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[Epic 4G General] gTen:
It doesn't matter if 0 users are on it...they have contracts they have to fulfill...It may sound silly to us but thats just how it works...remember the whole kin fiasco? how both verizon and M$ spent huge amount of time and money to do nothing but fulfill the contract..same story...
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
I guess there's something you don't get about unused network capacity that can be reallocated. As it stands, there is 75% network capacity in the 8-900MHz area that can still be utilized for other things.

There isn't anything special about nextel phones that cannot be handled by the other frequencies, and there's nothing stopping sprint from sweetening the deal to those with the older devices to switch to newer ones. I'm sure there is a clause in the contract that stipulates sprint can do what ever they want on the hardware side as long as the user experience is unchanged.

I would love to see the new devices use LTE across all frequencies to enhance all users experience. LTE can use multiple frequencies SIMULTANEOUSLY......Imagine the possibilities. Use the lower freqs for voice LTE and the higher ones for a dual 10x10 LTE to get the 50Mb+ speeds.

If sprint does go that route, which it's rumored that's what full implementation of Leap Frog is about, they will own the wireless market hands down.
[Epic 4G General] Mutiny32:
A company called Beceem had developed a dual-mode WiMAX/LTE chipset, but they were bought by Broadcom in October 2010. But I think perhaps baseband chipset makers are now developing SDR (sotware-defined radio) chipsets now since there is a high possibility that WiMAX and LTE may merge or carriers may want an upgrade path to WiMAX 2 and LTE-Advanced on the device-end. They are already able to do this in tower base-stations, but not at the user-end.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Again..that could slide in a consumer contract..NOT a business contract...

That said..wasn't Sprint loosing the 800mhz band and trading it for 1.9ghz band? due to fcc request for use for public safety?

There was long discussion of LTE and Wimax merging...effectively TD-LTE people are for it..but FD-LTE people are not...its a long story..as for the Beceem hybrid chips..those are inside the Clearwire modems.
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
Actually, that's not true. A contract is a contract, regardless of the parties. Additionally, the SCOTUS just ruled that a corporation has equal rights of a person.

I believe sprint gave up some of the 800MHz freqs for some in the 900s. Either way, if Sprint can show (which there's no question about it) that they are offering services superior to that of a contract while causing zero harm/loss to a customer, trying to take them to court is just pissing in the wind. The contract contains an arbitration agreement anyway. No Jury, No Class Actions either.
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
Thanks for adding that in, Sprint continues to be leaders in the industry. That's good news for all of us!
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
So I have a question, if Wimax and LTE are so similiar, why is lte so much faster?

Sent from my always stock, EC05 Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
um...its not about rights...its about how favorable a contract is..when you sign a contract with sprint, you can't negotiate terms...large businesses can..and as for replacing equipment..2 things to consider...

1) Some equipments is fairly expensive..like 10,000$ per phone

2) You don't shut off 800mhz and turn on 800mhz same day...aka they will have to convert people to CDMA on the 1.9ghz band first...800mhz is definitely better...to achieve same quality or better would require more towers....
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
1)Sprint mentions nothing of a unique contract in their business info; in fact it says business customers are liable for the exact same thing as non-business. Either way, it's pissing in the wind going to arbitration over getting more than you contracted for IF THEIR IS NO HARM DONE. It won't even be considered.

2)I'm sure the new equipment is multi-mode. It would be taking a step back for it not to be. The pictures of the equipment and where it states they're using fiber up the tower is pretty clear. You're saying they can't, and for what reason? It doesn't affect the end user so AGAIN, no harm, no foul.
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
WiMax is actually the faster one. The reason sprint is switching to LTE (from my understanding of what they're shooting for) is due to the compatibility across multiple frequencies when utilizing them simultaneously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX

