[Q] Can Virgin mobile connect to a Sprint Airave? - General Questions and Answers

I have sprint and use an Airave in the house to boost my signal. My uncle just got a Virgin Mobile phone and has been unable to use it in the house. His first phone showed no signal, and his new one shows full bars until he tries to make a call, at which point it drops to 0 bars and does nothing.
Is there any work around to this? Thanks

No. the Airave Femotel cell is designed only to allow connections from Sprint CDMA network phones, and while yes it is true that Sprint bought Virgin Mobile USA and they do 'lease' bandwidth from Sprint, they are still two separate entities, ironically enough Nextel phones also do not work with the Airave.

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[Q] Data Rates, signal, quality of service

Hellos,
Was wondering and wanted to know from others, their experiences with using a D2G with different carriers/services.
I have a D2G on simple mobile currently. Switched from Sprint using an EVO 4G, data in my calling areas just stunk and never got better, forget ever getting a 4G signal..
But, it seems I am in an area between towers, because I seem to get the same result using Simple Mobile connected to Tmobile Towers. Signal drops from nothing to 3 bars if I turn around. And I only get an Edge data connection (I understand it's a frequency issue).
I was told by a Walmart Rep, that they use Family Mobile powered by Tmobile and don't have the throttle issue as with Simple Mobile, but 250mb data cap at the same $45/month as Straight Talk (even thought I'd be stuck at Edge with the D2G anyways) is too low a cap, especially if I were to switch phones later on.
So I recently read into Straight Talk as an option, after reading how bad H2O data is and that Simple Mobile's 3G is throttled to 119kbs (tested on a SK4G, yeap confirmed 119kbs max).
So I wanted to know from others, what kind of data rates they are getting on various providers using a D2G.
-CC
clockcycle said:
Hellos,
I was told by a Walmart Rep, that they use Family Mobile powered by Tmobile and don't have the throttle issue as with Simple Mobile, but 250mb data cap at the same $45/month as Straight Talk (even thought I'd be stuck at Edge with the D2G anyways) is too low a cap, especially if I were to switch phones later on.
So I recently read into Straight Talk as an option, after reading how bad H2O data is and that Simple Mobile's 3G is throttled to 119kbs (tested on a SK4G, yeap confirmed 119kbs max).
So I wanted to know from others, what kind of data rates they are getting on various providers using a D2G.
-CC
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I would not know about Droid using 2G (on my old phones what I used as T-Mobile EDGE) or what I call "100K data" connection since I don't get it around here. I am sure that my data connection at times has degraded to 2G, but I have not noticed that as being the issue, so I have not been able to perform a speed test while in 2G mode.
Last June 2011 I used a Droid style phone on Virgin Mobile USA prepaid. That was the Motorola Triumph. I can't recall as a MVNO who was providing Virgin Mobile's signal, but I think it was Sprint by that point (Sprint bought Virgin Mobile USA prepaid). In any event, I was not pleased with the VM speeds (that is, if I was not using WiFi). My speeds were consistently about 300K to 700K.
Currently I use Straight Talk and I am VERY VERY pleased with the service. When I bought a phone and a Straight Talk SIM card I opted for GSM AT&T service since it had better GSM phones than T-Mobile did.
Since Straight Talk is an MVNO (buying its signal or "tower space" from other carriers and spectrum resellers) one's Straight Talk signal and data connection will only be as good as the provider you chose to use with your Straight Talk account. I assume the same principle applies to CDMA and Droid (Motorola) handsets.
Where I live in San Francisco I get a better signal from GSM-based AT&T than I did with T-Mobile GSM handsets, so on Straight Talk's SIM purchasing site I chose to buy an AT&T GSM SIM.
Whereas with T-Mobile 4G I would often get 2G in most parts of my residence, with AT&T 4G (again, this is with Straight Talk) using an Samsung Galaxy S II and ATT HTC Inspire, I consistently get a strong 4G signal (says "H+" on notification bar). And speed tests have been outstanding, (using speed test net 2286 kbps download, 1130kbps upload). Those speeds are in the "slower part of the house). This does not matter most of the time, however, since I use WiFi 90% of the time.
Bottom line: I suspect one's physical locale, handset model, and provider (CDMA, GSM, or specific carrier) all play an important part in the speed and quality of a data connection. In other words, everyone's experience may differ, even with someone who has the exact same setup as I, but who lives down the block.

