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Sprint 3G down

I live in Maryland and as of 11:30 I have no 3g. Does anyone know if there is a way to check on 3g outages? Thankfully I have roam control and am able to at least use verizon's 1x. I need 3g!
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hi there i too am experiencing issues with data, im in metro dt area
hopefully it IS the network, and i didnt fry my radio or something

helchez said:
I live in Maryland and as of 11:30 I have no 3g. Does anyone know if there is a way to check on 3g outages? Thankfully I have roam control and am able to at least use verizon's 1x. I need 3g!
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New Jersey here and my 3G is working on sprint.
Try rebooting?

I'm in arlington and 3g is working here, sorry if that doesn't help but its close to maryland
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Rebooted, switched radio on and off no luck. My radio is good because when I switch to verizon's tower using roam control I get 1x data. Slow but it something.
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3G is working in Hanover Pa
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Well I'm in westminster, md hanover is only 20 minutes away. Maybe its just my tower. Hope its not my phone.
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Did you try to update your data profile and prl?
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Tried to update both and they failed.
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Well it appers that my 3g is back. Not sure what the issue was but its back.
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helchez said:
Well it appers that my 3g is back. Not sure what the issue was but its back.
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Good to hear. Too bad we don't have 4G yet. Lol.
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You're telling me. Its really annoying to know that there is 4g just 20 minutes down the road.
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Was a known issue, though I was told it was only supposed to affect EVO's 3g. I'll inquire tomorrow, but I doubt I'll get anywhere.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=832866

I have a Evo. Unfortunately 4G is acting like a "B" also :-(
r0cky.Da.3v0.SU

Mine went down to here in Cincinnati OH, right in the middle of streaming the game. (4g picked it right back up though)
I had full bars, and without moving I had nothing for a good 10 minutes before deciding to switch to the battery-draining 4g.

entropism said:
Was a known issue, though I was told it was only supposed to affect EVO's 3g. I'll inquire tomorrow, but I doubt I'll get anywhere.
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thanks. I called sprint yesterday and first tier support tried to insist I hard reset my Epic,even though i told them I have three Epics and an Evo and were all seeing same problem. I called second tier directly and they told me there were network issues and not to reset.

aero1 said:
thanks. I called sprint yesterday and first tier support tried to insist I hard reset my Epic,even though i told them I have three Epics and an Evo and were all seeing same problem. I called second tier directly and they told me there were network issues and not to reset.
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For future reference - do you have a direct number for them, or is it the usual "I want to speak to level two"?

Even Sprint employees don't have a direct line for them, they got rid of that last year. That being said, the EVOs were having data connectivity issues, and somehow it expanded into the Epic, Moment and Hero as well, but in a more limited scope.

Slow 3g speeds, something is wrong, tried everything!

Hi everyone, I am in a bit of a quagmire. I have an evo, on boost which was working very well. For some reason, i started to get connection errors, and for a while I struggled with error 67 and 104's. Got past that. Problem is that my 3g speed and connectivity suck, and by that I mean 900+ pings and .11-.13 in speedtest, not to mention the disconnecting. Sounds like a PRL issue right? Updated that yesterday (manually through cdma workshop obviously since im on boost) and still nothing, same speeds. Is this a settings issue? Is there something I am doing wrong? I am on a stock sense with root.
I am seriously considering selling the phone at this point. My iphone never gave me this kind of grief on simple.

Search for a thread called 'data speeds, wtf?'
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sitlet said:
Search for a thread called 'data speeds, wtf?'
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Fail?
Did you even read why they said? They are on BOOST. Not sprint...

aimbdd said:
Fail?
Did you even read why they said? They are on BOOST. Not sprint...
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Well then that's probably his problem, as the Evo is not meant to run on boost. Hacking it to run on another network is bound to give you problems.

