Ok guys,I was just wondering if all that have had problems or had to return their 3vo,what area do you live in?I live in Baton Rouge,La and have had none with my 3vo.
If you don't have problems with your phone then don't worry about where others live.
Location won't mean squat!
novanosis85 said:
If you don't have problems with your phone then don't worry about where others live.
Location won't mean squat!
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What's with all the hate around here?
Another smart Ass. I'm n New Orleans. My data running super slow
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Central CT. Low (but not unbearable) speed, horrible signal, lots of tower hopping everywhere except directly underneath some (but not all) towers.
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If you don't have problems with your phone then don't worry about where others live.
Location won't mean squat!
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All this guy does is troll and make smart remarks. Stop wasting your time picking on people on the internet and make yourself useful on here or just get out. OP seems lots of people have data issues.
Can s-off come out and play? You run but you can't hide
aray92 said:
All this guy does is troll and make smart remarks. Stop wasting your time picking on people on the internet and make yourself useful on here or just get out. OP seems lots of people have data issues.
Can s-off come out and play? You run but you can't hide
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I hear ya.I have had no physical problems with my phone,but I do have pretty slow data speeds here at times.up and down.I guess I should have been more specific.
South Central PA on my second phone due to my phone not ever sleeping, data speeds are garbage and so is my signal
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So signal is an EVO 3D problem?
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So signal is an EVO 3D problem?
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Yes,I would put it in the problem category.Man,I'm sorry you are so miserable!
No problems here. Same speeds as EVO. South east pa.
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I called sprint a minute ago and complained about bad signal and slow data in my house,and they are sending me a free airave and no monthly bill for it either!
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I called sprint a minute ago and complained about bad signal and slow data in my house,and they are sending me a free airave and no monthly bill for it either!
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Do you text? If so have fun with the failed messages, and your contacts getting the same message 10 times in a row.
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Do you text? If so have fun with the failed messages, and your contacts getting the same message 10 times in a row.
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Have you had this problem while using an Airave? I'm just curious because I have one that Sprint provided for free with no monthly charge because I am also in a bad reception area. I was ready to change providers before I got the Airave and since then I have been nothing but happy with the connectivity. I get 5 bars for my phone signal and excellent 3G although I don't need that due to my 20MB wifi.
I have never had a problem with failed texting, voice mail or multiple messages sent or received.
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I hate to hear that.I hope it will help rather than hurt.
I'm getting awful radio performance. Bad signal most places where before I'd have 2 or 3 bars. Not sure what's up. Hopefully its a software thing and not hardware.
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I'm getting awful radio performance. Bad signal most places where before I'd have 2 or 3 bars. Not sure what's up. Hopefully its a software thing and not hardware.
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Where do you live?
Dukester619 said:
Have you had this problem while using an Airave? I'm just curious because I have one that Sprint provided for free with no monthly charge because I am also in a bad reception area. I was ready to change providers before I got the Airave and since then I have been nothing but happy with the connectivity. I get 5 bars for my phone signal and excellent 3G although I don't need that due to my 20MB wifi.
I have never had a problem with failed texting, voice mail or multiple messages sent or received.
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Yes with the airvana. They have replaced it three times. My evo did the same thing as well. (They also tried replacing that) How often do you text? I think it has something to do with sending multiple messages. When i unplug it all my texts send and receive fine...
Calls are fine though.
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So what's the truth behind the signal. Is it as bad as the reviews?
Evo
0 problems with my signal .. i compared my 4g to 3d and they both had the same reception here @ work.
I think It's fine....and I get bad signal in my house.
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3 bars at home, 3g/4g seems a little funky.
I'm interested in the Evo 4G/3D comparison too as I have an Evo 4G now and am thinking about the 3D. I live in a fringe area with 0-1 bars though (but I can still hold a call). Need to know how the 3D compares for cell call and also 3G signal retention compared to the old Evo. So please keep the replies coming!
Mike
Zero issues, signal is actually better than my Epic here.
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I'm interested in the Evo 4G/3D comparison too as I have an Evo 4G now and am thinking about the 3D. I live in a fringe area with 0-1 bars though (but I can still hold a call). Need to know how the 3D compares for cell call and also 3G signal retention compared to the old Evo. So please keep the replies coming!
Mike
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I talked to a sprint rep yesterday and because my signal at my house is bad they are sending me what's called a airave. They say its like having a cell tower in your house . It's suppose to boost your signal . It's complety free for two years , and if you don't like it you can send it back , no contract .
