New Sprint PRL available - 60711 - FIXED DATA SPEED ISSUES!!!

[jourabchid]

http://www.corolada.com/prl/sprint/60711.prl

Just loaded it will test it through out the day....

right off the bat, it seemed to take longer to find a roaming signal in my office, phone keeps comming on when in stand by and switching from sprint to roam....

Roam Data works fine...

FIXED DATA SPEED ISSUES!!!

Post Results...

[meccanoble]

I just downloaded file, how do I use it?

[meccanoble]

I just downloaded file, how do I use it?

I found my answer from another thread:

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a PRL is a list of roaming information and for evdo users it lists all the evdo towers also.


to manually update your prl, type ##prl# on the phones keypad, enter MSL, browse to the msl file.
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just did the update and testing now :)

[jourabchid]

enter ##PRL# (##775#)
it will ask for your MSL enter it (search for msl generator) if you dont know it
and hit ok
tap Update Prl and then goto menu edit, load up the file it will ask you to reboot and your good to go...

[meccanoble]

hmmm, seems my previous PRL was blank??

With the upgrade, I dont see much of a difference but I dont know if I have REV A speeds.

At the bottom it shows 3 KB and now shows 134 KB but is kind of frozen on nba.com.

nfl.com opens pretty fast but I went back to nba.com and same issue. Stuck with 141kb showing at the bottom now...grrr

[supadoggie]

before updating the PRL i was getting around 134kb/s with dslreports.com/mspeed

now i get about 670kb/s

[92GTA]

Using www.mobilespeedtest.com (http://www.mobilespeedtest.com) before I got 676 now I only get about 600.

Not much of a change for my area I'd say...

[rbadh91]

Chicago Suburbs - Near Schaumburg
Before 700kbps
Now 670kbps

btw i did 7 tests before and 7 after to find the average not going by just 1 test

[SyXbiT]

will this PRL update stay when i hard reset or flash to new ROM?

[92GTA]

will this PRL update stay when i hard reset or flash to new ROM?

Yes, this has to do with the Radio, not the ROM...

[electric contractor]

I updated yo Prl 60711 today on mogul. My speeds at office have always been about 22-32 kbs. Office is in bad area. Now after update pages seemed to flash . Did speed test at dslreports where I always go. Nows I am getting 123 kbs WOW!

Update. Went to freespeedtest and shows 151 kbs and before was about 24 kbs, of couse i always clear cache before each test. This rpl is great, I have called Sprint to complain about data speeds.

[TrueArsenic]

yeahhh, i updated the new PRL.. or did i?? It gave me an error message that it couldn't update the PRL, and reset.. ?

[jourabchid]

speeds before 450kbps
speeds now 750kbps

tested at dslreports 200kb 400kb file 1meg file...im happy...

guess they were workin on some tower upgrades with rev a and that cuased some outages across the east coast...

[xdalurk]

I don't see much difference between this (60711) and the 60611 I loaded up after updating to the 3.16 ROM. I'm getting roughly 770kbps down and about 77kbps up.

[livejazz]

Didn't beleive it myself, but got 1.5mbps on the down and .4mbps on the up.

matt

[scoobdude]

can someone post the generator as i cannot find it on xda and ppc geeks is down. thanks

[ilogik]

No speed increase for me, also windows live cab download still stalls for me...

[Pasukun]

Is this PRL only for Sprint? (it probably is..)
Also does this fix the 3.27 Radio data problem?

[indagroove]

can someone post the generator as i cannot find it on xda and ppc geeks is down. thanks

Thanks to jourabchid!

This update definitely increases my data speeds at home.

The getspc program is attached.

[serfboreds]

I tried putting in ##775# and send (green button) and this did not work on verizon. Is there an alternate way for verizon?

[scoobdude]

Thanks to jourabchid!

This update definitely increases my data speeds at home.

The getspc program is attached.

thanks a bunch

[meccanoble]

wow guys, i almost choked when I seen my numbers. Never tested before this update but I went on website, it says "your current bandwidth reading is: 932.10 kbps" which means you can download at 116.51 kb/sec from our servers.

I hit retest at the bottom of the page and i keep getting 0 kbps as numbers.

I went back to the website and clicked on the original link and got 599 kbps.

Hit retest and same 0 kbps BS.

Went back to website one last time and now i'm getting the same 932.10 kbps. I'm not sure where I was originally but this sounds fast as heezy :).

I'm actually in love wit sprint, never thought I would say that lol.

[sanjsrik]

I did it here (NYC) and on a 1Mb file at dsl reports it's showing 576kb, guess that's good.

