I don't think it's the phones fault.
I live and work in eastern MA where LTE has been rolling out for the last 6 months or so.
As I drive I bounce between 4G and 3G.
When it loses 4G but still good 3G around it takes forever to switch back.
Often it gets stuck in 1x or Data is just hung or broken.
Flipping radio off and on fixes it.
My htc evo 4g lte did the exact same thing.
This behavior also chews up battery.
I have now forced the phone to cdma only and it's way mote stable.
This happens all over, not just one location.
I had to force my htc evo 4g lte to cdma too.
I had weird issues also. I would be right near a 4g tower and kit would take forever to switch over. If you were traveling through the area it may never switch (as it happened a few times). Needless to say, sold my EVO back to Best Buy on the buyback program for $280 and switched to T-Mobile. Best decision ever. Great speed and coverage.
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Meanwhile my lte is great. I think it kinda depends on your market at this point. Also the lte scan value is set to 300 on this phone. I think the evo was set lower, can't remember.
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how did you switch to CDMA?
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how did you switch to CDMA?
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Settings then mobile data and switch LTE/Cdma to Cdma
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It takes my phone a few a little bit to switch when i go into NYC. Long Island does not have 4g yet but every time i go into the city once its switches over it seems stay steady. Just recently switched to Sprint, i had been a Tmobile customer for the last 6 year. As for there "4g" or data in general i never had good data indoors. It didn't really matter if i was in long island or visiting family in Chicopee ma. With sprint I am not running into this issue nearly as often.
Yep, I'm about to return mine and go back to tmobile. With 4 bars of 4g it still cycles between 4g and 3g, horrible. Because 3g is so bad that no internet radio would buffer, so I'd be working out at the gym and after about 2 songs it switches to 3g and no more music till I either cycle the phone, or airplane mode. And even if 4g is connected, rarely is it faster than 4mbps anywhere.
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broken record here. BARS MEAN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in terms of lte strength. The only exception is with an iphone. The bars you see are for 1x/voice not LTE...
It is pretty frusterating with regards to signal, especially compared to the iPhone
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LTE is all over where I live and amazing...
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Lte is still brand new to sprint. And is growing very fast. Here in western Washington they set a schedule of 50 sites for 90 days ending in just about a week and we are right on schedule. My aie just reported that sprint set another schedule for 250 sites in 90 days. More sites means less crowded on the few sites they have now. Faster lte speeds, more stable/reliable and faster connection speeds when traveling. Sprint is converting every site to lte and when that happens, you can all stop your complaining. Currently lte is just a baby to sprint. Tmobile is a joke as a carrier. Sure their hspa+ is fast but don't expect to be ahead of the game once sprint and att finishes their lte rollout this year. And it's good for when you can actually use it lol. I travle all over the states and I've always had the best phones offered by each carrier and I wouldn't wish tmobile on my worst enemy.
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Lte is still brand new to sprint. And is growing very fast. Here in western Washington they set a schedule of 50 sites for 90 days ending in just about a week and we are right on schedule. My aie just reported that sprint set another schedule for 250 sites in 90 days. More sites means less crowded on the few sites they have now. Faster lte speeds, more stable/reliable and faster connection speeds when traveling. Sprint is converting every site to lte and when that happens, you can all stop your complaining. Currently lte is just a baby to sprint. Tmobile is a joke as a carrier. Sure their hspa+ is fast but don't expect to be ahead of the game once sprint and att finishes their lte rollout this year. And it's good for when you can actually use it lol. I travle all over the states and I've always had the best phones offered by each carrier and I wouldn't wish tmobile on my worst enemy.
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Right... Specially when in many cities tmobile tests much better than sprint in just about everything? Sure, their device lineup wasn't the best, but with all the latest devices and the improvements tbeyve made, not to mention metro pcs acquisition...
Point is, go into any crowded city and you have dialup on sprint, even locations that they've already converted to lte are still deeply, T-Mobile will give you Better performance in most cases. Oh, and look st their lte rollout vs sprint, they are doing it way faster and more efficient.
