So I was looking through Craigslist while I wait for my morning reports to come in here at work and I couldn't help notice a lot of people are selling their Sprint Airwaves and I started to wonder. I was wondering if anyone that's using Boost Mobile got this magical device "Sprint Airwave" to work with their EVO??
Just a heads up for those "forum lawyers" or "mini moderators" or whatever you want to call yourselves, I'm not here to start up a legal or illegal debate about the EVO being on Boost Mobile or anything like that.....I'm just trying to see if someone has got it to work, NOTHING MORE....NOTHING LESS!!
Oh and if you don't know what the Airwave is.....
http://www.sprintenterprise.com/airave/tellMeMore.html
I have an airrave and my boy has a Boost Evo, great reception when it comes in the house unfortunately he can neither make or receive calls. I have to take my airrave off line for him to be able to use his phone in my house. I have the Airvana model
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I have an airrave and my boy has a Boost Evo, great reception when it comes in the house unfortunately he can neither make or receive calls. I have to take my airrave off line for him to be able to use his phone in my house. I have the Airvana model
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OK thanks!! One thing I'm still wondering....I know you said he wasn't able to make or receive phone calls but can he access the internet via 3G and if so, how fast were his speeds??
I'm almost positive the airave will ONLY work with sprint phones, not phones flashed to boost.
If he gets good reception in doors or has a wifi connection, you could always set up his phone with GrooveIP to send and receive calls. I do this to have my phone, tablet, etc ring when I get a call.
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I was going to post this in the EVO Shift 4G thread, but since the EVO 4G thread gets more exposure, I decided to post it here.
The power port on my EVO 4G was failing, and began the process (arguing) with Sprint to get it replaced. The EVO was on back order, and they offered me the EVO Shift as a replacement. A few friends of mine have the Shift, and I was impressed with it, so I took the Shift as a replacement.
Well, I live out in the sticks where reception varies by sneezing, but every Sprint phone I have had here (Intercept, Transform, Moment, Hero, EVO, Epic), and I've always gotten 2 to 3 bars of 3G reception, without roaming whatsoever.
When I received my Shift and activated it, I quickly discovered that all my experiences with reception on other Sprint phones were vastly different than now. My phone always enters roaming, loses reception entirely, messages fail to send and calls are dropped. So I grabbed my Shift and took it into the Sprint store, which sent me to another Sprint store to have it run through "diagnostic computers," and when I arrived there, they had no idea what the other store was talking about.
In the end, they just said the antenna is worse than the EVO, my phone isn't defective, I just live in an area with **** for reception.
So XDA, I come to you for advice. I'm tired of network failure pop ups and **** like that. What can I do to improve reception? Anything? Is there something I can purchase to boost my signal?
Thanks guys.
If you have highspeed internet you can threaten to cancel until they give you an airrave... it helps but they arent without their issues either. I had one and it caused a lot of text issues, and people calling in couldnt call me all the time, had to try 2 or 3 times. But it was better than no service at all
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infallibleapex said:
If you have highspeed internet you can threaten to cancel until they give you an airrave... it helps but they arent without their issues either. I had one and it caused a lot of text issues, and people calling in couldnt call me all the time, had to try 2 or 3 times. But it was better than no service at all
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Thanks for the quick response. I found out my friend has one he doesn't need anymore since he moved to an area with better service, so I'm getting one. I think I could deal with minor issues, but the ones I deal with are every few minutes.
or you can get verizon. LOL!
Yea, aside from getting a different model, the ONLY way to increase signal is with an airave.
You said your friend has one, I would get the serial numbers off it, and any other numbers on the back. You will need to call sprint and have it activated on your account first, otherwise it may not work, or it may charge your friend for use.
Recently I have had almost every outgoing call I make go directly to a busy signal. This usually last for an hour or two before I can make any calls. Is anyone else having this issue with there phone?
Honestly I don't know what I am paying sprint for anymore I can't make phone calls and when I do they are so broken up it's nearly impossible to understand what anyone is saying or the call with just drops, incoming calls never show up I just get a text telling me I have a voicemail an hour later with no missed call, the 4G data I get is usually below 50kbps which I would be better off buying a damn 56k modem oh and 3G is nonexistent I ether have 4g or 1x.
