Samsung Instinct

Same issue here yesterday too.  Push the top button to shut off the screen and instead of the audio continuing, it lost connection until I turned the screen back on....even hitting the back arrow at the bottom of the phone, instead of backing out to the last page I was on, it completely exits the app.

Your right though...drains the battery quick not being able to shut the screen off...

Some of the issues...so far

Yes, this update was terrible for the radio, tower to tower transitions on my drive home dropped the audio every time.  Then the app started crashing.  I redownloaded the app from Sprint and it still didn't work well.  I had audio for about 2 minutes, then it kept dropping out.  And as was noted above, the screen turing off, turns off the radio.  Why can't they increase the volume on this also????  (I have all volume mods in place)

Not sure if anyone else got this, but a couple of times, when I started the application, it would crash, then reopening it would prompt me to select my favorite team again, then again, then again......then white screen of death, crash and lock up entire phone.  Had to pop the battery out.  This has never happened before while running this app. 

Perfect timing too, just in time to ruin my entire 6 hour drive home without being able to hear anything but the Titans/Texans game on the car radio AM.

Good thing you had an exciting game on the radio then.

I'm guessing it's bandwidth alone and phone independent. NFL Mobile Live needs to greatly enhance their service since Sprint is advertising this application at every commercial on TV.

You are correct. I finally got the radio to work last night for the Saints v Falcons and it streamed fine, but as soon as my Instinct M800 went into lock mode, the radio shut off. BUG, BIGTIME. So the only way I can listen without draining my battery quickly is turning the lock off, and plugging it into the wall. This is unacceptable. So while the buffering and stopping is a bandwidth problem via Third Party, the turning off during lock is a Sprint problem. Sprint, you there?