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It works with the Nexus 5 if you manually override your device and account info. You will need root.

Open this file:

/data/data/com.sprint.zone/shared_preferences/com.sprint.zone_preferences.xml

Add the following lines with the correct values:

<string name="funnyPref1">%NAI%</string>
<string name="funnyPref2">%MEID-HEX%</string>
<string name="funnyPref3">%RESELLER-ID%</string>
<string name="funnyPref4">%MSID%</string>
<string name="funnyPref5">%PRL-VERSION%</string>
<string name="funnyPref6">%MDN%</string>
<string name="funnyPref7">%MAKE%</string>
<string name="funnyPref8">%MODEL%</string>

Mine looked similar to this when I was done (real info masked):

<string name="funnyPref1">myname00@sprintpcs.com</string>
<string name="funnyPref2">0123456789ABCD</string>
<string name="funnyPref3">Sprint</string>
<string name="funnyPref4">5045551212</string>
<string name="funnyPref5">55021</string>
<string name="funnyPref6">5045551212</string>
<string name="funnyPref7">LG</string>
<string name="funnyPref8">Nexus 5</string>

I found about these settings last year by reverse-engineering an older version of the app when it didn't work out-of-the-box on my Nexus S. They seem to exist for debugging purposes and will override the (not) detected values.

Sorry to revive an old topic... Do we know if this still works? I installed the .apk (and it updated) and modified the prefs file as specified, but I can't log into my account. Error received reads "Exception: java.lang.Exception - mdn is a required parameter". This is on the latest 6.0.1 Android build, but I had the same problem on earlier builds. I have double checked to make sure the values in the prefs are correct several times.

Also the "Fun & Games" isn't working and I can't update that via Play, "Your device is not compatible with this version". This is no big deal to me just curious if it works for anyone? I'm using a 2013 Nexus 5, and have never been able to get either of these Sprint apps fully working.

Interesting discussion going on here. I live just NE of Dixie and Oakland Park (very near Wilton) and have pretty consistent service in that area. I stay connected to B26 indoors and yes, it's not blazing fast but does generally work when I need it (most of the time I'm on wifi). B41 pretty much everywhere outdoors but there are exceptions. Notably, when I go north of Commercial I do lose B41 until closer to Cypress Creek although that's about as far north as I typically go. B41 in the area of Cypress Creek and Andrews is Clearwire.

The problem I'm noticing recently is while in my office building (near Cypress Creek and Andrews)  my signal quality on even B26 seems to have deteriorated over the past 3 months. I used to stay on B26 easily, quite often now I'm dropping to 3G. If I don't leave my phone sitting on my desk the battery will drain by the end of the day and I often need to charge it. B26 also seems much more congested, speed tests rarely over 1Mbs but these are typically at -110 to -115 dBm signal. Also reviewing my bill my 3G data usage has been increasing month over month since March (when it had been steadily decreasing month over month, my travel patterns and usage areas have not changed). A few calls have also dropped and that has been very rare in the past 12 months. I reported this to Sprint last week and the agent indicated this tower is the 13th busiest of all towers in the Miami market. I didn't open a ticket but think I will since it doesn't appear to be getting any better. Anybody else live/work around Cypress Creek and Andrews and notice this?

Interesting article about Sprint's 2.5 Ghz spectrum deployment:  http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/adventures-sprint-and-magical-25-ghz-spectrum/2015-06-17?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=feedly&utm_campaign=rss

I've not been around here in a while... Just read the article and a good deal of the comments. I have two very important observations:

1) Some people should not have the internet

2) Some people (ie Fabian Cortez) have WAAAAY too much time on their hands

This is in Plantation, roughly Pine Island and SW 6th. I have no idea how to tell what tower... LOL

B26 live in FTL in Corporate Park off of Cypress Creek. This was from an inside office of my building, normally bad 3G if you're lucky. Still not the fastest, but it's coming!

Recently upgraded to a Nexus 5... I'm curious what radios are fellow N5 users running in the Milwaukee area? I'm on the latest OTA build KTU84P and baseband .16 and it doesn't seem that great. I am picking up B26 here and there (I've only had it 2 days now so not a lot of opportunities to check when not at work/home), but B25 reception doesn't seem to be any better than my S3. After all the raving about this device, I was expecting to see better RF performance but realize it may be radio-related.

