Why am I not getting 4G LTE? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

Well, I have the Sprint Version and im in Dallas, whydo i stil lonly see 3g (SLOOOOW).
I have gone back to stock and unrooted, done the updates to LG2 etc, what the hell is wrong?
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You and me both. I spoke with someone with sprint and they said some towers were still being updated and that everything should be updated by July 20th but who knows. I have picked up the 4g signal a few times and the fastest down speeds I have gotten are 500kbps.

Sprint service blows...folks are having the same issue here in the 260, but atleast your bootloader is unlocked.

Yea sprint was supposed to have kc done and launched the other day. Apparently they only turned on a few towers around the city slowly and its slowly allowing more users onto the tower over time. Possibly to help prevent an overload of some sort.
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did you turn on lte
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My friend is having the same problem with his LTEvo but I've had 4g everywhere I go since Saturday.

Turn it off and then turn it on
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Yea sprint was supposed to have kc done and launched the other day. Apparently they only turned on a few towers around the city slowly and its slowly allowing more users onto the tower over time. Possibly to help prevent an overload of some sort.
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False. Sprints lte markets have been launched, but the anticipated launch was met with 40% of the towers active. This means that as time goes on, the remaining 60% of the towers will turn on in due time.

Where in DFW has it worked, id like to see if im chasing my tail here.Im gonna call and ***** regardless.

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Where in DFW has it worked, id like to see if im chasing my tail here.Im gonna call and ***** regardless.
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I'm in fort worth but I'll be driving up to Frisco and through Dallas today and I'll post back everywhere I got it.

I have it at work not bad here
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Where in Dallas, I am at 183 and regal row, just spent an hour on the phone with Sprint Tech support, took the phone back to stock LEN and still nothing but "3g".
I drove up to Inwood and 35, still no 4g.
Guess Ill take it back to the store.

i'm in canada using Telus and i notice it switches from LTE to Hspa ALL time... very random, even in the same place there's no guarantee what it will be on

This new article at S4GRU almost deserves its own thread here, but there are already too many on this general subject. Most of it may be news to folks here.
Sprint LTE launch market connection issues

Ascertion said:
False. Sprints lte markets have been launched, but the anticipated launch was met with 40% of the towers active. This means that as time goes on, the remaining 60% of the towers will turn on in due time.
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Like I said, not all of the towers in the area have launched...
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Do you guys know if there is an easier toggle between the two? I usually keep it on but I work in Lewisville and it's still not a 100 percent. Anyone that is rooted have you guys been able to pick it up?
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Sprint LTE coverage map.

