I have always had worse Sprint LTE reception compared to my wife's iPhone and Brother in Law's GS3. I think it was due to the plycarbonate body of my EVO LTE.
I am due for an upgrade and am wondering if I should go with HTC again. I really want good LTE signal like the iPhone5 and GS3.
Anyone able to comment on Sprint quality??
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I myself have an HTC EVO LTE and love the (almost) all metal construction that HTC did with the phone. The one thing I do not like however, is the LTE performance. 3G is great and on par with other devices, but as we all know metal does not play nice with cellular siganls, especially LTE.
Which leads me to my question/request......
Can someone tell me (or better yet show me) what the HTC One compares to lets say a GS3 or other LTE device with regards to LTE reception. Really what I would like to see is the RSRP (dBm) values of each device sitting side by side. I know most of the International folks don't have LTE so they wouldn't be able to test this but with the U.S. launch dates approaching there might be some review units floating around for ATT and Sprint that someone could use for a quick LTE comparison.
Thanks in advance!
I'm sure they tested the device and LTE works. Plus there's videos when the device was announced that talks about the signal straight from HTC......
No one has a device to tell you the signal strength,
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expertzero1 said:
I'm sure they tested the device and LTE works. Plus there's videos when the device was announced that talks about the signal straight from HTC......
No one has a device to tell you the signal strength,
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We are about 2 weeks away from the official launch on sprint and at&t. I'm sure people will start receiving their phones soon and could test this.
And its not that the LTE won't work..... Its that I don't want to have another EVO LTE with weak LTE radios compared to other phones like the GS3.
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We are about 2 weeks away from the official launch on sprint and at&t. I'm sure people will start receiving their phones soon and could test this.
And its not that the LTE won't work..... Its that I don't want to have another EVO LTE with weak LTE radios compared to other phones like the GS3.
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Looked at the Phonedog and pocketnow reviews of the Sprint version and it didn't look good for LTE signal
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Hello friends, I live in King Count, Seattle Washington, and my area has Sprint's 4g LTE. I got Galaxy S4 and 60% of the time I have LTE, whilte other 40% on 3g. I return my Galaxy S4 and I got HTC One instead, and now I can't even get 20% of LTE% even if I'm only 500ft away from the tower I can't get 4G LTE. I went sprint store and they check the phone and they said you know what, this phone didn't pass the network test so we will give you another one. I got another HTC One and I still could'nt get LTE!, So I'm kind of thinking HTC One has poor 4G LTE Signal at least on Sprint, What do you guys think? this is my 2nd HTC One and I really missed my Galaxy S4 because of the LTE....
Some people are saying HTC One has one band of Sprint LTE, So I didn't understand can anyone help me please. thanks
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Hello friends, I live in King Count, Seattle Washington, and my area has Sprint's 4g LTE. I got Galaxy S4 and 60% of the time I have LTE, whilte other 40% on 3g. I return my Galaxy S4 and I got HTC One instead, and now I can't even get 20% of LTE% even if I'm only 500ft away from the tower I can't get 4G LTE. I went sprint store and they check the phone and they said you know what, this phone didn't pass the network test so we will give you another one. I got another HTC One and I still could'nt get LTE!, So I'm kind of thinking HTC One has poor 4G LTE Signal at least on Sprint, What do you guys think? this is my 2nd HTC One and I really missed my Galaxy S4 because of the LTE....
Some people are saying HTC One has one band of Sprint LTE, So I didn't understand can anyone help me please. thanks
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Not sure how many lte bands the one supports but Sprint.only has one lte band deployed anyway. I don't think think it's deployed the 800mhz one anywhere.
