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I have never had a problem with roaming in my house. Today it has been going in and out randomly for no reason. Is there anything I can do to help it? This is the first time this has ever happened.
I have been having lots of problems in my house as well. I received an airave awhile ago and after like two weeks of it working great I am getting random loss of signal all the time. For now im forcing roam with roam control so I can atleast send txt's and call. I don't know if its a sprint issue or not but it's very. Frustrating.
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So for the past two days I was not able to send or receive phone calls or text on my phone in the Brooklyn NY area. I thought maybe it was something to do with the rom I flashed or that sprint was just having outages. The funny thing is 3 and 4G worked perfectly fine. So this morning tried to call my wife on the using the cell phone and she couldnt receive calls.
So I called sprint this afternoon and they said that there was a problem with a few towers in Brooklyn where the 3g signal was interfering with the singel cell calling.
Supposedly this is suppose to be fixed by 12/21/2011 20:00 est.
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The rep wanted to do some basic trouble shooting on the phone via the network, so I am wondering would my phone being rooted and romed cause a problem with said troubleshooting.
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I posted this here because at first I thought that it was caused by the rom I recently flashed and I am just giving a heads up to people who may think the same.
Mship said:
So for the past two days I was not able to send or receive phone calls or text on my phone in the Brooklyn NY area. I thought maybe it was something to do with the rom I flashed or that sprint was just having outages. The funny thing is 3 and 4G worked perfectly fine. So this morning tried to call my wife on the using the cell phone and she couldnt receive calls.
So I called sprint this afternoon and they said that there was a problem with a few towers in Brooklyn where the 3g signal was interfering with the singel cell calling.
Supposedly this is suppose to be fixed by 12/21/2011 20:00 est.
Edit:
The rep wanted to do some basic trouble shooting on the phone via the network, so I am wondering would my phone being rooted and romed cause a problem with said troubleshooting.
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I don't think so, either way it is easy to go back to root.
I called in for Jersey and they said there is an outage. My texts usually fail to send but they say it'll be resolved within the week...
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I've been having issues in my part of Brooklyn for months now. Same thing, 3G works fine but texts and calls fail.
Chiming in well i live in brooklyn and i nor my wife have not had any call issues in my area at all.
We are both spilling having the issue. No voice or text via sprint or Google voice. I was told the tower issue in new york was suppose to be fixed last night. But we are still having the problem.
It's funny because the phone works everywhere else except in front or around or in our house. If I go five blocks away from my house the phone works fine.
Mship said:
So for the past two days I was not able to send or receive phone calls or text on my phone in the Brooklyn NY area. I thought maybe it was something to do with the rom I flashed or that sprint was just having outages. The funny thing is 3 and 4G worked perfectly fine. So this morning tried to call my wife on the using the cell phone and she couldnt receive calls.
So I called sprint this afternoon and they said that there was a problem with a few towers in Brooklyn where the 3g signal was interfering with the singel cell calling.
Supposedly this is suppose to be fixed by 12/21/2011 20:00 est.
Edit:
The rep wanted to do some basic trouble shooting on the phone via the network, so I am wondering would my phone being rooted and romed cause a problem with said troubleshooting.
Edit 2:
I posted this here because at first I thought that it was caused by the rom I recently flashed and I am just giving a heads up to people who may think the same.
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I called sprint and told them i had no service and no data in most of my city.. " what is it, that youre using?" i said "a cell phone..." he said exactly, its used to make calls not to surf the internet
whats funnier yet is that he was about 25 years old..
I'm in a different state and its happening to this area too. In store rep said they are aware of it and they are working on the problem. She said things should be fixed tomorrow friday, at least for my area. Some texts are falling into the black hole and some have come through hours later. Internet works. Texts ride on the phone line and not the data line. Even on wifi texts would fail. Phone calls worked sometimes. Some towers were not affected and some are. The one for my house is intermittent.
If your connected to wifi it only cover data and wont actually place a voice call through wifi right? Just data like picz and internet correct?
I believe so. I think email and internet works on wifi but not calls or text. I thought google voice ran on the internet side but I did see some failures with that too so I don't know,
I don't use a cell phone.
I use a Data Pad or PDA that happens to also have a cellular radio and it can if I want make calls but that is a secondary function.
and thats what I would have told him.
