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I'll be around San Jose and the Bay Area next weekend and will test it out then, thanks!

Should I be concerned if it says "need to fix"?

Mine says the same thing.

My phone works fine on ehrpd, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I think it could be a bug or simply it shows LTE disabled when you're not connected to LTE service. My GS3 shows LTE disabled and I was able to connect to LTE.

Prior to the LJ7 update it was enabled all the time even when not connected to LTE. I checked the setting on a coworker's phone who was on LI3 still....stock phone not rooted or anything. After he took the latest OTA, the setting had changed to disabled, as did mine.

I was sort of worried that it made a difference, so I had made a nandroid before I updated to Jelly Bean, in case I had issues connecting while I was in LA last weekend.

I should have changed the setting to enabled to see if it did anything or not, but I didn't think of it at the time.

I noticed that I have the same issue. Is there any way to change that parameter to LTE Enable? My PRL version is 25009

I'm not sure what the setting is for, but I was able to connect to lte with it set to disabled.

Prior to the Jelly Bean update, it was set to enabled.

I almost forgot, I'm using an older baseband since the I had read on XDA that the new one wasn't as good at picking up LTE on its own.

I'm not sure if that would make a difference or not.

on ssgs3, it doesnt show the bsid, sid,or nid in the cdma2k side while on stock but it does while on cm10

Weird, mine is showing both. My S3 is stock, rooted only.

Nope. You would need to issue the command.

 

If you can't figure out the steps that are even in a how to video then I say you shouldn't be doing this at all.

 

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He might be out of luck then, since he doesn't have an external SD card at the moment.

I don't have an external SD card in my GS3 yet. I copied the zip file onto the phone in the Download folder, but I don't see a way to get to it when I boot into the update mode screen.

 

Is an external SD card required to do it this way or can I place the zip file somewhere on the base filesystem and update from there?

Maybe it'll work if you drop it in the cache folder, since I think it gets downloaded there by default.

I've only had my phone for a week I didn't even realize I had that on my phone Lol. I have a question though is it normal for the boot animation to say Samsung 3 times?

Yep shows up 3 times for me. Once as soon as the power goes on, the animated one, and one after the Sprint animation. My phone just happened to restart when I was messing with the Google Music widget.

The download is the real update and you can just download it to your phone. I put the download in the root of my external sd card and ran it from there.

As long as your phone is stock, you can install it from within the stock recovery.

Interesting. Mine is set to off, and but in settings under mobile network it says CDMA/LTE/EVDO. If I change it to LTE on, it changes mobile network to global.

The site's been English for me, but the title/header says Cartes de couverture instead of coverage maps. I wasn't paying to close attention, but I want to say it started sometime last week.

It's working fine for me. Maybe they're having some sort of routing issues from certain ISPs?

I hadn't noticed that, although I just noticed that I no longer get LTE at my home - I used to get a pretty solid LTE signal there, but now I am only seeing 1xRTT and EvDO Rev A (not even eHRPD anymore)...wonder if they turned that tower off for some reason...

Interesting coincidence...I work/live in the north LA market and noticed ehrpd was off yesterday afternoon. It's back on this morning though.

I'm looking at Sensorly maps of LA area and there's hardly any LTE there given the launch. Compare your map with that of SF Bay Area, and you'd think SF has more LTE than LA.

Actually the LA market hasn't launched yet. If I remember right, I don't think they even soft launched yet.

From what I've been reading, there's also a scan time issue where the Evo isn't scanning for a signal often enough. I think it was on this forum where someone mentioned they sat in range of a tower and the phone took a good 20 minutes to connect to LTE on it's own.

Once some towers go live near in LA, I'll be testing it out with my phone and my wife's Galaxy Nexus.

Hopefully whatever Sprint store I go to, doesn't give me the same "your phone isn't LTE capable" line, when I bring the issue up.

They were missing from the display. The s3 and ip5 displays were on LTE as were mine.

 

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It's funny that it was missing, considering it's the one having issues.

welp i got kicked outta the store for calling the tech and manager morons but with a choice word before it lol.

 

these jokers tryed telling me the evo cant connect to lte because........................wait...........................wait......................its not an lte capable phone only the ip5, s3, and viper are lte phones in sprints line up. i had to laugh but then i guess i got a little too agressive with my wording when telling them they were morons and that even the name of the phone is the evo 4glte.

That's pretty sad.....I guess that LTE network option on the phone is just there for decoration.

Didn't they have a demo Evo in the store?

They have issued three OTA's. That hasn't done it, yet. Will the 4th? Who knows? I know I sure don't.

 

Robert

I'll probably be in a Sprint store once NV soft launches in LA and I can connect to a tower.

What's sad is I that I already looked at the tower maps to find a store that's in range of a tower. I figure it's hard for them to argue it's a network issue, if the Evo is the only phone in the store that can't connect.

Did each of the OTAs come with a new radio?

The last two did, if I remember right. I recall I just flashed the radios, etc. separately.

Robert,

Any inside info on whether they are still working on the issue? I assume the answer is yes, but then again you never know.

If not, there's going to be a lot of people wanting to swap out their phones....at least most of the people on S4gru, that is.

Thanks!

Has anybody got Sprint to swap out their Evo for an S3, based on the LTE connection issue?

As much as I like the phone, I'm not all that thrilled that it's sort of a defective phone....at least in regards to LTE connectivity.

I'd be more inclined to keep the phone if Sprint just came out and said they know there's an issue still and are working on a fix.....

Any news on when the NV/4G might start in Ventura County? (Just over the hill from NV in LA area thats outlined on one of the 4guru maps). I'm specifically looking for info on Simi Valley which the sprint website says "next 6 months" for many tower improvements. I would assume it would be part of the build out spreading outward from LA metro.

 

Now in the "old days" of WiMax, clearwire actually got permitted on most cell sites in Simi from City Council but they ran out of money within the next few months so I never got to see 4G.

I figured this would fit in LA metro since its a neighboring county and didn't warrant its own thread.

The information you see on the network.sprint.com site isn't related to the NV rollout.

As for the timeframe, I don't think we have any information on that yet. I'm sure once the schedules are finalized for the 3rd and 4th rounds, Robert will post them.

I think we'll see alot more complaints once more markets start and the coverage starts to fill in.

If I weren't for this site, I'd probably assume that its not my phone but just the current sparse coverage that was the issue.

Hopefully the issue is resolved before everyone's warranty is up.....regardless of whether it's with a software fix or hardware swap.

Rice Ave in Oxnard is ringing in at:

 

 

 

 

 

 

235ms - 0.16Mbps Down & 0.65Mbps Up

 

Unfortunately since Oxnard is in the north LA market, we don't know yet when it will be started.

For comparison though, here's a speed test from the other day in Ventura on the way to work. I did notice they enabled eHRPD as of a week or so ago. Sort of off topic though, until north LA is underway.