EDIT: Regular CDMA/1X/EVDO seems to be weaker than the S3?

Definitely some work going on near Hwy 100 & Edgerton the last couple days. For the last several months I've had decent LTE (on 1900) and great 1x800 signal at work (battery life was 100% improved over the non-NV network). Yesterday and today, my phone is practically burning a hole in my pocket and the battery drained completely yesterday because of crappy signal. Since most nearby towers have been 'green' for a while, I suspect it's related to B26 work, but who knows... I really can't wait until I can upgrade in July to a Tri-band device. 

I finally went back to a Touchwiz ROM on my GS3 so I could do a PRL/profile update and I've been picking up 1x800 around my place (Lower East side). There are not any close marked 800 towers near me so they must be testing/unofficial. In fact i have a hard time connecting to my Airave since my phone wants to stick on 800. (My apartment is a horrible dead spot, not just Sprint either). 

On a side note, we should consider ourselves VERY lucky to be in a Samsung market. I traveled to South Florida/FLL/MIA (for HolyShip!!!) and they have made almost no perceivable improvement in coverage since I was there the same time last year. They have been in deployment a lot longer than we have been! Much flipping back to 3G and 1x and absolutely no 1x800.

Only strange thing I noticed was that a couple days ago, I couldn't get a txt to go through after like 4 tries with reasonable signal strength. I've had no trouble making/receiving any calls. (SW corner of Milw Co., Lower East Side and in between)

Over the last 2 days, I've put down quite a bit of new purple on Sensorly, it doesn't show until you zoom all the way in though.

Hwy 100 south of Forest home all the way up to Lincoln-ish in West allis, some along Forest Home, and a bit of 43N just where you merge onto 894 and I maintained that along 43N up to about Holt, including right through the tunnel. 

Yesterday I could pick up LTE outside the office (110th & Edgerton), today I'm maintaining the signal inside the office. 

Also ran a few Speedtests which do appear on Sensorly.

If this rate of progress continues, we'll all be getting LTE for Christmas!

EDIT: I have yet to pick up 1x800 anywhere in WI, and I have traveled to quite a few areas that have it. I pick it up in IL right away. I know my PRL is rather old (I'm running CM10.1 on a GS3), could that be a factor?

Sweet. It's nice to see them working their way Westward towards the suburbs. All the LTE so far is in areas I don't frequent. I haven't seen any activity on the few towers near me in the Hwy100 & Layton area of Greenfield.

I would like to see some progress in this area as well because I work over there. Usually my battery is <50% by lunch, leaving the house with a full charge in the morning Even in areas where I've been that are only 3G complete (Lake Geneva area), my battery life is 10x better.

So has anyone gone by the 4G completed tower around Estabrook Park in Milwaukee? ML17XC177. It's been marked 4g complete for a couple weeks now and I don't see anything on sensorly near it. It's a little too far out of my way for me to run over there and check it out. Just wondering if it's actually broadcasting or not.

I believe I saw someone comment that they could not connect to it. 

I drove by earlier in the week on the parkway and couldn't get anything LTE wise.

I might have to take a ride up there later and check it out. I'm only about 3 miles south. 

Yeah I've done the parade quite a few times, the last one being in 2010 and I could not believe how big the crowds have gotten. If there ever was a test for a mobile network, 500,000+ people occupying a relatively small number of city blocks, I don't know what is? It will be interesting to see!

Report from Chicago: Overall NV is great. While I wasn't experiencing stellar speeds, pings were always <75ms and typically averaging 50-65ms which gives a much greater perception of speed. Right as the parade was ramping up I got a slight delay in outgoing voice calls but all went through and never dropped. I continued to send/receive txts throughout the parade. I was able to upload pictures to Facebook instantaneously, and got a 10+Mbps speedtest right along the parade route. Crowd estimates were close to 1 million, so I'm very impressed with how well things performed, especially in those circumstances. 

On a side note, does anyone know of a good / reasonably priced to get a GS3 screen replaced?  Mine met the sidewalk...

The parade is almost always a complete disaster; I don't think I've ever been able to actually make a call or use data during it. I'll be curious as to your experience with NV.

Yeah I've done the parade quite a few times, the last one being in 2010 and I could not believe how big the crowds have gotten. If there ever was a test for a mobile network, 500,000+ people occupying a relatively small number of city blocks, I don't know what is? It will be interesting to see!