I would have said. you see the unlimited data? see the 500 minutes. Take a guess which I use more hehe
It's strange there seems to be a 5 block radius in my neighborhood where you can make or get calls or text with sprint since Tuesday. The funny thing is it is with all sprint phones and they say they are not aware of an issue. Their are 4 sprint phones in the 3 family building that live in and would have to be at least a 100 or more in the neighborhood. It's seems to only affect he phone during the day because late at night and early in the morning the phones are fine.
Bay Ridge resident here. For about a year now, data fluctuates anywhere between 100 kbps to 1.5 Mbps, but usually in the 200 kbps area. Been complaining for what feels like forever (issue has been there since last January). I've gotten a million and one excuses, taken it all the way up to the office of Dan Hesse (I **** you not). They credited me one month's bill and that was about it. This was a long time ago. I love the fact that Sprint has unlimited data and is cheap, but that's about it. Service itself sucks.
They're sending me an airave. Is that thing worth it?
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locoboi187 said:
They're sending me an airave. Is that thing worth it?
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Just got my airave.. and i figured out why they have no problem sending it out for free... it turns that 5 mile radius around your house into a sprint tower for anyone to use... using the internet YOU pay for...and my calls are still broken up when i make them...the sprint rep couldn't hear me when i was talking to her on it... lol.oh well i guess i changed my prl to a really good Verizon one. I'm happy now
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Wait anyone in range can use your airave? It's not locked to YOUR phone?
kdoggy said:
Wait anyone in range can use your airave? It's not locked to YOUR phone?
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from page 6 of sprint airave faqs @ nextel.com:
/assets/pdfs/en/services/sprint_airave_faqs.pdf
Yes, you can limit access to your AIRAVE device by creating a list of approved
Sprint phone numbers (up to 50 phone numbers). You can create your list by
calling Sprint Customer Service at (866) 556-7310.
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Yamuu said:
from page 6 of sprint airave faqs @ nextel.com:
/assets/pdfs/en/services/sprint_airave_faqs.pdf
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I'm assuming most won't... and I'm assuming sprint knows that
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Ummm if you don't do it then its definitely on you...not sprint. I have one and I get perfect service at home...full bars. Why complain about that? Its free so yes it its absolutely worth it.
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I'm assuming most won't... and I'm assuming sprint knows that
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Devi0124 said:
Ummm if you don't do it then its definitely on you...not sprint. I have one and I get perfect service at home...full bars. Why complain about that? Its free so yes it its absolutely worth it.
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You pay for your high speed don't you? Or is that given to you for free? And the average person wouldnt know that u can't do that. To each their own. If u like it then great! I think its a sham. I shouldn't need an extra tower in my apartment to get my cell phone to work.. that is on sprint.. oh and before anything is said about where i live, i am located in the top 5 most populated cities in Michigan. I don't live out in the sticks lol
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Hi guys, I'm sure many feel the service generally sucks everyday but I feel over the last week it's Ben horrible. I've had days of trying to send text messages, of dialing and waiting over a minute for the phone to start ringing, of 1x data speed with full bars. If you have had an upswing of issues like this please let me know. My girlfriend and I have both been having problems, and yesterday we talked with a lady in the city south of us, where she said she'd had such problems alot this last week. Just interested, no solutions here, but maybe it will let us know if we can push sprint to credit our way. Stop charging me for 4g there isn't any here!
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working for them ill tell you no they wont credit you back for your lack of service. You are more than welcome to try. But if you are having service issues try updating you profile then your PRL. If that doesnt work try doing ##72786# youll need to get you MSL (Call CS to get it or most stores will give it to you.)
They're probably upgrading towers near you in their network vision. Happened to my friend where he couldn't send texts or call for a while. Google "sprint network upgrades " and look at the first link and it'll show you their network upgrades in your area.
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I think sprint is sucks all together for service. I came from att like 4 months ago cause they didnt have 4g at the time and i really wanted 4g. I was told wimax was fast. What i wasent told is in az they dont have wimax. So i got a 4g phone for nothing. Im kinda pissed. Thinking about going to verision cause there speeds are off the chain without doing this and that to get them better.
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Good luck with those Tier data plans. $69 for talk + $20 for text + $30-80 for data or whatever it is and the $400 deposit. Plus not to mention all the total data outages theyve been having. God Speed Sir.
I've been having terrible sprint network issues this week. So bad that I've called them twice. They tell me each time that a tower is down/being upgraded in my area. I've installed the 00002 PRL on my wife's and my phones until they get their **** figured out. IDK if I believe them that they are upgrades as I was told it should be fixed by Saturday afternoon and its Monday and they still have issues. Once a day I switch back to the 60685 PRL and check reception. I'm not talking just data either... its voice calls as well. 30-60 seconds to change from "dialing" to ringing and when it does its roaming. Hopefully they fix it soon.
