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3G drop.

My first full day at work today and my bionic kept dropping 3g service all day.
I came from the thunderbolt and never had that issue.
I hope this was just a fluke.
I've also had 3 calls go straight to Voice mail at home. My phone never rang.
I hope this isn't a habit. I've already sold my bolt.
Anyone have these issues?
If I have to take it back, I'm not sure what phone to go to.
I picked it up last Friday. Got a little time left.
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I've read a few are having 3G connectivity issues. Why not try another Bionic and see if it solves your issue? If not I would move to different phone then

Sorry I posted in the wrong section.
Please move to the general section.
I might take it back tomorrow. See how it acts.
Problem is, what phone to switch too if this one doesn't work out.
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Could be phone or service area or a combination of both im from chicago no issues here
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yohimbe35 said:
Sorry I posted in the wrong section.
Please move to the general section.
I might take it back tomorrow. See how it acts.
Problem is, what phone to switch too if this one doesn't work out.
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Wait a month and see what the HTC Vigor has in store. Droid HD might be on the horizon in time for the holiday season for big red? Or wait longer (who knows how long maybe even next year) for the Prime. Or wait till spring 2012 they'll be even faster phones out. round and round you go

Try disabling LTE. I had this issue, until I disabled LTE. What I am basically seeing, is that LTE is coming to my area, and something is getting picked up.
Or it is just 3G being a problem.
Settings -> Wireless & network settings -> Mobile networks -> Network Mode -> CDMA Only.

I had it set that way when it happened. I actually switched it back to see what would happen.
I'll see what happens tomorrow. I hope it was just a network issue for the day.
I can't be turning the phone on and off all day just to get 3g.
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Also, try a wipe before you do end up returning it. That resolved the same type of issue I had on my DX1.

Well it's happening again today. 3g drops and then I have to restart my phone.
How do you do a wipe?
I've already did a battery pull.
I switched to 3G only. Still drops.
Any ideas?
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I havnt lost 3g or 4g what i think you might be talking about is: 3g is dropping when the bionic is actually on a call. So no internet when your making a call. what Ive also noticed is that if I'm in a 4g area I will get a 4g connection when im on a call, But it goes in and out. I suspect on the update that comes out or a leak it will be fixed. I'm sure it will be fixed quick being its a major issue/problem. If you think back I bet you just got off a call when you noticed the 3g has dropped. I was on a call for a couple hours last night and my 3g wasnt coming back so i did a reboot and she came back. Small little issue that im sure will be fixed soon. Thats the only problem ive had with the phone, The Bionic is 5o times better the the Tbolt and thanx the cell gods im away from HTC Sense.

No, I wasn't on a call. I just turned it on and there was no 3G. Woke it from a sleep, not totally off.
Yesterday it happened 4 times.
Only once since 5AM today.
Maybe it's getting better.
Lol
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Which battery saver mode are you in? I've had some issues with anything but "performance" mode that might or might not be directly correlated to my mobile connectivity issues. Check and see

I've been on performance since I got the phone.
Only one drop so far today.
I hope it continues to get better.
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abvthegod said:
I havnt lost 3g or 4g what i think you might be talking about is: 3g is dropping when the bionic is actually on a call. So no internet when your making a call. what Ive also noticed is that if I'm in a 4g area I will get a 4g connection when im on a call, But it goes in and out. I suspect on the update that comes out or a leak it will be fixed. I'm sure it will be fixed quick being its a major issue/problem. If you think back I bet you just got off a call when you noticed the 3g has dropped. I was on a call for a couple hours last night and my 3g wasnt coming back so i did a reboot and she came back. Small little issue that im sure will be fixed soon. Thats the only problem ive had with the phone, The Bionic is 5o times better the the Tbolt and thanx the cell gods im away from HTC Sense.
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Correction - My friend just told me that Verizon does not have date on a call. Two things though, I could have sworn that I had data on a call with my Tbolt. Also If ur in a 4g area I noticed that you will get data its just will go off and on.

