Sprint Touts Network Progress
800 MHZ Voice
My sole interest in Sprint's Network Vision is the deployment of voice calling over 800 MHZ. Here's my question: if the build out is complete, what must one do to use it? My phone always shows that it is connected to a PCS signal, even though it has 800 capability.
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if device is capable of 800MHz voice, which most LTE capable device are, your phone will switch automatically to the strongest band (LTE over 800MHz is different from voice and not on as many phones yet...the feature needed fcc approval). my guess is that the 1900 band will be treated by the phone as the preferred frequency but if the signal degrades or is not available it will switch to the 800MHz band automatically. you would have to look pretty deep into the phone settings to see this-meaning you wont see that info next to your signal bars and LTE/spark designation at top of phone screen. to make sure your phone is connecting to the best possible signal and communicating with towers correctly you should update PRL, profile, software/firmw...
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The PRL can be customized to look onto 800mhz anytime its available but to do so you'll need to load a custom PRL which Sprint won't support.
If you want to explore it, go to s4gru.com and search their forums as there is a LOT of very useful information there for Sprint users.
If you want to explore it, go to s4gru.com and search their forums as there is a LOT of very useful information there for Sprint users.
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download from the play store an app called signalcheck. its a developer closely attached to s4gru.
they app tells you which band you are connected to but i purchased it so it shows on the notification bar what band im connected to and how strong.
band 41 =2.5ghz (fastest)
Band 26= broadest range
Band 25= most available
they app tells you which band you are connected to but i purchased it so it shows on the notification bar what band im connected to and how strong.
band 41 =2.5ghz (fastest)
Band 26= broadest range
Band 25= most available
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