I keep hearing this "rild" thing has to do something with 4G. I keep 4G off when I'm home, I'm home all the time and don't get 4G where I live and I have never seen "rild" on my maxx. And I hope I never do...
Yeah, that's how I know it's picking up the tower across the lake - showing Central time instead of Eastern. But that lake's about 90 miles across so that has to be making my phone work harder. I'm totally ignorant on this topic so I really have no idea. But I do see rild when this is going on so I'm guessing that's it. I went to CDMA only yesterday and hoped that would solve it, but apparently it doesn't matter.
RILD is the radio interface layer daemon. See Radio Interface Layer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
No worries, ricks. I just downloaded an app called OpenSignals. It tells you what tower you're connecting to, signal strength, etc. You can also break your connection and try to connect to a stronger tower. I can connect to one in Michigan that's about 45 min away, which is better than across the lake, but I can't connect to the tower by me it seems. I wonder if they're having problems. Interesting app.