[aspalaasn]

I find the bell radio bell than the sprint radio. Getting faster and much stronger and more sat locks than before. It must be something that Bell did with the radio and customizations.
I'm doing some testing with my phone as well and from what I can see, it does need data access to get quick locks. Having data off and blocked by "no data" will cause oncourse to never get a lock on sats. I can see it but it'll never get a lock.

I find that if I have data off but not blocked by "no data", oncourse dials onto the data connection and eventually gets locks.

I find that once you`ve already had locks to sats (ie not from cold start), even if you have data off and blocked by "no data" it will lock on to sats. The sats may already be in cache or something.