Poor Network Reception After Unlocking C500 ?

October 12, 2005

Hi,

I bought a AT&T smt 5600 phone on Ebay, sent it to Europe, unlocked using spv service and discovered that I have very poor network reception!!!

What is the reason for poor network reception? What can I do to improve it?

After upgrading to Qtek ROM I noticed small improvements in network reception, but still very poor!!!!

October 12, 2005

Are you using an AT&T sim card in the phone? or was the unlock for something else?

I know that swapping networks on it can drop the quality -

are you actually in the US or are you using the phone in a new place?

so many questions i know - but quite often people find by trying to use a phone in the wrong place on the wrong network with the wrong ROM tend to have problems - not saying thats what you've been doing but thats the only reason i can see.

October 13, 2005

Thanks for replay!

I use the phone in Eastern Europe - Latvia, bought it in US with locked AT&T network.

Currently i'm using the phone not with AT&T sim card!

I upgraded to Qtek ROM but still very poor reception (actualy there was small improvements) !!!

You say that wrong ROM can cause poor network reception - then which ROM would the right?!

Now I can't get rid of Qtek ROM, that's a problem too!!

Do you have an experience with phones that have not worked in different places of the world because of rom???

October 13, 2005

The AT&T version of the phone is GSM 850/1800/1900, but in Europe they are more likely using the 900 mhz band. That's your problem. You need the Euro model of this phone, which is 900/1800/1900.