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My area is fine
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My area is fine
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Suburb of Chicago
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It's good here in the Atlanta area too. :thumbup:
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It's good here in the Atlanta area too. :thumbup:
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Could you post what you get in Atlanta ans where please? I'm moving there in early June and I only have a week to either keep sprint or go back to T-Mobile, I know that tmo works well in the Atlanta area.
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Right... Specially when in many cities tmobile tests much better than sprint in just about everything? Sure, their device lineup wasn't the best, but with all the latest devices and the improvements tbeyve made, not to mention metro pcs acquisition...
Point is, go into any crowded city and you have dialup on sprint, even locations that they've already converted to lte are still deeply, T-Mobile will give you Better performance in most cases. Oh, and look st their lte rollout vs sprint, they are doing it way faster and more efficient.
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Look I'm pissed at Sprint right now but you can not compare the kind of roll out T-mobile is doing to anything of the magnitude that Sprint is doing. The amount of work being done versus the 2 of them are night and day..
But then again Sprint put themselves in the position they are in by being behind the curve..
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Look I'm pissed at Sprint right now but you can not compare the kind of roll out T-mobile is doing to anything of the magnitude that Sprint is doing. The amount of work being done versus the 2 of them are night and day..
But then again Sprint put themselves in the position they are in by being behind the curve..
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At some point, people willstop buying into what sprint says. When wimax was rolling out every rep was told to sell $10 premium data fee as 4g fee, then, they start charging it for even a 3g device. Is the fee unreasonable? No, but the approach sprint took is messed up. Then, they scrap wimax, and I do get why, they had to, it wasn't really good to begin with. So wimax coverage gets smaller and markets end up relying more on already taxed backhaul, equalling in terrible data performance.
I can't tell you how many times they've had towers down with no eta on repairs in Colorado last year, was insane. Network vision does look good in theory, but those upgrades were planned years ago, before every tower was this massively overloaded.
And I agree, sprint is doing a lot to fix their issues, the fact that they plan to have lte on every tower is pretty awesome, definitely better than what T-Mobile will have with only hspa+ areas upgraded. So, if you go to rural areas a lot, then sprint may be the way to go. My problem is the timeline, you can't really have a network that barely gets 200kbps in a major downtown area during the day at this time and age. Their planned upgrades, are way behind schedule, check s4guru is pretty much shows how delayed it is becoming. Yet sprint keeps selling it as ahead of schedule... How?
Even Softbank says that sprint won't have the money to finish network vision unless their deal goes through, not s good sign.
T-Mobile isn't the best by any means, I do like their hspa network, it is fast! Even in dense areas I still maintain consistently high download speeds, regardless of the time of day. And I'm talking downtown Washington, Arlington, Denver, Atlanta, New York, Chicago. Their initial lte launch is covering up areas rather fast, even here in dc they already have s pretty substantial coverage, and it isn't even live yet.
Sprint called their cities live with 15% of sites upgraded, how misleading is that? When a consumer sees that sprint has lte coverage, what is their expectation? To have that service available most of the time... But if only 15-30% of sites are upgraded, is that going to happen? Unlikely
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Could you post what you get in Atlanta ans where please? I'm moving there in early June and I only have a week to either keep sprint or go back to T-Mobile, I know that tmo works well in the Atlanta area.
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Not too shabby. My phone runs 4G about 90% of the time. Speeds vary from about 5mb to about 25mb downloads depending on location. This is all in the Marietta/Kennesaw area.
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how is tmobile reception primarily on east coast? Looking to get rid of big red.
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If Big Red is crappy don't go to another CDMA carrier - it is even crappier. Sprint has no coverage in some parts whatsoever.
I had T-Mobile last year and it was way better.
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Not that its garbage. Look to spend less then I am for three lines. I am at around 150 for one line with an unlimited data smartphone and two regular lines.
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Anyone else? Even if not on long island.
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Ymmv with any carrier. I live in Jersey City, NJ. T-Mobile's coverage where I live rivals that of Verizon. (I should know, I have accounts, with both companies and a Rezound in my house) I also have a multi line account with T-Mobile. As far as I'm concerned, the only reason I even haz Verizon is Sparky wanted a Rezound.