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Live where I get no signal and its doing great at least as well as its older bro
parmend said:
I talked to a sprint rep yesterday and because my signal at my house is bad they are sending me what's called a airave. They say its like having a cell tower in your house . It's suppose to boost your signal . It's complety free for two years , and if you don't like it you can send it back , no contract .
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I think I may contact sprint about that.. my reception has always been poor here. Then again if you ain't Verizon your f*** around here
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signal for me seems the same as all phones I have had, two bars and in the right spot three. I would say call quality is fine as well, I dont know what the reviewers thought was going to happen, a 3D phone call? lol
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signal for me seems the same as all phones I have had, two bars and in the right spot three. I would say call quality is fine as well, I dont know what the reviewers thought was going to happen, a 3D phone call? lol
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yeah.. when i made my first call..everything i read about it came to mind and when i heard my gf spoke.. i was like wtf really? you call that bad? in my personal experience, I call that an improvement.
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yeah.. when i made my first call..everything i read about it came to mind and when i heard my gf spoke.. i was like wtf really? you call that bad? in my personal experience, I call that an improvement.
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agreed, a friend of mine has the iphone from verizon, not sure what it is but he sounds like **** over the phone! its hard to explain, i guess he sounds over-modulated. anyway i called him this morning to see if he had a drv receiver (work for directv), to my surprise his voice sounded so much better than on the 4G. i was stunned for a second, only thing i could say is "what", not because i didnt hear him. but because i was shocked
The call signal is the same side by side with my Evo4g but the wifi signal seems to be stronger. On the top floor of my home I get 4-5 bars and the evo only got about 2. No issues here so far.
I have close to perfect signal at my house and I literally just watched my 3G shut off and now my EVO 3D says i have no voice signal either...wtf...tried updating the profile but doesnt seem to help. If I continue to have problems I guess I will have to swap for a new one.
I'm in Sprint's home state, and although they don't list my town as having 4G coverage they are testing it here and sure enough 4G found a signal to connect with. 0 bars, but the web browser worked fine and so did my email client. 3G is a much stronger signal but didn't seem to be any better of a connection than I had when 4G was active and 3G was off. Phone signal wavers from 3 to 4 bars, and so far I haven't dropped a call.
I could be wrong, I don't know a ton about the data packet construction for cdma, but the way I understand it is... For cdma the number of bars is somewhat irrelevant when compared to the way a gsm network works. For cdma, its either connected or its not. For gsm, as signal strength drops calls get fuzzy and choppy, for cdma it will likely remain clear up until it is gone completely. So far the signal on my 3vo has been perfect. No complaints. If yours is dropping or having problems it may be a product defect.
Again, I may be wrong on my understanding if the technology, but for my experience it has held true.
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I talked to a sprint rep yesterday and because my signal at my house is bad they are sending me what's called a airave. They say its like having a cell tower in your house . It's suppose to boost your signal . It's complety free for two years , and if you don't like it you can send it back , no contract .
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your getting screwed. i have had it for 4 yrs. old model then new. never paid a penny for it. it is free service. even shows as 0 on my sprint.com account.
Mine's better than my 4G ...no doubt, mainly via faster ping time. 4g'd get hung up there. 3d quick there.
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For me the EVO 3d has been great "CLEARLY" better signal reception than my old EVO 4G, I think alot of those so-so negative were smoking wanky weed....I'm glad that I ignored them the EVO 3d rocks
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So what's the truth behind the signal. Is it as bad as the reviews?
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I'm having buyers remorse with this phone, I used to be able to talk on my EVO 4G in my house with no issues at all, but with this Evo 3D I can not hold a conversation in the house without dropping the call, even outside my house I'm having problems. I love the idea of dual cores and 3D but I also need to be able to use it at home, hopefully a radio update will fix this soon.
38kb a sec data.. i've seen it as low as 2kb/s
Service was full bars. One dropped as i was taking the screenshot..
Should have just kept T-MO. But the allure of 3D got me..
My parents use sprint, i use Verizon..
and Ive also noticed their speeds to be pathetically slow.
nice job sprint! lol
Funny thing is, the only time I EVER have issues with my 3G speeds are
1) At home when I can always use Wi-Fi
2) At school when I don't need 3G for much anyway
If the service in your area isn't enough for you, then you should switch to another carrier. I wish I could switch to Verizon, but they're more expensive and don't have unlimited data.
