Why do Sprint PCS Phones often not ring???

In article <7a6fb381.0401151641.26a880b7
@posting.google.com>, [email protected] says...
> Sprint is the evil empire of false billing, as most know. =20
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Someone give his phonograph a tap. He appears to be stuck=20
on one track.

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I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.

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While stranded on information super highway Isaiah Beard wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>> Kevin, (and all others who have poseted a reply)
>>
>> I am curious to know if you leave your phone on 24/7. I had this problem and
>> when I called sprint about it, they asked if I left my phone on all the
>> time. I said yes and the tech told me to turn it off for approx 15/20
>> minutes sometime during a 24 hr period and that will fix the problem.
>> Apparently, SPCS phones get "confused" if they are talking to the same tower
>> to too long. I tried this and it worked.
>
> Maybe certain phones, but i know Sanyos don't have this problem. I've
> left my phone on for days without a pwoer cycle and have never had this
> crop up.

Sanyos also have problems. My office mate has Sanyo 5300 and My wife and I
recently upgraded to RL2500. My office mate started having the above problem
couple of weeks ago, where his phone would not ring and caller would go
straight into voice mail. He would get voice mail notification few hours
later.

My wife and I have same phone, but she has had problems where her phone
would not ring and caller would get voice mail directly, yet my phone will
ring. This happened once while we were both at same location.


>
> Of course, now I'm on a SonyEricsson T608, so we'll see if it can keep
> its wits about it as well as Sanyo.
>
> --
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> (who's history of phones is as long as Phillipe's list of fake IDs)
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> Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:23:02 +0000 (UTC), Hemant Shah
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Sanyos also have problems. My office mate has Sanyo 5300 and My wife and I
> recently upgraded to RL2500. My office mate started having the above problem
> couple of weeks ago, where his phone would not ring and caller would go
> straight into voice mail. He would get voice mail notification few hours
> later.
>
> My wife and I have same phone, but she has had problems where her phone
> would not ring and caller would get voice mail directly, yet my phone will
> ring. This happened once while we were both at same location.

I don't know about the Sanyo phones, but I had this problem with my
Samsung A500 and the battery would die as well. It turned out to be
bad software, so when I passed through a marginal area the phone got
stuck in the "seeking signal" mode that could only be fixed with a
power cycle and it didn't show on the display as such when I was back
in a strong signal area. A simple software upgrade (from VI16 to
WD29) fixed the problem permanently. I mention this because the
problem was triggered by an environmental condition of low signal (in
building movement downtown Minneapolis) ... so perhaps the Sanyo
phones simply need a software upgrade to fix this bug (assuming it is
a known bug).


Tom Veldhouse