The thunderbolt is capable of simultaneous voice and data, even on 3G, but the bionic is not.
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I am also having this problem. If Motorola still used vanilla android this wouldn't be an issue. I hate when manufacturers feel it necessary to fix something that isn't broke. I am sad to see how many people are experiencing this problem because if it was isolated to my phone and a few others then a warranty replacement would do the trick. I now feel like I wasted 380 on phone and accessories. I placed a call to Verizon tech support and their as clueless as usual. I hope an update is released soon that fixes this issue (or a custom rom). I remain hopeful that we start seeing good things on our Motorola devices now that google owns moto.
NOTE: I wish people would start reading through existing threads before starting new ones. I started a thread to this effect back on day 3. Several others have started threads to this effect as well. I think there are now 4 or 5 on this very same subject.
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yutzyscott said:
I am also having this problem. If Motorola still used vanilla android this wouldn't be an issue. I hate when manufacturers feel it necessary to fix something that isn't broke. I am sad to see how many people are experiencing this problem because if it was isolated to my phone and a few others then a warranty replacement would do the trick. I now feel like I wasted 380 on phone and accessories. I placed a call to Verizon tech support and their as clueless as usual. I hope an update is released soon that fixes this issue (or a custom rom). I remain hopeful that we start seeing good things on our Motorola devices now that google owns moto.
NOTE: I wish people would start reading through existing threads before starting new ones. I started a thread to this effect back on day 3. Several others have started threads to this effect as well. I think there are now 4 or 5 on this very same subject.
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And I've read them all! Lol :-/
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yohimbe35 said:
My first full day at work today and my bionic kept dropping 3g service all day.
I came from the thunderbolt and never had that issue.
I hope this was just a fluke.
I've also had 3 calls go straight to Voice mail at home. My phone never rang.
I hope this isn't a habit. I've already sold my bolt.
Anyone have these issues?
If I have to take it back, I'm not sure what phone to go to.
I picked it up last Friday. Got a little time left.
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Hey I had a connection problem that seems to have been resolved by going to settings then battery, then change the powersave options to performance. See if it helps.
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also having data drop about 5 to 6 times a day

Agreed my 3G has dropped several times in a day will experiment once I get back into my regular area.
Right now I am in a rural town of Lovell Wyoming once I get to SLC I will try again.
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GPS Problems

Is anyone having GPS problems with the bionic?
I have found two issues. This happens when I place the phone into the car dock, and try to navigate:
1) The phone is unable to lock on to the GPS receiver when I try to navigate. I have left it searching for 20 minutes on several occasions, and still no lock.
2) The second, and more worrying problem is that the phone will lose service (call & data) while the GPS tries to lock, and when I try to exit, or even if I let the phone continue to try to lock on to a GPS receiver, the phone will reboot itself randomly.
Is this universal, or should I exchange my phone?
I have already exchanged it once. Will the shop allow it again? I purchased the original phone one week ago, and have had this one since Tues(3 days ago).
Thanks for any advice.

I've had no problems with my Bionic, GPS and the car mount, other than really preferring the 2.2 car mode app I had on my OG Droid - which is now on my Bionic as well thanks to Titanium Backup
I've seen some reports of some radio issues on specific Bionics; I forget which major-ish site had a problem where it would cycle 4G -> 3G -> no data -> 4G repeat, killing the battery life, then a replacement worked like a charm.

I've never had a phone that locked GPS as quickly and reliably as the Bionic. Even inside the house near a window. GPS may not work if you're not getting a cell signal.

GPS
I've had 2 instances in the week since I got my Bionic where GPS would not lock onto my location. In both cases I rebooted the phone and got an immediate lock. Was on a day long roadtrip yesterday using the the Bionic in the car dock and Google Nav worked flawlessly.
Not sure what's up with the occasional burp but I'm keeping an eye on it.

Thanks for the info. I just rang support and they are sending a new one overnight. Hopefully the third time is a charm.
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Gotta be a hardware problem. This GPS is ridiculously fast, especially coming from a Captivate.

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I've never had a phone that locked GPS as quickly and reliably as the Bionic. Even inside the house near a window. GPS may not work if you're not getting a cell signal.
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I agree. No other phone I've owned would lock to GPS this quickly.
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Finally
Big difference with the replacement. This one locks quickly and does not reboot or lose data connectivity when connected to GPS.
I was worried for a minute the.
There are some seriously poor quality control issues with the Bionic.
Thanks.

I wonder if it's because they rushed it out
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Stories said:
I wonder if it's because they rushed it out
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hee-hee. that's funny

cdf3 said:
I agree. No other phone I've owned would lock to GPS this quickly.
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Ahh I wish I had a great wireless radio like the bionic users, I'm seriously considering on getting the next motorola device as there wireless radios are outstanding compared to samsung htc etc. maybe that leaked motorola with the super amoled screen
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Anyone else have this issue...

