Manual Selection

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When in an area that has much better Cingular signal than AT&T signal, I cannot
go to the menu function and manually select Cingular. Does anyone have any
programming knowledge that will allow re-setting the function in the phone to
allow me to do that? I hav read here where people can manually select the
carrier.

The particulars -
An AT&T GSM plan
Nokia 6280 Phone

When I select manual, the phone finds AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile. I cannot
manually select any of them.


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John S.
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[drew]

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I have the MPx 220... is this an ENS-capable phone, with a 64k SIM???
How would I know? I'm totally green to these GSM/GPRS networks... a
defected Verizon customer.

Thanks.

 

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In <20041228141747.08096.00002497@mb-m07.aol.com> on 28 Dec 2004 19:17:47 GMT,
sexyexotiche@aol.comspamfree (John S.) wrote:

>When in an area that has much better Cingular signal than AT&T signal, I cannot
>go to the menu function and manually select Cingular.

Cingular has disabled that through SIM programming.

>Does anyone have any
>programming knowledge that will allow re-setting the function in the phone to
>allow me to do that? I hav read here where people can manually select the
>carrier.
>
>The particulars -
>An AT&T GSM plan
>Nokia 6280 Phone
>
>When I select manual, the phone finds AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile. I cannot
>manually select any of them.

I'm afraid you're out of luck.

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Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

 

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In <gMiAd.14938$_3.173575@typhoon.sonic.net> on Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:48:28 GMT,
John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:

>In <20041228141747.08096.00002497@mb-m07.aol.com> on 28 Dec 2004 19:17:47 GMT,
>sexyexotiche@aol.comspamfree (John S.) wrote:
>
>>When in an area that has much better Cingular signal than AT&T signal, I cannot
>>go to the menu function and manually select Cingular.
>
>Cingular has disabled that through SIM programming.
>
>>Does anyone have any
>>programming knowledge that will allow re-setting the function in the phone to
>>allow me to do that? I hav read here where people can manually select the
>>carrier.
>>
>>The particulars -
>>An AT&T GSM plan
>>Nokia 6280 Phone
>>
>>When I select manual, the phone finds AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile. I cannot
>>manually select any of them.
>
>I'm afraid you're out of luck.

p.s. Cingular's preferred way of dealing with this issue is ENS, but that
takes a ENS-capable phone (which only became available recently) and a 64K SIM
(rather than the prior 32K).

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Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

 

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In <1104268320.512825.170740@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> on 28 Dec 2004
13:12:00 -0800, "Drew" <sunsurfh2o@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I have the MPx 220... is this an ENS-capable phone, with a 64k SIM???

I have no idea.

>How would I know? ...

Ask Cingular Technical Support. (Customer Care may not know.)

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Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

 

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John S. wrote:
> When in an area that has much better Cingular signal than AT&T signal, I cannot
> go to the menu function and manually select Cingular. Does anyone have any
> programming knowledge that will allow re-setting the function in the phone to
> allow me to do that? I hav read here where people can manually select the
> carrier.

AT&T Wireless SIMs do allow you to choose your network.

> The particulars -
> An AT&T GSM plan
> Nokia 6280 Phone
>
> When I select manual, the phone finds AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile. I cannot
> manually select any of them.

I checked the website for a 6280 for United States and Europe, but could
not find that model. Might the phone be a 6820?

Check your user manual, if you have it. It will have a section on
selecting a network, but it will tell you (most likely) that the
particular feature is dependent upon carrier.

TH