Dmon
5th October 2006, 09:10 AM
Originally posted this under the Bad reception (safer) fix but I did not get any replies so I thought I'd give it a little more attention...
"I noticed something really interesting. Yesterday evening I was reading this thread and I tried to open the casing just to see what the antenna looks like. I managed to get one side open and was bending around a little but I couldn't open it fully. Did not want to break anything and sitting in a hotel room without any proper tools I popped it back again. Now, where I've been working this week the reception is so bad with my Qtek 9100 I actually brought my old Siemens S55 with me which I've been using all day. Switched back this evening and all of a sudden the reception is excellent (3 or 4 bars instead of none or 1) and has been for over 30 minutes now. I even tried calling it from another cell phone for a couple of minutes and the call wasn't dropped.
Is it possible that some bending and letting some air in actually did something? Maybe got rid of some corrosion, I don't know, I'm certainly no technician. However there is something substantially different from yesterday. Guesses anyone?"
Btw, it's now gone almost a day and reception is still excellent.
"I noticed something really interesting. Yesterday evening I was reading this thread and I tried to open the casing just to see what the antenna looks like. I managed to get one side open and was bending around a little but I couldn't open it fully. Did not want to break anything and sitting in a hotel room without any proper tools I popped it back again. Now, where I've been working this week the reception is so bad with my Qtek 9100 I actually brought my old Siemens S55 with me which I've been using all day. Switched back this evening and all of a sudden the reception is excellent (3 or 4 bars instead of none or 1) and has been for over 30 minutes now. I even tried calling it from another cell phone for a couple of minutes and the call wasn't dropped.
Is it possible that some bending and letting some air in actually did something? Maybe got rid of some corrosion, I don't know, I'm certainly no technician. However there is something substantially different from yesterday. Guesses anyone?"
Btw, it's now gone almost a day and reception is still excellent.