Albany, NY: Should my RAZR say EV instead of 1X?

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Roger Neal - 12 Oct 2006 17:26 GMT

A co-worker has the same phone and his is set to EV. My is at 1X. I have
the 450/39.99 plan. I thought you had to pay extra to get this.

tia

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Elector - 12 Oct 2006 17:40 GMT

>A co-worker has the same phone and his is set to EV. My is at 1X. I have
> the 450/39.99 plan. I thought you had to pay extra to get this.
>
> tia

Roger I show EV on my phone using a Razr in Albany NY did you do the *228
SND which is what a co-worker was told to do and he then showed the EV
instead of the 1X. However I cannot see how a Roaming Update would make this
happen. Maybe you should get your phones firmware updated to 4.0 if you have
not already done so.

Elector

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Roger Neal - 12 Oct 2006 21:15 GMT

>>A co-worker has the same phone and his is set to EV. My is at 1X. I
>>have
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> Elector

*228 worked. Not sure if I should thank you or not...have to wait to see
how the battery life is lol.

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Roger Neal - 12 Oct 2006 22:37 GMT

> *228 worked. Not sure if I should thank you or not...have to wait to
> see how the battery life is lol.

Update: Used the procedure at howardforums.com to turn it back to
1X...don't do much web surfing.

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Elector - 13 Oct 2006 13:12 GMT

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> *228 worked. Not sure if I should thank you or not...have to wait to see
> how the battery life is lol.

Roger, I said I thought that it was strange that it actually made the phone
EV. It also as was stated in this thread caused my battery to go from days
without a charge to less than a day. I had to get a new battery and now its
back to days on one charge.

Elector

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Nick Danger - 12 Oct 2006 20:20 GMT

>A co-worker has the same phone and his is set to EV. My is at 1X. I have
> the 450/39.99 plan. I thought you had to pay extra to get this.

Have you monitored it over an extended period of time, including times when
the signal is reasonably strong? Mine is always switching back and forth
between EV and 1X. Even two of the same model of phone in the same place
might have different statuses.

Another possibility - did you get the phone brand new from VZW? There is a
(sort of) known issue (not publicly acknowledged by VZW AFAIK) with EV/1X
and battery life. If you are in a fringe area and switch frequently between
1X and EV, this can run down your battery very quickly. There is a hack
published on some websites that lets you reprogram the phone so that it
always stays in 1X mode, which is supposed to help increase battery life in
such situations. (I tried this fix, and it seemed to help with battery life
but had undesirable side effects.) If you got your phone in any condition
other than brand new, it's possible that the former owner may have applied
this hack.

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