Here are my speeds, testing around in various places (school, my house, my girlfriend's house, etc.)
http://www.box.com/s/5eupf1yxfiu4a49ycueb
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Funny thing is, the only time I EVER have issues with my 3G speeds are
1) At home when I can always use Wi-Fi
2) At school when I don't need 3G for much anyway
If the service in your area isn't enough for you, then you should switch to another carrier. I wish I could switch to Verizon, but they're more expensive and don't have unlimited data.
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I would love to go to VZW.. but i'm stuck in the Sprint contract.
SH4YD33 said:
I would love to go to VZW.. but i'm stuck in the Sprint contract.
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Come Feb if u r getting a discount on a family line u'll be able too! Check this forum for the topic - sprint is nickel and Diming us and u'll see what I mean. I use to have ur speeds but I found the topic about getting ur msl and speeding up ur Internet and now I get around 1400 kps or so!
Flash the Verizon prl
Roam all the time
Profit ????????????
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You sure its not your phone ? I had the worst speed ever on my first EVO 3d did a few test and confirmed it was hardware took it to sprint they confirmed it. New one ran like a champ hauled ass.
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Flash the Verizon prl
Roam all the time
Profit ????????????
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Sprint has a 200meg roaming limit. They will contact u if your always on a VZW tower
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Sprint is that bad north of Detroit. Hopefully LTE gets goin soon
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also, to touch on my previous post..
Not only are the speeds of those i know with sprint phones pathetic..
But the coverage sucks!
4 people in my car...
2 with verizon phones, and 2 with sprint phones..
Drive 30 minutes away to some nice hiking trails...
Before we can even get there..
Both sprint phones have ZERO bars, and a phone call or text cannot be accomplished.
Yet, both verizon phones stay connected without an issue, and keep all bars. lol
Yeah,
"sprint rocks" my ass.
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Sprint has a 200meg roaming limit. They will contact u if your always on a VZW tower
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and then if i continue to do it they cancel me with no etf and i go to a better provider like verizon
SH4YD33 said:
38kb a sec data.. i've seen it as low as 2kb/s
Service was full bars. One dropped as i was taking the screenshot..
Should have just kept T-MO. But the allure of 3D got me..
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Have you done the sprint proxy mod which changes the rtsp and http stuff I tried that recently and it gave me worse speeds than what I had before. Check those.
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SH4YD33 said:
38kb a sec data.. i've seen it as low as 2kb/s
Service was full bars. One dropped as i was taking the screenshot..
Should have just kept T-MO. But the allure of 3D got me..
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I feel your pain Bro. I get weak data all over. Except the most random places I get great signal. But work is meager and home is ok, but I use wifi all the time.
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Sorry attempt at a joke.. But do you notice i have full bars and get the speeds in the screen? Its obviously not my fault. And honestly.. if putting my phone inside a vagina would give me better service, I would gladly find a candidate to do the speed-test.
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LMAO, you got thanked for that.
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You sure its not your phone ? I had the worst speed ever on my first EVO 3d did a few test and confirmed it was hardware took it to sprint they confirmed it. New one ran like a champ hauled ass.
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I'm in the East bay Area and its just like that out here Bro. I stay mostly because of M2M minutes and the fact that I have 6 lines on my family plan. I just wish data was better. At my office I am all excited if I hit 300kb, usually in the 100 range. At home I hit like 600-700, but use wifi so it;s a moot point. In the middle of my kids soccer field....1.7mb...seriously...WTF? lol
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Have you done the sprint proxy mod which changes the rtsp and http stuff I tried that recently and it gave me worse speeds than what I had before. Check those.
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I always do this and notice no true difference.
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Have you done the sprint proxy mod which changes the rtsp and http stuff I tried that recently and it gave me worse speeds than what I had before. Check those.
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So the RTSP and HTTP changing them to 0 and 0.0.0.0 gave you worse speeds?
Sprint blows, i have the same issues in michigan with full bars. They are over congested in my area and don't seem to be in any rush to expand thier 3g network(or introduce 4g). At my other house i get low to average speeds though, also with full bars. IMO, you should never see speeds lower than 800 kbps with 3g coverage. Unfortunately, at my house on the east side of Michigan, the data is frequently between 400-800 kbps, though that is still much higher than the speeds i get when im at my apartment on the west side of Michigan.
keep in mind that the competition is almost always pulling 1500-2500 kbps in areas like mine.
