T39 Searching

I spoke to Vodafone about the "searching" problem and they say
because they do not sell the Ericsson T39 they cannot/have not had any
experience of this problem. Heres another one for you all,
haven't tried it recently, but I was sent a copy of SIM Card Manager
(its an external SIM Card reader that plugs into the serial port on a
PC, nothing to do with Ericsson) by Vodafone to enable me to edit SIM
Card phone numbers etc (I got this just before my T39 arrived). If you
use this device, and put the SIM card back into the Ericsson, the
phone locks up. Have not used it since, but the only way I could get
it to work was to put the SIM card back into my old 8210, edit a phone
number, put the SIM card back into my T39 and it would start working
again. Sorry, but I cannot for the life of me remember what the T39
used to say when it locked up. I am not Mobile Phone Technical but
this would indicate to me that perhaps the Ericsson is not using the
"Standard" data format for storing information on the SIM card, so
that any card edited by another device corrupts the data as far as the
Ericsson is concerned, or am I completly off the mark?






>- Frode

the radio reciever end of your t39 is not working. have it checked with a ericsson service point.

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I've had the same problem with my T39m here in Norway (Telenor). Heard from
a number of other Norwegians reporting the same problem with Telenor, but
not with NetCom (the other carrier here in Norway). Could it be a odd
combination of T39 and specific base station brands. I'm guessing here :-).

Another symptom is that while the phone appears as online you'll discover
(cause others tell you) that's it's actually offline with no calls or
messages coming true for a longer period of time. Really annoying. I've had
this problem with SW R2D and R2K. Recently upgraded to R2M and have not yet
experienced, but while I have no way of reproducing this error it's too
early to state that the problem is solved. Have heard of others having this
problem with R2M.

You can imagine how difficult it is to have anyone take the responsibility
for this one. The carrier says "nope, it's a phone thing since your SIM is
OK in another phone" while Ericsson says "if it works with another carrier,
it has to be the carrier". When I, on the top of this, can't reproduce this
error, it's a big mess.

Please let me know if any of you have heard this as a confirmed bug from
Ericsson and when it will possibly be fixed. Being offline while appearing
online is the _one_ bug I cannot live with in my phone as I rely on being
available in connection with my work. :-(

- Frode

>>>answer please, thanks.

It should not be doing that. Normally the phone will log on to the
network as it is booting up. Have you tried another carrier's sim card?

Nick

Yep, already done that, CarPhone Warehouse gave me a brand new
replacement 3 days after the first one, straight out the box, does the
same thing.


>>answer please, thanks.

that'll be a lemon. take it back