Data Connection Lost

Not corrected yet in West Michigan.
I have been dealing with this since about a week or 2 after getting the phone 12/30/10.

I have yanked battery, called customer service, done airplane mode...
sometimes it helps and I have connect back, other times I don't.
Rarely if it comes back do I have it for more than a few hours and it's lost again.
I rarely even use data, but when I go to use it - wammo, no navigation, no browsing, no email.

This sux.

Not bad when you consider it's high data usage (location data sent, and map tiles downloading), screen always on, gps receiver refreshing constantly, speaker usage, higher cpu usage. 90min & 50% is pretty good. Car chargers are cheap (I use a two port usb plug so I can pretty much connect anything to it with the proper cable)

Called cust srvc again; they "tried something" on their end for updates or something - nothing on the phone.  That made it worse.  I've had data connection once for about 15 min in all of the last 2 weeks - - all the rest, no email, no google nav, no browser.

NO DATA - - would love the phn but is not a smartphone now.

Text/voice work fine.  GPS even sees where I'm at, but driving connections don't load (data connection lost), browser will start to load m.virginmobile but stop and no other bookmarks even load, email will load headers of previous emails & sometimes the msg cached but no email (refresh says unable to connect to server).  But if I go to wifi everything works, so it's not any settings - - it's purely in the 3G??