So here is the original thread and link, I don't know, might be something you all want to see.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27593336
http://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp?
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s4guru has lots of good info also...not "official" sprint word yet but the KC area sure looks to be well covered soon.
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-265-kansas-network-visionlte-deployment-schedule-update/
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s4guru has lots of good info also...not "official" sprint word yet but the KC area sure looks to be well covered soon.
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-265-kansas-network-visionlte-deployment-schedule-update/
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Yeah, nothing official on that site, but they really seem to know what's going on. They're projecting an August/September timeframe for the LTE to come on around Chicago which makes me happy. I'm going to have a hard time waiting with just 3G as it's horrid around this area, but hopefully they'll start getting it together soon.
@hayzooos Yeah I'm in ATL Ga, and they have been testing here for some time now.
So should be turned on here soon
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http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-sprint-network-visionlte-deployment-in-2012/
Looks like the Detroit area is getting left out of the fun again. First no wimax, now its looking like we're not invited to the lte party either... What is their obsession with the Grand Rapids area? Is there a corporate headquarters there or something? On the bright side, I'll at least get a good signal when I go out that way to my cottage during the summer!
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@hayzooos Yeah I'm in ATL Ga, and they have been testing here for some time now.
So should be turned on here soon
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yeah end of the month, per sprints 4glte fb page, for our area
i just turned on LTE in the chicagoland area; lets see what happens!
Interesting that you have to turn on LTE. Just turned it on in Austin, s4gru predicting some sites will go live end of june?
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Interesting that you have to turn on LTE. Just turned it on in Austin, s4gru predicting some sites will go live end of june?
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LTE has been truned on for testing several times in each area for the initial rollout. Turn it on, you just may get lucky. Ask qbkin77
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DC looks to be getting some LTE love soon. AWWWW YEEAAAAHHH
Any NYC love?
Anyone know or estimates when NYC would be getting LTE?
just wondering...where the heck are the LTE settings in the menu? i looked all over and didn't notice anything about 4g
Yea Baltimore and DC should be online really soon! Cant wait!
I found it under mobile networks or something like that. Choose the option that has lte and cdma but there's no actual on of toggle for it. When you change the setting your phone will reboot
Settings>more settings> mobile networks>network mode
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Lol the only part in Baltimore with no later towers around
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S4 lists Seattle area LTE going on early in the second round... Wonder when it will be up for testing... and if someone can modify our modems to take advantage of it?
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-sprint-network-visionlte-deployment-in-2012/
Can't wait to get LTE where I am. Should be done in a few months they say.
Is lte like Wimax where you have to turn it on and off to use or is it like hspa where it's on always?
My life for Aiur
Will our phones just have a 4g indicator at the top when using it? My area is rolling out and done by Fall but I heard it was possible to get some reception as they keep building towers throughout the Summer.

Chicago (Northwest suburbs LTE) live!!

Guys--
Live in northwest suburbs outside chicago and have LTE signal out of nowhere. Specifically Bartlett,IL next to elgin/st charles/carol stream. I cant run a solid speedtest since it locks up when it checks for upload speed but got 6meg down with less than 70 millisecond times. It was going in and out im assuming from testing but it seems more consistent as i type this. Will upload speedtest results if it stops locking up.
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Where are you exactly?
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Bartlett, IL at Schick and Rt. 59 intersection. It was stable for a bit but its doen again now.
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Hey. I'm next door in Palatine near Dundee Road and Rand. Im not seeing LTE on my AOKP build.
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Hey. I'm next door in Palatine near Dundee Road and Rand. Im not seeing LTE on my AOKP build.
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LTE does not work on AOKP or CM as of yet
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Palatines quite a distance from Bartlett. You may be looking at the speedtest server which is automatically selected as nearest one.
