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anyone have cingular with their k750 |
yiannit
Joined: Aug 18, 2005
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anyone have cingular wireless with their k750, for some reason i have low signal strength with the phone, i called cingular andthey cant help me because its not a cingular phone any idea on how to get a stronger signal strength |
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toadwaker
Joined: Aug 31, 2005
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From: NY, USA
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I have the same problem, also a cingular customer. I am from NY and I have terrible signal at home, here at work on the 21st floor in manhattan however I have all 5 bars. I have my calls dropped at home and at college sometimes, but at work everything is AOK. With my old verizon sim free t720 I had full signal everywhere, at home and at work, also the funny thing is, my parents have the Cingulaer Black Razr fphones and they get fine signal strength at home, even though I barely have 1 or 2 bars, even next to the window. |
yiannit
Joined: Aug 18, 2005
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yeah same problem who knows whats wrong |
toadwaker
Joined: Aug 31, 2005
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From: NY, USA
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By the way, I called cingular earlier, and the half brained lady on the other side kept telling me how some places have bad recpetion and different phones have different antennas and all the bullcrap. I dont see why my phone can't get a freakin good signal and a Razr can, whats up sony?? Did you make a booboo, should I get another phone? The camera is great but I can alwyas buy a seperate camera and get a nice cheap comfortable phone with GOOD RECEPTION....I hope these basterds come out with a FW update that will hopefully fix this problem, otherwise, I'm getting another phone, I got this phone mostly for college, and it has terrible signal inside, so no thx. |
conradorodas
Joined: Jan 13, 2005
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Hey guys, I am a Cingular customer as well and I have the same problem. The reason for this is because our K750i works in a 900MHz Frequency and Cingular operates mostly on 850Mhz. The Razr was made to work with cingular therefore was designed with a 850 MHz band. I have no solution for you guys though, I am just as frustrated, but look at it from the bright side: my phone doesn't even work in Cincinnati, they work only on 850Mhz. So we are lucky I guess to be able to use it here. |
toadwaker
Joined: Aug 31, 2005
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From: NY, USA
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There's no way to tweak it to work on a 850 MHZ band? I'd take it apart if I had to just to make the damn thing work better... Can this be done with firmware? |
conradorodas
Joined: Jan 13, 2005
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I actually have no idea, but I think that is impossible though, it has to be hardware. What I was thinking was probably a signal booster of some kind, cause I still get signal it's just really week, therefore it drops a lot of calls. |
haralambos
Joined: May 14, 2005
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There is nothing that we can do untill cingular upgrades there towers to a stronger 1900 freq. |
RubberNeck
Joined: Aug 25, 2005
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I am also on Cingular in North Carolina and am considering getting the w800i. I was worried that this phone did have an 850 band. However, this map shows the 1900 band coverage (red color) and it looks like I would be ok. If I know I am going somewhere that does not have 850 I can put my sim in my Samsung phone.
http://www.cingular.com/download/GPRS_coverage_leg.pdf |
Sirhackalot
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
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From: Bermuda, Uk
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Im on Cingular Currently. Yeah I did notice that cingular had a poor coverage in Bermuda. I think the only reason for this happening is because the company who branched cingular in Bermuda previously had very small amounts of towers located around the island. If you go to www.gsmworld.com you can check to see what the coverage for any network in your area. Also i only choose cingular because it was the only GSM provider that was business orientated and that fact that they had faster GPRS speeds as well as allowing EDGE to be availble on the Bermudian Market. And also because they are debating on introducing 3GSM or 3G to Bermuda!!!! Thats why me as well as a couple of good friends picke up some 3G phones....
Cingular Rocks!!!! i have mMode data plan any1 here can tell me what Media Net is like??
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toadwaker
Joined: Aug 31, 2005
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From: NY, USA
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So wait, from what I understand, a 1900 network is bad for K750i, and NY is all red in that chart, meaning NY is all 1900? So my K750i has real bad signal because the 850 towers are far away? |
scotsboyuk
Joined: Jun 02, 2003
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From: UK
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@toadwaker
Your K750 does not recognise the 850 MHz at all, it can't receive it. It can recieve the 1900 MHz signal though. The K750 was primarily designed for use outside of North America. Most of the world uses the 900 MHz frequency, America doesn't, they use the 850 MHz frequency. Hence you will only receive limited reception using a K750 on Cingular.
Your could try using your K750 on T-Mobile who only use 1900 MHz (at the moment).
"I may be drunk my dear woman, but in the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly." WSC |
RubberNeck
Joined: Aug 25, 2005
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For those of you on Cingular in area's where there isn't significant 1900Mhz coverage, you will have to wait for the w600i if your want a SE walkman phone. It will be quad band and work all over the US.
W600i
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toadwaker
Joined: Aug 31, 2005
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From: NY, USA
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So, is there another phone out there that you guys can sufggest, that WILL work fine in the US and have a decent camera that I can get from cingular? I signed a 2 year contract so I'm limited to cingular, but I never knew that this phone would have such horrible reception. |
getagrip15
Joined: Oct 03, 2003
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@Rubberneck
My girlfriend bought a K700i and has had not problems with it here in NC. She uses it mostly in between Asheboro and Wilmington. Not sure how it fairs in the mountains. I previously had a P900 and managed to get fair reception as well. I now have a P910a and I could immediately see a small increase of reception over my P900 and her K700. In general the k700 and P900 were just fine though. The main problem is they don't seem to do as well inside buildings.
@Toadwaker
Hate it for you but you really should have done some more research before buying. From what I hear, the phone has good reception when used in the right parts of the world. You could sell it to me 
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Posted: 2005-08-31 21:08
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