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[Q] International roaming block

Sprint service is crap where I work (outer areas of Detroit), so I am using Roam Control for when I get near work. Most of the time I get a tower in the US, but every once in a while a Canadian Tower appears.
Sprint has told me to update the PRL (done 01115) and has tried to block the international roaming (didn't work), so now I am here to ask the experts.
Is there someway to prevent locking onto an International Tower?
I am running Syndicate Frozen ROM with Emotionless Beast Theme (which deserves more thanks than I could give, since this is how I figured out I was on international tower).

notmyepic said:
Sprint service is crap where I work (outer areas of Detroit), so I am using Roam Control for when I get near work. Most of the time I get a tower in the US, but every once in a while a Canadian Tower appears.
Sprint has told me to update the PRL (done 01115) and has tried to block the international roaming (didn't work), so now I am here to ask the experts.
Is there someway to prevent locking onto an International Tower?
I am running Syndicate Frozen ROM with Emotionless Beast Theme (which deserves more thanks than I could give, since this is how I figured out I was on international tower).
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I think that your best bet is to enable the Roaming Guard.
Now I would advise you download ROAM CONTROL (http://www.appbrain.com/app/roam-control/com.vuvuzela.roamcontrol) and force the network to HOME ONLY and that might work out for you
Let us know.

megabiteg said:
I think that your best bet is to enable the Roaming Guard.
Now I would advise you download ROAM CONTROL (http://www.appbrain.com/app/roam-control/com.vuvuzela.roamcontrol) and force the network to HOME ONLY and that might work out for you
Let us know.
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I have and use Roam Control so that my phone will work at/near work which I want. I would say 95% of the time at work, I am on a US tower. I am just looking to prevent the other 5% from charging me International roaming charges.

notmyepic said:
I have and use Roam Control so that my phone will work at/near work which I want. I would say 95% of the time at work, I am on a US tower. I am just looking to prevent the other 5% from charging me International roaming charges.
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To what setting you have it? Home Network or Automatic?

megabiteg said:
To what setting you have it? Home Network or Automatic?
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When I am using it, it is on Roam Only.
When Emotionless Beast said "International" instead of its usual "Emotionless Beast" on the lock screen, I would think that somewhere in the programming it the phone knows where it is at, and am simply wondering if there is a way to block data while on international.

notmyepic said:
(done 01115).
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what a weird prl number. ive seen others talking about getting a 01xxx prl lately too. whats up with that? mine is still 60676.

austin420 said:
what a weird prl number. ive seen others talking about getting a 01xxx prl lately too. whats up with that? mine is still 60676.
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Not sure what it is all about. The last link in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13153111 talked about this PRL, so I manually loaded it.

Bumping, since my phone is seems to go into International roaming anytime I am at work now.
Staying on Sprint Network only is not something that I want to do. After paying a lot for the 4 phones I have with Sprint (and the fact I do not leave the US) I do not think I should have to pay for the Canada Roaming addon.
Sprint told me update the PRL ("to one that is greater then 64" was actual quote from the rep) and this will end me getting an International tower.
My PRL does not update automatically (don't know why, maybe due to Syndicate Frozen rom), so I manually updated to 60676 and still get the international tower.
Does anyone have any other ideas on what I can do?

If it is only at work you are concerned about maybe you can talk your boss and Sprint into setting up an Airave there so you won't roam at all.
Do you BONSAI?

Didn't think about that. I will have to talk to them about it.

So after many conversations with Sprint and many bill adjustments, we came up with the solution of turning off Data while roaming on my phone. This still allows me to be contacted by texting and voice.
Allthough still not happy that International towers cannot be turned off completely, at least my kids are able to get a hold of me.

Slow Network Speeds?

I hate tech support calls, I have no patience for those calls because I'm above them technically in so many ways (not to sound conceited, but I work in IT for a living, and I'm high up the chain).
What type of network speed is this thing supposed to get on Sprint? On average, I'm not getting any faster than 5mbit.

