How's the Rezound's hotspot capability?

[wsettle]

I installed several utilities yesterday like Traffic Monitor, watchdog, battery monitor, android booster and a few other apps.

I noticed this morning, my hotspot had been disabled when I got up which was a first as I leave it running all the time at home since it's my sole internet connection. I am assuming that one of the utilities that I installed must have shut it down but don't know yet.

Anyway, sometime today, Firefox on my desktop crashed (it was connected o the internet via my Rezound hotspot) and I had about 50-60 tabs open in 4 firefox sessions/windows when it crashed. When I restarted firefox, most of tabs timed out and I noticed my 3G connection dropping and coming back over and over. i.e. the 3G icon in the status bar would disappear and then come back every few seconds requests were made from desktop. I also started a ping test in a command prompt to run for ever (ping google.com -n 1000000) and about one out of 50 pings worked and the rest would time out. It was obvious that something changed and was completely dorked in my phone.

So, to eliminate the possibility of a downloaded utility messing up my data connection, I did a factory reset and wiped my internal and SD memory and set I back to the factory state. I'll post the list of changes made in another post but once I turned on my hotspot again and connected my PC, I restarted firefox and those 50-60 tabs again. Not one dropout and every page loaded fine. I did loose a ping on about 1 out of a hundred. Hum... that is much better.

I'm just trying to problem solve here but it appears that a utility was causing part of my drop out issues. Too early to tell but I'll reinstall utilities one a day from here on out to see when the problem comes back.

It's easy to get download happy when utilities are free

 

[wsettle]

Here is what I did after my factory reset and before I ran my clean install test:

• Performed factory reset and checked boxes to erase internal and SD memory
• Once booted up, went through setup wizard and did not check/skipped any verizon backup agreements. It's weird that it still knew my gmail account but I did have to enter my password. Maybe it knew this from the version cloud
• Changed network mode to "CDMA Only"
• Changed Mobile Hotspot SSID to "XXXX", password to "XXXXXX" and checked "Allow users only"
• Checked Android market app for updates and updates were already automatically downloading for apps that came with the phone
• Also updated all that needed manual update like youtube, verizon video, google maps and adobe flash player
• Turned off auto-sync
• Set sleep mode to "Never"
• Unchecked fastboot
• Power mode to "normal"
• Changed CDMA roaming mode to "home only"
• Turned on mobile hotspot and when prompted about battery reminder, I set it to "Always on"
• Changed dock mode by unchecking auto launch and auto wifi

Then I tried my firefox test.

 

[gvillager]

Usually within 30 minutes (sometimes 2 min) I get disconnected. I give up and get frustrated and just plug in my aircard. But over the past 2-3 days it's worked flawlessly. Maybe they fixed the issue? Anyone else?

 

[hjoneshjones]

Usually within 30 minutes (sometimes 2 min) I get disconnected. I give up and get frustrated and just plug in my aircard. But over the past 2-3 days it's worked flawlessly. Maybe they fixed the issue? Anyone else?

Not for me...I just got off of the phone with tech support and she confirmed that a software update is in the works but not sure of the release date. Just keep doing what you are doing and keep your fingers crossed because my phone is crashing every time.

 

[pat3332]

I spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday testing my old TBolt and a new Rezound, both tethered to my laptop side by side. Both showed 4G in the status bar for 12 hours each night which was unusual because I've had trouble getting a 4G connection at work for the last 3-4 months with my Bolt, so I wonder if they did something to the network during the last outage. I am in what Verizon calls an extended coverage area. but with a good 4G network and I had almost no problems getting 4G on my Bolt for the first 3-4 months that I had it. The problem has just gotten steadily worse for the last 3-4 months.

As far as the test, the Bolt still had the same problem as before. It showed 4G in the status bar, but seemed to be asleep most of the time and when I would try to load a web site, it wouldn't do anything and I would get a Network not connected message. Also, when it would connect, it was very slow. When not tethered, the 4G connection was good and ran at normal 4G speed. It only has problems when tethered.

The Rezound on the other hand showed 4G in the status bar and seldom dropped the connection. When it did, it would go from 4G to 3G, then back again after a few minutes. It also ran at about the same fast 4G speed whether it was tethered or not.

The problem with the 4G on the Bolt is still a mystery to me since tethering to the hotspot worked fine at first and then started having trouble later. It also sounds like some people are having a problem when tethering to the hotpsot with the Rezound and others aren't. I still have about a week left on my 14 day grace period, so I'm going to keep testing the Rezound for a few more days and hope I don't start having the problem with it while tethered that I had with the Bolt. I also don't tether more than one device, so I don't know how that would affect the Rezound. If the Rezound keeps working like it has, I'm keeping it.

The GPS on the Rezound is also much better than the Bolt and locates me much more accurately.

In my opinion, the Rezound is a much better phone overall than the Bolt and is the phone the Bolt should have been. I think the Bolt got pushed out too soon by HTC so they would have the first 4G phone.