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Ok so I'm well aware Sprint is executing Network Vision, not sure if it's being done in my area yet. However, my complaint is regarding the signal on my HTC EVO LTE. I previously had an E4GT where I would get 2-3 bars in the same place my ELTE only gets 1 or none. Anyone experiencing bad signal with this phone? It's mainly where sprint signal is already bad but I would think the ELTE should get better signal than my E4GT did! For instance I can sit next to a window inside of a building (not all) but a couple and I will have ZERO signal! Thanks for any input on the matter!
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Ok so I'm well aware Sprint is executing Network Vision, not sure if it's being done in my area yet. However, my complaint is regarding the signal on my HTC EVO LTE. I previously had an E4GT where I would get 2-3 bars in the same place my ELTE only gets 1 or none. Anyone experiencing bad signal with this phone? It's mainly where sprint signal is already bad but I would think the ELTE should get better signal than my E4GT did! For instance I can sit next to a window inside of a building (not all) but a couple and I will have ZERO signal! Thanks for any input on the matter!
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Winter Haven, ey? Can't say I've had signal issues there with my EVO 3D, but I haven't yet been down there with my EVO 4G LTE. I know here in Orlando and Apopka, I usually have a constant 4-5 bars, except when I'm in my house in Apopka.
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Winter Haven, ey? Can't say I've had signal issues there with my EVO 3D, but I haven't yet been down there with my EVO 4G LTE. I know here in Orlando and Apopka, I usually have a constant 4-5 bars, except when I'm in my house in Apopka.
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Must be nice bro! The tower I connect to by my house hasn't worked since October 2011. Yep. Awful!
I am getting .01-.20Mbs download and have been for the past month maybe more all over my area. My tower has been the worst! It is so frustrating!
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niv3d said:
Must be nice bro! The tower I connect to by my house hasn't worked since October 2011. Yep. Awful!
I am getting .01-.20Mbs download and have been for the past month maybe more all over my area. My tower has been the worst! It is so frustrating!
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Have you called Sprint? Sometimes, they'll send a technician to your house to test your signal.
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Have you called Sprint? Sometimes, they'll send a technician to your house to test your signal.
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So many times I'm surprised they haven't terminated me becsuse they aren't able to "satisfy my carrier needs". Someone was kicked for that! I read about that awhile back though. I cannot explain how many times I've called, how many tickets I've had open, supervisors I've spoken to, including a couple engineers. Its nuts!
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So many times I'm surprised they haven't terminated me becsuse they aren't able to "satisfy my carrier needs". Someone was kicked for that! I read about that awhile back though. I cannot explain how many times I've called, how many tickets I've had open, supervisors I've spoken to, including a couple engineers. Its nuts!
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Damn, maybe move closer to Central Florida and be a boss?
Lol! I just want a decent signal! I used the 0001.prl the other day and WOW! How consistent and stable and fast speeds!
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My phone will disconnect 3g and just stay off till I reboot or go in and manually turn off the internet connection and turn it back on..
Sprint is trying to tell me that everybody is having the same problem and there should be an OTA sent out to fix the problem..
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I did and ran PRL and profile updates
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I did and ran PRL and profile updates
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I've done that so many times I've lost count....lol
Mine does it as well . Don't know if its the phone or sprint working on the towers . I called and they told me they were working on towers in my area. They said they shut one off and the other towers around there have to pick up for the one that's getting worked on. But its annoying
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Mine does it as well . Don't know if its the phone or sprint working on the towers . I called and they told me they were working on towers in my area. They said they shut one off and the other towers around there have to pick up for the one that's getting worked on. But its annoying
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I live and work in completly different parts of the city and it doesn't matter where I am. I can't get it to hook back up for more than 10 min sometimes..
I had my EVO replaced from best buy today because sprint said my 3g should be working.. new EVO still no 3g ..my 3d has data so it has to be a prl or network problem I'm in Florida
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Op and others having this issue. it's not the phone but the network. This is happening in areas where lte will be launched in the near future.
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nunyabiziz said:
Op and others having this issue. it's not the phone but the network. This is happening in areas where lte will be launched in the near future.
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I see! So they sold me a phone that won't operate on the old network?
Way to go sprint!
Yep, I have the same problems. The 3G connection is a joke. I was dealing Sprint yesterday to get my phone replaced and the guy asked how I liked it. I told him the 3G connection sucks and he said they were working on the towers.
