I live in a 3g only area, and today my phone has started showing 4g sporadically.
When the phone shows 4g my data stops working and then all data cuts out and 3g comes back.
I'm running viper Rom with snuzzo kernel. Could this be a software issue? The Verizon website does not have my city listed for current or upcoming 4g availability.
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iHateWebOS said:
I live in a 3g only area, and today my phone has started showing 4g sporadically.
When the phone shows 4g my data stops working and then all data cuts out and 3g comes back.
I'm running viper Rom with snuzzo kernel. Could this be a software issue? The Verizon website does not have my city listed for current or upcoming 4g availability.
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if you know you are in a city with no 4g and dont plan on getting it soon, why not change it to CDMA only? The phone might think its getting a signal from a 4g tower and its causing it to switch like that
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if you know you are in a city with no 4g and dont plan on getting it soon, why not change it to CDMA only? The phone might think its getting a signal from a 4g tower and its causing it to switch like that
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This has never happened before today, so I was hoping it was me getting 4g in my area.....
I tried the cdma only setting, and my data as a whole is spotty now. My wife's thunderbolt is doing the same thing now.
Is this what its like when they flip the 4g switch? Does anybody else remember when 4g came on in there area?
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iHateWebOS said:
This has never happened before today, so I was hoping it was me getting 4g in my area.....
I tried the cdma only setting, and my data as a whole is spotty now. My wife's thunderbolt is doing the same thing now.
Is this what its like when they flip the 4g switch? Does anybody else remember when 4g came on in there area?
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they might be testing the 4g radio in your area and it that might be causing it. give it a couple of days, if it doesnt fix you might want to as a vzw rep. for me it was back when tbolt launched when we got 4g
What ROM are you using? I know that on some ROMS, like cyanogenmod, it's actually best to keep phone on the setting that supports multiple data modes.
I live in a town of 15k and we just got 4G, so u may get it after all...
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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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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..
duvalbmarley said:
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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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 some reason i could connect to LTE for about 30 seconds before my phone would revert to 3G. no matter how many times i updated prl or profile.
Solution: used Network from app store to switch from CDMA+LTE AUTO to LTE,CDMA. now getting lightning fast LTE all the time.
Nice.
I was having the same problem, could you explain what you did exactly? There is an app called network that allows you to change this?
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tomplatz said:
Solution: used Network from app store to switch from CDMA+LTE AUTO to LTE,CDMA. now getting lightning fast LTE all the time.
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Which "Network" app did you use? Play Store shows like 19,000 apps when I search on just "network"!
Thanks!
Dave
'Network' on AppBrain: http://www.appbrain.com/app/de.mangelow.network
I'll try this out, I've been dialing *#*#4636#*#* and selecting lte/cdma, this may make it easier to switch
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Just remember...the resets when you reboot and keeps your phone from connecting to ehrpd (i think)
Still running tests
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Working good for me as soon as i changed the settings.... Been on lte since then without getting on 3g.... This is good...
Thanks
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Just remember...the resets when you reboot and keeps your phone from connecting to ehrpd (i think)
Still running tests
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Whats ehrpd ?
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App works well, good shortcut..
I just have to set it back to cdma, lte+evdo/auto when I leave an lte area.. Then 3g/4g/1x hand offs appears to function normally..
Lte+cdma lets me maintain 4g down to 1 bar otherwise it drops down to 3g for no reason I can tell..
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Whats ehrpd ?
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Enhanced High Rate Packet Data (eHRPD). eHRPD is an enhancement of 1xEV-DO (AKA HRPD) that enables LTE to CDMA handover.
00mred00, do you know a way around this problem? I'm just not getting LTE if I don't change my network like this. Seems odd that we should have to do this at all. Is this a problem of the freshROM or a coverage problem or what?
Thanks for the intel.
