GSM underpowered?

[cerjam]

i bought a blueangel off ebay, its in rough shape but works. ive gotten wm2003,wm5,wm6 and some variant of linux, i forget which ver running on it. the main problem i have is the gsm reception is horrible. if i get any reception, which is rare, its 2bars and drops off when i attempt to make a call. it also freezes all phone functions. asin entire phone app frozen, phone settings, green/red call buttons dont respond.


now, id just assume its normal. but when its powered by the external charger, it doesnt drop out nearly as bad.

anyone have any opinions?

[cerjam]

hmm.

i just called my 2nd phone from the ba on external power, called and connection worked fine. i unplugged it mid-call?

...

pzzzt sound went dead. lost radio signal.

anyone got any IDEAS as to why this is happening.

[cmstackar]

What radio are you using? I had reception problems before I updated, and new I have good reception.

[cerjam]

that was my first thought. i upgraded from 1.6 to 1.15 to 1.14 to 13 to 12 then back to 15.

none of them helped the problem. it has to be something to do with power, i've looked on the motherboard and i dont see anything that looked out of place.

perhaps the battery isnt putting out enough juice? it does appear to drain fast.

[cmstackar]

Maybe. My battery would just die at about 50% Maybe a new one would help, with a new one I didn't notice any better signal (as I had no problems) but now it can make it for a while before shutting off.