Woke up this morning and...

[Coots]

Last night before I went to bed, I had no troubles what-so-ever. I wake up this morning and tried to download a new app someone suggested "shape shifter" and let me tell you, it took my phone about 30 minutes to download the app. So I thought it was a fluke.... I tried to download some simple game, like snake or something, it'd go to around 13-15% and stop, go a lilttle further, stop. I mean, is this something I've done? Non-rooted by the way.... Should I call verizon? Any advice is appreciated.

 

[pilot25]

I'm going to sound like a Dell rep from Delhi but do a reset and try downloading again.

 

[Darkseider]

First check to see if your on 3G or not. If you are and if you can switch to wifi and see if that makes a difference. Another thing to try is to dial *228 then choose option 2. You can also just reboot the phone to see if something decided on being silly.

 

[Coots]

Ok, just noticed the obvious I guess.... my 3G bars aren't lighting up at the top in the notifications bar. Restarting phone as we speak.

 

[Coots]

After restart, opened browser 3G lit up. Tried d/l'n seems to be working now. Don't know what happened.

 

[pdub]

Same thing happend to me

I noticed the same thing yesterday morning. Being in IT and thinking I know everything I started to troubleshoot the problem. I uninstalled the few Apps I had installed on Wed night, rebooted 5 times, *18 to reset the signal, *226 - 2 to register. But to no avail, I ended up backing up my phone and Master resetting it, still nothing. I use tether my phone everyday to my laptop at work and have never had a problem so I was very confused when my signal kept completely dropping, then going to 4 bars, then to 3g, then dropping. I'm still not sure whats going on, but for some reason at work (Mid Michigan Area) I get no 3g and 1-4 bars (they tend to change every 15 sec or so) but at home (West Michigan) I get full 3g with no problem. I'm guessing one of the towers was damaged in our heavy storms a few days ago.

Verizon tech support called me back yesterday at 4pm when I was leaving home and everything was working, I agreed that the problem was solved and they closed the ticket, now I have to call them back and reopen another ticket:icon_eek:. Over all I don't think this is a problem with the phone as much as with the cell towers.

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Also I heard that turning Airplane mode On then Off sometimes resets the signal, but this also did not work.

 

[Coots]

I am going to agree it's a cell tower problem as well. I haven't called them to ask if other people are having issues or not but, my signal is going in and out. I can download an app, it is super fast... download another app, it's slow as your grandma getting to the fridge for a glass of buttermilk.