I think it depends on your location. I guess I'm lucky. I get blazing speed (Central NJ )

Well, generally when I do get 3G, it is pretty snappy. Heck, I've even gotten 2.2mbps, not bad for CDMA EVDO Rev.A

Reliable means you'll HAVE data, Fast is another topic... 🤣

Well their advertisements do say "America's most reliable -3G- network." So not just reliable, but reliable -3G- or so says the advertisements.

what cha complaining about this time? lol

Ah. . .Vzn be spreading a bunch of propaganda about the word "reliable". When it's on 3G it's just fine. But I frinkin hate 1x.

they all spread propaganda and the problem is customers buy into it...


sometimes it can be on 1x and sometimes 3G; it has to deal with the process on going from 3G to 1x on a phone call and then from 1x to 3g on not a phone call. sometimes there could be network issues with certain call/surfing periods. if its stuck on for 1x for a period of time, restarting the phone will help. if that doesnt work then getting a new phone will be in the best interest (of course through warranty). customer support can verify any network issues using their internal systems.

You say "propaganda," but the term you're really looking for is marketing. Welcome to America bro, you must be new here.

Nope. I was born pretty much in the same area this country wqas born, New England, Connecticut. Not new to Phone Scoop either, but on here nearly 6yrs.

i was being facetious man. my point is, marketing works. and the reason why it works has never been more apparent.

So are you aware that there is finally an official CNN Android app? Sure as heck too'em long enough FOX NEWS has had an Android app for at least 8 months.

yeah i saw that, definitely took them a while.

Hopefully Android will get more attention. I would like to see a Jon Stewart Daily Show app from Comedy Central.

Hey, I've got an Android ? for you. I use the LG Ally, as you may know, and it has a very, very small amount of internal memory, yesterday I got 3 "Low memory" notifications. I cleared all the cache from apps, and still the notification kept coming up.

Eventually I ended up doing something I'd rather not do. I cleared the memory of the web browser. It was taking up frinkin !!35mb's!! That's way, way too much for any one thing to take up.

How can I prevent the browser from getting that high?

Stop looking at porn?

Uh-huh, and what does porn have to do with the web browser using toooo much internal memory?

Content such as porn uses up a good deal of browser cache. As there is no setting on the default browser for what % your phone browser uses of available memory it just eats up space.

Watch less porn or clear your cache more often.

The reason I'm not fond of clearing all this memory in the web browser is I lose my bookmarks. I don't like losing my bookmarks.

Hopefully I will be in the position to upgrade in november, newer smartphones have a much, much larger amount of internal memory.

You could use the firefox browser. Bookmakrs are backed up online I believe.

Not sure why clearing your cache deletes your bookmarks. I clear my cache and bookmarks remain.

Hmm,...ok, I'll give Firefox a try.

If the browser didn't take up a whopping 35mb's I would be able to keep more apps. I actually have quite a few store on my memory card.

Umm,...I typed Firefox in the market, can't find it.

really? i typed in "firefox" and the first app was Mozilla Firefox Web Browser.

Jay's market is located in another dimension.

Jayshmay said:
Well their advertisements do say "America's most reliable -3G- network." So not just reliable, but reliable -3G- or so says the advertisements.

The key word here is America's. Verizon tests their towers and third party companies also agree that Verizon has the most reliable network. The statement does not say they gurantee service. It is technology and things go wrong.

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I'm sure how hard this might be for you to believe being a biased wireless industry employee. But there are experiences in this world that are based in reality, and aren't just made up to make troll posts!

Reality isn't anywhere close to what Verizon makes themselves out to be.

Do you notice my repetative use of the word "reality" as in not making things up just for the sake of as you say "trolling"

Maybe you can't handle the truth that the Verizon that you worship isn't as "supiorior & reliable" as you think. In the real world.

Jay, i could rip you to shreds based on that post alone, but i'm not. You're making a lot of baseless assumptions about wireless employees and borderlin...
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Actually I am asking a question, which is how is dropping from 3G to 1x reliable, that is indeed a question.

And with reguards to "trolling". Reguardless of my own personal feeling about either the Motorola Droid, or Verizon, I have never tried to steer anyone away from either Motorola, or Verizon.

My feelings are just that, mine. I thought "trolling" is when someone is trying to steer someone away from a choice their trying to make, which I don't do. If someone goes out of their way to ask me what I think, I will say. But otherwise people can make their own choices without me going on a smeering campain.

And in my opinion, what makes me not a "troll" and what makes me very, very unique on this site is I, as a consumer, am able to...
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You can say anything you want, as an employee or a customer. I happen to be both. I've been a verizon customer since 06, an employee since 09.

if you were asking a question why couldn't you have worded it "Hey guys, do you know of any outages in the Vegas area for 3g?" or something to that affect. Instead you attacked the employee base. You're post was to start a fight, and that is trolling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet) »

And remember Jay, you're unique, just like everybody else.

Uh huh,. . . .ohhh-kay, I could've worded it differently. Please excuse me, I don't exactly claim to be one of the most diplomatic of people. That's a skill mastered in later years.

If you just wanted to ask a question then you should have just asked it without the rambling preamble attacking corporate stiffs. I was NEVER that type of corporate employee. I was a mercenary plain and simple. It was ALL about the paycheck with me. I sold phones until my very last day with a company even though I was going to work for a competitor the next week because my commission check was the bottom line.

Now let me re-work how this could have been posed were you not spoiling for a fight...

