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Weren't Cingular V180s sold as triband?

Discussion in 'MOTOROLA' started by Scrumhalf, Jun 29, 2006.

  1. Scrumhalf

    Scrumhalf Bronze Senior Member
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    I just got hold of an old V180 from a friend who was switching to Verizon from Cingular. I did get him to get the unlock code from Cingular before he cancelled service.

    Anyway, I was thinking that the phone was triband based on everything I had heard. So, I went in to the 0025 seem and bits 0, 1 and 3 of offset 00 was already set. Similarly in the 0032 seem, bit 0 of offset 50 was already checked. It seems that the phone was already configured as quad band.

    I had always believed that Cingular V180s were triband. What gives?:confused:
     
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    Either the phone was modified by someone or it actually came from Cingular that way. It it came from T-Mobile, then it would have been a tri-bander since T-Mobile until mid-2005, was disabling 850MHz on its phones. Since Cingular has both 850MHz and 1900MHz licenses, unlike T-Mobile, it would not make sense for them to have disabled either band.
     
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    The phone is stock from Cingular. And I thought that one of the non-North American bands was disabled but it appears that both 900 and 1800 are activated on the phone.
     
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    The early model V180's from Cingular were triband, but later models were quadband. My sister gave me her old V180 to play with and it has quadband enabled. I know she didn't mess with the phone.

    -Jay
     
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  5. Scrumhalf

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    Good... now we have 4 phones to test out in India on our trip in a couple of weeks.
     
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