Same in OKC. No 3G or 4G. All the Apple devices in the store still have 3G.
<edit> xda fix applied and now 3G is back.
Of course all of those Apple devices still had 3G. Those devices, among every other non-4G (Thunderbolt) device runs on a different 3G radio than the Thunderbolt.
So no, this isn't an Apple supremacy thing. Not saying that you were going that direction, but just wanted to point that out.
Without showing my phone to anyone, I went into the Verizon store today and they ARE having a problem at Verizon. They are working on it as the guy had a Thunderbolt and it was stuck on 1X also.
Without showing my phone to anyone, I went into the Verizon store today and they ARE having a problem at Verizon. They are working on it as the guy had a Thunderbolt and it was stuck on 1X also.
Welcome to last night and the beginning of this thread.
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With the Droid Charge coming tomorrow and the infamous OTA in the works... I think this was planned. They probably made some changes that could only be done while the network was down... thats my grassy knoll theory!
No way....this long of an outage is a straight screw up. Maybe if it was down from say last night at 11pm and then came back on at 7am this morning...that I could understand! But something this long is not good, and I would think a lot of people agree with me when I say....I really hope this isn't a sign of things to come with VZW's 4G.
WOW!!! I didn't mean to bother you with my LATE findings.
I'm sorry, I was a little out of line. I just thought you would have read at least a few posts from this thread before you made your comment proclaiming that there is a problem. Everyone knew that in the first page of this thread.
I'm sorry, I was a little out of line. I just thought you would have read at least a few posts from this thread before you made your comment proclaiming that there is a problem. Everyone knew that in the first page of this thread.
Nah!!! I realized that my post was a little whiny so I changed it to x
No worries.
No way....this long of an outage is a straight screw up. Maybe if it was down from say last night at 11pm and then came back on at 7am this morning...that I could understand! But something this long is not good, and I would think a lot of people agree with me when I say....I really hope this isn't a sign of things to come with VZW's 4G.
Every carrier has its outages. I ran in to one while with AT&T and couldnt make a call for over a day. Look at how many times blackberry went down. Atleast with verizon you can still get 3g working on the bolt.
I'm not convinced this is only a thunderbolt issue. I am in a 3g only area and I have 1x only. Also my wife's droid1 is stuck on 1x or nothing at all.
my wifes devour is on 3g and I did the XDA thing on my bolt and its on 3g again. So its not the whole system. As others have chimed in and said other people that had regular 3g phones are still on 3g. I know with my D1 where I live I am almost on the fringe and it switches to 1x at times.
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Yea a reboot fixed my wife's d1. My bolt is still bonked lol. Anyone else having issues in a 3g only area?
I'm in a 3G only area and my wife's Ally has had full 3G the whole time. I had to use the fix from XDA to get mine back. Even though it says 3G it still doesn't seem as fast as it was on 3G before the outage, i.e. last night.
I watched my phone do the transition from 3G to 1X today....I lost ALL signal for about 5 seconds, then I had signal, but no data, then it turned to 1X and stayed that way all day.
Not too worried, since I'm generally in wireless space most of the day. Hope they get this fixed soon!
For those of you claiming a $10 credit offered... I just called and tactfully complained... The lady at Verizon said that they could divide my monthly rate by 30 and offer me that since it has only been out for a day... I reminded her that we don't know how long it will be out yet, but no extra help... Any ideas or are you guys stretching the truth.
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I am in a 4G area..Atlanta which is one of the strongest and I haven't seen 3G once today. I'm stuck in 1x as of this writing
Same here in NYC...9PM,,, Almost 24 hours later since this started and still no 4G! I have to say this is such a bad look for Verizon...And all this with the Droid Charge Launch tomorrow...
my battery life has been amazing today. under normal usage with 4g i'd be around 20% left by now, instead i'm at 46% with 13hrs off the charger. using the phone the same way i did on mon and tues. being in 1x all day has made a significant difference in battery life in my case.
also made it clearer to me that not including the option for a 4g toggle was a huge gaffe by vzw imo. htc could definitely have done it since they did for the evo. vzw making the call not to include it is almost criminal.
Still 1x in San Antonio, hopefully they fix it soon, its too slow to listen to Slacker while driving.
im in a 3g only area outside san antonio, ive been stuck on 1x since last night. tried the 778 thing, nothing happened. as i use my phone for work, im starting to lose patience.
my battery life has been amazing today. under normal usage with 4g i'd be around 20% left by now, instead i'm at 46% with 13hrs off the charger. using the phone the same way i did on mon and tues. being in 1x all day has made a significant difference in battery life in my case.
also made it clearer to me that not including the option for a 4g toggle was a huge gaffe by vzw imo. htc could definitely have done it since they did for the evo. vzw making the call not to include it is almost criminal.
Criminal? Drama Queen, LTEonoff is available in the android market for free. It was out shortly after the phone came out and the phone always had the switch to turn off data - basically going to the 1X you experienced today.
How long can it take Verizon to fix this? Going on almost 24 hours. In the last 10 years, I've never noticed any carrier's cell phone service being out more than a few minutes.
Nationwide 3G outage for 24 hours? Doesn't seem that Verizon is working very hard on it. Maybe they're getting ready to turn on LTE everywhere....
Ya right.
Update: I guess I complained too soon. Turned off WiFi and I now have 3G again. No 4G in my area yet.
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How long can it take Verizon to fix this? Going on almost 24 hours. In the last 10 years, I've never noticed any carrier's cell phone service being out more than a few minutes.
Nationwide 3G outage for 24 hours? Doesn't seem that Verizon is working very hard on it. Maybe they're getting ready to turn on LTE everywhere....
Ya right.
Cell phone service is not affected. And 3g is not down, only the 4g. Read through this thread and you'll find several links on how to turn on 3g in your tbolt.
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I just checked to see if they fixed it yet with the ##778# to put it back and still on 1x. SO I put it back to have normal 3g. As long as I can manually configure the 3g I am not to worried about it. I am sure they will get it fixed and who knows maybe they found a problem with the charge or better yet maybe someone turned on a charge and crashed the network lol.
For those of you claiming a $10 credit offered... I just called and tactfully complained... The lady at Verizon said that they could divide my monthly rate by 30 and offer me that since it has only been out for a day... I reminded her that we don't know how long it will be out yet, but no extra help... Any ideas or are you guys stretching the truth.
I just called and did the same thing. I nicely said I was upset and she immediately said she would credit me for the data charge. After she processed it, I asked her how much it was and she said she took the $29.99 amount and divided by 30, so it would be .99 but she rounded up to $1. Woohoo! Anyway, she said is this continues another day to call again and get another whole $1. If this stays down long enough, I'll have free data.....oh wait...at 1X. Oh well.
Criminal? Drama Queen, LTEonoff is available in the android market for free. It was out shortly after the phone came out and the phone always had the switch to turn off data - basically going to the 1X you experienced today.
my rom gives me the ability to toggle 4g from within the settings. there still isn't a widget to toggle 4g. many users don't know a toggle app is available. i would expect it to be in the settings or have a widget like the evo. vzw is clearly making it difficult for the end user to control 4g settings. most tb owners aren't on xda or androidforums where tips to manage 4g and battery life are easy to find.
most tb owners aren't on xda or androidforums where tips to manage 4g and battery life are easy to find.
If they can't figure out how to use google to find info on their phone or smart enough to think about it, maybe they shouldn't have an android phone to begin with. Not trying to be rude but it's the truth.
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