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  1. #1
    Brian
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    For months I have been bedeviled as to why when driving home from a distance
    from the house, and arriving in front of the house, which is off the main drag,
    the reception on my Sprint phone goes from fine to unusable.

    Today, after having to have the friend call back on a land line due to the
    unusable ness of the Sprint phone, I tried forcing the phone onto Analog roaming
    and then after setting it there, I put it back onto "automatic" and then to
    Sprint PCS only.

    To my delight and amazement the phone picked up full 5 bars. This after having
    been at no bars while in the kitchen.

    Is there a factor of the Sanyo phone somehow holding on to too distant a tower
    and then when being "rebooted", in effect, it will newly find a suitable or
    preferable tower and live happily ever after ?
    Or perhaps entering into my residential area confuses the tower preference
    algorithms ? I have the newest PRL and the phone has the F&C roaming option paid
    for. (which after having paid for it the PRL update was automatically done after
    I called in to *2.

    With an earlier Sanyo 4700 I never had this situation. But that was a stronger
    signal holding phone than the present Sanyo 4920. And, also, that was, of course
    before the Nextel merger and all these new boutique cell phone services tapping
    into and leaching on the "bandwidth" (misnomer) of the Sprint network (Virgin
    Mobile, Earth link, and I hear Costco in the future)

    Does this "rebooting" and NEW signal finding, so as to perhaps de-confuse and
    settle the phone, when I arrive home, make sense ? Is there another technical
    explanation for the phenomena, above ?




    See More: Fascinating possible resolution - "rebooting" the Sanyo Sprint phone - make sense ?




  2. #2
    rayindesmoines
    Guest

    Re: Fascinating possible resolution - "rebooting" the Sanyo Sprint phone - make sense ?


    Brian wrote:
    > For months I have been bedeviled as to why when driving home from a distance
    > from the house, and arriving in front of the house, which is off the main drag,
    > the reception on my Sprint phone goes from fine to unusable.
    >
    > Today, after having to have the friend call back on a land line due to the
    > unusable ness of the Sprint phone, I tried forcing the phone onto Analog roaming
    > and then after setting it there, I put it back onto "automatic" and then to
    > Sprint PCS only.
    >
    > To my delight and amazement the phone picked up full 5 bars. This after having
    > been at no bars while in the kitchen.
    >
    > Is there a factor of the Sanyo phone somehow holding on to too distant a tower
    > and then when being "rebooted", in effect, it will newly find a suitable or
    > preferable tower and live happily ever after ?
    > Or perhaps entering into my residential area confuses the tower preference
    > algorithms ? I have the newest PRL and the phone has the F&C roaming option paid
    > for. (which after having paid for it the PRL update was automatically done after
    > I called in to *2.
    >
    > With an earlier Sanyo 4700 I never had this situation. But that was a stronger
    > signal holding phone than the present Sanyo 4920. And, also, that was, of course
    > before the Nextel merger and all these new boutique cell phone services tapping
    > into and leaching on the "bandwidth" (misnomer) of the Sprint network (Virgin
    > Mobile, Earth link, and I hear Costco in the future)
    >
    > Does this "rebooting" and NEW signal finding, so as to perhaps de-confuse and
    > settle the phone, when I arrive home, make sense ? Is there another technical
    > explanation for the phenomena, above ?


    Try dialing *18. That registers your phone on the system and sometimes
    will help. This is basically accomplishing the same thing you are
    doing by rebooting.




  3. #3
    Brian
    Guest

    Re: Fascinating possible resolution - "rebooting" the Sanyo Sprint phone - make sense ?

    On 12 Jan 2006 19:19:00 -0800, "rayindesmoines"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    >
    >Brian wrote:
    >> For months I have been bedeviled as to why when driving home from a distance
    >> from the house, and arriving in front of the house, which is off the main drag,
    >> the reception on my Sprint phone goes from fine to unusable.
    >>
    >> Today, after having to have the friend call back on a land line due to the
    >> unusable ness of the Sprint phone, I tried forcing the phone onto Analog roaming
    >> and then after setting it there, I put it back onto "automatic" and then to
    >> Sprint PCS only.
    >>
    >> To my delight and amazement the phone picked up full 5 bars. This after having
    >> been at no bars while in the kitchen.
    >>
    >> Is there a factor of the Sanyo phone somehow holding on to too distant a tower
    >> and then when being "rebooted", in effect, it will newly find a suitable or
    >> preferable tower and live happily ever after ?
    >> Or perhaps entering into my residential area confuses the tower preference
    >> algorithms ? I have the newest PRL and the phone has the F&C roaming option paid
    >> for. (which after having paid for it the PRL update was automatically done after
    >> I called in to *2.
    >>
    >> With an earlier Sanyo 4700 I never had this situation. But that was a stronger
    >> signal holding phone than the present Sanyo 4920. And, also, that was, of course
    >> before the Nextel merger and all these new boutique cell phone services tapping
    >> into and leaching on the "bandwidth" (misnomer) of the Sprint network (Virgin
    >> Mobile, Earth link, and I hear Costco in the future)
    >>
    >> Does this "rebooting" and NEW signal finding, so as to perhaps de-confuse and
    >> settle the phone, when I arrive home, make sense ? Is there another technical
    >> explanation for the phenomena, above ?

    >
    >Try dialing *18. That registers your phone on the system and sometimes
    >will help. This is basically accomplishing the same thing you are
    >doing by rebooting.


    Thanks much and to all. I am presently of the impresson that I will
    drag associations with too distant towers when I drive to my house.
    The re-initializing has worked the last two times I have resorted to
    it.
    I will attempt to become more specifically familiar with how this
    spefically works on another posting.
    Anything else on this is quite welcomed.




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