It happens because sprint has flipped the switch early and less than half of lte towers are on and are still not fully powered up. The 3g signal is stronger (although slower) than the 4g.. Sprint has said that there lte isn't fully functional and that it's currently mostly for outdoor use
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It happens because sprint has flipped the switch early and less than half of lte towers are on and are still not fully powered up. The 3g signal is stronger (although slower) than the 4g.. Sprint has said that there lte isn't fully fictional and that it's currently mostly for outdoor use
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I will have to try this next week when I am in an area supposedly with LTE on but it's not accessible
Yes! This works! I was having the same issue and sprint stores and tech support could never help! This definitely is the fix. Makes me so angry that it is just a setting on the phone. The people at the Sprint stores were insisting that there was nothing wrong. Dirty liars.
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jshow816 said:
It happens because sprint has flipped the switch early and less than half of lte towers are on and are still not fully powered up. The 3g signal is stronger (although slower) than the 4g.. Sprint has said that there lte isn't fully functional and that it's currently mostly for outdoor use
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This is pretty much what I have found here in Dallas. I am not convinced we we need a permanent solution for this reason.
For example...the areas I have to do this in are not officially up and running yet. (keep in mind not all of the "orange" is officially up yet either)
I continue to test it. Right now I want to say Atlanta is the furthest in completion
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I have a question about my 4G issue. The only time i can get 4G is when I select 4G only in the command settings, but then i don't have voice services. Is there a fix or a know issue about this issue im having? This happens with any rom i flash.:crying:
networx2002 said:
I have a question about my 4G issue. The only time i can get 4G is when I select 4G only in the command settings, but then i don't have voice services. Is there a fix or a know issue about this issue im having? This happens with any rom i flash.:crying:
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4G on the EVO is garbage. My S4 is picking up 4G in areas my EVO never has and with great speeds in areas the EVO had picked up 4G. Not sure about your issue though. Update PRL and Profile?
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Delakit said:
4G on the EVO is garbage. My S4 is picking up 4G in areas my EVO never has and with great speeds in areas the EVO had picked up 4G. Not sure about your issue though. Update PRL and Profile?
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So how was this comment helpful to any of us who own the Evo LTE???? I'm sure your S4 is great and all, but save it for those who care bro.
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networx2002 said:
I have a question about my 4G issue. The only time i can get 4G is when I select 4G only in the command settings, but then i don't have voice services. Is there a fix or a know issue about this issue im having? This happens with any rom i flash.:crying:
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Weird thing that I have noticed is,
I have perfect LTE (25MBps up) when I run Stock Android 4.2. CyanogeMod 10.1
Any Sense Rom I run it has no LTE. When I select CDMA/LTE it won't connect to Data at all. When I select CDMA it will connect to 3G.
I hate it and have never found a fix for it. So I am stuck on 10.1 with not a lot of updates. Which is fine, but I like to switch back to Sense everyone once in a while and when I do I am forced to use only 3G.
Cherokee4Life said:
Weird thing that I have noticed is,
I have perfect LTE (25MBps up) when I run Stock Android 4.2. CyanogeMod 10.1
Any Sense Rom I run it has no LTE. When I select CDMA/LTE it won't connect to Data at all. When I select CDMA it will connect to 3G.
I hate it and have never found a fix for it. So I am stuck on 10.1 with not a lot of updates. Which is fine, but I like to switch back to Sense everyone once in a while and when I do I am forced to use only 3G.
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Man that's weird. Usually its the other way around for most people
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bennyboy78 said:
Man that's weird. Usually its the other way around for most people
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i know that's what I have heard as well. My phone is weird, but it runs perfectly on stock Android so I can't complain too much!
Mine connects to 4g lte without issue as long as I'm running meanbean or stock with goodies. On several other rom's I had problems connecting. Not sure why.
Jack
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Mine connects to 4g lte without issue as long as I'm running meanbean or stock with goodies. On several other rom's I had problems connecting. Not sure why.
Jack
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I never get 4G at all, until i switch it to LTE only and thats on any rom
Sorry for hijacking but is this roaming on 4g?
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polar2792 said:
Sorry for hijacking but is this roaming on 4g?
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No, if I remember correctly you're picking up sprint lte, it just thinks it's verizon or whatever carrier you're roaming on.
Also, OP, have you tried switching to another phone, then switching back? I know that sounds weird but my brother was having data issues on his virgin mobile phone and that's how he fixed the issue lol
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No, if I remember correctly you're picking up sprint lte, it just thinks it's verizon or whatever carrier you're roaming on.
