I have about 20mi between my home and my work... Today, i thought it odd that i had only 1 bar instead of full signal in the office. After a while, it was still at 1 bar... I decided to turn off the phone and turn it back on, full signal. This intrigued me... Do phones (particularly GSM) need to be *rebooted* every so often, or is this just the service? Not complaining, but just curious... I usually turn my phone off every night...sometimes (although rarely) have it on for more than 24hrs at a time.
That's odd. Your 'rebooting' probably reregistered and hit another (closer) tower. I have that problem with T-Mo as well at my office... many times there is only 1 tick instead of full coverage... rebooting sometimes helps and sometimes doesn't.
i currently have ATT (GSM) and they told me im required to power off my phone once a day to re-register. yea this happens to me all the time. ill have one bar and wen i power it off ill get full signal again. its kind of annoying but hey i have great reception.
Yeah, it was very odd... In fact, yesterday i was driving down Irvine Center Drive (where I normally get full signal) and was barely getting 1 bar.. I thought it was an outage. So I turned off my phone and turned it back on and all of a sudden I had full service again... I talked to T-Mobile about it when I was at the mall that evening and they said the same thing; they *recommend* turning your phone off and back on every 12-24 hours. Makes sense I guess... Just out of curiousity... It seems like GSM is more integrated w/ the network than CDMA. I remember when I had Sprint, if you wanted to activate call fwding, you would dial # then a series of three digits, then dial the # you want to fwd to. On GSM, you just select call forwarding and activate it from a menu in the phone... Even Caller ID can be enabled/disabled from the phone itself rather than pressing a series of digits or calling customer service. It seems like CDMA is much more seperated from the network... If I dial a CDMA phone, and hit End... the call will still ring 4-5 times.. If I call a GSM phone, hit Ignore, the call gets bounced to Voicemail almost immediately (sometimes after 1 ring). Am I far off on this assumption?
Yes, it is recommended that you turn your phone off and back on again atleast once a day. I don't know the exact reason, but I do know it works, and I have no complaint. How much time does it take to cycle it off and back on again, not long. No complaints from me here. I noticed that too '714tmobile,' but I don't know what to say of it. See, that's the things that make me like GSM better, it's just the little things that makes stuff better and easier to use. I don't think you're far off on the assumption, you're right on, but I just don't know what to call this.
there are 2 different types of 'rebooting' so to speak. One is by powering the phone on and off, wich is good when in weak signal areas, the other is 'hardshocking' the unit. To do that you leave the power of the phone on and remove the battery for ten seconds then put the battery back on and power it up. But that you will only do if you experince handset siezure, wich, ironically usually only in gsm handsets...Siezure by the way is when your phone displays nothing at all, say like only maybe 'menu' on the display and there is no op logo showing or no strength of signal
I think that GSM has a little more to offer the geeky-side of cellular phone users... I don't know about anyone else, but I've had CDMA w/ both Sprint and Verizon in the past (not knocking 'em, both were good) and I think that this lil' GSM phone is the closest to landline quality i've heard. I'm not picky by any stretch; as long as I'm able to make calls, i don't care. I've just noticed that when I call my parents or a few of my friends, they don't know if I'm at home or not. I know it sounds frivilous, but I can't say how many times I've heard "Are you at home?" "No, i'm on the road, why?" "Oh, it sounded like you were at home..." or "You're on a cell phone? wow..who do you have?" True story..
I've had GSM for a while and have the same rebooting issue with my old Nokia. Haven't had that issue on the voice side so far with my current Nokia but I had to reboot a couple times to get GPRS working again. I called CS about it and was told that it's good to reboot at least once a day, didn't tell me why but I do it anyway.
