Motorola V551 System Selection

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Thank you. I called customer service and they indicate that the
"engineers" can do this, but it may take 24 to 48 hours!

Then I did an experiment ... Turns out that I currently have a Nokia
6800 with Pacific Bell SIM and now my new Moto V551 with Cingular SIM.
On the old Nokia with PacBell, I can manually select system. I swapped
the SIMs and lo and behold, was not able to select system on the Nokia!
So now I find out that system selection is a feature that is enabled in
the SIM, damn them. With the Pac Bell SIM in the Motorola I now see a
plethora of system selection choices that I have never observed on my
Nokia; I even saw a long list of systems which I beleive is the list of
all GSM systems that the Pac Bell SIM has encountered over the last few
years. Very interesting. Are you sure I can't hack into this stuff with
a technician code?

Regarding other question, no, I do not play quake, I am a seismologist.


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Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

In article <d04n7r$mvo$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Mike S. <retsuhcs@xinap.moc> wrote:
>
>In article <quakeguy.1l95hm@WiFi-Forum_dot_com>,
>quakeguy <quakeguy.1l95hm@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote:
>>
>>Thank you. I called customer service and they indicate that the
>>"engineers" can do this, but it may take 24 to 48 hours!
>>
>>Then I did an experiment ... Turns out that I currently have a Nokia
>>6800 with Pacific Bell SIM and now my new Moto V551 with Cingular SIM.
>>On the old Nokia with PacBell, I can manually select system. I swapped
>>the SIMs and lo and behold, was not able to select system on the Nokia!
>>So now I find out that system selection is a feature that is enabled in
>>the SIM, damn them.
>
>I believe I told you that in my previous response :-)
>
>>With the Pac Bell SIM in the Motorola I now see a
>>plethora of system selection choices that I have never observed on my
>>Nokia; I even saw a long list of systems which I beleive is the list of
>>all GSM systems that the Pac Bell SIM has encountered over the last few
>>years. Very interesting. Are you sure I can't hack into this stuff with
>>a technician code?
>
>I doubt it.

Actually ... let me revise that.

The system selection lockout is directed by the SIM code, but implemented
by the phone. For the Motorola phones, I wouldn't be surprised if there is
a seem edit that could toggle the phone's response to this command. You'd
need a data cable and appropriate software.