I live and work in the 75160 area. According to the coverage map for sprint, this is a 4g lte area. At home, Which is a somewhat rural area, I barely get lte at home even if im outside and 3g is what it is. We all know that hell. Calls and text are just fine. But again, the coverage map says i should be rockin on all levels.
At work I sit by a glass store front in a busy part of town and I get nothing but texts. I cant call without it dropping, no 3g or 4g. Not even if i go roaming.
The sprint store says my phone is fine but weve all been lied to about that before, Tech support either blames it on a tower or an outage.
Ive been here since Jan 2nd. No way an outage takes almost 2 months to fix. Others here with sprint seem to be doing just fine with lte and calls.
I have a stock htc evo 4g lte btw.
How can I see if this is a problem with the phone or if sprints coverage map is complete bs and Im screwed?
Are you on the latest firmware/radio? While I have had LTE at my house for around 6 months now, and it never drops. Once I flashed the latest firmware/radio, my SpeedTest scores almost doubled!!
Just a thought...
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I just did the OTA last week but does that update the radio as well?
Software is version 3.16.651.3 710RD
If your stock and accepted the ota you will have the newest radios and firmware.
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I have great 4g coverage but with my evo 3d it suck it shows 4 bars but wont connect to the web or any data but my wife evo 4g is just fine
I've been having the same issue in Boston.....full bars but no data pushing thru....I think its a sprint thing....yur not alone LOL
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I'm starting to believe it's a Northeast thing. Actually it's pretty bad in numerous places. Go check Sprints forums. People are complaining all over. When I spoke to Sprint a few days ago, the woman told me there is a data outage in Bronx, Yonkers, Long Island, Manhattan & Edgewater, Nj. Yesterday I was down in the Bronx, a stones throw away from Manhattan, had full 4G and only got 2.01mbps down. The 3G is so awful I won't even mention it! I had said to her, don't you guys use Clearwire...Why would your 3G data outage effect 4G? She said it's a data outage in general, everything will be effected. Anyways, she said they were waiting on parts and it should be fixed within a week.
Did u try to update ur profile/prl in settings>system updates?
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Just to add...When I was picking up my 5th E3D yesterday, I did a speed test right away @ BB and got 7.36mbps down with 2 bars of 4G. 1.3mpbs on 3G. This was in Yonkers by the Scarsdale border. Came home(BX) and my speeds went back to sh!t!! So there's definitely issues in certain areas.
my wife evo 4g data is fine tho her 4g is fast and her 3g is too but both of fine are trash
So's I just got off the phone w/sprint tech support and they confirmed that the 4g towers in LA are up and running. I have yet to see my 4g symbol light up. Is anyone else in my parts (downtown LA) getting a 4g signal? I could be wrong but I thought this wasn't supposed to happen till the end of september.
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By on they just mean they aren't blocking your access to them.. You probably still have to go on a hunt to find it though. It will be very spotty.
Thats how it was in KC at least. I've got it at my house, and its at my parents house now. But a mile from Sprint headquarters, nothing, and the worst 3g imaginable. It's astonishing.
I had 4g on the OG EVO, but 4g LTE not up yet, I work in Downtown LA so no LTE yet.
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There's a Site dedicated to the 4g rollout I haven't seen any reports in LA yet.
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/index
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Thanks for the intel tall. I called sprint due to my lousy signal I have while around the armpit of dwntwn LA. Tech informed me that there's a couple of tickets open on two towers that apparently my phone uses. Since their is work being done on em she wasn't able to give me the green light on a signal booster. She did however inform me that said tickets should be closed by tomorrow and will call me wednesday morning to see if signal has improved. Not sure if this post interests anyone else but I will be more than happy to keep inquiring minds informed of any updates.
The U.S government wouldn't lie to us...would they?
I'm out in the SGV and 3G over the weekend just became really fast. Haven't noticed the LTE signal yet. I did notice my phone disconnects from the network when screen is off sometimes. Maybe it's something to do with the LTE testing
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Yeah would love to be kept up to date on this lousy 3g in LA as of late. I figured they were doing something because it's really been terrible.
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Passed thru la on my way to edwards afb this morning. No LTE. But 3g was awesome! Saw 2.5mbps down multiple times on the 5 thru all of la. But usually ended at 1.5+. Sure wish I could see these speeds at the office in Anaheim
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Sprint reception is messed up giving me network issues all around the los Angeles area the last few days.