I think it's bull****. I just love paying for ****ty service.
cubbieswin said:
Yep, I have the same problems. The 3G connection is a joke. I was dealing Sprint yesterday to get my phone replaced and the guy asked how I liked it. I told him the 3G connection sucks and he said they were working on the towers.
I think it's bull****. I just love paying for ****ty service.
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I've replaced my phone twice! I'm glad I'm not he only one that's having problems..
Another problem I'm having..
Weather widget won't update(everything in enabled) and I'm getting roaming notices every 20 min.
How do we know when LTE is live on the phone? Does the icon show?
Yeah having the same issues as you guys. 3G will just suddendly drop & I'll start roaming for no reason. I'm not doubting that Sprint is working on the towers but it is also something going on with this phone because my wife's E4GT is having none of these issues.
LTE shouldn't have anything to do with our 3g connection should it?
If they are goofing with towers than maybe. I'm just curious how do we know when Lte is live on our phones.
Ever since I tried unlocking the bootloader and installing a recovery my phone will not connect to 3G. It will either have no data connection at all or 1X. I have done so many update profiles and update PRL's and nothing seems to help.
The only way I can get 3G to come back now is if I set the network mode to "CDMA Only" then 3G comes back, but when I first got the phone I had it in "CDMA/LTE" and 3G was fine. I don't know what to do now.
Having the exact same 3G issues as the rest of you. Sprint had me reset the phone provisioning with the MSL code, do a PRL update, and Firmware update and nothing worked. My 3G down speeds avg. 0.24 Mbps and cuts out every now and then. The Rep said she would call me back today to see if the changes helped. The bad thing is we are all patient about not having LTE yet but it is ridiculous that our 3G speeds are the worst in the business now and almost nonexistent. ATT, T-Mobile, and VZ should make a commercial saying who cares if you have unlimited data when you have the slowest data and barely have data.
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Horrible service last 2 days here in Orlando.
Update - Sprint says to place phone in cdma only. They are working on towers in Central Florida.
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mcobrandon said:
Horrible service last 2 days here in Orlando.
Update - Sprint says to place phone in cdma only. They are working on towers in Central Florida.
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They are telling me the same thing...
I'm in Houston..
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I had my EVO replaced from best buy today because sprint said my 3g should be working.. new EVO still no 3g ..my 3d has data so it has to be a prl or network problem I'm in Florida
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Ive had it to where 3g is on, dies then turns on in 3 min....Duval County Jax fL i presume?
I haven't seen LTE or 4G on my phone once. This is really odd because I live blocks from the KC sprint campus. I have even driven into their parking lot and sitting there got only 3G still.
I know this has to be on my end because there's no way that in their own campus in their main center they don't have a tower running it since this was the first location to receive LTE. Is this something that could be dependent on the ROM i'm using. I'm running viper 1.21 which others have said they get LTE with so I don't think it's that.
Do I need to possibly flash a new radio? Is there something else going on?
Yeah, ur not in an LTE area. Either that or Idk find someone with an EVO and see if they get LTE in the same spot.
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Have you tried toggling between CDMA only and CDMA + LTE?
Have you updated your PRL+Profile?
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Have you tried toggling between CDMA only and CDMA + LTE?
Have you updated your PRL+Profile?
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I haven't tried toggling to CDMA and then back to LTE, I'll give that a go.
I know for sure I'm in an LTE area because KC is the first and I live directly next to their huge campus here. I have a few friends who work for them, actually everyone in this town has worked for them at one point or another, lol. And they said we do have it in this area now.
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I haven't tried toggling to CDMA and then back to LTE, I'll give that a go.
I know for sure I'm in an LTE area because KC is the first and I live directly next to their huge campus here. I have a few friends who work for them, actually everyone in this town has worked for them at one point or another, lol. And they said we do have it in this area now.
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Well try that and get back to us
The campus is in overland park and they haven't finished the rollout for all of KC.
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erichj said:
The campus is in overland park and they haven't finished the rollout for all of KC.
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correct. I always say KC because anyone outside of this area doesn't know OP. I live a just a couple blocks from that campus. I thought this was the first area scheduled for the roll out. At least I know why I haven't seen it yet. thank you.
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i gave it a go and no LTE yet, so I think erichj must be right and the rollout is not complete.
Strange that they wouldn't start with their own campus. But I guess I was just spoiled by t-mobiles insanely fast network speeds before switch to sprint. Kinda a bad decision on my part but I thought I wanted an Iphone, until I had it a couple days and took back that turd to get another android phone. By that point I was stuck in to a sprint contract with dial-up speed.
LTE is spotty even in the city
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lte is spotty for me here in dallas.