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If they have not launched your market, then I wouldn't worry about it
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bishaarcc said:
Hello friends, I live in King Count, Seattle Washington, and my area has Sprint's 4g LTE. I got Galaxy S4 and 60% of the time I have LTE, whilte other 40% on 3g. I return my Galaxy S4 and I got HTC One instead, and now I can't even get 20% of LTE% even if I'm only 500ft away from the tower I can't get 4G LTE. I went sprint store and they check the phone and they said you know what, this phone didn't pass the network test so we will give you another one. I got another HTC One and I still could'nt get LTE!, So I'm kind of thinking HTC One has poor 4G LTE Signal at least on Sprint, What do you guys think? this is my 2nd HTC One and I really missed my Galaxy S4 because of the LTE....
Some people are saying HTC One has one band of Sprint LTE, So I didn't understand can anyone help me please. thanks
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Having the same problem here in Charlotte NC also had a S3 and got LTE a good majority of the time. Got the One yesterday and now in those same areas not getting LTE I guess it's a antenna problem maybe. Sucks thinking I'm going to have to get the S4 and really dont want to.
1.Radio update could fix the problem.
2.Wait for your area to be deployed and see if LTE gets better.
3.If neither works then we know the phone is incapable of holding weak LTE signals.
It's up to you to decide if you want to risk the upgrade and wait. My Note 2 holds LTE a lot better than this phone as well. But from what I've seen in these areas where my Note 2 would have an LTE signal the speeds were very poor.. The problem with this HTC One is the hand off between 4G and 3G sucks so bad. Which is why I've forced my phone to only use 3G and never connect to 4G..
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Remember the One only has 800 LTE, which Sprint is deploying 1900 ( or 2100, cant remember) first.
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Remember the One only has 800 LTE, which Sprint is deploying 1900 ( or 2100, cant remember) first.
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The One does not have 800 LTE, only has 1900
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Note that NO Sprint phone at this time has anything other than 1900mhz LTE support.
[I'm cross-posting this in the TMO HTC One forum as well]
My situation:
1. I've been with Sprint since the OG Evo, but after getting the One, I was really frustrated with the slow LTE speeds especially after years of Network Vision promises and paying an extra $10 a month (per phone) for "high speed data" that was anything but. I was also irked at all the crap I had to go through to get the SIM unlocked.
2. The area I live in has refarmed HSPA+ to the 1900Mhz band.
3. The area I live in has AWS LTE.
4. I currently have a Sprint, T-Mobile, and Developer Edition One.
My original plan was to use the DE to test the TMO network to see if it was faster than Sprint and available in all the places I frequent. If so, then I'd sell my (now SIM unlocked) Sprint model and keep the DE, otherwise, I'd return the DE for a refund.
But over the last week and a half I've noticed that, while LTE speeds were frequently pretty high (15-20Mbps) there were still plenty of times when I was only seeing an H or an E. I couldn't even tell if the H was HSPA or HSPA+. So then I began to wonder if I was missing out because of the lack of the 1700Mhz band, thus I bought the TMO version to see if I was missing anything.
Turns out, I wasn't. The H I've been seeing is indeed HSPA+ but nowhere near the advertised 42Mbps. Granted, I wasn't naive enough to think I would pull 42Mbps even with the TMO version, but I expected to get at least in the 20-30Mbps range, instead I've been seeing 5-9Mbps. (Thanks to the Sensorly app, I can now tell which H I'm seeing).
After running around with TMO version, I'm seeing the exact same speeds in the same places. So, I'm not missing anything by not having 1700Mhz. In the meantime, TMO is still refarming more areas so the 1700Mhz is becoming less and less important.
So what about Sprint? At their lowest, the TMO speeds are equal to or a little above the Sprint speeds I've been seeing (my wife inherited the Sprint version during this trial run), and at their highest, Sprint can't touch them (in this area--I've gotten up to 20Mbps in PA).
So T-Mobile it is. When the wife's contract is up at the end of the month, the Sprint model is going up on Swappa. Meanwhile, the TMO version is going back to the store tomorrow.
What about AT&T you ask? Way faster, but way more expensive. Truth is, I spend most of my time on wifi anyway, so I'm not willing to pay AT&T prices for cable internet speeds for the times in between.