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Good feedback. Thanks! If I could just unload Verizon with nine months left on contract, it would be nice.
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I'm in he same exact position as you. I wanna leave this ass backwards company. And around Philadelphia T-Mobile is strong. Constant 6-7 megs down. It usually smokes my lte on my thunderbolt unless I'm standing next to a tower
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I'm in he same exact position as you. I wanna leave this ass backwards company. And around Philadelphia T-Mobile is strong. Constant 6-7 megs down. It usually smokes my lte on my thunderbolt unless I'm standing next to a tower
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The only option barring a move to T-Mo is obvious....set up a tent under a Verizon tower.
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The only option barring a move to T-Mo is obvious....set up a tent under a Verizon tower.
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I can't say much about the east coast, I live in Hawaii, on a rock in the middle of a huge pond. Service here is varied but all carriers here have equal amounts of coverage, but varies in different places based on who got priority on that tower location. Also, no HSPA+ or LTE here for anyone
TMobile.
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Has there ever been a radio update to change this a little higher on any other phone? Dropping to 3G from LTE is killer.. I usually leave my phone in CDMA only in my home town area but I went to a launched area this passed week where the roll out is in the 90% complete zone and it still drops from 4G to 3G a lot..
Just wondering if a radio update has ever fixed an issue like this on any other devices in the past.
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There have been radio updates on the past on other phones that helped but thus far not for the ONE yet
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Yup, I think we r over 80% here in austin Texas and it happens to me all day long. My bud just got his T-Mobile One and he hits 20-25 mbps no matter where and when he does a speed test. I could kick myself in the ass for staying with sprint.
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Yup, I think we r over 80% here in austin Texas and it happens to me all day long. My bud just got his T-Mobile One and he hits 20-25 mbps no matter where and when he does a speed test. I could kick myself in the ass for staying with sprint.
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Was thinking about getting the one but after my evo lte was having lte issues and the one seems to have the same I passed . The one is a beautiful phone but dropping lte all the time was a deal breaker .
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parmend said:
Was thinking about getting the one but after my evo lte was having lte issues and the one seems to have the same I passed . The one is a beautiful phone but dropping lte all the time was a deal breaker .
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I don't think the phone is the problem buddy. I think it's a network issue. So unless u are planning on actually leaving sprint it shouldn't be a deal breaker.
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I don't think it's a phone issue but my Note II holds LTE like a champ but damn I don't want to lug that thing around anymore after having the One for this long.. dbm levels are the same on the Note it just doesn't drop to 3G until the -130 range where as the One drops it around -117dbm... I'm holding out on a possible radio update before I do anything drastic like going back to the Note II.
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I don't think the phone is the problem buddy. I think it's a network issue. So unless u are planning on actually leaving sprint it shouldn't be a deal breaker.
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If that's the case then my s4 would have those issues as well but it doesn't . not trying yo start a phone war but HTC or sprint need to get it right .
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It's network and phones that are the issue. First off, it shoildnt be that much of a problem to drop to 3g, as long as the data still works. Buut 3g is worthless usually with no throughput.
Then these HTC phones can't hold on (or wont) to lte for ****, for whatever reason. The iPhone 5, gs3, and 4 all held 4g, and when they dropped it, it quickly moved back up to 4g. This phone, on the other hand, will drop 4g, sit with NO data connection for a while, then connect to worthless 3g while still in a 4g blanketed area.
Then on the LTE topic...I've been waiting and waiting but this crap seems to get slower and slower as time passes. Plenty of times I will get less than 1mbps. Ive been waiting almost 2 years for them to get it together but it seems that it won't be happening. Back to tmobole (<10 mbps always) I go
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Well I keep telling myself I need to try a galaxy but the build of the HTC phones keep luring me in. Maybe with this phone being a more popular model because it is across different carriers unlike the Evo line the devs can find away to adjust the settings of the hardware. It is very annoying when my T-Mobile buddy constantly pulls 15-25 mbps on his speed tests and I look at mine and see 3g icon on top. I know there is lte out there we r 80% complete here
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Excellent though this sounds, I find it hard to remain enthusiastic about Sprint in light of the new plans "unlimited" plans they've been shopping around that severely restricts roaming data.