It's like the ole Cable v. DSL debate. Which is faster? Well, they're both fast. DSL is capable of 200Mb + speeds, but AT&T sure as hell won't give you anything better than 6Mb. My last DSL service pulled about 15Mb down off peak, though it was sync'd to the box at 19.xxx.
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
Sprint actually has 806-821MHz frequencies (15MHz block). A lot of markets only have 1865-1870MHz and 1945-1950MHz, or near those frequencies in 5MHz blocks for their CDMA side. WiMax is utilizing 6MHz blocks in 2.4x to 2.6x GHz

Just read from Sprints CEO that they ARE using their 800MHz frequencies for CDMA, as well as including M2M across all platforms (smart and non phones, as well as tablets). M2M is direct device to device communication. Should be quite interesting to see how this pans out. It'd be interesting to see some type of cloud style network connectivity (though I doubt it)
[Epic 4G General] ydoucare:
It's not. The reason Verizon LTE is faster than Sprint Wimax is partly due to the differing spectrum characteristics and lack of tower backhaul with Sprint. The big issue that both carriers will face is being able to pipe in enough backhaul to the towers to support the service. I don't think you're going to see very impressive speeds from either carrier when under medium to high load, at least initially. It doesn't matter if the wireless end can do 40 Mbps if you've only got a few T1's feeding the tower.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Idk where you read that, but it's untrue. 800 mhz is iDen only right now for Sprint. CDMA is 1900 mhz

gTen, no where has it even been rumored what type of LTE Sprint will use if they decide to switch to LTE. Personally I'm kinda hoping they don't since the upgrade to WiMax 2 and 1X Advanced will happen much quicker then LTE switch. WiMax 2 is already been tested in Europe and the 2nd generation of LTE isn't even finished.
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
The new boxes are configured to use CDMA on "some" of their current 800MHz frequencies. The comment was made in-line with several others of what's currently being deployed with the new tower equipment. The new PTT CDMA phones will launch in Fall 2011. They stated that last year. Sprint side equipment is being deployed currently, and no, it won't exactly be official until customers have the new PTT CDMAs in-hand.

I spoke with a tech (not sales rep) at a store today who said they are currently replacing components at antenna sites and the new boxes are modular and allow relatively 'fast' future hardware upgrades, as well as the newer 4G boxes require no new hardware to switch to LTE. His 'source' was a Sprint network tech that said they just put in some of the new stuff in Miami. Said the new boxes support virtually anything via software updates. He is the first person I've spoke with wearing a Sprint logo on their shirt who wasn't spewing obvious BS.

I wasn't exactly taking notes, but he basically made it sound like a 'magic' box that could do just about any current wireless technology in their frequencies. I've been trying to find out more about it...but unlike the phones, there aren't exactly forums dedicated to the newest tower tech.

Edit: Various Quotes from Sprints site...

"The base stations will allow for the flexibility to offer new technologies using any of the 800MHz, 1.9GHz or 2.5GHz bands, as well as other spectrum bands" 06-DEC-2010

"Through spectrum efficiencies associated with Network Vision, Sprint intends to repurpose some of its 800MHz spectrum for CDMA service, thereby enhancing coverage, particularly the in-building experience for customers. Augmenting its 1.9GHz footprint with 800MHz, Sprint expects its CDMA coverage density will increase throughout the country" 06-DEC-2010

Edit: AGAIN...

I was digging in the FCC database and found the actual Samsung WiMax tower side device. In reading it's user manual, it directly states that...

"The Mobile WiMAX system complies with the structure of the Mobile WiMAX ASN Profile C network and the ASN Profile C network composition is similar to the network structure considered in the 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)/ Service Architecture Evolution (SAE). Therefore, the Mobile WiMAX system can easily evolve into the next generation network."
[Epic 4G General] offtohavasu:
A couple of weeks ago, my uncle, who works in Sprint corporate, not at the counter, told me almost verbatim this is how it’s going to work with the new towers. It will “pick” which frequency works best for your location.
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
AS WELL AS using multiple frequencies simultaneously on a single device to give much faster data speeds. Cool **** is coming, period!!!
[Epic 4G General] offtohavasu:
Yeah, I was surprised I was able to understand that little bit of information I posted. He was so excited about it and talking so fast it was hard to understand.
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
OK, but will these improvements show on devices with the radios as they are up to now?
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
That's exactly what I said...they aren't using 800mhz for cdma currently
[Epic 4G General] NoSoMo:
Didn't say they are, though I wouldn't doubt if it is active in some areas. The CDMA PTT phones have to be tested if they expect to roll them out in a few months. PRL updates seem to be increasing in frequency. It'd be nice if they were more forth coming with information to consumers. It doesn't really matter as far as the competition is concerned, they have the equipment to 'dissect' what's in the airwaves.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] southtynesider:
Is there a way of preventing the device from switching the screen OFF when connected to USB power? On my previous HTC HD2 you could uncheck "turn off device when connected to external power". I would like the screen to display permanently when connected to power.

