Answering Phone Calls

[ritemple]

I've been reading various posts since buying my Orange M5000, but havn't seen much said about the one major problem I have.

About 50% of the time, if I attempt to answer a phone call it will cut the person off and divert the call straight to voicemail.

I'm running ROM version 1.30.90 WWE, Radio 1.03.00, ExtROM 1.30.174 WWE. Has anyone had this problem and resolved it ?

[oink1]

A radio ROM upgrade to 1.09 may help & it's relatively easy to do - Just search the forum :) Can't say I've ever encountered your particular problem though...

[hansof]

I have the same problem - nearly half of incoming phone calls are lost. I found the upgrade at http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Uni_Radio_1.09.00 . I downloaded the file to the Jasjar and tried to run it, but it didn't work.

How do I install this strange .rar-file?

[ritemple]

Having just tried it, I can help !

Firstly you need to download a program called winrar, should be able to find it through google. It's basically like winzip and will extract the files from the .rar archive.

But, the 1.09 download I found didn't have all the files. You need to download the 1.06 version from the ftp site, extract the rar file and then replace the 1.06 radio_.nbf file with the 1.09 radio_.nbf file you have downloaded.

On you PC (with your Universal connected via USB), run the MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe to do the upgrade.

In saying that though, I've only been able to install the 1.06 so far, 1.09 won't install.

[jvoelcker]

I've had problems with answering calls on my M5000, even after upgrading the radio ROM.

A couple of things that I find makes a big difference are the amount of free memory available and also changing the ring tone.

If you have some memory hungry apps chewing up the program memory it is difficult to answer the calls because the phone software is slow to load.

I have played with a variety of programs and find it best to keep a minimum of around 12-15Mb of program memory free.

Also the default orange ring tone seems to leave a delay before it starts ringing - I have changed this so that it vibrates and rings from the outset and also have been into the phone settings and changed the network services settings to divert to answering machine after 30sec, the default is 20secs.

Hope that helps.