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Flashing to Verizon..

Is it possible to flash the sprint nexus 4g to Verizon? If so, how?
Thanks

The short and simple answer is no. If you want the long detailed version look around xda as this gets asked a lot in other cdma phone sections...
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Oh ok thanks. I figured it could be possible since the verizon iPhone was able to flash to sprint. I guess the nexus is different or something.

i would imagine using tools there available online you could in theory get it going on verizon and maybe even get 3g but 4g wouldnt work for sure

ram130 said:
Oh ok thanks. I figured it could be possible since the verizon iPhone was able to flash to sprint. I guess the nexus is different or something.
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When did this happen? You might be mistaken
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I have a verizon prl flashed. It allows my nexus to roam on the verizon network at all times. It increased my dl speeds from 300k to 2mb per second.
You still need sprint service though.

tanman21 said:
I have a verizon prl flashed. It allows my nexus to roam on the verizon network at all times. It increased my dl speeds from 300k to 2mb per second.
You still need sprint service though.
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Could you post how you did that? I would like increased 3G speed and coverage. 4G is fine in coverage areas for me. 3.5-5 down avg

DirtyShroomz said:
When did this happen? You might be mistaken
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Nope..it's highly possible ..check YouTube and eBay. People even got step by step and so on. So I know it's possible.

I was hoping to do the same thing. Technically it seems like the Sprint ones should be possible.
I poked around the forums trying to find a general answer why this wasn't possible but didn't find any real concrete answer. Can anyone explain why it's not possible or point me to a post that does?
Thanks

Possible, yes. Legal? Not so much.
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The fact that its illegal is why your not going to find a how-to on xda.
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Why would it be illegal?
Root your phone and then download roam control.

eagercrow said:
Why would it be illegal?
Root your phone and then download roam control.
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I dont think you understand what the OP is trying to do. He doesn't want to roam on Verizon, he wants to get a Verizon plan and activate his phone on Verizon. That requires falsifying your IMEI and no you cant do that with an app from the market.
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Google is your friend, OP.
You clearly like android, so seek and you shall find
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The hardest part would be getting VZW to add the devices IMEI into their database, impossible, no, but very difficult.
Dan

You guys are really... nvm.
Its the radio chip thats bond to your stupid gay american cariers.
I imported my Ns out of the usa and it works fine on any carier here.
And why? Cuz all cariers here use the gsm-hdsp(or w/e its caled) networks
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ghost010 said:
You guys are really... nvm.
Its the radio chip thats bond to your stupid gay american cariers.
I imported my Ns out of the usa and it works fine on any carier here.
And why? Cuz all cariers here use the gsm-hdsp(or w/e its caled) networks
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That's cool except this thread has nothing to do with gsm carriers. You wont understand how cdma works. Only our brothers in japan and korea understand the headaches and abilities
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LTE Network

What's going to happen to our Epics when they switch networks
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They will explode. :thumbup:
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WiMax is not going away until 2013 or later. Chill.

2015 actually.
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Pegga63 said:
What's going to happen to our Epics when they switch networks
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what's gonna happen when my Epic uses 4g?
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^ this lol
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Whats going to happen is that I am throwing my Epic4g into the trash the INSTANT there is an LTE network in my area and a Samsung Galaxy S III with LTE available.

Wouldn't the wimax network have allot less users when everyone starts moving to LTE? Shouldn't that make wimax faster until they kill it off?
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Fatonuseni said:
Wouldn't the wimax network have allot less users when everyone starts moving to LTE? Shouldn't that make wimax faster until they kill it off?
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I only care about coverage and unlimited data.

