Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Posts: 2

Visor phone keeps losing network.

I've been using a visorphone for the last six weeks or so with my visor deluxe. It worked fine for the first month but lately it keeps turning off, apparently because it can't stay connected to the network.

I've learned to do a manual connection to the network, but sometimes it can't even find any network (normally it finds voicestream and 380) to connect to. When it finds voicestream, I can usually register with it and my phone will work, but only for a while.

What I can't figure out is why it used to work reliably but has now stopped. I'm also confused as to why it works well sometimes, but not always. It seems like a voicestream network problem but I have no way to indepently verify that. I'm going to the local voicestream store and see if they will loan me a phone I can slip my SIM into when I can't get my visorphone to connect.

I would expect to travel out of range occasionally when running around town but this keeps happening at home. It will work for a few hours then not for a few hours, then work again. I've replaced my SIM and my visorphone. Voicestream assures me that I have good to excellent coverage at my home location.

Any suggestions or insights?

Registered: Dec 2001
Location:
Posts: 8

Sometimes I have the same problem. Base on my observations, that is likely to happen when you have a poor or null reception and the battery is low.

I thought that the poor reception was an 100% issue with the VP but I tried with several Nokia phones and the reception in my area was really poor and very variable. Sometimes I got from 1 to 2 bars in the reception indicatior.

Other thing you might notice is that your battery life is very short ( max 1 day in "stand by"). I think that;s due the fact that the VP is trying to find the netword when it's disconected resulting in more energy consuption when trying to restablish the connection.

In my area voicestream is really bad (they say the opposite). If I put any GSM phone in my pocket it looses the connection.