Okay ...I've had it..Who has a good cell phone?? I got "The Rock" thru Verizon.. Supposed to be a tough , great reception phone...P.O.S.!!!I have an "X" marked on the floor where it almost works..Granted , I'm in a steel building where I work, but one of the other guys has a "Rock" and walks his happy arse all over the building without losing cell service..This is my 2nd "Rock"..1st one was sent back for the same reason...I've done the star 228 without any noticeable improvement..What do you have that works in a steel building ???? Thanks, PO'd in Painesville
- Thread starter Roy Suomi
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I've got a sanyo from sprint,it's mounted in rubber.I dropped it 10 ft to the cement from a bucket lift and it still works.Mine works inside a steel building,i work in one all day long.
people with verison are always borrowing my phone cause there's won't work in the building.
people with verison are always borrowing my phone cause there's won't work in the building.
Roy, Have you thought the problem Might be your cell service provider? Ask the guy who walks around your Bld and never looses service who his provider.
EX....At My Home out in the sticks ATT kept saying Yes we have GREAT coverage there, In reality ATT will not work at all, in my home! Get 50 yrds down the road and it wormed great, just Not at my home!!!!
Little ol T-Mobile at the time of their start up worked great inside my home, Guess who my provider is.....T-mobile
Roy all I am saying is it may not be all the phones fault.
I run an old Motorola Razor I an getting along with it well, But Motorola quit making them about 7 months ago so I will have to be finding a new phone sometime in the future. I need big buttons for my big ol fat fingers! LOL! Hope this helps!
Later,
John A.
EX....At My Home out in the sticks ATT kept saying Yes we have GREAT coverage there, In reality ATT will not work at all, in my home! Get 50 yrds down the road and it wormed great, just Not at my home!!!!
Little ol T-Mobile at the time of their start up worked great inside my home, Guess who my provider is.....T-mobile
Roy all I am saying is it may not be all the phones fault.
I run an old Motorola Razor I an getting along with it well, But Motorola quit making them about 7 months ago so I will have to be finding a new phone sometime in the future. I need big buttons for my big ol fat fingers! LOL! Hope this helps!
Later,
John A.
the tractor vet
Well-known Member
Well the phone i have is a little no nothing phone that has not texing no this or that and works everywhere . The War Dept's phone has all the squeaks and giggles and will not even work in WalMarts. where as mine will. Hers is on Sprint and mine is with US Cellular. It just works .
47farmallM
Member
i used to go threw phone like crazy, i broke the i phone,razor and anything else you threw at me. so i bought a rugby and man that thing is indestructible. i have put it threw hell and it works great.
Oh come on .... How stupid do you think I am ???....Of course I've tried the tin foil hat.. That's one of the first things that's taught to us as children....I have also tried the very thin candles rolled up in tin foil and stuck in my ears.LIT ..Seriously....We're both on Verizon so I would think the phones should work the same...I've lost calls , sometimes voicemail picks it up and sometimes it doesn't...I spent big bucks on this so called super phone...I don't text , I don't take pictures with the phone....All I want to do is talk to someone when the phone rings.......
Anonymous-0
Well-known Member
phone service I believe is a little different here but the phone themselves should be the same...
I never use my phone but expect it to work when needed and went thru plenty of borrowed ones trying to find the right one.
Ended up witha samsunggte-1150i that was about 20 bucks new with a prepay card. No camera or gps but haven't found a place that it doesn't work and it lasts almost a month on a charge. Fits in a pants or bibs pocket and rings loud. Clamshell prevents unwanted dialling in the pocket.
Cell phones don't work in our house or within about 50 ft of it because of proximity to other buildings. This one works fine though and cheap enough that noone will steal it.........
Dave
Cell phones are not all created equally. Some receive/transmit better than others. Some have quirks like how you hold them makes a difference...
Cell signals to and from the towers are subject to all kinds of quirks of nature, and can change rapidly even in strong signal areas. Towers themselves can vary greatly in their communications ability, and strength. Then there's the particular carrier you're using. Some may favor a particular area, and another carrier may be useless there.
Add factors like shielding from foliage, buildings, metal siding, irregularities in the earth's surface, hills, valleys, basements, etc.
In short, it's a CRAP SHOOT.
About the best you can do is interview numerous users, see who's happiest in the area you want to use, and go with their carrier.
That's what I did.... Went with a smaller company called Centennial. Were fairly well satisfied. Darn if they didn't get bought out by by one of the biggies, AT&T. Service didn't change much, as Centennial was backing up their service with AT&T towers. Then AT&T went to retrofitting some towers to 3G service, Things went downhill from there. Finally had to force them to give us new phones as old ones were almost useless.
Cell signals to and from the towers are subject to all kinds of quirks of nature, and can change rapidly even in strong signal areas. Towers themselves can vary greatly in their communications ability, and strength. Then there's the particular carrier you're using. Some may favor a particular area, and another carrier may be useless there.
Add factors like shielding from foliage, buildings, metal siding, irregularities in the earth's surface, hills, valleys, basements, etc.
In short, it's a CRAP SHOOT.
About the best you can do is interview numerous users, see who's happiest in the area you want to use, and go with their carrier.
That's what I did.... Went with a smaller company called Centennial. Were fairly well satisfied. Darn if they didn't get bought out by by one of the biggies, AT&T. Service didn't change much, as Centennial was backing up their service with AT&T towers. Then AT&T went to retrofitting some towers to 3G service, Things went downhill from there. Finally had to force them to give us new phones as old ones were almost useless.
guido
Well-known Member
Hello Roy Suomi,
My vote is for a Samsung, the model I have is a convoy.
Dropped it a few times on the concrete no problem.
Most of the pictures I post I take with the cell phone. I am the only one that can talk at my neighbor's house. Electric heating elements for the heater makes it bad for all the people that try to use a cell phone there.
I have Verizon also. The 228 thing is for adding towers as they go on line.
Guido.
My vote is for a Samsung, the model I have is a convoy.
Dropped it a few times on the concrete no problem.
Most of the pictures I post I take with the cell phone. I am the only one that can talk at my neighbor's house. Electric heating elements for the heater makes it bad for all the people that try to use a cell phone there.
I have Verizon also. The 228 thing is for adding towers as they go on line.
Guido.
Didn't like my idea of the booster, eh?
If the main issue is reliable service inside the steel building, as you mention in your first post, SERIOUSLY, you wouldn't believe how a booster will solve that problem.
I put up with it for years 'til I finally bought and installed a booster about a month ago.
REALLY sorry I didn't do it sooner!
As an added benefit, your handset lowers it's power output exposing you to less RF radiation at close range AND the battery life goes WAY up.
If the main issue is reliable service inside the steel building, as you mention in your first post, SERIOUSLY, you wouldn't believe how a booster will solve that problem.
I put up with it for years 'til I finally bought and installed a booster about a month ago.
REALLY sorry I didn't do it sooner!
As an added benefit, your handset lowers it's power output exposing you to less RF radiation at close range AND the battery life goes WAY up.
jim johnson
Well-known Member
When we got Verizon they were the best, then after 2 months we couldn't hardly use them. Had a Convoy and it worked great and then went south on me. A friend of mine has the same phone and it still works great for him, didn't make sense to me or him. I will say this for Verizon, after just 3&1/2 months they let us out of the contract, they apoligized, said no service no charge.
Jim
Jim
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