Whose got it and how fast is it?? Also does anyone know where I can find a coverage map for it??
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Sprint Spark on your S5 - ALL SPARK discussions here only
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The regular coverage map for data shows Spark coverage in addition to standard 3g/4g. Don't have it in my market yet but according to Sprint is supposed to reach peak speeds of 50-60mbps.
My stuff slow.....whats funny is they allegedly always workin on the towers or fixing something and always got the fukin nerve to be coming out with some allegedly newer or better/faster but never seems to fix what they already got running..... I swear if it wasn't for this employee discount that I receive which pretty much take $20 off my bill I would be so done with Sprint for this average service I get
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I dont go by sprint maps on their site. Go to s4gru.com become a member and donate about $10~$20 bucks to become a sponsor member which will let you see map coverage and every sprint tower in this country, can see which one is active with 3g only or 4g only or a towers with both 3g/4g active that site has alot of great info about sprints coverage and more.
Im in miami where band 41 in most tower is active but i cant recall if miami was already launched with spark but here's some tests.
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According to Sprint....
"These tri-band devices support active hand-off mode between 800MHz, 1.9GHz and 2.5GHz providing data session continuity as the devices move between spectrum bands."
"these devices are expected to give users the best experience by shifting from one band to another, depending on what speed is needed for the application in use at a given moment."
I disabled band 3 and the other 3 options enabled. It doesnt let me choose the order. Looking at the sprint map it shows spark in dfw.
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I live in the Portland Oregon metro area and on 2 occasions when my GF has called me (from her S4 to my S5), the call was in HD voice. From what I understand, this can only happen in a spark situation. So I am betting they are getting ready to fire up the towers here in PDX ahead of schedule.
Hey they're I would call Sprint and make them reprovision your phone. A lot of peoples with S5's and even HTC m8's phones are not properly provisioned and they do not connect to LTE.
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Sprint dropped the ball on TRI-Band.....
Tri-band phones can only connect to LTE or CMDA(3G/1x) one at a time. To off set this towers and now being equipped Circuit Switched Fallback or Enhanced Circuit Switched Fallback. You are probably in an are where the Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) and Enhanced Circuit Switched Fallback (eCSFB) are not equipped on the towers. Sprint hasn't deployed this to most of its network yet. Areas that don’t have it already have no expected time frame for the roll out of this network technology, and since your smartphone is designed to prefer the ability to make and receive phone calls at all costs, it is programmed to stay on CDMA.
Tri-band phones can only connect to LTE or CMDA(3G/1x) one at a time. To off set this towers and now being equipped Circuit Switched Fallback or Enhanced Circuit Switched Fallback. You are probably in an are where the Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) and Enhanced Circuit Switched Fallback (eCSFB) are not equipped on the towers. Sprint hasn't deployed this to most of its network yet. Areas that don’t have it already have no expected time frame for the roll out of this network technology, and since your smartphone is designed to prefer the ability to make and receive phone calls at all costs, it is programmed to stay on CDMA.
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This is the best info that I've seen anout this situation. I can get LTE if I update PRL or toggle airplane mode. Calling Sprint does nothing BC most have no clue what this is and everything they see is working as should. Very very frustrating to hear "oh your device is the issue, go return it for a new one". I can also go into LTE only mode and it stay connected until I change it.
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11Took some more pictures of the top side of things. Showing the radio, antenna, fiber, and power. The setup is 1 per sector, so a total of 3.
Sent from my SM-G900P using XDA Free mobile app5I work for a tower company in Minnesota, and my crew is doing some of the spark (2.5) upgrades. Just thought I'd share a little of what goes into a site. I'll probably post some other pics down the road.
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On your dialer pad hit ##debug# it will take you to a secret menu there once there you will see LTE Engineering go in there then you will see a bunch of info about your network and network signal and such including the lte band which will say 25,26 or 41 next to band
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Also if it's your first time going in that menu and if it ask you for a code put 777468(sprint)
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Sprint "Spark" just means 3 bands of LTE are supported, with the phone switching to the least congested band. It is not a different type of LTE, you will still get full LTE in any non-Spark enabled area, just on the most congested band. The phone does fall back to 3G when on a call, but 3G is not needed to be notified of a call by the network, so your statement about not having other LTE is false. As to the simultaneous voice and data, you are correct. However, once Sprint rolls out voice-over-LTE with HD Voice, that won't be a problem anymore because everything will be done over LTE so data and voice will work simultaneously again.
Sent from my SM-G900P using Tapatalk2Spark is a joke in Austin. No better than standard LTE previously was, but we lost simultaneous voice and data. Sweet!
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