I'm lucky if I ever get over 1mbit here in Orange County. Usually get 0.5mbps here. Only in off hours do I ever go over that, so I know it's not even my reception. Just their crap network. Freaking sprint...

agentfazexx said:
I hate tech support calls, I have no patience for those calls because I'm above them technically in so many ways (not to sound conceited, but I work in IT for a living, and I'm high up the chain).
What type of network speed is this thing supposed to get on Sprint? On average, I'm not getting any faster than 5mbit.
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Depends on your area. I don't have 4g and my 3g sucks as well. I get around 200-400 kbps. Luckily I use my wifi.
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musclehead84 said:
Depends on your area. I don't have 4g and my 3g sucks as well. I get around 200-400 kbps. Luckily I use my wifi.
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I'm right outside Baltimore. 4G bounces up and down all the time, it's pretty bad.

I don't have 4G in my area, but my 3G speeds are posted in my sig. Anywhere from 1.5 to 2.3 usually.

05GT said:
I don't have 4G in my area, but my 3G speeds are posted in my sig. Anywhere from 1.5 to 2.3 usually.
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Yeah, that's what I get on 4G a lot of times.

The problem seems to be at home, at work is pretty quick. At home I'm getting 2mbit. How do I approach Sprint support with this issue? I am tired of the stupid "turn your phone on and off" troubleshooting.

I think your fighting a losing battle because its probably not the phone as much as it is the network. Guess we will find out what the plans are at the big event coming up

Not sure if this will work for you but i went here and it actually boosted my 3g by over 400+ kbps. now i normally pull about 1.5 Mbps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1283229

ilostmypistons said:
I think your fighting a losing battle because its probably not the phone as much as it is the network. Guess we will find out what the plans are at the big event coming up
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What event?

The only event I know of is when they announce that they're carrying the iPhone.

agentfazexx said:
The only event I know of is when they announce that they're carrying the iPhone.
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They announce their network plans today at 930 eastern time.
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craigbailey1986 said:
They announce their network plans today at 930 eastern time.
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Ah nice. Where can I read about it? I'm at work at the moment.

agentfazexx said:
Ah nice. Where can I read about it? I'm at work at the moment.
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I'm sure tech blogs will post articles post event. I believe Eric Zeman (of phonescoop.com) is at the event -- I think he'll probably provide live coverage here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/phonescooper

geekaren said:
I'm sure tech blogs will post articles post event. I believe Eric Zeman (of phonescoop.com) is at the event -- I think he'll probably provide live coverage here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/phonescooper
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Nice. Let's hope they actually fix their 4G coverage and increase speeds. This phone can handle some insane speeds, faster than my 35/35 Fios connection.

Well I finally got tech support after my cell service dropping over and over again, and they're saying my phone is having issues. 4G stays connected but instead of bars, I get a circle with a line through it, and it says "searching for service." This HAS to be a Sprint issue...

LOS finally hit me... and hit HARD!

I was at the Brewer's game last night, and the loss of service was horrible. I literally rebooted 18 (I counted) times during the game, that was just to get my missed text messages.
Scary thing is that I had nearly full bars showing for the cellular signal, but the 3G was terrible. Every time the 3G dropped too low, it took both the 3G and cellular service with it, and it never came back. At one point, I rebooted 5 times in a row, and still had no service (no data, and texting/calling would not work), even though I was showing nearly full reception.
I couldn't keep the radios working long enough to even successfully use Roam control. By the time I was able to switch to roaming (on Cellular One, apparently), the radios were already crashed, and I still had no service (even though I still had no indication).
About halfway through the game, I finally started getting the triangle notification "You have lost data services be...." Toggling roaming policies and roam guards did nothing to make this go away... Whether I was in forced roam or on Sprint.
I assume that there was a lot of network congestion at a playoff game, but clearly this phone does not handle network congestion well. I never had this problem with the Samsung Moment, and it saddens me to think that that piece of crap does ANYTHING better than the ET!
I wonder if the low data signal somehow creates a cascade of events that tells the phone to shut down the radios?