Any ideas?

Thanks
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leppie:
Under Settings, Applications, Development, Stay awake option.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] southtynesider:
That works great. Thanks very much for the quick response.

Have a good life
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atlas310:
Not sure what happened, but this morning after charging my phone, I turned it on and got force closes on half of my programs. The phone isn't seeing the SD card or the photos/videos on the internal memory (I stupidly didn't switch the setting to store photos/videos on the SD card). I'm trying to put the photos/videos on my computer before doing a factory reset, but when I connect to the PC via USB, only the SD card mounts. The internal memory drive shows up, but it tells me to insert a disk. I've tried setting it to charge on default and then switching to mount as disk drive, but it still won't register the internal memory. Any suggestions or is the data completely lost? Thanks.
[General Topics] zBlood:
This is not a real device. It's a mock-up I just made out of boredom. Hope you enjoy it.
[XPERIA X10 General] arj154:
Hi

I havent used the generic firmware since the initial multi touch upgrade in january as I've been using froyo but i was wondering, how bad is 2.1 compared to 2.2? I have to switch back to the generic 2.1 because i need to give my phone for repairs to the store i bought it from in about a week and im thinking it might be best to just switch back to the dreaded stock 2.1 without root since they will be checking for that. Will it be that bad or is it very subjective?
[XPERIA X10 General] CMoney87:
Make a backup then reflash. That way u can just switch it back when u get the phone back. The fact its rooted wont stop them from repairing its hardware but they could add charges for "dealing with your changes to the device"

To answer your question more directly though, with 2.1 you cant have full flash player capability, no native app2sd or wifi tethering and performance is about half.
[XPERIA X10 General] 06bgoggin:
I didn't find the generic firmware too bad when I first got the phone but once I started putting different roms on which improve the performance I could really feel the difference. Then when I went back to the generic I found it very annoying as it wasn't doing things at the speed I wanted them to
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyojimbox:
If i dont use my phone for a while and i go to push menu button to wake it up it wont wake have to pull battery anyone else have this happen?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctinsley:
Are you running the stock Kernel that came with CM7 RC3? and did you enable this option? by default menu doesn't wake the phone up. I have seen some kernels to have slow to wake issues before.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyojimbox:
I switched to chads 3 18 kernel for gingerbread cause i tried rc2 and the stocl on thst was awful and im sorry i didnt mean menu i meant the power buttonf that locks and turns off screen and turns it back on... it will work for a while then if phone sits i hit the button up top over and over but nothong happens screen stays off and i have to take battery out..
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kzoodroid:
Have you tried going back to the stock kernel? If it doesn't do it with the stock kernel then its a problem with Chads kernel and not the CM 7 RC 2 ROM. And I've never had a problem with any of the CM 7 RC's. Also I believe that switching kernels requires wiping cache and dalvik cache first, did you do that before flashing the new kernel? I was getting phenomenal battery life out of CM 7 RC3 with the stock kernel, just switched to RC 4 today so lets hope it lasts as long. You may want to upgrade your ROM and try teh stock kernel again.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xyojimbox:
I reloaded and kept the stock kernel on rc3 and its running very good so far nice and smooth and quick
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
Folks I am now seeing symptoms of stickiness in the GPS cache on both our ec05 Epics. The symptom is GPS on, application requiring GPS on, and the device not obtaining any GPS after several minutes optimum conditions, followed by a battery pull and a GPS acquisition within a few seconds.