Is LTE CDMA and GSM?

Hi folks,
I live in a black hole of cellular signal. The only provider that has towers where I live is Verizon. I drive 45 minutes to work every day and over there both Verizon and AT&T have towers. I'm currently using a small, local carrier that uses Verizon towers and phones. I bought a Nexus 6 and want to activate it on straight talk. I thought I could use the IMEI from my existing phone, since it's a Verizon phone, but they say it's not compatible. They say they can activate it as a GSM phone, but I've read that if I activate it as a GSM device, it will not connect to Verizon towers so would basically be useless where I live. However, that doesn't really make sense to me since the Nexus 6 has both CDMA and GSM radios in it.
Does anyone know if I activate a GSM sim and pop it in my Nexus 6 if it will connect to Verizon towers? We do have LTE here, if that makes a difference Thanks for any help you can provide!.
Verizon network will only use CDMA but you could still use it in roaming
pantherdaddy27 said:
Verizon network will only use CDMA but you could still use it in roaming
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Will it roam on cdma if i activate it as gsm though?

Texting while in Jamaica:

Me and my family will be traveling to Jamaica this weekend. From looking at Sprint's coverage map, didn't see any coverage for Jamaica. Question, w/out enabling International services for our phones, is there an app we can use for texting each other? Would this only work if we are connected to a wifi network?
Update: Talked to Sprint, we have Sprint Global Roaming (not warming) which is free. We'll have unlimited text/data, but we'll get charged for any voice calls, $0.20/minute. We will have to connect to a GSM network when we get there.
ycats said:
Me and my family will be traveling to Jamaica this weekend. From looking at Sprint's coverage map, didn't see any coverage for Jamaica. Question, w/out enabling International services for our phones, is there an app we can use for texting each other? Would this only work if we are connected to a wifi network?
Update: Talked to Sprint, we have Sprint Global Roaming (not warming) which is free. We'll have unlimited text/data, but we'll get charged for any voice calls, $0.20/minute. We will have to connect to a GSM network when we get there.
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Do they have to activate something on your phone to connect to a GSM network? My father in law is thinking about switching to our family plan but goes overseas to the Philippines a couple times a year and is worried about connectivity while over there which is all GSM. Thanks!
They updated our Profiles, not sure what got changed.......................then when we arrive in Jamaica, we'll have to go into Settings, More Networks, Roaming, Roaming Network, Automatic, Roaming Settings, check International Voice and International Data..........then Settings, Connections, More Networks, Mobile Networks, Network Mode, Select GSM/UMTS, then select one of the three networks that will be available.

Note 5 on Canadian GSM network

I am in Canada on Rogers/Fido network. I bought a Sprint note 5, it works OK in my house but loses signals at various other locations. is there any way this could be fixed?
Short answer: nope.
Longer answer: You probably already know that the N920P supports only some of the LTE bands in use in Canada, specifically for Fido/Rogers it's only one of them. In practice, having used both an N920P and a N920W8 on Fido, while the W8 shows a way better signal most of the time, when the cell is congested it doesn't really feel any different. I don't know why this is exactly, but as an example - on the train platforms in Union Station, the Sprint phone would show no connection/poor connection and the Canadian phone would show a good connection. On either phone, transfer speeds are reduced to a trickle.
P.S. if you don't already have it, Package Disabler Pro can get rid of the stupid Sprint activation screen every time you power cycle the phone

