Hey to all in San Diego,
I noticed 4g coverage strong in north county, National City, Marimar base...and around SDSU...what's your result?
Now and then I get 4g around downtown. Sprint guys tell me by end of summer we will be covered and the problem seems to be the military bases here in town they must make sure it does not interfere with communications. End of summer my butt, yea right...it's still not here totally but we are slowly getting more coverage.
P.S...Chargers...Stink...
First of all...Chargers rule!!
Yeah, the only place I've been able to get a consistent 4G connection is the SDSU area. I've gotten connections Downtown now and then, but they're pretty flaky. I've gotten the same response about making sure it doesn't interfere with the military equipment, but that was months ago.
I live just outside the SDSU 4G area, so hopefully they switch on some more towers soon.
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Seems central coast, central inland are without 4g. The most congested but least covered.
Why is a dollar bill better than the chargers?
Because a dollar will give you 4 solid quarters....
I do like the chargers.
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I was driving by my very rural tower this morning and their were two trucks, one had a trailer filled with new panels, grayish in color. It's a very fast road but I did see it and it is usually a tower that is quite progressive (one of the first to get WiMAX in the country), I don't know why that is, maybe because it is a vacation spot. That tower is on the map for Lte slated in may. It's the tower on 2722 south of the big lake near new braunfels Texas. I am going to pick up me evo lte today and will keep people posted.
I thought the switch to lte was software based but I could be wrong. I might be thinking about evdo rev b.
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t-Mobile has any 4G phones FREE on Fathers Day, I'm considering switching from Sprint to T-Mobile.
I'll probably get HTC one S.
Any insight that might enlighten me would be greatly appreciated since it would be a 2 YEAR COMMITMENT. tan tan TANNN!
I live in Long Island and Commute to NYC for work. I would use the phone the most on the LIRR any long dead spots from E. Rockaway to pen station?
Thanks in advance.
pvaldeben said:
t-Mobile has any 4G phones FREE on Fathers Day, I'm considering switching from Sprint to T-Mobile.
I'll probably get HTC one S.
Any insight that might enlighten me would be greatly appreciated since it would be a 2 YEAR COMMITMENT. tan tan TANNN!
I live in Long Island and Commute to NYC for work. I would use the phone the most on the LIRR any long dead spots from E. Rockaway to pen station?
Thanks in advance.
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Cannot tell about E. Rockaway, but next to NYC Penn station signal is great
Looks NYC and LI completely covered, but there lots on places in NJ without any:
http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx
I live in Northern NJ. Jersey City to be exact. I have an Amaze on T-Mobile, a One X on RedPocket (at&t MVNO) and my husband has my Rezound on Verizon. In my area, the Amaze and Rezound have the exact same amount of bars and signal (78dbm on average). Also, voice and sms work pretty much everywhere here (even in those pockets with crappy data). Note: YMMV as anything can (and in my experience will)affect signal. Things like the type of construction the building you're in has (chicken wire, used in a surprising amount of walls is terrible for signal and WiFi strength), trees, location and distance from said cellular tower and the guy next to you belching....
#justsayin
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NYC and long island have great coverage, long island has the 42mbps network and some parts of NYC have as well, so yeah you're pretty much covered, I'm yet to complain about coverage.
Basically my company is changing the way they do phones and we now have to get out own phone plan which they will reimburse us for. I'm currently on AT&T with the HOX and the only other phone I would consider is the EVO 4G LTE. Actually I would prefer to have the EVO to be honest but I'm mainly worried about data speeds. I'm in Atlanta and the LTE speeds on AT&T here are absolutely insane, average around 35-40Mbps down on speedtest, and they reach way outside of the actual city, which is a huge plus for me. I actually live about 50 miles north of the city and still get a strong LTE connection. I see that Atlanta is on the first wave of LTE roll-outs for Sprint but I'm worried about the 3G speeds I may have to be on a lot of the time. Can anyone in the metro Atlanta area comment on the 3G speeds around here? I don't know anyone on Sprint personally. The other plus for me switching to Sprint is the unlimited data. The AT&T company plan I'm on now has unlimited but that is going away and I'll have to start a completely new plan if I stay on AT&T.
Generally sprint 3g will be slower because we don't have hspa and most att does, sometimes sprint is faster but I haven't seen that since sprint list the Alltel towers
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Spyderekz said:
Generally sprint 3g will be slower because we don't have hspa and most att does, sometimes sprint is faster but I haven't seen that since sprint list the Alltel towers
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When I actually do switch from ATT LTE to HSPA/HSPA+ I still pull over 5Mbps down consistently, so I don't doubt that the 3G will be slower, just how much slower is the question. All the Sprint speed tests I see are always showing how bad it is but I don't know anyone in the Metro Atlanta area to give me actual results.
Sprint is horrible bad, make sure you get good info before jumping ship.
