Always Searching...No Service

[NZuercher]

I purchased a used AT&T Tilt from E-bay 6 weeks ago. It worked great for 6 weeks, but starting yesterday it has not been able to use the cell phone. Here's what's happening:

1. Soft reset phone.

2. Open the "Phone Settings" page to watch status.

3. Says "Current Network: AT&T". Signal level in status bar shows full strength. Network icon in status bar shows "G".

4. After about 10 seconds, the "G" changes to "3G". Still shows full strength signal.

5. After 10 more seconds, the "3G" changes to "X". The signal level changes to "!", And the current network changes to "No Service".

6. After 1-2 minutes, the sequence repeats starting at #3 above.

7. Pressing the "Find Network" button, doing soft reset, and powering off & on all result in the same thing.

Other info:

ROM: AT&T WM 6.1 (from the HTC website)
SIM: Cingular 64k Smart Chip (not 3G)
I do not have a 3G signal in my location
Tried SIM card in my old Motorola 551 and it still works fine
I have Kaiser Tweeks installed

Any ideas???

[mike19722]

I called At&t and the said that there was a large outage.....My Diamond is doing the same thing......THEY said sometime today should be fixed.....yah..right

Peace
Mike

[NZuercher]

I called At&t and the said that there was a large outage.....My Diamond is doing the same thing......THEY said sometime today should be fixed.....yah..right


I wish that was the problem. But my old phone works just fine.

[KungFu_Sam]

my friend had the same problem with her Tilt. the AT&T guy at the service store says that because she was out of town this past weekend, the phone is still trying to find the signal to that particular tower. that is BS! the Tilt has a known issue with this problem. but luckily, she got a new Tilt with the new Windows Mobile 6.1. that works. this is her 3rd Tilt with AT&T since June due to the same problems - can't pick up signals.

but, if the old Tilt phone was connected to Edge instead of 3G, it would get service. try to disable 3G in your phone. you have to use Kaisertweak or some other kind of program that allows you to disable 3G.

[NZuercher]

my friend had the same problem with her Tilt. the AT&T guy at the service store says that because she was out of town this past weekend, the phone is still trying to find the signal to that particular tower. that is BS! the Tilt has a known issue with this problem. but luckily, she got a new Tilt with the new Windows Mobile 6.1. that works. this is her 3rd Tilt with AT&T since June due to the same problems - can't pick up signals.

but, if the old Tilt phone was connected to Edge instead of 3G, it would get service. try to disable 3G in your phone. you have to use Kaisertweak or some other kind of program that allows you to disable 3G.

Thanks. I stopped by an AT&T store a few moments ago. While they were not able to help me with my problem since I didn't purchase it from them, they did say that they just turned on 3G service to our area yesterday. This is the exact same time that my problems started. Apparently my phone doesn't like 3G. They did upgrade my SIM card to a 3G card, but that didn't help. Still having the same issue as in my first post. So, now I'm going to try to find out how to disable 3G on my Tilt to see if that works. (I have Kaiser Tweeks, but I haven't noticed a "Disable 3G" setting.) Time for more research...

[NZuercher]

Fixed!!! I installed the "Enable Band Page" cab file found in the folowing post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1956747&postcount=10. Then I selected "GSM" as the network type. The phone works just fine now in Edge mode. I don't use data on my phone anyway except via WiFi (don't want to pay for a data plan) so I don't really need 3G.

I'm so glad it wasn't a problem with the radio in my non-warranty phone.:D