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It is, and you'll get 1x800 first.

Interesting. LTE is solid, always has been. Hands off between sites fine too. Every one of my friends in this city with a Nexus 5 has the same exact issue when set to Global mode. (3 other people) Calls work fine when I go down to Bethlehem, PA, it flips over to 1xRTT or 800 perfectly off of LTE in Global mode. Receives fine too.

In Endwell, NY at home, I am in a 4G/3G accepted territory. With the N5 set to Global and parked on B25 LTE, I cannot place calls without it failing. Receiving calls also fails and locks up the phone. No issues connecting to LTE whatsoever from eHRPD. Incoming/outgoing calls are fine when the phone is forced to 3G mode. This is an eCSFB issue, correct? All towers have been 3G/4G accepted going on 3-5 months now. I'm wondering if I should submit a ticket, or just wait until these sites go 1x800 and perhaps eCSFB gets tweaked.

With HD Voice deployed nationwide around July, I don't think anyone is going to be wishing for anything more for a very long time. 1x800 is proving to be a beast of a band, and HD Voice quality is excellent. I guess I just don't see any need for VoLTE right now on Sprint, or even in the near future. Their lack of a timeframe makes sense.

128kbps is not 128 kB/s. KiloBITS per second versus KiloBYTES. (Capital "B") 128kbps = 16kB/s. So enough for e-mail, iMessage, and slow Facebook. It'll all be usable, but just suck. (Assuming kbps is the intended unit in these articles, not kB/s. It's usually hard to tell.) 20kbps would be about 2.5 Kilobytes per second, which would be nearly useless. Gotta watch your units guys!

Lo and behold, the $200 offer showed up on my girlfriend's My Sprint page today. We have had a 5 member Framily for almost two weeks now. I re-signed her up for it, even though we already submitted the $100 offer. Hopefully the $200 goes through.

Probably can't go wrong with a Forester, Pilot, or Highlander. Our 2010 HL is still perfect after 60K. Not a single thing has failed prematurely. The brake pads lasted 50K, all 4 rotors were fine. I expect them to last to 100K. Installed new pads from the dealership for $40 per axle and it brakes smooth and quietly, even at high speed. Really impressed with the factory rotor quality, no warping whatsoever and very light wear. It seems like this is going to be an extremely cheap vehicle to own. Especially because we got a base FWD with the 17" wheels, not 19" which causes the tire price to skyrocket. It does have chunky tires even on the FWD, and for the most part it is decent, but it has so much power that it spins the inside wheel every time I accelerate and try to turn at the same time. Even when driving slowly... The AWD on these Highlanders is much like Subaru's, from what I hear. Full time, no clutch packs to engage or wear down. More durable than a part-time AWD system that only kicks in once the front wheels slip. I believe Honda uses that type of system in the Pilot, but don't quote me on that. Oh, and the 3.5L 2GRFE V6 is absolutely amazing. Toyota uses it in everything, and I can see why. (Same goes for Honda's J35 V6, they're perfect engines)

Yes. 1900 and 800 are both compatible. The 800 has nothing over 1900 as far as HD voice is concerned, other than the possibility that HD Voice gets turned on at the same time 800 gets turned on. Same trip to the tower, most likely.

Yep, my phone says it every time, regardless of who I'm calling. (Landline, Sprint, Verizon..etc) My guess is that the site I'm connected to supports it, but it's just reliant on the recipient having EVRC-NW capabilities for it to be a true HD voice call.

Hope so! The 800 has been spotty for weeks, and eCSFB is definitely not functioning. So I really hope a full swath of 800 gets switched on this week with the necessary CSFB upgrades. My guess is they've just been testing in our markets, hence nothing showing up on the maps in recent 800 acceptance reports. The 800 probably isn't ready to go public. I missed 3 calls today because my phone wouldn't switch off of LTE to answer them - getting peeved but waiting patiently. :-)

My N5 is acting the same way down in Binghamton. No actual acceptances (For the entire upstate ny market!) but it's definitely connecting, in the same way you described off of LTE. I hope we see something on the maps soon.

HD voice was active for me tonight in Endicott, as was 1x800, despite there being no acceptances as of yet.

Wow, last night an update pushed for YouTube. One of the updates says "Improved video quality for Android 4.2 and above" They're not kidding! While HQ over 3G isn't perfect, it's vastly improved and less grainy in some cases. I'm much happier now. Funny this happened a day after making the thread.

Just tested over LTE using a speed meter app called "Internet Speed Meter Lite." It put a little gauge in the status bar so I can see how fast my network activity is at any given time, really neat. On LTE, I was consistently pulling 3-5Mbps streaming HD video. So luckily we aren't capped by default. On a loaded site, I completely understand throttling to 1Mbps and wouldn't complain. I'm glad I don't have to seek out a VPN to bypass it. At least in my area. I guess the 3G HD problem is primarily an app issue. And I guess that's gonna remain until further notice. :-)

Just did, sounded like a good idea actually. But no dice, there is only an "HQ" option available, which isn't high quality by any stretch of the imagination. Looks like LTE and WiFi get all the goodies.

Looks like the HD option is available when connected to LTE.

Ah nuts. Thanks for checking.

It must be. For Nexus 5 users on AT&T where "3G" is actually 4-6Mbps, it must be very frustrating, as the quality of the video doesn't seem to be determined by connection speed. Maybe this will be corrected in the next update, who knows. I remember on my jailbroken iPhone I could install "My3G" to trick apps into thinking they were on Wi-Fi. Does such a thing exist for Android? My Sprint 3G is pretty much capped out here at work and it sucks I can't fully utilize it. 2.7Mbps out of a GMO with old antennas is pretty nice!

Is there a way to trick the Nexus 5 YouTube app into thinking it is on WiFi? At first, I thought I was being capped to 1Mbps due to the framily restrictions, but I installed a data meter and I'm not even exceeding .5Mbps while streaming. The quality is crap, even when "HQ" is selected. (Which gives me no noticeable difference) I get nearly 3Mbps on my 3G connection at work, and I'd like to be able to use some of it! This wasn't an issue on my iPhone 5C, even on 3G. (Sprint only limits streaming to 1Mbps when the cell site is under heavy load, correct? Not 100% of the time?)

Was she on an iPhone? Mine usually had pretty awesome noise cancellation from what people told me.

What's the source? I couldn't find this on Apple.com. I believe that's correct now. No way of knowing based on the maps on this site.

Interesting. That will give me a reason to tell my girlfriend to upgrade to 7.1 then, and lose the jailbreak. It'd be cool if someone could confirm that HD voice didn't work on 7.0.6, but started working on 7.1 in an HD enabled area. Somehow she inherited my 5C when I got a Nexus. Not sure how that happened.

It just looked a little weird, an LTE acceptance in the middle of nowhere. Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton, etc. were all untouched at the time.

I think that site was the first LTE site to go live in Upstate NY. I found it extremely strange.

Done! The $200 offer didn't pop up for me, even when I was on a single-human framily. So I told my girlfriend to do the $100 card deal and it went through after she joined my framily.