How to "Fix" the 50% dreaded bug issue on almost all android devices.

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I made a post about LG Ally having this issue a few days ago and I've done heavy research on this issue since then and found that pretty much all 2.1 devices have this issue. Yes google is aware of it and I've seen topics where verizon and htc said that they were aware of it too and all 3 companies are working to fix it and push an update. I tested a "fix" to this issue and it seems to work. I don't know if it's permanent but so far my Ally is not showing this issue so let's get to fixing. 
Here's the link to my LG Ally topic it has another fix there too:
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Android-Devices/Why-your-LG-Ally-has-horrible-battery-life/td-p/210036
How to find out if your android device has this:
--Go to [Settings>About Phone>Battery Use>Cell Standby (if you don't have cell standby in there than you don't have this issue, but if you do doesn't mean you have it, keep reading)>if your time without service is above 50% than you have the bug.]
The fix that I've been testing:
--Open dial pad and dial *#*#4636#*#* (If Testing menu doesn't come up than click "Call" and it will come up)>Go to Phone information>Scroll down and you'll see preferred network type>click it and switch it to GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)
Now your issues should start going away and the time without service will slowly start decreasing. For the first few hours my time without service stayed at about 11% but than dropped to 0% in 24 hours.... You might need to do that step a few times before your phone makes that option a default one. Your phone might try to change preferred network type so check it every 2-3 hours on the first day.

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Which method.  I would imagine the airplane mode is a temporary fix.  Something about it resets the radio apparently.  With the *#*#4636#*#* method you need to keep checking it.  I have 2 issues with it though.  First it does take several attempts before the change sticks.  Second since there appears to be no GSM radio I can't see why this is an advantage at all. 
I have searched and searched for anything that would explain why this is there and why I can select it on my Incredible but not on my Dad's Moto DROID.  Is it possible that the Incredible does have a GSM radio?  I can't select a band it force closes on me so I have to assume it doesn't however if you change it to CDMA/GSM AUTO and ping it apparently it does seem to find GSM signals.  That is intriguing and a little disturbing.  Intriguing because if it is there and inactive then there is a way to activate it and in theory you could use the phone on any network.  Disturbing because there is no mention of it anywhere and no way to choose a band.  That disturbs me as well because the choosing the band thing, which I could do on my dad's Moto Droid had options for Wimax, several versions of CDMA and all the current itterations of GSM including the new TMobile signal.  How cool would it be if you could unlock GSM on this phone and use it on literally any network.  I guess it doesn't matter the main advantage we have is the network but if the phone is completely unlockable it makes it that much more valuable.