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Old 22-02-2008, 16:34
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Couldn't really decide on a title for this, but in case it doesn't make sense I'll explain.

I've just bought a Sony Ericsson K800i on 3. When GSM and 3G are turned on I only get 1 or 2 bars signal strength. But when I turn the phone to GSM only I get full signal.

just wondering if this is normal?
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Old 22-02-2008, 17:32
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probably a different place further away with the 3g transmitter.
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Old 22-02-2008, 18:20
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Take a look at http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk and you will probably find multiple GSM transmitters for your service provider near to your location but only 1 3G base station. Your phone is connecting to the 3G base station as the preferred service.

I live between 300m of a Vodafone 3G base station and only get 1 or 2 bars of signal strength. I did experience continuous disconnections of my 3G data connection but when I disabled ActiveSync on my phone which was connecting using a a different APN to my Wap APN the disconnections stopped.

In summary even though I only get 1 or 2 bars of 3G signal both from my home and out and about I have not had one single data connection disconnect for over 2 weeks and I do make heavy use of 3G data on my W960i.

Sometimes there is a fair bot of lag but so far every page has loaded and I can't fault my data connection.

I wrote about it in my blog at http://myw960i.blogspot.com.
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