Is there anyway to force your phone to use a certain tower? I'm on an train near DC and an connected to a tower in Houston TX... Getting better speeds than when I'm home and am connected to Nearest server. I'm mobile and haven't been able to find this in answers. I connected to a closet tower and had mediocre speeds. Thus Houston tower is earl over 1000 Mikes away and is very impressive
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Its not connected to a tower in texas.
Use opensignal maps. Itll show you what tower your connected to.
If you were able to get a signal from a tower in Texas from across the country there would never be roaming.
I had to double take on the OP. Just curious but what are you using that says you're connected to a tower in Houston, TX?
Maybe he is talking about the SID?
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Sorry I tried to attach screen shot but it said I can't I'm not sure why. using speed test, it scans for towers and lets you pick one. Normally I only get choice of towers that are near. I'll try again to post the screen shot
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Ok here it is
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Was able to post picture finally. I was on a train no where near TX
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Ahhh that means that you're doing your speedtest from a server in houston texas It has nothing to do with your sprint signal
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Ahhh that means that you're doing your speedtest from a server in houston texas It has nothing to do with your sprint signal
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Yeah this. You can pick any server in the world to run that test.
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Yeah, that's not your tower
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for a second, it almost seemed like a, ehm, super tower
Jesus... Anyways, click on tools, should be able to figure it out from there..
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Hello folks
I just got my photon two days ago. By the way i miss my evo 4G.
Here is the main concerned in this mopho is doesn't work 3G at all. Any one can help me would be great appreciate
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What do you mean your "3G doesn't work"? It won't register in 3G areas? Your speeds are crappy?
Ya 3G still gray doesn't work
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Have you tried updating your profile? And are you in a 3G area?
Update your profile and prl. Also see if your wireless network is set to automatic.
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Gray doesn't mean you don't have 3g. It means that you are not syncing with google.
They are in the process of upgrading the towers in certain areas i had the same problem and they told me about the tower upgrades in my zip when i called tech support. So it is more than likely that just eait it out a day or two my speeds doubled once they finished last night.
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I always use 3g soo....don't say 3g don't work...it depends what radio u use
Thanx all of you guys. Final fixed by putting automatic then reboot it
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I keep losing signal
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I keep losing signal
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Where are you located? Do you experience lost calls?
I live in central jersey... And I don't really make phone calls to know but while texting or Web browsing I just lose signal
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It could be network upgrades.
I have been having the same issue here in Salt Lake. The Sprint store tells me it is tower upgrades in my area. I take that with a grain or 2000 of salt but it may be true.
Carrier?
On AT&T you can have signal drop if you use a non 4g apn in a 4g area.
You can put your location in here, https://network.sprint.com/ and see if there's any upgrades in the next 6 months. It's entirely possible.
Yeah I'm on sprint... I'm about to go to a sprint store and hopefully they get me a new one and it's better cause I can't even enjoy my phone like this... My galaxy s 2 didn't have this problem so idk if it's the network
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What's up with lte in Dallas. I live in the 75287 area and still nothing. Any one know anything about it?
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What's up with lte in Dallas. I live in the 75287 area and still nothing. Any one know anything about it?
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I'm around the same area. Still no LTE here, but I do get it further east in the Richardson area. My understanding is that this is just part of the process as Sprint rolls out LTE across DFW. I can't find a link to the article, but I read that it should be mostly completed around here by the end of August, early September. I'll look around for the article.
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What's up with lte in Dallas. I live in the 75287 area and still nothing. Any one know anything about it?
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Sprint's LTE is at 10% as of right now. It's "supposed" to be completed by the end of the year...says a sprint rep.
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I go all over the dfw area for work. It's very spotty to say the least. What's crazy is the fastest 4g I've experienced was about 4 miles west of Gainesville.
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Emerl said:
Sprint's LTE is at 10% as of right now. It's "supposed" to be completed by the end of the year...says a sprint rep.
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late November...with towers coming up weekly
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I go all over the dfw area for work. It's very spotty to say the least. What's crazy is the fastest 4g I've experienced was about 4 miles west of Gainesville.
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It appears like the started out and are working their way in
Also see the Dallas thread in general. Lots of discussion there
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Where is the Dallas thread. I searched and did not find it. I had lte shortly off of 131 and MacArthur near lewsville. Around midnight or so. Showed up as 4g. It was.nice. but oh well. Wonder if I can get some sort of credit for not being able to use my phones lte. If not oh well
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Where is the Dallas thread. I searched and did not find it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681098
Blazing fast here in murfreeboro TN
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0.09 is on a good day here in Antioch, TN.
I was at fort knox Elizabethtown area this weekend and I pulled like 1.5
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Get on my level. (dat ping)
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Get on my level. (dat ping)
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Get on my level. (dat ping)
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Omg dude that ping is scary lol
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Wow, and during peak hour! Hoping this means work has begun. Our city is round 2.
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50 MB plus in Tinsel Town consistently...
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50 MB plus in Tinsel Town consistently...
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Ok speedy, try to turn off Wi-Fi first..
Here's mine roaming...
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50 MB plus in Tinsel Town consistently...
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Your screenshot clearly shows you on WiFi.. How about your 3G/4G speeds?
Here's mine on LTE:
I'm getting about 1mb here in WV. Better than what I used to get, but it's still not LTE speeds. lol
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In and around north Dallas on the evo
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I will post my LTE speed, as soon as Sprint upgrades the LA towers.
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With new radio ...
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Pretty sure there's a couple of these threads floating around.. But I'll play along. Here's my 4G and 3G
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First time to get a stable 4g signal in fort Worth tx. First result is 3g. Second result is 4g in same area. Third result is home WiFi. Its definitely getting better
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non NV tower by my parents house. ive watched the speeds go from 1meg to this over the past 2 years. in the evenings its unuseable as everything will just time out.
Green Bay, WI speeds
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Jacksonville,FL
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Atlanta on LTE, got 22 down / 12 up... then drove a 1/4 mile north and was back on 3G
How is the mid Atlantic coverage?
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How is the mid Atlantic coverage?
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Works good for Android...I'm not far from Annapolis and travel through DC often.
Have you seen any LTE yet?
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Nope but I don't check much through the city too much, as I'm driving.
Still waiting...
but fear not, Sprint sent me a flyer touting coverage. :silly:
Good to know, hope you see it soon. How about non-lte data speeds?
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I'm mostly on WIFI. When on 3G, it's not horrible but could certainly be better.
IIRC, NoVa ~ 1M down last check indoors. MD, using Baltimore server, was lower.
Cool thanks for the info.
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presented Ronven
No problem.
Really the coverage areas are a wildcard. Yeehaw.
Good luck.
When coverage isn't the best just roam haha using a force roam mod believe sprint 3g could be better and LTE is pretty dang good when it comes to wherever you are
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How is the mid Atlantic coverage?
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Generally Sprint's coverage is pretty good. From my experience, where I live in Coastal NC, it's as good at AT&T or even better. Their coverage is getting better all the time too. Google "network vision" and you can read about it. They are doing a TON to upgrade their current towers to enhance 3g speeds and voice capabilities as well as building new towers all the time. From my experiences the new 3G speeds they are upgrading to is faster than Verizon's 3G speeds.
You can check out sprint.com/network to see some of the upgrades they are doing to the towers in your area.