a partial complicated workaround
What you say is true but that makes it even worse. The data issue is very serious and should have never been released with this issue. You cant tell me they didnt no. What scares me is the DX had a volume issue that never got fixed. Everyone that bought the phone should have the option to return it with full refund or they should fix it wright now not 2 months after its released. Im sorry to say but I doubt this issue will ever be completly fixed all were gonna see is work arounds hope Im wrong.
Okay, well not debating the poor decision to release this phone with this horrible issue (and I don't think we are beta testers. Beta testers do not pay 300 bucks for a phone. Anyway, for those that want a work around that I think will cripple you thru till they do fix it, I have been playing with mine for three days now and have the best suggestions I can offer below
You have to be rooted. If you are not rooted, you can't restore from a nand backup. As others have said, this is not a root issue. It seems to happen two different ways. If you lose your wifi connection unintentionally (like driving away from your house) and/or on reboot and wake up. There is a third way, but that is only if you are restoring settings using titanium backup and restore the dialer settings (call log and such) that will kill it too.
I have had various success using the airplane mode, rebooting and whatever. Eventually though it seems, you will reach a state where no matter what you do, you will not get a data connection (at least not for hours) I know the network is fine because my wife has a droid charge and I can check to see if the network is working and if it is my phone or whatever. I will admit, the most I have waited to see if it will resolve itself is 8 hours and then since I knew I could get data back easily, I did it anyway. BTW, battery pulls don't even work after awhile. This is truly something they should patch TODAY and the other minor fixes can wait for the upgrade.
But anyway. Here is what I suggest if you are rooted and have not done so already. Make a nand backup of your phone if it is currently working. Boot into recovery and scroll to backup, make a backup and note its exact folder name. Now if tomorrow you lose data, you can just restore to that backup (it only takes like 5 minutes) and you get your data back and all your settings.
If you currently don't have data, you can put the phone back to factory reset, then I suggest you DO NOT login to google to restore your contact and data or whatever. You can skip that when the phone is factory reset. So skip it, go to market, now you can download titanium backup if you have it, or if not dowload rom manager (you need to have the recovery it puts on the phone) BTW if you have the early bionic bootstrapper, you need to factory reset the phone and reroot it and then use clockwork mod for this, if you already have the eaRLY BOOTSTRAP, even when you flash clockwork, it will still pull the other commands from the bootstrap when using superuser to turn on and off airplane mode and such. So just reroot and flash clockwork mod recovery thru rom manager (you can use the free version)
So now you have clockwork mod. I would set up the phone as you like, if you want, you can restore most of your programs and their data and settings if you use titanium, but DO NOT RESTORE ANY SYSTEM SETTINGs at this point. I put all the programs I wanted back on my phone, set up the icons and such the way I wanted and got everything the way I would use the phone on a daily basis.
When you are all good to go, 1st of all make sure you have a LTE signal, then reboot into recovery again, and make a new backup. You have everything good to go if you lose your signal again. So after the new backup runs, make sure you know what it is for future use and then reboot.
Now if you want, you can try and restore some system settings. You can also pull your contact info from google by adding the account to sync (you got market before but not your contacts) Go to accounts-click on google, click on contacts to sync.
I found browser bookmarks and a bunch of other stuff worked fine, I think even sms restore worked okay, but do not restore dialer settings or logs, you might lose lte right there.
Play around with it because you know you have a working backup you can flash back to if you run into trouble.
Now lets say it is two days later and you drove away from your house and forgot to turn your wifi off and you are screwed for data connection. Now you have a backup to go back to.
Simply reboot into recovery, RUN A FACTORY DATA WIPE/RESET and then restore your backup. If you do not reset the phone and just restore, you might still have something in the cache or settings that will prevent you from getting your LTE back.
Hopping back a few steps, if you did restore your settings using titanium backup or app monster or whatever and still have LTE, OR now you have all your contact info synced and all that, you can go back into recovery and make another backup with the updated info, you will be ready if you get this nasty bug again and at most be out about 5 minutes while your phone restores.
YES this is a crutch and it sucks and I still say this should have been fixed two days ago, but until it is fixed, at least you can still use the phone.
I myself am thinking of returning my bionic anyway since the nexus is coming out and I probably want that little goody, I will know in a few days anyway, but in the meantime, hope this helps.
Apologies.
