Hi guys

I got my mum a LG P500 a couple of months back, and it has been running with mobile data enabled 24/7 (50mb national data pack renews each month). It's from warehouse stationery, so it's not a parallel import.

In the past 2 weeks her mobile data connection has been dropping off after 1 or 2 days, and subsequently does not reconnect to the data network. (She's in Auckland)

The phone is set up to automatically use both HSDPA or 2G. (I've tried 2G only mode, with no difference). Toggling "Data enabled" on/off does not make the phone reconnect, only a reboot seems to help. I've tried removing the APN and retrieving the settings again, but that didn't help either.

As it was previously running fine, I'm wondering what would cause this behaviour. Having to restart the phone every day or every other day seems like a huge hassle just to keep the data connection running. And it's tough explaining such a thing to my mum, who's a technophobe.

No new apps have been installed, and no configuration settings have changed.

Any thoughts, help, or suggestions would be appreciated.