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stanGib
14-04-2008, 03:32 PM
I just took a trip for the weekend and much of the area i travelled thru didnt have cell service. However I found that when my phone was in a cell service area it wasnt making calls. here is the scenario...

driving down the highway, my cell isnt finding a signal, it sets itself to the airplane setting & thus calls cant be made, my wife's curve has a signal & she's on the phone, so i turn the phone back on & try to make a call...it ends my calls before it rings. i try to wait to see if its a timing issue, 10 minutes lapses, wife still on phone, i try to make a call, no go.

i had to cut my phone off & cut it back on to get the phone to work?? it recognized a signal as i had 1 bar of signal reception on the tilt and my wife's curve had 2 bars. but it'd never start a call. i'd see that it said calling, 3-5 secs later it said call ended...

anyone have any idea as to why this would happen or why i'd be required to restart everytime i leave a cell service area & reenter one? any fixes? i searched for my title & found no results...
kilrah
14-04-2008, 03:41 PM
Are you on 3G or GSM when it fails? If it's on 3G, you could have that (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=335074) problem, try to switch to GSM only and see if it's better.
stanGib
14-04-2008, 09:11 PM
Are you on 3G or GSM when it fails? If it's on 3G, you could have that (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=335074) problem, try to switch to GSM only and see if it's better.

well as far as i know we're not getting 3g until may...but i do drive towards a 3g network, so it may have been switching over to 3g prior to driving into the back country?
stanGib
16-04-2008, 02:44 PM
Are you on 3G or GSM when it fails? If it's on 3G, you could have that (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=335074) problem, try to switch to GSM only and see if it's better.

i checked & the phone is actually set to gsm only already...so this cant be the issue. any other thoughts?
onemilehigh
16-04-2008, 02:51 PM
Wish I had an answer, but my phone does the same thing. I must reset the phone to get a signal :(
stanGib
17-04-2008, 02:18 PM
Wish I had an answer, but my phone does the same thing. I must reset the phone to get a signal :(

what rom are you on? the 162 htc/att rom? bcuz i know now i am having a problem i wasnt before. because there is a building downtown that doesnt get cell service in it, and i frequent that building. i never had the issue on my original tilt on the 158 (i believe) rom, but this rma came w/ 162 rom & now im having the issue in that bldg too. which goes to further prove its not the 3g network theory. its just a matter of losing signal & then getting signal back where i am experiencing the issue.

thanks for any help.
sharpja
17-04-2008, 05:36 PM
Wish I had an answer, but my phone does the same thing. I must reset the phone to get a signal :(

I had/have(?) the same problem. Called ATT and got a replacement. Hopefully this fixes it.
stanGib
17-04-2008, 06:37 PM
I had/have(?) the same problem. Called ATT and got a replacement. Hopefully this fixes it.

please post the results...bcuz i hope i dont have to rma yet again!!!
sharpja
18-04-2008, 05:10 AM
please post the results...bcuz i hope i dont have to rma yet again!!!

Today was day one with the new tilt and it didn't have the problem. However, my old one wasn't consistent one way or the other, either, so I'll have to give the new one some time.
cweems
18-04-2008, 07:24 AM
(work for at&t) New phone will not fix this problem, nothin wrong w/ phone. U need to go to a local corp store and change the SIM and get someone who knows what they r doing so they put all of the SIM updates while plugged into the comp. OTA updates will never work w/o these initial updates.
Madnessx9
18-04-2008, 10:06 AM
I have an issue where i'm connected to the net (GPRS/hdspa) and occasionally i will lose the connection whislt the connection is still active..
No internet functions will work even when i reconnect
I have to then restart the phone to be able to use the internet again :(

Not the same issue but something similar
bbrickwedde
18-04-2008, 02:23 PM
Same problem here. It is not possible to establish a 3G connection. If I set the BAND in the telephone Settings to GSM the connection is stable. If try to establish a 3g connection all further connection trys will fail.

I already changed my Kaiser, it did not help.

Update:

T-mobile will sent me a new sim card. Hope this will help...