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Excellent though this sounds, I find it hard to remain enthusiastic about Sprint in light of the new plans "unlimited" plans they've been shopping around that severely restricts roaming data.
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Yep roaming costs a lot of money. No carrier wants you to roam. Look at any carriers tos.
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Is this something the GS4 is able to take advantage of? I know they said they are releasing 3 new phones.
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Also Sprint is bringing service to a lot of subway stations in nyc so I'm happy
Source: engadget
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Is this something the GS4 is able to take advantage of? I know they said they are releasing 3 new phones.
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Our S4 cannot do LTE @ 800Mhz. Only 1900.
And LA is one of the first cities to get the new triband! Ughhh
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We all know if you have sprint coverage your getting lte. The question is what's sprint going to do about the other 70% of America that were roaming or no coverage. Fix that then yes sprint competes with Verizon.
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We all know if you have sprint coverage your getting lte. The question is what's sprint going to do about the other 70% of America that were roaming or no coverage. Fix that then yes sprint competes with Verizon.
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Where did you get 70% from?
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Where did you get 70% from?
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Out of his ass....must have Sprint confused with T-Mobile. Sprint home coverage covers somwhere around 70% of the U.S. geographically and around 85-90% of the population currently. When NV is completed, around 95% of the population will be covered by 800,1900,2300mhz (tri-band)LTE and 800mhz voice.
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We all know if you have sprint coverage your getting lte. The question is what's sprint going to do about the other 70% of America that were roaming or no coverage. Fix that then yes sprint competes with Verizon.
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I live in Sacramento California and don't have LTE. The only place that really has LTE in California is the bay area and LA. Not sure where the if you have Sprint coverage you are getting LTE comes from.
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I live in Sacramento California and don't have LTE. The only place that really has LTE in California is the bay area and LA. Not sure where the if you have Sprint coverage you are getting LTE comes from.
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I heard there were a few towers in Sac that had been turned on. His profile shows he's in Indiana I believe.
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can't wait.. Denvers on the list!! ^-^'
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I heard there were a few towers in Sac that had been turned on. His profile shows he's in Indiana I believe.
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I know there is like 7 towers with live LTE in rural Sacramento. But that doesn't cover the 1 million plus that live here is my point
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Sadly I doubt that this will have any benefit for my area. Despite being within 4 miles of 2 large casinos Sprint coverage in this area is spotty at best. I doubt if any municipalities with less than 1 million residents will ever get any form of Sprint LTE.
Verizon has LTE in practically the entire state but their pricing and customer service are so crappy that I would not even consider switching to them.
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Sadly I doubt that this will have any benefit for my area. Despite being within 4 miles of 2 large casinos Sprint coverage in this area is spotty at best. I doubt if any municipalities with less than 1 million residents will ever get any form of Sprint LTE.
Verizon has LTE in practically the entire state but their pricing and customer service are so crappy that I would not even consider switching to them.
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Really ? Landcaster and victorville in so cal both have LTE and have a population of 1 million. And small.cities of less that 100,000 in central California have LTE
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Sadly I doubt that this will have any benefit for my area. Despite being within 4 miles of 2 large casinos Sprint coverage in this area is spotty at best. I doubt if any municipalities with less than 1 million residents will ever get any form of Sprint LTE.
Verizon has LTE in practically the entire state but their pricing and customer service are so crappy that I would not even consider switching to them.
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The plan is that anywhere that has 3g will have LTE by the end of next year.
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One of the problems I have already been seeing is that you now get charged extra for data roaming in places where it used to be included in your plan. A lot of peeps I know are getting let out of contracts because of that. And from what I'm hearing it actually doesn't seem like roaming signal in general is as good as it was just a few months ago.
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The plan is that anywhere that has 3g will have LTE by the end of next year.
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If that turns out to be the case I will be pleasantly surprised.
The service is amazing over here at Verizon.. Data speeds are significantly better in every way.. Having LTE in the middle of a lake in Idaho is a plus.. But damn the locked bootloader and all the bs rootblocking updates. They put a huge setback on erytang.. Even with the $154,8658,000,000 bounty. Just thought I'd let you guys know I was thinking about ya
Flashaway my old friends.
