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hefstar
Posts: 3 |
 
Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:55 pm |
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I have an unlocked Motorola Pebl that I am using with Tmobile. I get pretty crappy service almost anywhere I am and usually my phone either says "Emergency Only" or "No Service". Well a couple weeks ago I woke up to find my phone to say "Cingular" with a roaming icon and great service. I was estatic of course to have service and not have to walk outside and stand on one foot. This lasted for about a week and then all of a sudden my Cingular roaming was gone. I have tried searching for a network and it finds cingular, but refuses to register to it. I didn't do anything to get the network in the first place, but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to how to get it back since registering to cingular doesn't seem to be working...Thankssss
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OniNeko
Posts: 11
Phone Model:
Samsung a640
Service Provider:
T-Mobile |
Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:42 am |
The only way to do it is with a manual network selection, which should be under setting > Network > Network selection > Manual
or something close to that effect. for full instruictions just call T-Mobile and they will be happy to help.
as far as getting "Emergency Only" or "No Service" you should try pulling the battery out of the phone while it is turned on, this will of course crash the phone, and then once you put the battery back in and turn it back on, most of the time it will fix the issue.
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hefstar
Posts: 3 |
Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:14 pm |
Well that's what I've been doing is manually selecting cingular and trying to register to it, but I just get the "registering." screen for a couple seconds and it goes away.
I tried the battery thing too, but nothing changed. Any other siggestions?
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Sir_GoAtaLoT
Posts: 406
Phone Model:
BlackBerry 8100 Pearl
Service Provider:
Rogers |
Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:46 pm |
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when u do a manuel network selection are there any other carriers like SunCom etc?
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hefstar
Posts: 3 |
Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:41 pm |
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Nope. If I do it when the phone says "Emergency only" I get cingular. If I try when I get T-Mobile, I get T-Mobile and Cingular, and "No Service" obviously I get no networks.
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OniNeko
Posts: 11
Phone Model:
Samsung a640
Service Provider:
T-Mobile |
Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:21 am |
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call T-Mobile, and do troubleshooting with them, they will eventually file a service request to send an engineer to your area to check for problems.
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dathmalus
Posts: 114
Phone Model:
samsung i607, HTC shift
Service Provider:
AT&T |
Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:57 pm |
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or you just live in the boonies someplace. rual area +cell phone carrier = horrid reception
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Connex
Posts: 22 |
Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:11 am |
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T-mobile may tell you that they have a roaming agreement with cingular, and they do, but the only way u can get on a cingular tower when u have t-mobile is if, you have very veery poor service in that area with t-mobile, the phone will pick up on the strongest tower in your area, so thats there agreement with cingular, you can't just go on a cingular tower if the coverage and your area is good with t-mobile, it has to be very poor
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Barciur
Posts: 247
Phone Model:
Nokia 5300
Service Provider:
T-Mobile USA/Plus GSM |
Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:14 pm |
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They told me I should be able to use Cingular, and if it says no access to network allowed, its cingulars fault. And they told me they will send someone to my area (engineer team) to deal with it.
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Texas Hold'em
Posts: 222 |
Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:21 am |
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Keep it on automatic, when it switches to Cingular, then go to manual and try to select Cingular, then keep it there.
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