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    Google Nexus 5 by LG Users Thread!

    in Google

    Posted

    Okay never really disliked UPS until now. I can't have them hold the package without creating a MyChoice account (which I just did). And now it is going to take 2-5 business days to vet the account before I could request anything lol.

     

    Not going to help me much, but at least I am set for next time lol. I don't think I had this problem with FedEx before...

    Try calling customer service. It'll ask for a tracking number, but after you enter it you should be able to talk to someone who can change it to a hold/will call.

     

    I did this with a package a few weeks ago, since I didn't trust the mychoice site to get my request in on time.

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    Network Vision/LTE- North LA Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    Nah this was the tower I pick up when I'm at work near market and telephone by the dmv. For whatever reason I had no data but signal check said I did. As soon as I left and headed down telephone my phone picked up data from another tower, for whatever reason I just couldn't get it at my work. I'll see what happens tomorrow.

    I mapped that site today with Sensorly. It showed up on the map maybe 30 minutes after I mapped it. They fixed the CSFB issue, so I was able to use my G2.

    Network Vision/LTE- North LA Market

    in Markets

    Posted

     

    Can someone more knowledgeable than me help me to understand why my signal check shows lte but I have no data? Is it a tower problem or a problem with my phone?

     

    The site should be working properly, if you're connected to the one live site in Ventura. I'm connected at my desk currently.

     

    My phone will get hung up sometimes, but cycling airplane mode usually fixes it.

    Network Vision/LTE- North LA Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    thats good it seems like most towers in ventura have the 3g speed upgrade so that must be a good start right?

     

    Sent from my SPH-L720 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2

    Yes, one site was already LTE accepted. If no one maps it out over the weekend, I'll re-activate my S3 on Monday to map it.

    Breaking Band: Tri-band LTE / eCSFB issues thread

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    We are not officially launched yet in AZ, but I live near the tower on Germann and Dobson (in Chandler), and I was having issues until the last 2 days.  My Nexus 5 would usually connect to LTE for a second then drop back to eHRPD.  LTE stays connected now, and I received calls and the LTE drops and reconnects when the call ends.  Hopefully they upgraded what they needed to in AZ.

    The site that was just accepted by my work is functioning like this...at least so far. LTE connects for a second then it drops down to eHRPD. I tested yesterday with a single band device and had no problems connecting. I'll probably re-activate my GS3 on Monday, just so I can map it on Sensorly.

     

    It's interesting that CSFB is affecting this site, since I've been to all the rest in the area and had no issues connecting. 

    Network Vision/LTE- North LA Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    No luck with my G2, although I did see it connect for a few seconds earlier today.

     

    I think they need to enable CSFB on the site. I re-activated a Galaxy Nexus and it connected with no issues. It's the only site so far, that I haven't been able to connect to with the G2.

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    Breaking Band: Tri-band LTE / eCSFB issues thread

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    So here's another one to chalk up on the broken list. I don't believe there is a way to fix it either.

     

    Someone PM'd me about a LG G2 not working on voice outgoing or incoming. Yet older devices work fine. They are using an Airave and pickup a weak LTE signal at times. Even if they are using wifi the devices still scan for LTE. I see this myself when I am in my back bedroom now. I sometimes see a -118 or -120 LTE signal on my Note2. Now think how CFSB works. It uses the LTE signal to tunnel the 1x paging. That LTE site doesn't know to hand the call off to your airave. It tries to hand it off to the local site which fails due to signal issues. Effectively rendering voice useless on your device.

     

    Anyone else seeing this? If I pick up a N5 soon I might run into this issue myself. My local site won't get 1x800 due to ground mounted RRUs so it won't get fixed anytime soon. Wow... I would have to break out my repeater to halfway fix this issue.

    I noticed this on my wife's Nexus the other day. When dialing out, it didn't use the Airave. Her phone happened to be connected to LTE at the time. I didn't think about why until now, when you mentioned the CSFB issue.

