Reception Problems with Nokia 6200

Using the 6200 on AT&T in Seattle, I find the reception generally to be
quite bad. It routinely drops calls, blanks out for several seconds at a
time during calls, misses calls, and fails to make calls. But I have
seen numerous user reviews of this phone praising the reception, some of
them specifically in Seattle.

I spoke to an AT&T rep for quite a while this morning, and she claimed
that GSM phones need to power-cycled at least three times a day, because
"the memory on the SIM card fades", which sounded pretty ridiculous to
me. However I just tried it, and even immediately after a reboot I had
the phone disconnect me 4 times during a half hour conversation.

I already had the phone replaced once, and the new one is acting exactly
the same as the old one. I have the 3.10 version of the firmware, and I
set the GPRS to "as needed" (a suggestion I found googling this group).

Could I have gotten two bad phones in a row?

Since I transferred the SIM card from the original phone, I wonder if
there is any chance that the problem is there, and not the phone. Does
that sound plausible? Should I try to get AT&T to send me a new SIM
card? Any other ideas?

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The 6200 is know for buggy firmware. I have said before that people
shouyld avoid the 6200. The 6800 is pretty solid phone if you must ha


ve a Nokia

Pmatt <[email protected]> wrote in article
<[email protected]>:
> Using the 6200 on AT&T in Seattle, I find the reception generally to be
> quite bad. It routinely drops calls, blanks out for several seconds at a
> time during calls, misses calls, and fails to make calls. But I have
> seen numerous user reviews of this phone praising the reception, some of
> them specifically in Seattle.
>
> I spoke to an AT&T rep for quite a while this morning, and she claimed
> that GSM phones need to power-cycled at least three times a day, because
> "the memory on the SIM card fades", which sounded pretty ridiculous to
> me. However I just tried it, and even immediately after a reboot I had
> the phone disconnect me 4 times during a half hour conversation.
>
> I already had the phone replaced once, and the new one is acting exactly
> the same as the old one. I have the 3.10 version of the firmware, and I
> set the GPRS to "as needed" (a suggestion I found googling this group).
>
> Could I have gotten two bad phones in a row?
>
> Since I transferred the SIM card from the original phone, I wonder if
> there is any chance that the problem is there, and not the phone. Does
> that sound plausible? Should I try to get AT&T to send me a new SIM
> card? Any other ideas?
>

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