C500 signal reception

[Guest linker3000]

Hi Folks,

I look after 14 phones on an Orange biz contract and three of us now have C500s. Mine seems to be OK (a bit flakey on GPRS connections sometimes - needs a couple of retries), but the other two people (who do a lot of travelling) are complaining bitterly that their C500s won't pick up a signal in locations where their old phones used to work fine and/or they get dropped calls in these areas. Both have gone back to their old phones as they need to be contactable at all times during business hours - they have asked me to get them other models as they are so fed up with the C500s.

Anyway, is the C500 known to be less sensitive than other models - is it all that CPU power (!) under the hood that's interfering with the signal.

I have put this issue to our Orange Business Contact but you lot will probably answer first (ie: in under a week!)

Thanks

[Guest Looby]

I have had various mobiles and live in a country area. I have found the C500 hangs on to a signal as good if not better than my other mobiles. I now have

an i-mate SP3i and this is even better, I can send/receive emails quickly with no bars showing. I have found that every now and then it is good to power the phone off and then on again as it seems to lock the signal more strongly. :)

[Guest James]

i have had alot of phones and my old C500 was the best phone i have ever had for signal. and its bloody hard to get signal at my house! :-) my current C550 is crap in comparison and i find it almost impossible to get signal at my house!

[Guest machiavell1]

i have had alot of phones and my old C500 was the best phone i have ever had for signal. and its bloody hard to get signal at my house! :-) my current C550 is crap in comparison and i find it almost impossible to get signal at my house!

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Having used a Moto v3, Nokia 6230i and Nokia 8910i prior to my C500 (amongst ALOT of other phones - prob 5 or more a year...), I had real concerns about the C500's call quality and reception. Those 3 phones are really excellent for calls, and I am happy to announce that my C500 has been superb. The reception has been great, even in low coverage areas, I have had no problems regaining signal (which some have complained about), and (slightly irrelevant) no dust under my screen despite having had it for 3 months, and taken it to the beach for 2 weeks!

Can't guarantee that you will get a good handset/fw, but I can tell you that such C500s do exist out there!

[Guest lop1]

It seems that the sensibility has dropped with the new ROM ( GSM stack 1337.0.42_0.03.28 instead of 1337.0.32_0.03.18 ). You can find some discussion on the subject on http://www.mobismart.net/forums/Default.aspx?g=topics&f=4

And a tool and a tutorial to bring back the old trusty GSM stack.