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Kind of feel like this is a waste of a thread and space. Since it doesn't contribute to the community.
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I think it does add to the community. I'm sure there are lots of folks wondering if the grass is greener. Nice to have some real users of both services tell us the good AND bad.
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I think it does add to the community. I'm sure there are lots of folks wondering if the grass is greener. Nice to have some real users of both services tell us the good AND bad.
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Yeah but all he said was Verizon has better signal and speeds which is. common knowledge to most of us. And that Verizon blocks bootloaders, while sprint doesn't.
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Nothing wrong with this. It's good to know the pros and cons.
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Yeah but all he said was Verizon has better signal and speeds which is. common knowledge to most of us. And that Verizon blocks bootloaders, while sprint doesn't.
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I didn't realize Verizon blocked boot loaders, so good to know.
I'm happy with my data speeds and coverage on Sprint. 40-60mbs is nothing to laugh at. Not many places I find don't have LTE anymore. Fast updates and no locked anything is a huge plus. Spring will be seeing many more Verizon customers in the coming months. S4/Note 3/S5 all locked from here out will bring more over.
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eskomo said:
I'm happy with my data speeds and coverage on Sprint. 40-60mbs is nothing to laugh at. Not many places I find don't have LTE anymore. Fast updates and no locked anything is a huge plus. Spring will be seeing many more Verizon customers in the coming months. S4/Note 3/S5 all locked from here out will bring more over.
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Then you're lucky, because there are still TONS of places that don't have LTE, including major cities. I was in Denver a few weeks ago and still had to make do with 3G just like I do at home. Also, 40-60 mbs is unheard of, even on Verizon and AT&T. My home wifi isn't even that fast. If that figure is even remotely accurate, you're definitely a (very) rare exception rather than the rule.
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eskomo said:
I'm happy with my data speeds and coverage on Sprint. 40-60mbs is nothing to laugh at. Not many places I find don't have LTE anymore. Fast updates and no locked anything is a huge plus. Spring will be seeing many more Verizon customers in the coming months. S4/Note 3/S5 all locked from here out will bring more over.
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That HAS to be a typo....
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That HAS to be a typo....
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Either a typo or BS. If anyone is actually getting those kinds of speeds on ANY mobile network in the US (let alone Sprint), I'll eat my own face.
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Either a typo or BS. If anyone is actually getting those kinds of speeds on ANY mobile network in the US (let alone Sprint), I'll eat my own face.
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My boss routinely pulls 40-45Mbps downloads on his Verizon GNEX at work (Cleveland, TN)
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My boss routinely pulls 40-45Mbps downloads on his Verizon GNEX at work (Cleveland, TN)
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As I pointed out earlier, that is very much the exception and not the rule. Also, you'll never get speeds like that on Sprint LTE.
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As I pointed out earlier, that is very much the exception and not the rule. Also, you'll never get speeds like that on Sprint LTE.
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You also said you would eat your face if anyone got those speeds on ANY network, let alone Sprint. I'm just saying it happens
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My boss routinely pulls 40-45Mbps downloads on his Verizon GNEX at work (Cleveland, TN)
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Maybe burst speed, but not steady speed.
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My wife has vzw note 2. Here in indiana we have equal lte coverage but vzw speeds is usually 3-4 down. My sprint phone always whips vzw here. Dont dog Sprint. I avg 10-20 down and hit 30-40 down alot. This is all from our single band only phones. The only edge vzw has is lte building Penetration. All will be solved with tri band lte devices.
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Idk OP, my service and bandwidth on Sprint's LTE is pretty solid, speaking as a recent convert from Verizon.
Ohh, I remember the good ol' days before Verizon lost their way. I was a Verizon customer during the release of the OG Motorola Droid, and that phone was like a development catalyst. I discovered xda thanks to that phone's development following. Everything I came to love about customizing kernels and roms came from that phone. ****, I remember what now seems like an ancient version of CyanogenMod for that OG Droid. I remember that phone out of the box was underclocked of all things, from 550Mhz down to 450 which made overclocking that thing to a meaty 1ish Ghz seem so beastly at the time lol!
