Is there penalty for roaming on Sprint 1900MHz all the time?

No consequence...It should show Extended Network while using Sprint, correct?
If so, no concequence. Text messaging might not work, though, while roaming on Sprint, so I'd only force it onto Sprint at your house and not in areas where Verizon has good service. Also, open a trouble ticket with Verizon about the coverage being weak, that might help, but in the meantime, go ahead and force your phone to sprint.

 

How do you force your 4400 to pcs

 

Have your phone on Auto B, then press Menu, zero, then all zeros for the service code, then option 3 or 4 and then select PCS ONLY.

 

how do you open a trouble ticket?

 

Call 611, then press whatever it is to talk to a customer care rep, then select the option for when you are having problems making/receiving calls; when they pick up say you want to open a trouble ticket for an area with bad service.

 

thanks, i'll try that for my service at my house this weekend... perhaps over time it will improve

 

Also, pressing *** SEND right after having a dropped call will note the cellsite/time where you dropped the calls for engineers. It will give you an error message, but the dropped call will be recorded.

 

If you alter the PRL to do that, then the phone will always use SPCS, unless it's not available, then look for Verizon, which would not be a smart thing to do, in my opinion. Leave the PRL alone and just switch the phone over to SPCS where needed.

 

The PRL is based on SIDs. I don't believe you can have Sprint digital PCS over Verizon AMPS. You would have to have Sprint above Verizon in general. I don't see this being helpful in too many areas.

 

Yes, you can put Sprint PCS above VZW analog. I used to modify the PRL and removed all references to analog for this state. I don't really need to do this anymore that they've bought another market, and the 2 other companies have digital only SIDs.

You'd have to put Sprint PCS just below the VZW entry in the same region/priority. You would have to change the acq id to a digital only # for whatever band VZW is in your market.

This would allow you to dial *2280x for whichever company you want to use. Hang up after 5 seconds and your phone should be locked onto the other company.

The only bad thing with this is that your phone will switch to the other if it loses the signal, but will not switch back by itself until it loses the signal again.