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T_mobile more spectrum :)

Were getting better connection since tmo and att didnt work out, tmo is getting more spectrum http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/11uax01-jpg-e1327448591272.png
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is it nationwide or just the rural areas that tmo doesn't have the best coverage? thanks for the info by the way
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If you search there is a list of towers they are going to share (big cities) but they are getting extra spectrum as well.
Don't have a link sorry.
Read about it awhile ago.
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r1d3r said:
is it nationwide or just the rural areas that tmo doesn't have the best coverage? thanks for the info by the way
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Well as much as i know tmobile didnt have much say in it, att gave tmo the spectrum that it was barely using so my guess would b its the lower population areas, but i do see major city upgrades too
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More spectrum doesn't mean better coverage. AT&T only gave T-Mobile spectrum in places that AT&T doesn't need it, and T-Mobile has some, but not enough.
That's why only 2-3 markets got 20MHz of spectrum, and those were AT&T LTE markets that have 700 up and running.

Unlimited web on at&ts $50 prepaid plan

I was told that you get unlimited data on this plan.Does anyone know if this is correct.
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Not for smartphones. Requires an over price data plan. I think its like $25 bux for one gig.
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It was an old trick that they now are cracking down on.
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That figures.
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They now have euro eimi codes?
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Whats emei codes?and what do they do?
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Straighttalksim.com has a $45 plan "unlimited" everything runs on at&t or tmobile network (you can chose) It works on any phone that has the right bands. I am running a i9100 on it now and have been for awhile

bpear96 said:
Straighttalksim.com has a $45 plan "unlimited" everything runs on at&t or tmobile network (you can chose) It works on any phone that has the right bands. I am running a i9100 on it now and have been for awhile
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Ditto. They can cut you off if you go over a certain amount (most people say around 2-3GB a month), but so far I've used around that amount and been good. I know some people who have gone way over (5GB) and been fine too. If you use them, don't fill in the proxy fields in the APN, just the MMS proxy stuff. If you stream constantly, this service is not for you. However for anything else it's great. And you get real AT&T speeds (I've personally gotten up to 5 Mbps in some areas).

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Ditto. They can cut you off if you go over a certain amount (most people say around 2-3GB a month), but so far I've used around that amount and been good. I know some people who have gone way over (5GB) and been fine too. If you use them, don't fill in the proxy fields in the APN, just the MMS proxy stuff. If you stream constantly, this service is not for you. However for anything else it's great. And you get real AT&T speeds (I've personally gotten up to 5 Mbps in some areas).
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Yup ive used 2gb and been fine, and have also heard of people going over 5gb and been fine. But id say 2gb would be the safe zone, which is probably plenty for most. Just use wifi whenever you can

my sim will be coming soon and since im gonna be using a pre 2 i dont think data limits are anything to worry about. i just want stable reliable signal where I can text and get calls reliably from a certain area sprint doesnt cut it but ATT does. my question is i am a part time promotor for clubs so i send out a crap load of texts (on sprint i saw my amount and it was around 22000 lol)
if i decide to make this my main phone i will be consuming that much.....phone calls arent an issue i mainly talk only to my gf for long periods of time at night lol
will i be kicked off for this usage?

Hey if I only wanted 5-10 of data a month with no minutes or texts is that possible?and if it is how much would I be looking at for just 5 Gb of 4G data a month.I have a unlocked HTC sensation 4G a t-mobile smartphone.so do I order a sim card from straight talk?how much is a sim card?can I call and order a sim card and activate the sim for just monthly data?I would appreciate it if someone would please explain my qwestions. Thanks...
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Texts don't really use data so you would be fine. Data use would be like Pandora.
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Mesaman2012 said:
Hey if I only wanted 5-10 of data a month with no minutes or texts is that possible?and if it is how much would I be looking at for just 5 Gb of 4G data a month.I have a unlocked HTC sensation 4G a t-mobile smartphone.so do I order a sim card from straight talk?how much is a sim card?can I call and order a sim card and activate the sim for just monthly data?I would appreciate it if someone would please explain my qwestions. Thanks...
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You could get your cellphone activated on Clearwireless if it's available in your area. It works on HTC EVO, and I think it would on sensation... Just google "activate htc evo on clearwireless" to get on the right path... Good luck!