Ahhhh good times :good:
Decent Sprint LTE speeds in College Park, MD
I get decent speeds (15-23 Mb down, 7-10 Mb up) on Sprint in College Park MD according to Speedtest.
Won't the speeds for the Sprint LTE towers drop for an individual once more people start utilizing it? I suspect some people are getting very high speeds because not a lot of Sprint users are tapping into the LTE bandwidth yet?
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I remember that phone out of the box was underclocked of all things, from 550Mhz down to 450 which made overclocking that thing to a meaty 1ish Ghz seem so beastly at the time lol!
Ahhhh good times :good:
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Close - it was a 600 mhz CPU underclocked to 550 mhz. I remember there were kernels that could overclock the thing all the way to 1.3 ghz. I've still never used another phone that could be overclocked that far past the native clock speed (by percentage, at least). Good times.
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Hello Everyone,
Seeing as I'm a MetroPCS user and I don't see any MetroPCS/Nexus 5 related threads yet, I decided to create one. In which we may discuss all things related to our Nexus 5's on MetroPCS's BYOD Network (T-Mobile).
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MetroPCS 4G Cap Speeds.
Well to get things started, I currently have MetroPCS $40.00 plan in which I have 500MB of 4G LTE. But get this guys, I'm past 500MB, I'm at 840MB and my speeds still haven't been throttled down.
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What do you guys think?
Been wanting to see what speeds or connection I'd get dropped to after, but still going strong on 4G!
JD2589 said:
Well to get things started, I currently have MetroPCS $40.00 plan in which I have 500MB of 4G LTE. But get this guys, I'm past 500MB, I'm at 840MB and my speeds still haven't been throttled down.
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What do you guys think?
Been wanting to see what speeds or connection I'd get dropped to after, but still going strong on 4G!
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Are you noticing no slow down on your speeds or connection type? Whats your speedtest results? When you hit say 500mb on the $40 plan you still will stay on LTE but will have throttled speeds, They wont force you down to 3G or EDGE
hyelton said:
Are you noticing no slow down on your speeds or connection type? Whats your speedtest results? When you hit say 500mb on the $40 plan you still will stay on LTE but will have throttled speeds, They wont force you down to 3G or EDGE
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Nope, fastest speed test today on 4G was 21mbps down. I haven't been throttled yet.
I'm wondering if I do get throttled if I can force 3G after, and have unlimited 3G speeds like when I was Houdini flashed?
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JD2589 said:
Well to get things started, I currently have MetroPCS $40.00 plan in which I have 500MB of 4G LTE. But get this guys, I'm past 500MB, I'm at 840MB and my speeds still haven't been throttled down.
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What do you guys think?
Been wanting to see what speeds or connection I'd get dropped to after, but still going strong on 4G!
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JD2589 said:
Nope, fastest speed test today on 4G was 21mbps down. I haven't been throttled yet.
I'm wondering if I do get throttled if I can force 3G after, and have unlimited 3G speeds like when I was Houdini flashed?
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Not sure. You mean by flashed was on the old MetroPCS network? (CDMA)? Since the new network is GSM prob wont. I`d love to try out MetroPCS they have the $60 plan but not sure if the website will let me order, As the closest Metro Market to me is Atlanta but I live 3 hours from there in a state with none of there original coverage, But T-Mobile is all around me so I`m not sure if its now based on T-Mobile covergae when ordering or there original coverage areas.
Does tethering work?
hyelton said:
Not sure. You mean by flashed was on the old MetroPCS network? (CDMA)? Since the new network is GSM prob wont. I`d love to try out MetroPCS they have the $60 plan but not sure if the website will let me order, As the closest Metro Market to me is Atlanta but I live 3 hours from there in a state with none of there original coverage, But T-Mobile is all around me so I`m not sure if its now based on T-Mobile covergae when ordering or there original coverage areas.
Does tethering work?
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Truthfully I haven't tried tethering yet, I've had my N5 on MetroPCS for about a week and a half only.
