Prospective TBolt buyer... question about the actual data/network it uses

[0pusX]

Ok so my friend has a Bolt and during the outage she was stuck on 1X while my Droid X never lost 3G at all. I am told the Bolt uses a "different" 3G than other Verizon phones.

My question is..... since we dont have 4G here, can I switch back to the "old" 3G network during cases of outages that just happened yesterday?

Thanks!!

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

Ok so my friend has a Bolt and during the outage she was stuck on 1X while my Droid X never lost 3G at all. I am told the Bolt uses a "different" 3G than other Verizon phones.

My question is..... since we dont have 4G here, can I switch back to the "old" 3G netwrok during cases of outages that just happened yesterday?

Thanks!!

Yeah, there are quite a few threads about switching to Rev.A because of the outage yesterday.

 

[cridley66]

The outage has been fixed

 

[0pusX]

I guess what I meant to ask is why doesnt the Bolt go to a 3G connection when the 4G is out? Why did her phone go to and stay on 1X? Why doesnt it drop down to 3G?

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

eHRPD allows the phone to switch from 3G to LTE faster if you go from a 3G area to an LTE area or from an LTE area to a 3G area.

That's the main reason for the different "network".

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

And as FrankXS stated in another thread, hopefully this LTE outage will cause HTC and Verizon to put in a Rev.A/eHRPD toggle or in a more laymen term a 3G/LTE toggle in the OTA update.

 

[paintdrinkingpete]

If yesterday's outage was the only thing keeping you from getting the Bolt...it shouldn't be.

 

[Forgetful]

If this happens again you can easily switch to the regular EVDO 3G network manually like a lot of others did until the 4G/SVDO-3G is back up.

 

[0pusX]

If yesterday's outage was the only thing keeping you from getting the Bolt...it shouldn't be.

nah actually the $569 price tag is. hahahahaha