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It's been a while.  There has either been a new tower, better antennas as I now have LTE service within my work building in the 16th St Heights Neighborhoods in the 20011.  Before it would drop to 1xRTT and voice was even horrible.  My phone would die of battery drainage because of the fringe signal. 

Crap, I hope it is not my phone.  

Anyone else having service problems today?  I was in WV today and had no service (in places I always received service).  I had service again around Frederick, but no voice calls.  On and off now in DC.

Yellow / Green from Columbia Heights to L'enfant, maybe even Navy Yard.

I noticed LTE service in most Metro stations now.

It looks like it still will not work after the 6th even with their protest and petition.

Anyone want to buy a lightly used Photon 4G?

Left a tweet, didn't get a response.  All the LTE in the cell is still down, all bands. 25, 26, and 41.

 I have a Nexus 5 so no Sprint Zone.  Called tech support today and it was useless.  Hopefully someone will figure it out.

What is up with the cell tower in Mt Pleasant 20010?  I have been on 3G for a few days now.

I can't wait to dive on I-68 though western MD and WV to see if I am on 3G roaming verses 1xRTT.  The last year or so it was so bad it could not even stream a podcast.  Although I think the problem is back-haul at the tower vs wireless bandwidth transition limits. 

I have yet to get LTE in an underground metro station.  Mostly 3G (EVDO) and 1xRTT in the actual tunnel which usually switches to roaming on Verizon

Crazy, I was out walking to the market and have been on B41, even while at home.  I am not a seedtest junkie but pulled down a nice 42.26Mbps.  I hope I stay locked on.   B25 is crowded and although speeds are usable, not as snappy as B41.

They could have turned off band 41 temporarily.  This is especially common when they are deploying 8T8R in Clearwire areas.  They typically turn off Clearwire band 41 during the 8T8R deployment and configuration stage.  If you were getting Sprint band 41, they could have turned it off temporarily for some other reason.  I have seen this case in Nokia markets before.

 

That explains it.  CM12 doesn't have hidden menus operational yet.  You can go back to stock or try out another ROM.

 

Gonna take this chance to shamelessly plug Paranoid Android.  I am part of the development team and always make sure Sprint hidden menus are 100% functional.

Yes, that is correct, I did have WiMax protection 4g which was nice, but that was 4 years ago.  I no longer live there.  Sorry I will update that now.  I am currently in DC,  20010 on the west side of 16th street.

I called about a month ago to Sprint about the lack of "spark" 4g B41 coverage which I once had.  They told me they would make a ticket and call me back in 2-3 business days.  No such call was ever made.  Sprint customer for 12 years.

They could have turned off band 41 temporarily.  This is especially common when they are deploying 8T8R in Clearwire areas.  They typically turn off Clearwire band 41 during the 8T8R deployment and configuration stage.  If you were getting Sprint band 41, they could have turned it off temporarily for some other reason.  I have seen this case in Nokia markets before.

 

That explains it.  CM12 doesn't have hidden menus operational yet.  You can go back to stock or try out another ROM.

 

Gonna take this chance to shamelessly plug Paranoid Android.  I am part of the development team and always make sure Sprint hidden menus are 100% functional.

This was and still is a B41 clear area with wimax, my photon 4g rocked with it.  I had a Galaxy Nexus (N3) last year and B25 did not have LTE.  When I got a Nexus 5 (N5) I was locked on B41 LTE, but as I mentioned, I am now only on B25.  Sometimes during the night I will switch to B41 for a while according to LTE logs on LTE discovery.  

A person on here once said they are working on the tower in my neighborhood (premium member) but it has been six weeks and B41 is till missing.

Thanks for the advice, going to try out Paranoid.

See I am on CM12, going to go back to CM11 but it just takes so much time to set things back up...

Well Sprint really messed up my coverage because I am only B25 for the least six weeks or so and I used to be locked on B41 which was faster in terms of bandwith and pings and better energy efficiency. 

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It still works, *#*#3282#*#*, click LTE, click edit, enter MSL. Mine get reset every time I update my profile or reset the phone so I stopped bothering. It only effects the initial scan.

What rom are you using?

I have my phones MLS, I was doing this all the time under 4.4.4 kitkat.   I am pretty sure my phone is prioritizing B25 over B41 but I have no way of knowing because I can no longer access band priority since being on lollipop. 

Well I can't access them.  What rom are you using?

Can anyone access band priority settings in lollipop under advanced LTE settings?

Nice!  Back on B41.  How long will it last?

I lost LTE and 3G connectivity last week for about 2 hours (roughly 6PM to 8PM) and I was in several places over that period (Tysons, Springfield, and Ashburn). I figured they must be doing something market-wide.

Same here, but in NW DC on Thursday night.

That's funny, because there is B41 in the dc market

The funny thing is, all of last year, I had B41 spark at my house.  Now it is gone.  A paid member told me they are doing work on a tower.  I notice on my LTE logs that every once in a while, it connects during the early AM.

The tower ID is:  Sprint 311870 38.92665790 - 77.03618450 502 19842 04EB9C01 41

This sucks, always on B25 and it is starting to slow down because of the lack of B41.