First of all it was working fine until recently. That 50 page thread was basically edit the host file to 0000 which did nothing. Anyone wsnna contribute and not send me on a wild goose chase? Cake will b given
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sitlet said:
Well then that's probably his problem, as the Evo is not meant to run on boost. Hacking it to run on another network is bound to give you problems.
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Boost is on sprints network, so perhaps his experience is the shared experience some of us are getting
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Yes but why? I have the newest prl update and I tried the host fix
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No answers, but I'm having the same problem on the Sprint 3g network. Also getting 1000+ ms pings and download speeds have been less than 100 kbps since Friday. 4g seems to be working fine (when I can connect). Don't know if it is a coincidence, but change occured after PRL 01115 update.

Anyone?
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BumP
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You don't need to keep bumping your thread. If you read the post I gave, you would know this is a nationwide issue with sprint. Their towers are overloaded. I haven't gotten above 100kbps on sprint since November.
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And if you read what I said,i was fine until one week ago, and something changed. If sprint had this issue w every customer 24/7 they would be out if business. Again, reading the post helps. STOP digging in your heels. This is a software issue for most ppl, hence why I am here looking for an answer
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And if you read what I said,i was fine until one week ago, and something changed.
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And again, if you read the data speeds thread, you would see that this EXACT thing happens to many people. Some people will have normal data speeds for a few days, then dial-up speeds for a few days.

I'd say try updating your data profile if you were on sprint...but boost...no idea

I have updated my profile many times with no change. I agree that it may be something software (or EVO) related because I did simultaneous side-by-side speed tests on my son's Hero and my EVO, both on 3g with the same signal strength. The Hero was getting dowloand speeds 3-4 times faster than my EVO. I repeated many times with similar results.

Try that 1)phone>##3282#>edit mode (must now your MSL passcode)>data profile>push menu button>restore>commit mode....that's it. worked for me
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vasiaeva said:
Try that 1)phone>##3282#>edit mode (must now your MSL passcode)>data profile>push menu button>restore>commit mode....that's it. worked for me
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Is there a way to backup before I do this? If I lose my boost settings I will not be able to restore them since i am not very good with cdma/qpst

Well In my case it's not changed anything but I got a normal data speed, and anyway you can't backup this settings. Your own risk
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vasiaeva said:
Well In my case it's not changed anything but I got a normal data speed, and anyway you can't backup this settings. Your own risk
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tried that, now i have no 3g.

its strange.try update profiles

Epic 4G and wifi direct!

PLEASE OH PLEASE SAMSUNG!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/samsu...t-certification-becomes-the-first-smartphone/

That news or release or whatever that was didn't provide anything useful... the entire time I was like whats WiFi Direct? Care to explain?

Shoulon said:
That news or release or whatever that was didn't provide anything useful... the entire time I was like whats WiFi Direct? Care to explain?
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Bluetooth on steroids.
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Just a note,
This is about i9000 galaxy s, not the epic or other galaxy s.
BUT, its still good news as we might also get this.
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It is linking of WiFi devices to each other without the need of the well known middle man: the router. Seems logical to expect this feature in our phones...right?
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I guess this never happened. Bummer.

jasonsf said:
I guess this never happened. Bummer.
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Idk but my phone will connect to my wifes phone running her 4g and wireless tether... don't know if that is what they were talking about... I do it all the time though cuz she gets good 4g in the house and I do not
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If you set up two rooted epics with wireless tether you can run the wifi file transfer on the phone you want the files from while running wifi tether simultaniously you can send files 1.5kbps to each other without a router. Juss sayin
Edit: its kinda of a ***** but it works
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Ya I get what your saying but my phone gets great speed off of my wifes evo 4g... I have epic 4g... I get better download and upload speeds running wifi off her wireless tether than I do from just my phone
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This article was from a year ago....guess it's not happening.

Monkey Pox said:
This article was from a year ago....guess it's not happening.
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Nope. If they were going to do it, EI22 was their chance. I asked via Twitter and got a negative response.

