prepaid T-mobile not dialing out errors?

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Element_SN - 11 Jun 2007 14:53 GMT

Greetings,
I have T-Mobiles prepaid service, using a V195 phone, and 1000 minutes
paid for up front.
But twice I have had the experience of the T-Mobile system tell me when
I am trying to make a call the my phone can not make out going calls.
Odd, it worked normally before, and hours later it worked normally
again. I called the 611 customer service number, but after waiting and
listening to automated messages for a long time I hung up.

Anyone have any ideas or similar experiences?

-SN

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-= Hawk =- - 11 Jun 2007 17:43 GMT

>Greetings,
>I have T-Mobiles prepaid service, using a V195 phone, and 1000 minutes
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>Anyone have any ideas or similar experiences?

The other day I picked up my phone only to see it was 'locked' for
'Emergency Call Only'. I was able to reach the T-Zones and confirm I
still had over 700 minutes left so I just power cycled the phone and it
worked fine from there. Probably just a systems glitch on their end.

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Element_SN - 11 Jun 2007 19:02 GMT

Cool. Glad to know its note just me. If it happens again I'll try the
power cycle trick.
-SN

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Element_SN - 14 Jun 2007 00:01 GMT

Okay - Here is the solution in my case.
In the phones configuration, under the "Network Speed" settings, my
phone was set to "medium", it needed to be set to "Continuous".
That's it.
-SN

> Cool. Glad to know its note just me. If it happens again I'll try the
> power cycle trick.
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>> still had over 700 minutes left so I just power cycled the phone and it
>> worked fine from there. Probably just a systems glitch on their end.

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Mike S. - 14 Jun 2007 12:46 GMT

>Okay - Here is the solution in my case.
>In the phones configuration, under the "Network Speed" settings, my
>phone was set to "medium", it needed to be set to "Continuous".
>That's it.

That will likely have an adverse effect on your standby-time battery life.

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Element_SN - 14 Jun 2007 13:30 GMT

I had that thought at first too.
However, it is a network speed setting.
Given that the choices were slow, medium, fast, or continuous speed.
I think continuous lets the phone have the flexibility change speeds
to fit the cell that I am in, verses a fixed speed that may not match a
certain cell.
Think of it as "continuous variable". Not continuous on. So far I haven't
seen any difference in battery life.

Of course I reserve the right to wrong :-)

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