Always Manual Configuration settings in CDMA carrier companies

Hi all,
I've been having a hard time understanding the way CDMA companies work with mobile phones.
In Yemen, there are 4 carrier providers. 3 of which are GSM 2G companies and one which is CDMA LTE company.
The CDMA company is called Yemen Mobile.
Ever since they introduced 3G internet, all mobile devices had to be brought to IT geeks to configure devices to use 3G using DFS, CDMA workshop, or qpst and many other tools.
Now when the company introduced LTE, the same thing happened, people had to bring their devices to IT geeks working on shops to have them configure their mobile devices.
Standard configuration through mobile access points does not always work.
When I traveled to eygpt, I got a vodaphone SIM card and once I inserted the SIM, everything was configured automatically.
What is other companies worldwide have that Yemen Mobile doesn't?
This is frustrating. When I turn LTE data on, my phone becomes out of reach. I can't receive calls on as IT geeks say my phone cpu is snapdragon and I used the same phone in Eygpt with 4g working like a charm.
Can anybody explain?
UltimateX29 said:
Hi all,
I've been having a hard time understanding the way CDMA companies work with mobile phones.
In Yemen, there are 4 carrier providers. 3 of which are GSM 2G companies and one which is CDMA LTE company.
The CDMA company is called Yemen Mobile.
Ever since they introduced 3G internet, all mobile devices had to be brought to IT geeks to configure devices to use 3G using DFS, CDMA workshop, or qpst and many other tools.
Now when the company introduced LTE, the same thing happened, people had to bring their devices to IT geeks working on shops to have them configure their mobile devices.
Standard configuration through mobile access points does not always work.
When I traveled to eygpt, I got a vodaphone SIM card and once I inserted the SIM, everything was configured automatically.
What is other companies worldwide have that Yemen Mobile doesn't?
This is frustrating. When I turn LTE data on, my phone becomes out of reach. I can't receive calls on as IT geeks say my phone cpu is snapdragon and I used the same phone in Eygpt with 4g working like a charm.
Can anybody explain?
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We all r out of luck until we get out of this goddamned place
UltimateX29 said:
Hi all,
I've been having a hard time understanding the way CDMA companies work with mobile phones.
In Yemen, there are 4 carrier providers. 3 of which are GSM 2G companies and one which is CDMA LTE company.
The CDMA company is called Yemen Mobile.
Ever since they introduced 3G internet, all mobile devices had to be brought to IT geeks to configure devices to use 3G using DFS, CDMA workshop, or qpst and many other tools.
Now when the company introduced LTE, the same thing happened, people had to bring their devices to IT geeks working on shops to have them configure their mobile devices.
Standard configuration through mobile access points does not always work.
When I traveled to eygpt, I got a vodaphone SIM card and once I inserted the SIM, everything was configured automatically.
What is other companies worldwide have that Yemen Mobile doesn't?
This is frustrating. When I turn LTE data on, my phone becomes out of reach. I can't receive calls on as IT geeks say my phone cpu is snapdragon and I used the same phone in Eygpt with 4g working like a charm.
Can anybody explain?
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This is the main issue of CDMA companies with mobile phones. In the previous week I went for a tour out of the CDMA range and due to out of the range I haven't even open my website on phone to check it progress because of the net issue. When you switch from one mode to another so it stop even opening browsers.
UltimateX29 said:
Hi all,
I've been having a hard time understanding the way CDMA companies work with mobile phones.
In Yemen, there are 4 carrier providers. 3 of which are GSM 2G companies and one which is CDMA LTE company.
The CDMA company is called Yemen Mobile.
Ever since they introduced 3G internet, all mobile devices had to be brought to IT geeks to configure devices to use 3G using DFS, CDMA workshop, or qpst and many other tools.
Now when the company introduced LTE, the same thing happened, people had to bring their devices to IT geeks working on shops to have them configure their mobile devices.
Standard configuration through mobile access points does not always work.
When I traveled to eygpt, I got a vodaphone SIM card and once I inserted the SIM, everything was configured automatically.
What is other companies worldwide have that Yemen Mobile doesn't?
This is frustrating. When I turn LTE data on, my phone becomes out of reach. I can't receive calls on as IT geeks say my phone cpu is snapdragon and I used the same phone in Eygpt with 4g working like a charm.
Can anybody explain?
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The CDMA technology approximately dead because the US Carriers which introduced it transfer its towers to a new LTE technology and uses VoLTE for voice calls.
In Yemen the situation is different because the company (Yemen Mobile) hasn't upgraded its equipment since CDMA/EVDO first days, and now the company want to be the first to introduce LTE services but it fails until now because the compatibility and their towers does not configured with right settings.
I have Galaxy S20 FE 5G from US cellular, I inserted a 4G sim to it, it's either works in CDMA or LTE modes.
can't work at the same time.
I tried to play with some settings in DFS but I finished with neither LTE data nor CDMA signal.
but luckily I restored EFS2 and now working either CDMA or LTE.
There is another carrier (GSM based) in Yemen called (YOU) just add the Access point to the phone and it will work immediately.

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