Signal Strength Question

[testacon]

Originally Posted by gTen

Nope it was across the board...when it took full effect is hard to say as PRL changes differ.

look at the maps before and after:

Sprint Community: Voice and 3G coverage being drastically...

I mean you can visit the coverage map yourself and look..make sure you zoom all the way in...

When was the last time you used the coverage locator?

Sprint - Nationwide Coverage

It seems that the country has been re-greened. I don't buy it though, because something still seems off. Even 3G looks good.

Here is a "special map" that I found but PA still looks pretty solid to me.

Support - Article

Also I decided to break out my old Mogul for some testing. At my desk the mogul can get 8 or 9 more dBm's then the Epic. Something's got to be off here!

[gTen]

Originally Posted by testacon

I did get one of those about a month ago, cute white box...

Even with that though, my phone still doesn't get a full 5 bars when 20 feet from the airwave. Now note that when I log into Sprint.com I chose the option to have the output on low, it's not like I live in a mansion or anything.

I just really wanted to know if there was a way to test the radio of a phone, but there doesn't seem to be one anymore. I heard that there was once this box you can put your phone in and it does a boat load of tests on it. I just can't find a Sprint store that has one...

um..ahm likea few days ago..it looks like their map was changed :/

[testacon]

Originally Posted by gTen

um..ahm likea few days ago..it looks like their map was changed :/

I still think that it exaggerated though, but even though it shows last updated on 7-14-11, the green has been around for at least 2 weeks before that. It was just updated again a few days ago. I've been trying to isolate my problem so I've been looking for information everywhere when I first noticed that.

It's as if the towers in my area, haven't been told that the coverage map has changed!

[gTen]

Originally Posted by testacon

I still think that it exaggerated though, but even though it shows last updated on 7-14-11, the green has been around for at least 2 weeks before that. It was just updated again a few days ago. I've been trying to isolate my problem so I've been looking for information everywhere when I first noticed that.

It's as if the towers in my area, haven't been told that the coverage map has changed!

mayeb you need a PRL update? There are also apps that show you which tower your connecting to...

[testacon]

Originally Posted by gTen

mayeb you need a PRL update? There are also apps that show you which tower your connecting to...

In the past month I've had 60676, 01120, 60679 and yesterday I got 60680...

I found out that I have an advance tech Sprint store about 30 minutes from me, so I'm heading up there this weekend for some radio tests, then I'll start bitching for a new phone if that doesn't work...