Stream Issues on Evo w/ 2.2 - reconnects when phone switches radios

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open up a live stream - for example KUOW - using wi-fi
2. Walk away from your wi-fi hotspot so the phone switches to the 3g radio
3. Listen to the 30 second sponsor intro again since the app has initiated a 
new connection to the streaming server.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I would expect that the app would not have to create new connections to the 
streaming server when the phone switches radios (wi-fi to 3g, 3g to 2g, 3g to 
wi-fi, etc). This is in fact the behavior that I saw with my HTC Hero running 
2.1. Only in rare occasions did the app connect with a new stream (thus forcing 
me to listen to the sponsor clip and 45-60 seconds of the story I had just been 
listening to).

What I, er, hear with the Evo running 2.2 is that sponsor intro up to 6 or 7 
times on my way to and from work. Further the play completely stops if I have 
the 4g radio on and the phone switches from 4g to 3g. I live in a hilly city so 
as I move around the phone switches radios quite a bit and this quickly becomes 
unbearable.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

1.3.2 on Android 2.2 (Sprint branded, running HTC sense UI)

Please provide any additional information below.

I think this issue is related to the reconnect issues others have reported. I 
bet if they looked more closely at this they would notice that it happens 
around the time their phone switches radios.

Also, I don't think this is limited to the NPR app as Streamfurious seems to 
have similar issues (though that app has issues on top of this issue).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rtow...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2010 at 8:05

Merged into: #2

santchinu / npr-android-app

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