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4G in my area.

I have a permanent home in Austin, Texas and have had 4G there for about 6 or so months. Today I'm at school about 30 miles south of Austin in a city that has never had LTE. About 20 minutes ago I noticed the little 4G symbol at 1 bar and about 5 minutes ago it jumped to full bars and I had a signal of -70dbm. I assume they are just testing but does anyone know how long the process is to implement LTE to an area after testing.
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No idea but check the speeds. Let us know how fast it is without anybody else on it

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No idea but check the speeds. Let us know how fast it is without anybody else on it
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Well I wasn't able to catch it when I had a signal of -70dbm. It's back to 1 bar -109dbm but I'm getting 6-8Mbps down and 1-2Mbps up with ping times around 90-110. Not that impressive but not bad for low signal.
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Aaaand as quick as it came, I'm back to 3G =\…
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Usually no more than a couple weeks (If that).

I live in Salem OR and my 4G symbol came on the other day. Its definitely not official launch market yet but my bars have been fluctuating from 2-4 bars sometimes the symbol goes away an comes back I'm sure in a few weeks it will be official and much more stable.

Same here. Its starting to creep through my town, very spotty. Though I keep watching it get better and better, so I know this year will be awesome when fully implemented across all of Long Island.

I live in Lancaster Pennsylvania, and I just got a 4G signal yesterday as well. Not sure if they're testing or what, but I'm getting between -80 and -70 dBm signal, which is 3 or 4 (full) bars. I'm getting roughly 20 mbps down and 10 mbps up right now in my quick testing. All I can say, is I hope it doesn't go away.

darkhawkff said:
I live in Lancaster Pennsylvania, and I just got a 4G signal yesterday as well. Not sure if they're testing or what, but I'm getting between -80 and -70 dBm signal, which is 3 or 4 (full) bars. I'm getting roughly 20 mbps down and 10 mbps up right now in my quick testing. All I can say, is I hope it doesn't go away.
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I'm in Lancaster too! Thanks for the heads up! I just switched on my 4G radio (was keeping it off to save battery), and i've got a signal of 85dBm (3-4 bars) inside my house. Speedtest shows 6down/5up
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I'm going to assume you are all using the CDMA version. Since nobody even mentions anymore.
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Ulatec said:
I'm going to assume you are all using the CDMA version. Since nobody even mentions anymore.
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Well that and we're talking about LTE too, also a hint at CDMA.

theherodrownd said:
I live in Salem OR and my 4G symbol came on the other day. Its definitely not official launch market yet but my bars have been fluctuating from 2-4 bars sometimes the symbol goes away an comes back I'm sure in a few weeks it will be official and much more stable.
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Last week I was traveling from Portland to Lebanon. As soon as I got away from Wilsonville, no 4g, which was typical since 4g came to Portland.
I then planned to move to Lebanon (though not the case, going to Salem now...). I called Verizon to ask if they could 'hint' to me the possibility of 4g in Lebanon and he said they can't give out (or know, yeah right) that information. A week later, I now get 4g all the way from Portland to Lebanon, although Lebanon is really weak, but when i does connect to 4g, I speedtest at 4-8Mbps.
I didn't notice any breaks in the signal all the way down I-5, so seems his story was accurate in thinking the I-5 would likely see it soon in Oregon since it appeared they were working the main HWY from North Washington down. On my trip, I hit the speed test a few times noticing anywhere from 34Mbps down to 4Mbps on Average on I-5. In Tigard I was getting the Max LTE speed of 43Mbps consistently. Up speed in all those test and in Tigard ranged from 4-18Mbps. Nice!
Anyhow, so I bugged Verizon 1 week ago and now it's down to Lebanon (maybe further, haven't traveled beyond on I-5 yet), so you should "Thank Me" for bugging them to get it down this far!!!!
I'M JUST KIDDING guys. But, it's great to see Verizon making excellent progress. Also, what I was told was that all the major cities were now basically covered. The next phase is all the major HWY's, such as Interstates, etc. Looks factual to me based on what is happening. My Unlimited 4g hotspot just gained more value! WooHoo!
Happy 4g'ing.
-Cybie

I've had 4G in my area and a few others cities around me that are miles apart since at least December and still no official launch announcement for these areas. Maybe they have just been grouped into Baltimore even though I'm about 30 miles from there?

So I narrowed it down to being on the 3rd floor of the Business building at my school. When ever I'm in my CIS class I have 1 bar 4G but when I go to the bottom floor or outside even, I'm back to 3G. Kinda weird and I hope that's not how it is when they officially implement it in this area.

