Today I was sitting in a parking lot with some time on my hands, so I tried to get on the web. The phone showed 6 bars on the signal indicator (sometimes dropping to 5). It also showed 3G, with the little arrows lighting up to show a live connection. But, I couldn't even get Google's simple mobile homepage to fully load. I tried several different websites, most of which I had viewed earlier in the day from a different location. Nothing would load more than a bit of background, or a part of a header.
I called Sprint to see if it might be a network problem. Nope. Nothing was wrong on their end.
I tried changing some settings - roaming, data, CDMA, etc. Nothing mattered. In the 40 - 50 minutes I was trying, the phone got very warm (almost alarmingly so), and the battery went from 70% to 40%.
The strange thing was that while I was on the phone to Sprint, the signal meter only showed 2 - 3 bars. I assume that was a much more accurate measure of the signal I was getting. But, when I hung up with Sprint and went back to data, it shot back up to a full 6 bars.
Oh, and I tried power cycling the phone and even pulling the battery. Nothing changed it.
I called Sprint to see if it might be a network problem. Nope. Nothing was wrong on their end.
I tried changing some settings - roaming, data, CDMA, etc. Nothing mattered. In the 40 - 50 minutes I was trying, the phone got very warm (almost alarmingly so), and the battery went from 70% to 40%.
The strange thing was that while I was on the phone to Sprint, the signal meter only showed 2 - 3 bars. I assume that was a much more accurate measure of the signal I was getting. But, when I hung up with Sprint and went back to data, it shot back up to a full 6 bars.
Oh, and I tried power cycling the phone and even pulling the battery. Nothing changed it.
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