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I can only suggest going to a store and running speedtests. I remember my old evo 3D pulled good data in the city
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pside15 said:
Basically my company is changing the way they do phones and we now have to get out own phone plan which they will reimburse us for. I'm currently on AT&T with the HOX and the only other phone I would consider is the EVO 4G LTE. Actually I would prefer to have the EVO to be honest but I'm mainly worried about data speeds. I'm in Atlanta and the LTE speeds on AT&T here are absolutely insane, average around 35-40Mbps down on speedtest, and they reach way outside of the actual city, which is a huge plus for me. I actually live about 50 miles north of the city and still get a strong LTE connection. I see that Atlanta is on the first wave of LTE roll-outs for Sprint but I'm worried about the 3G speeds I may have to be on a lot of the time. Can anyone in the metro Atlanta area comment on the 3G speeds around here? I don't know anyone on Sprint personally. The other plus for me switching to Sprint is the unlimited data. The AT&T company plan I'm on now has unlimited but that is going away and I'll have to start a completely new plan if I stay on AT&T.
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I just left VZW with the Galaxy Nexus to sprint and this phone. I am so happy I did. Dispute the huge dev community there this is a far better phone then the gnex. The network in my area for sprint used to be a laughing stock but they have came so far in two years its amazing.
rockin my EVO 4G LTE
pside15 said:
Basically my company is changing the way they do phones and we now have to get out own phone plan which they will reimburse us for. I'm currently on AT&T with the HOX and the only other phone I would consider is the EVO 4G LTE. Actually I would prefer to have the EVO to be honest but I'm mainly worried about data speeds. I'm in Atlanta and the LTE speeds on AT&T here are absolutely insane, average around 35-40Mbps down on speedtest, and they reach way outside of the actual city, which is a huge plus for me. I actually live about 50 miles north of the city and still get a strong LTE connection. I see that Atlanta is on the first wave of LTE roll-outs for Sprint but I'm worried about the 3G speeds I may have to be on a lot of the time. Can anyone in the metro Atlanta area comment on the 3G speeds around here? I don't know anyone on Sprint personally. The other plus for me switching to Sprint is the unlimited data. The AT&T company plan I'm on now has unlimited but that is going away and I'll have to start a completely new plan if I stay on AT&T.
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Don't do it sprint sucks!!!!
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Don't do it sprint sucks!!!!
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Strange I have now been on all three of the big three and Sprint has A: the best plans for smartphone users and B: the best service in my area
rockin my EVO 4G LTE
Try it out - Get an EVO LTE and return it within 14 days
I am pretty sure that right now you can get at EVO LTE directly from Sprint with free activation. With the return policy, you could return it for a full refund for the phone within 14 days and only pay the prorated service charge.
So I suggest you try it out and get a new / temporary phone number from Sprint and then return it. That will give you a true real world experience of using the phone and its service.
I am in the Philly area and am hoping to see LTE by the end of the year. The service is OK in the area, but horrible in my house. To deal with that I use Roam Control to force roaming (which uses Verizon's towers) while at my house -works like a charm!
Good luck.
Sprint has the best plans but by far the worst/slowest network. It's a trade off..
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dlamprey said:
I am pretty sure that right now you can get at EVO LTE directly from Sprint with free activation. With the return policy, you could return it for a full refund for the phone within 14 days and only pay the prorated service charge.
So I suggest you try it out and get a new / temporary phone number from Sprint and then return it. That will give you a true real world experience of using the phone and its service.
I am in the Philly area and am hoping to see LTE by the end of the year. The service is OK in the area, but horrible in my house. To deal with that I use Roam Control to force roaming (which uses Verizon's towers) while at my house -works like a charm!
Good luck.
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I got it two days ago and free activation is only online. In store its 36.00
rockin my EVO 4G LTE
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Sprint has the best plans but by far the worst/slowest network. It's a trade off..
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I'm getting 1 mbps download on 3g Verizon was 200 kbps on 3g
rockin my EVO 4G LTE
I happened to be in the Atlanta airport the other day waiting for a connecting flight. My data speeds on the Evo 4G LTE were fast for 3G. I know it's the airport and may not include other areas, but it seemed great. The previous week I was in Orlando and had no data speeds at all. I called Sprint and their towers were being upgraded. I felt like a hand was cut off.
In Massachusetts where I live the data speeds are good.
Oh and as for that upgrade fee/activation fee of $36. I have bought all my phones at Best Buy and never paid the fee. Might want to go there.
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I'm getting 1 mbps download on 3g Verizon was 200 kbps on 3g
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That's cool, hopefully we'll all get that soon, but it's no secret and it's not a stretch.. Sprints network is bad. A lot of it is due to tower upgrades being done.. So hopefully it will only be bad for a short time
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I'm in ATL, and I would say my 3G is good most of the time. I live and work just outside I-285, and I've always had good service. Is it the fastest, no. Have I been able to do everything I needed to do, pretty much yes. Now I do work in a Corp high rise, and its surrounded by two other high rise buildings, so the signal does fade in/out at times. Also, there is no using Sprint cell phones in the elevator based on my 10+ year experience with Sprint. When I travel around the city, I get good service (data/voice) and GPS reception. I only run into problems when I'm in or around large buildings. As far as call signal/quality, no issues. I get a few dropped calls, but those are in the same dead spots. I do have roaming on... Those dropped calls are few and far between.