[Q] LTE roll outs

Okay, question here about 4G and 4GLTE, I bought an S3 as an upgrade and enjoy the phone but the 3G only sucks (until LTE rolls out here) so I switched back to my S2 which has 4G. My question is when LTE rolls out here, (been pushed back again and again) will I receive a notification so I will know to switch back, also when LTE goes live what do I have to do to my phone for it to start working on the LTE network? PRL?
Thanks from the Sprint Nashville market

Bookmark this site and check often....I'm seeing major updates for Austin daily... nothing official though.
http://www.sensorly.com/fullscreen/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint
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LTE for Sprint was projected to be in Orlando Florida by now but it was pushed back until the end of the year makes me sad.
LTE is the only thing I miss about Verizon. Speeds are just amazing!
As soon as Sprint really kicks their LTE Roll out into high gear they will be one rocking company! Unlimited Data FTW!
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Sigh...nothing even close to the LA area...although WiMAX never made it to where I live anyway, so I'm not holding my breath that LTE will...but still ...hopeful

Tell my boss that! We both got a gs3 but im on boost mobile and my 3g is fastee than his lol
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LTE didn't quite work...
LTE was supposed to roll out in Waco, TX, and Sprint's map claims it's there, but my GS3 wouldnt pick it up... :/ Any ideas why?

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LTE was supposed to roll out in Waco, TX, and Sprint's map claims it's there, but my GS3 wouldnt pick it up... :/ Any ideas why?
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Did you turn on the LTE radio? Mine was disabled by default. I haven't turned it on yet since I expect we won't get it for a while here.

If I am running Blazer ROM or any of the other customs, do I have to go back to stock to do PRL or Profile updates in order for LTE to work?

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If I am running Blazer ROM or any of the other customs, do I have to go back to stock to do PRL or Profile updates in order for LTE to work?
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Nope. you can update both without any problems. I'm on Blazer ROM as well.
also... make sure that under *Menu >>More Settings >>Mobile networks >>Network Mode >> you have it set to LTE/CDMA

1970mueller said:
Bookmark this site and check often....I'm seeing major updates for Austin daily... nothing official though.
http://www.sensorly.com/fullscreen/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint
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Thanks for the helpful site, gonna check often as I have been promised "by the end of the year"?!

Wondering if Vegas will get LTE.
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thanks for the link

Thanks for the link for sensorly

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Sensorly lies! I live in one of the blue spots on that map for Austin and I haven't seen LTE at my home.
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I'm one of those whose testing created some of Austin's Sensorly tracks. I think there are several things going on:
1) The number of live LTE towers in Austin and Round Rock is still extremely small and the coverage is thin. Even some of the tracks I recorded, I cannot always replicate later.
2) These sites are still officially in development, so they may go offline sometimes. The tracks you see on Sensorly are not random, but reflect testing deliberately performed by geek enthusiasts to discover the unofficial LTE signals.
3) Sensorly does not record signal strength, only points where it detected any LTE at all. So these tracks may be minimal strength. And the points get extrapolated to fuzzy blobs in the Sensorly map display, which are even worse when zoomed out at all on the website. If your home is inside one of the blobs, that is an overgeneralized anomaly. But somebody probably detected LTE one time on a nearby street.
4) The GS3, even when running the latest LI3 firmware with all the fixes, still has trouble reconnecting to LTE again after it loses the signal. Sometimes I have to stop and toggle the data radio to force it to reacquire 4G.
So overall, GS3 users should not look at today's Sensorly maps of the area and expect them to describe routine LTE service yet.
p.s. If you are serious about tracking the Sprint LTE rollout, don't expect much information in this generalized forum. Go to S4GRU.com.

LTE Speed in NYC

Hello my fellow Note 2 users,
I know LTE hasn't come to NYC yet, so I went on the Web today looking for a location that had LTE in NYC, and found a overlay map (on singlar?) over google of 4G LTE signals available in NYC. It gave a location, so I took the 1.5 hour trip to it to see if it was true. And it WAS!
I went to the corner of 45th Street of Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave) and waited for a few mins. After a while my phone found the LTE signal and connected to it. It was the first time since I got this phone a week ago that it connected to a 4G signal and I was mega excited.
I did a few speed tests and here are the results in the pics I'm uploading.
Honestly, when they flip the switch on this network city wide, you guys are gonna LOVE it. Blazing fast, in the middle of the afternoon might I add!
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Those speeds look better than what I've been seeing in nyc. Hopefully Sprint turns this on in Staten Island too.