Hope this helps anyone else facing the same dilemma.
Really interesting
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With your unlocked Sprint One, what happens if you put your T-Mobile SIM in it? Do you get service? If so, is it HSPA or just EDGE?
Oh, the fun of having choices!
There is not a single provider in my area that carries the HTC One and has LTE. I wish I even had a choice to be able to test. Verizon has LTE in my area, but no HTC one. I wonder how many other people are in my same situation?
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Oh, the fun of having choices!
There is not a single provider in my area that carries the HTC One and has LTE. I wish I even had a choice to be able to test. Verizon has LTE in my area, but no HTC one. I wonder how many other people are in my same situation?
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T-Mobile sucks in my area... My sprint speeds are in my sig.
The purpose of this post is to inform those seeking to use the HTC One on AT&T should NOT use the T-Mobile version of the HTC one on the AT&T network due to poor reception issues. Issues may arise from the enabled 42mb hspa+ and/or the inclusion of the 1700 band. Or maybe its just the T-Mobile radio.
I was originally on T-Mobile with a T-Mobile HTC One in Atlanta, Georgia. T-Mobile's coverage wasn't working out for me in buildings so I SIM unlocked the phone and took it over to AT&T. Everything works but AT&Ts coverage was always changing from 1 bar of LTE to barely any bars of hpsa+. I got a AT&T branded HTC One and inserted my SIM and got 2-3 bars of LTE when I was getting either none or one bar of LTE service. I am also getting about 90% more LTE coverage than I previously had with the T-Mobile HTC One on AT&T's network.
I took back the AT&T HTC One as I could not afford to pay full price for the phone at this time. I am still using the T-Mobile HTC One on AT&T and will buy one when they get cheaper.
On a side not my wife has a T-Mobile IPhone 5 and got it unlocked and switch over to AT&T with me and is getting comparable LTE coverage as the AT&T HTC One version. It sucks cause she will have 3 bars of LTE service and I will have 1 bar of hspa+. I wish there was a fix for this rather than having to go through selling the old one and getting a new one. I love my HTC One .
As the title says I am looking at what to expect data wise with the M8 without circuit switch fall back. I live in an area where Sprint Spark is not available (Virginia Beach, VA) and as of recently, I am getting great LTE coverage with my EVO 4G LTE. The concern for this issue has become a little obsession because it derailed my 100% wanting of the M8. I understand I will definitely loose SVDO but all the features of the M8 allow me to overlook that. Thanks in advance to all that looked and wrote.
Not sure exactly what you are asking but I can say that my data coverage is noticeably better with my M8 than it was with my EVO 4G LTE. I normally stream Slacker radio on my commute to and from work, with the EVO LTE I would almost never keep a solid data connection the entire trip, with the M8 it is the opposite, I almost never lose data connection. It appears to me the radios and antennas in this phone are noticeably better than the ones in the EVO LTE. Additionally, and I don't know why this would be so, but my lte speeds are about twice as fast on my M8 than I was seeing with my EVO LTE.
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Not sure exactly what you are asking but I can say that my data coverage is noticeably better with my M8 than it was with my EVO 4G LTE. I normally stream Slacker radio on my commute to and from work, with the EVO LTE I would almost never keep a solid data connection the entire trip, with the M8 it is the opposite, I almost never lose data connection. It appears to me the radios and antennas in this phone are noticeably better than the ones in the EVO LTE. Additionally, and I don't know why this would be so, but my lte speeds are about twice as fast on my M8 than I was seeing with my EVO LTE.
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Thanks for the reply, do you know if your area has been upgraded with the CSFB tech?
I do not know, As far as I know Sprint hasn't even officially announced LTE here yet. We have only had 4G for about 3-4 months, until a couple of months ago it was off more than on as they were working on it.
If you have LTE in your area you almost certainly have working eCSFB. If you didn't, the phone wouldnt connect to LTE at all.