Anyone else have there phone just shut off? Appears it is a known issue now with Verizon. I have this happen several times a week. Go to use my phone an it is powered off.
http://community.vzw.com/t5/Revolution-by-LG/Any-solutions-to-phone-shutting-off/td-p/670469

Mine has rebooted a few times but I think I was running stock when it happened lol
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I had the issue too. On stock, called Verizon had me do a hard reset haven't had the issue since.
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Mine did it a few times, the "tech support" at Verizon said it is a "common" problem and there is no definite solution. Mine has done it even after the Hard Reset that they recommend you do.

Iv had this issue too but i think mine was more with the phone running hot and shut its self down.

I've had random reboots before ... it shut off without a reboot for the first time this morning (while on the charger) didn't think anything of it until I read this.
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Had the problem with stock, decrapped, and re-homed right now its not that big of a deal but if it starts to happen more often then I will wipe the phone and put it back to stock then maybe toss it on ebay. Verizon suggested the same thing LOL.
They suggested I use one of the upgrades from my other line to replace this phone. Of course she also stated that 4G was in my area then transferred me to a tech who promptly stated that no I am in a 3g only area.

Never had this issue on the revo but I know it had been happening with the thunderbolt...I have never had this issue before with Verizon I wonder our maybe someone can confirm it is a Sim card issue? Nothing else I have every had used a Sim card
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Have this problem very rarely, but each tone I do its related to a heavy workload or intensive app(s) issue and a CPU issue. I use setcpu to closely monitor and throttle it for battery, and it usually happens if it is doing a lot whole at either the highest speed, 1024, and the lowest, 245 mhz. Very rarely happens though.
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I had major problems with reboots when i had watchdog installed (2 to 3 times a day) uninstalled and now it may reboot once or twice a week.
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happened to me twice while in Austin for the BBQ.
Once during the drive there while using GPS, and once while using Wifi-Tether for about an hour on the charger.
Both times the device was on the charger.

I think I've had this issue to some extent or another with every Verizon phone I've owned. I think Verizon actually pays someone to sit in a cubicle and send remote shutdown commands to random phones as part of their "Encouraging Frequent and Unnecessary Upgrades Program."

jamRwoo said:
I think I've had this issue to some extent or another with every Verizon phone I've owned. I think Verizon actually pays someone to sit in a cubicle and send remote shutdown commands to random phones as part of their "Encouraging Frequent and Unnecessary Upgrades Program."
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Hehe. I'd have to agree with jamRwoo. This is my first smartphone with Verizon but thinking back, every phone I've had with Verizon for six years now, has done this. But, the other common trait is they've all been LG as well. Hmm... ;-)
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Interesting
You're right, all my Verizon phones have done this. Except a ****ty iPhone I was using for a month.
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happens to me on a regular basis, probably once a week. If i use setcpu or any other CPU throttling it happens more often. very annoying, since I use my phone as an alarm and I oversleep wakeup to find my phone is completely shut off.

Mine reboots itself every once and again, not in a while *knocks on wood* when I first rooted it, it would loop every morning when I first went to use it until I pulled the battery...
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data going in and out help please !!

so i noticed for the last two days my 4g and 3g are going out not just a couple seconds either it for a good amount of time 10 to 15 minutes at a time anyone have a idea why this is or how to reslove this called verizon they don't have any outages at all worked fine for the previous 2 to 3 weeks that i had the phone with no issues what so ever...

what system and rom are you on ?

100 percent stock. Havent rooted yet
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Im having the same issue all stock as well with the latest update
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you can root and try 901 update. it seems to be a more stable radio

Not. Confident enough with a. Locked bootloader and have. To do a. Bit more research before crossing that bridge
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The locked bootloader isn't really a problem. You can still do a lot of stuff. We have some awesome roms,themes and hacks along with a great community with lots of helpful people

I can not say this will help you, but it helped me with the same problem, this is a fix I found on rootzwiki i believe, i forget the authors name but the fix is not mine and it is simple and gives me good connection for about 1-3 weeks before i have to do it again.
turn off your phone, pull battery, and sim card, replace battery and turn phone back on and let it boot up, turn phone off and replace sim card, turn phone backup, that is it. What I have read is that this refreshes your sim connection to Verizon, I have no idea if this is the case or not.
I did also find that when I activated an old phone to update some software in it and then tried to reactivate my Bionic the web site did not let me activate my sim card with the numbers it had on the card itself, so I called up Verizon and jumped through some hoops and they activated my sim card and had very good data connection after that for about a month. Just a reminder if you are rooted don't tell them that.
Hope this helps a bit.
My data still is not %100 but getting much closer when I pop the sim card in and out.

