What did she do?

I think the biggest part of your problem is your phone. You said your son has no problems with his V265. I'm assuming that its a Motorola. Motorola phones are generally better in fringe areas than LG's. Possibly the store rep was forcing the phone to roam on Verizon or another carrier, and eventually your phone found its way to its home network.

-Jay

 

No. AT&T uses a different network technology. Alltel phones cannot operate on AT&T's network. The 2 carriers are not compatible.

-Jay

 

I very much doubt switching to a Motorola will solve your problem.

The LG565 is an excellent phone and byfar much suprior to the V265 in reception and call clarity. US Cellular carries both of them in my area and I am very familiar with them. In general LG makes excellent CDMA phones and always has.

Now the V265 is trimode mode and has analog, it is my understanding that all analog has been shut off, but is there a remote possibility that you still have analog in UP and that is what your son's phone is latching on to?

If there is no other CDMA provider up there then she is not forcing your phone to roam, and so I guess I don't know what she could be doing to make it work better.

 

The code that the sales rep puts in most likey just amped your sinal, in other words it just refreshes the line. As if you where to restart your computer you would start off fresh. Same thing with the phone.

 

Did she enter the code on the phone, or did she connect the phone to a computer then enter the code?

 

sorry it's taking sooo long, i am having troble finding anything on it But were you able to make any phone calls today or this week?

 

I am sorry this happened, but yes keep us posted and feel free to message me at all if you have any other questions.

 

Having been an Alltel customer for a number of years, I have to disagree with you on this one. Except for the V120e, which was a piece of junk, Motorola phones nearly always perform better in fringe area's on Alltel's network than LGs. The V265 version sold by Alltel was really a pretty good phone in the reception department. I cannot speak for ones using USCC firmware.

Analog is turned off in Michigan and has been since the middle of April so that is not likely to be factor. The best answer, in my view, is picking up a V3m or an E815 off of eBay. The LG could be sold to recoup some of the cost of the Moto.

 

I'd say if going for an ebay phone I'd go for an E815 or a V710

-Jay

 

Personally I'm suprised she hasn't just told you what she's doing just so you would leave her alone and stop coming in.

-Jay

 

Yeah Moto would be a better choice for your situation. But, I don't know what she could be typing in that would have an affect.

You are power cycling the phone at least every other day or so?

You could dial *228 then option 3 to re-OTA program the phone. Or option 2 to update the PRL file.

You could also try and disable EVDO, not sure if this will really help. Do you use data very much? Any large picture/vid messaging or using phones internal browser?

menu + 0 + 000000

Then Data

Then Mode (Auto/1X)

Then set to 1x only.

Again not sure if this will work.

 

I had the E815 for a long time and my LG 8600 performed much better in my Area. I had a V710 before that and the analog would go every now and then in different areas. In Virginia Verizon and Alltel's Analog has been turned off But US Cellular still has theirs still up. Alltel is probley still the best in Virginia Due to the fact that Verizon dosent cover here well.

 

That depends WHERE in VA you are talking about. I can pretty much assure you your statment is NOT the case in NoVa. There is no Alltel there.

 

Well, where in VA does have a ton to do with it...
Alltel free roams on Sprint/Verizon in NOVA, Blacksburg, and the Roanoke Valley.
Verizon free roams on Alltel/USCC in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and a few other counties in Southwest and Southside, VA.
Sprint is absent in most rural areas, and in Charlottesville and further west doesn't run their own network because it's ran by nTelos and iPCS close to the Tri-Cities.
At&t is actually probably the only provider with statewide licenses since buying SunCom, but being PCS everywhere outside of NOVA has really restricted their network to highly populated areas, interstates, and highways in much of the state, with no other GSM provider to fall back on in these areas.

So if we're going to say there is a 'best provider of VA' they're still going to have some shortcomings somewhere in the state! I just went with the one that's best for me!

But good luck with the new phone lg8600. Every phone manufacturer seems to make good ones and lemons. I was very happy with my E815 and it seemed to do a little better than my LG AX380. Hopefully you'll experience better luck this time around.

 

Well T-mobile bought suncom not at&t But yeah the E815 out does the 8600 and the ax380 wave. If someone says otherwise either a. there e815 is broken. or b. they don't know what they are talking about.

 

Cingular(AT&T) took SunCom's Virginia customers, towers and bandwidth a few years ago. TMO took what was left of SunCom some time later.

-Jay

 

I wonder where T-mobile got the money to buy out SunCom, because T-mobile stocks are down.:O Not that i don't like T-mobile it's just because they can't work in lots of places.

 

Well, first of all, with the depressed dollar It is cheaper for a European carrier to buy. Plus, TMO may be down, but Suncom's stock was beaten up much worse. Besides, purchasing Suncom gave TMO spectrum in NC, something that they needed badly.


-Jay

 

I believe it, T-mobile has to take every chance they have which is why i think they say there JD POWERED to help boost there service.

 

Was Thurday the first time you powercycled the phone since it had been working?

How's the new phone working out?

 

Deutche Telecom, T-Mobile's parent. They've got money to burn.

 

It's possible that you're stuck in a bad batch of phones. Every time they give you a new one, it is from the same batch of problem phones. I'd take it back again. Keep pressing them. Make sure they understand how many times it has been replaced, ask to speak with supervisors, etc. Eventually they should offer to give you a different phone just to make you go away.