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i hope oak park is up soon. I'm moving there in a couple weeks. coming from michigan.
Cmon rogers park/Lakeview lol.
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cmon logansquare lol
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Holy **** I live in Bloomingdale! About to get on plane to come back home. Flashing to stock base, testing, and reporting as soon as I get there. Thanks man!
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I restored my backup of my stock setup ^_^ This better be good
Rockford better come live before chicago because if we gotta wait for chicago it's gonna take forever.
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Come on southeast Wisconsin! One can wish, right?
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Rockford better come live before chicago because if we gotta wait for chicago it's gonna take forever.
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There are several towers in Rockford that are scheduled for NV upgrades in August, so you might see something within a month or so.
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There are several towers in Rockford that are scheduled for NV upgrades in August, so you might see something within a month or so.
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When we were without service last month for a day Sprint told me they were adding lte to all the towers. It hard to believe anyone because nobody knows when there gonna flip the switch for sure. Sprint could of handled this better by not telling people next month or in August because the Sprint reps are consistently telling people anything to shut them up, they could have been like we're not sure and leave it at that. I wouldn't mind waiting if 3g was really 3g like on T-Mobile or [email protected] but it's really slow and unusable. I would never in my life consider there service worthy of a smartphone . I can't even stream a two minute video on YouTube it's ridiculous. This is the main reason people are so impatient ,I'm new to Sprint only a month in but i can't believe people been with these slow speeds so long, i would of jump ship along time ago. No lte by october then im off to Verizon or [email protected] where i can use my phone in a productive manor.
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When we were without service last month for a day Sprint told me they were adding lte to all the towers. It hard to believe anyone because nobody knows when there gonna flip the switch for sure. Sprint could of handled this better by not telling people next month or in August because the Sprint reps are consistently telling people anything to shut them up, they could have been like we're not sure and leave it at that. I wouldn't mind waiting if 3g was really 3g like on T-Mobile or [email protected] but it's really slow and unusable. I would never in my life consider there service worthy of a smartphone . I can't even stream a two minute video on YouTube it's ridiculous. This is the main reason people are so impatient ,I'm new to Sprint only a month in but i can't believe people been with these slow speeds so long, i would of jump ship along time ago. No lte by october then im off to Verizon or [email protected] where i can use my phone in a productive manor.
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Actually, Samsung (the OEM) is handling the actual NV upgrades, and they've fallen a bit behind schedule from where they should be. I'm pretty sure those towers were probably originally scheduled for July, but got bumped back like a lot of them have. Sprint's really just waiting on Samsung and the backhaul providers to get everything going before they can finish it up and green light the tower.
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When we were without service last month for a day Sprint told me they were adding lte to all the towers. It hard to believe anyone because nobody knows when there gonna flip the switch for sure. Sprint could of handled this better by not telling people next month or in August because the Sprint reps are consistently telling people anything to shut them up, they could have been like we're not sure and leave it at that. I wouldn't mind waiting if 3g was really 3g like on T-Mobile or [email protected] but it's really slow and unusable. I would never in my life consider there service worthy of a smartphone . I can't even stream a two minute video on YouTube it's ridiculous. This is the main reason people are so impatient ,I'm new to Sprint only a month in but i can't believe people been with these slow speeds so long, i would of jump ship along time ago. No lte by october then im off to Verizon or [email protected] where i can use my phone in a productive manor.
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Part of the reason why you're getting such slow 3g speeds is BECAUSE of the lack of 4g. When every single smart phone user is only using 3g, (and has unlimited data) is slows the network for everyone. Once lte is up and running we'll see speed increases in 3g as well. Just wait it out. Sprint is hands down the best deal in wireless, has great customer service, awesome phones, and unlimited data. The speed will come.
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No LTE in An LTE Area