I never experienced LOS until yesterday and it's hit me 5 times now since. I reverted back to stock kernel for the time being, but I'm afraid it'll happen again since it's even a stock problem (from what I've heard.)

There is a kernel in the dev section to fix LOS. Take a look at lostkernel.
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Damn, y'all got me scared to get this phone.

Khilbron said:
There is a kernel in the dev section to fix LOS. Take a look at lostkernel.
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Seems like some are getting in on Jmthat one as well.
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Dalmus said:
I was at the Brewer's game last night, and the loss of service was horrible. I literally rebooted 18 (I counted) times during the game, that was just to get my missed text messages.
Scary thing is that I had nearly full bars showing for the cellular signal, but the 3G was terrible. Every time the 3G dropped too low, it took both the 3G and cellular service with it, and it never came back. At one point, I rebooted 5 times in a row, and still had no service (no data, and texting/calling would not work), even though I was showing nearly full reception.
I couldn't keep the radios working long enough to even successfully use Roam control. By the time I was able to switch to roaming (on Cellular One, apparently), the radios were already crashed, and I still had no service (even though I still had no indication).
About halfway through the game, I finally started getting the triangle notification "You have lost data services be...." Toggling roaming policies and roam guards did nothing to make this go away... Whether I was in forced roam or on Sprint.
I assume that there was a lot of network congestion at a playoff game, but clearly this phone does not handle network congestion well. I never had this problem with the Samsung Moment, and it saddens me to think that that piece of crap does ANYTHING better than the ET!
I wonder if the low data signal somehow creates a cascade of events that tells the phone to shut down the radios?
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What kernel are you on?
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musclehead84 said:
What kernel are you on?
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I'm running the stock with root (flashed CWM, then flashed the root .zip).
I forgot to mention that after the game in the parking lot (about 4 blocks from the stadium) a reboot set my phone working perfectly fine again, so I'm thinking its a combination of something Sprint's network tells our phone, and then something in Samsung's kernel goes "Duh...."

Brewers suck. Go Cards!
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lancelane said:
Brewers suck. Go Cards!
Sent from my Epic on Midnight or my Galaxy Tab rooted (feels naked without a ROM) from good ole St Louis Missouri.
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(It was a great game Let's hope we keep it going at home tomorrow!! Go Cards!!)
That stinks about the phone though :-( I hope it's something that gets resolved, sorry you had to mess with it during the game.

Roam Control periodically does a license check when you start it. If you don't have data, and it decides to check the license, you are SOL.
As for rebooting, it was necessary to reboot because that's the only time I got text messages. We had two sets of two seats, and texting was the only way to communicate with people 3 second away.
Perhaps you should spend some time with kindergartners and take some etiquette lessons. Although they might be too advanced in that area for you to learn much.

nabbed said:
Perhaps you should try to stop texting to people who are 39 seconds away.
And Roam Control required internet? Really?
What version of this ridiculously hypocritical app do you use?
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It does do checks every so often... Cum on men, give the guy a break.

nabbed said:
Perhaps you should try to stop texting to people who are 39 seconds away.
And Roam Control required internet? Really?
What version of this ridiculously hypocritical app do you use?
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Great. Let's see you try to set up meeting places, or exit strategies with people you can't communicate with. Or are you the rude type that would barge into the middle of somebody else's section?
As for Roam Control, it just updated from the market, so its the latest version. Try reading the description.
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BethyM said:
(It was a great game Let's hope we keep it going at home tomorrow!! Go Cards!!)
That stinks about the phone though :-( I hope it's something that gets resolved, sorry you had to mess with it during the game.
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I preferred Sunday's game myself.
Despite how it sounds, I spent more time watching the game (such as it was!) than messing with the phone. Reboots and clicking resend on a text doesn't really take that long, thankfully!
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Sprint's 3G in Milwaukee is not working at all. Sprint offered to let me out of contract free because of the 3G being out since June and still not fixed.
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I live in Milwaukee as well and I can vouch for how terrible the 3g is here. I only use about 1 gig a month in data on a light month and about 2 gigs a month on a heavy month. I even tried using my slingplayer as much as I could keeping it on for a few hours at a time for a whole month and I barely used 3 gigs!! When Verizon gets a nice phone with LTE I'm ditching sprint for a network that actually works here. And I don't care about the caps because I don't even use that much to begin with. And if Sprint ends up getting LTE in Milwaukee by 2013 maybe I'll come back...but since sprint has no wimax here...and they won't fix the 3G, I'm guessing Milwaukee will be the very last city to get LTE.....