[dschoenike]

greetings. can someone help me please? then again, if im not smart enough to figure this out on my own, maybe i shouldnt be doing it. :( when i enter my 6 digit msl number, it says "check unlock code failed. please input again". what am i doing wrong? im running 3.16 rom with prl 60610. thx guys

[jourabchid]

your unlock code must be wrong, try running the msl generator again with different combos of the hex/dec serial numbers, i also belive its case sensative...

[countervirus]

your unlock code must be wrong, try running the msl generator again with different combos of the hex/dec serial numbers, i also belive its case sensative...

yes it is case sensitive

[dschoenike]

yes it is case sensitive

thx guys. you were right, its case sensitive. i have another noob question. i tap update prl, go menu, then edit. What am i supposed to do next? when i clicked the link in the very 1st post here, the download took me to page with just a bunch of symbols. am i supposed to enter something manually in the edit page? above where it says browse? sorry im a moron :( thx guys

[sanjsrik]

thx guys. you were right, its case sensitive. i have another noob question. i tap update prl, go menu, then edit. What am i supposed to do next? when i clicked the link in the very 1st post here, the download took me to page with just a bunch of symbols. am i supposed to enter something manually in the edit page? above where it says browse? sorry im a moron :( thx guys

if YOU are a moron then I am too, use a browser on your desktop and right click the file and do a "save as" and save it to your local hard drive, transfer it to your storage card and then go look for the file that way.

[dschoenike]

if YOU are a moron then I am too, use a browser on your desktop and right click the file and do a "save as" and save it to your local hard drive, transfer it to your storage card and then go look for the file that way.

i gotta be the moron king. :) thank you sir for the help. thx to everyone.

[Krayziepop]

Ya know... I was gonna call bull on this - because PRL files are used as a roaming list which is not directly related to your data speed... However, it appears that it may have "properly" associated the Mogul with the REV.A towers. I mean, see for yourselves...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/236403054.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Thats near double the speed I have been seeing lately! Old PRL seems to bring back the slow when changing between them.

Excellent find!

[sanjsrik]

I set my device to roam only and hte speed dropped to 109kb

[l33tlinuxh4x0r]

No change in speed. PRL's only effect roaming and if you can use other peoples towers or not. The only thing that would fix the speed would be a new radio. And yes I did try this PRL. If anything it is a bit slower.

[scoobdude]

i am getting speeds of between 200 and 700kbs. i will try when i get home where i can get a more stable signal. i am still getting the cutouts though on the speedtest. i have not tried and other site yet. Can you run speedtest.net though pie or opera mini? opera mini uses a proxied server, so those results would not be accurate right?:D

once again thanks for the heads up and the help

[indagroove]

No change in speed. PRL's only effect roaming and if you can use other peoples towers or not. The only thing that would fix the speed would be a new radio. And yes I did try this PRL. If anything it is a bit slower.

Well wouldn't affect speed if you were able to log onto rev. A towers that you couldn't in the past?

[jourabchid]

Well wouldn't affect speed if you were able to log onto rev. A towers that you couldn't in the past?


exactly the PRL's for most evdo phones have the updated tower lowcations not only for roaming but new EV-DO Rev. A towers...

[proxcee]

No difference for me...I was already averaging between 650 and 930 kbps down. As I understand it....speeds like this are far from rev A.

[gc14]

No difference for me...I was already averaging between 650 and 930 kbps down. As I understand it....speeds like this are far from rev A.

This is not true. While it's true RevA can speed up your download speeds, you could VERY well be averaging those speeds and be using RevA. RevA is seen a LOT more noticeably in upload speeds, where Rev0 uploads max was around 160k, with RevA upload speeds can max out above 1mbps. I am using RevA and I average roughly 800-1200k down and 600k up.

[dschoenike]

greetings. I realize this probably doesn't make much sense, but since I updated the prl, scrolling on pie is way smoother. am I just nuts, or did this happen to anyone else? thx

[ScottC]

Went from >600 to under 150. Back to the old PRL. Thanks anyway!

[meccanoble]

hmm, i go to work and check that mobile speed test website and now speeds are between 200 and 600 kbps....grr but atleast things are moving a little faster and i'm glad to hear this isnt nowhere near rev a speed yet...

btw, when i go on some websites, while loading, it freezes for a little while..cant scroll up or down...could be me being impatient but i dont remember a slight freeze before....

[scoobdude]

at home i am getting between 700 to 850

[dalvarez7]

I really have not seen any increase of speeds. I always get between 700kbps to 950kbps. I did notice that on my way home on a phone call I would always drop my connection at the same place. This time with the new PRL I didn't drop my call. So that was a nice bonus.