izzox said:
You could get your cellphone activated on Clearwireless if it's available in your area. It works on HTC EVO, and I think it would on sensation... Just google "activate htc evo on clearwireless" to get on the right path... Good luck!
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The Evo is a cdma device and the Sensation is a gsm device. They are not compatible. Clearwireless is a cdma provider (mvno).
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Isn't there a provider called smart wireless?If so are they gsm or cdma?
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I don't think GSM/CDMA matters in terms of 4G connection, rather Wimax/ lTE... does
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izzox said:
I don't think GSM/CDMA matters in terms of 4G connection, rather Wimax/ lTE... does
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Yes, it does. GSM SIMs and (for example) the SIMs used by Verizon (I don't, know if, Sprint has switched to a SIM based system for their up and coming LTE network) would not be compatible. You CANNOT USE A device like the Sensation on a CDMA network, period.
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Babydoll25 said:
Yes, it does. GSM SIMs and (for example) the SIMs used by Verizon (I don't, know if, Sprint has switched to a SIM based system for their up and coming LTE network) would not be compatible. You CANNOT USE A device like the Sensation on a CDMA network, period.
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Sprint uses "integrated SIMs" for their LTE phones, which basically means they still use the same MEID/ESN system. Identical to the old 3G/WiMax system. And yes, you're correct. You can't use a GSM phone on a CDMA network period. You can, however take a hybrid GSM/CDMA phone (like a Droid 2 Global) and get it to work on GSM networks by hacking the radio not to ignore domestic networks like AT&T and T-Mobile.

HSPA+ on GT-N7000. T-Mobile refarming?

It may be a miracle. I was using the International Samsung Galaxy Note and was only receiving edge on T-Mobile. I learned why this was and hoped it would change. About three nights ago exactly I was trying to use my data which was edge which did not work at all. I was not sure why. Then the following night I was at a dinner party in Cougar Mountain Drive which is in the Bellevue area. All of a sudden I turned on my data and guess what I saw. A big H+ staring me back in the face. I was so overjoyed I could not even begin to explain. But alas, I could not longer see the H+ when I returned home in the Seattle Area. Is T-Mobile finally refarming? We can all hope can't we? What do you guys think?

Probably Tmo rolling out 4G in select areas.
You can always apply the Tmo radio to get 4G
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KayxGee1 said:
Probably Tmo rolling out 4G in select areas.
You can always apply the Tmo radio to get 4G
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that's only with the at&t version. I believe OP was referring to T-mobile expanding their network bands to the ones used by at&t

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Probably Tmo rolling out 4G in select areas.
You can always apply the Tmo radio to get 4G
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That's awesome advice....not. Are you trying to get him to brick his phone?
This is an N7000.

T-Mobile has been working on standing up the 1900 frequency, which is the same band AT&T uses, and the band included in all international phones. They have been using AWS which is the 1700 band. This is why all new-ish T-mobile phones are pentaband. You must have been in an area that they already converted over. It is supposed to be complete sometime in 2013.

I have a similar story. While visiting in Concord, CA. Downtown where the Old Spaghetti Factory is: I was able to get HSPA+ on my Infuse i997. Looking forward to the refarm taking place all over the usual spots.

PoisonWolf said:
That's awesome advice....not. Are you trying to get him to brick his phone?
This is an N7000.
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Yes. That's my dream is to ruin other devices. Its already been successfully done with the AT&T Note. Do some research.
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KayxGee1 said:
Yes. That's my dream is to ruin other devices. Its already been successfully done with the AT&T Note. Do some research.
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:| You didn't bother reading the rest of the thread did you? It can only be done on the ATT note because ATT was preparing for their merge wit T-mobile. "Do some research."
Its the same reason that the Skyfire can be flashed to t-mobile.

Post it on airportal.de because it is the only way to track it besides HowardForums.
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KayxGee1 said:
Yes. That's my dream is to ruin other devices. Its already been successfully done with the AT&T Note. Do some research.
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It's okay to be ignorant but no need for remarks like that. International note and at&t are different.
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Teo032 said:
It's okay to be ignorant but no need for remarks like that. International note and at&t are different.
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I now understand its not those models. It was my fault for not realizing. People on this forum are so quick to pounce on someone's mistake. His comment wasn't necessary and neither was mine. Simple.
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I understand that T-mobile has re-farmed 1900 MHz for 3G service in the Boston, MA area.
Is this service available to T-Mobile pre-paid PAYG customers? On the $3/day plan?
Is there any requirement for a GBA SIM? Or any newer SIM?
Are there any specialized APN settings?
Any specialized phone settings? "Force" WCDMA 1900 MHz only from the Service Menu?
I have an international un-locked Samsung Galaxy S II (I9100), and a 7 year old T-Mobile pre-paid SIM.
I have been able to use GSM data (2G: GPRS/EDGE) as recently as July, 2012.
My visits are brief so I use the $2/day plan but would like to be able to use 3G.

current reports,
no specific deals with TMO regarding network sharing,
i'd doubt AT&T will lend the networks without a fair price

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New customer

Hello all..been a T-Mobile customer for 11years..so I decided to switch to Verizon been waiting for the note 3...any word of advice..I wonder how good of a service it is, that's the reason why I'm switching...
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jr_718 said:
Hello all..been a T-Mobile customer for 11years..so I decided to switch to Verizon been waiting for the note 3...any word of advice..I wonder how good of a service it is, that's the reason why I'm switching...
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where im at in cincinnati nobody comes close to verizon reliability, coverage and speed. of course it is the most expensive but you get what you pay for!

Am in NYC...
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jr_718 said:
Hello all..been a T-Mobile customer for 11years..so I decided to switch to Verizon been waiting for the note 3...any word of advice..I wonder how good of a service it is, that's the reason why I'm switching...
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It's the best, period. I am switching myself from sprint.
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Call and get the 60 dollars for 2gb unlimited text and talk. I just switched from sprint and was approved for the plan.

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where im at in cincinnati nobody comes close to verizon reliability, coverage and speed. of course it is the most expensive but you get what you pay for!
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+1 and Cincy too

I switched from tmobile about 6 months ago... I live in chicago area and havent looked back ... well besides unlimited data
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Verizon service is known to be the most reliable across the country. In heavily metro areas, you'll usually see stronger ATT service, but as you leave the metro areas, that service degrades quickly. Get to a massive rural area, and ATT frequently has no service. Verizon, on the other hand, has 4G almost everywhere, and where there's no 4G there is usually 3G. Significantly fewer dropped calls, too. At the moment, Verizon's LTE is faster than ATT's as well. (They go back and forth and each company likes to claim that they're always the fastest).
In terms of service, from what I've heard about T-mo, it's a trade up. I've never heard MUCH bad about t-mo, but I've heard that verizon/ATT are better. And I can say first hand that verizon is more reliable than ATT.

xBryan said:
Call and get the 60 dollars for 2gb unlimited text and talk. I just switched from sprint and was approved for the plan.
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Can you share some details? Have not heard of this plan.
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njfoses said:
Can you share some details? Have not heard of this plan.
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Its 2gb, unlimited talk and text for 60 bucks for 1 year. Its called a loyaltly plan. It does not include hotspot.
Heres what you do:
Call: 1800-779-6269
Tell them your buddy told you about this plan.
If it does not work hang up and try again.
It is supposed to be for current customers but she let me have it.
It is only valid for single lines.