I'm on Sprint and I am using Toroplus. Well I have to drive a few streets down the block to get LTE. Well in my house I'm not getting any LTE. When I reboot my phone it shows that I have 4G 2 bars for about 10 seconds until being thrown off ****ty 3G Connection. In the sprint Coverage map it shows that my area has 4G LTE (Zip Code is 78223 in case you want to check)
I am running A jellybean ROM. Using FG01.
-.- As Usual No Damn Help.
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And with that attitude I don't think you'll get any.
Its normal for it to do that. It detects 3G being stronger and switches. You have to put it in LTE only mode. Its a dialer code. Or you can you a JB ROM that has that option like cm10 or CNA.
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man I wish I could help I live just outside a lte area (san antonio), the day they rolled out lte there I was driving through visiting family. I went from full on lte to 3g to low lte to 3g to just 3g btw I was all over san antonio. I wasn't impressed. That being said I would love to even have lte anytime to fully use my gnex.
I hope someone can help you out with your problem. At the time I was running a ics rom so I haven't even tried one with jb.
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And with that attitude I don't think you'll get any.
Its normal for it to do that. It detects 3G being stronger and switches. You have to put it in LTE only mode. Its a dialer code. Or you can you a JB ROM that has that option like cm10 or CNA.
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What would be the dialer code?
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Ignoring the troll in this thread, any other way? Tried enabling LTE only for a few minutes. Still nothing
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If you have no way to help, then don't post.
Cleaned.
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Ignoring the troll in this thread, any other way? Tried enabling LTE only for a few minutes. Still nothing
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Reboot after enabling it. Have you tried that? Google the code... should pop up I think... :S
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Nothing. Probably just the Coverage map lying. I phoned Sprint Customer support and they told me that by September I should have internet in my house after I gave him my Address. October at the most. Thanks guys for trying to help. Now off to bed for me since I am dying out of this horrible cold x(
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I guess all I can say is just because a coverage map says you have service doesn't mean you will. There are a lot of places that I've seen have coverage according to the map (back when I had Sprint and now T-Mobile) that just don't fulfill that promise. There are so many factors that come into play in the real world when getting a signal that just can't be represented by a coverage map.
Not to mention that Sprint's LTE network is extremely new and hardly rolled out to full strength.
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What would be the dialer code?
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Its in this article, with some other information on this topic:
PS I am in Dallas, and have yet to have any steady LTE
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/202207-possible-keep-4g-lte-only.html
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As many lies that sprint says. I like their LTE network. Getting 2 Megabytes per second download and 1 megabyte per second Upload. Its an amazing network and a disorganized Carrier.
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I got home from a meeting today. 1-2 bars of 4G. I was so happy. I literally jumped up and down out of happiness. 10 minutes later after changing out of my Outfit. Back to regular 3G.
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Got 4G LTE again, let's hope it stays this time.. my thought would be that Sprint currently has workers working in the towers. Because now I have an average of 2-3 Bars of 4G. 30 minutes ago when I had 4G I had 1-2 bars of 4G.
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Yea many GSM and VZ users here thats why we need to seperate
Well people would rather be doing something else than to be helping out someone. But anyways, I always believed what goes around comes around.
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Thanks for noting Sprint!

