Loss of Service Issue

[tacretired]

I have had  a Droid Charge for about 8 days and when I am in a no service/very weak service area I lose service and can't make outgoing calls (3G is still good).  When I return to a known good service area the Droid will not restart service.  The only ways I can restore service is to restart the phone or have someone call my number.  When it restores it normaly shows me with 3-4 bars.  I have no problem with data.  Any help would be appreciated.  Tnx

[tacretired]

I've just discovered another piece of the puzzle.  If I go to Airplane Mode and then back to normal mode my service is restored.  It's still annoying that the phone can't restore itself when it returns to a good service area.  I'm still looking to see if anyone else has this problem.  This is my second Charge and both had this issue.   thanks

[medina]

The Service would be werid in my area lol, so  i am guessing weak signal could be  a factor. Though when i do check service for another phone that is CDMA on verizon it would have 3 bars and mine would have 4. When the phone signal dies it dies out, unless reboot this has not happened a lot to me.

[WCMack · Accepted solution]

I have had my Charge about a week.  My sense from using it around my normal area of travel is that the signal strength indicator in the Status Bar shows slightly weaker reception in many areas than did the signal strength indicators on my prior phones (Motorola Droid and Droid X2).  I am not sure if this is truly a radio/antenna issue, or just the way the strength indicator reads.

I seem to recall a semi-scandle with the iPhone's strength indicator being calibrated to show more reception strength than was actually there.  This was a couple years back. 

Good luck!