[OTA UPDATES] CDMA Sprint's Nexus S 4G (Updated 9-11-12)

These are official OTA updates (linked below)
They are meant to be flashed over the complete Stock previous version
(Released 6-8-2011) GRJ06D --> GRJ22 df4305c48a37.signed-sojus-GRJ22-from-GRJ06D.df4305c4.zip LINK: https://www.box.com/s/824ctfmln6fubaktm28x
(Released 7-25-2011) GRJ22 --> GRJ90 39fe4c5954c0.signed-sojus-GRJ90-from-GRJ22.39fe4c59.zip LINK: https://www.box.com/s/y826ceizvax876gv86rm
(Released 9-20-2011) GRJ90 --> GWK74 2e8d40143341.signed-sojus-GWK74-from-GRJ90.2e8d4014.zip LINK: https://www.box.com/s/9vjkpbg8axmtx334irm8
(Released 4-5-2012) GWK74 --> IMM76D TAMkDR3z.zip LINK: coming soon
(Released 9-10-2012) IMM76D--> JRO03R BZ-Bqdau.zip LINK: coming soon

what's new?

yeah within minutes of me activating the phone yesterday evening it was pushed to my phone OTA.

I bet it's the update that takes away free tethering.
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I did the update when I first received the phone on Thursday and I still have tethering. This is a built in native Android feature. Eliminating that would defeat the purpose of a Nexus device.
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Yeah I saw it as well, yesterday. I went ahead and installed it. The corporate Sprint store around here opened at 11AM and I saw it when my phone was activated at 11:30, so it must have been something they knew about before the launch.
The description said it fixes minor performance issues or something to that effect.

GRJ22 is the final OTA build sent to the rest of the Nexus S devices. The NS4G phones likely all shipped with GRJ06D and are just being brought in line with the latest release.
You can find a changelog for GRJ22 in the OTA threads (mostly bugfixes and Google Talk video chat) but it likely doesn't all apply coming from GRJ06D.

mrmylanman said:
Yeah I saw it as well, yesterday. I went ahead and installed it. The corporate Sprint store around here opened at 11AM and I saw it when my phone was activated at 11:30, so it must have been something they knew about before the launch.
The description said it fixes minor performance issues or something to that effect.
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Well I had to do this update on Saturday May 7th at about noon when I got my Nexus ...
This could have something to do with the whole Google and Sprint working as one needing a quick fix... example Google voice not working right and making voicemail open to you're contacts...
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Nice, just released, and already more updates then the SGS series. I can't wait to get mine today or sometime this week.
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mrmylanman said:
Yeah I saw it as well, yesterday. I went ahead and installed it. The corporate Sprint store around here opened at 11AM and I saw it when my phone was activated at 11:30, so it must have been something they knew about before the launch.
The description said it fixes minor performance issues or something to that effect.
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I didn't say they would take away tethering. I said they will start charging for it
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matt2053 said:
I didn't say they would take away tethering. I said they will start charging for it
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Not callin' BS, sorry if it came out as if I were. Just giving my $0.02 on the update.
I was pretty surprised tethering was still in there, too, given that they charge for it for the other phones.

I didn't think they would be able to charge for tethering on a pure Google phone, until I noticed they updated the features page at Google.com/Nexus. It now says under portable wifi hotspot that it is subject to carrier fees. :/
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matt2053 said:
I didn't think they would be able to charge for tethering on a pure Google phone, until I noticed they updated the features page at Google.com/Nexus. It now says under portable wifi hotspot that it is subject to carrier fees. :/
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Even if it says that, I doubt you woulf get charged tethering fees.
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Longcat14 said:
Even if it says that, I doubt you woulf get charged tethering fees.
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I agree, since it doesn't warn you when you try to use the built-in tethering...

matt2053 said:
I bet it's the update that takes away free tethering.
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No does not take away the tether, and neather did it make rooting impossible.
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Longcat14 said:
Even if it says that, I doubt you woulf get charged tethering fees.
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I'm gonna check on that. In the meantime, anyone know for sure?