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38kb a sec data.. i've seen it as low as 2kb/s
Service was full bars. One dropped as i was taking the screenshot..
Should have just kept T-MO. But the allure of 3D got me..
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Welcome to Sprint.
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You're an idiot, and a troll.
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That's not even trolling.. He's just seeking attention.
Here's mine
Swyped from mah 3vo!
sprint is the only company where I can get the best service at my place. It all depends on locations you can have them but like a router for 4g 3g service in your house.
LOL at least you get "decent" speeds. On my old TP2 I was getting 600 kb now with the 3D I can't get past 32 kb on 3g. If it wasn't for Wimax near me I would be with big red.....sero plan helps. Seems like I got a fancy paper weight when I'm not in a WiMAX area...... Unlimited data so slow you can't use it.
Hi everyone, i called sprint today to call about some issues i was having receiving calls and texts while on the sprint network (not roaming) so i called and found i that the towers in my town are in the process of receiving the network vision upgrades so figured i would share the problems i was having so you might know if you are getting them to. that is if you guys get the same problems...
Issues:
1. not receiving calls
2. not receiving texts unless placing a call and only getting the texts while the call is in progress
3. The above being solved by forcing your phone to roam
4. internet might go 1x every once and a while in places where you previously had 3g
p.s. the lady says all this will be fixed once the upgrade is complete
so hope this helps a few people who are getting the upgrade and not knowing it haha
Had this issue and got an Airave. Problem solved, at least at home. It was brutal before that though.
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PhxkinMassacre said:
Hi everyone, i called sprint today to call about some issues i was having receiving calls and texts while on the sprint network (not roaming) so i called and found i that the towers in my town are in the process of receiving the network vision upgrades so figured i would share the problems i was having so you might know if you are getting them to. that is if you guys get the same problems...
Issues:
1. not receiving calls
2. not receiving texts unless placing a call and only getting the texts while the call is in progress
3. The above being solved by forcing your phone to roam
4. internet might go 1x every once and a while in places where you previously had 3g
p.s. the lady says all this will be fixed once the upgrade is complete
so hope this helps a few people who are getting the upgrade and not knowing it haha
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yeah chicago market.....been a brutal one for the NV upgrades from what has been said thus far....
Most are probably experiencing this around the country
I wonder why Chicago had been so much worse? It was flat out ridiculous for a while there.
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PsiPhiDan said:
I wonder why Chicago had been so much worse? It was flat out ridiculous for a while there.
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s4gru had an article on it awhile ago going over some of it...just seemed like a multitude of problems they encountered there they were not expecting beforehand...
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yeah chicago market.....been a brutal one for the NV upgrades from what has been said thus far....
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I can vouch for this, it's been terrible for me the past few months. Every other call drops, randomly dropped 3g, data speeds slow enough that I can even stream low quality music. Some parts of the area are great, some parts all you can do is throw the phone into airplane mode so your battery doesn't drain.
That totally explains my evo 3d. For a while when I had it I always had to place a call to get my texts...
as sgt.slaughter said on s4gru they had an article. the jist of it is is that motorola did all the towers in chicago the first time and now samsung is doing them with all different stuff and the messed up combo between sam and moto is messing with everyones phones. they said that it will be fixed eventually...
Yeah same problem here in Hammond, In...right across the border from Chicago's Hegewich neighborhood. Dropped calls, etc...lately though I get full bars and crystal clear calls at work when I used to get 1 bar. 4g eracticly but 3g is horrendous. Hopefully up and running soon
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I had all of that happen when they were doing that here in the Dallas area.
I posted on s4gru about Seattle's 1x debacle, kinda miss my 3d.
Funny, here we've been experiencing delayed texts/crappy data rates/horrible reception. However, the website doesn't indicate any towers are here are being upgraded. For like 3-4 weeks I could barely even stream something on TuneFM or even a short, low quality YouTube video.
I guess we'll see.
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Funny, here we've been experiencing delayed texts/crappy data rates/horrible reception. However, the website doesn't indicate any towers are here are being upgraded. For like 3-4 weeks I could barely even stream something on TuneFM or even a short, low quality YouTube video.
I guess we'll see.
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what site? and btw when i called sprint i had already been having issues since about july 24th, still have them, then she said the the towers would be done SEPTEMBER 7TH... i didn't realize it took so long to update the THREE towers in my entire town haha
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yeah chicago market.....been a brutal one for the NV upgrades from what has been said thus far....
