Need replacement retractable antenna for Mot. v325i

I believe for the FR60 walkie-talkies, if they are not sending or receiving, the issue could be related to the antenna, battery, or internal components. You can try replacing the batteries and/or antennas to see if that resolves the issue.

As for the T5820 walkie-talkie, if the rubber on the antenna is broken, it's likely that the antenna itself is also damaged. In this case, you can try replacing the antenna with a new one. Antennas are typically available for purchase online or at electronics stores.
In terms of cost, repairing older walkie-talkies like these may not always be cost-effective. If the repairs are extensive or require replacement of major components, it may be more practical to purchase new walkie-talkies instead.
Below are options of the options of walkie-talkies you can buy;

Here is the web site for the manual for your phone...

https://www.motorola.com/moto_care/manuals/V_Series/V235I_UG.pdf

The bars show relative signal strength.

If the Motorola is on the same provider, it is the Palm smartphone that is the fault. It may just be you got a less than sensitive one. You should probably contact Palm and see if there is anything they can do short of exchanging it, otherwise exchange it and keep exchanging them until you get one that works. In mass production- these things happen.

If the Motorola is with a different carrier, that may be the difference- they are line of sight devices and the provider you have for the Palm may not have an antenna in your vicinity pointed in the correct direction for you. Which means complaining to the carrier since you know the external antenna works, but the Palm does not.

Hello. I am a Satellite Phone Repair technician. This problem that you are having is a relatively common one with 9505's. The phone will not call out until a sensor is replaced that tells the phone that the antenna is up. This repair usually runs around $250, and the phone will be as good as new. Feel free to look at our website page that shows all types of repairs , as well as instructionss on how to send in your satellite phone for repair, through the download of an RMA form. Just press here to view our satellite phone repair page--BlueCosmo Satellite Phone Repair, or you may also view our website at www.BlueCosmo.com. We do Motorola 9505 repair, Iridium 9505A repair, Iridium 9555 repair, and also Motorola 9500 repair, as well as rent, and sell satellite equipment, and airtime. Call us or check us out. Talk with you soon.

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Sometimes a bad charger can send a high voltage charge to the phone and fry the charging port on the phone. That is why a lot of the car chargers today have a fuse on them now. So that it will blow the fuse on the charger, instead of frying your phone's charger spot.

Bitpim is the easiest software to use. If you have a windows based computer download the drivers for your usb cable and then go to the following and download bitpim. 
 www.Bitpim.org 

If you are still having trouble drop me a line and ill try to help! 

Replace the battery pack

You can get Motorola Phone tools here>>>   http://www.store.motorola.com/mot/en/US/adirect/motorola;jsessionid=055990CB0B9CAD6E1B34344DDAA1697A.mot5?cmd=catDisplayStyle&entryPoint=adirect&catKey=600960&messageType=catDisplayStyle

Dial *228, then when prompted to do so by the automated system, press 1. After it says: "Your phone has been programmed successfully", press "OK" or "Done". When you press that, the phone will automatically power off, then back on. Once the phone has powered back on, the unlock code will now be the last four digits of the phone number.

Short answer: NO.

Long answer: the V stands for Verizon, which uses CDMA technology not GSM and more specifically, they don't use SIM chips, instead using Electronic Serial Numbers (ESN) you can still have multiple phones, but you have to call them or go onto your website to change between the phones.