I'm spending the next 3 nights in Chicago, excited to see the awesomeness that is (near) fully deployed NV+800! There will be huge crowds so it will be interesting to see how the post NV network handles the traffic. 

They are all around Lake Geneva area. I'm having problems updating the map. Google Drive is having problems.

 

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I was in Lake Geneva last weekend, and had terrible service. Now I know why!

So I went to summerfest tonight, saw diplo, danced like crazy, kept my eye on my phone way too much. Never saw a blip of LTE. Earlier in the week it was all around the summerfest grounds. Today it was nonexistent. Ymmv.

A ) Jealous! I work too damn early and somehow missed that Diplo was on the schedule! Oh well...

B ) I did walk down for the fireworks, pretty much a 'purple' area for my entire walk, and a 'very purple' area where I stopped to observe the fireworks and I could not get 4G to save my life. I must have toggled about 50 times. I was having a hard time even connecting to 3G, most of the time I was reverting to 1X. I guess it's just a sign of how very immature the LTE network is in our area. I seem to have pretty terrible service anywhere I go lately, which I guess could be a sign that work is going on all around us and towers will start popping left and right (Let's hope  )

Ah! That was you! I got down there around 6 or 6:30 and saw there was a bunch more purple than this morning. I mapped a bunch too, the little streets in and around the business park, also some apartment complex's street  BUT I also went above and beyond and parked at the milwaukee sports complex and walked a mile and a half on the Oak Leaf trail and mapped LTE too. I figured I'd exercise and map LTE at the same time! 

 

I will be anxiously awaiting the next LTE tower that pops up!!

I noticed the purple on the trail when I got home and thought, I should have done that! I pulled up to the sports complex but just came right back out.

Initially I had only intended to map the west-east corridor along Ryan but I quickly became a nerd and burned over an hour and a gallon or so of gas before I decided, I need to go home, it's past my happy hour!

Well I mapped out quite a bit of Franklin after work. Got a quite a bit considering I have not actively done that before and I'm not too familiar with that area. You have to zoom in almost to the closest level to see all of the trails. Signal goes west of 76th all the way east to 27th, as far north as Rawson and south (probably a bit farther even) to 8 Mile Rd.

What is extremely encouraging to me is that the LTE footprint seems to extend quite a bit farther than the 1X/voice footprint in this area. Many times I had ZERO and/or roaming voice signal but was still mapping LTE. If that improvement comes just from the new equipment, I can't imagine how good we'll have it with 800!

I would also add an observation I had. In this one experience, LTE appeared to last/propagate a bit longer than the voice signal. I thought my mapping would have ended just east of 76th because my indicator had gone to 'R' (I do not have Signal Check installed). But I must have stayed on LTE for data but switched to roaming for voice and held that signal a bit west of 76th.

I ran one speedtest while on Puetz, which was ~11Mbps down / ~1.5Mbps up with 49ms ping.

Any confirmed reports of 800SMR in our market? My battery is begging for it! LOL I get such terrible signal at work I need to charge for the whole afternoon. 

Got a little bit of Franklin mapped on my lunch break. Heading S on 51st I picked up LTE Just north of Drexel. I continued south on 51st to Puetz and headed west. Was picking up LTE to just about 76th. I will take the long way home, then planning on some walking-mapping on the lower east side this evening. 

I don't know about anyone else, but 3G seems to have gotten real crappy in the last month or so. This after incrementally improving over the last ~6 months. I live on the lower east side and it's not too bad right by me, but anywhere else it's pretty rough. I keep hoping this is a sign of work being done and that a tower or two will change over, that just doesn't seem to be happening 

On a side note, I had to travel to Madison for work yesterday and picked up my 1st LTE signals in the state of WI driving by Lake Mills, very nice! 

We just had new fiber circuit pulled into my office and it took AT&T no less than 5 months to finish from the date the contract was signed. The actual work only took about a month, but that it was a several mile pull. Probably lots of that going on, and I'm sure this crappy spring hasn't helped either...

eHRPD all the way the up in the Dells

I live on the East side and I'm getting here. I work in Greenfield, and I had to drive out to Elkhorn yesterday and I was getting eHRPD the whole way!