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It's been unbelievably slow until tonight. Looks like Pasadena is getting that network vision upgrade. Now let's get that 4g up sprint.
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Been sick since wednesday and missed the call from sprint. I'll call tomorrow and post conversation.
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I'm in Northridge (sfv) and haven't noticed any 3g increase or 4g at all. Hoping soon tho!
i live in los angeles county, San Pedro, and i do not receive 4g at all. With my old HTC EVO (og) i use to get 4g while at work in Long Beach but now i dont even get that with the evo 4g lte. I called sprint about a week ago because at my home i noticed my service dropped tremendously from 4 bars to 0-1 bar and they sent me a signal booster for my house, but this is a ****ty fix they have. It only boost signal at home not the rest of town where i seem to have no service! I hate paying the extra 10$ a month for a service the dont even provide yet.
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deneid310 said:
i live in los angeles county, San Pedro, and i do not receive 4g at all. With my old HTC EVO (og) i use to get 4g while at work in Long Beach but now i dont even get that with the evo 4g lte. I called sprint about a week ago because at my home i noticed my service dropped tremendously from 4 bars to 0-1 bar and they sent me a signal booster for my house, but this is a ****ty fix they have. It only boost signal at home not the rest of town where i seem to have no service! I hate paying the extra 10$ a month for a service the dont even provide yet.
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Well you have to understand two things.....
1) Your old evo was using the 4g wimax technology. This new one is using the 4g lte technology which hasnt rolled out to LA yet. Hence why you don't have "4g" on the new phone.
2) The signal booster you got was a Airave mini cell tower. That will only boost your cell coverage in your home, but not anywhere else. The no service....is that no 4g service or no cell service. If its no cell then call sprint, because that shouldn't be happening
yeah i know about the airwave only doing service at the house. But i hate that this is their fix for this.
I'm near West Hollywood. I noticed a huge decrease in signal quality over my EVO og when I got this phone. Dropped calls too. It's reminding me of when I used to be with AT& T.
I travel to Glendale a lot. I'm rooted and running the original Rom.
Supposedly Sprint said September for L.A. while I don't really expect it, if they don't have it going by the beginning of November, I'm going to be starting to calculate the feasibility of moving to Verizon.
I know it will be more expensive, and seemingly not as good a deal, but right now Sprint is selling promises. I can't check traffic on promises.
Soon 2 gigs a month will look much better than 400 megs of unlimited. It will be a decision between unlimited drops vs. Limited buckets.
A big part of the reason I'm beginning to loose patience is their decision to start LTE in places like dumb bucket Tennessee, over L.A., San Francisco, etc.
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No airave for me Sprint says. I don't have internet at home and apparently their fix for their lack of appropriate service I they cannot give me Anybody want a 2 month old HTC EVO lte?
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William said:
So's I just got off the phone w/sprint tech support and they confirmed that the 4g towers in LA are up and running. I have yet to see my 4g symbol light up. Is anyone else in my parts (downtown LA) getting a 4g signal? I could be wrong but I thought this wasn't supposed to happen till the end of september.
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I'm sure they meant 4g wimax. Some Sprint csr or even tech support for the other know what lte is or they will tell you have 4g but they don't tell you it's wimax.
When I bought my SGS3 I was told that I had 4g in my area and that I could use it with the sgs3....But I only have wimax in my area....
William said:
No airave for me Sprint says. I don't have internet at home and apparently their fix for their lack of appropriate service I they cannot give me Anybody want a 2 month old HTC EVO lte?
The U.S government wouldn't lie to us...would they?