I'm at the Austin, TX ACL music festival, and and Sprint is worthless! Sure I have signal.... But I can't text, and can't make calls, and the internet does NOT work on 3g or 4g LTE. My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems....
When you walk around and look around, everyone BUT Sprint brought in temporary towers to provide service for the festival. Sprint has a nearby tower that gives me 3-5 bars, and but it's FAR overloaded. There are 75k people here today, give or take...
All I'm saying Sprint, is would it kill you to bring in a temporary tower or 2 for the 3 day music festival of 100k people or so...?
Ok...... Sorry for my rant..... I'm getting fed up with nothing working...
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Do they have a first aid station? Sounds like you need to find the waaaaaahmbulance.
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Lol! Ya, they do.... Maybe they have some kotex
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Orrr change carriers. Reading all these "Boo Sprint" threads are getting old. If you don't like it, move on!
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I'm at the Austin, TX ACL music festival, and and Sprint is worthless! Sure I have signal.... But I can't text, and can't make calls, and the internet does NOT work on 3g or 4g LTE. My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems....
When you walk around and look around, everyone BUT Sprint brought in temporary towers to provide service for the festival. Sprint has a nearby tower that gives me 3-5 bars, and but it's FAR overloaded. There are 75k people here today, give or take...
All I'm saying Sprint, is would it kill you to bring in a temporary tower or 2 for the 3 day music festival of 100k people or so...?
Ok...... Sorry for my rant..... I'm getting fed up with nothing working...
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At the big golf tournaments here in Florida or at any Football stadium, the towers are always oversaturated. In some markets, AT&T provide Sprint's backhaul so it's possible those were related.
I have nothing against sprint. I love them and have had them ever since the early 90's. I just think they could have been a bit more proactive..... Like there competitors were...
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Wait... so you are on XDA and on the SG3 with Sprint and you didn't think to change your PRL to a Verizon PRL to get signal and 3G? You deserve to have the issues you have cause you had every opportunity to address the problem before hand and during the festival.
This is a big FAIL!!!
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I'm at the Austin, TX ACL music festival, and and Sprint is worthless! Sure I have signal.... But I can't text, and can't make calls, and the internet does NOT work on 3g or 4g LTE. My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems....
When you walk around and look around, everyone BUT Sprint brought in temporary towers to provide service for the festival. Sprint has a nearby tower that gives me 3-5 bars, and but it's FAR overloaded. There are 75k people here today, give or take...
All I'm saying Sprint, is would it kill you to bring in a temporary tower or 2 for the 3 day music festival of 100k people or so...?
Ok...... Sorry for my rant..... I'm getting fed up with nothing working...
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Its ok. Sprint defence force is out and about today. Sprint sucks..I have to flash a roaming prl for decent speeds. Def waiting for that letter.
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I just wanted to make a funny joke, not being insulting. I will note that at a recent major sporting event in an LTE market I was getting 1mbps down on my GS2 on 3g (unfortunately was there a week before I got my GS3). Others in my group on other carriers were getting the typical sporting event zilch. I am hoping this is a sign of things to come.
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Sounds like its your device. You wrote "My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems"
So your friends with Sprint didnt have problem. But yet you did.. So seems to be your device and not Sprint.
Unless you meant to say your friends with Sprint ALSO had problems.. in which case the network operated normally. It was a festival with over loading. It happens.
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Wait... so you are on XDA and on the SG3 with Sprint and you didn't think to change your PRL to a Verizon PRL to get signal and 3G? You deserve to have the issues you have cause you had every opportunity to address the problem before hand and during the festival.
This is a big FAIL!!!
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Lmao
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T-Mobile and My Experiences