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Tethering will work the same as t-mobile. We're running on the t-mobile network and the throttling is down to 20kbps. I'm on the unlimited for 60 plan because it's so slow.
My first week of having my Nexus 5.
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FuMMoD said:
Tethering will work the same as t-mobile. We're running on the t-mobile network and the throttling is down to 20kbps. I'm on the unlimited for 60 plan because it's so slow.
My first week of having my Nexus 5.
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Was waiting for you to come around.
Throttling is down to 20kbps!
Is their any way around it, like forcing CDMA mode or something to get 3G?
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JD2589 said:
Was waiting for you to come around.
Throttling is down to 20kbps!
Is their any way around it, like forcing CDMA mode or something to get 3G?
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Not sure exactly how to do that with the Nexus 5. I don't think there is a way to do it though since it's gsm.
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FuMMoD said:
Not sure exactly how to do that with the Nexus 5. I don't think there is a way to do it though since it's gsm.
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Dialer>*#*#INFO#*#*>Phone Information. There you can mess with Network types.
Waiting to get throttled to try it. 863MB used.
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JD2589 said:
Dialer>*#*#INFO#*#*>Phone Information. There you can mess with Network types.
Waiting to get throttled to try it. 863MB used.
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Can you do a screenshot of your settings.
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FuMMoD said:
Can you do a screenshot of your settings.
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You got it:
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JD2589 said:
You got it:
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Same thing here and I get throttled to 2g speeds even though they swear it's 3g.
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FuMMoD said:
Same thing here and I get throttled to 2g speeds even though they swear it's 3g.
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:/
Do you get throttled as soon as you hit your Data limit?
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JD2589 said:
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Do you get throttled as soon as you hit your Data limit?
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First time I got throttled very quick. I barely got over 500 and was already throttled. This is pretty much 15kBytes per second download.
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FuMMoD said:
First time I got throttled very quick. I barely got over 500 and was already throttled. This is pretty much 15kBytes per second download.
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Well that definitely sucks, that's unusable..
Hopefully I'm privileged because I haven't been throttle. We shall see I'll keep this updated.
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JD2589 said:
Was waiting for you to come around.
Throttling is down to 20kbps!
Is their any way around it, like forcing CDMA mode or something to get 3G?
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dont you mean WCDMA? CDMA and GSM are completely two different networks that are not compatible with each other..
GSM - T-Mobile, AT&T / MetroPCS uses T-Mobile towers on the GSM side.
CDMA - Verizon, USCELLULAR, Sprint, MetroPCS (BEFORE T-Mobile Bought them)(or for Bring your on phone)
On GSM 3G is called WCDMA which is not the same as CDMA.
hyelton said:
dont you mean WCDMA? CDMA and GSM are completely two different networks that are not compatible with each other..
GSM - T-Mobile, AT&T / MetroPCS uses T-Mobile towers on the GSM side.
CDMA - Verizon, USCELLULAR, Sprint, MetroPCS (BEFORE T-Mobile Bought them)(or for Bring your on phone)
On GSM 3G is called WCDMA which is not the same as CDMA.
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Yes indeed I meant WCDMA, but Thanks for pointing it out.
Interesting, when I put WCDMA I get 3G but whenever I try to load a webpage it goes to H..
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JD2589 said:
Yes indeed I meant WCDMA, but Thanks for pointing it out.
Interesting, when I put WCDMA I get 3G but whenever I try to load a webpage it goes to H..
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Let me explain that
3G - UMTS - original 3G up to like 7.2megs something like that. 99 of the time when using data you will be on H/H+ in the USA anyway
H - HSPA = UP to 21mbps down
H+ - HSPAP (something like that there's other variations for that one) 21mbps down or DC is 42mbps down which T-Mobile has
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hyelton said:
Let me explain that
3G - UMTS - original 3G up to like 7.2megs something like that. 99 of the time when using data you will be on H/H+ in the USA anyway
H - HSPA = UP to 21mbps down
H+ - HSPAP (something like that there's other variations for that one) 21mbps down or DC is 42mbps down which T-Mobile has
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Thanks for your explanation. :thumbup:
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