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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
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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.

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.

What prl is everyone using?

I'm on 25005 which I think is stock, but it works great. Anyone else using another that's bringing in reliable data? I tried 00002 but it cuts data on my often.

11115, it allows roaming on verizon 3g.

Mine says 60690.

Ascertion said:
I'm on 25005 which I think is stock, but it works great. Anyone else using another that's bringing in reliable data? I tried 00002 but it cuts data on my often.
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I'm on the same one. I would love to put the VZW business (allow 3G roaming) on here, but I have two issues with that: I'm around Chicago, and Sprint and VZW don't have a roaming agreement here, so I'm out of luck even if I could (second issue) force roaming.
So right now I'm 0/2 :crying:

hayzooos said:
I'm on the same one. I would love to put the VZW business (allow 3G roaming) on here, but I have two issues with that: I'm around Chicago, and Sprint and VZW don't have a roaming agreement here, so I'm out of luck even if I could (second issue) force roaming.
So right now I'm 0/2 :crying:
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Chicago has the largest 4g lte network on sprint right now. You won't need prls being on sprint lte. Lol

Ascertion said:
I'm on 25005 which I think is stock, but it works great. Anyone else using another that's bringing in reliable data? I tried 00002 but it cuts data on my often.
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im on 11115

25005 here as well, and 3G in my current location sucks a bag of dicks. This, though, may well be Sprint's problem, as I'm on the phone with them.

k0nane said:
25005 here as well, and 3G in my current location sucks a bag of dicks. This, though, may well be Sprint's problem, as I'm on the phone with them.
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25005 as well. The 3G here sucks. I live in Pittsburgh, and I've been searching for a Galaxy S3 prl thread so I can get good service. Any help changing the prl, or a good one for my area would be great.
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xx5352 said:
25005 as well. The 3G here sucks. I live in Pittsburgh, and I've been searching for a Galaxy S3 prl thread so I can get good service. Any help changing the prl, or a good one for my area would be great.
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If it's persistent, it's not PRL. It just sucks there. Wait for Network Vision.

25005 here in LA and yea, my 3G speeds suck. I'm lucky to break 100 kbps unless it's the middle of the night.

Ascertion said:
Chicago has the largest 4g lte network on sprint right now. You won't need prls being on sprint lte. Lol
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where? i work downtown chicago and i havent seen it yet. :-/

11115 here...metro Detroit area. I haven't really noticed a difference with it. I bought roam control, but haven't set it up cause it apparently doesn't work on this phone from what people have been saying. If I'm in the house near my airrave its fine, but I get 0-2 bars if I go out on the porch, so I usually just stay on WiFi while at home. Seems worse than usual over the last month too. Hopefully that means they've started upgrading the towers around here.....yeah right....:what:
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bisby said:
where? i work downtown chicago and i havent seen it yet. :-/
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On s4gru, it states Chicago has the most completed towers, at 40% total complete. Your Area will hit soon.

Using 12124

PRL 24005 (business account)

Thanks to ducehlmg. He posted this zip with every sprint prl.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29841567
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Just manually switched to PRL 24005... and either Sprint fixed the data issues on the towers around me, or there's magic awesome sauce for corporate users.
EDIT: As I have no chance of LTE for a while, I'm switching to 12124.

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Just manually switched to PRL 24005... and either Sprint fixed the data issues on the towers around me, or there's magic awesome sauce for corporate users.
EDIT: As I have no chance of LTE for a while, I'm switching to 12124.
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How are your speeds on 24005 and 12124?

clankfu said:
How are your speeds on 24005 and 12124?
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There have been problems in my area, so these aren't necessarily indicative... but I got 500-800 on 24005, and 1150+/500+ on 12124.

I think it's time for me to flash a new PRL.

[Q] PRL

I am waiting to get this phone because I need to be able to roam off Verizons 3G in my area. Therefore I need a proven method that allows me to switch my PRL to a corporate PRL. Anyone figure out a working way for this yet?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957805

the3rd said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957805
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24006 didn't really do too much for me. I used 00002 that I was using with my Epic 4G Touch and I'm always on Verizon Evdo with full bars
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1521343
Oh and the3rd's link is still fantastic for the "how to" part.

Just be careful not to roam on verizon too much. You dont want sprint canceling your service.

Prl 25010

So I flash the modded Prl 00001 at my work because I get no signal at all. I well I did the activation refresh with ##72768# and I kept seeing I had Prl 25010 and I usually had 25009. I don't know if it is any good or not. Anyone got this Prl yet? I kept trying to reactivate because I thought it never reset my Prl. I don't know if it's any better or not. Any one else know if it's any good?
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srandroid said:
So I flash the modded Prl 00001 at my work because I get no signal at all. I well I did the activation refresh with ##72768# and I kept seeing I had Prl 25010 and I usually had 25009. I don't know if it is any good or not. Anyone got this Prl yet? I kept trying to reactivate because I thought it never reset my Prl. I don't know if it's any better or not. Any one else know if it's any good?
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Its pretty good check it out first picture if from prl 25009 second is from plr 25010. Ps im sure if they are upgrading my towers around me so not 100% sure but so far stop good.
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Prl upgrades don't give you faster 3g speeds.
Only real difference is Baltimore has 800mhz coverage now.
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digiblur said:
Prl upgrades don't give you faster 3g speeds.
Only real difference is Baltimore has 800mhz coverage now.
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What are you, a prl police for sprint cos I found you everywhere that involves prl. Chill bro.
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What are you, a prl police for sprint cos I found you everywhere that involves prl. Chill bro.
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Guess you don't know me then.
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I got that new PRL and it sucks nuts! :mad

Came in to download the PRL, was disappointed.

