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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PhxkinMassacre said:
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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PsiPhiDan said:
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
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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!
kcb2627 said:
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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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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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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billyapd21 said:
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.
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
SoraX64 said:
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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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.
twiztidninja said:
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.
Kidney Poker said:
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.
SH4YD33 said:
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.
reaper24 said:
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.
YoMaMa7467 said:
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.
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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Welcome to Sprint.
bloodrain954 said:
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.
Just got off chat with Sprint rep admitting there is an outage. My service has gone from 5 bars to "No Service" and back.
I thought it was related to the VM FW I'd installed earlier this week (hoping to fix that ICS VM flash thing) but it appears it's something big.
Anyone else affected?
mogul420 said:
Just got off chat with Sprint rep admitting there is an outage. My service has gone from 5 bars to "No Service" and back.
I thought it was related to the VM FW I'd installed earlier this week (hoping to fix that ICS VM flash thing) but it appears it's something big.
Anyone else affected?
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Nope, no issues here in Dallas area.
I'm replying from 4G right now and just got off a call. No issues here at all.
Sent from my Evo 3D on Sprint's blazing fast 3G network with 4G coverage everywhere
Yea some issues with the service in and outs and a reduced speed in 3g I'm in CA the Carson area
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I'm going in and out. New York.
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Could be more of a secluded problem. Perhaps they're working on a few towers, or are just experiencing some issues that require maintenance.
Yea earlier it was doing that here, hollywood fl
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No problems here in NYC.
No problem in sacramento ca
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In Southern South Carolina, I find myself roaming more than I should be.
MAYBE THEY'RE PUSHING OUT AN UPDATE FOR OUR PHONE THAT WILL COMPARE OUR PHONES WITH AT&T!?!?!? lol! oh wait. I don't think sprint gives a **** about us enough to do that. hahaha. It's a simple upgrade. easier than doing 4G. JUST DO IT! YAYAYAY!
Big issues in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. They told us it wouldn't be fixed for a while and they allowed us to exit our contract without an etf.
Service is still "up" in Green Bay area
If that happened around here, I'd be dancing in the streets...not that I'd even be able to tell if there was an outage. I think I've used maybe about 150KB off of WiFi in the past month.
I just started getting a 2128 error when sending text.
Here's the message I get
" The message could not be delivered due to a temporary network error. Please try later. Error 2128"
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Same here got the error on sending text on both of my lines.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
I am considering leaving but now is not a good time to switch. I would probably go to ATT and the phone i want probably wont be out for about a month. I would kick myself if i had to get a phone that's already been out for 6 months just to have the galaxy s III eat it's lunch a month later. The other option is ATT, which would be more reasonable with the family plan that we need and and they have a solid phone in the One X. The only problem with that though is they do not get good service within my house which is ridiculous (and i'd rather have the evo lte).
Happened to me to in Connecticut!
No problems in Kennesaw, GA.
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yep
Was happening last week here in vacaville Ca. And my over all indoor signal strength is **** now everywhere.
Major issues when I was working in Detroit today. Bars on the phone went from full to nothing to 1 to full to 1, all within a matter of seconds. Data was slow (as usual with sprint) however most of the day my phone couldn't even connect to 3g or 1x. When it did, it was constantly switching from 3g to 1x. Phone calls would go through maybe 1 out of 10 times. I sent texts to about 10 different people today, I just got to the airport and called all of them, NONE of them got a single text from me today, even though my phone reports them as being sent.
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.
Rxpert said:
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
JManekia said:
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
Rxpert said:
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.
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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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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.
Thanks
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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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I'm in NW Indiana and the past week has been horrible....3g has been slower than normal and almost non existent. Anyone else in the area or is it just my phone?
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I've had unusable phone service for 7 months. I'm now leaving Sprint this week. They have told me the towers are being upgraded for seven months. Now they say they're finished, and the service is no better. It's a joke how horrific it is. We fought them and are getting almost $500 in credits now for the terrible half-year we've had. That'll just about cover my early termination fee, haha. Good luck to you.
