Anyone else having terrible reception in the LA area? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

i can barely pick up one signal bar as of late and its getting really annoyng because i ant even receive texts since i text alot so its a big issue now, but im on wifi so i cant tell unless my phone is being quiet lol. what can it be?

Network Vision is occuring in LA, you'll have 4G LTE soon. Just hang in there, it's tower maintenance.

Wow just earlier this month I searched for 4g lte in LA and I couldn't find anything. I searched Network Vision and see that we will probably have it going this September. Awesome. Thanks for letting us know.
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Overstew said:
Network Vision is occuring in LA, you'll have 4G LTE soon. Just hang in there, it's tower maintenance.
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Eeeeeee nice thanks for letting me know what it was
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Dont forget, you can always dial *18, its usually good to give u atleast one extra bar.

don't hold your breath but i was told the same thing and two months later nothing just saying don't get your hopes up.
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After I dial that what else do I have to do??
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Wearespacepeople said:
Wow just earlier this month I searched for 4g lte in LA and I couldn't find anything. I searched Network Vision and see that we will probably have it going this September. Awesome. Thanks for letting us know.
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Not going to happen in September, probably more like October or November at the earliest.

XxSilent.NightmarexX said:
i can barely pick up one signal bar as of late and its getting really annoyng because i ant even receive texts since i text alot so its a big issue now, but im on wifi so i cant tell unless my phone is being quiet lol. what can it be?
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I'm in LA and both cell reception and data has been godawful lately.

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Not going to happen in September, probably more like October or November at the earliest.
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I'm just going off the articles I found. Still this is sooner than I expected.

and I thought I was tripping... couldn't send txt for the crap of it all day yesterday
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Shoulon said:
and I thought I was tripping... couldn't send txt for the crap of it all day yesterday
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yea same here its rare for me to get signal now :/ im running on wifi right now but i can barely text

Same here. At home I get full bars, but when I go to school, I lose signal quite a lot. I live a couple of miles away from downtown, what about you guys?
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IronReaver17 said:
Same here. At home I get full bars, but when I go to school, I lose signal quite a lot. I live a couple of miles away from downtown, what about you guys?
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I'm in Sherman Oaks.

My signal has been spotty as well all up and down the 605.

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Disappointed with Sprint data in my neighborhood

As you can see I don't have internet at home through Sprint. The Wifi was off. Decided to swich carriers. Already called sprint today and asked them to waive my early cancellation fee. He said he will call me next Tuesday.
You sure you had Wifi off? It shows it as on in the screenshot.
But you can check and see if Network Vision is upgrading soon in your neighborhood.
http://www.sprint.com/network
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You sure you had Wifi off? It shows it as on in the screenshot.
But you can check and see if Network Vision is upgrading soon in your neighborhood.
http://www.sprint.com/network
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Yes it was off. I turned it on and went back to the program to take the snapshot. Here is a pick with wifi on.
PS: I'm rocking your ICS theme in my Calk ROM btw. You are the man buddy.
I'm running ek02 ROM, desperado 1.3 ek02 kernel and ek02 modem. I'll flash el29 modem and see if I notice any difference.
I'll flash ek02 again and post the numbers.
Now I'm getting 200's to 450. There must be varying amounts of network traffic tonight. It's only 12:41am, so people are probably still awake and using the data network. You could try a different host like Naples. Sometimes speakeasy speedtest on a browser gives different numbers out of Atlanta. Wanna see a crazy ass screen shot with 4g that I think was a fluke?
Miami is a city being worked on now. You won't see improvements for another 2 to 3 months. The reason for all the decrease on speeds is due to the off loading sprint is doing right now
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Thats funny that you're disappointed with those speeds. Id be happy if I was getting that. Here is what really crappy looks like.
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Who isnt? Lol i think 80% of people that have sprint have crappy data speeds
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Guess I'm in the 20% here Dallas, TX ;p
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Thats funny that you're disappointed with those speeds. Id be happy if I was getting that. Here is what really crappy looks like.
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I get from 128 to 188 kbps all the time. I am surprised I got over 300 yesterday. But your numbers are really bad. I couldn't live with it for one day.
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Thats funny that you're disappointed with those speeds. Id be happy if I was getting that. Here is what really crappy looks like.
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Why are you still on Sprint?! Lol I hate sprint's network, ans tthat's with me getting 100-900kbps most places
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I hate my speed too but I'm getting better speeds with el29
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Androidfreakz said:
Guess I'm in the 20% here Dallas, TX ;p
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Yes, Dallas has been fully updated. Or at least it is nearly finished
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docmarioce said:
I get from 128 to 188 kbps all the time. I am surprised I got over 300 yesterday. But your numbers are really bad. I couldn't live with it for one day.
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afive720 said:
Why are you still on Sprint?! Lol I hate sprint's network, ans tthat's with me getting 100-900kbps most places
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That's because I get 29% off from them through work, but I suspect I'll be ditching them shortly. It just isn't worth waiting for the upgrades to be completed. For comparison purposes. It took me 7 minutes to download a 6 MB app on their 3G. LOL. Thank god for WIFI.
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That's because I get 29% off from them through work, but I suspect I'll be ditching them shortly. It just isn't worth waiting for the upgrades to be completed. For comparison purposes. It took me 7 minutes to download a 6 MB app on their 3G. LOL. Thank god for WIFI.
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Correction. Waiting months or years to get to the point where Verizon is already at 4g wise, 3g is still a joke, even post upgrade.
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afive720 said:
Why are you still on Sprint?! Lol I hate sprint's network, ans tthat's with me getting 100-900kbps most places
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First world problems
I used to have Sprint and their slow data so I switched to the Galaxy Nexus with 4G LTE from Verizon. It puts my Comcast Cable to shame.
Buff McBigstuff said:
I used to have Sprint and their slow data so I switched to the Galaxy Nexus with 4G LTE from Verizon. It puts my Comcast Cable to shame.
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Amazing WOW
I am sitting in the same spot as last night at this time. Big difference in numbers. Perhaps people are in bed because there's work tomorrow morning?
This is this morning at my bedroom. Thanks to Wi-Fi I can check my email in my smartphone before going to work.
Buff McBigstuff said:
I used to have Sprint and their slow data so I switched to the Galaxy Nexus with 4G LTE from Verizon. It puts my Comcast Cable to shame.
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What's the point of all that speed though if your capped after a certain amount?
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Service Outage!

