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Bardia Garsha
22-05-2008, 04:14 PM
Hi,

About two months ago during one of the numerous rom flashings on my SPVM3100 , I came across a strange issue. I called Orange many times and they changed my SIM card twice but finally said they don't understand this and gave it up. My SPVM3100 is over two years old - so they're not gonna replace the device.

Here's the issue:

whenever someone leaves me a voice mail, instead of receiving the normal "voice mail" notification and it's icon in Today screen, I receive a text message! These texts are unreadable (consisting of only 2 signs, like a triangle sign and an @ sign. Or an @ sign with an underline sign _).

Whenever I receive such texts , I know that I have a voice mail ! I dial the voice mail service, listen to the voice message and delete it. But each time my voice mail box becomes empty another annoying text is sent to me - perhaps cofirming that the mail box is now empty (I wish I could read this new sign language ) :D

The phone shows that the texts are coming from the SIM Card !! (so we thought that perhaps the SIM has problems and that's why Orange changed my SIM Card twice).

This is really annoying.

The Orange tech people exhausted their knowledge for the past 2 months but couldn't solve this problem , gave it up altogether , and are now asking me to contact HTC ! (which I'm sure would be useless).

That's why I'm asking this from xda developers and gurus to see if they have any explanation for this bizarre behavior of my device.

Thanks for any insight and sorry to make a thread for this annoying issue.
yrsmart
22-05-2008, 04:36 PM
have you tried flashing with a different rom? i know similar things would happen on motorola phones, and required hex editing of certain files to turn that feature off.
Fallen Spartan
22-05-2008, 04:37 PM
Read this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299072&highlight=message+receive) thread
Bardia Garsha
22-05-2008, 07:29 PM
Read this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299072&highlight=message+receive) thread

Thanks man.
Bardia Garsha
23-05-2008, 11:20 AM
Read this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299072&highlight=message+receive) thread

Fallen,

A six-month-old critically annoying problem was solved in 30 seconds:p
I am sure we all know xda developers and gurus are genius.

As I said in the post, almost all technical guys & gals in Orange did literally exhaust all their knowledge & experience in the past six months to solve this issue but it was obvious that they didn't absolutely have any clue what the cause of the problem was; whereas Olipro had found the cause and the remedy very quickly.

This is really serious because Orange is a huge multi-billion corporation and they claim to have their own top developers/programmers/technicians and yet they shamelessly suck !

Now on to my second question :

On almost all original (HTC and AT&T) ROMs , the HTC Home Plugin shows the network as "Orange". But on some of the cooked ROMs the network is shown as "UMTS Orange". I know the meaning of UMTS and I understand that whether the network is shown as "Orange" or "UMTS Orange" the phone appears to function the same.

I just want to know what happens in some cooked ROMs that the phone recognizes the network of the SIM card as "UMTS Orange" and not the usual "Orange" ? I talked to some Orange technicians, their replies are really rediculous - one of them kept saying: "you must change your mobile settings" ! But she didn't have a clue what she was talking about as she didn't know where those damn "mobile settings" were and how they could be changed! I can swear she had never held an SPVM3100 or a Kaiser in her hand.

I've searched the forum but haven't been able to find a clear answer yet. I am asking this question just to improve my personal knowlege on this issue.

Thank you for your guidance and insight.
neshyd
23-05-2008, 11:52 AM
hey,

I get the same problem too when installing new Cooked ROMs.

In order to get rid of the 'UMTS' in front of the Operator name you have to edit a registry entry.

Use a registry editor and navigate to: HKLM---> Software---->OEM---->Phone Setting

In there find an entry labelled 'Enable3GLongName' And change it from 1 to 0.

Restart you're device and it should just say 'Orange'

Hope that works

Nesh
Bardia Garsha
25-05-2008, 12:03 AM
hey,

I get the same problem too when installing new Cooked ROMs.

In order to get rid of the 'UMTS' in front of the Operator name you have to edit a registry entry.

Use a registry editor and navigate to: HKLM---> Software---->OEM---->Phone Setting

In there find an entry labelled 'Enable3GLongName' And change it from 1 to 0.

Restart you're device and it should just say 'Orange'

Hope that works

Nesh

Thanks bro. Yesterday, before reading your reply I reflashed my device and
this nwe Binky11's V3.8 ROM got it right. So for now, I don't need to do the registery; however, I made a note of your advice for future reference.

I should keep reading to see what happens in most cooked WM6.1 ROMs that they get the network name as such and why the original ROMs get it right.

Thank you very much for your reply.