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im in a southwestern suburb of chicago and its been hell for 3 months now. dropped calls, missed texts, and even better is people don't get the pictures i send them. they just disappear... idk ive gotten the past 2 months free so i guess i can deal even tho they told me the 3 towers in my town getting upgraded would be done last month on the 7th... it amazes me how towns that were scheduled for completion a whole month after the ones in my town have been done for weeks and im still getting the shaft...
All of Chicago is nearly unusable. It won't get any better until early 2013 is my guess. I can't hold a call at all, and data is so slow I can't even stream Pandora. You're not alone. Sure, a few towers here and there have LTE but by and large the whole market is awful.
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it was bad by me SW burbs... for about 2 months... then they finished the NV upgrades in my area and I've noticed much faster 3G speeds... my wife's family in the west burbs are going through what we went through now... sounds like you are too... stick it out if you can... call sprint to try and get a credit... and soon enough hopefully we will be able to enjoy LTE... the few times I happened to be near a tower that was on the speeds were amazing and it gives me hope for sprint
Ok, I knew something strange was going on. I'm from NY, but I'm in the Chicago area quite often. I was driving across I-90 yesterday and when I got to Gary, IN, my phone kept bouncing back and forth from 3G to 1X. I knew something was wrong because I've driven through there many times in the past and would always get 4G LTE service. It was pretty much the same horrible service as I passed through Chicago... my phone even went into Roaming mode twice. I'm in La Grange, IL now and the service is pretty poor here too. I did receive full strength 4G LTE service while I was in Yorksville, IL last night and this morning, but my phone wouldn't hold the signal. I would be completely stationary and then the signal would disappear and go back to 3G. It was like Sprint was turning it on and off or something.
Really bad where I'm at. NW Chicago. But its especially bad at home. I can't receive calls at all when I'm home. Sometimes receive txts late
The reception of this thread is not good in general... gonna put it in Q and A where it should have been and it may get better reception...
dude i work at sprints largest 3rd party retailer. for the past 7 months, maybe since march, They tell us to tell you guys that there is maintenance on the towers. we have 10-20 new people come in a day asking why their phone sucks. As we speak, my phone has no data connection
I live in arlington heights, but my sister is in aurora. she complains as well... This is garbage
I can't even call people on sprint. Just says call can't be completed. But can call other cell phone users. Brought phone in and was told b.s. so close to buying out and going to a usable network.
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I can't even call people on sprint. Just says call can't be completed. But can call other cell phone users. Brought phone in and was told b.s. so close to buying out and going to a usable network.
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I did that recently and am so happy I did. Worth the money. Verizon has the new shared data plans, so it only costs me about $8 more per month. Completely worth it. Reliable phone signal everywhere I go, and blazing fast Internet everywhere too. I flip off Sprint every time I drive past one of their stores. They are liars and morons with terrible service right now in Chicago (has been since March).
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I'm in Joliet and have called sprint more times in the last 7 months than I have in the previous ten years. For 6 and a half months it was "we are working on the towers, bear with us and you will be amazed at the new service and glad you stuck it out"
Well Joliet is officially "up and running' I have three towers within a two mile radius of my house, the closest being .07 tenths of a mile a way. Guess who still dont have reliable 4G?! Last night it was on but I had 256kbps down and 2.5m up. Today I called them while I was literally sitting underneath the tower. I had no 4G on my LTE phone and my wifes evo was in 3G gettting a blazing fast 561ms ping, 19kbps down and 29kbps up!
CRAP!
Nothing has changed. the service still sucks, srint still gives me a different answer ecverytime I call. Meanwhile I can't stream Pandora, Tune in Radio or watch a you tube video even at the lowest of settings. If Verizon had an unlimited data plan...I would be gone....what to do?!??!