worldwidepmp said:
Damn, y'all got me scared to get this phone.
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Don't root yet.....problem solved.

Dalmus said:
I preferred Sunday's game myself.
Despite how it sounds, I spent more time watching the game (such as it was!) than messing with the phone. Reboots and clicking resend on a text doesn't really take that long, thankfully!
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I didn't get to see Sunday's because we had plans. Excited for tonight's game. Always enjoy a good play off, even better when my home team is in. Of course, the tension keeps it amusing.... hmmm... kinda like XDA.
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nabbed said:
Why are you crying?
Do a motherfathering data reset. Stop being a victim. And stop posting here.
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First off, I've done multiple data resets since I activated the phone last month, and 3G data has not improved one bit.
Second, according to other posts, I obviously am not the only one with a data problem in my city, so posting here helped me with some evidence to go to Sprint and get credit or out of my contract, doesn't it?

Err0rist said:
Sprint's 3G in Milwaukee is not working at all. Sprint offered to let me out of contract free because of the 3G being out since June and still not fixed.
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The ONLY place I get decent 3G speeds is by the airport. Just did a speed test, and I got 1.3mbs down... Everywhere else in the city, I average somewhere around .15, which is basically 1xRTT speeds.
How did you go about getting the offer to let you out of the contract? Did you have to call multiple times? Honestly, I'm hoping that this phantom update that's supposedly coming this month actually fixes something, but with Samsung/Sprint, I'm not holding my breath.
I go back to my experience with the Moment. Sprint put out several updated, but never managed to fix the data lock problem (which also cut out voice service, which is eerily similar to what's happening here). It took the devs over at SDX to fix the problem by porting Froyo over from the Acclaim (or maybe it was the Intercept... I forget).
Bonus information: By the airport there is a 4G tower that's active. I can pull 3mbs at work, and if I go about 6 blocks north, I can pull 11mbs.

jaygraffix said:
I live in Milwaukee as well and I can vouch for how terrible the 3g is here. I only use about 1 gig a month in data on a light month and about 2 gigs a month on a heavy month. I even tried using my slingplayer as much as I could keeping it on for a few hours at a time for a whole month and I barely used 3 gigs!! When Verizon gets a nice phone with LTE I'm ditching sprint for a network that actually works here. And I don't care about the caps because I don't even use that much to begin with. And if Sprint ends up getting LTE in Milwaukee by 2013 maybe I'll come back...but since sprint has no wimax here...and they won't fix the 3G, I'm guessing Milwaukee will be the very last city to get LTE.....
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Yeah, that's my worry. Sprint doesn't seem to have any logical progression of cities they implement 4G in. Milwaukee is a Top 20 city (by population), so you'd think they'd be in the first wave. But no, they'd rather put 4G in Milledgville, GA, population 19,000 before a city with 500,000.

Help with wifi tether speeds!!!

Anyone know how to increase the wireless tether speed I have tired the built in tether and after messing with several rom's I am getting horrible speeds.
Tried to install wifi tether and could not get that to work either.
I am currently running decks rim.
Used to get speeds of up to 2mb on the built in Tether and close to 4 using wifi tether. now best I get is .8
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Welcome to Sprint's "blazing fast" 3g network.

Pretty much what he said you can try to do a speed test and see what you get but pretty much you can look for better service for better speeds
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You can also try setting up a proxy.

