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Cellular Phone Forum / General / GSM / August 2004Need US version of GDFS for my Sony-Ericsson T610
Hi Guys, Soon after getting my Sony-Ericsson T610 I immediately noticed the very poor reception of the phone. So I updated the firmware of the phone with some new versions (R4C003 & R6C005) but I am still having the reception problems. I cannot make a call or receive a call from my home or the office even when phone is displaying 2-3 bars on the signal meter. Though I have no problems at all with my Nokia 3650 and Mitsubishi G310 phones being used on same locations. Let me explain this a bit: first I get 2 or 3 bars then I dial a number, as soon I finish dialing the number those signal bars disappear from the screen and then my phone quit dialing the number and take me back to list of recently dialed numbers. Though I can dial a number successfully when I am close to a tower and I am getting full strength signal. Same thing happens when I dial my T610 number from my land line phone, as soon as I dial to my T610, signal bars disappear from T610 screen and my call is forwarded to voice mail. Now I don't know if this is happening due to poor reception of the phone or if the antenna on the T610 is damaged. I have flashed my phone with 'T610 Original GDFS Area' file from www.cellular-support.com. Now I was wondering if I can get a US or Canadian version of GDFS firmware as a last ditch option, it may solve this problem. So I would appreciate if anyone can please let me know where I can get a US T-mobile or Canadian Rogers T610 GDFS firmware. Or if someone has a backup GDFS file I would appreciate if you can please send it to me. My e-mail is rugal74@yahoo dot com. Thanks guys. >Soon after getting my Sony-Ericsson T610 I immediately noticed the very >poor reception of the phone. Well, my freind, you are among all the other victims of SE purchases. They have a lot of good to great features - one of which is NOT good reception. Poor reception is well known and a SE phone probably shouldn't be purchased if you want to actually make and receive calls. -- John S. e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net > Well, my freind, you are among all the other victims of SE purchases. They have > a lot of good to great features - one of which is NOT good reception. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > John S. > e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net Well I was kind of aware of week signal reception problems of Sony-Ericsson phones and that's why I stayed away from T68i. But I had an impression that SE might have fixed these reception problems in next generation of phones. But my T610 is unreal, as it is completely unusable. Now I have the phone for 4 days and I have been able to make only 4 or 5 calls from T610 so far. I don't think a $250 list price handset should behave in this way. Now flashing the phone set with T-mobile GDFS file is kind of a last ditch option cause my phone shows 2-3 signal bars on the screen but as soon as I dial any number those bars disappear and my phone quit dialing the number. Since this is a T-mobile issued T610 phone, I thought that flashing the phone with T-mobile GDFS might help. Does anyone else has any suggestions..... I would appreciate if someone can please send me this GDFS file. Thanks. Rhoniel > Now flashing the phone set with T-mobile GDFS file is kind of a last > ditch option cause my phone shows 2-3 signal bars on the screen but as > soon as I dial any number those bars disappear and my phone quit dialing > the number. Since this is a T-mobile issued T610 phone, I thought that > flashing the phone with T-mobile GDFS might help. I don't think so. Try bring tyour T610 to SonyEricsson service. They have special equipment for adjusting mobile phones. >Does anyone else has any suggestions..... I would appreciate if someone >can please send me this GDFS file. Although not "else", I would suggest that you get your money back and get a Nokia or Samsung. Both of which have excellent reception. -- John S. e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net > > Well, my freind, you are among all the other victims of SE > purchases. They have > > a lot of good to great features - one of which is NOT good reception. > > > > Poor reception is well known and a SE phone probably shouldn't be purchased if > > you want to actually make and receive calls. > Well I was kind of aware of week signal reception problems of > Sony-Ericsson phones and that's why I stayed away from T68i. But I had [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > the number. Since this is a T-mobile issued T610 phone, I thought that > flashing the phone with T-mobile GDFS might help. Not sure why you think the GDFS will help. This is clearly not just a case of poor reception on this model phone. Just to make sure, I assume that this situation occurs when you have 2-3 bars of reception for an operator that you can actually use? Ie, the phone is not displaying "SOS calls only" or similar? Sounds more like a damaged phone to me.. >> Well, my freind, you are among all the other victims of SE purchases. They have >> a lot of good to great features - one of which is NOT good reception. >> >> Poor reception is well known and a SE phone probably shouldn't be purchased if >> you want to actually make and receive calls. How silly. While there have been some CE phones with mediocre radio performance (e.g., T68i), just like other manufacturers, most have good-to-excellent performance (e.g., T39m). >Well I was kind of aware of week signal reception problems of >Sony-Ericsson phones and that's why I stayed away from T68i. But I had [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >only 4 or 5 calls from T610 so far. I don't think a $250 list price >handset should behave in this way. Of course not. The T610 is a pretty good phone (albeit a bit dated -- why not get a more current model?). You probably have a defective handset -- get it repaired or replaced under warranty. >Now flashing the phone set with T-mobile GDFS file is kind of a last >ditch option Firmware alone is very unlikely to fix your problem, as you have already discovered. >cause my phone shows 2-3 signal bars on the screen but as >soon as I dial any number those bars disappear and my phone quit dialing >the number. Since this is a T-mobile issued T610 phone, I thought that >flashing the phone with T-mobile GDFS might help. Probably not. >Does anyone else has any suggestions..... Repair or replacement. >I would appreciate if someone >can please send me this GDFS file. Thanks. Bad idea -- not only would that infringe the copyright, you might get a hacked file that would only make things worse.  SignatureBest regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES: John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular |
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