I have spent 20 straight minutes with 1x data. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get my phone back on 3G? Could this be an outage in my area. Should I call tech support or perhaps perform a reset on my device? Any advice would...
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10-4 Azeron,. . .I copy.

See, you about the paycheck, and that's what a job is all about, a paycheck.

Damn straight! If it ain't paying, I'm not staying.

Whats wrong with me? 😲

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I'm sorry... What? 🤨

Er...nothing. Nothing at all.

So since so, so many of you on here are corporate cronies and represent a corporation, rather than be individuals, perhaps one of you corporate loyalists can explain what exactly the words "America's most reliable 3G network" mean when I can go 20 straight minutes with 1x data. Please! I am really curious how "reliability" and 1x data tie in with each other.




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It wasn't in my original post, but here is where I use the word reality.

https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »

oh. 🤭

my bad.

I hate Verizon more than you do and this post is offensive. Sorry. It just is. So the EV-DO suffered an outage for twenty minutes. These guys aren't responsible for that and expecting them to defend a man made device/network or whatever is silly. You're not a troll, Jay. This IS a typical troll post, however. I expect more of you. Do better. The End.

Well,. . .you were harshly honest.

And with reguards to people on here defending. I wasn't really looking for anyone to defend anything. What I'm looking for more so is a technical explaination as to why 3G drops to 1x quite frequently. And to those who are going to ask, yes, I have updated my roaming capabilities.

Oh heck! This is a Cell Student or better yet AJ question. AJ can probably break it down into Vulcan for us or Cell Student might be able to put it into layman's terminology. Half the time the guys in tech have no idea. When we used to open a trouble ticket on an outage, the last thing I wanted to do was actually talk to or even receive an email from the network guys. They were usually condescending jerks who did not want to investigate an issue if they could blame us for not trouble shooting or completing the ticket they would return the mofo without any investigation. I went one Sunday without ANY Internet recently. It was pretty sad. I felt like a junkie denied my fix. When the lady at tech did as I asked and went into MTAS and r...
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Question for you. And be honest I'm asking.

Historically, as in more than once on occasion. Do I ask "inane" questions?

No. Trust me. I deal with customers every day and for the most part have for twelve years in one setting or another. I completely understand not being happy with your phone going into 1x as evidenced by my telling of my experience. It's just when I read your post I was not surprised that epik was able to maintain his composure, but I was like "Whoah! That's going to strike a nerve here or there."

So then it's a no that I don't ask "inane" questions?
I asked because well, that was said about me, not positive who, Orion, I think.

I'm not even sure what "inane" means.

Inane means silly. It's not silly to expect EV-DO coverage in Vegas. I get it here in the sticks so why wouldn't one expect it there?

Re-read what you posted originally. If it doesn't seem like you are instigating versus asking a question I can't help you.

And by the way, isn't your phone rooted?

No, not rooted. I'm not quite savvy enough to do that. Though if I knew someone locally who would do it for say $25,...I might. Just to be able to delete apps that can't be deleted and free up some *much* needed internal memory. That's really my biggest complaint about the LG Ally, I get low memory alerts too much. I wish it was as easy as clearing application cache, sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. I sure am glad the Ally has the 2.2 software so that I can store apps to memory card and free up memory that way.

LG Ally?

That's what I get for not being on here much. Thought you had a Moto Droid.

Jay, DID have the Droid. I remember when the Droid first dropped I wrote a long diatribe against Motorola and Jay made a rebuttal against me. I wonder if he will ever buy another Motorola after his misadventure with that Droid screen? Jay?

Just because it works doesn't mean its the truth, though. Drinkin Bud Light won't get you laid, driving a Bimmer doesn't make you awesome, eating at Applebees isn't going to be the best time of your life, etc.

I agree that stupid people will believe anything, but that's hardly verizons fault. Theres a sucker born every minute and let the buyer beware are two cliche's that come to immediate mind.

Actually, I believe I get better results from my American Idol voting than I ever have with the damn Presidential elections.....mmhmm... 🤣

I was looking for a good place to insert my 2 cents, looks like I found it. I will break down the advertisement for you and define every word so that you can see that it is truer than you think. "The nation's largest, most reliable 3G network."

Nation = United States

Largest = There is no one with a larger footprint, qualified by:

Most = a comparitive term meaning of the competition they are the greatest when it comes to:

Reliability = Being able to rely or count on something to work when you need it.

3G = the type of network they have

Network = what they call their company.

By these definitions they are not entirely wrong. You can contest that AT&T is just as large if you would like, but are they as reliable? This is no...
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I have to ask... How do people know if it is a Verizon tower or if it belongs to another carrier? I have seen a fair amount of cell towers and nothing jumps out to say that it belongs to any particular carrier. Am I missing something, or are these people just assuming?

are you talking from an internal or external level. (meaning who works for the company or a customer)

I am talking on an external level. I know employees can generally find out which towers serve their company but how can a customer determine it (aside of course asking someone who works for the company, who may or may not know.)

a customer can know if they look at the diagnostic on each phone. there is a code ( i dont remember what it is on many phones out there- maybe someone on here knows) but if you plug that code into your phone, you can see all kinds of data. (including the tower, spectrum, db etc..)

People assume all day long. They see a tower and assume its for them

welcome to the real world no one or company is perfect hate to burst your bubble but its fact me working as a tech for sprint i see all the outages sprint has in many in many diffrent parts of the country but ppl who live in my area have never experinced one im sure its the same for other wireless carriers there will be areas where other carriers excel now im with verizon i have experinced edge but never more than 5 mins at a time and only when coming in and out of airplance mode but verizon is good in my area