[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=1472623]d.casper.b[/MENTION] It sounds like the spotty or intermittent is due to your provider or coverage area. Are you getting weak signals? Your provider also provides internet for homes and business? (Verizon does as well as AT&T but they are not the providers of choice for people unless they cannot get service from others because no cables or wires in the area.) I do the IT work for a doctor's office and they had problems with good, solid internet and tried AT&T. What they got was a USB plugin device like a flash drive and software to install that would provide internet for that PC only and it was not very good. Verizon voice and data are very good but I pay a lot for it. Friends with cheap service like Metro usually have problems.

Try to isolate this from the tether by downloading huge amounts of data and see if it sputters or conks out. Anything like big files or HDTV or as close as you can get to it, let it run and see if that also loses the connection. I.e.: video constantly buffering or not playing, big file downloads stop, etc. Try to find out if it is the service or the phone. Someone like Mr. Chen or Welder73 might know more about data on an XT910 if they tether. What about Hotspot, is that also cutting out or no way to tell? Can you power a laptop (borrow one) to try Hotspot and do the same thing to see if this is tether related. Plug in the phone charger if using Hotspot for a long time as it will drain the battery in a couple of hours.

If you can isolate this to the 3G and not tie it to tether or Hotspot, then you can complain to your provider or even switch providers if you have to get better service. When my phone broke and all I could get was 3G, it was terrible. Only a few Kb per second, NOTHING like 4G/LTE. I cannot even imagine what 2G would be like. Dialup or worse, maybe.

There are little programs and maybe apps that constantly ping a server to "keep alive" a data connection that times out on it's own, but you say this happens when in use.

Since I do not have the phone or the service, best thing I can tell you is to see if the 3G drops out in heavy use on the phone w/out sharing internet, then go after the provider. Demand credit on your bill, that usually wakes them up when they have to refund money. We can try asking others with similar phones who do not live in the US if they have these issues...

[MENTION=5057697]welder73[/MENTION] or [MENTION=3313632]ChungHung.Chen[/MENTION] do you guys have problems with data cutting out? 2G, 3G, or 4G? Do you guys use USB Tether or Hotspot and does it keep working for you?

Get to a PC and look up your provider coverage maps in your area for both voice and data. See if your area is saturated or sparse. I live in this area for years and never really lose signal unless in parking garage or big building. But some rom builds were better than others. Some builds were so bad I could walk 20' and go from full signal to none. Or drive around and constantly lose streaming music and GPS signal. That is another reason I am very picky about what CM11 Builds I keep on the phone. 02/02 seemed great but over 2 weeks I was having one irritating problem after another, reboot would fix it sometimes and sometimes not. I dumped 02/02 and went back to 11/07 which has a very strong signal and almost *never* turns orange. 02/02 almost *never* changed from orange, it never got good signals to Google servers or even as high as this November build.

I actually downgraded from 02/02 to 11/07 with the Dwillian Dump as outlined in the guide. My March version of pa-gapps failed but I had a February pack that did install. Had FC issues with Google Calender but updated from play store and all is well now. I am not convinced it is the rom causing your issues yet, but it could be. I have both spyder and umts_spyder on my Mega storage if you want to try it. CM11 11/07/2014 Build on Mega Cloud What I can tell you is that 11/07 is one of the most stable, trouble free cm11 roms we had in the past several months. Will it help you? I don't know, have to try it and see. Make a backup first and "Downgrade" instead of install if you want to keep your settings and updates. The com.android.phone FC was not fixed in this build, but that was due to WhisperPush and I froze the stock SMS app long ago so I never had issues with it. Everything works.

That's it, I am out of ideas, man. Check some of the things I told you and maybe Mr. Chen or Welder can shed some light on this. Good luck, bra! :good: