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[GD87] Problems ..help please..
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Posted by: Tryharder

Hello,

I bought a GD87 from Vodafone, and it once was locked to it's network.

Now, I gave the phone to a little shop here, where I live and he unlocked it for me. I dont know exactly what he has done, but it worked, kinda. It made connections 1 out of 5 times and the phone shut itself down after a minute in the conversation. Not very good...
I thought the guy didnt unlock it correctely, or messed up the firmware, and so i bought a data cable.

The first time I saw the phone, it had an Vodafone menu (black and white and a little red), after the unlock from the guy, it had the standard menu, and firmware a16.

I upgraded it to a22, because after that I wanted a55 with a nice appearance. When it was a22 it worked good, for the half hour that i tried it. No errors...

Then I upgraded to a55 and it connected 1 time (!) out of the 15 times or so...
I downgraded to a53 to a39 to a22 again and finally a21. Even downgrading could't solve the problem. He doesn't connect ONCE at this point...so i feel bad...

Please help! What could be the problem, what do you suggest?

Thanks a lot!

Greetings from Holland, Tryharder

Posted by: mavericke

I believe what you need to do is to upgrade from A22 to A32 first. After that you upgrade to A55. Before I forget do use cb2000 for all upgrades although it is not totally necessary. Good luck with your upgrading!

Posted by: Tryharder

But how is it possible that it doesn't work after the downgrade to a22? I used CB2000 every time after a up/downgrade to clear memory, or do you mean something else?

Is there a way to reset the whole thing, except firmware flash, because it obviosly remembers something, when i downgraded to a22 and it still doesnt work, but it worked with a22 earlier that evening...

I also have the feeling that it has a lock of some sort because everything works, except outgoing and incomming calls.

The problem is not the sim-card, i tried it in other phones and it works perfectely.

Thanx again

EDIT: Now it gets really strange: the original Vodafone sim manages to crash the phone before it finds its netwerk. It starts up normal after the code but when he's searching for the network he crashes....hmm....my t-mbile card doesn't do that..He finds the network and the phone works normally except for calling in&out..

Posted by: mavericke

Well, this is the very first time I come across this problem. Really strange ain't it?

Posted by: datatank

EXACTLY SAME PROBLEM HERE...

the network connection is showing, but calls are dropped.
Is that a GD87 Issue?

Posted by: mavericke

I took the phone back to Vodafone and they repaired the phone for me. The phone then came back without any problems.

Posted by: sayeds33

god dangen it!!! i wanna unlock my gd87 and switch to orange after my contract finishes.