Constantly active data connection and how to stop it

[dcd]

the HTC touch dialpad is built for GSM and will not function properly on a CDMA device. This is what has broken your data arrows. Your data connection may be idle, but the arrows are not reflecting it.

Uninstall the HTC touch dialpad (immediately after a soft reset) and that should restore your arrows. I have heard of one person whos arrows did not come back after uninstall, but they were able to fix by soft reset, reinstall, soft reset, deinstall, soft reset. *you cannot completely remove the touch dialpad if the dialpad files are in use, ie if you have opened the phone app since you booted.

There is a thread at pdaphonehome where a very generous person is working on creating a large-button dialer based on the mogul's cdma dialpad. There is a 'beta' based on the touch dialpad there atm, but it killed my data arrows.