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Agreed PRL 25010 for my device has given me nothing but problems. Starting around the 15th for me my device will periodically will not pass incoming calls to the phone nor incoming texts. All data works fine, all outgoing calls and outgoing texts work fine.
Also tested it on my EVO LTE and same problem happens.. Sprint support sees a high percentage of what they call blcoked calls (calls not making it to my device) and they cant explain it. 11% today, 25% on the 15th. She said anyhting higher then 5% is not good.
Ive already been told by another XDA member that PRL has nothing to do with it. BUT i think thats wrong. All this happened around the time the new PRL dropped. Call it a placebo affect but my data services and signal strenghts are lower across the board lately.
On both the GS3 and EVO LTE, and they both have the PRL 25010.
Taking it with a grain of salt tier 2 tech told me that they have seen a higher volume of issues related to call problems and data issues in areas with network vision and i told her i thought it was related to the PRL and she agreed, but we all know how those calls can go.
Prior to the update i had no service problems and was seeing the fastest 3G speeds ever (in dallas, tx and i get faster 3G and seeing more 4G LTE) I feel like im back on the old sprint network prior to all these updates.

After you updated the PRL, did you update your profile? If not, perhaps that may help.

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After you updated the PRL, did you update your profile? If not, perhaps that may help.
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Yup.. Today we did multiple data resets ##768 what ever the rest of the numbers are..
Did it twice and a few hours after each time im still not getting calls into my device.
I have done profile updates before and after PRL.

Are you in Baltimore area? That would be the only change in native Sprint service between PRLs.
What SID are you connected to? Check your ##debug# screen in the 1x section to find out.
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Dallas, TX..
dont have the passcode its looking for when i put it into debugging. MSL code doesnt work.

Type in Sprint for the code. In numbers of course.
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So after doing a lot more research i found out how to load a PRL to my device.
I was on PRL 25010 and am now back on 25009.
Guess what, my data speeds are back up to over 1meg on 3G. (yes that was a sarcastic guess what by the way)
I dont care how many times certain users say that a RPL doesnt affect speeds or connectivity. Call it a placebo affect.
Since 25010 dropped on us i have had nothing but crap tacular data speeds..
I was unable to get over 500k down on the old prl..
3 times now with the 25009 prl i have had 1.12 megs, 1.0 megs, and 975k down.. Ping times are also a lot better..
So problem solved now that i know how to go to an older PRL..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1880781
Thank You digiblur for that write up, the instructions to allow me to go back to my old PRL, and having the new and old PRL in a place where i could download them.
Im now looking for a way to do the same thing on my EVO LTE..

Post the SID you connect to as I am curious to look into this.
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Post the SID you connect to as I am curious to look into this.
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When i get home tonight ill get you the SID.

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Post the SID you connect to as I am curious to look into this.
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I'm on sid 22407.
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I'm on sid 22407.
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Very nice.. You are on 800SMR which increases coverage of course.
But as you can see there is absolutely zero differences between 25009 and 25010 for that SID:
25010:
SID: 22407 Sprint Nextel - Dallas TX; Longview TX; Lubbock TX; Monroe LA; Paris TX; Shreveport LA; Texarkana TX Prio:Same Roam:None
1X: S/476 S/526
EV: Sprint(0084:0AC0) P/475 P/650 P/550 P/575 P/375 P/75 P/600 P/325 P/175 P/225
25009:
SID: 22407 Sprint Nextel - Dallas TX; Longview TX; Lubbock TX; Monroe LA; Paris TX; Shreveport LA; Texarkana TX Prio:Same Roam:None
1X: S/476 S/526
EV: Sprint(0084:0AC0) P/475 P/650 P/550 P/575 P/375 P/75 P/600 P/325 P/175 P/225
The only recent change Dallas really had was the addition of 800SMR several PRLs back, even before the EVO LTE or S3 was launched. Probably what you are seeing is really Network Vision upgrades and such. Are you running a ROM that has the 3G/1X icon fixed? If not you could actually be on 1X instead due to some of the upgrades. And it is very possible to now only have 1X coverage in areas where you were roaming before. Enjoy the 800SMR... I'm jealous!

On my gs3 and evo lte (I switch back and forth periodically) I noticed a degradation of service from 25009 to 25010.
Both units stock. Non root.
Use the same server for speed test.
Same location. Either my apartment in my tv chair or office at my desk.
I do have mobile signal widget and network signal info to monitor my data connection and strength.
Several months ago my evo lte would get stuck on 1x. But that was several software updates ago. They fixed it. And when it happened I was well aware of it.
I'll enjoy my placebo affect and chalk up the better performance on prl 25009 to colder temperatures. Lol.
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Forgot to add. Roaming is set to sprint only. So I don't roam.
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