So what else is new.....
I am in Los Angeles, an area blanketed with 4G. I have a solid 4G connection at home 99.5% of the time. My first 4G phone was a Samsung Droid Charge and while I liked it I often found in my travels that I would have 0 connectivity and all my 3G friends would be surfing along just fine.
I thought it was my device and ended up going through 5 Charges and now Verizon has given me a Bionic and guess what, exact same performance (well, in terms of connectivity). I find it hard to believe that 6 phones by 2 manufacturers exhibit the same problem so concluded it had something to do with the geography of my travels and the associated towers and hand-offs.
I then read, and totally believe THIS

Thanks that worked great and you last posted good to know!!!!
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Sqwaller said:
I can not say this will help you, but it helped me with the same problem, this is a fix I found on rootzwiki i believe, i forget the authors name but the fix is not mine and it is simple and gives me good connection for about 1-3 weeks before i have to do it again.
turn off your phone, pull battery, and sim card, replace battery and turn phone back on and let it boot up, turn phone off and replace sim card, turn phone backup, that is it. What I have read is that this refreshes your sim connection to Verizon, I have no idea if this is the case or not.
I did also find that when I activated an old phone to update some software in it and then tried to reactivate my Bionic the web site did not let me activate my sim card with the numbers it had on the card itself, so I called up Verizon and jumped through some hoops and they activated my sim card and had very good data connection after that for about a month. Just a reminder if you are rooted don't tell them that.
Hope this helps a bit.
My data still is not %100 but getting much closer when I pop the sim card in and out.
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Well I am on the. 901 update and on the same day I got a new sim card. And my connection was completely solid..... for two days. After that the drops were as bad as ever. I WOULD SAY AT LEAST 50% so I am trying this right now well I did already actually. IT HAS JUST DROPPED ME WHILE WRITING THIS. However it did not last long because its already back. I dunno I am just gettin tired of it. Maybe I should have spent the extra money to get the rezound. I am. Just frusterated. I really appreciate this idea. I will keep trying it for a while.
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Have had mine for close to two weeks. Data drops weren't a problem until a day or two in. Figured out that at least for me, it was my own doing. Some of you are probably the same, while others are something different.
Settings>Data & Battery Manager>Battery Mode>
From here you have several options. I had set mine up on custom one night, while half asleep, laying in the bed, playing with my new phone.
This morning it dawned on me, after thinking that it seemed a lot like Juice Defender acts when it takes a while to register data again. I went back in and changed it from a custom profile, to Performance Mode. Voila....
All day long and not single data drop.
Hope this helps some of you.

I have had 1, 5 second drop since updating to .901. I would urge anyone that is having serious data drop issues to try it. It is a signed update and is supported by Verizon and Motorola. They can't void your warranty or anything for updating to it.

How would go about. 901 do I gave to root anyway to push this to phone without root
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The 4G bug

I've heard of this and it finally hit me about two weeks ago. After about a week of being on unofficial .905 with a motofail root my 4G stopped. I tried progressive measures until finally just doing a factory reset and flashing stock .902. After that still no 4G. Then I let the phone stock update to .905, still no 4G (i mean literally never and I live right next to a strong Verizon 4G tower.
After the .905 update i tried pulling the sim and then rebooting, changing Android ID with Titanium, then reinstalling sim while subsequent reboot was ongoing. After doing this twice I got 4G with full bars for about ten minutes before going back to 3G. After that I could never get 4G again no matter what.
So last night I updated to the ICS 33 build hoping for a change. Nothing. I did a clear data and change Android ID, pulled sim a million different ways. It's just not going to happen for me. This phone has never been wet, abused, or had a custom ROM, btw.
So i called Verizon this morning and here is where my question comes in. I was honest with then on all that I've done to the phone and their basic response was: "we know the Bionic has an LTE issue and will send you another free at no cost right now." That's pretty awesome, but I'm now worrying about protecting the phone from losing LTE ability again. I really like the ICS leak and want to install it as soon as I get the new phone, but I don't want anymore LTE problems.
Are there any strong theories on why this happens? Anything to avoid? I'm leaning toward thinking it may be a hardware thing affecting a certain batch and then convoluted by the refurb tendencies of the day. Does that sound logical?

