PedroDaGr8

Not sure if it is helpful or not but when I entered Developer Options on my phone for something else, I noticed there is a setting called "Force Full GNSS measurements - Track all GNSS constellations and frequencies with no duty cycling". This lead me to this article: https://barbeau.medium.com/gnss-interrupted-the-hidden-android-setting-you-need-to-know-d812d28a3821 I wonder if this has something to do with the random gaps/pauses that many are experiencing. What I noticed is that when I triggered this setting, all of a sudden a few Chinese and Japanese GNSS satellites became visible.

Kingsgate still isn't live yet as of yesterday afternoon. There were some staff working on it at the ground level though. I did discover on Monday that the site at the intersection of NE 124th St. and Willows Rd (overlooking the Sammamish River valley) has been upgraded to b41/n41. Speeds were good at almost 700mbps DL. There were still some workers in dayglo green shirts working on the roof. As for Woodinville, I discovered two more T-Mobile upgrade permits: The first is to upgrade the Hollywood location (right by the round about). Permit ID: BLD21062Application Date: 04/29/2021Project Address: 14836 NE 145TH ST, WOODINVILLE, WA 98072Project Name: T-Mobile SE02670A Hollywood Substation PSEProject Description: T-Mobile proposes modifications to an existing telecommunication facility per plans. The second has actually been issued and upgrades a site off Woodinville-Duvall Rd. just up the hill from the Warehouse District tower Permit ID: BLD21033Application Date: 03/29/2021Project Address: 14836 NE 145TH ST, WOODINVILLE, WA 98072Project Name: T-Mobile @ SE02656A E. Woodinville/PSE/Halsey AnchorProject Description: The scope of work includes adding (3) antennas, replacing (3) antennas on the existing PSE Pole. Additionally, T-Mobile will be replacing 4) equipment cabinets with (2) new equipment cabinets in their existing fenced lease area. No increase in the overall number of cabinets is proposed. EDIT: Add one more for the conversion of the Woodinville Slough Sprint Site. Permit ID: BLD21064Application Date: 05/04/2021Project Address: 17030 WOODINVILLE REDMOND RD NEProject Name: 310599 National Glass SE02023AProject Description: T-MOBILE PROPOSES TO COLLOCATE ON AN EXISTING UNMANNED TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITY AS FOLLOWS: TOWER SCOPE OF WORK: ? REMOVE SPRINT ANTENNAS, RRU'S, FILTERS, MOUNT KIT, & CABLES ? INSTALL A PLATFORM MOUNT W/ HANDRAIL KIT ? INSTALL (3) FFVV-65C-R3-V1 & (3) AEHC PANEL ANTENNAS ? INSTALL (3) AHLOA & (3) AHFIG RRU'S ? INSTALL (2) HCS 2.0 PENDANT STYLE HYBRID CABLES GROUND SCOPE OF WORK: ? REMOVE SPRINT EQUIPMENT CABINETS, GPS ANTENNA, & UTILITY H-FRAME W/ TELCO BOX, METER, & PPC ? INSTALL A 6'-0"x10'-0" ICE CANOPY ? INSTALL (1) HPL3 BATTERY CABINET W/ (4) STRINGS OF BATTERIES & (1) HPL3 POWER CABINET W/ (2) AMIA, (2) ASIB, (3) ABIA, (3) ABIC, (2) ASIK, (4) ABIL, (1) FSMF, (1) CSR IXRe V1 ROUTER, (1) VOLTAGE BOOSTER W/ (2) AMPLIFIERS, & (1) EXTRA AMPLIFIER ? INSTALL (1) 25 kW DIESEL GENERATOR ? INSTALL (1) GPS ANTENNA, (2) HCS 2.0 JUNCTION BOXES, & (1) H-FRAME W/ TELCO BOX, TECH LIGHT W/ TIMER, PPC, DISCONNECT, & 200A METER

I have found a handful of permits here for conversion of Sprint sites. One tower I didn't even know was a keep site. So far, I haven't seen any which have been approved yet. B41/n41 upgrades on the other hand have been taking off like crazy. I know of four sites upgraded in the last month and a fifth had its permit approved. All of this is just in Kirkland which makes it even more impressive.

I've been trying it out since you released it and I'm noticing a notable improvement in logging/location with this beta; especially when the app is not in the foreground.

Ziply but I think you are on to something. I was thinking mmwave but C-band makes sense.

On kind of humorous note, Sprint/Tmo 5G testing apparently caused some major issues for the local ISP's national TV satellite feed. Per the VP of networking who posts on reddit: "We think it is sprint/tmo 5G testing interfering with our downlink in Everett. Working the issue with those folks. " "They have a bridge open internally and have folks coming with spectrum analyzers and antennas to identify the source (or at least that is what i got out of the latest internal ticket updates) "

Definitely not the final arrangement. Drunk is the best description for the current layout. Not only are ALL of the panels somewhere between slightly and heavily askew and/or overlapping but there are multiple wires just dangling (you can see them hanging below the platform). The strange thing is every sector looked almost exactly the same. Additionally, just behind the tower, the safety wire (or whatever it is called) was still hanging away from the tower and the boom lift was still parked there as well. They clearly have a lot of work left to do. I was hoping they would finish the install yesterday when I went back by there but it didn't look like any work had been done.

