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My phone is showing native coverage while connecting to a T-Mobile tower. I just did a software update on my Essential PH-1 this morning. Right after completing the update, it shows native full signal on T-Mobile AWS. 

Did you try going into the settings on your iPhone, turning wifi calling back on, tapping on "Update Emergency Address", and then on the page check "Remove wifi calling" and then tap done and turn off wifi calling? If you haven't tried that, I would suggest doing that first.

 

-Anthony

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I just did the above on a Samsung S7 Edge and it restored my HD Voice calling that I've been missing so much. Does anyone know if Sprint has any plans to fix this? It would be great if I could use HD Voice and WIFI calling. Both are useful features and in some places I need WIFI calling.

Seems the network throws you on B41 only when it thinks it can give you good service, and it seems to make that choice correctly most of the time. I've also seen a lot of B41 second carrier almost every time I'm touching B41. Otherwise you are on B26 or 3G. 

I received my Nexus 6 and Fi welcome kit on Tuesday. I've been testing it as my main phone (and using my Sprint number through Google voice on a secondary Google account) and some things are great, some not.

 

I haven't had signal check issues I don't think. But I've noticed that it likes to stay almost exclusively on t-mobile. Even with a strong band 25 presence, it stays on EDGE, OR W-CDMA. Have you noticed a GSM preference?

 

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Yes, I cancelled my Fi account today for that reason. It makes very poor decisions on which network to use, almost always attempting to hold onto a faint T-Mobile signal when a strong sprint signal is available.

Has anyone done any sprint tower mapping with Fi yet? I imagine it may be more challenging with T-mobile being available too. I suppose you could force the Sprint network.

I've tried. It's hard. Signalcheck pro doesn't update correctly. You have to manually open the map to see which band you're on. The notification icon doesn't update properly.

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I was able to place some voice calls yesterday while roaming on Verizon 1x. Worked fine on project fi.

Well,

 

 

Are there any remaining permits that Sprint is waiting for?  It feels like it have taken less time to put up a new tower nearby.  The tower density isn't great, and with this one down, I can't imagine how bad service at Dolores Park on a sunny weekend.

The site on Vallejo St and Battery St had it's permit withdrawn by Sprint:

Building Permit cancelled per applicant email (Maria Miller) on June 19, 2014.

The permit for the site on Castro and Duboce on top of the hospital there also hasn't been issued. It's been approved but Sprint hasn't paid the permit fees. $375

The permit for the Sprint site on the Castro Theater was one of the worst. Took 2 yrs 3 mos to get approved. 

The notes on the permit approval mention: 

Approved modification to an existing Sprint macro Wireless facility. Increase from 3 roof-mounted panel antennas to 6 roof-mounted panel antennas (relocated to reduce visibility).

Sounds like they might have managed to get 8t8r approved with the original permit from 2012. 

I know the backhaul was set back by the sidewalk construction. That took forever and was even mentioned in the permit notes too:

8-1-14 A separate permit from the Bureau of Street-Use & Mapping (BSM) is required for work involving alteration, reconstruction or repair of sidewalk, curb or gutter in the City right-of-way.

CSFB is working great now and Sprint has gone through an updated certain towers with triband antennas. You might want to consider upgrading to a sponsor to check out the site maps.

We should see 5.1 drop very soon...

 

http://phandroid.com/2015/02/26/exclusive-verizon-nexus-6-march-12-android-5-1-volte-support/

Looks like it adds VoLTE and VoWiFi if there is carrier support. Wonder if that includes sprint?

There might be something you can do with these guys: http://www.nixle.com/

I noticed my phone parked on B26 a lot of the time yesterday in SF. If it wasn't B26, I was on B41. Looks like they finally launched it! 

I took this speedtest at the Iron Cactus restaurant on 4th and Townsend with full signal last night.

Only LTE is on 700MHz and XLTE on AWS (1800/2100MHz). They use Cellular (800MHz) and PCS (1900MHz) for 1x and EV-DO.

That's the Cellular band. Verizon has either block A or block B in most of the country, and it supports their 1x and EV-DO network.

San Francsico / San Jose unlaunched too. 

No issues this way. What is the problem that happens?

You end up sending dozens of duplicate text messages

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There were talks about doing exactly this at Defcon a few years ago. They described all the details on how it can be done, why someone would do it, and offered recommendations to the GSM carriers on how to mitigate it. Essentially it's "stop using GSM and move to LTE ASAP"

16th and Bryant to Treasure Island.

I think with CSFB working and B41 available (probably?) during my commute. I think I'm almost ready to kill my T-Mobile service and switch back to Sprint

I wonder if the rest of the 3G only sites that are live in SF are just waiting for integration techs or if backhaul still isn't there.

I suspect many of our members "nut" frequently while reading S4GRU.  Oh, did I reveal too much?

 

 

AJ

Quick question since I see a good few DSLR users here...I've been using Tapatalk for years; there's no need for image management since Tapatalk has their own image servers.

 

Who to use for DSLR images? I hate temporary image servers or ones that mess up your links (dead links across a forum are an eye sore). Is Photobucket still good?

I like Imgur. I have been a long time photobucket user but imgur seems to have a really nice gallery feature which embeds nicely on these forums. I personally just got a MILC and a variety of lenses. I've been shooting tower sites with a 50mm-250mm zoom lens lately.

I've never heard of Swappa before this thread. The prices seem to be a little better than eBay average -- would you say that the transactions were fairly straightforward? eBay makes things so easy from the seller's perspective, so I'm just a little curious...

I'd say the selling process is about as easy as it is possible to make it on Swappa. It's very much designed as a marketplace for phones only, since the very first step is verifying your ESN is clear and ready to activate.

+1 for Swappa. I sold 2 phones on there. They were sold in about 2 days each and was pretty easy overall.

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