[janko10]

One other thing 8, I DID have 1 = Authenticated but was still stuck in 1X. It was interesting...

I got into the HDR viewer and noticed I just had the numbers 221= 221 = 221, etc... and as I'm sitting there looking at all the settings it just spontaneously switched to 1 = Authenticated. I check back up top and it's still 1X so I thought maybe if I surfed a little (like you had to with the Sprint TP1) it would then get back into 3G. Nope, never did. So I soft-reset to see if that had an effect, nope. Got back into HDR and notice I have the numbers back but now they're 331 = 331 = 331 = 331 etc... and AGAIN it changes to say 1 = Authenticated. Still couldn't get back into 3G. Thought that was weird. Finally did get it back hours and many resets later.

So the fact that I had 1 = Authenticated but was still stuck in 1X.... seems to suggest to me there is definitely a hardware/software issue with the phone and that network authentication is not the problem (not the main one anyway).