I'm afraid I have indeed still been experiencing these issues, and unfortunately have not had time to try any but the simplest solutions that have been kindly suggested to me on forums. Lately I haven't noticed the problem occur that much, but it's probably just a fluke.
For what it's worth, I paste below the complete list of suggestions that I've been given from various sources, including friends - maybe you will have the necessary time to try and fix your phone (I didn't yet, and the Android developers clearly don't have time to fix & test their code eithera!!):
- Try delete your cache and then selectively disable your installed apps (half and the the next half etc) till the problem is isolated. it is very likely a problem caused by a corrupted cache of a misbehaving app.
- Follow instructions here to activate the safe mode. If it is fine in safe mode then it indicates that some installed app is the culprit
- Did you tried cleaning cache and dalvik from recovery sometimes it gets messed up after OS update.
- Disabling ipv6 settings: Go to Settings >> Mobile Settings >> APN settings and edit your APN-settings. Disable/remove IPv6 and save it.
- Toggling to 2g/3g to bypass connection drops: As the issue has also been reported to have been attributed to a bug in LTE radio, changing the setting from lte mode to edge/hpsa mode can temporarily resolve the drop issues, and saves from rebooting device.
- reseting APN settings to default
- switching SIM cards
- send the device to service centre to get it checked and perhaps fixed.