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rensack
Posts: 67
Phone Model:
Nokia's all they way except for 1.
Service Provider:
T-mobile |
 
Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:03 pm |
Here's the deal. My co-workers has the same type of plan and phone from T-mobile. This started 3 weeks ago. His phone started to automaticaly pick up ATT and Cingular cell towers. I did every thing that I know. I change his sim into my phone and vice versa. Did the auto and manually thingy, Nothing  ( No access allow ) and he is the type of person who really don't know anything about phone.
Is there code or something beside manual and auto select 4 network we can do?
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Samsung
Posts: 3203
Phone Model:
BB 8120 |
Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:34 am |
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Maybe make sure that the phone is set to T-Mobile's bandwidth (1900mhz) not sure how to do exactly on the Ipaq but it should be under your network setup.
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rensack
Posts: 67
Phone Model:
Nokia's all they way except for 1.
Service Provider:
T-mobile |
Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:31 am |
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oh i know how to do those things.but how can we change our phone or simcard setting to pick up other towers even thou t-mo has no roaming agreement with them?
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Samsung
Posts: 3203
Phone Model:
BB 8120 |
Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:33 pm |
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Dont think that you can.
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lester83
Posts: 59
Phone Model:
Motorola V551
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:53 am |
| rensack wrote: | | oh i know how to do those things.but how can we change our phone or simcard setting to pick up other towers even thou t-mo has no roaming agreement with them? |
if there is no roaming agreement between your carrier (T-mobile) and the tower you want to pick up (in this case, ATT) then the tower will not give your SIM a place in the location registry, thus your phone will say "no access" or something along those lines. Per FCC requirements, all towers must allow any phone within its coverage to make emergency calls (aka SOS calls) regardless of whether the phone (identified by the SIM inside of it) is granted access to the network (if the tower and SIM are from the same company, or through a roaming agreement between the 2 companies if they are different)
the only way to use non t-mobile towers without a roaming agreement between the companies is by getting a non t-mobile SIM card (ie. change to that particular carrier). however, i kinda doubt that this would qualify as a "setting" you can change on your phone or SIM. 
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rensack
Posts: 67
Phone Model:
Nokia's all they way except for 1.
Service Provider:
T-mobile |
Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:34 am |
ok but this still dosent explain why 1 t-mobile customer can get connected and make regular call and the rest of us in the same area cant  this features will be nice if we can have it on. no more looking 4 signal jst get automatically connected to the strongest gsm antenna
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Samsung
Posts: 3203
Phone Model:
BB 8120 |
Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:07 am |
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Could be a number of things, difference in phones. Your phone doesnt support the bandwidth that the Cingular tower in your area supports etc...
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rensack
Posts: 67
Phone Model:
Nokia's all they way except for 1.
Service Provider:
T-mobile |
Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:20 pm |
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i had ruled that one out. we both got the same nokia 6230 (unlock and mark cingular) two phone s has the same software. (4. something). any other causes?
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Samsung
Posts: 3203
Phone Model:
BB 8120 |
Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:45 am |
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Are you both with T-Mobile? or is he with Cingular?
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rensack
Posts: 67
Phone Model:
Nokia's all they way except for 1.
Service Provider:
T-mobile |
Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:37 pm |
| xXxSamsungxXx wrote: | | Are you both with T-Mobile? or is he with Cingular? |
where using T-mo. Cingular is to expensive 4 me. (cheappppp!) 
5 lines with cingular will cause an arm n a leg.(14.99 each addition line hell no!)
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