Yes, Sprints 3G & 4G speeds have been circling the drain for almost a year now. Tower to device speeds are bad; tower through device to laptop speeds are terrible.
If you have Easytether you're in luck. Back it up in triplicate. Don't allow automatic updates. Any updates will either remove it or render it unusable. ET is no longer available for Sprint 4G devices. If you can find a copy, simply side load it.
For Wireless Tether, setting up a proxy is definitely the way to go. Filter Proxy, available free in Market, will do the trick. There is a quick set-up guide somewhere here at XDA. While not as fast as EasyTether, the Wireless Tether with Filter Proxy isn't too bad.

I had this problem their are three things I did to fix it they are all easy 1. Call sprint and tell them you are haveing trouble makeing and receiving calls, bad data speeds blah blah blah (their will be an option somewhere in their voicemail that basically says that.) They will reset your data which will make everything faster. They will make you update your phones radios and etc. Cancel those and do it yourself (I just reflashed a rom I knew had them all included) 2. If you haven't already v6 supercharge and 3g optimize (they are both posted on xda) 3. Overlock the heck out of it whenever you run tether.
Ps. I don't think v6 will make it faster but it will make your phone faster so it might help a lil. Also I have never tried this but I know you can make your phone default to verizon 4g lte this might help verizon has better service where you live
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Also I have never tried this but I know you can make your phone default to verizon 4g lte
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Ummm, no, the Evo doesn't have a 4g lte radio.

sitlet said:
Ummm, no, the Evo doesn't have a 4g lte radio.
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I'm gona assume he means roaming on the verizon PRL.

No I forget where it is but their is deffinatly a tutorial somewhere on xda to make it so your phone will default to a verizon lte tower. Its cause the thunderbolt is like the exact same phone.
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paallday said:
No I forget where it is but their is deffinatly a tutorial somewhere on xda to make it so your phone will default to a verizon lte tower. Its cause the thunderbolt is like the exact same phone.
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You read wrong or person has no idea what he's talking about the evo has a wimax antenna no lte antenna we can connect to their 3g but never 4g on our evos
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I asked my buddy who works for verizon and he said their lte is basically 3g... And it theoretically could work..
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paallday said:
I asked my buddy who works for verizon and he said their lte is basically 3g... And it theoretically could work..
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Haha you have no idea what you are talking about. Again, Verizon's 4g is LTE based, Sprint's is Wimax. Two COMPLETELY different networks. The Evo does NOT have an LTE radio, therefore you will NEVER be able to connect to verizon's 4g. Yes, the Thunderbolt and Evo are similar, except for the fact that the Thunderbolt has a 4g LTE radio and not a Wimax radio.
And no, Verizon's 4g is not "basically 3g". My friends with Verizon phones can pull 15mbps down all day long.

Well he said their the same and it could work, he's managed a verizon store for ten years now so if u think u know better that's ur problem go find the post if u want...
And ur friend just has better service where u live dummy cuz my Evo is faster than my girlfreinds thunderbolt by five mpbs... Dummy
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Well he said their the same and it could work,
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Again, he's wrong, they are two DIFFERENT networks, which require two DIFFERENT radios.
he's managed a verizon store for ten years now
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OOOOOO, who cares?
if u think u know better that's ur problem go find the post if u want...
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Here you go:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9207642/4G_shootout_Verizon_LTE_vs._Sprint_WiMax
http://androidforums.com/verizon/65502-will-htc-evo-work-verizon.html
http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/74384-evo-wimax-useability-lte.html
And ur friend just has better service where u live dummy cuz my Evo is faster than my girlfreinds thunderbolt by five mpbs... Dummy
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http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2011/04/04/verizon-4g-lte-vs-sprint-4g-wimax-speed-test-winner/

Again how do you know? How about this the next time I see my friend at carnagee melon who is going to school for electronic engineering and ill see what he says...... Back to my first point this dude just needs to overclock his phone and 3g optimize
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Again how do you know?
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Umm, look at the FCC specs for the Evo. It does NOT have an LTE radio!!! Look at the specs for a Thunderbolt, it DOES have an LTE radio!
Here's another way to check, force your phone to roam and then turn on 4g, it wont work!

