Does your 4G ever drop for a few seconds or a couple of minutes?

[Theoneandonlytim]

Past 2 hours I've been losing 4g every 5min. It's turning screen on and off very annoying. Anyone else having problems. Or could it be the fireworks?

 

[BRANDONS78]

hello and welcome to the forum brandon. What the cs is doing is having you turn off the 4g because the issue with the data drops is an issue with the network reaching out to the device, and the device not being able to register with the tower/network correctly.

While this is a band-aid, the issue has been made better only to be made worse again. Keep this in mind.

Droid razr maxximized!!!! Prepare to be vanquished!!!

since my bionic has been on 3g signal only i have not had any issues. Really stinks that i don't have 4g but when it came down to it i didn't have it anyways. I pay $172 a month and i know i can switch carriers for $50 less and get same service. We'll see

 

[GotnFX]

Turn phone off.

While off, press and hold both volume keys and power on phone.

Press volume key down to highlight recovery and then press volume key up to boot into recovery. Then you will see android icon with triangle.

Press both volume keys.

Choose clear cache partition using down volume and press power button to clear cache.

Highlight reboot / restart and press power and your phone will reboot.

Not sure if it was the FB app but this help resolve my camera issue..it wouldnt open at all..just would go back to the previous screen..this probably should be an option b4 doing a factory reset..but i shouldnt have to do this for every problem.....thanks for posting wxman

 

[tazboysdad]

I had an odd thing happen yesterday. While I was at work, very early in the afternoon, my battery started draining and I lost all data connectivity. Where I normally have over 50% at the end of my work day, I had to plug it in because I was down to 10%. Not only was the battery draining, but it wasn't charging very well either. I had it plugged in, but it only went up to 20% after 2 hours. I was all set to do a FDR, but I really didn't want to go through the hassle of setting everything back up, so I figured that I would just plug it in for the night and check it in the morning. Guess what, when I got up this morning, ALL WAS WELL!!! Anyone else have an experience like this, OR have any ideas what might have happened? I haven't installed any new apps for over a week, so I have ruled that out as a possible answer.

 

[wernst]

Well, I hate to potentially jinx myself, but what was a nearly showstopping problem under GB has basically disappeared under ICS. I've had ICS for about a week now, and I've only seen it drop 4G two or three times, and the connection picked itself up again within seconds.

A data point.

-Warr

 

[TisMyDroid]

I had an odd thing happen yesterday. While I was at work, very early in the afternoon, my battery started draining and I lost all data connectivity. Where I normally have over 50% at the end of my work day, I had to plug it in because I was down to 10%. Not only was the battery draining, but it wasn't charging very well either. I had it plugged in, but it only went up to 20% after 2 hours. I was all set to do a FDR, but I really didn't want to go through the hassle of setting everything back up, so I figured that I would just plug it in for the night and check it in the morning. Guess what, when I got up this morning, ALL WAS WELL!!! Anyone else have an experience like this, OR have any ideas what might have happened? I haven't installed any new apps for over a week, so I have ruled that out as a possible answer.

It is possible that you were getting a very bad signal at that time and your battery drain and slow charging was due to the phone desperately trying to get a decent signal. That will drain your battery lickety split and cause your phone to not charge (because it is using battery as fast as it is charging).

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[tazboysdad]

That's what I originally thought as well, but I work 30 miles from home, and it never got any better even at home. The part that has me baffled is, the way I used it, the location I was using it, and everything else I can think of, was no different than any other day. I also thought there might have been a tower down, but everyone else in my family still had good signal and data access. So I give up and I hope it was just a fluke.

 

[nyvideo]

I also have had 4G dropping a lot lately. One day last week it was rock solid all day. I am in midtown Manhattan at a desk by the window. I get 5 bars pretty much all the time. Many times I have 4G and then as i am looking at it goes to 3G and eventually back.
Today I was losing all signal at times. No bars at all and would come back 1X sometimes and eventually get back to 4G. It was pretty bad all day.
When I am home in the evening I have been getting steady 4G in a fringe area with just 2 bars. It never drops here at all.

I'm wondering if this issue could be their network being overloaded, especially in NYC? It would make sense, but they would never admit that!

 

[MikeHuff]

I'll just simply say I've been noticing the same thing. I never had problems before my ICS upgrade. I have no idea if that is the culprit of if something else. (and I've not read the 14 pages of this thread)

I also find the phone to behave quite sluggish after the upgrade. Maybe it's all related.

 

[jackiescivic]

Ugh, I've just had LTE drop here at home. Previously, it never dropped unless I was at work

 

[GSdub510]

On GB my 4G dropped a couple times a day, and a couple weeks into having ICS it has dropped only a couple times, and not everyday.

 

[froyobaggins]

Hey guys, just surfin the web for a quick answer and stumbled on this thread. I'd just like to say, a LOT of verizon customers are having this issue, and on different devices. Mine started some time in June on my Samsung Charge, but before that, my 4g was rock solid. It has to be Verizon. There is a similar thread for the Charge and the Bionic with the exact same symptoms. Goes straight from 4g to nothing, only white bars. We've all tried reverting back to stock roms with no success, and I personally have reverted to a 3 month old nandroid, and still getting the same connectivity issues.

 

[GSdub510]

My 4G has dropped several times today which hasn't happened in a minute...

 

[chrisrach3]

Hey guys, just surfin the web for a quick answer and stumbled on this thread. I'd just like to say, a LOT of verizon customers are having this issue, and on different devices. Mine started some time in June on my Samsung Charge, but before that, my 4g was rock solid. It has to be Verizon. There is a similar thread for the Charge and the Bionic with the exact same symptoms. Goes straight from 4g to nothing, only white bars. We've all tried reverting back to stock roms with no success, and I personally have reverted to a 3 month old nandroid, and still getting the same connectivity issues.

For me, Ice Cream Sandwich solved the problem. It's been fantastic since the update.

 

[bloomcounty]

Ok, I've been having the same problem for a couple of months with my Bionic, and didn't have the problem prior to that. Contacted tech support, tried several things, and even went as far as to have them send me a new phone...only to have the same problem with the new one. Finally called tech support again a couple of weeks ago and had a less than satisfying conversation with that guy. He suggested that I live in a limited service area (which I don't) and finally after agreeing to disagree, his only suggestion was to possibly try changing out the sim card. He didn't think it would help but had nothing else.

Anyway, when I went into a local Verizon store in Portland, OR and explained the problem, the guy knew exactly what I was talking about. He said that all the 4g phones were doing it, and that after some extensive research on the Droid forums, he had discovered that this is due to a software problem in the towers which causes the 4G connection to prematurely time out...thus causing the drop in service. He told me that they were supposed to do a software patch update for the towers to solve that problem on or around July 27th. Not a phone software patch, but one internally for the towers.

I had them exchange my sim card anyway, but was hopeful that I would soon see an end to this issue, but here we are two weeks later and I'm still noticing the problem. Hopefully what he said was true and that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Not sure if all this is true and accurate, but it's what I was told.