3 Network: HTC Hero - Good Signal, HTC Desire - Utter Pap

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I gave my wife my trusty, unlocked and rooted HTC Desire to replace her HTC Hero. It is running Leedroid of some iteration that I can't remember (Android 2.2 based IIRC).

I used it on Vodafone with no trouble, and previously it was locked to Orange and was fine. On 3 however, it is utter pants. She had a great signal at work and a decent enough one at home with her Hero, but the Desire barely has any signal at home and none at all at her workplace (it works as it should when it does manage a to pick up a signal though). AFAIK when the phone manages to get a signal, it's roaming (R) only (connecting to Orange?).

I factory reset the phone prior to giving it to her, but nothing else. Is there likely anything I've missed?
 
3 disabled their 2G signal in a lot of areas covered by 3G. Where there is 2G, it's on the orange network.

Maybe the phone is set to 2G networks only?

If you never get a 3G signal, maybe it's not unlocked properly? Not sure if that's possible.
 
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