PRL update today

[tube517]

01115, Southeastern VA

 

[RkyMtnHigh]

I thought Sprint owned a good portion of Clearwire. With all the trouble that company has been having in the financial sector, I think Sprint should sell the assets and switch to LTE. Which I will say atm is faster than WiMAX, but from what I'm getting from some guys I know at T-Mobile...there saying the their getting around 15Mbps down on a good steady average. With the goal of 69Mbps, which would awesome!!! We shall see though. ;-)


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Sprint does own a large portion of Clearwire and they are not abandoning WiMax. Clear has WiMax2 up and running in Phoenix and Clear is working on a multi-capability (LTE/WiMax/3G) tower for both Verizon and Sprint... WiMAX 2 Heads Toward Standardization

I wish people would quit with the "I heard WiMax is dead and Sprint is going to use LTE" crap...Sprint has publicly stated they are sticking with WiMax...The "Wimax is dead" crowd reminds me of the "birthers" saying Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

 

[lebon2]

ok...does this (stupid) PRL number have anything to do w/me NOT being able to receive MMS??!!! i have been having this problem since easter sunday...not happy! grrrrrr

 

[CaMelGuY1337]

ok...does this (stupid) PRL number have anything to do w/me NOT being able to receive MMS??!!! i have been having this problem since easter sunday...not happy! grrrrrr

It is a very good chance, that you it could be something in the software. Have you tried the normal fixes for problems like that? I.e. power cycling, rebooting..etc... I do recall a couple of times before this whole thing started I wasn't able to send or receive MMS messages. Sprint did a factory reset which in turn fixed the problem, though I wouldn't recommend that unless you have a Nandroid handy.

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[pappy53]

Sprint does own a large portion of Clearwire and they are not abandoning WiMax. Clear has WiMax2 up and running in Phoenix and Clear is working on a multi-capability (LTE/WiMax/3G) tower for both Verizon and Sprint... WiMAX 2 Heads Toward Standardization

I wish people would quit with the "I heard WiMax is dead and Sprint is going to use LTE" crap...Sprint has publicly stated they are sticking with WiMax...The "Wimax is dead" crowd reminds me of the "birthers" saying Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

If he was born in Hawaii, why did he go to school on a Kenyan passport?

 

[CaMelGuY1337]

Hey guys, can we please not turn this thread into a political debate. Everyone has their own opinion, but please let's stick to the topic at hand.

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[igotsanevo4g]

My thoughts exactly, this isnt about wimax or politics (although we're always ready to host a debate http://forum.androidcentral.com/politics/ ). This is about the recent PRL update (or not update).

Carry on

 

[lebon2]

It is a very good chance, that you it could be something in the software. Have you tried the normal fixes for problems like that? I.e. power cycling, rebooting..etc... I do recall a couple of times before this whole thing started I wasn't able to send or receive MMS messages. Sprint did a factory reset which in turn fixed the problem, though I wouldn't recommend that unless you have a Nandroid handy.

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well camelguy1337, i tried everything!!! first, i was on the phone w/sprint for over an hour (surprise, they didn't fix it), did a battery pull & all the fun stuff you recommended, but had to ultimately do a factory reset myself.

funny part is, i read up on how to back-up everything & proceeded to do it wrong! hahahahaha...i forgot to actually back-up my data (did the apps part right) & am having to start over from scratch. thank goodness i haven't had my evo for that long! dang i feel/felt stupid :-[ but my MMS is working so far so i guess i'm happy.

thanks for the help tho...

 

[DevilInPgh]

Well, for some stupid reason I'm getting the 1012 error. Is this a matter of reflashing the radio zip file?

EDIT: It's not the radio zip file. Boy, I hope I don't have to do a hard reset, like other sites have said. Alternatively, I hope it's not the MikFroyo 4.61 ROM doing this, either. Off to flash Stock back.

 

[HamRadioNut]

PRL Update

Well just to chime in, my PRL is 01115, was 60677 for the longest and it my service was good. Now that it's changed to 01115 everything is working as it did before which was good not great, but since the change my sevice now sucks. Got my EVO in September of last year, my download speeds on 3G have never been more than .4 or .6 meg even with full signal. Once in a while it peaks up to 1.2meg.

HamRadioNut

 

[CarrieK]

FWIW, I'm in the Nashville TN area and have the new prl 01115 and haven't noticed a difference in performance one way or another.

 

[CaMelGuY1337]

FWIW, I'm in the Nashville TN area and have the new prl 01115 and haven't noticed a difference in performance one way or another.

I wouldn't imagine that you would. Nashville was unaffected by the recent service area changes.

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[taguluchi]

DevilinPgh I'm unrooted and also received that error code also

 

[CarrieK]

I wouldn't imagine that you would. Nashville was unaffected by the recent service area changes.

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Perhaps, but if Nashville were unaffected then why would they bother to change the prl while leaving others as the old 60678? I looked through the white papers (for lack of a better term) that were posted in the link I found the other day and the Nashville TN area (as well as other areas in surrounding Middle TN) was mentioned as one of the cities receiving a prl change and mine did change.

 

[sasha]

I'm in Chicago and just updated mine to 60678

 

[CaMelGuY1337]

Perhaps, but if Nashville were unaffected then why would they bother to change the prl while leaving others as the old 60678? I looked through the white papers (for lack of a better term) that were posted in the link I found the other day and the Nashville TN area (as well as other areas in surrounding Middle TN) was mentioned as one of the cities receiving a prl change and mine did change.

Well, Sprint would send the PRL update out to every phone. Reason being...Sprint doesn't know where your going to travel. So if there were going to change thier service area they would have to send out an updated PRL so your device knows what towers to talk to.

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[CaMelGuY1337]

I'm in Chicago and just updated mine to 60678

Couple of quick questions if I could. Are you rooted and if so, do you use free teathering? Also what device are you using?

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[CarrieK]

Well, Sprint would send the PRL update out to every phone. Reason being...Sprint doesn't know where your going to travel. So if there were going to change thier service area they would have to send out an updated PRL so your device knows what towers to talk to.

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I understand what you are saying...just doesn't make sense because in that case why wouldn't everyone have the same prl since Sprint wouldn't know where any of us are going to travel (and thus roam)? I think the confusion lies in that some people, even in the same areas (and even the same household) are receiving different results when they update their prl. Oh well, as long as everything works I'm not going to question it

 

[mrdpr]

yesterday i was talking with the tec people on sprint and ask them about the PRL update and they told me there is a problem in the network. i ask them why my EVO drop the signal to 0 and back to normal. In my area they are installing new cell sites on Puerto Rico.

 

[wstevens]

Updated to 60678 yesterday. Pittsburgh, PA area. Currently Unrooted.