Also, OP, have you tried switching to another phone, then switching back? I know that sounds weird but my brother was having data issues on his virgin mobile phone and that's how he fixed the issue lol
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So today i tried ##scrtn# and that fixed my issue...
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Sorry for hijacking but is this roaming on 4g?
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No. Your 2G network which controls voice is roaming. However your phone has an established 4G network connection. Sort of like being on wifi and roaming. Your calls go through the 2G network while the data is being handled by your wifi/4G. Those signal bars are strictly for your 2G connection. 3G and 4G have their own connection which is not viewable unless you dig into ## settings from dial pad. Sprint don't have any 4G roaming agreements with any other carrier.
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Is anyone else having issues with data connection with HTC one max? I have already swapped out for new phone and still having same issues. I live in LTE coverage and cant even get 3G. Wife has sprint and has no issues. Any ideas?
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I'm having similar problems, I usually switch to cdma only when texts stop sending. I'm sure it's just a radio issue, hopefully it will resolve itself on the next update.
I had that problem with a one but so far so good on the Max
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What kind of signal strength are Sprint customers getting? I am in a good area for service and get almost no connection.. like the max but uggggg....
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im in LA and have no issues with sprint spark at all. Im getting LTE (no doubt 800mhz) inside my place whereas no other sprint phone has ever. i am coming from the htc one and it never got lte in the house. the max is though...
and call me simple but I love when the spark icon animates...
this is a definite read:
http://s4gru.com/index.php?
how is the signal inside of your house or other buildings?
I used to have Sprint, and needed an AirRave to work inside my house
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Is anyone else having issues with data connection with HTC one max? I have already swapped out for new phone and still having same issues. I live in LTE coverage and cant even get 3G. Wife has sprint and has no issues. Any ideas?
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Some Sprint Tri-band phone users have had the issue where they can either stay on LTE and get no texts/calls, or it goes from LTE to 3G, but not back, until airplane mode or a restart happens . This is due to the towers in question needing an upgrade. At the worst, it should be fixed by the end of the year.
The only problem I'm experiencing is that my data icon doesn't go away when Im on wifi, anyone else have this problem or a possible fix?
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When I do get a signal its never more than 2 bars. Does anyone switch data from cdma/LTE to automatic?
HTC 1 MAX
When I had my Evo 4G LTE I had 4G with no issues, I'm my neighborhood & home. Barely getting 3G on my One Max...
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Sprint Spark: theoretical speeds are theoretical
http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-spark-theoretical-speeds-are-theoretical
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Dorenda said:
When I had my Evo 4G LTE I had 4G with no issues, I'm my neighborhood & home. Barely getting 3G on my One Max...
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I have quite the opposite situation of you. Coming from my Galaxy Nexus it feels like I have totally new service. I get LTE at places where I barely got 3G on my Nexus.
Looks like I will be going back to AT&T. Data is too important to take the chance that it could get better with new/different radio... Really like the Max ... Service just suxs ...
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I guess sprint users have received a software update for this issue...
No.. I am still having issues..
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Have you guys been able to use lte while on the phone? Mine seems to cut all data while on the phone. Back with my note 2 I could only use lte when on the phone.
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there was a post somewhere about the data/lte/phone issue; it had to do with the new Spark network they are rolling out, and if I remember correctly, some of the new areas were undergoing a "fix" to remedy this, and was going to be done b4 the end of the year..
I have no problems with this outside of Chicago, where I think our Spark network is "completed"..
smoke this over...
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-due-to-circuit-switched-fallback-technology/
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I've had the evo 4g LTE for 1.5 years now.... and really one of my few gripes is the phone does not hold/acquire an LTE signal very well when compared to my wife's s3.... often times she'll have LTE and I'll be stuck on 3g...
I was all set to buy a note3 jan 1. when I am upgrade eligible... but this phone intrigues me and it appears to be $200 cheaper.
I'd really feel dumb to get another HTC phone only to have the same LTE connection issues (btw I live in chicago market)....
I live in the Chicago Market,(burr ridge area) and have fantastic signal now, both for data and for calls, with the new maxx, and my wife has a ONE, and has no issues either..