I am in the Tampa Florida market. My service has been fine all day up till about an hour ago. I can not make or receive calls or connect to data. I just wanted to see if anyone else is having a problem or if it is just me!
cmdauria said:
I am in the Tampa Florida market. My service has been fine all day up till about an hour ago. I can not make or receive calls or connect to data. I just wanted to see if anyone else is having a problem or if it is just me!
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flash a verizon prl in the meantime! or try forcing roaming with roam control. tho verizon prl is betterrr. press the update prl button in settings when you get service back.
cmdauria said:
I am in the Tampa Florida market. My service has been fine all day up till about an hour ago. I can not make or receive calls or connect to data. I just wanted to see if anyone else is having a problem or if it is just me!
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Must be nice just to have this happen for one day... I've been experiencing this intermittently since October... I live in Winter Haven, FL about an hour from Tampa I also experienced this in Lakeland, FL today
cmdauria said:
I am in the Tampa Florida market. My service has been fine all day up till about an hour ago. I can not make or receive calls or connect to data. I just wanted to see if anyone else is having a problem or if it is just me!
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Probably not too helpful but Ocala is fine today.
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cmdauria said:
I am in the Tampa Florida market. My service has been fine all day up till about an hour ago. I can not make or receive calls or connect to data. I just wanted to see if anyone else is having a problem or if it is just me!
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I have been having issues since yesterday. Thinking of flashing a different PRL for sure.
I actually live in tampa I havent really had that issue just crazy slow speeds. What area are you in op?
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nthornton1990 said:
I actually live in tampa I havent really had that issue just crazy slow speeds. What area are you in op?
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I am actually in Port Richey. I did find out that 2 of the 3 towers in my area are down!
fwiw
Fwiw I live in central texas and they have had issues with towers going out......I'm just curious if it may be them working on the lte network upgrade(heres for hoping)
I have been having problems in the Memphis TN area since November. Like the prior poster said, hopefully it is Sprint upgrading their service!
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I live in Lakeland and have had troubles making calls into Tampa. Sounds like tower issues?
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I've actually been experiencing better then normal service here in Orlando... sorry about your luck dude
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I'm having crazy slow speeds in the fort myers area like I can't even download pictures without waiting 10 minutes or my pandora constantly skips songs
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mauricehall said:
I've actually been experiencing better then normal service here in Orlando... sorry about your luck dude
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Whereabouts in Orlando? I'm by Conroy and I4 and have had poor signal and speeds for a long time. Even with my EVO. I max out at about 1500/1200 on 4G and 200/150 on 3G.
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Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk, Virginia Beach tower upgrades.

