I have a Verizon LTE MI-FI hotspot in my living room. with .904 and.905 my Bionic use to experience data drops while the MI-FI never skipped a beat. That hasn't happened once with the ICS leaks so for me at least the problem was the phone with stock Gingerbread. The results in your area may very.
This. The update that they have been working on since June is, in fact, the ICS update. The first working leak was found on June 21, and since then we have found 6 more working leaks, and one more non working leak.
The good thing is that if you are on Stock 5.9.905 you can apply any of the leaks found. There is a problem that with the last two working leaks, you cannot go back to .905 if you don't like it, but with the first 5 leaks you can always go back to stock 5.9.902 our 5.9.905.
The really good thing is that you don't need to be rooted to apply the leaked updates, nor do you need to root to go back to stock.
I started to have decent data service when 5.9.902 came out, and it got better with the 5.9.904 leak, but when the 5.9.905 leak came out (which later became official OTA update) my area also (finally!) received 4G, and 5.9.905 acted great for about the first two weeks, then it went to Hades in a handbasket.
When the first ICS leak came out, i missed it, b/c the second leak was found the same day, so i jumped on that one, and i can say that i have not looked back since, always moving forward to the next newest leak. The connectivity is superb, handoff to and from 3G is perfectly solid, and even when others have had connectivity issues standing right beside me my BIONIC had connected flawlessly, except for a couple of instances of major outages around here where EVERYONE was affected.
My advice is this: since the leaks are applied just like an OTA update, you'll not lose your settings, your apps, or anything. Take an update, namely 6.7.230 or 6.7.232, apply it, and watch your face break into a grin randomly over the next several days as you realize just how AWESOME thus 11 MONTH OLD phone is.
The beauty of RSD Lite, the utility that you use to flash the phone back to pure stock, such as 5.9.905, is that you can edit the script file result to prevent it from also erasing your apps, settings, and internal storage, meaning that even if you need to revert back to Gingerbread, you can do so without losing your data. Again, all of this requires NO rooting of your phone. With RSD Lite, you can also revert the phone to pure stock in the event that you need to send it in for a replacement.
It really is a win-win situation, so stop bickering with VZW, get 6.7.230 or 6.7.232 (I recommend .232), flash it, and be prepared for Awesomeness abounding.
Seriously, for 15 minutes of work, you'll have weeks of headache free use if your phone.
If you have any other questions, concerns, etc. please do NOT PM me. Put it in this thread or another thread in the forums so all our users can benefit. Feel free, however, to PM me a link to a post / thread you want me to look at / answer.
I'm being dead serious. These ICS leaks will solve more than 99% of all connectivity issues that are not created by sitewide service issues (those that are VZW problems). And since you can take the leaks back off, you really have NOTHING to lose.
