Lately I've been having problems getting a good signal with my Motorola V300 & Tmobile. I went to my mother's house and her Samsung phone had a few bars and mine did not.
Is there any known issues with the Tmobile network and the Motorola V300 phone?
I did a search and couldn't find any specifics.
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yowe Posts: 31
Phone Model: Nokia 6010
Service Provider: T-Mobile
Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:14 am
That happened to my dad's v330. He had to get a new phone.
elmo01 Posts: 2342
Phone Model: Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider: Bell Canada
Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:49 am
zyx345 wrote:
Lately I've been having problems getting a good signal with my Motorola V300 & Tmobile. I went to my mother's house and her Samsung phone had a few bars and mine did not.
Is there any known issues with the Tmobile network and the Motorola V300 phone?
I did a search and couldn't find any specifics.
the V300 being a tri band phone (900 1800 1900 mhz ) in all likelyhood there is no 1900 mhz service in that particular area.. her samsung probabaly has the capability of 850 thus she gets signal
Tmobile only transmits 1900 and relys on other companies for 850 service
the V300 does not have the 850 mhz band in the phones reciever
DamagedCalm Posts: 10
Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:33 pm
If you have a V300, it has to be older, which can affect signal performance.
Try changing this setting:Menu>Settings>Network>Network Setup>Speed set it to Continious, not Medium.
elmo01 Posts: 2342
Phone Model: Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider: Bell Canada
Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:28 am
that particular setting appears to be a data setting... would not affect a voice call or reception at all
atarvin Posts: 1
Wed May 23, 2007 5:41 pm
I'm having the exact same issue with my V300.
I can't get a signal pretty much anywhere, and when I do happen to get signal, the call often gets dropped. Other people with TMobile have strong signal standing right next to me, but my phone shows nothing. I took it into TMobile to see if they could update the firmware or something but they told us they don't do that and the only option we had was to buy a new phone.
I've been reading accounts of people who have updated their phone firmware and it has improved their reception, but I don't know the first thing about doing that. obviously I'd need a cable. I saw some kit at Costco but it wasn't cheap enough to just try it out.
We spent ~$200 for this phone, 2 years ago. got just over 1 year of actual usage out of it before it became useless. 2000 minutes usage.
I guess it's just trash? Or is there anything we can do?
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