Hello folks,
So I was wondering about something, My sister got a text from Sprint on her GSIII and it said we wanted to inform you about upcoming upgrades to the network and such crap and it mentioned something about 4G as well and I wanted to know if anyone else had ever received this and if so did it accompany a tower upgrade to 4G in your area. I ask because I've been with Sprint for a while now and have never received a WiMax or LTE tower near me yet (closest is a couple hours away).
Thanks
Back before 4G was placed pretty much everywhere around me (Camp Hill, PA), I recall getting texted about WiMAX (very slowly) being introduced. I never received the same text for when they converted to LTE.
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Ive never gotten any kind of text from sprint, except when a payment is late...
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drumwizard said:
Ive never gotten any kind of text from sprint, except when a payment is late...
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I looked it up on some other sites and it looks like it doesnt have much to do with the upgrades, it seems to be just a random thing to keep customers.
I also received the text. No updates in my area yet.
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My Gf actually just received one of the texts about upgrades a week ago, that had been made in her area (westland, Michigan) where her phones billing address is, and the 3g speeds are finally bearable/more consistent indoors/outdoors, unlike before where we would both struggle to get 1x indoors....so looks like it's based where your phone is registered/billed at....so there might be some truth in the upgrades happening and the texts corresponding to them...
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OK a friend of mine on a Epic (old one) told me that he got a sprint communications update, or something along the lines of that. Now, he says he can talk on the phone and browse the Internet at the same time. Anybody else got this update?
He said that the guy from radio Shack said it isn't just his device, but other phones on sprint too.
Also, strange thing. He also says that he is picking up 4G signal where we live which is North Cape coral in Florida, and we never had 4G here. Maybe sprint is still rolling out wimax in a few cities.
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As far as I know the only way to talk and surf is to be connected with 4g or WiFi during the call.
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Idk, supposedly that's what the new update brought though.
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What's the point of being able to do this, honestly....
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I use it all the time on my phone for business ...put them in speaker and look something up while I'm parked somewhere far from my computer. I've also edited documents while talking. I don't use it every day, but it's become a must-have for me.
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I consider my phone to be a miniature computer first, a phone second. I'd love to be able to surf the web or read a feed while taking a call.
A2CKilla said:
What's the point of being able to do this, honestly....
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How about Googling a potential employee/customer/client while speaking to them simultaneously? Very useful!
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How about Googling a potential employee/customer/client while speaking to them simultaneously? Very useful!
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Did exactly this (potential employee) yesterday.
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So since I've rooted and started flashing roms sms has been going crazy. Around midnight every night I have to reboot my phone because no phone calls will come in and no sms will come in outgoing works fine.
And the. When they do work I get each message about six times or more.
I use the stock sms and popup 7 and am running pkmn ROM any suggestions?
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I had similar issues, and narrowed them down to my Airave. When I turn it off, the problem goes away (but reception gets worse, obviously).
Do you have an Airave in your house by chance?
This happened to me earlier this week. I had to exchange phones. Something must be going on!. Sprint could not fix it. I had to call my voice mail to get all my texts and calls to come in.!
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I also had this issue, but it looks like it's my airave. Right now I can get text, but can't send any out while within range of my airave, unless I send it through Google voice. I think the signal emitted by the airave conflicts with the EVOLTEs antenna.
WUESTSIDER X!
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Glad to see I'm not the only one...its to late for me to exchange though
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I ended up calling Sprint on that. The 2nd level tech said that Airave has been having issues on and off for a while, and they've been updating firmware on it pretty often, but he hasn't seen an improvement yet.
He had reset my Airave from his side (it does more than me hitting reset, according to him), and so far I'm not having this issue any more.
Well its been fine so far today after a couple of resets last night. I don't have an airave so I dont think that's my issue...hmmm
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bmtdan said:
Well its been fine so far today after a couple of resets last night. I don't have an airave so I dont think that's my issue...hmmm
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Maybe it's your network.... Maybe sprint is doing upgrades in your area.... Or they just have some issues in your area.
Here are some other opinions/ options
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1710324
New network enhancement SITE (at least new to me) was launched. I thought it was neat so figured I'd share
Check out this website as well.
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/forum/9...ment/page__sort_key__start_date__sort_by__Z-A
This was posted on the EVO 3d forums. I didn't see it here.
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Check out this website as well.
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/forum/9...ment/page__sort_key__start_date__sort_by__Z-A
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I'm familiar with S4G, thanks. Robert posts quality stuff. As well as our mole over at ISN. Just nice to see Sprint actually communicating.
This side been up for a while and it doesn't changed much where I am I wish I could get lte by years end otherwise moving to Tmobile for all my lines since the contract will be up by then
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Just 2 voice upgrades for my town in the next 6 months. The two adjacent cities get speed upgrades though.
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Just 2 voice upgrades for my town in the next 6 months. The two adjacent cities get speed upgrades though.
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Mine says like 6 which I can care less since I barely talk on the phone I used data a lot and it says like 20 of those will see if is truth
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I wonder if that means my little craphole town won't get LTE. Was looking forward to it since I'm 2 miles from the tower.
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droiddawg said:
I wonder if that means my little craphole town won't get LTE. Was looking forward to it since I'm 2 miles from the tower.