Stop bableing like a lunatic, I asked my boy he said you don't meet a lte radio to connect because ITS BASICALLY 3G! he said the lte don't do nothing and Evo deffinatly could pick it up with some tricky prl work, he said he knows you don't think that would be 4glte but he said that at least in philly u get about the same speed because 4glte is a load of crap... So for the last time DUMMY
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paallday said:
Stop bableing like a lunatic, I asked my boy he said you don't meet a lte radio to connect because ITS BASICALLY 3G! he said the lte don't do nothing and Evo deffinatly could pick it up with some tricky prl work, he said he knows you don't think that would be 4glte but he said that at least in philly u get about the same speed because 4glte is a load of crap... So for the last time DUMMY
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So since you think you can connect to lte why don't you show us a good picture or video that it is Verizon's 4g you are connected to
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A. Never said I did B. If u would read you would see I wrote that at least here in philly (I assume its the same elsewhere) the 4g lte is a gag you get the same service on their 3g its faster because their network is just better so like I said the whole time you can just change the prl no need for different radios.
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Stop bableing like a lunatic,
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I'M the lunatic??? You're the one who doesn't know what he is talking about. Getting your information from some dude that works at Verizon is NOT a reputable source.
I asked my boy he said you don't meet a lte radio to connect because ITS BASICALLY 3G!
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"Basically 3g?" What does that mean? Does that mean a Ford Mustang is BASICALLY the same as a Chevy Corvette? I mean, they are both cars... Does that mean an orange and a grapefruit are BASICALLY the same? They are both round....
he said the lte don't do nothing
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That makes a WHOLE lot of sense...
Evo deffinatly could pick it up with some tricky prl work
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Again, NO!!!! LTE and Wimax are two different techniques, with two completely different frequency sets. A software hack will NEVER allow the evo to connect to lte. And again, if you are SOOOO SURE of yourself, why not connect to Verizon LTE with your evo and then take a picture of it.
because 4glte is a load of crap...
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Ummm, no, 4g LTE is NOT crap. My work phone with Verizon can pull 20mbps down all day long, that is NOT crap, that is faster than 60% of American's home internet.
Face it man, you have no clue what you are talking about. 4g LTE is NOT "basically 3g". If 4g was basically 3g, then they wouldn't call it 4g and make all this hype about it. Do yourself a favor, and actually READ those links I gave you. That is, if you are actually capable of reading...
Or maybe just make a new post asking if the evo can connect to LTE, I'm sure you will love getting flamed by the rest of the people here.

4G LTE working on non activated phones?

QBking77 posted a very interesting video today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCp9BDNz4B4&nofeather=True
What are your thoughts on this? How is Sprint going to react? I'm actually surprised it took this long to discover.

We posted the rom here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29387442#post29387442

task650 said:
We posted the rom here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29387442#post29387442
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Off topic but very glad you pointed me there, thanks! :laugh:

Hmm, my thoughts? I think it's hilarious that 4G works on non activated phones while I've been getting "connection problem" messages on my activated phone trying to access 3G. lol. What a kick to the pants...
Guess Sprint really is serious about unlimited data.

flonker said:
Hmm, my thoughts? I think it's hilarious that 4G works on non activated phones while I've been getting "connection problem" messages on my activated phone trying to access 3G. lol. What a kick to the pants...
Guess Sprint really is serious about unlimited data.
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Just have sprint refresh your connection...
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I suspect it won't last long.. Probably just an oversight in their LTE rollout.

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I suspect it won't last long.. Probably just an oversight in their LTE rollout.
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Actually, Sprint is the only one at the moment with LTE operating on that frequency.
I wouldn't be surprised if they, figuratively, hacked the LTE into the system for now and don't perform authentication.
It's possible they removed the authentication due to issues that are being resolved.