I've been having a similar issue, my 1XEV drops to 1xev and 1X occasionally throughout the day. I think its an issue with Verizon here though since my friend's curve has been doing the same thing.
Its so annoying. When I try to launch the mobile CB web or the bb browser I can get the start page up and then all the phone will do is request my first input choice. But that's it. It won't render the next page at all. So so annoying. I also can not update my OS via my storm. The error message is ' unable to check for upgrades'. I feel that they may be connected.
I'm gonna pop into my local voda store tomorrow and see what the score is and let you guys know.
Thanks for your help.
Ps. I'm having to write this through opera mini at the mobile CB site as I'm on 2G at the moment due to a fore mentioned problems
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Guys I have figured this out for my voda storm. When you are in the browser click menu and then options. Change the browser identification from Vodafone or verizon to Internet explorer
This has made my data dots appear permanently.
Hope it works for you guys
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