The network isn't done. Even in cities where LTE is live.
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I was on the Sprint campus tonight and had to reboot my phone to get it to pick up 4g. Sometimes that's the only thing that will work . Network is only about 40% build out around the KC market right now.
Have you updated your radio and prl?
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It definitely is spotty. I was able to get LTE in the legends but it would randomly switch to 3G even if I was in the same spot.
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Iive up north of the river by the airport and I only saw the 4g icon once while eating a chicken fried steak at corner cafe in Riverside. I only had it long enough to download speedtest.net app and it reported 8M download and 8M upload. Pretty good but then it switched to 3g again
Hopefully it gets better soon!
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Im in Odessa most of the time, anyone have an idea when it might get yo the Odessa Tx area.???
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For those of you in Florida and having no data service. Sprint has confirm that they are waiting for the info to what to come. Something is happening in Florida that they can't explain.
So no need to call Sprint with complaints people. Get on WiFi!
They have advice me they will call me with details of this issue.
Really Great customer service!
But if this keeps up with the Internet connections I will have to change provider service.
I have 4 more days to decide, before the 15 days ends. I will really miss this phone
though..
TAKE THE BLUE PiLL THE STORY ENDS, YOU WAKE UP IN YOUR BED AND CONTINUE ON WITH YOUR BORING LiFE. TAKE RED PiLL, YOU STAY IN WONDERLAND & I SHOW YOU HOW DEEP THE RABBiT HOLE GOES.
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I'm in Tampa and its down here, thank god for roam control, Verizon is rocking and rolling!
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I'm in Tampa and its down here, thank god for roam control, Verizon is rocking and rolling!
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ROAM Control!
What's that?
my 3G has been fine, always connecting, don't have it on roaming either.
No problem here in Orlando. 3g steady.
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No problem here in Orlando. 3g steady.
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Same here between Apopka and Orlando this morning. No issues.
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No problem here in Orlando. 3g steady.
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Im in tampa and everything is good here just wating for that LTE to show up, i think its coming next month!!!!
Aight cool... Mines started running fine a few moments ago. Yea I am hearing that October is the month for Sprint!
From Miami!
I'm in South Florida and my data is working as it always has
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Southwest Florida here, data works fine here. Just a few times in the last week or so I had 1x only. But that was for a few hours then everything went back. That can be expected as lte is right around the corner, or so they say...lol
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South fl checking in.I've noticed some funny issues with the data going in and.out .and 1x issues . But slow as usual . I have airvana
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Southwest Florida here, data works fine here. Just a few times in the last week or so I had 1x only. But that was for a few hours then everything went back. That can be expected as lte is right around the corner, or so they say...lol
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Naples here. I almost stay at 200-300kbps at best. Maybe MAYBE get 1000kbps at like 3am. I get 1x here and then. I keep telling myself that it's the LTE work that makes it like this.
And I thought it was my phone when it happened LOL
This morning at 5:29 a.m. my data just stopped working even though it did show I had a 3g connection.
Lakeland FL.
I clocked in to work at 6:00 a.m. worked 2 hours then took a cig. break and it was finally working again though the speeds were slow when usually @ work I've been getting 1700kbps to 2050Kbps (yeah I know hard to believe) but it seems that they already upgraded that tower since a couple of months ago cause before I used to get 100's 300's , I get the usual 300kbps at home (which I don't really care cause Wi-fi takes over)
Thanks everybody for your input! Seems like we are good to go..Let's hope to see something real good to come in Oct-November zone!
Jax FL 3g seems fine. slow speeds on highway but more speeds increase in crouded areas.
Ive been reading the threads and i see the fix is to cycle airplane mode. But i haven't seen any explaining why. Ive noticed that if you travel to an area without ehrpd(the hand-off from evdo to lte) itll drop you to evdo rev a. But wont put you back to ehrpd unless you either restart the phone, cycle airplane mode, or switch cdma/lte to cdma only and back to cdma/lte. If this has been explained, i apologize but i can't find it
So Sprint/HTC needs to fix the hand off back to ehrpd when you get back to an ehrpd area. Chop chop
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So Sprint/HTC needs to fix the hand off back to ehrpd when you get back to an ehrpd area. Chop chop
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Yep!!!!
Chop Chop. Anytime now.
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Yep!!!!
Chop Chop. Anytime now.
