Okay, downloaded the app and will give it a try. I've been noticing for a couple weeks now that the 4G speed seems to be dropping down to about 150-500kbps down and 400kbps during the day instead of 10,000+kbps down and 10,000+kbps up. At a good time can get up to about 18,000kbps down and 17,000kbps up but its pretty rare anymore.
Have spoken with Verizon Wireless on the phone, at the store, and in email and basically everyone says they aren't sure whats up but to first, shut off the phone, pull the SIM card, wait 5 seconds, put the SIM card back in and power back up. That hasn't worked. Next thing they said was go into the Settings, Wireless & Networks Settings, Mobile Networks, and change the Network Mode from CDMA/LTE to CDMA only for a couple minutes. You'd see it go from 4G to 3G at that point. And then switch back to CDMA/LTE and let it connect to the 4G network again. Sadly that only worked once. The nice part about that was when I checked my speeds I was at 21,000kbps down and 19,000kbps up. Would love to have that all day every day.
Since then Verizon Wireless has placed the blame on applications. I attempted to removed one app at a time until I found the culprit but no luck. So I did a hard reset and started from scratch. I speed tested after each app I reinstalled and found one app that regardless of how many times I installed and deleted, when it was on my phone it would cut speeds from 15,000kbps down to 6,500kbps down and 13,000kbps up down to 4,000kbps up. I have since contacted the app designer and waiting for their response.
However, I do NOT believe that is the sole problem. I have noticed with my phone and my friend's phone that the 4G speeds in my area are drasticly cut from about 4:30am to about 7pm PST. Now if I can just get Verizon to admit it and explain why cause it's BS.
