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Help signal and locking issues

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razaroo

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Hi guys,
I know alot of people have commented on this kind of thing already but i couldn't find one that was specific to me. I have the usual problem with connection the the desire HD. The otherday I was in the town centre where I usually get 3g+ connection but i wasnt get any signal for my phone at all no matter where i went, i tired restarting the phone and turning it off and removing the battery but still nothing has any one got any ideas what this is? I'm on the orange network and i have signed up for the tmobile/orange network sharing thingy but i still keep losing signal, its not for like minutes either when i lost it on friday my phone literally didnt work for about 5 hours.
The other problem i'm getting is when i leave my phone on standby, like when i plug it into charge overnight, until i take the phone out of standby I wont recieve any calls or text messages, for example the other day i woke up at about 10am and i hadn't recieved any tet messages, i took the phone out of standby and i had 3 text messages that all had come in between 7am and 9am. i know that doesnt seem like a problem but 2 o those texts were missed call alerts that just go straight through to answerphone. A few of my firends have said that since i've changed phones when they try ringing it just goes straight to answerphone.

Any one have any ideas about these?

Cheers
 
Strange. I know some networks favour the 3G signal so when that's being used, calls will be blocked, but I thought that just affected browsing? I wonder if it's affected by sync too?

Also, do you have a case at all? There was a post a few weeks/days back where one of those cheap, gel cases was causing the signal to drop.
 
Might be worth going into the network settings and manually selecting to use the Orange network? I'm on Orange too and have noticed that, at home, the phone has a tendency to switch between Orange and T-Mobile usually when a call is incoming, leading them to get dropped. I've installed a widget which allows me to easily access the network settings so, when I'm out, I set it to auto-network but, at home, I set it manually to T-Mobile to give me a stronger signal, albeit without 3G. A nuisance, but fairly painless and, at the end of the day, Orange's problem, not the phone's.
 
Cool will try the thing with setting orange as my main network provider but in all honesty i've never seen the phone say its on tmobile, tho i only signed up for the dual network thing on thursday.

Also i do have a case its not a gel won its made of some kind of soft material but i'll try it without the case, i usually charge the phone out of the case tho and i still get this problem.

So do you guys think its a problem with the network and not the phone?
 
razaroo said:
So do you guys think its a problem with the network and not the phone?
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Could be a bit of both. I'll be honest and say the signal isn't the best, but I'd put that down to Orange rather than the handset (I've had issues in the past, but none as severe sounding as yours). However, if you do a search, there are some folk who've had problems with poor signal/coverage.
 
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