I just came back from a 4 day trip to Chicago. Sprint phones have always held up well for me on vacations out of town. I never rent a GPS, as the phone does everything I need. I used the EVO LTE for car, public transportation, & walking navigation (GOOGLE NAV/MAPS by the way). It performed exceptionally... Like I said b/f, the signal may fade if you're around large buildings, but that didn't hinder my travels. FYI - the battery held up well. I used the camera, video, and GPS non-stop. I will have to say the camera has grown on me. That thing is quite impressive. The burst mode is a beast. Very impressive now that I know how to use it. I used to have a color saturation problem, but that's long gone. Guess the camera got better over time & me actually learning how to use helped too. My portable charger (Tylt Powerplant) I purchased from Sprint held up will and did a great job of keeping me juiced. I was out all day using the phone on Auto brightness. Sun glare/reflection didn't bother the EVO at all.
OP - Hope all this information helps.
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FYI
I live on the east side of downtown Houston. When the LTE launch came and went, I had no LTE in my house. I thought for sure being this close to downtown I would have it on the launch date. The weekend after the launch I attended a Houston Dynamo game at BBVA stadium and was pleased to pick up a LTE signal. The stadium is about a mile from my house.
Last week I started receiving a strong LTE signal at my house. Usually somewhere around 15 down and 15 up for speeds, with max around 22 down and 18 up.
Anyways, if you are in Houston or another launch area and have yet to pick up consistent LTE, I wanted to pass this along. Maybe this gives you hope or helps you to channel your patience.
PS - Running Mikey's latest MeanRom
I wished I lived as close to town as you. I live a lot further out east and I can only get a 4G signal on I-10 going home and of course at the Sprint Store at Freeman and I-10.
I took my phone it to see if maybe there was a problem and it was working great! I'd love to see the speeds you are. Maybe this year hopefully.
Lets all hope they continue their LTE rollout in Houston. I experience horrible service in the Northwest side of houston
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Came across LTE at work in Greenspoint Thursday. Even got it inside work for a couple seconds.
Well for me I can pick up a signal quite often but literally for about 10 secs. Then its gone. I gave up on actually trying to download something and use the LTE, instead I try and open up speed test to see what kind of speed there are but the signal never holds to finish the test. I guess it can only get better from here.
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I guess there is hope for just receiving the signal. Ive been several place from constellation field in sugarland to 59 and Beechnut as well as near Reliant Park. I always receive a signal but the speeds are similar to wimax
So, I live in a rural area, and this isn't likely to change for the next year or two. We have a marginal DSL connection, which has problems that ATT is extremely apathetic about solving. So I've come to rely on my DNA on an unlimited plan to tether. We actually have an LTE tower here, which is great! However, as 4g phones have become more prevalent, naturally the quality of my service began to suffer. I believe I'm roughly 2 miles from the nearest tower.
In the beginning, I would get 20 down, 5 up. Way more than I was used to and plenty for streaming Twitch/Netflix and surfing the web. The connection was rock solid and of course great for gaming. Lately, I'm lucky to get 5 down, 2 up. From 8pm to midnight, There are periods that I'll get .5 down. Point 5. One half. 500kbps. 2 bars of 4g. 500kbps. Even right now, at 5pm, I'm buffering frequently on a 2Mbps twitch stream, doing nothing else with the connection.
So I guess I need to end with a question. Is this a tower issue, can it possibly be that congested? Is it the radio on my DNA somehow? I'm running the stock ROM (rooted, s-off, unlocked stock ROM from the forums here.) and latest radio. Is there a radio version that's reputed to perform better? I'm not much of a phone guy when I'm at home, so if there's some way I can arrange it to be more reliable, putting it on a high shelf or something weird or crazy, I'm open-minded. Is there a ROM that'll make it easier? I used to run Viper, but I didn't use all the features so felt like stock was reasonable.
Basically, any suggestions for improving my LTE performance are welcome.
It could be the tower is congested. I know if I go downtown Phoenix area during the day, I cannot get above 250kbps, but uptown areas like Glendale and Peoria, I never go below 10mbps. It is because downtown towers are congested.
If it is the tower like my experience above, no radio flash will help you.
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Thanks for the input. That's pretty much what I'd concluded about my location as well, even though we aren't a high population area. It's a one-intersection town in the midwest. I suppose the tower could be located differently from where I believe it is, but that one would be even less populated.
What is your 4G coverage like in an urban area as opposed to at home? I'm also s-off, rooted and on stock ROM and live in the country. I'm almost smack in the middle of two towers, one two miles to the east and one a mile and a half to the west. When I'm at home my speeds are 15 down and 2-3 up with one to two bars. When I'm in the city area my speeds are almost 35 down and 15-20 up with full bars. In populated areas Verizon lines to have many towers covering an area so the phone can triangulate between the towers to get the best speed and coverage. Those of us in the country usually have only one tower in town and towns are sitar apart so the phone can't triangulate a signal. Once the line tower becomes congested we have no other towers to fall back on and speeds are effected. Which sounds like the problem you describe.
that makes a lot of sense sabres. I don't get out much so I can't really gauge how things work out of a home situation, unfortunately.