I got sprint in a rural area of NY knowing I would be moving here to Portland, OR and figured these problems wouldn't exist in a major city but in fact they are all worse here! Their maps claim I am in a best coverage area for both voice and data but the reps when asked ether claim there is a problem with the towers, tell me I am in a poor coverage area or tell me to take my phone in for service which this is my 2nd device both showing the same problems.
Does anyone know if I can demand they terminate my contract without being charging the ETF due to them not holding up their end of the contract which is to provide me with service. I love having such an amazing device and thanks to sprint not providing me with service I'm only being able to use it as a paper weight.
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Recently I have had almost every outgoing call I make go directly to a busy signal. This usually last for an hour or two before I can make any calls. Is anyone else having this issue with there phone?
Honestly I don't know what I am paying sprint for anymore I can't make phone calls and when I do they are so broken up it's nearly impossible to understand what anyone is saying or the call with just drops, incoming calls never show up I just get a text telling me I have a voicemail an hour later with no missed call, the 4G data I get is usually below 50kbps which I would be better off buying a damn 56k modem oh and 3G is nonexistent I ether have 4g or 1x.
I got sprint in a rural area of NY knowing I would be moving here to Portland, OR and figured these problems wouldn't exist in a major city but in fact they are all worse here! Their maps claim I am in a best coverage area for both voice and data but the reps when asked ether claim there is a problem with the towers, tell me I am in a poor coverage area or tell me to take my phone in for service which this is my 2nd device both showing the same problems.
Does anyone know if I can demand they terminate my contract without being charging the ETF due to them not holding up their end of the contract which is to provide me with service. I love having such an amazing device and thanks to sprint not providing me with service I'm only being able to use it as a paper weight.
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I had this same issue but after a PRL and profile update I was good to go. Hopefully it works for you!
Ok just moved into a new apt that has poor 3g signal with 2 bars and was suggested by sprint to get the airwave with my high speed Internet.. Well I was wondering I'm like a mile maybe 2 away from 4g, will it boost me into 4g coverage or just give me good signal within the home??
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Doesn't help with 4g, but reception is way better.
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The Airave doesn't boost signal, it's a femtocell, which is essentially a mini cell tower. It's 3G only and doesn't broadcast a 4G signal of any kind.
What datajosh said... And with wifi your data travels over that very fast.My two cents: I am so glad I have an Airave. I live in a fairly wooded area and both 3g and 4g (which I can get in town by the way) don't work well at all - for any carrier. I've had sprint up here for about 5 years and was looking at Verizon and ATT but neither could even get the anemic reception on 3g/1g I was getting on Sprint. Got an Airave and my signal is freaking great! I can walk out of my place to my garage about 50yds and still be on my unit. My sister got one because she too was was having issues down in SoCal (and the family has FIVE phones!). Now they can all get super reception. I set up my unit (and my sisters too) to be 'off' my network in a DMZ. Configured my router to allot an IP as DMZ and let the Airave use it as the 'public' IP. That way that traffic doesn't 'mix' with my local net and wifi. Lastly I just went to Amazon and baught mine for like $50.00 U.S. My sister made calls for about a week and finally spoke to the right person(s) and got one free!
I just got the Airave and the only thing I can see improved on is the reception of my calls (I get 5 bars instead of 2)
4g is the same
and 3g is still slow as heck..
also it has a build in GPS.. to tell you where you are..
It has about a 300 foot radius so if you go past that point you most likely will jump to another tower.
and when making and getting calls you get 3 beeps letting you know you are on the Airave. also dialing *99 will give you a message to let you know you are on the service.
If I am not mistaken the air rave is for call quality. 4g is purely data. Why wouldn't you just use wifi?I would think 4g would be slower than wifi anyhow. Feel free to call BS on this.
it only help with cell service.
you just get the air wave. ( they should offer it for free..)
and get on wifi network.
Have one myself. Great for calls and SMS/MMS but the data speeds are maybe half the speed of my DSL. I just use wifi for anything but calls, makes sense to me. Sprint had recently changed something with their towers out here and we were left with absolutely no service on my property. Sprints corporate numbers, including the CEO's, are not hard to find. I called and tore them a new one, I wasn't letting them get off easy with this one, being a sprint customer for yeeeaaarrrss. Long story short I got a free air rave for life out of it which I think was fair of them to do.
Just a note, if you have low bandwidth and you make calls while downloading stuff or just eating the bandwidth in general, you will have stupid delays in you conversations. Its just awkward.