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Also can vouch. Been like this around the loop/gold Coast on my LTE and 3D for a long time.. At Lollapalooza in Grant Park this past weekend I was roaming 85% of the time. Glad to see this post bc I was starting to get really angry that my dl speeds were slower than 56k and my gf on Verizon was getting as high as 14 Mbps down. She always gives me crap for it.
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Been having this in canton Ohio but I don't think it's lte upgrade probably prep or just was downed towers lol. They said they had a outage here but didn't say why.
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Yeah we got it bad in Frisco, they brought down one tower for upgrades, shortly after evdo went down on the next closest tower... the third closest tower is hardcore overloaded. Speedtest reports .02-.04 mb/s
I wish I had these problems. It would mean progress
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what site? and btw when i called sprint i had already been having issues since about july 24th, still have them, then she said the the towers would be done SEPTEMBER 7TH... i didn't realize it took so long to update the THREE towers in my entire town haha
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Maybe that's when LTE goes live in the Chicagoland area... The s4gu guy said September...? Intriguing.
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Maybe that's when LTE goes live in the Chicagoland area... The s4gu guy said September...? Intriguing.
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we could only hope so haha
edit: are you by any chance from plainfield illinois? if so im not really all that far from you. maybe 25 minutes give or take haha
I'm stunned at the constant complaints... I believe half of.. everyones issues are due to screwin around and f"n up their phones ,not reading stickies ,,rules , not.knowing...compatibility
The other half is probably defective devices NOT all of us have issues I've had none
The 122.651.3 has bettered the performance no WiFi 3g drop
Great battery from day 1 anyways !!
Root went well on this update providing you follow closely to the procedure.
This device is top notch
Has the s3 spanked
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My text messages aren't going through and I keep getting an error. I sure hope I am doing something wrong in sending text messages to anyone and everyone on my list.
Network issues.
Welcome to Sprint
I really haven't tinkered with much of anything on my phone and I find the most recent OTA to be MUCH MUCH buggier than the previous version. Before the update I never had Sense crash or any other programs crash. Now they happen once or twice a week (sometimes several in a day). Add that to the fact that I am not S-OFF and I have a loathing hatred for this most recent update.
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Network issues.
Welcome to Sprint
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I've been with sprint for as long as I can remember and this is the first instance where my text messages have stopped working for more than a few hours. It's the second day and I'll probably go to the sprint store and see what they say about it. It could be my phone. We'll see
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I've been with sprint for as long as I can remember and this is the first instance where my text messages have stopped working for more than a few hours. It's the second day and I'll probably go to the sprint store and see what they say about it. It could be my phone. We'll see
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Sprint is in the middle of a huge overhaul and theres a LOT of strain on it right now
If updating prl/profile doesnt work get your radio checked. If the radio is fine its sprints network
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Sprint is in the middle of a huge overhaul and theres a LOT of strain on it right now
If updating prl/profile doesnt work get your radio checked. If the radio is fine its sprints network
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Thanks for the tips. Is there any way I can check the radio myself with some sort of an app or should I just take it to sprint store?
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Network issues.
Welcome to Sprint
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Sorry, but I'm not convinced that my text, roaming and dropped call issues are solely due to the upgrade. You guys can keep screaming that all you want. And I'm not saying that there aren't instances where that's the case. My wife has a shift and isn't experiencing these issues. I've also read about other evo owners with two phones or other sprint phones in their household -- none of which are displaying the same problems.
Again, I'm not saying the network upgrade isn't causing any issues, but it's a bit aggravating to see people post that in every thread containing an issue that can even remotely be attributed to the upgrade like it's gospel.
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If you're complaining about SMS issues, missed calls, dropped calls, ect...
Go get your radio tested. It takes 30 minutes at a sprint store. You don't even have to unroot it. Hell, tell them its rooted so they don't mess with the software.
I may try bringing it in tomorrow.
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I called up sprint customer service and they were able to refresh it and after rebooting, my phone is able to send and receive text. Can't say it was the phone's fault, so so far this phone has served me well:fingers-crossed:
Yep, pretty odd that my network problems started the same day I bought this phone. Op, Your is working great. Good for you but please don't treat the rest of us as retards. This is my 6th android device. Only one of them wasn't on sprint network. That's only phones I didn't include tablets laying around the house. Nook colors and kfs for the kids and wife.
