A possible cause of the 50% signal issue with 2.1

[rdking]

Well this did help my signal but phone still shows no signal 50% of the time...

 

[TDianna]

Just finished the PRL update and amazingly inside my apartment I get 3 bars.
(I live on the water and in a crappy Verizon area) Before the update I had either no or 1 bar. Going to try this outside.

 

[hoovnick]

I tried using the *228 option to reload the current PRL, but all it says is the code is invalid, check the number or code and try again. Anyone else have this problem, and how do I fix it?

 

[morganpants]

I tried using the *228 option to reload the current PRL, but all it says is the code is invalid, check the number or code and try again. Anyone else have this problem, and how do I fix it?

you have to be in verizon coverage area to redownload the prl via *228
might try *22899 also

 

[hoovnick]

Well, I just tried while sitting at my house, where I've had no problems before. Tried the *228 and *22899 and no luck. No bars here now where I used to get 3 and 4 bars. Plus, since my phone thinks its roaming all the time, it seems to be draining my battery faster.

 

[morganpants]

Well, I just tried while sitting at my house, where I've had no problems before. Tried the *228 and *22899 and no luck. No bars here now where I used to get 3 and 4 bars. Plus, since my phone thinks its roaming all the time, it seems to be draining my battery faster.

well that means your not in verizons coverage and you need to goto a verizons coverage area to get the latest prl from 228, so before you might have been roaming off sprint or something.

 

[rvpartsguy]

That PRL put me on metro PCS. I was also stuck in !x. Riverside ca area

guess i won't try this then since we are so close.....

 

[hoovnick]

No, I AM in a Verizon Coverage area, I have a tower down the street from me. So where does that leave me now?

*EDIT*

FIXED, download the latest prl listed at corolada.com/prl and use the method described by morganpants to manually update, then use *228 to update to the most current prl

 

[Android noob]

I can't download anything here at work so I will have to try this later. Although I will say that I have only been getting 1 or 2 bars here at work lately and today for some reason I have 4 bars. Speed test showed 2.4Mbs download so I may not need to worry about it.


I am curious to see if this does anything about the 50% without signal that some of us are having.

How do you check your 3g speed on the eris?

 

[emerica243]

i loaded this to see if it makes a difference, i noticed it says Operator, Unknown now, instead of Verizon Wireless. Is this going to cause any problems?

 

[morganpants]

i loaded this to see if it makes a difference, i noticed it says Operator, Unknown now, instead of Verizon Wireless. Is this going to cause any problems?

No, Hybrid PRL's cause no problems, ex: a verizon prl on a alltel phone cant say verizon wireless headset

 

[morganpants]

How do you check your 3g speed on the eris?

you can go into the market and download Speedtest app and test it from there.

 

[timmywa]

FIXED, download the latest prl listed at corolada.com/prl and use the method described by morganpants to manually update, then use *228 to update to the most current prl

You had me all excited for a minute, then saw the latest VZW PRL was from 2008??? Lame.

 

[Eris_2.1_2010]

I have an alltel phone from when I was in the military un Virginia. I live in northwest Indiana now and my alltel LG always says its roaming, but everytime I go to the eastcoast it doesn't roam. So my question is if. I upload this on my eris here in the alltel roam area will my eris roam?

 

[MrBojenglz]

What's the "Confirmed to not make a difference" about?

I read through the thread and it looks like it helped some people. where is this confirmation coming from?

 

[morganpants]

I have an alltel phone from when I was in the military un Virginia. I live in northwest Indiana now and my alltel LG always says its roaming, but everytime I go to the eastcoast it doesn't roam. So my question is if. I upload this on my eris here in the alltel roam area will my eris roam?

There is no reason you should be roaming with the uploaded PRL or even have a notification about roaming, you can always download it and try and if it isn't what you like then just 228 and get back to verizon's latest.

Someone wanna explain this? I read through the thread and it looks like it helped some people. where is this confirmation coming from?

The confirmation doesnt fix the 50% bug, it does help people with reception but only if alltel was big in your area before the merge went into effect as so it seems.

 

[Eris_2.1_2010]

I downloaded speed test before switching prls and got 0.77 for d'load and 0.34 for upload. Then after I switched I got upwards of 1.27mbps for d'load and 0.57mbps for upload. Quite a difference that I see but.I'm not done testing yet wait till I get in my truck and hit the road

 

[wboyce]

would not even download on mine.