Yeah in LA area i have been getting less bars than i usually get. And dats speeds have gone from 1.4 mbps to 200kbps
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I've had inconsistent service for the last month; that's how long I have been working in New Orleans. Perhaps it is due to negative elevation but who knows.
Early in the week I had a lot of texts that said not sent. It was quite annoying. Also the same with calls taking 10 seconds or so to actually connect. I think it may be improving a bit, but not back to 100%. I'm in los angeles as well. On a side note, i've been trying 4g around my area and i've gotten up to 9mbits. In my home its on and off, but better than it used to be.
Thank you for your responses. Its both relieving and disheartening that you guys are also having issues.
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Last week I called sprint about my terrible service. They told me that they were doing upgrades in the area and that some towers would be down in the meantime. If you go on their site, they have a map of areas they are gonna be working on or are currently working on.
i just got the Epic 4G Touch yesterday and the data speed is horrendous!
i blame the inrush of iPhone users to Sprint.
I have a samsung galaxy s3 in the suburbs of Chicago this problem has been going on for weeks where 80 percent of the people that call me cannot hear any sound on there end. I can hear them but they cannot hear me. I have exchanged my phone 3 * same problem on all 3 phones so you would think it is the network but it only happens to me and none of my friends who have the same phone on the same network standing right next to me. Sprint service techs cant figure it out. They even went as far to say that maybe I should go to a different network. That is the most retarded thing I've ever heard where a company is telling you to go to someone else. Is anybody else having the same problem in Chicago?
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It is the network and has something to do with 4g late upgrade...I had that problem for a while even after they told me they r not working on my tower anymore. It has been good for 2 or 3 months now in the western and southwestern burbs... where u at?
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Elgin
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IDK. I'm in Schaumburg and haven't had any problems.
Are you sure you're holding the microphone close enough to your mouth? Every once in a while while on a call, I'll realize I'm holding the mouthpiece father away from my face than normal, and that's usually when the other person can't hear me.
Yeah I can't say that i'm having those issues either. It might be just your tower are you having similar issues in other areas?
idk about Sprint's new network
It seems my connection drops often to 3g or no signal at all..I'm in norridge where speeds were blazing in early December. Seems the City is worse than the burbs and just forget being inside a building. Speeds and signal dwindle rapidly. I am assuming it's due to spectrum? Not sure. anyway, my two cents.
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It seems my connection drops often to 3g or no signal at all..I'm in norridge where speeds were blazing in early December. Seems the City is worse than the burbs and just forget being inside a building. Speeds and signal dwindle rapidly. I am assuming it's due to spectrum? Not sure. anyway, my two cents.
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Chances are, they're upgrading more towers in your area. That happened to me every time they upgraded a tower in my area. It'll be back to normal in a week or two, but it may happen again if you have more towers being upgraded in your area. I have about 5 towers in range of my house, and it happened for each tower to varying degrees.
Towers where already upgraded a while back. Happens everywhere I travel around most of the city and burbs. Now they have a dedicated engineer working on it. Not a micro phone issue. Don't think they would exchange a phone three times cause I wasn't talking into the microphone, or if they thought it was a tower upgrade issue. Just started about two months ago. So well see if sprint fixes it or not.
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Anyone else have this problem? When I go to pick up the phone the person on the other end can not hear me but I can hear them? It does not happen all the time though. It happens when I was stock and continues to happen now that I'm rooted and on another ROM. It started recently when I moved to an area that I actually had LTE coverage. But like most of you I don't use my phone as a phone and rarely receive phone calls. So not a major issue but just an annoyance. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Anyone having the same issue?
Thanks in advance.
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Call sprint sometimes their towers mess up. They cant fix it if they dont know about it i used to have 40 Kbps at work and i called to complain; turns out only 1 tower reached my workplace. So they flagged it as a capacity issue and changed the prl so that that tower gives people all it's got instead of expecting 4 other towers to share the load now i get 1.5Mbps at work (all 3g)
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Had already tried contacting Sprint. They said there are no issues with any towers around this area. They had me do the obvious, reset my phone, pop out the battery, update the PRL, update the profile, ect. Still happened last night when I got a call from a coworker. He couldn't hear me but I could hear him. I called him right back and no issues then.
Any other thoughts?
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