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You probably will but most likely next year just like las Vegas (which they have CES here so they should have it running by new years _ so I hope)
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I wonder if that means my little craphole town won't get LTE. Was looking forward to it since I'm 2 miles from the tower.
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This site has zero to do with showing when LTE/NetworkVision is coming btw....this site shows when they are planned to come by to add an additional bundled T1 line to the site for whatever capacity issues need it the most voice or data....
Really wpuldnt pay attention to this much at all to be honest...
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This site has zero to do with showing when LTE/NetworkVision is coming btw....this site shows when they are planned to come by to add an additional bundled T1 line to the site for whatever capacity issues need it the most voice or data....
Really wpuldnt pay attention to this much at all to be honest...
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Wouldn't it at least give you a time frame of when the 3g network should be better?
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Wouldn't it at least give you a time frame of when the 3g network should be better?
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I mean you might see some improvement from those little upgrades but it will be nothing like what NetworkVision upgrades are bringing...B/c they have so many of the sites labeled for the bundled upgrade before NV its tough to distinguish the two....and thats IF they started listing some of the things involved with NV on that site...which has not been the case thus far at all...
I've been checking this site since I got my Photon back in October, it's said I have had speed updates at the towers in my city in the coming 6 months, for the past 9 months.
Only thing it says that has occured was a voice capacity upgrade on a tower that I would guess is rarely even used, it's down a pretty rural stretch of road and there are other closer towers to the more populated areas, unless it was just unusable, not sure why they even bothered with that one.
Id be willing to let Sprint install a Tower at my house, if it meant I would get LTE before 20never lol. I hate Verizon but atleast they have LTE here
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Id be willing to let Sprint install a Tower at my house, if it meant I would get LTE before 20never lol. I hate Verizon but atleast they have LTE here
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You and me both.
This just started happening a few days ago. Mobile data drops out..no 3g or 1x. Seems to happen on multiple roms, think its a sprint issue. Anyone else?
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It's just a 3d issue I'm afraid...when I go from my 3d to photon, I notice better 3g connection
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I've had this phone since November & never a issue until now
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I've never had any issues like that. In fact I get service where I didn't before. Then again I'm bypassing sprint proxies.
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Try calling sprint and have them reset your signal.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
Did you happen to flash the vm firmware? That could cause your described issue.
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sailio said:
I've never had any issues like that. In fact I get service where I didn't before. Then again I'm bypassing sprint proxies.
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What are you using to bypass the proxies? Where I live 3g is horrible and lately 4g is getting worse
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Welcome to Sprint's 3g lol
Yea sprint is whack in some areas.. some areas it's decent. T-mobile 3g is always consistent and heck even faster than sprint 4g sometimes. They need to improve service because it's not reliable.
Its been like that for me since my release day OG...
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soo sloow
will drop pick up in a couple days or get another carrier like Verison, flash Evo 3d to Straight Talk
yeah... sprint 3G has sucked for me for like the last 6 months. I think they are intentionally throttling down and degrading 3G quality in towers where 4G is available. that seems to be the trend I am noticing. This way, it encourages us to move off of those channels and free up traffic for others who dont have 4G. Just a theory. But my worst 3G speed / signal is in areas where 4g is available.
I broke my 3d and had to reactivate my old Hero but i cant get any data cuz the area where my account is active (Dallas 469 area code) is having issues so even all the way down here in houston i cannot get my phone to provision on the network because its pulling from Dallas where the problem is. So i have no data at all!!!! Rep said it would be next friday b4 its fixed but they will credit for the time im without data. WTF?
Sprint offered
received READY NOW service today hard reset, wipe and slate test. I'testing
So one week I have LTE at my house, and not at my work, then I get super strong LTE at work and it goes back to 3G at my house. Sometimes I get both, today I don't have LTE at either place. Does anyone know why Sprint can't just leave LTE on and leave the sh** alone???
Verizon is sure looking better and better when my contract is up in December.
Anyone else experiencing this off and on crap?
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SoFaKiNgStOkeD said:
So one week I have LTE at my house, and not at my work, then I get super strong LTE at work and it goes back to 3G at my house. Sometimes I get both, today I don't have LTE at either place. Does anyone know why Sprint can't just leave LTE on and leave the sh** alone???
Verizon is sure looking better and better when my contract is up in December.
Anyone else experiencing this off and on crap?
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Check to see if they have officially announced it in your city.. If not then they are testing it and you should be getting LTE very effin soon =]
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This happened to me for about 2 weeks and then I had constantly LTE. Before this happened my area had no LTE
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Best option: ditch sprint
2 months in sprint talk is 2 years in real life. Verizon has very deep pockets even if its a little more costly they're the better option
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I'm not sure what area you are in, but I'm in hartland, MI. and I was in my local store today and the guy said he had one of the tower techs in there and they said they were waiting on hardware to update the the towers so they put it on hold and went back to the west side of the state until they get more. I can't complain because something is getting done and the tower in Howell was the first one in MI. to get updated, so it won't be long.
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They brought their kid to work & they kept flipping the LTE switch on and off.... Relax man they are testing it.
Its still icy in the middle, let it cook.
Most of us had that happen pre rollout, now I get a constant LTE connection.
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