This was a known issue on older firmware, one I never saw with eb13, which I had for a month, but which has returned on both our epics wiht EC05.

Lets track this to see if anyone else has this. Please do not cloud thread with discussions of accuracy or results one sees within a couple of days of any reset.
[Epic 4G General] hienkhieu:
I've been of EC05 about a week now and its gps works fine for me so far.
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
Did you experience the known bug we had for six months before EB13?
[Epic 4G General] APOLAUF:
aero1, noticing the same thing. Very disappointed. EB13 seemed to work perfectly. Now it's back to old antics. However, it's more variable than before - I've switched off my Airave, and it seems to be a bit better.
[Epic 4G General] jdelano:
I am seeing something like this.

My weather app for instance; has the next town over from me. If I open Google Maps; the cursor is in the next town; but then after a few seconds locks correctly.

If I close Google Maps and reopen it, its back in the tow next to me.

I tried to clear the AGPS stats using GPS Status (from the market).

It just seems to not be updating or remembering where I am; don't know why that is.
[Epic 4G General] styckx:
I'm sitting on a 48hr uptime and still pulling GPS indoors with accuracy within 1m.
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
GPS status' clear cache and download new assistance has never worked on epic. I spoke with developer some months ago and assistance data cache of samsungs is different than GPS status uses.

Town next to you could be because you are using "use wireless network" (which you should have off for this testing).

Accuracy has never been the problem with epic (although reported accuracy is a fixed bug.

And this cache bug was present on all pre eeb13 epics, it is just a question of user habits that makes a difference on if you see it. Did you see it before eb13?

pre release eb13 with original kernal had some GPS problems but latter version including the official eb13 finally fixed the issue present since September. I was so happy. I am still testing but am 90% sure it is back as well.

The cold start workaround that worked great for us was disabled in EB13 and is still disabled in EC05. Has anyone got a working ## sequence to get to the GPS debug/settings menu?
[Epic 4G General] APOLAUF:
@aero1, today seems to be much better - haven't had any lock problems, either WiFi or 3G. Perhaps there were some issues with the assistance server yesterday? I couldn't get a lock for the life of me yesterday, but as of today (with no reboots), I've gotten a lock every single time, over all data interfaces. Have you noticed any improvements?
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
I rebooted in the past 24 hours for other reasons so I wont expect to see a problem for anther day. And any problem with data connection, not jut assistance server, would mimic the old issue.
[Epic 4G General] sleebus.jones:
I've seen similar problems to the old DK28. Didn't have them with EB13, they do seem to be back to a certain extent with EC05.
[Epic 4G General] jdelano:
Thanks!! I will shut off using the network and test for a few days.

(don't know why that didn't come to mind .. age i guess... hehehe)

EDIT: I turned off the use network in GPS and my GPS is much better. Thanks again for pointing that out aero1.
[Epic 4G General] APOLAUF:
I really do wonder if there was a problem with the backend on the assistance servers - after 41 hrs of uptime, I'm still getting locks every 4-5 seconds - with 8 hours inbetween attempts, on EC05. The first day we had EC05, I had a miserable time getting locks, with a reboot required constantly, but I must say, it's been behaving much better.
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
Not an issue with the assistance servers. I could tell because in all cases I had no lock after a few minutes, I get near instant a-gps locks with a reset meaning cache is cleared and cache is successfully populated from assistance server
[Epic 4G General] mkasick:
I looked into this a bit. While I was unable to locate the root cause of the problem (I suspect it's in the ril or radio), I've implemented a workaround that simply downloads time & assistance data every time the "Use GPS satellites" or notification widget toggle is enabled.

