Guest martin Posted April 16, 2003 Report Posted April 16, 2003 I've noticed that nobody's complained about GPRS for a while. Does this mean that Orange GPRS is behaving. :lol: Or have you just given up ? ;)
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 16, 2003 Report Posted April 16, 2003 My phones been dialing since about 10am... :lol:
Guest ajb3000 Posted April 16, 2003 Report Posted April 16, 2003 I think it means we've started putting up with it
Guest Firaas Posted April 16, 2003 Report Posted April 16, 2003 I think it means we've started putting up with it And silently dreading the time when we're charged on a PAYG basis...
Guest fixit Posted April 16, 2003 Report Posted April 16, 2003 Mine had been playing up for a ocuple of weeks: http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic...ghlight=#151497 Sorted today.
Guest martin Posted April 16, 2003 Report Posted April 16, 2003 Just a consideration. I have never really experienced the GPRS issues that have haunted many Orange users over the past few months. 98% of the time I have no problems dialling, connecting and so forth. I am privilaged to have a good Orange signal at home with very few nearby sites that could possibly cause interference. (3 or 4 bars on phone) . then... I installed a sim for another network with which I had a very poor indoor coverage (1 to 2 bars) and I was constantly given the errors : 1. connection failures. 2. page not found 3. check coverage 4. and dialling problems. Also my download was very, very slow and pages took ages to appear. 70-80% of the time it failed completely and gave an error. With the same SIM, I left the house and found an area with 4 bars and all the GPRS associated errors dissapeared and both connection times and download times increased. I'm not saying that this is the cause of everyones GPRS issues (God forbid), but this is definately worth trying for some people.
Guest barncourt Posted April 16, 2003 Report Posted April 16, 2003 it has just been off in the hastings area for the last half an hour - no G displayed even even if phone reset. back on now though.
Guest Palindrome Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 Still no unbuffered streaming radio.
Guest James Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 it was really bad in devon for a while but its now very good and seems to be reliable.
Guest abamara Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 Martin, I had to take mine in to the O retail outlet I bought it from and left it with them for a couple of days. They have a sharp guy there who first swapped the sim cards with his P800 and voila no more unable to connect errors. He put my sim in his P800 and it connected fine. Apparently he had to reinstall PIE because some of the settings had altered. In short he's got it all on sd card now for any repeats. So it's now sorted, back to gprs. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the confirmation from the OTA unlock. Tried the Action register as well. All goes thru but no unlock message and when I try installing SmartExplorer I get the error message. Tried about 5 times now. Will keep trying till end of today and it will be back to V2 Decerter. I hate to upset the phone now tho and the thought of a hard reset does not fill me with joy! ;) Still I've got gprs, the sun's shining and all's well! :lol:
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 You cant "reinstall" PIE as such, just like you can't in full blown Windows...
Guest abamara Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 That's what he said. They probably resetted the whole thing using the pin code as tech support does? Just saying this bcos when I took it home Activesync did not recognise it and needed to create a new parnership for it.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 Sounds like he actually hard reset it...were your apps nuked as well?
Guest abamara Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 Like brand new. I however did the O restore after that.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 In which case he was talking bollocks ;) He hard reset it, if they had done that without my explicit permission i would have been well pissed off...
Guest Firaas Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 You cant "reinstall" PIE as such, just like you can't in full blown Windows... Actually you can ;)
Guest abamara Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 Well Mono, considering I'd hard resetted it over 5 times(decerting and recerting) without getting the gprs back, I was in no mood to complain. On the contrary, I was just happy to have it back with the gprs back on. Again I think there's another over the air reset they probably did that requires a pin code. Anybody done that before? I had no idea what it was about as I'd lost all patience at that point. Apparently, they give you the code from 156, send a text message (like the simupdate one but 'different' they said), open it click ok, key in the pin(4 digit), and it resets 'all the settings', whatever that means. :? It's a shame I'll have to hard reset it again tonight using the V2 to decert as the O website one isn't working for me. Having tasted what a decerted phone can do, I can't live without one. ;)
Guest abamara Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 Actually you can ;) Yes, I just reinstalled IE on my Win 98 machine.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 OK OK, sorry. I'll be more specific On any version past ME/2k (you aren't uninstalling it if you deselect it post-sp1 on XP btw...) If you still run a Windows version earlier than that you're putting up with out of date and practically obsolete OS imho...
Guest drblow Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 I've had all the mentioned GPRS problems at one stage or another. After two weeks of 'unable to place call' - O eventually replaced my handset. No one ever correctly identified the problem (infact, O gave me a new phone because they had no idea of what was wrong!) Since getting the new handset, and having successfully decerted with OTA, my GPRS is mostly fine. Sometimes get the 'dialling...' stuck, but if I just quit IE using taskmanager, it will reconnect no probs. All the time, Orange say that GPRS problems stem from network coverage, which I thought was just Bulls**t, until I went home for a few days. Travelling from Edinburgh to Belfast - once I left Edinburgh, my GPRS was totally fine, & in Belfast it worked a treat! So I have to think now that most of my GPRS problems are to do with coverage. O did tell me at one stage that 4 out of 5 of the transmitters in my area were 'degraded'.
Guest simon11 Posted April 17, 2003 Report Posted April 17, 2003 I started a thread about hard resets causing problems. My first phone after hard resetting could never reliably get gprs. I now have had a new phone for over a month. I have never reset it and I have had no trouble at all with my gprs. I feel reticent to try unlocking it due to this fact. I do feel that hard resets effect the gprs reliability although I have no proof of this. Simon.
Guest Big Ron - No Longer a Mem Posted April 18, 2003 Report Posted April 18, 2003 WindowsLite? Didn't that proggy remove IE? And didn't Microsoft employees state (under oath!) that "It cannot be done" when the DoJ case was running?
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