So I have the S4 now and I've been complaining to T-Mobile about the poor download speeds in neighborhood in Brooklyn, NYC as if I live in the boondocks. I finally got a response from T-Mobile saying that oh well it looks like there isn't enough bandwidth in your area and there's nothing you can do. Which is ironic considering the slew of ads they have bashing AT&Ts bandwidth and bragging how great they are (BS). See attached for the wonderful LTE speeds I get. And it's all the time as you can see, not based on time and the network being clogged up. I work in midtown Manhattan where between 10AM and 6PM the network is barely useable to which they said "well a lot of people are probably on it".
I'm surprised they didn't tell me to move somewhere else.
Basically I'm getting tired of all the LTE posts I'm seeing on here
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Shot in the dark here but do you have any HSPA in your area? This thread gives some tips you can use to drastically increase speeds. Seems to have worked for most people.
LTE? that's only 4G. not LTE
That sucks, but like the other guy said, that's just regular 4G and not 4G LTE, big difference as I got a few patches of LTE here where I am, and it's at least 4 times faster for me,
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That sucks, but like the other guy said, that's just regular 4G and not 4G LTE, big difference as I got a few patches of LTE here where I am, and it's at least 4 times faster for me,
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Here's the so called LTE. Notice the upload speed is higher then the download so something is strange.
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Shot in the dark here but do you have any HSPA in your area? This thread gives some tips you can use to drastically increase speeds. Seems to have worked for most people.
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Thanks I'll look into this although like I said I was told I'd never get increased speeds due to the bandwidth.
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Next year would be the time to start pitching the complaints just because they said at the end of 2013 it should be completely implemented but I've been with Tmobile from the beginning and they have bent over backwards to make me happy.
LTE is still in the beginning phase of being introduced so yes some people will be lucky enough to have early use but pitching a fit because your not one of the few that have it this early on is useless.
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Is Brooklyn even one of the officially supported areas? Or is LTE on but not officially?
Even since they started rolling out LTE in my area my 4g has gone to crap. I get mostly the same speed as the OP now when I used to get 8mbps prior to LTE roll out. It happened at home and now its happening at my work. I really hate it cause inside my work I dont get LTE and just get 4g. And at home I get LTE a block a way but no LTE where my house is so I'm stuck with the new slower 4g.
Man. Those speeds you posted were faster than I usually used to get with Sprint. In the Chicago area, my last three T-Mobile tests are:
5644 kbps / 1590 kbps
7183 kbps / 1074 kbps
8036 kbps / 6006 kbps (LTE in moving train)
14983 kbps / 12024 kbps (LTE stable)
Not bad.
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Here's the so called LTE. Notice the upload speed is higher then the download so something is strange.
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Not sure if this test is valid looks like you had WIFI on at the time.
You're getting low pings (66ms) and over 1Mbps, which is plenty for a mobile device IMO.
Did you try and change your apn to fast.tmobile.com? I had slow speed too then changed my apn now its back to good speeds
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aznmode said:
Even since they started rolling out LTE in my area my 4g has gone to crap. I get mostly the same speed as the OP now when I used to get 8mbps prior to LTE roll out. It happened at home and now its happening at my work. I really hate it cause inside my work I dont get LTE and just get 4g. And at home I get LTE a block a way but no LTE where my house is so I'm stuck with the new slower 4g.
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Same here the 4G used to be great and where I live if I go over a couple blocks it'll switch to LTE but my house is 4G with terrible speeds where I used to get 5-6mb. At my job in Manhattan I get LTE and the speeds are great (10mb+) until like 9AM when it goes down to 2-3mb but it gets to the point I can't even stream a YouTube video.
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Not sure if this test is valid looks like you had WIFI on at the time.
You're getting low pings (66ms) and over 1Mbps, which is plenty for a mobile device IMO.
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That test was at my job where I have no WiFi. The test was a previous test about a week ago. The Wi-Fi you see enabled is because I took a screenshot while at home this morning. The test is done on LTE if you look at the network type listed.
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Jamenglish said:
Did you try and change your apn to fast.tmobile.com? I had slow speed too then changed my apn now its back to good speeds
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The default was set to that already
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Next year would be the time to start pitching the complaints just because they said at the end of 2013 it should be completely implemented but I've been with Tmobile from the beginning and they have bent over backwards to make me happy.
LTE is still in the beginning phase of being introduced so yes some people will be lucky enough to have early use but pitching a fit because your not one of the few that have it this early on is useless.
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I have the HTC One on AT&T and SGS4 on TMO. I've found outside of AT&T's LTE area TMO being faster, but not always. AT&T seems more consistant everywhere I go, TMO, there's either drop to edte, no service, or killler speeds. I have not hate to either carriers, nor a fanboi of any of them nor any device.
Long story on why I have both, basically had to do with credits owned me on TMO and sales of older devices I had right out.
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I have the HTC One on AT&T and SGS4 on TMO. I've found outside of AT&T's LTE area TMO being faster, but not always. AT&T seems more consistant everywhere I go, TMO, there's either drop to edte, no service, or killler speeds. I have not hate to either carriers, nor a fanboi of any of them nor any device.
Long story on why I have both, basically had to do with credits owned me on TMO and sales of older devices I had right out.
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I don't think you get the point I was making, I could see being mad if LTE was out for a few years and your being told you should have it on Tmobile but it's just starting literally. This has nothing to do with att and their coverage but I've had att and Verizon in the past and no Cell carrier can promise perfect coverage.
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disturkis4u said:
So I have the S4 now and I've been complaining to T-Mobile about the poor download speeds in neighborhood in Brooklyn, NYC as if I live in the boondocks. I finally got a response from T-Mobile saying that oh well it looks like there isn't enough bandwidth in your area and there's nothing you can do. Which is ironic considering the slew of ads they have bashing AT&Ts bandwidth and bragging how great they are (BS). See attached for the wonderful LTE speeds I get. And it's all the time as you can see, not based on time and the network being clogged up. I work in midtown Manhattan where between 10AM and 6PM the network is barely useable to which they said "well a lot of people are probably on it".
I'm surprised they didn't tell me to move somewhere else.
Basically I'm getting tired of all the LTE posts I'm seeing on here
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Damn thats fast buddy!!! Lol
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I did a test in Brooklyn yesterday and I got 24mbs download and 8 upload on LTE.

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