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Does anyone else suffer from unusually bad mobile reception with this phone (in its San Francisco 2 incarnation, in my case)?
I bought one a few days ago. I don't know what reception was like out of the box, since I didn't look - all I did was to turn on USB debugging before immediately unlocking it. With all ROMs that I've tried, I experience unusably bad reception with SIMs from different carriers. In terms of ROMs, I've tried Fish'n'chips RLS4, flibblesan's debranded ROM r2a, and a stock ROM from Sebastian404's repository.
It's not that there's no reception at all. I know (thanks to this forum) that Orange completely blocks some of its phones that it sends out, and that they need to be de-blacklisted before they work at all - this isn't the case for me. There is weak reception right at the top of my house with both Orange and non-Orange SIMs, but all these SIMs give perfect reception everywhere in other phones.
At the moment, the phone is useless to me because the reception is too poor to make or receive calls. I'm not sure that I can take it back, since although I've re-installed a stock ROM, I don't think there's a way to undo the unlocking and truly return it to its original state. Besides, the shop will probably tell me to use Orange's phone-over-wifi SignalBoost app, which is no use to me since I'm not planning to use it on Orange's network. And maybe this is a generic problem with the phone, so a replacement would be no better?
I bought one a few days ago. I don't know what reception was like out of the box, since I didn't look - all I did was to turn on USB debugging before immediately unlocking it. With all ROMs that I've tried, I experience unusably bad reception with SIMs from different carriers. In terms of ROMs, I've tried Fish'n'chips RLS4, flibblesan's debranded ROM r2a, and a stock ROM from Sebastian404's repository.
It's not that there's no reception at all. I know (thanks to this forum) that Orange completely blocks some of its phones that it sends out, and that they need to be de-blacklisted before they work at all - this isn't the case for me. There is weak reception right at the top of my house with both Orange and non-Orange SIMs, but all these SIMs give perfect reception everywhere in other phones.
At the moment, the phone is useless to me because the reception is too poor to make or receive calls. I'm not sure that I can take it back, since although I've re-installed a stock ROM, I don't think there's a way to undo the unlocking and truly return it to its original state. Besides, the shop will probably tell me to use Orange's phone-over-wifi SignalBoost app, which is no use to me since I'm not planning to use it on Orange's network. And maybe this is a generic problem with the phone, so a replacement would be no better?
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