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Zigmanx001
Posts: 3 |
 
Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:59 pm |
I'm on cingular, and I have a V551. My girlfriend has a V400. When the phones are next to each other I maybe have 2 bars, she has 5...
I used to have a Sony Erickson T616, and in my dorm room I had 4 bars and i was able to choose which tower I wanted to use (ATT or Cingular), and I always chose the Cingular tower since I had a better signal (4-5 compared to 1or2). Now I cannot switch over, and I only have 1 bar in my dorm room (most likely on the bad tower) - and I can't switch over to the other cingular tower that gives me better service.
Is there a way to switch over to another tower? Or get the type of signal the V400 has with my V551. I thought it was virtually the same phone..
-Al
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elmo01
Posts: 2186
Phone Model:
Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider:
Bell Canada |
Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:55 pm |
yes there is a way put your phone in the manual search mode...
Press Menu.
Select Settings.
Select Network.
Select New Network.
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Zigmanx001
Posts: 3 |
Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:43 pm |
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I don't have that...
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Zigmanx001
Posts: 3 |
Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:08 pm |
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The only thing I have is to switch the band (850/1900, 900/1800)
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SENATOR
Posts: 1
Phone Model:
V551/V3
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:21 pm |
Agh! I'm having a similar problem. This has been going on for months now. We're both Cingular customers (Orange).
My wife and I have the same phone (V551). At home, my phone has 5 bars, her has one. When her SIM card is put in my phone, suddenly my phone has one bar. So - it's the SIM, not the phone, right? Wrong. We've exchanged the phone and SIM 3 times each. The bad signal follows her SIM - no matter what phone its in.
She's a former Blue customer, I'm not. That's the only wild card. Cingular has no idea what is going on. I've spent HOURS with them on this issue. They keep saying, "ok, we've rebuilt her account" or "we've reset her connection settings" and nothing helps.
My guess is that her account is somehow looking for Blue towers. Has anyone had a similar problem only to finally have it resolved? Anyone work at Cingular who could experiment?
I need ideas.
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netkent
Posts: 96
Phone Model:
Motorola V551
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:52 pm |
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Senator, I suggest taking your specific question over to the Cingular Talk forum. May have better luck there than here for this one.
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duceduc
Posts: 2122
Phone Model:
iPhone Unlocked
Service Provider:
Cingular - Extended |
Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:43 pm |
Wirelessly posted (Gizmo: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/hspr-H102; Blazer/4.0) 16;320x320)
if all else fails, FLASH it.
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veilfore89
Posts: 1396
Phone Model:
Motorola Q9h(GSM), V551(GSM), T720i(GSM), T720g(GSM)(DEAD
), T730(CDMA), Samsung x427m(GSM), Siemens A56i(GSM), E-815(CDMA)
Service Provider:
AT&T Wireless |
Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:25 pm |
All else includes possibly exchanging under warranty or insurance. 
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