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Which GSM phones have Network Select?
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Posted by: foxfire235

Hey guys,

I'm sick of CS giving me the run around telling me that i can't be converted back to preferring Orange towers over blue ones. I live very close to an orange tower and my girlfriends phone keeps wanting to connect to the blue tower miles away. Anyway... she has about .5% signal and can't make or receive calls. I have a treo and have solved the problem already with a network select hack. Are there other GSM phones (not PDA's) that will let you choose the network? Thanks!

Posted by: cjmedina

the mpx220 does with the hack. the 6682 does with the 3g sim card and the new firmware. that all i can remember at the moment

Posted by: foxfire235

Ah yes the moto's. Do they all have it? ie. Razr, pebl etc.

Posted by: SonyStyle

slvr has it.

Posted by: ALCingularUser

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Originally Posted by foxfire235

Ah yes the moto's. Do they all have it? ie. Razr, pebl etc.

Yes, you can hack a Moto to enable it, but it breaks the voicemail indicator. At least it did in the past. Not sure if anyone has found a fix for that yet.

Posted by: i0wnj00

All GSM phones have this feature in some shape or the other, however these menus are normally hidden from the end user.

Posted by: eimajuno

It also might depend on what sim card you are using. Some cards had it disabled.

Posted by: helpermonkey

Cingular disables network select via an application on the SIM. It has nothing to do with the phone. As was already pointed out, the phone should offer this feature (the SIM will disable it though). Hacks can help with this of course. As for selecting Blue or Orange, I suspect in a few months it will be a non-issue for you since the two networks should be integrated in most (all?) markets by early summer.

Posted by: IRONLUNG

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Originally Posted by helpermonkey

.....I suspect in a few months it will be a non-issue for you since the two networks should be integrated in most (all?) markets by early summer.

So can I expect better call quality from my home by summers end?

Posted by: daftgem

Get a 3G sim, or an 16K PacBell sim. Those will have network selection enabled.

Posted by: helpermonkey

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Originally Posted by IRONLUNG

So can I expect better call quality from my home by summers end?

You should be able too assuming that the other network (that is not your home network) has better coverage where you need it.

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Originally Posted by daftgem

Get a 3G sim, or an 16K PacBell sim. Those will have network selection enabled.

What is all this talk about network select on a 3G SIM? I have 2 and have not noticed this. Also, since Cingular does not want to give the option to choose networks to the customer, why would they allow it on a UMTS SIM?

Posted by: i0wnj00

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Originally Posted by daftgem

Get a 3G sim, or an 16K PacBell sim. Those will have network selection enabled.

Pacific Bell Wireless only had two sizes for their SIM cards, 8K and 32K. The 8K SIM for sure doesn't network selection and the 32K SIM isn't likely to offer it.