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Pedal2Medal00 · 05-14-2003, 7:05 PM

I was traveling up the highway with my Verizon phone and noticed my signal start to go down. It eventually lost all signal and the display read "No Service" for about 30 seconds when it then connected to an analog tower. With my old AT&T TDMA phone, it would switch on and off without ever displaying "No Service". Why did my Samsung A310 do this?

njsvrzncdma · 05-14-2003, 10:21 PM

my vx4400 does the same thing sometimes. it just depends on how fast the phone "finds" the analog tower after not being able to find a digital signal.

HelloMotoV70 · 05-15-2003, 11:45 AM

as far as i know from previous post, it is NOT possible to handoff a digital to analog call, it is meant to drop the call. You can hand off between different digital carriers, hense GSM.

DemoMan · 05-15-2003, 12:13 PM

I never have problems handing off digital to analog. My only problem is that I live on the border of two different SID's and they have different brand switches. (1038 is the old Nortel CenturyTel switch in Louisiana and 208 is Alltel's Motorola switch in Little Rock)
Hopefully that will all end when moves the towers that are on 1038 to L.R. onto the Motorola switch.

Brad

lacrosse76 · 05-15-2003, 11:47 PM

i may very possibly be wrong, but i think it is possible to hand off from a digital call into analog as long as you are staying within the same provider, but when you are switching from verizon digital to another company's analog, the call will drop. It will also drop when switching from verizon digital to another digital network...

liamfm · 05-16-2003, 7:18 AM

As far as I know you can switch from digital to analog, but CDMA does not support analog to digital transfers. Basically when you hit an analog tower you are stuck talking in analog until you end the call. Analog will hand off to analog and you can continue traveling.

Correct me if I'm wrong

bobolito · 05-16-2003, 8:30 AM

TDMA and Analog are buddies, therefore, you can handoff from one to the other back and forth with no problems. However, CDMA only supports handoffs CDMA to Analog, not the other way around. When your Verizon phone had "No service" for about 30 seconds that only means there was an area where there was a gap in coverage or the phone was performing an extended scan until it found the analog towers.

05-14-2003, 7:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
Pedal2Medal00 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Portland, Maine Posts: 132 Phone(s): LG VX6000 Provider(s): Verizon Wireless Devices: MP3 Player, PDA, Digital Camera Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts My Auctions	Verizon to Analog Handoff I was traveling up the highway with my Verizon phone and noticed my signal start to go down. It eventually lost all signal and the display read "No Service" for about 30 seconds when it then connected to an analog tower. With my old AT&T TDMA phone, it would switch on and off without ever displaying "No Service". Why did my Samsung A310 do this?

05-14-2003, 10:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
njsvrzncdma i cant stop the ringing.. Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: JeRsEy Posts: 2,577 Phone(s): LG vx8500, LG vx8100 Provider(s): VERIZON Devices: MP3, GPS, Wireless LAN, TV remote (lol) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts My Auctions	Verizon to Analog Handoff my vx4400 does the same thing sometimes. it just depends on how fast the phone "finds" the analog tower after not being able to find a digital signal. __________________ "Be fruitful, curious, careful, intelligent, spontanious and wise but never forget to have fun, never forget to remember the good times, and always be true to yourself."

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HelloMotoV70 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 159 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Verizon to Analog Handoff as far as i know from previous post, it is NOT possible to handoff a digital to analog call, it is meant to drop the call. You can hand off between different digital carriers, hense GSM.

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DemoMan Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Jonesboro, AR Posts: 332 Phone(s): LG 5450 Provider(s): Alltel Devices: PDA Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Verizon to Analog Handoff I never have problems handing off digital to analog. My only problem is that I live on the border of two different SID's and they have different brand switches. (1038 is the old Nortel CenturyTel switch in Louisiana and 208 is Alltel's Motorola switch in Little Rock) Hopefully that will all end when moves the towers that are on 1038 to L.R. onto the Motorola switch. Brad

05-15-2003, 11:47 PM	#5 (permalink)
lacrosse76 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 66 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Verizon to Analog Handoff i may very possibly be wrong, but i think it is possible to hand off from a digital call into analog as long as you are staying within the same provider, but when you are switching from verizon digital to another company's analog, the call will drop. It will also drop when switching from verizon digital to another digital network...

05-16-2003, 7:18 AM	#6 (permalink)
liamfm Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 99 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Verizon to Analog Handoff As far as I know you can switch from digital to analog, but CDMA does not support analog to digital transfers. Basically when you hit an analog tower you are stuck talking in analog until you end the call. Analog will hand off to analog and you can continue traveling. Correct me if I'm wrong

05-16-2003, 8:30 AM	#7 (permalink)
bobolito iPhone 3G 16GB (White) Join Date: May 2002 Location: New Sanfrakota Posts: 12,378 Phone(s): iPhone 3G, RAZR V9, Sierra 875 3G Aircard, HP iPaq Classic 110 Provider(s): AT&T Mobility Devices: WiFi cards/Access points Thanks: 3 Thanked 11 Times in 10 Posts Images: 50 My Auctions	Verizon to Analog Handoff TDMA and Analog are buddies, therefore, you can handoff from one to the other back and forth with no problems. However, CDMA only supports handoffs CDMA to Analog, not the other way around. When your Verizon phone had "No service" for about 30 seconds that only means there was an area where there was a gap in coverage or the phone was performing an extended scan until it found the analog towers. __________________

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