and the months with only 30 days?!?!?! What about a leap year?!?!?!

Why you discriminate on the shorter months?

I know for a FACT this site started life as a Nextel site, and to my knowledge never changed...

 

I wish I had a SLR, or even access to one, but I do not.

THen I would say it is a now shut down nextel site waiting for de-install, but that is my best guess from the evidence here.  There is a map in the premier sponsor section with all historical nextel towers.  If you can bump your donation total up to that $100 mark, you'll get access to that, plus other great stuff in there.

Just look at the sponsor maps.

your a Sponser, The data is here. a bit of reading/searching can go along way for you to answer your own question.

Thanks, for no help.  The whole reason I became a sponsor was to find out what's going on with this tower, but I still haven't been able to find the information.

Looking at the original regional maps, this address/location is not listed as a known sprint site being upgraded.

The building looks like many of the Verizon or former Nextel sites in Michigan.  The picture of the antennas isn't the best, try to get a bit further away and then zoom in with an SLR.  Based on the 9 antennas, my guess is a Verizon CDMA/EvDo site.

Do you guys have an option to automatically accept root requests from a specific app? I understand the security concerns, but I'm wondering if the delay (however slight) in prompting for root permission is causing the next step in the process to fail. If you could try auto-granting for SignalCheck just for testing purposes, let me know. Hopefully by now you trust that the only root access SignalCheck attempts is to toggle airplane mode.

 

Thanks,

-Mike

That works now, it didn't pause to wait for root the first time

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I think there is a new tower somewhere in Lansing screaming out LTE.  I typically get -99 to -105 dBm for LTE and today am getting -91 to -95 dBm.  Need to snoop the next round of acceptance reports.

Mike,

Cm10.1 on galaxy note 2, tried to use the reset data connection button on the beta. Got prompted for root 3x in a row. Accepted all of them, but my phone was stick in airplane mode. Had to manually cycle airplane from android a few times to get the modems working again.

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I did my best to not go of the deep end when I read "social stigma" regarding a wireless carrier...

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