Not really sure if this should go here but I'm getting a Galaxy SIII soon. Today I received a "no CDMA network could be reached" message on my Moto Photon so I call my buddy that works at Sprint and he confirmed that tower upgrades are live in our area and we will probably have a rough time of it until complete.
I'm pretty excited about this and can't wait till I have the SIII in my hands. Stupid WiMax lol.
Torisen said:
Not really sure if this should go here but I'm getting a Galaxy SIII soon. Today I received a "no CDMA network could be reached" message on my Moto Photon so I call my buddy that works at Sprint and he confirmed that tower upgrades are live in our area and we will probably have a rough time of it until complete.
I'm pretty excited about this and can't wait till I have the SIII in my hands. Stupid WiMax lol.
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Yeah I'm in virginia beach, near redmill, and my signal bars look like a pole dancer. All they do is go up and down lol. Plus my speeds are slower but that's worth it for LTE in my house
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Let's hope that we have lte here asap
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Glad to hear I won't have to wait to long.
http://community.sprint.com/baw/com...-in-over-100-more-cities-in-the-coming-months
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I'm in the Pembroke area near Town Center. I'm looking forward to LTE as well. Never experience it before.
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llfloyd79 said:
I'm in the Pembroke area near Town Center. I'm looking forward to LTE as well. Never experience it before.
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I did opening weekend In Georgia! It was amazing!!!!! I was sad to be back on 3G. :'(
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jamcar said:
I did opening weekend In Georgia! It was amazing!!!!! I was sad to be back on 3G. :'(
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I hate you and I hope you burn
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xCovErtWolFx757 said:
I hate you and I hope you burn
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Plus the tower my phone is on,when I am home, will be one of the towers getting LTE when it turns on.
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LTE in Grand Rapids, MI

Just wanted to let you guys know i was getting LTE on Leonard by the corner of Seward and Leonard, all the way up to Target/Khol's on Alpine! Works great indoors and out, in Grand Rapids, MI (i have also heard of people getting it in Byron Center)
And here I am, stuck in Ann Arbor. Oh well.
Nice! Still waiting for sprint to turn on lte in Winston Salem.
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MTsol said:
Nice! Still waiting for sprint to turn on lte in Winston Salem.
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And it makes the unlimited data on Sprint allllll worth it =] it's amazing, i get it on my couch now! I still use Wifi for the sake of battery life and better consistency though!
Congratulations to my northern brethren. It's coming on down in Battle Creek too.
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And here I am, stuck in Ann Arbor. Oh well.
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A friend that lives in Ann Arbor says they're working on the towers right now and that's why you when u stream music it cuts out, they want 4g up by spring apparently he heard through his contact at Sprint which was just a guy at a Sprint store.
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A friend of mine that works for BestBuy mobile was told by his Sprint rep that their goal was to have most of the larger cities along the 94 corridor up by the end of q1. I would think that A2 falls in that category.
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Any Michiganders reporting LTE in the Kalamazoo area? I'm still on the OG Epic with Wimax, but trying to get a feel if maybe some tower work is going on over here for LTE.
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I haven't even seen Winston Salem on the list of cities currently in the upgrade process but the sprint store people say it is coming in March. I don't have a lot of faith in that though.
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A friend that lives in Ann Arbor says they're working on the towers right now and that's why you when u stream music it cuts out, they want 4g up by spring apparently he heard through his contact at Sprint which was just a guy at a Sprint store.
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Good news! Even though there are like three square feet on u of m's campus that aren't covered by wifi, I'm kind of depending on 4g+wifi tether to satisfy all my off campus apartment Internet needs lol. Rent around here is obscene.
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Any word on midtown Detroit?
Oh man LTE in GR? Any idea if Holland is going to be coming up soon?
Not yet, but my source told me it was supposed to come on around the same time as Battle Creek. So far there is only 1 tower up here, so I think it's just in the testing phase right now.
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Yeah, they are testing it now, to be officially "launched" they need 2/3 of the city covered, so when they actually do launch Grand Rapids, it'll be a lot more than just Alpine, and at this point, they could turn it off any day since it's not official
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Look what I stumbled across while passing through Lincoln Park/Allen Park! (ignore the Ann Arbor city on BeautifulWidgets, it's not on geolocation weather)
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bay city, saginaw and midland!
I too have picked up a LTE tower in Flint, and between Brighton & Howell. Slowly but surely!
Wow. Wrong screenshot
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Slow 4g

WTF Sprint.
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Toy want good service go with Verizon decent bill go with sprint... I ha a Superbowl party last year many many friends several with same types of phones and carriers Verizon smoke us all but when asked how much you pay for the service it was unreal... almost double what I pay for two phones and I came in a distant second
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WTF Sprint.
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That's Strange I Get Excellent 4G, Even better Than A Few Verizon I know
The LTE towers in your area may still be in the testing phase
Yeah, I get different speeds every day. I just thought that was especially crappy.
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Yeah, I get different speeds every day. I just thought that was especially crappy.
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I would not mind having 4G even if crappy.
Your Download speeds should always be almost double your Upload speeds, when they're not like in your screen shot usually means there's a glitch in your tower, if it's consistant I would **72786* it, happens to me sometimes when switching roms. It needs to re sync itself with the tower stuff. Just throwin that out there, hope it helps. Also my speeds on 3G have been all over the place because of the tower work going on in my area. One day I get 2.3 mps the next I'm crawling at less than 100 kps. But yes much more enjoy sending Sprint half the $$ Verizon wants!
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I would not mind having 4G even if crappy.
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I only get it while I'm at work.
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