wierd and scary 3650 GPRS counter bug

Got the shock of my life the other day, when resetting my call counters, as
I do most months, I noticed the GPRS totals read 4GB up and 4GB downstream.
a rather dramatic increase on the 20MB shown the previous week. If true, it
would have meant that the phone had been sending and receiving data
continuously for over a week, which can't have happened. so far nothing like
this amount has shown up on bills, which is good since 8GB means approx
£18,000!!! (@ £2.35 UK Voda) I'm guessing there was some sort of error on
the 3650's part. anyone else noticed anything weird going on with the
counters?

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Martin Crosbie

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Yep, looks like a bug.

Maybe it has been reset to -1 instead of 0. The value -1, when written down
as a binary number, is all 1-s, very likely 32 of them. If this number is
then read as a positive number (GRPS usage can only be positive, i would
think), and then 32 ones is equal to (2^32 - 1) which is about 4billion.


"Martin Crosbie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Got the shock of my life the other day, when resetting my call counters,
as
> I do most months, I noticed the GPRS totals read 4GB up and 4GB
downstream.
> a rather dramatic increase on the 20MB shown the previous week. If true,
it
> would have meant that the phone had been sending and receiving data
> continuously for over a week, which can't have happened. so far nothing
like
> this amount has shown up on bills, which is good since 8GB means approx
> £18,000!!! (@ £2.35 UK Voda) I'm guessing there was some sort of error on
> the 3650's part. anyone else noticed anything weird going on with the
> counters?
>
> --
> Martin Crosbie
>
>

| "Martin Crosbie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
| news:[email protected]...
| > Got the shock of my life the other day, when resetting my call counters,
| as
| > I do most months, I noticed the GPRS totals read 4GB up and 4GB
| downstream.
| > a rather dramatic increase on the 20MB shown the previous week. If true,
| it
| > would have meant that the phone had been sending and receiving data
| > continuously for over a week, which can't have happened. so far nothing
| like
| > this amount has shown up on bills, which is good since 8GB means approx
| > £18,000!!! (@ £2.35 UK Voda) I'm guessing there was some sort of error
on
| > the 3650's part. anyone else noticed anything weird going on with the
| > counters?
| >
| > --
| > Martin Crosbie
| >
| >
|
|
"Anton Spaans" <aspaans at(noSPAM) smarttime dot(noSPAM) com> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
| Yep, looks like a bug.
|
| Maybe it has been reset to -1 instead of 0. The value -1, when written
down
| as a binary number, is all 1-s, very likely 32 of them. If this number is
| then read as a positive number (GRPS usage can only be positive, i would
| think), and then 32 ones is equal to (2^32 - 1) which is about 4billion.
|

funny - my 3310 total call duration in call register is something like
21350:17:3
hehehe..no joke

| "Martin Crosbie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
| news:[email protected]...
| > Got the shock of my life the other day, when resetting my call counters,
| as
| > I do most months, I noticed the GPRS totals read 4GB up and 4GB
| downstream.
| > a rather dramatic increase on the 20MB shown the previous week. If true,
| it
| > would have meant that the phone had been sending and receiving data
| > continuously for over a week, which can't have happened. so far nothing
| like
| > this amount has shown up on bills, which is good since 8GB means approx
| > £18,000!!! (@ £2.35 UK Voda) I'm guessing there was some sort of error
on
| > the 3650's part. anyone else noticed anything weird going on with the
| > counters?
| >
| > --
| > Martin Crosbie
| >
| >
|
|
"Anton Spaans" <aspaans at(noSPAM) smarttime dot(noSPAM) com> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
| Yep, looks like a bug.
|
| Maybe it has been reset to -1 instead of 0. The value -1, when written
down
| as a binary number, is all 1-s, very likely 32 of them. If this number is
| then read as a positive number (GRPS usage can only be positive, i would
| think), and then 32 ones is equal to (2^32 - 1) which is about 4billion.
|

funny - my 3310 total call duration in call register is something like
21350:17:3
hehehe..no joke