I did the same thing last week. For some reason my phone could not find the LTE signal. I have to try again.
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I was coming from Manhattan last night going back to long island and for the first time I got a 4g signal. I didn't even get one with my galaxy S3 but I got one with my GNII
Swyped by Me & My GNII

Speeds at the180th st station in the Bronx.
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@ Bojackr1 Yeah bro, head back out there and stand there for a while. It might take a min. or two, but it should connect. If it doesn't, go to Settings->more settings ->mobile networks ->network mode. And make sure your preferred network mode is: LTE/CDMA
If not, you might want to switch out to a diff one, reboot, and then go back in, switch it back to LTE/CDMA and then reboot. Hopefully by now it should connect. Post up screen shots if you do go and run some tests please.
@Bxreppa Holy crap dude. What are you doing on a station in the Bronx at 5:40AM? Your a brave man for whipping or your SGN2 on a likely empty station. Lol
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According the to Sprint Rep. that activated my phone (so take it with a grain of salt), these are LTE test towers. The one on the Bronx has (supposedly) been up for a while, and others might show up in NYC before they throw the switch.
-X

Xebec01 said:
According the to Sprint Rep. that activated my phone (so take it with a grain of salt), these are LTE test towers. The one on the Bronx has (supposedly) been up for a while, and others might show up in NYC before they throw the switch.
-X
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Sprint needs to show some love for Shaolin. I can get good wimax in my area but horrible 3G.

@Airbruce its actually safe and crowded with commuters during the week at that time. Their some areas in the bronx you have to be alert but thats with anywhere.
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Sensorly | Coverage Map Application

I just discovered this today when I was doing research on coverage in my area because customers were saying they got 4G LTE signal on the south side of my town, and sure enough looking at this map it shows 4G LTE. BUT this app is very convenient because we, as the user, create the map and the coverage by our signal. I just wanted to share this with everyone so that we can create this into something very accurate and so you can keep up with the 4G LTE in your area.
Sensorly

_Epic said:
I just discovered this today when I was doing research on coverage in my area because customers were saying they got 4G LTE signal on the south side of my town, and sure enough looking at this map it shows 4G LTE. BUT this app is very convenient because we, as the user, create the map and the coverage by our signal. I just wanted to share this with everyone so that we can create this into something very accurate and so you can keep up with the 4G LTE in your area.
Sensorly
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I had the Sensorly app on my phone but it REALLY sucks battery, or did in my experience.

I only use it while driving. So it works super well. And i don't have it set to passive mapping. My town has LTE that is slowly spreading.
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We have such a large number of people here in Orange County that have Sprint but I see no sign of 4G anywhere. WiMax was actually here very quickly but LTE hasn't seen the light.

there's LTE 5 min away from me, but not at my location

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there's LTE 5 min away from me, but not at my location
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Same here. But I've driven in the areas it shows and get nothing.
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_Epic said:
Same here. But I've driven in the areas it shows and get nothing.
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jat255 said:
I've found (in DC at least) that in the weak areas, you have to cycle airplane mode or it won't do the handshake correctly.
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That's my experience as well. Just happened to be in a LTE area last night, I was still getting data but the 3G logo was gone and antenna signal was 0. I restarted the phone and the 4G logo popped up.

jat255 said:
I've found (in DC at least) that in the weak areas, you have to cycle airplane mode or it won't do the handshake correctly. I think that will get better as more towers come online though.
There's some pretty good LTE rollout discussion at www.s4gru.com if you're interested in others' experiences.
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s4gru is not bad. It's limited to what users contribute though so if you are not in an LTE area like me, it's not great. It's also not great to getting into the habit of checking the forums for updates every day. That just leads to depressing thoughts...

It won't show anything for me.. How do I get it to work? I click coverage and its just blank
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tsdeaton said:
It won't show anything for me.. How do I get it to work? I click coverage and its just blank
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Enter an address? Or there's no 4G lol.

megamaster2 said:
Enter an address? Or there's no 4G lol.
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Nevermind. Got impatient. Its working now lol
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Reception in MA area?

I am currently using the S III on Verizon and I am looking to switch to T-Mo soon to save money, as I would save about $60/month. I am wondering if anyone is in the Boston area (I'm in the suburbs) that can comment on the kind of reception they get. Sorry if this isn't the right place for this. I figured it was as good as any.

What town do you live in? I get great service in the Boston Area around 5-7 mbps at home and inside the city I get around 10-20 mbps.

Acton
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If I was you I would wait around until Tmobile's LTE launches and see what kind of reception people have with that and then get the GS4.

I can't switch till August. It worries me, as I have seen people with T-Mobile s3's at my HS holding them up to windows to get signal and my VZW s3 has like 4 bars of LTE. :/

Amphibliam said:
I can't switch till August. It worries me, as I have seen people with T-Mobile s3's at my HS holding them up to windows to get signal and my VZW s3 has like 4 bars of LTE. :/
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Its not bad everywhere (I'm in Springfield) it can be spotty at times but otherwise unless I'm under some bridge or on the basement of a building..things work just fine.
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Whole new england area is pretty good.. Gets choppy sometimes in SOME thickly settled areas. But not all Boston and surrounding Boston area is awesome. Hell I live in ri and I get 7-14 mb.
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their map is pretty accurate...I live in Auburn, near the "edge" of Edge and 4G. In home a bit spotty on Cellular, but TMobile has the wifi calling and that is great when you are near wifi.
But most places closer in are fully covered in 4G, and really LTE vs HSPA...who cares!...Both are plenty fast for most things...