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What's LTE? sh.it, whats WiMax for that matter? >.> bought Evo OG on release, online chat rep said WiMax was available in my zipcode... Never happened... lol. I live in south Miami-Dade county... still have yet to get on anything but 3G with any phone hah...
not really funny though
/rage
We've been talking about this in several threads and its across many forums. The problem has been known since the phone was in Sprint's lab before launch. They rushed it out so OG Evo people would lock back in to 2 yr contracts. They tried to fix it twice via OTA firmware but still failed. Sprint is in denial there is a problem and so is HTC. You come to your own conclusion if it will get fixed or not.
It's working much better in the latest cm10 builds. Running the 10/25 build from deck. I've been holding lte almost exclusively. And have it places even toggling it before wouldn't get me. The handoff can sometimes take a minute, but it's on lte so much in comparison to before it hasn't been an issue.
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It's working much better in the latest cm10 builds. Running the 10/25 build from deck. I've been holding lte almost exclusively. And have it places even toggling it before wouldn't get me. The handoff can sometimes take a minute, but it's on lte so much in comparison to before it hasn't been an issue.
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Did deck change something to address this issue?
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Did deck change something to address this issue?
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Excellent question! Any way to find out?
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Excellent question! Any way to find out?
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Did he rewrite the firmware or add in some background forced scan?
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I've got no idea what the change is, but it's night and day difference between it and the sense roms.
My last test will be tomorrow at work, I've been off. But iPhone and s3 get lte and I've never been able to even with toggling and setting to lte only.
It's been pretty solid to, only real downfall is the camera isn't as full featured.
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I've got no idea what the change is, but it's night and day difference between it and the sense roms.
My last test will be tomorrow at work, I've been off. But iPhone and s3 get lte and I've never been able to even with toggling and setting to lte only.
It's been pretty solid to, only real downfall is the camera isn't as full featured.
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So if you were to flash a sense rom right now, your lte issues will return as well? Is there anyway you can do a quick nandroid then flash a sense rom to see if it goes back to having the same issues? I am very curious as to what the results would be. I would do it myself but I don't have lte where I am right now.
So I'm at work now, and I'm still not picking up any lte inside. But I am when I go outside.
And I picked up and held strong lte at my girlfriends place the other day, which has never happened.
So it seems it is better, but still not 100%. As an iphone or s3 would have lte in my building.
If I go back to a sense rom I cant hold onto an lte signal at her place at all. Even when set to lte only. That part i can reproduce.
At least seems to confirm software issues.
pretty frustrating having to do the airplane mode trick to get 4g back (even then it doesnt work all the time), especially since when 4g is working it's so nice to FINALLY have acceptable data speeds from Sprint.
kind of feel helpless here with this phone, I haven't gone to a sprint store to complain yet, but it's not like I can reproduce the 4g connection issue it just happens.
I think they have fixed some it on the stock rom.
I left for the GS3 about a month or two into owning my EVO LTE. My main gripe was getting stuck on 1x after driving around Dallas.
After having some issues with my GS3 after their LI3 update i decided to go back to my EVO LTE since it too has had some updates.
The week i used my EVO LTE i never had any issues with it getting stuck on 1x. It also did switch back and forth between LTE, eHRPD and EVOD/A normally. If not a little slow to switch to LTE from time to time. I did find another thread and it looks like they have the LTE scan time set to 30 minutes. Way to long if you ask me.. But i guess in a year when more areas have actual saturation of LTE then once your connected it shouldnt matter much what the scan time is.
Yes, we know they have tried twice but it still doesn't work right.
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I think they have fixed some it on the stock rom.
I left for the GS3 about a month or two into owning my EVO LTE. .
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I'm curious. You bought a GS3 at full price? EBay?
I'm getting tired of this issue myself. I considered maybe switching to T-Mobile and getting the new LG Nexus, but I checked, and Sprints ETF doesn't start getting pro rated until after the fifth month! It will be at least next June before it becomes financially feasible, maybe longer.
I don't have a lot of hope that this issue will get fixed. The weird thing to me is that it's obvious Sprint values the name, EVO, yet this will effectively kill that reputation.
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Well how i got it isnt really relavent to the conversation. but if you must know it was a trade for another phone i had on CraigsList.
I like both devices but to me the upgrade from ICS to JB didnt really do all that much on the GS3.
Today i switched back to my EVO LTE and am going to use that for another week.
Never had any handoff issues using viperom
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Never had any handoff issues using viperom
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You have a special firmware?
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You have a special firmware?
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I honestly don't remember which firmware I'm on, I remember it the older one though.
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Working downtown LA today in one of the high rises - no 4G, even after doing the airplane mode trick or re booting. I guess they're not going to make their October deadline!
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