[myculito]

I was averaging in the 700k range prior to updating this PRL.

Although I've only been testing today, i've consistently been getting 850 - 970k download speeds.

There seems to be this dead spot where my call always drops to/from the office, and today it didn't drop!

[digiblur]

LOL.. do many of you really know what a PRL does? It's not a list of towers. It's a list of SID's...tells your phone which ones are Sprint's and which ones you can and can't roam on. If they add a tower in your area you don't need a new PRL to access it.

Placebo effect....

[cohowap]

Actually, your only half right.

PRL also tells your phone bands to scan, as well as tags that depict the network types (RTT/EVDO/EVDO rev. A). Therefore, technically it is possible for a PRL update to make connections better, thus making speeds greater.

Essentially a PRL is a driver for your phone on a CDMA network, drivers can be updated to make better use of the hardware.

Not a placebo effect.

[nikon858]

Seems to load slightly faster for me...never did any speed tests though....

[whatsit]

Well, I don't know that I have any definitive results, but after I updated my PRL, I breached the 1000kbit/sec mark for the first time. Of course, after running the test several more times, my average was lowered by some data stalls (dang-it I can't wait till they fix this new radio), but I would say performance is a little zippier.

[kockroach]

I can't get any of the speed testing sites to complete a test on my phone. I always get a message saying that I need to close PIE, or the site says that Flash/Java aren't installed, even though they are. Any suggestions?

[marriotheblackguy]

Updated to the 711 prl and I have noticed a change I went from low 600's to 800+kbs range after switching back and forth between 611 and 711 at my office in Arlington VA. I hope it's as good at home in DC.

Thanks Sprint.....finally a check mark on the PRO side of the board....the CONS side was really starting to fill up fast.:D

[760hacker]

Does this new PRL work on Verizon or is it Sprint Specific?

[grossera]

I was averaging in the 700k range prior to updating this PRL.

Although I've only been testing today, i've consistently been getting 850 - 970k download speeds.

There seems to be this dead spot where my call always drops to/from the office, and today it didn't drop!

Also first time above 1000 kbit/sec after update...

[dalvarez7]

Does this new PRL work on Verizon or is it Sprint Specific?

Check this website...I believe there was a PRL update for Verizon on 2/15/08

http://www.corolada.com/prl/

[760hacker]

Check this website...I believe there was a PRL update for Verizon on 2/15/08

http://www.corolada.com/prl/

I see them listed according to plans ie "America's Choice I" or "America's Choice II" does it matter which one I try? Also it notes "non EVDO" i use a xv6800 with DCD's 2.1 and radio 3.27.

[grossera]

Ya know... I was gonna call bull on this - because PRL files are used as a roaming list which is not directly related to your data speed... However, it appears that it may have "properly" associated the Mogul with the REV.A towers. I mean, see for yourselves...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/236403054.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Thats near double the speed I have been seeing lately! Old PRL seems to bring back the slow when changing between them.

Excellent find!

Anyone know why the speedtest.net servers pick you up at different locations then you are? Sprint proxying data? Interesting enough, I'm still faster to local servers than the LA which is what speedtest is showing me I should be closest to.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/236799027.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[grossera]

Since the update to the PRL, using speedtest.net I'm consistantly breaking the 2000 kb/sec mark and 300-500 kb/s avg up...

I'm wondering how accurate that 1mb test can be on mobile speed test with these kind of data rates...

[angellt]

my tests on speedtest.net

before:
d/u
1683/326
1404/339
1783/345

after:
d/u
2154/440
1932/387
2125/198

[wiinex]

http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1

I used the above link to test the mobile speed.
with 60608 prl I got the following in order

685 kbit/sec
681 kbit/sec
917 kbit/sec
518 kbit/sec
677 kbit/sec
666 kbit/sec
845 kbit/sec
689 kbit/sec

with 60610 prl I got the following in order

745 kbit/sec
842 kbit/sec
617 kbit/sec
684 kbit/sec
610 kbit/sec
514 kbit/sec
746 kbit/sec

with 60611 prl I got the following in order

988 kbit/sec
658 kbit/sec
679 kbit/sec
753 kbit/sec
721 kbit/sec
768 kbit/sec

with 60711 prl I got the following in order

823 kbit/sec
860 kbit/sec
687 kbit/sec
402 kbit/sec
830 kbit/sec
814 kbit/sec
880 kbit/sec

I am using the 60711 right now because it stayed at 800+ kbit/sec

I don't really know if this helps. I just tried it out to see which one performs best. If there is another way of checking the speed I hope someone would share the results.

tested today feb 20, 2008

[BlitzK]

didnt do anything for my connection... speed tests are about the same, if not a bit slower

[760hacker]

disregard this i figured it out. If you are on Verizon all you have to do is download the PRL you want to use. Transfer it to your phone using ActiveSync then do a ##778 edit and browse for the new .prl file. Once you find it you can update to the new file. IT will prompt you to reset your phone. Done!