Wimax is not going away.
Neither Sprint nor Verizon has Spectrum capacity to meet demand. Clear Does.

for those that want to dumb their phone, i'm ready to adopt them

muyoso said:
Whats going to happen is that I am throwing my Epic4g into the trash the INSTANT there is an LTE network in my area and a Samsung Galaxy S III with LTE available.
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In the trash REALLY?? Even if I'm only using my epic as a tv remote its certainly not going in the trash.

jbadboy2007 said:
In the trash REALLY?? Even if I'm only using my epic as a tv remote its certainly not going in the trash.
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What use will I have for the phone when I get its replacement? Anything the Epic4g can do, my new phone can do better and faster. Might give the epic4g to a family member or hopefully microsoft brings back its stupid smoked by windows phone challange this summer and I can get a new one of those for free in trade and then sell it. Most likely though it would sit in a drawer for a year in case I need a backup phone and then into the garbage.
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read this
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...omises-to-launch-15-lte-devices-by-years-end/

LORDFIRE00 said:
read this
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...omises-to-launch-15-lte-devices-by-years-end/
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that was reported in Jan. I believe.. That site is running old news..

https://network.sprint.com/

I'm gonna use mine as an mp3 player & a word processor for word docs
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in Wisconsin I figure I'm at least 3 phones away from anything better than 3g....right now I'll just settle for being able to make a phone call standing in the middle of Costco.
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I'll give it to my kids so that can use it like the Android version of the iPod touch: WIFI only, gaming, music, etc. Until Sprint comes out with a worthy successor, such as the new GS3 or Galaxy Note/Journal, I'll be rocking both the OG Epic 4G and my International Galaxy Note (on Straight Talk prepaid unlimited).

S4GRU.com
All Sprint Network info there.
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Browsing while on a phone call

Im not sure if it's just my phone or how this phone was made. I'm no longer able to browse the internet while on a phone call. I was able to do it on my sgs3.
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chatzvr4 said:
Im not sure if it's just my phone or how this phone was made. I'm no longer able to browse the internet while on a phone call. I was able to do it on my sgs3.
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Depends on your carrier. GSM has separate multiple radios (modem and voice). CDMA does not (exception: WIFI will allow you to browse while in a call).

Not possible in the Sprint variant unless you have LTE or WiFi available while you are making the phone call. As Sprint builds out its LTE network, this situation should become less of an issue.

So this phone isnt able but the sgs3 is. These are both from sprint. I dont have lte available in my area but was always able to multi task like that before
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Please post questions and troubleshooting in the q&a section

Sorry about that.
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chatzvr4 said:
So this phone isnt able but the sgs3 is. These are both from sprint. I dont have lte available in my area but was always able to multi task like that before
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The SGS3 is supported by svdo while the SGS4 is not supported. As someone else has said if your on Wi-Fi or LTE (which I seen you do not have yet), your good to go. But not on 3G.
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Now I know. Thank you. They should of added it to the s4
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chatzvr4 said:
Now I know. Thank you. They should of added it to the s4
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Yeah, it would have been nice. I have LTE all around me, so it hasn't been a problem for me. Sucks most of you guys haven't got it yet in your area. My GNote isn't supported either. I'm assuming (as well as someone else stated) with LTE being deployed, not having it supported wouldn't be a problem. Now the problem is customers not having LTE in their respective areas.
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They probably figured they would be up and running before this became an issue. Thanks for info
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No Internet connection during phone calls

I just got my galaxy s4 and I noticed that I don't have Internet connection during phone calls even after rooting and putting a custom Rom is there a fix to this
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This usually happens when you only have 2G signal. Is that your case ?
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No I have 4g where I live
mrogers919 said:
I just got my galaxy s4 and I noticed that I don't have Internet connection during phone calls even after rooting and putting a custom Rom is there a fix to this
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shouldnt be the case, you can use 4g or wifi when on the phone, try it and see if works over wifi while on a call