     

    I tested my G2 right after that and it used the Airave, while connected to LTE. I'm thinking now that it might have dropped it before dialing, since my phone doesn't hang on to the signal as well inside the house.

    Google Nexus 5 by LG Users Thread!

    in Google

    Posted

    For what it's worth, I chose 2 day shipping at checkout, and my phone is shipping from Louisville, KY, with destination being Orange County, CA. Does anyone know if that's where they are all shipping from, or are there closer locations to CA that they can do UPS Ground from?

     

    Just speculating if maybe choosing 2-day shipping helped me get a Nexus 5 earlier since I can get a Nexus 5 from a warehouse on the other side of the country while people choosing regular shipping are stuck with relatively local warehouses.

     

    I obviously don't know jack about shipping, but just wondering if that could be the case.

    I think they're all shipping from Louisville....my wife's did and I chose ground delivery. It shipped on 11/11 and was delivered on 11/15.

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    Hard Drive Info

    in General Topics

    Posted

    The restore CD/DVD doesn't like the smaller drive size?

     

    I don't know if there's a workaround for that, but the Win 7 download should have worked. I've downloaded it before and then used the OEM key on the sticker to activate, when I didn't have media available.

    Hard Drive Info

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Boot disk is made and everything is backed up on an external drive. Chkdisk ran for 12 hours and it was self initiated. Probably had a brown out and computer restarted.

    Its about three years old. It is an HP p6714y

    My hard drives are listed as generic...go figure. Can I connect a sata three hd to a sata interface?

    Yep, not an issue. It'll just transfer data slower. Unless you have an SSD, it's not really an issue.

     

    Try device manager, then the ide/atapi controller section. Although it might list an IDE controller still, around 3 years ago you'd still most likely have an sata drive.

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    Hard Drive Info

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Try going to device manager...assuming you're running Windows. Under disk drives it should have some sort of model number listed...look up the model and you should be good to go.

     

    SATA should be backwards compatible...the only hang up might be large drives.

    Network Vision/LTE- North LA Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    Well its the first time this particular tower has been lit up, I haven't seen it anywhere else nearby yet, but maybe I'm not in the right areas. I spend days here and lunches usually out and about on main street from telephone down to the fairgrounds. I live at Johnson and telephone is wood bridge and even though I've seen some mapped on sensorly on Johnson I've never successfully picked it up. That being said the LTE I had picked up about 10:30 am is now gone and I'm back to 3G. I don't know for sure but I always thought this particular tower was on palma next door to UPS, but I don't know that for sure...

     

    The site by UPS isn't Sprint's. It's close to there though.

    Sprint Q3 report discussion (was Sprint loses subscribers in the third quarter")

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I hope they still plan to take 2.5 nationwide

    That's still the plan:

     

    Jonathan Chaplin - New Street Research

    Thanks. I am wondering if I could just follow up on Brett's question on the network strategy. So I think we are all looking forward to the point in time where Sprint has a really compelling network advantage over everybody else with a lot more capacity and faster speeds than AT&T and Verizon. And in order to get there, in my mind it seems like a very dense deployment of 2.5 gigahertz spectrum is what gets you there. It sounds like from your comments Steve, that what you are talking about is more of a hotspot deployment, with 2.5 only in dense markets. Is that what you meant to express? And if so, how do we -

    Steve Elfman

    No.

    Jonathan Chaplin - New Street Research

    Right. Go ahead.

    Steve Elfman - President of Network, Technology and Operations

    Sorry, Jonathan. No, then I expressed myself incorrectly. Today it was a hotspot market as when we just did it with Clearwire. But our approach will be to really densify and really, in the urban areas first, to be able to get the speed and the capacity in those areas. But now the goal is to build out 2.5 and use that 120 megahertz across the nation. So now if I left the impression with you that it's only a hotspot then that's incorrect.

     

     

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