The other day I had five bars and music wasn't playing. Okay, it was... but in short bursts of half a second. When it's in that mode it's almost impossible to turn off the music! You can't pause it when it's not playing.
Frustrated I flipped to the Settings / Apps page and noticed that there was an option to set the quality for Slacker music to "Medium". I tried that and it worked much better. For now I'm leaving it on that setting.
It's certainly true that having only 1 bar causes problems with the data rate. But conversely 5 bars does NOT guarantee decent data rates. There's more to this...
Frustrated I flipped to the Settings / Apps page and noticed that there was an option to set the quality for Slacker music to "Medium". I tried that and it worked much better. For now I'm leaving it on that setting.
It's certainly true that having only 1 bar causes problems with the data rate. But conversely 5 bars does NOT guarantee decent data rates. There's more to this...