The players: An LG Optimus V, Virgin Mobile (Sprint 3G), less than one year old. An LG Optimus Slider, Virgin Mobile (Sprint 3G), less than one MONTH old. The stage: A Faraday Cage dwelling, which sits right on an overlap between two cell towers. Between this overlap and the metal in the walls, it screws with both cell traffic and WiFi. The normal behavior: The two cell phones work perfectly anywhere except at home. At home they work OK as long as you don't stand in the dead spot between the two cell signals. As a norm you can have anywhere from three to five bars depending on where you are standing. I can have 5 bars in my master bedroom and in my home office, some other areas of the house may get as low as three but still usable. There's only a couple dead spots in the house. The problem: Suddenly the two phones would drain their batteries with no use and within 8 hours, and we had close to no signal strength anywhere in the house. The phones would also get ...
Because a waste is a terrible thing to mind.