I'm in a similar situation myself, I get about 2 bars 1X and no bars EV, when I talked to a tech, he said I was about 4 1/2 miles from the tower, which equated to poor EV coverage. If there wasn't a hill in between me and it, that wouldn't be bad, so if there was a way other than going through the registry that would be great; but where I work has great EV coverage so I doubt I'll be going that route.
