Nokia 3585i--Call volume problems?

All--

Just got a Nokia 3585i w/ Sprint PCS service in the northeast US. I'm
very happy with this phone so far, with once big exception--a day or two
after I got it, I noticed that during a conversation the volume of the
person at the other end would change randomly.

Seems that about 30 seconds or so into a conversation, the volume of the
person on the other end will drop suddenly... then come back up, then drop
again. All the while I'm standing still, holding the phone properly so as
to not block the "internal antenna". Changing the speaker volume, even
slightly, can make the volume jump greatly as well. Rasing the external
antenna has no impact on this problem.

I followed all the directions in the manual upon getting the phone, the
battery was charged for 24 hours before I used it.

Is there some setting on the phone that can fix this? Did I get a bad
phone, or do all 3585i phones do the same thing? I doubt it's the network
as my old Samsung SPH-A400 never did this (though it had other issues of
it's own, for sure).

I'm a bit dismayed, as I really like the phone but the erratic call volume
is definitely a dealbreaker for me....

Followups set to alt.cellular.nokia.

Thanks--

Ramsey

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ramsey <[email protected]> wrote in
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> All--
>
> Just got a Nokia 3585i w/ Sprint PCS service in the northeast US. I'm
> very happy with this phone so far, with once big exception--a day or
> two after I got it, I noticed that during a conversation the volume of
> the person at the other end would change randomly.
>
> Seems that about 30 seconds or so into a conversation, the volume of
> the person on the other end will drop suddenly... then come back up,
> then drop again. All the while I'm standing still, holding the phone
> properly so as to not block the "internal antenna". Changing the
> speaker volume, even slightly, can make the volume jump greatly as
> well. Rasing the external antenna has no impact on this problem.
>
> I followed all the directions in the manual upon getting the phone,
> the battery was charged for 24 hours before I used it.
>
> Is there some setting on the phone that can fix this? Did I get a bad
> phone, or do all 3585i phones do the same thing? I doubt it's the
> network as my old Samsung SPH-A400 never did this (though it had other
> issues of it's own, for sure).
>
> I'm a bit dismayed, as I really like the phone but the erratic call
> volume is definitely a dealbreaker for me....
>
> Followups set to alt.cellular.nokia.
>
> Thanks--
>
> Ramsey
>

If the other caller is moving you may experience fading on cell fringes due
to incomplete cell coverage. Not all problems are the cellphone but are
also related to cell site coverage.

Blame it on the phone only after several calls to different cell locations.

dave