Pandora over 3G not working?

**xplode196** · 08-21-2012, 06:33 PM

Idk about you guys, but Pandora works beautiful on wifi for me. When I switch to 3G, regardless of the strength of the signal, it will always say something like "buffering" or something similar. This is an issue that has persisted through various roms and basebands for me.

Any ideas?

**epidenimus** · 08-21-2012, 08:46 PM

I expect it is the Ambiguous Someday Network constraints and not your device or software. I have all sorts of data holes on my drive to work, which is a 9 mile commute from inside a major tech city to just outside of it and almost exclusively on an interstate. No antelopes or banjo playing on this short drive (especially if the banjos are on the cloud). Streaming? What's that? Stopping on the side of the highway between the major city and the hotbed of technology companies to whiz? Wow. So as I am eligible for a renewal upgrade, I can leave a better sexier device on my car seat to search for a sketchy 3G connection while I take care of nature? Oh sign me up for that!

**xplode196** · 08-21-2012, 09:10 PM

Haha...are you alright epidenimus? :P

Not sure if you're being sarcastic towards me or what

**epidenimus** · 08-21-2012, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by xplode196

Haha...are you alright epidenimus? :P

Not sure if you're being sarcastic towards me or what

I appreciate your concern. Perhaps I took your question and infused my own issues and frustration with an on-the-table upgrade into it.

I am actually being quite sincere about the limitations and swiss cheesiness of the 3G network that our carrier presents. My thing is this:
I love music. I get ready in the morning and typically a song comes to me while in my shower. Being that my steam-driven performance is always lacking, I would like to listen to it on the way to work, so I pull up a Grooveshark app, find it and press play. Do you think I get to listen to the whole ~3.5 MB song by the time I get to work? Nope. I have to pause it several times for buffering or reconnection and think about all the dumb stuff dumb people around me are doing and what stupid stuff is waiting for me at work. Then I get to work and might be able to finish the stupid song over the half-inch pico speaker as I walk to the door.

Sprint is getting to be like mobile dial-up to me. Who cares if they are offering LTE devices when only 1.2 percent of the country can make use of them. I can't help but think how much better my device would be on a faster, more reliable network. Every review I read about the GS3 on Sprint summarizes by saying: Great device, lousy network holding it back from true awesomeness!

**xplode196** · 08-22-2012, 12:57 AM

It sucks to hear that you're in a situation like that...Sprint is the cheapest option for me and I barely get good coverage. My 3g speeds are depressingly low too...Google music usually doesn't buffer too much for me though.

Pandora used to work for me...that's why I'm unhappy that it won't work for me now that I listen to it more on the go

Sent from my LG-LS670

**epidenimus** · 08-22-2012, 04:34 AM

Yes, there are several streaming media services that work wonderfully if you supply your own connection. But then for what are we paying our wireless ISP? I don't expect perfection, but I'd like it to be more reliable than mobile makeshift. Sure, I love a better price just like the next guy.