Would folks who have problems with the GPS in EC05, especially if they temporarilly resolve after a reboot, mind testing the workaround? It's not a perfect solution, but it may make the problem much less annoying than it presently is.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragonslave02:
Ok so to start off I have a few questions that have been bothering me since I got my epic a few months ago,

1. I had a HTC hero that i came form and while on it they referred to the baseband as the radio for the phone here its the modem, correct me if im wrong but they are the same thing but the question is why it that with the hero they were able take the radio(modem) from other phones and use it in the hero after a little modding but we just use what ever sprint/samsung gives us with the new releases? is this because of the 4G?

2. Wireless tether no i know on my hero I just used the wireless tether for root users and it worked not special version was need, on my epic after rooting before looking to a custom roms for the epic I just used the wireless tether for root users getting 3g and 4g tethering no problem after inputing a costom rom I found that a well what i feel is a clunkier version of wireless tether was installed that had to use sprint hotspot to work and I had troubles connecting to it so i tried use the normal wireless tether and well it didnt work tons of FCs. why is this? how does using a custom rom break it from working when stock rooted works

3. odin? why do we use this half way? From what I can tell its powerful makes things easy if you are next to the computer so why is there not a odin for every rom it would make a nice fresh install super easy, no wipe wipe wipe flash pay wipe again reflash(not that its like that every time but we have all been there or at lest most of us). now Im not saying update zips are bad but when im installing a new rom IM at my computer and if something goes wrong with it i just restore a backup i made. now I do keep themes, kernals, and mods and the rom on my flash card just incase I really need it and sometimes i know I not at a computer that has odin or im in hurry and flash things on the go.

4. after installing a custom rom (SynErgYRoM) that was to enable usb tether i started getting RNDIS driver install prompts but windows could never find a driver. I redownload and reinstalled the samsung drivers but it still would not find it both windows xp and 7, I went back to the stock rom for my wireless tether troubles but i still get the driver prompt why is this and were can i get the drivers?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
1. Yes baseband and radio are the same thing. I'm not famaliar with the hero

2. Wifi tether is different than wireless tether in that it supports infrastructure. That is why it uses the sprint hotspot app

3. Odin is an awesome tool used to flash stock roms and is used if you screw up somerir have to take your phone back to sprint. It completely cleans data and the phone is just like it was out of the box. It can be used to flashed custom roms if the developer made a flashable tar bit since a lot of people don't like to use Odin its just easier to flash custom roms thru recovery

4. Not famaliar with synergy rom or USB tether. I just know the kernel has to be rndis compatible to use wired tether

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragonslave02:
Thanks Musclehead84 for the answer to a few of my questions 2, 3, and part of 4 I guess having infrastructure support would be nice to support multiple connection I will have to look into getting it working on my phone and I can now see why devs dont want to spend the time to make the flashable tar if most dont like to use it. Also I see why I still get the prompts I am running a custom kernel and it most likely has the RNDIS support in it too

So im still looking for answers to

1. why it that with the HTC phones (like the hero or evo) they are able take the radio(modem) from other phones and use it in the that HTC phone (like the hero or evo) after a little modding but we just use what ever sprint/samsung gives us with the new releases? is this because of the 4G?

and

4. Were can I get the RNDIS drivers for windows xp and 7?
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
I know a lot of ROMs have this feature but I was wondering if there was a mod to add reboot to the menu list.

I am currently on stock EC05 rooted. I looked around but couldn't find anything. Would this even be possible without flashing a ROM? Perhaps an update.zip file could accomplish this?

TIA
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
You talking about adding it to memo or the power menu?

If its the power menu I write a how to if you wanna try it your self.
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
Its in the new bonsai 4.0.1 that will be coming soon.

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[Epic 4G General] ringold24:
Im pretty sure he's talking about the power menu. Dont know of any other reboot mod in other roms
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
Yeah, I was talking about the power menu. I see they added the ability to turn data on/off in the that menu.

If you write up a tut, I'll definitely roll up the sleeves and give it a shot.
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
I already wrote its been out for some time
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dankory:
Loaded Scoot CyanogenMod 7 Alpha RLS1 on Vogue. The text and phone work but I can's get the data to work. Does anyone know why this would be? Thanks