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KaoMinerva might want your lte if its hboot 1.12 s-off
I read this week Boston was getting their lte turned on next week. What kind of bs is this? I swear they were testing lte and network vision in LA just a few weeks ago and now 3G is back to sluggish normal. I just might be go back to at&t next contract
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No 4G LTE goodness in North Hollywood (Studio City). :'(
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First off I am s-on 1.15 I have been flashing sense based ROMS flawlessly. I have tried flashig both CMX as well as Paranoid Android. Each time flashing boot.IMG through fastboot first. Everything runs smooth. Although my signal is horrible. Where on all sense based ROMS I'm getting great 3g service I may have 1 bar and on the status bar it will say no data connection instead of sprint pcs or whatever. Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue.Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Update. I read Another post where someone had similar problem. I updated prl and profile. Will test out tomorrow. Off to bed. And I don't have very good service here at home regardless
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Could it be an issue with the towers in your area? Sense roms are kind of jacked when it comes to reporting signal strength. Htc removed the 1x icon because they claimed it was confusing to customers, they also changed the way it reports the signal polling much like Apple did with their Iphones. There are a couple of apps although I dont remember them off the top of my head, one is crowd sourced and they record data for gprs (1x, 3g) gps, wimax, lte, wifi as well I believe and they graph the listings, another one will show real time information for signal polling.
I am not sure. Anything is possible. I live in a remote area where service is kinda spotty at home anyway. Although my wife has iPhone 4s through sprint as well. Where she will be showing 3-4 bars 3g. But I am running flex stock Rom with sense 4.1 and it definitely seems better . I will definitely look into the apps and see if that shows anything.
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I really jinxed myself, I was thinking Im glad Im not that guy everything works and now 3g is dropping like crazy.
Are you in a LTE market? I've heard that when there working on upgrading 3g signals have been reported dropping. I am in between the Atlanta market and the Nashville Tn market. I'm hoping I will see some LTE soon. But like I stated my wife's is working great. I'm hoping my 3g problem hasn't infected you.
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I am but theres no LTE here, there wont be for quite some time, the towers for my area are severely neglected, about 2 months ago they had just brought 3g back up and it had been down for a month and a half, i was roaming practically 2 weeks straight before the service started to come back intermittently
okay about a month ago i saw 4g lte in my area. new haven CT and now i dont see anything, at first it connected by itself and now it wont show up at all, wierd thing is that on sensorly it shows that we have 4g in this area,
im rooted on the lates meanbean 3.09, updated my profile and prl a bunch of times
not sure if it has to do something with my area, or the phone itself, i keep seen people having similar problems, could it be the rom??
Its not the rom, you are experiencing the 4g lte roll out. Until Sprint announces that lte is live in your area you will experience lte outages often as they test and turn on new towers and troubleshoot existing ones. Sensorly is a pile of crap. If someone tagged lte during a testing period it will show up even if lte isn't available there. Take sensorly reports with a grain of salt. Very unreliable. If you have experienced the intermittent lte than give it a few months and you should see better results.
Also, updating your PRL won't have any effect on whether or not you can pick up LTE.
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ohh, thanks guys this sprint lte blows, but i guess ill have to wait then
I have gone back and forth a couple times now. I ran the RUU to go to 4.3 Android (Htc official side loaded RUU) and I live in the Los Angeles area. My signal is absolutely ridiculous. Updated radios, current version of HBOOT and other drivers, I hoped that I would pick up 4g LTE in my area because the sprint coverage map shows that my location has it available for the EvoLTE. Going back to my device I am having 2G Edge and the slowest 3G of my life!
Has this been happening to you guys as well?
I made sure to select LTE/CDMA for my antenna options but no change.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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I have gone back and forth a couple times now. I ran the RUU to go to 4.3 Android (Htc official side loaded RUU) and I live in the Los Angeles area. My signal is absolutely ridiculous. Updated radios, current version of HBOOT and other drivers, I hoped that I would pick up 4g LTE in my area because the sprint coverage map shows that my location has it available for the EvoLTE. Going back to my device I am having 2G Edge and the slowest 3G of my life!
Has this been happening to you guys as well?
I made sure to select LTE/CDMA for my antenna options but no change.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Personally, I'd call Sprint and complain. That being said, it's a kind of well known fact that the EVO LTE's don't always have the best reception. ie two people in the same location with Sprint service, one on the EVO LTE, the other with a different device. The other person gets 4g LTE and the EVO user doesn't.
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Personally, I'd call Sprint and complain. That being said, it's a kind of well known fact that the EVO LTE's don't always have the best reception. ie two people in the same location with Sprint service, one on the EVO LTE, the other with a different device. The other person gets 4g LTE and the EVO user doesn't.
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I can tell you from experience that Sprint doesn't seem to care if your service is crappy. Your best bet is to go with a carrier with better coverage. I was with Sprint for 10+ years.