My blackberry and airave do not like eachother

So long story short, my curve broke and i go a replacement. After goig thru absolute hell provisioning the new blackberry (there was a data network outage yesterday) the phone is finally working. However it is behaving odd with my airave. It does connect to the airave when i make a call, or get a call, or a text. But when the phone is just sitting there, my signal indicator shows a very weak signal(im assuming its the real network signal). My blackberry that just broke (same one, 8330) always showed five bars if i was near the airave, not just when i made a call. its like it only acknowledges the airave is there when im making a call. so i guess it doenst really matter because the phone is working/connected to the airave, but my signal doesnt show it unless im actually making a call. anyone have any ideas as to why???

 

I do have a weak EV-DO signal. I just dont understand why my old blackberry would show the airave signal even with the EV present, it would say 1XEV with five bars, if the EV wasnt strong enough then it would just be 1X with full signal. This one seems to just show the outside EV signal even when it knows the 1X signal from the airave is there and full.

 

Well thats all fine and well but I just dont understand why my last blackberry, which was the exact same model with the exact same blackberry OS did not do this. If an EV sig was present the EV would show but it would still have full bars from the 1X sig from the airave. It doesnt matter i guess. But i just thought it was weird.