Whoops! I just looked it up quickly because I forgot which number it was.

A couple pictures of some painted Ericsson StreetMacro 6701 28GHz (n257) panels installed by Verizon in Kirkland, WA. I can get some better pictures if anyone wants them.

Here are the aforementioned antennas: I haven't seen this exact panel before and couldn't find it online. Not sure if it's in a housing or a new model but I couldn't find any images simar to this online. Identified them, they are Ericsson StreetMacro 6701 28GHz (n257) panels. Also, they are FINALLY installing b41/n41 in Kingsgate.

Yeah, the two corner sectors are just insane, they are almost totally overlapping. They could get essentially the exact same performance from this sector with half the equipment by mounting it right on the corner. I don't know if T-Mobile thinks the tower at 47.684288, -122.209940 covers the area or they are relying mostly on the Kirkland Urban tower to handle things. On that note, it is ridiculous that they did not install B41/n41 and mmWave equipment on the Kirkalnd Urban site and have no pending permits to do so. When those buildings are full, there are going to be THOUSANDS of employees (across Google, Tableu/Salesforce, etc.) in that small geographic area. As for Verizon, they just added mmWave (I think) antennas on the power pole at 47.678967, -122.205603 (5th St). These appear to face somewhat towards the park and the marina. I will try to get a picture this afternoon.

They replaced the original panels but installed the new ones in the same place as the old ones. The B41/n41 panels were placed to the side of them. This means on the southeast corner, the replaced panels are still essentially adjacent with the B41/n41 panels to the outside of those. The arrangement seen in this permit is accurate: http://permits.kirklandwa.gov/WebDocs/2020121135/d2c7bcf9-eab7-4c6c-bcf8-2e2a7ba04102.pdf I have always been confused on why that site did not have one sector directing up the hill into Norkirk and instead has all three sectors directing into downtown.

I take that back, n41 is live as of this morning, not too shabby.

The Livengood building install happened sometime recently. I drove by today and they were painting the new B41/n41 panels. Currently only broadcasting 2x B41 but I expect n41 will turn on in a couple weeks.

I'm on Samsung Note 20 Ultra, Android 11 (February 2021 Update), One UI 3.1

I did everything you said previously. With the most recent beta, anytime I open the software it tells me that location services are not available. This is despite it clearly have a good GPS fix with good accuracy visible right behind the message (I blacked out some of the GPS coordinates) and it having location access ALL of the time.

The 5g icon means the tower is capable of 5g, it does not mean you are on 5g. The only way to be certain about being on 5G is via your phones secret menus or via apps like SignalCheck B66 = LTE via Band 66 , n66 = 5G (aka NR) via Band 66. If you are on non-standalone 5g, then it uses an LTE carrier along with the 5G channels. LTE carriers can be B71, B2, and B66 (I am likely forgetting one). 5G channels can be n71, n41, and I believe they plan to start (or just started) n66.

Looks like they changed their mind. That or they are just covering all of their bases: Permit ID: BLD21040 Application Date: 04/08/2021 Project Address: 14125 NE 189TH ST B Project Name: 880310 Sprint/TMO Installation Project Description: T-Mobile to remove existing platform and equipment and extend tower 20', install new platform mount with (6) antennas, (6) radios, (1) MW, (2) lines, relocate (1) replace (1) cabinet in existing compound. Interesting that they intend to make that tower 20 feet taller. It seems that would make the cross-talk worse, unless they intend to not populate the direction pointing towards town.

Ok it happened again. From what I can set, it is only the accuracy portion which is frozen at +/- 11.7m everything else updates just fine. During logging I picked up almost no data points during my drive. Typically I should have 100-200 data points (at least)in a 20 min through a "new" area, I had 25. Sent the diagnostics.

I have another bug: Every now and then, when I click Menu>Exit the program doesn't fully close. The program window closes but the notification icon remains. I can't help but wonder if it isn't related to the other bug because it did occur at least twice on Saturday around the same time as the location bug. Maybe when that happens, the location service doesn't resume gracefully. I think this not closing bug occurred again this morning so I sent a diagnostic report using the long press technique you just mentioned after reopening the app. I say think because I have noticed many times it takes a few to tens of second to close the notification icon but in the bug cases we are talking 30+ minutes and it is still there.

Sure will, I wanted to but I was driving so I couldn't search for the Send Diagnostics menu. It happened three times yesterday. I took one short drive today and it didn't happen.

I forgot to mention, other apps like CellMapper, Google Maps, or GPSTest are not impacted.

I'm having issues with SignalCheck location service freezing. Sometimes the entire location service freezes, other times just the accuracy portion. Either way, when this happens the software stops logging information.

Found another keep site, this time a Sprint Mini-Macro site (SE52XC020) in Kenmore. First time I have seen a Sprint Keep and MM together.

Thanks for doing this. I think the simulations are pretty clear, the AT&T site is a much better site choice for this area.