Verizon Cell Phone, stopped receiving calls Sun night - Mon noon !!!

[grandroyal]

Ed
I started having the same problem within the last 1 week or so. It started with the tower "upgrades" in Raleigh. I have a Samsung Fascinate. The reception was fair in my part of Raleigh, near the Sawmill Tap Room on Leadmine Rd. Since the upgrade I drop 75% of calls, don't receive calls, cant make calls, and voice mail is extremely slow to load; text messages seam to work. I recommend you tell the phone support (tier 2) people there are other having an issue since the upgrades. I am still waiting on an answer / call from verizon. My signal is zero to 2 bars, -106 db to -101 db. I cannot hold a signal at all. Im glad I kept my AT&T phone, at least it worked.

[chofmann79]

Since Friday 5/27 I've been having strange issues on my Verizon Droid Incredible. Friday afternoon the clock was 15 minutes fast, and could only be fixed by turning the phone off/on again. Now since Saturday, both my phone and my wife's phone show our GPS location as Selma NC (we live in Durham). We've had these phones since December, and since both phones are doing it, it makes me believe it's a Verizon problem, rather than a phone problem.

[Burningsky00]

I have a Blackberry Curve with Verizon service....It used to be pretty reliable to have a good signal anywhere I went. Now, maybe withing the past couple of months,it's dropping calls left and right--even if I sit still in the same spot! Texts are delayed or unable to transmit too often.

And my "3G" often flip flops to 1X service (again, I can sit at the kitchen table and it can change by the minute)....and I won't even get mention how slow the connection has become when I tether my BB to my laptop for service.....ugh.

[grandroyal]

Yesterday at 6:30pm I received a Verizon Text Message, stating they have been experiencing Cell issues in Raleigh/Durham and they have resolved the issues. Well I am still experiencing problems. That same night someone told me my phone was going to voicemail when they called. When I check my phone there is no record of a missed call, it simply didnt ring. I am still not able to hold the signal I am receiving. Last night at Briar Creek, I was getting 0-1/2 bars, the person with me had an ATT Iphone, which was getting better reception.

As of know I have a Samsung "smartphone" that is only solid for text messages.....Verizon I can't hear you now.....You sure you called me?

[Ed_RDNC]

Originally Posted by Ed_RDNC

Followup by OP:
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The good news is, that after the Hard Reset, I had to re-connect to my WiFi, and re-enter my Google account names and passwords, but then the phone downloaded most of my apps and settings from the Google-Cloud-backup. I had also purchased a backup program that claimed to backup ALL of the apps, and most of the settings. I did that, and it did. All I had to do was some tweaking of my calendar and contacts settings.

So now I will wait to see if my phone's reliability has improved.

I'm still not sure if the problem was my phone or the local system having intermittent problems. I had to do even more tweaking of my phone after the Tier2 Tech recommended Hard Reset (re-bonding all my BlueTooths, a couple of desktop icons had to be redefined back to their apps, ... but not to bad), and the phone has consistently shown 3+ bars.

I was really worried, and a good deal of my thinking that the local system was the problem, from the several days prior to the Hard Reset when my phone indicated no-bars, but upon call out would jump to 3+. Either my phone had some weird problem, or the local towers were taking off for coffee every so often.