Sprint rep said tethering wouldn't work unless the account was already set up for the mobile hotspot $29.99/month plan. Tested to see, and you can set the phone to act as a mobile hot spot and make the connection, but it wouldn't actually give me internet access. The laptop showed the connection, but with local access only and an error about the IP address. Not surprised - it was the same way with the CDMA Hero, too.

mamamor said:
Sprint rep said tethering wouldn't work unless the account was already set up for the mobile hotspot $29.99/month plan. Tested to see, and you can set the phone to act as a mobile hot spot and make the connection, but it wouldn't actually give me internet access. The laptop showed the connection, but with local access only and an error about the IP address. Not surprised - it was the same way with the CDMA Hero, too.
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I don't have tethering on my account and it works fine for me... I think you're doing something wrong.

derekwilkinson said:
I don't have tethering on my account and it works fine for me... I think you're doing something wrong.
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Same here. Perhaps you were having connection issues while trying to tether; I've experienced that a few times on my EVO.

has anybody made a 2.3.4 stock rooted rom based on the OTA? my phone gets here tomorrow and i want to root and go to town!

NEW PRL-Sprint_60680

60680 is up
Update from Sprint System Updates
Toggle airplane mode on, then off
Uncle Jimmy says to check it

Not here. Still 60679 after update
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Mine too
Csquared said:
Not here. Still 60679 after update
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I updated last night and got the new prl and didn't even realize it, lol
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You on stock or custom rom?
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I updated last night and got the new prl and didn't even realize it, lol
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Updated. Rebooted. Confirmed. Thanked.

pierre1321 said:
You on stock or custom rom?
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Stock Deodex no go here either still 60679

dreamsforgotten said:
Stock Deodex no go here either still 60679
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Yea what he ^ said
*EDIT* shows up properly after a reboot

Confirmed, had to reboot before it showed.
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Confirmed, had to reboot before it showed.
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No ****, well I feel dumb lol! Works like a charm.
Edit: berkmanmd I thanked you simply cause you only had 1!

Lol, me too.never had to reboot before.
Should I notice a difference in speed?
Only reason I ask is cause what my phone should do and what it actually does is way different sometimes.
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No ****, well I feel dumb lol! Works like a charm.
Edit: berkmanmd I thanked you simply cause you only had 1!
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Nope same signal here
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Maybe a dumb question from a curious Swede, but is this the "NS4G GRJ90" OTA we've been waiting for? :S

No, just prl update
Still no info on Grj90 update
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Maybe a dumb question from a curious Swede, but is this the "NS4G GRJ90" OTA we've been waiting for? :S
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pierre1321 said:
No, just prl update
Still no info on Grj90 update
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Then another curious question, what is PRL? :S

Thanks
Still dreaming bout faster speeds.
I laugh when I see people saying they have slow speeds at 3 mbps down and 1-1.5 mbps up. And I get .15-.3 kbs down and up speed is usually double that, on a good day.
Anyway, just checking
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Nope same signal here
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PRL
(Preferred Roaming List)
The PRL is a list of information that resides in the memory of some kinds of digital phones. It lists the radio frequencies the phone can use in various geographic areas.
The part of the list for each area is ordered by the bands the phone should try to use first. Therefore it's a kind of priority list for which towers the phone should use.
The PRL helps determine which home-network towers to use, and also which towers belonging to other networks to use in roaming situations (areas where the home network has no coverage.) When roaming, the PRL may instruct the phone to use the network with the best roaming rate for the carrier, rather than the one with the strongest signal at the moment.
Since a PRL tells the phone "where" to search for a signal, as carrier networks change over time, an updated PRL may be required for a phone to "see" all of the coverage that it should, both with the home network and for roaming.
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Then another curious question, what is PRL? :S
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I'm on cm7 so I guess I can't update huh? Keeps failing when I try...
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On #49 , working for me. Not sure why yours is failing
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I'm on cm7 so I guess I can't update huh? Keeps failing when I try...
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Same here, on #49 and it keeps failing on me too..
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