jr_718 said:
Hello all..been a T-Mobile customer for 11years..so I decided to switch to Verizon been waiting for the note 3...any word of advice..I wonder how good of a service it is, that's the reason why I'm switching...
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Welcome to having signal. I had t mobile for 8 years.
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leyvatron said:
Welcome to having signal. I had t mobile for 8 years.
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LOL.
Interestingly enough, I get good reception on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon where I live, work, and play (and where my kids play). But I still use Verizon as my daily driver carrier.

yyhd said:
LOL.
Interestingly enough, I get good reception on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon where I live, work, and play (and where my kids play). But I still use Verizon as my daily driver carrier.
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You use an iphone...yuck.
Haha. Jk.
Yeah, I'm in Los Angeles and your in San Jose so signal is pretty good for us. T-Mobile has good signal here, it's until you leave... then you are screwed.
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Thanks all..it's just that in the basement at my job I don't get service with tmobile and my job depend on it..anyways. .With all the inputs I finally got the phone from best buy. Couldn't belive the first Verizon store I went to didn't have it.. best buy did..Am part of the VZ family now..thanks again
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Galaxy S5 Sprint Spark kills data + voice calls at the same time!

SEE POST 30 TO CHANGE YOUR PRIORITY BAND COVERAGE!
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/...ark-4g-network-problems-phone-calls/index.htm
I asked the store rep if Sprint is working on a fix, but we all know the Sprint reps are usually useless answering these questions (by this I mean at the store they are only trying to make a sell). Her answer was that Sprint is working on a fix that will fix all phones with an OTA. My next question was is this a hardware or software problem which she responded that it is a tower problem. I looked online for an answer but all I could find is that Sprint responded with a weird kinda lame answer that didn't really say if they are working on a fix or not. On Sprint's Forum a rep says they are, but they say a lot of things on the forum that aren't correct also. This seems to be a very frustrating situation actually.
Does it matter to you?
It does to me, but at the same time it isn't a function I use all the time. My only reason that it has helped me, is that it has greatly helped me with work a few or more times.
I am kinda forced to buy a new phone for framily / billing reasons... huge bill without it. I am sorta thinking that I will upgrade the phone but at the same time keep my S4 handy in case I hate the S5. I went to the store today and I have to say it actually surprised me with it's new version of Touchwiz- even though I usually hate Touchwiz.
The only real reason I can see me upgrading is the camera and battery algorithms for power saving.

I call crap!
I've had none of these issues personally, and you can just turn off Spark.

I spoke with sprint today and they said it would be fixed when spark opens up nation wide.
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Spark is crap!!!
The reason you can only use one at a time is the triband antenna in the phone it can only use one signal at a time. It may be fixed once sprint starts using voice over LTE. Plus spark is just a unborn baby right now, not even full deployed. The sprint map says spark coverage is in certain areas on the sprint coverage map on the website. This is not true, the sprak network is 2.5Ghz radio head on the the already existing towers(have not be built or not on-air yet). According to sprint Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung towers are the only companies that are contracted to work on spark networks. Ericsson is looking like they will not be apart of the upgrade. This means there will be 1/3 of the sprint market that will not have spark. Sprint has the the companies split by markets and only two of them have contracts to build in their area.
Here is an article that will cover a good about of that info.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...dors-absence-sprints-spark-program/2013-10-30

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The reason you can only use one at a time is the triband antenna in the phone it can only use one signal at a time. It may be fixed once sprint starts using voice over LTE. Plus spark is just a unborn baby right now, not even full deployed. The sprint map says spark coverage is in certain areas on the sprint coverage map on the website. This is not true, the sprak network is 2.5Ghz radio head on the the already existing towers(have not be built or not on-air yet). According to sprint Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung towers are the only companies that are contracted to work on spark networks. Ericsson is looking like they will not be apart of the upgrade. This means there will be 1/3 of the sprint market that will not have spark. Sprint has the the companies split by markets and only two of them have contracts to build in their area.
Here is an article that will cover a good about of that info.
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NSN will be the contractor for the Areas served by Ericsson for NV 1.0. The reason you can not get SVLTE is because they do not have multiple pathways for 1x and LTE. Here it talks about it. The S5 was not the first phone to have this happen, All tri-Band Phones will most likely be without SVLTE from now on.
S4gru has a few pages explaining it better.