On a side note, if anyone has something they want tested let me know. I can do it to the 4G crapped phone before returning.

I had an issue with one Bionic where the 4G drivers kept disappearing, and then finally one day never came back. They replaced my phone. It happened once on my new phone when I first had it, but hasn't occurred since. I personally think the 4G radio gets burned out and shuts down, but have no way of proving it.

Insane! Just got done doing done housework and now i have LTE; the usual 4-5 bars.
I am now thoroughly confused. It hasn't worked once in over a week.

So now i get to see how the battery on 2233 holds up with LTE. Running 905 with 3G only was a treat in that one respect. I was getting 33 hours typically. That's with checking news and Facebook like 30 times a day, at least a call an hour, steady Wordfued games, Bluetooth/GPS on all the time.

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So now i get to see how the battery on 2233 holds up with LTE. Running 905 with 3G only was a treat in that one respect. I was getting 33 hours typically. That's with checking news and Facebook like 30 times a day, at least a call an hour, steady Wordfued games, Bluetooth/GPS on all the time.
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Lol, and i get a new phone now anyway. I did have a couple scratches in the old gorilla glass.
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The more i think about it the more fishy it sounds. My 4G was nonexistant for two weeks yet now it works great. I had been on 2233 for over 12 hours by that point and fine numerous reboots. Just convenient is all I'm saying.
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Ive been going through the LTE thing too. Called lvl2 tech today (nice guy cant say bad things about them) and about 40 minutes later i get Lte back...
on the phone he didnt know anything about known issues.. but.. he thought my area had a saturation issue.
I hadnt seen this thread before just now. All the pieces come together.
Im itching to move to ICS but am concerned about GPS reliability as i use mine for geocaching.

Im running the .230 leak still and have no issues at all. I havent moved to any newer leak for that reason. Im stable and everything seems to work.
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4G is not a Bionic issue
Verizon can say what they want - but the 4G issue is localized.
I travel a lot - from VA to PA frequently, and out to Denver regularly. A couple months ago 4G just went away (note that Richmond and Denver both have extensive 4G coverage).
I can get 4G in Newport News, VA, but not in Richmond, Denver, or anwhere between Richmond and PA (like DC or any of Eastern MD, or Delware). These are all places where I used to get 4G consistently.
I've tried multiple reboots. Nope - only place I now get 4G is Newport News. I also have firends/coworkers on Verizon (my company uses it), and NO ONE can get 4G in Richmond any more, on any phone.

My 4G cut out this morning in a certain area...I typically get 4G in that area and it is on an extended 4G coverage area. I noticed my phone lost 4G rather than switch over to 3G. I saw it go from blank to 1X to 3G and never recovered to 4G. I am currently in a 3G area atm and won't know if something's changed til i go home where I will pass thru the extended 4g then 4g.

In Boston I frequent a few areas and for over 2 WEEKS 4G would not function near one of my haunts. It used to be 4 bars and had decent speeds, then all of a sudden whenever I was in the area my phone would keep switching from 4G to 3G, but if I walked a couple blocks down the street I had a full 4G signal again and data worked perfectly. After the first week the problem became even worse, the phone would get stuck with a white 4G symbol and would keep toggling from white to blue but never got a connection and thus the only way I could use data in the area was to use wireless. Again if I walked a couple blocks down the street I had a full 4G signal and perfect data. Then one day the problem just went away.
I've heard similar stories from others around the country so it appears Verizon is having serious localized issues with some of the LTE towers. This happened in late June through the first week of July and I haven't experienced the problem since.
I should note I also did have the issue where 4G stopped working completely when I installed one of the leaked GB builds and the solution in that case was pulling the SIM card, rebooting, then replacing the SIM card and all worked again after about 10 minutes.

currently in middle of Fresno, CA and no 4g...

I had major 4G issues with my Thunderbolt.... I just bought a Bionic and now I am having the same issues.
Luke

I rebooted my phone in a 4G area this morning. The 4G icon popped up briefly and then quickly disappeared to the 3G icon. I never had 4G problems before and now this is happening. I am annoyed but not to the point where I need to switch phones.