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For those not aware...the EVO LTe is set up out of the box to work on LTE and Enhanced CDMA (for lack of better term/knowledge) Also know as Network Vision, or the upgrades.
In cases where an older phone connects and the EVO LTE does, I have confirmed the EVO LTE is connecting to a network type called ehrpd. This network is not yet active in most cities. The older device confirmed to be connected to CDMA and receiving normal 3g.
This is the reasoning behind changing the network mode to cdma only, as many of us have seen that it forces the phone on to CDMA and not ehrpd.
I hhonestly have no idea what I am doing, but this is what I have found in my hours of testing side by side with older devices. From what I can tell every LTE device Sprint carries has this issue, but the other devices appear to lack the ability to switch.
There are also other issues that can contribute to texts and data.
This theory also works in reverse. If I am in an LTE area and on cdma only data and texts are wonky and I have to switch back.
Moral of the story...handoff could be seriously jacked up. I remember Verizon and ATT having similar issues during buildout. You would think someone had figured it out by now.
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Dudes Sprint is upgrading 38000 towers its common sense that your going to have some connection issues and aside from that people living in high populated areas if one of the towers goes down for the upgrade the other ones are going to have way more traffic hence your problems......... I'm pretty sure that's right? And also if you if you can make calls and not receive calls or text but still have data your on data only o. O
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chriswbush said:
Dudes Sprint is upgrading 38000 towers its common sense that your going to have some connection issues and aside from that people living in high populated areas if one of the towers goes down for the upgrade the other ones are going to have way more traffic hence your problems
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This
Yawn.
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A lot of the data/sms/call signal issues can be attributed to the current state of network upgrades, though it's obviously impossible to say 100%. In my experience, the network-related things have worked fine from day 1 (July 19th). That said, I have noticed actual system bugs. For example there was a time when I was using Talk (I hardly ever SMS anymore, Talk is way better IMO) and the text in the app became just a jumbled mess of pixels. Took a reboot to fix but it was still weird. And a friend of mine who got his Evo LTE a couple of weeks before me, his phone just started spontaneously overheating all of a sudden yesterday. We suspect a rogue app getting stuck in a loop, but still that's not a good sign; it should have been caught by the OS and at least thrown up a message to kill the offending application. Again, a reboot fixed it but I'm not really keen on that being an actual solution as opposed to a temporary workaround.
00mred00 said:
For those not aware...the EVO LTe is set up out of the box to work on LTE and Enhanced CDMA (for lack of better term/knowledge) Also know as Network Vision, or the upgrades.
In cases where an older phone connects and the EVO LTE does, I have confirmed the EVO LTE is connecting to a network type called ehrpd. This network is not yet active in most cities. The older device confirmed to be connected to CDMA and receiving normal 3g.
This is the reasoning behind changing the network mode to cdma only, as many of us have seen that it forces the phone on to CDMA and not ehrpd.
I hhonestly have no idea what I am doing, but this is what I have found in my hours of testing side by side with older devices. From what I can tell every LTE device Sprint carries has this issue, but the other devices appear to lack the ability to switch.
There are also other issues that can contribute to texts and data.
This theory also works in reverse. If I am in an LTE area and on cdma only data and texts are wonky and I have to switch back.
Moral of the story...handoff could be seriously jacked up. I remember Verizon and ATT having similar issues during buildout. You would think someone had figured it out by now.
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This makes the most sense of anything I've ever heard. If sprint would have said cdma2 or something, I wouldn't have had the opinion I did in yesterday's post.
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yamaford said:
This makes the most sense of anything I've ever heard. If sprint would have said cdma2 or something, I wouldn't have had the opinion I did in yesterday's post.
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If you want to run your own tests, I use network signal info, open signal maps and an app called "network" to find all of this.
I forward everything I find up the chain of command at Sprint but not sure where it goes or what comes out of it
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Has anyone else gotten PRL 25010 update. How is it performing or you?
chico1983 said:
Has anyone else gotten PRL 25010 update. How is it performing or you?