Yes if you have no internet while on a call its because you are NOT on 4G, or WiFi.
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When I had my s3 this wasn't an issue but on my s4 I don't have Internet while on the phone and yes I have 4G where I live
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shouldnt be the case, you can use 4g or wifi when on the phone, try it and see if works over wifi while on a call
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You have 4G where you live but the phone is not receiving it. Perhaps there's something wrong with it's hardware.
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mrogers919 said:
When I had my s3 this wasn't an issue but on my s4 I don't have Internet while on the phone and yes I have 4G where I live
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That's because the s3 is able to use 3G and calling at the same time. The S4 doesn't have the hardware for it. Since you say you have 4G in your area, when you make a call are you connected to 4G or 3G?
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I have 4G when it does this and this was doing that right out the box before I rooted it so thought it was just how the s4 was until it was rooted
Nemuritor said:
You have 4G where you live but the phone is not receiving it. Perhaps there's something wrong with it's hardware.
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I noticed my wife phones does it too and her phone is also rooted I got both of our phones on the same day
Nemuritor said:
You have 4G where you live but the phone is not receiving it. Perhaps there's something wrong with it's hardware.
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Well all I can tell you is it works great. I just tested it, my phone was showing LTE, I placed a call, and when I was on the call I opened up internet and surfed a couple of pages, ran a speed test, and surfed facebook. So it is definitely something you are doing. You mention you are rooted, did you install a custom rom, which one? Your S3 had SVDO chip which allowed simultaneous data(3g) and voice. Sprint or Samsung got cheap and didn't include SVDO with the S4 because they hoped LTE would be more widespread by the time the phone was sold.

I'm using Sacs custom rom 4.3
cruise350 said:
Well all I can tell you is it works great. I just tested it, my phone was showing LTE, I placed a call, and when I was on the call I opened up internet and surfed a couple of pages, ran a speed test, and surfed facebook. So it is definitely something you are doing. You mention you are rooted, did you install a custom rom, which one? Your S3 had SVDO chip which allowed simultaneous data(3g) and voice. Sprint or Samsung got cheap and didn't include SVDO with the S4 because they hoped LTE would be more widespread by the time the phone was sold.
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mrogers919 said:
I'm using Sacs custom rom 4.3
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Have you asked in that forum? Could be rom related.
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No I didn't because my phone was doing this right out the box also my wife's phone even before the root
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I'm using Sacs custom rom 4.3
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Double-check in your settings what mobile networks the phone can use. Specifically, make sure it's showing both CDMA AND LTE, and not just CDMA. For some reason, some ROMs default to just CDMA.

I did switch it it's still the same i don't know what it could be never had this problem before
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Double-check in your settings what mobile networks the phone can use. Specifically, make sure it's showing both CDMA AND LTE, and not just CDMA. For some reason, some ROMs default to just CDMA.
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mrogers919 said:
I did switch it it's still the same i don't know what it could be never had this problem before
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Well, if that's the case then your phone is broken and you should take it to Sprint and have them replace it. Your phone should definitely be able to access data when on a phone call if you are on LTE or WiFi.

mrogers919 said:
I just got my galaxy s4 and I noticed that I don't have Internet connection during phone calls even after rooting and putting a custom Rom is there a fix to this
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If you have the new tri-band model: SPH-L720T
Then you can not use LTE while on a call. I just found this out myself yesterday. I am a bit disappointed. on my old GS4 I could and this version I can not. I did use it maybe 2 or 3 times over the past year. Oh well.
Read the 3rd paragraph.
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-due-to-circuit-switched-fallback-technology/

joems said:
If you have the new tri-band model: SPH-L720T
Then you can not use LTE while on a call. I just found this out myself yesterday. I am a bit disappointed. on my old GS4 I could and this version I can not. I did use it maybe 2 or 3 times over the past year. Oh well.
Read the 3rd paragraph.
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-due-to-circuit-switched-fallback-technology/
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Beat me to it!

Wow if I knew this I would have gotten a note 3
joems said:
If you have the new tri-band model: SPH-L720T
Then you can not use LTE while on a call. I just found this out myself yesterday. I am a bit disappointed. on my old GS4 I could and this version I can not. I did use it maybe 2 or 3 times over the past year. Oh well.
Read the 3rd paragraph.
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-due-to-circuit-switched-fallback-technology/
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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

AcE2DuCe said:
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.

jeremyvbk said:
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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pastert33 said:
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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