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NSN will be the contractor for the Areas served by Ericsson for NV 1.0. The reason you can not get SVLTE is because they do not have multiple pathways for 1x and LTE. Here it talks about it. The S5 was not the first phone to have this happen, All tri-Band Phones will most likely be without SVLTE from now on.
S4gru has a few pages explaining it better.
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Yes, I forgot to mention it is not only the S5, but all Triband phones. I mostly wanted to put this out here in the open for feedback and other peoples knowledge when contemplating the S5 as an update. I would have been absolutely pissed if I found out after the fact.

It's being discussed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2712240
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They have to enable it on the network side to allow dual channels on a single LTE channel
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pro_granade said:
I've had none of these issues personally, and you can just turn off Spark.
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How do you turn off Spark?
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pastert33 said:
How do you turn off Spark?
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You can't
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eyecon82 said:
You can't
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This is really confusing to me. I thought Atlanta was a spark location...now I have a brand new phone and only see 3g on it
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This is really confusing to me. I thought Atlanta was a spark location...now I have a brand new phone and only see 3g on it
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Read this. It will explain it much better.
It's a long read, but well worth your time
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-due-to-circuit-switched-fallback-technology/
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Now that Sprint has wifi calling it seems like it would be easy to use the same service over LTE. Then 1X voice wouldn't be needed and you could use data+voice simultaneously.

ZerosAndOnes said:
Now that Sprint has wifi calling it seems like it would be easy to use the same service over LTE. Then 1X voice wouldn't be needed and you could use data+voice simultaneously.
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How do we use wifi calling?
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Where can u find what areas/towers has this completed on? I'm really thinking about upgrading but don't want to be with out 4G when I have strong 4G in my area with my S3.
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BubZX said:
Where can u find what areas/towers has this completed on? I'm really thinking about upgrading but don't want to be with out 4G when I have strong 4G in my area with my S3.
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I had 4G on my S3 in New Orleans and I currently have 4G with my S5
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I don't have an S5 yet but I have a Mega with Spark and I have no issues whatsoever.

Well I got the sprint spark friday when it came out and jus like my s4....I still got crappy coverage at my house but suppose to have best signal
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soufdallas said:
Well I got the sprint spark friday when it came out and jus like my s4....I still got crappy coverage at my house but suppose to have best signal
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Having sprint spark doesn't mean your going to have best speeds unless your connected to band 41 or band 26 which is the newest bands. With those speeds you have there i wouldn't be surprise if your connected to band 25 which is the 1900mhz which yea its loaded with majority of sprint customers which is going to give you real slow speeds.
Here some speed test on band 41 i took yesterday morning when i was heading to go play some basketball.
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yellowman82 said:
Having sprint spark doesn't mean your going to have best speeds unless your connected to band 41 or band 26 which is the newest bands. With those speeds you have there i wouldn't be surprise if your connected to band 25 which is the 1900mhz which yea its loaded with majority of sprint customers which is going to give you real slow speeds.
Here some speed test on band 41 i took yesterday morning when i was heading to go play some basketball.View attachment 2686876
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WOW @ THOSE SPEEDS....Fukin incredible.............so im guessing they have to turn on that band 41 for me

soufdallas said:
WOW @ THOSE SPEEDS....Fukin incredible.............so im guessing they have to turn on that band 41 for me
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Where do you live? And also what i did was i went into my settings ##data# and made band 41 as my primary. My list is #1 band 41 as primary, #2 is band 25 and #3 is band 26 since its not active here in Miami yet but band 41 is doing great so far as you can see.
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