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What on earth is wrong with this?
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Posted by: Kill Romeo

OK, I'm in the middle of a slight dilemma at the moment, VERY frustrating and any help/advice would be much appreciated.

Basically, about 10 days ago I got a Nokia N95 on a brand new contract with Orange, at the Carphone Warehouse.

All seemed to work fine, 'till sometimes I would make a call and instead of connecting my call and then ringing, it would just let off an extremely loud high pitched squealing noise down the phone, constantly, until I ended the call. It wouldn't actually connect to the person I was calling, just make this noise 'till I hung up. Sometimes however, it would connect fine and ring...

Figured the handset is probably knackered, so I took it back to CPW within the 14 days return policy.

I got the replacement, came out, tested it and straight away it did it AGAIN!

Back in I went...and tried yet ANOTHER N95...once again, it did it after a few goes.

I then put my SIM into the new Nokia Classic phone, totally different from the N95 and lo and behold, we got it to do it on that one too.

Thinking it MUST be a faulty SIM, the saleswomen did a "sim swap" and swapped my sim card for another one, rung orange to link it up to my old number and then at 8pm I could turn the phone on to accept the new settings etc. All that worked fine, then I made a call and guess what...IT'S STILL DOING IT...on 4 different N95's, on totally different phone entirely and on TWO different SIM cards.

The fault is intermittent...sometimes it'll do it every time I try and call someone 4 times in a row, sometime only once in 10 calls.

Anyway, I called Orange this morning and suggested a network fault, but they seem to think that they'd have a lot of calls about it if it was the case, and they even thought I might have had 5 faulty phones one even being a different model!? Hmmm.

I really don't want to have to keep swapping the phone, as next time it won't be a new one and I've finally got one with a decent screen/speaker/slider.

It can't be the phone surely? Another faulty SIM? or a Network problem?

Any help or ideas would be awesome.

Thanks.

Posted by: break-r

Sounds like a network issue.

From the number of times youve swapped sims and phones, it cant be anything other than the network.

Posted by: jeny.342

I did have a similar experience with Sony Ericsson...I got three bad sony ericssons in a row from my provider Cingular...sometimes there is a line of bad cell phone handsets arrived at the provider and you keep getting one of the bad ones...best solution would be to switch the phone to a different brand/ model