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my friend just did on his 4g lte evo today
just updated mine and now its 25010
will see ow it acts, past few days my 3g has been slower
than normal, hope its sprint getting ready to turn on 4g
here in knoxville,tn but i doubt it lol
yup i just got the new 25010 PRL also.. i kno there doing work on towers in my lil a$$ state LTE baby!!.. so i hope this makes signal a lil bit better.. that would be sweet
evo401 said:
yup i just got the new 25010 PRL also.. i kno there doing work on towers in my lil a$$ state LTE baby!!.. so i hope this makes signal a lil bit better.. that would be sweet
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I still have 56009
Prl has absolutely nothing to do with your 3g or 4g speeds.
njfoses said:
Prl has absolutely nothing to do with your 3g or 4g speeds.
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it does in a way
it tells the phone which towers to connect to first, so it could tell the phone to connect to a faster tower instead of a slower one
right?
flex360 said:
it does in a way
it tells the phone which towers to connect to first, so it could tell the phone to connect to a faster tower instead of a slower one
right?
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Hey how do i update if im s-off and we're can i find the file.
Just got it here in SLC about an hour ago
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Just checked and got it too
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flex360 said:
it does in a way
it tells the phone which towers to connect to first, so it could tell the phone to connect to a faster tower instead of a slower one
right?
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Prl only affects roaming. Nothing to do with sprint native coverage. For example certain prl's will allow you to connect to 3g roaming with verizon.
Just updated in ny
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flex360 said:
it does in a way
it tells the phone which towers to connect to first, so it could tell the phone to connect to a faster tower instead of a slower one
right?
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njfoses said:
Prl only affects roaming. Nothing to do with sprint native coverage. For example certain prl's will allow you to connect to 3g roaming with verizon.
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Yeah, that's why its called a Peferred Roaming List
Me too i just updated here in southern California.
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njfoses said:
Prl has absolutely nothing to do with your 3g or 4g speeds.
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Lol yes it does. Especially on Sprint and especially when you live where I live. If the verizon tower near where I live wasn't included in the roaming list that I have then I would probably not even connect to 1X.
So yes, it does matter.
jkt97401 said:
Lol yes it does. Especially on Sprint and especially when you live where I live. If the verizon tower near where I live wasn't included in the roaming list that I have then I would probably not even connect to 1X.
So yes, it does matter.
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Doesn't matter in regards to native coverage. Of course it matters for roaming.
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flex360 said:
it does in a way
it tells the phone which towers to connect to first, so it could tell the phone to connect to a faster tower instead of a slower one
right?
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No it doesn't tell your phone to connect to towers on an order. It's by cellular system.
The only thing you will get out of this is of you are in Baltimore it adds 800smr coverage there.
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Is anybody else noticing poor or poorer signal with the PRL 25010?
What ever the previous PRL was it seemed to work well. Sometime this week my service updated with 25010 and i started to notice lower signal in areas that i have always had full signal.
Then on 3 occasions now i have had text messages come all at once..
Example, this morning 11 messages came in all at once. This is bad because where i live is always full bars / great service. For the past few days its been 1 to 3 bars..
Another example. At my office, i get 4G LTE half bars, its been hovering at 1 bar. Then i got an email from someone trying to call me and it goes straight to voice mail. So i called my self using a differnt phone and sure enough.. multiple times it went to voice mail. Power cycling the phone fixed the issue of calls not going thru but i still have what seems to be poorer recieve signal strength.
I did check the back cover and verify its on tight.
Also my data speeds seem slower, on 3G and LTE.. but i would expect this with lower signal anyway, so the two should go hand in hand..
evoforevo said:
Hey how do i update if im s-off and we're can i find the file.
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Settings - System Updates - Update PRL (this won't affect your root or S-OFF)
IAmSixNine said:
Is anybody else noticing poor or poorer signal with the PRL 25010?
What ever the previous PRL was it seemed to work well. Sometime this week my service updated with 25010 and i started to notice lower signal in areas that i have always had full signal.
Then on 3 occasions now i have had text messages come all at once..
Example, this morning 11 messages came in all at once. This is bad because where i live is always full bars / great service. For the past few days its been 1 to 3 bars..
Another example. At my office, i get 4G LTE half bars, its been hovering at 1 bar. Then i got an email from someone trying to call me and it goes straight to voice mail. So i called my self using a differnt phone and sure enough.. multiple times it went to voice mail. Power cycling the phone fixed the issue of calls not going thru but i still have what seems to be poorer recieve signal strength.
I did check the back cover and verify its on tight.
Also my data speeds seem slower, on 3G and LTE.. but i would expect this with lower signal anyway, so the two should go hand in hand..
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Everything you describe would not be caused by a PRL update. These would be tower issues.
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