Get More Bars: Power-Cycle Your Phone?

Everybody but me probably already knows this, but it's news to me.

According to the tMobile rep I just talked to, every phone stays locked on to
the last tower is used. Therefore if you move a few more miles away from that
tower closer to another tower, as long as your phone can connect with the first
tower you will not get the benefit of being close to that other tower unless you
turn the phone off and turn it back on again so that I re-acquires the network
through that tower.

This seems to conflict with something I read a long time ago about towers
handing off conversations as a user moves (as in a moving vehicle) in order to
minimize the signal strength required and prolong battery life.

Or does it?

--
PeteCresswell

What a load of bunkum.

No such thing happens. Whilst it is recommended to power cycle (turn
off/on)your phone regularily, at least once a week or preferably once a
day to refresh the phone's software, your phone will always sit on the
nearest cell or cells and will always call the nearest available cell
to make or receive a call.

The only variation to this is that if you are roaming in one country,
the network will remember which country you were last in, if you turn
off your phone, until you turn your phone on in another country.
Eventually if the phone isn't turned on for a while the network memory
will time out and return your phones routing back to your home country.

joel wrote:
>
> What a load of bunkum.
>
> No such thing happens. Whilst it is recommended to power cycle (turn
> off/on)your phone regularily, at least once a week or preferably once a
> day to refresh the phone's software, your phone will always sit on the
> nearest cell or cells and will always call the nearest available cell
> to make or receive a call.
>
> The only variation to this is that if you are roaming in one country,
> the network will remember which country you were last in, if you turn
> off your phone, until you turn your phone on in another country.
> Eventually if the phone isn't turned on for a while the network memory
> will time out and return your phones routing back to your home country.

"refresh the phone's software"

Huh?

Notan

Notan <notan@ddress.thatcanbespammed> wrote in
news:43E4028E.50DF12DD@ddress.thatcanbespammed:

> "refresh the phone's software"
>
> Huh?
>
>

He must be using one of those fancy Windows XP phones....(c;

I can hear my V60i's hard drive winding up, now!