Living in a "Known Coverage Hole"

Is this near that Belmont Race Park?

 

Yankees - have you had an opportunity to see how well other services do in your home? Do you have any friends with Cingular or VZW (both 850 carriers - I suspect your house may be in a 1900 deadzone, but 850 might do the trick) whose phones you can test in your house?

 

There is a setting (if you can get into manual programming on your phone.) that you can change that will make your phone look for incoming calls more often.

The tough thing is trying to get into manual programing on a Sprint phone.

 

You can even change it to zero, but I don't remember is 0 was smaller or larger....kind of like an ACE being smaller or larger than a 2 depending on what game your playing.

 

This is what i said in the other Post
but Andy refuse to believe it.
He thinks I'm just bashing a carrier.

 

They should let you out of your contract like they did for Gamer now that they admit there's a hole in coverage where you live.

...if you want to....

 

I live in a coverage hole everyone in town is aware of and even people in the Verizon store are well aware of. (mountain blocks the signal) Granted I can get minimal signal outside, inside my apartment its useless. And there is no other carrier here that covers any better, my only choices are Verizon, Union Cellular, and UBET Wireless.

 

You might consider installing an external repeater for your home. If you live in such area of LI, then I'm sure you can afford a repeater.

 

Lol. I swear I see more CDMA slot cycle problems on the boards anymore...especially with Sprint

 

Or he can activate CALL FORWARDING to his Home Landline Phone.

 

Yankees, Sprint is just mad at you because they are KC Royals fans so they degraded your coverage.

 

Don't they offer first Incoming Minute is Free.
Plus you don't have to answer it,
so it goes to voice mail.
Unless its an important call.

 

That would cover half the calls I make/receive.

 

link please..................

 

If Call Forwarding is activated, calls will be forwarded to, say, his home phone, but will, to the best of my knowledge, not go to his Sprint voicemail if he doesn't pick up his phone since calls are being forwarded to his home phone line, his home phone answering machine would pick up if he has one.

 

Agreed, 10 cents a minute is ridiculous.

 

Well, you can't get everything. I agree, it would be nice, but I don't think Sprint would consider something close to that if they still charge a per minute rate to forward calls. VZW charges minutes to forward calls, which I already dislike, but 10 c a minute is a little too much for me to use it.

 

If Cingular can do it for free (just mins), so can Sprint. 10c is rediculous!

 

I don't think changing the slot cycle will do any good. That change is usually offset by the tower settings. Plus battery life will be horrible.

 

This incoming call problem usually does not happen because of a weak signal. It happens because there are too many different PN offsets in the area which have a conflicting neighbor list. Very common for Sprint and CDMA 1900 Mhz networks.

However it can also be caused by an improperly programmed phone or account. Have you tried having your phone re-programmed? Or your account reloaded? Does you MDN and MSID match? A mismatched MSID and MDN could result in incoming call failuer as well.

 

See this thread:

http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/showthread.php?t=9014

If this holds true then this could greatly reduce the incoming call failure thing for CDMA.