Disconnecting from TMobile network?

[Guest ripnet]

Hi,

Yesterday my Heremes (TMobile) became disconnected from the T-Mobile network (network unavailable) at some point during the afternoon, and I missed several calls/texts because of it. The connection icon had a little cross on it. Using connection manager to turn it to flight mode and back to normal mode made it re-register with the network.

I put it down to 'one of those things', but today its happened again. If I tell it to re-connect to the network, it does.

I cannot have an unreliable phone - does this sound like a network issue (surely my phone would automatically reconnect when the service came back?) or a fault on my phone.

Im in London (Central and SE), and using the 3g network. Im trying it in GSM mode to see if that helps.

[Oddly, GSM performance for web browsing seems a lot snappier than the 3g (with HSCSDA)... i might just keep it on GSM unless im doing a large download. Shame to waste the 3g'ness tho, although the faster processor makes the hermes still a lot better than the old wizard.]

My question is - has anyone else in London or elsewhere had this yesterday? im unsure if its a network problem, or a issue with my phone.

I havent installed anything new on the phone recently.

ANyone?

george

[Guest RufusA]

Hi,

Yesterday my Heremes (TMobile) became disconnected from the T-Mobile network (network unavailable) at some point during the afternoon, and I missed several calls/texts because of it. The connection icon had a little cross on it. Using connection manager to turn it to flight mode and back to normal mode made it re-register with the network.

george

Had a slightly similar problem with mine last Saturday (7th) whilst visiting a farm near Leatherhead. Was getting a steady 2bars signal and made a few phone calls. 20 mins later tried to make a phone call and got network unavailable, thought it was my position (in a valley). Travelled to top of nearby hill and still unavailable. When back in the valley still no signal, switched phone off and back on again and instantly back to steady 2 bar signal. Just put it down to a network glitch!

Rufus.

[Guest cseilern]

Had a slightly similar problem with mine last Saturday (7th) whilst visiting a farm near Leatherhead. Was getting a steady 2bars signal and made a few phone calls. 20 mins later tried to make a phone call and got network unavailable, thought it was my position (in a valley). Travelled to top of nearby hill and still unavailable. When back in the valley still no signal, switched phone off and back on again and instantly back to steady 2 bar signal. Just put it down to a network glitch!

Rufus.

I had that problem EXACTLY! This Sunday night I got booted from the network for 4 hours (this was to home where i normally always have reception). Swicthin on/off, rebooting with, then without sim, manually selecting networks - none of that worked. Even weirder was the fact that I could surf and text, but not make calls!!! I went postal when I then called TMob CS and essentially got told to get lost because they were out of opening hours.