surely this can't be? (signal issue)

SooTyLaD

SooTyLaD

SooTyLaD

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This is a really wierd problem... I have never had a good signal in my house (in fact it was unusable unless you went and stood out in the road...)

I thought it was just the house so stayed with orange despite hardly getting any use out of it :rolleyes:

Now, when I got my iPhone and moved over to o2 for the first time in three years I had a full signal everywhere in my house :) but this was on the temporary number...

Today my PAC code kicked in and my old number got ported, but god knows how my signal has gone crap again :(

How is this even possible it's just a number isn't it?

Hardly anyone can get much of a signal here so naturally I think it is the house, but I though I'd struck gold until today assuming that maybe the size of the iPhone had somthing to do with it but obviously not...

Can anyone shed any light :confused:
 
The 3G signal is always only a couple of bars for most people, if you turn it off you should get full bars/most bars.

However, that doesn't really answer your question. The signal going bad could be anything, could be the weather.
 
Very odd. Everyone I know who has Orange is always having signal problems, for example there was no signal for Orange users at all across my whole university campus when I was there.

God knows why your signal has gone bad... Orange coming back to haunt you? :D
 
Actually, i was told, when you port your mobile number, it still stays with the original network and the calls are just routed to the new one. The UK is the only country to do this iirc and it is causing some serious issues as people bounce around a lot of providers these days.

This would imply you are still sitting on the orange network and there signals, so makes a lot of sense.

Bit if a bummer for you though.
 
Slightly off topic, but can I ask how long it took for your number to transfer over? I realise they are gonna be busy, but that's 3 days I've been waiting now after receiving an e-mail stating it would be done within 48 hours.
 
I had to get a few mobiles done in work from vodafone to BT mobile. took just over 2 days to get the pac code and taking even longer to get it into BT mobile.

but BT are ****s though.
 
Memphis said:
Slightly off topic, but can I ask how long it took for your number to transfer over? I realise they are gonna be busy, but that's 3 days I've been waiting now after receiving an e-mail stating it would be done within 48 hours.
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Rang up o2 on the monday, received a text on the tuesday saying it would be done wednesday morning at 9am. The guy on the phone recommended i turned my phone off for that day to let it do it's thing. Turned it on at about 2 ish and it was done.
 
SooTyLaD said:
yeah, maybe the orange number (originally) carries with I'd bad karma :(
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Have you lost all data services at the moment? I mean GPRS, EDGE and 3G because that would probably explain it. My number has just been ported today and my phone is not using the 3G network at the moment and my signal strength has gone down where as it is normally higher and on 3G (the iPhone dynamically switches to the fastest network it can find). The porting process kills all data services - the reason they tell you text messaging will not work immediatly after the transfer (text messages are sent as data not voice). Just wait a few hours and it should sort itself out and don't forget to reboot the iPhone, this is very important.
 
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Actually, i was told, when you port your mobile number, it still stays with the original network and the calls are just routed to the new one. The UK is the only country to do this iirc and it is causing some serious issues as people bounce around a lot of providers these days.

This would imply you are still sitting on the orange network and there signals, so makes a lot of sense.

Bit if a bummer for you though.
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noooooooo :( that would explain it but what a b****!!!

I'll give them a call and hope they can sort it...
 
SooTyLaD said:
noooooooo :( that would explain it but what a b****!!!

I'll give them a call and hope they can sort it...
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I'd phone them, but if that is the case then there is nothing they will be able to do, other than issue you with an O2 number i am afraid, as it is the system in the UK, not just an operator system or the way some want to work to be lazy. Sucks mate.

I had a wee nosey and found this, it gives a wee bit more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_number_portability

It is strange how the UK are actually quite high up in mobile technology (compared to somewhere like the US) yet we use such and awful system to deal with numbers.
 
:( - right, i've spoken to o2 and the woman denied any knowledge that the number sticks with its original network, she wouldn't have any of it :(

really don't know what do do about this... transferring to o2 and finding that i actually had a full signal in my house after 3 years was a real breath of fresh air, but as much as i love the iphone, it is imperative that i retain my number :(

gutted.
 
JUMPURS said:
This would imply you are still sitting on the orange network and there signals, so makes a lot of sense.
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That seems ridiculously obscure. I can understand that Orange may still own his old number and thet when people dial it, the call gets routed to Orange then Orange redirect it to O2 but to send out the signal via Orange's network just seems silly, this can't be the way it works.

SooTyLaD - did you read my post above because my problems went away after I got my data services back (indicated by the '3G', 'E' and a '.' in the titlebar of the phone).
 
RobH said:
SooTyLaD - did you read my post above because my problems went away after I got my data services back (indicated by the '3G', 'E' and a '.' in the titlebar of the phone).
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yeah i've got them back now but i still can't send texts so i'm thinking the transition is still going on...

i'll give it a day or so and see how it goes, if the signal stays rubbish i'm going to have to make a decision between the iphone and a good signal, and my old number :(
 
JUMPURS said:
This would imply you are still sitting on the orange network and there signals, so makes a lot of sense.
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This is wrong, he will be using O2's network. Orange will still do some msisdn routing for the number but he certainly won't be on their network anymore, there would be no point leaving a provider for bad service if that was the case. And who would he ring for customer service if he has call drop outs etc? :D
 
I don't see how this has anything to do with the number portability issue. You'll be using O2's network whether you port a number to them or not. Yes, the original provider of the number will do some routing but it's not going to have any effect upon your signal.

I am curious about what happens if you port from one network to another then back again. Do you end up with a slightly eccentric routing system where one network routes you to the other then back again, or do they detect this and just use the original network all along?
 
PinkPig said:
You'll be using O2's network whether you port a number to them or not.
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That's what I thought, from what JUMPURS implied you would be using the network you ported the number from which doesn't make any sense at all. The routing to the other network doesn't make sense either but I guess that it's the way they currently have the infrastructure setup.
 
May be silly, but have you switched it on and off?

This morning, I was on my way into work and couldn't get a signal at all on the train, then when I got to work in Central London, I still couldn't get anything more than GSM, with no data icon.

I switched it off and on and 3G came straight up.... so may be some bugs still.
 
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