XDA IIi No service.Hardware of software problem???

[sitrom]

I recently bought an XDAIIi from ebay knowing that it was defective. The only defect is that there is no service. Apart from that it is working as a PDA perfectly doing the job that i got it for (SAT NAV). Now i starting thinking of the possible reasons that my phone has no service. So in order to check if the hardware of the phone is ok i tried to do a manual network search. When i clicked on the manual search i got an error message saying " Unable to read setting from the network. Try viewing settings later, or disconnect data connection and try again". Are there any ideas of what this message means and is there any way to actually fix it?
Note: I am running pug rom with the 02 stuff stipped.

[dhruvkataria]

Your Radio hardware is busted to the best of my knowledge ...

[timoni]

you should hard reset.

[christopherwoods]

I managed to kill the service on my 2i once, I cocked up the registry somehow and as soon as I put my pin in it pretty much straight away showed the no service icon (the one with the exclamation mark) regardless of whether I then tapped on it and tried to get service.

Had to hard reset in the end and bingo the problem disappeared (as I suspected it would), but your problem sounds terminal.

[turbominor]

are you sure it has not been blocked / black listed with uk networks.

typical reason for no service would be if it had been blocked?

[christopherwoods]

Didn't think of that...

[jahirul]

My alpine crashed while driving with tomtom today and I have exactly the same problem.

Looks like it hard reset time.