Orange Signal Problems..

Chives said:
Seems to be a lot better now, although it has done this before and then become very unstable again, so we'll see ;)

ooo, do tell us more ;) if after this merger Orange impress me with there 3G network merger with T-Mobile then they may keep my money.
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There will be rolling restarts tonight that will help, cant really say much more NDA red tape blah blah...With most things that are done on huge scale will take time and will have teething prob lol :p
 
Wish I could force my phone to use the roaming signal from Orange, when I'm at my girlfriends house there is hardly any Orange signal at all even though the Orange coverage checker shows the area as having excellent coverage for all data forms. But then when it picks up Orange T-Mobile, which is rare, its full signal 100% of the bars. So annoying!
 
Seamless switching would be lovely, my phone stops responding for a while in work whilst it picks up the joint signal which can be annoying.

Also no 3G is pretty frustrating as I can't stream radio properly :(
 
R5Rich said:
Seamless switching would be lovely, my phone stops responding for a while in work whilst it picks up the joint signal which can be annoying.

Also no 3G is pretty frustrating as I can't stream radio properly :(
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I'm really sorry to say this is the new default behaviour and to explain why...Doing network scans for available networks within range EATS battery power and I don't mean quite a bit, I mean gorges itself like at an all you can eat buffet. To counter this the phone will scan for "a while" to see if it can get back on it's home network and then after this time period has stopped it will stop scanning and stay on the partner network until it goes out of signal. Once this happens it resets, looks for the home network and goes back to normal.

You can force a manual intervention - use the network picker on most phones, should be in network settings. Depending on if it stays on this network is upto the phone sorry, if your 3G/2G signal drops below an acceptable level then the partner network is probably best.

The first betas of network sharing were hilarious. A particularly common (but oldish, don't panic anyone) phone regularly went 100% > flat within an hour because it wouldn't stop switching between networks. Alas I'm happy to say bugs are extremely rare now :)
 
I have noticed my battery drains pretty fast in work. It seems to switch between Orange, Orange T-mobile quite often.

More annoying is that it has 3 bars of signal.... Until I try and use it then nothing. Signal drops it spends time scanning and I am stuck in some sort of loop.
 
Hmm, for you specifically I would suggest calling 150 and asking if you can be removed from the RAN share. I'm not sure if you can still be removed (there is a cutoff date planned / we may have reached it) from it but if you register the problem they will likely take a look at your handset in any case.
 
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