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Not true about data speed on my airwave at home i was at 2.5mbps
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Why not just connect to the wifi of your home network...
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Not true about data speed on my airwave at home i was at 2.5mbps
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Well maybe their speeds vary, but the whole point is if you have an air rave you most likely have wifi so why not just use that for data? The air rave is completely dependant on the broadband connection, its not like a range extender for sprint tower signal. I'm sure the phones modem has a lot to do with it as well.
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i heard sprint will give you one of these free if you call and complain about the service in your house....any truth to this, cuz i cant text or call in my house if my depended on it
Oops blank post. I meant to say, read this thread...two people have said they got one from sprint for free...I was one of them. Do you read through posts before you ask a question at all?
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i heard sprint will give you one of these free if you call and complain about the service in your house....any truth to this, cuz i cant text or call in my house if my depended on it
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YES & No!
If you have poor/fair service in your home, then just search xda forums for info on how to get it, or just PM me and I'll give you the info. I have very poor service in my home with sprint, that I just moved to. I and my family would all have to walk outside in the yard, to get a signal that was less likely to drop in the middle of the call. Even then, we only got 1-2 bars at most. In my house, we either didn't get a signal at all or it would drop out if we moved around.
I called the Sprint Retention line, and explained to them my issues with the service in my new home. I told her that I had searched the Sprint coverage map, and my area was listed with "Fair" service. She had me hold for just a few seconds to look up my address on their coverage map as well. Then she came back and explained the Airwave to me. I had never mentioned an airwave to this point.
She said that she had to check my area's coverage before offering it, because they've received a ton of request from people lately for this device, and many of them were in "excellent" coverage areas, and were simply calling because they heard they could get it for free. Just to have it I guess. Anyways, if you are in a poor-fair coverage area, and have real issues with coverage/dropped calls. Yes, they will send one for free and then not charge a dime. You just have to agree that it's their property and is to be returned at end of contract/service-termination.
I have one in my home as well. Works great. it doesnt support 4g but any sprint device will work with it. I get about 2-3 megs down with it running 3g.
I have a airave but get nowhere near the range some of you claim. Is there a way to boost it's range? I'm lucky to get 50 feet. Sorry if this is a hijack.
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Free airaves
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1407446
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I have a airave but get nowhere near the range some of you claim. Is there a way to boost it's range? I'm lucky to get 50 feet. Sorry if this is a hijack.
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sprint.com --> mysprint --> my preferences --> manage my airave --> range settings
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sprint.com --> mysprint --> my preferences --> manage my airave --> range settings
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Awesome thank you.
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Actually, my Airave sucks. Somebody else in my building has one that is locked to their phone number, and my ET4G always get confused and connects to that one. It basically keeps me from making any phone calls in my house. I have to go all the way into the street to call.
So, please be kind and don't lock down your airave to your account.
Also, even when it does work, I still get **** data speeds.
hello all wow thats all I can say. all these readings show no voice and data call over sprints cdma network on any phone. so I did some research call sprint yes I know crazy right they said yes on 4g, then I went into a sprint store again crazy right how come sprint does not seem to really know anything about their phones crazy right! anyway the store said no. So I tested it I made sure I was on spring 4g network. my wifi off I placed a call told the person to keep talking, I pressed on my internet icon on my phone and guess what it worked a voice and data call over the sprint network while on 4g. my question is why is this not toted by sprint like it is by att? and why does sprint techs do not have a strong definitive answer I mean come on this is a easy test! anyway just wanted to spread the word and see if others have same result. pulling my hair out grrrrrrr and guess what I'm bald!
test it out folks remember turn of wifi! make sure u r getting 4g.
my 4g phone sprint phone, samsung galaxy s2 4g.
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hello all wow thats all I can say. all these readings show no voice and data call over sprints cdma network on any phone. so I did some research call sprint yes I know crazy right they said yes on 4g, then I went into a sprint store again crazy right how come sprint does not seem to really know anything about their phones crazy right! anyway the store said no. So I tested it I made sure I was on spring 4g network. my wifi off I placed a call told the person to keep talking, I pressed on my internet icon on my phone and guess what it worked a voice and data call over the sprint network while on 4g. my question is why is this not toted by sprint like it is by att? and why does sprint techs do not have a strong definitive answer I mean come on this is a easy test! anyway just wanted to spread the word and see if others have same result. pulling my hair out grrrrrrr and guess what I'm bald!
test it out folks remember turn of wifi! make sure u r getting 4g.
my 4g phone sprint phone, samsung galaxy s2 4g.