[cpunks]

before: 770 kb/s
after: 2.54mb/s

nice hack, thanks!

[AmazingLarry]

Ya know... I was gonna call bull on this - because PRL files are used as a roaming list which is not directly related to your data speed... However, it appears that it may have "properly" associated the Mogul with the REV.A towers. I mean, see for yourselves...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/236403054.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Thats near double the speed I have been seeing lately! Old PRL seems to bring back the slow when changing between them.

Excellent find!

Ok, time to derail the misinformation train.

All Sprint towers are Rev A, all of them. The only difference at a tower is if it has a Rev A modem or not, and they all do now and no sites are being build with Rev 0 modems.

Why not do this instead of using some random guy's "real" PRL that could have just screwed your phone:
http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/Cell_Phones/General/Updating_Sprint's_PRL/

Rev 0 and Rev A are related like 802.11b and 802.11g, as in they can BOTH BE SERVED OFF THE SAME TOWER. Which, in fact, they are. Those things cost so much money there aren't two sets of towers out there and you magically found a secret set.

So here's why some people got a boost and some didn't, THE REAL ANSWER and not something someone just imagined. The speed of your connection is directly proportional to your signal strength (go look it up it's called DRC) and your distance from a tower dictates how good your signal is. A PRL is a Preferred Roaming List (nothing to do with roaming on another carrier) it's actually a list of Sprint cell sites. What some of you did was update your PRL so now your phone is finding a closer tower than it once did, so now you're getting higher speeds. Now what other people did was put on a similar PRL OR they didn't add any new towers in the vicinity so they saw no improvement.

Got it? Let's recap: a) there are no magic towers that only do Rev A, any Rev A tower is a Rev 0 tower too b) you can just call Sprint for the newest PRL instead of trusting some person on the Internet, I honestly can't believe anyone just used a random PRL from the Internet c) this has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FILE DOWNLOAD SIZE PROBLEM, NOT A THING AT ALL. That is because you're using a test version of the radio ROM and it's got some problem, NOTHING WILL FIX IT UNTIL SPRINT RELEASES THE REAL GPS/REV A ROM, NOTHING.

This is not a "hack" in any way.

Because I just have to know, how many of you are testing outdoors with your hands a few feet away from your antenna? There's no point doing a speed test with your sweaty mitts wrapped around the antenna.

EDIT: Something I just thought of, this PRL may be a test PRL for cell techs to use when testing new cells, so don't be surprised if your phone goes to roaming or drops a call all of the sudden because a tower that's not officially on the air yet goes up and down in the middle of the day while you're trying to use it.

[aph]

I updated to this PRL and can't force roaming at home anymore. I get the error:

"Welcome to Verizon. Your phone cannot be authenticated at this time. Please try your call again later."

I had my account flagged for a PRL update and had it done, but the PRL is still 60711. What's the latest official PRL and what's the difference between the 6-series and the 2-series?

[dcd1182]

A PRL is a Preferred Roaming List (nothing to do with roaming on another carrier) it's actually a list of Sprint cell sites. What some of you did was update your PRL so now your phone is finding a closer tower than it once did, so now you're getting higher speeds. Now what other people did was put on a similar PRL OR they didn't add any new towers in the vicinity so they saw no improvement.

The PRL file lists SID and subnet information for both sprint and other carriers and establishes regions and the order in which networks are tried within each region. It does not list "towers." A new tower can be picked up by an old phone with an old PRL with no update. A new site using a new SID would require the update. When a large company like sprint acquires a small company, usually a new PRL is required to incorporate that SID into what your phone sees as home service.

Your phone looks for a SID. A new tower would have the same SID you've been using and be picked up with your existing PRL.

Signal strength (well, SNR actually) and throughput are somewhat proportionate yes. But, the PRL didn't change what towers you are connecting to unless the SID changed. You can check it in the field trial application.

Bottom line is im not buying the speed increase from a PRL either but I think theres still a ton of misconception on the topic. Someone needs to just view 60611 and 60711 in a PRL editor and find the difference.

[dharvey4651]

Will this work on the Vogue?

[cooleyc]

I'm using 60610 and i used mobilespeedtest.com and got 1.37Mbps