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That's nice.
There should be no Sprint users perusing this forum though, as this forum is for the GT-I9100, which is a GSM phone that doesn't even work on Sprint's network.
Maybe you want to trumpet this news in the Epic 4G Touch forum?
EDIT: ah, it finally got moved to the right forum.
Thanks for the info but honestly this is quite old news and has been known since the Evo days. Use of Wimax is so limited is the main reason I can see why anyone not knowing but rest assure this is old news. Although as an fyi - the new Galaxy SIII handles voice and data separately over 3g so now you can use data and voice on 3g as well with that phone
Thinking about switching to T-mobile in the SW Suburbs of Chicago; I'm on wifi most of the time, so data speed isnt important to me, but, we MUST have good phone call quality in our house.
Is this an issue for anyone in chicago land, or, if we get a phone that is "wifi capable", and we have a fast,strong, wifi network in our house, does this become a non issue?
We had ATT, which was no problem in the house, and recently switched to Sprint, with the hopes of a stong "Spark Network" here; well, one of our phones in Spark compatible, and works fine, but the other 2 phones are HTC One's, not spark "compatible", and have poor phone call quality and reception in the house. We are waiting on an AirRave front Sprint, but, if that doesnt work, we're ready to go to T-Mobile..
Sorry for this weird question here, but, I trust my buds on XDA to give a real report on stuff like this, NOT the people from T-Mobile
Thanks! :good:
What town are you in? I have excellent call quality in Posen/Oak Forest/Orland Park/Crestwood area. And LTE when available is super solid. Seen a best of 39MBPS in Ookla App. I also had ATT until recently. I really can say, that I'm happy I made the switch. I also know many ppl who are on sprint and constantly suffer from dropped calls and data connection issues, my house is a sprint problem area as well btw.
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I'm next to burr ridge/willowbrook, in an area called Timberlake.
My Sprint Airrave is supposed to be here tomorrow, and if it doesnt fix the problem, its tmobile and wifi calling for us!
We had Sprint for many years here, using an AirRave, and it was fine, but, a couple of years ago, their network went completely to hell, so we switched to ATT; after awhile, they were just bad to deal with, and Sprint announced this new Spark Network, in Chicago, so we thought, why not, its cheaper than ATT, and with this new network, it will be fine.
Problem is, if you dont have one of their 3 tri band phones,(which I have, but my wife/son do NOT), then making calls in some areas is horrible.
My wife works from home alot, and making calls for her is bad news, especially conference calls on Global Crossing, so if the Airrave, which uses wifi/internet to make calls, doesnt work, its t-mobile for us.
I understand that using wifi to make calls from you house with Tmobile is fantastic, and I have a great, Asus ac1900 wifi router in the house, which gives super fast and strong wifi, so I am sure that t-mobile wifi calls would be clear as a bell here!
thanks for the info :good:
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I'm next to burr ridge/willowbrook, in an area called Timberlake.
My Sprint Airrave is supposed to be here tomorrow, and if it doesnt fix the problem, its tmobile and wifi calling for us!
We had Sprint for many years here, using an AirRave, and it was fine, but, a couple of years ago, their network went completely to hell, so we switched to ATT; after awhile, they were just bad to deal with, and Sprint announced this new Spark Network, in Chicago, so we thought, why not, its cheaper than ATT, and with this new network, it will be fine.
Problem is, if you dont have one of their 3 tri band phones,(which I have, but my wife/son do NOT), then making calls in some areas is horrible.
My wife works from home alot, and making calls for her is bad news, especially conference calls on Global Crossing, so if the Airrave, which uses wifi/internet to make calls, doesnt work, its t-mobile for us.
I understand that using wifi to make calls from you house with Tmobile is fantastic, and I have a great, Asus ac1900 wifi router in the house, which gives super fast and strong wifi, so I am sure that t-mobile wifi calls would be clear as a bell here!
thanks for the info :good:
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I live in Joliet, and I get great service. Always connected to LTE, and never lose signal. I get spotty service in my apartment, but that may be because I'm on the bottom floor of a 3 story building. It doesn't bother me though because wifi calling works like a charm!