Hello All
Just a quick question to see if anyone had got the SX56 to work in South Africa. Currently running on 3.17.03ENG but alas no Phone signal as yet after some hair raising experiences with Flash ROM
Your help would be much appreciated
You need to change the band to 900MHz. The SX56 automatically defaults to 1900.
Phone Options More
I had exactly the same problem in SA. I found that sometimes, getting to the more options is a problem. If you have this issue, you can get to the GSM bootloader (by pressing the power swtch while soft-resetting and then pressing the task hardware button) and change it to 900/1800.
This should work fine.
SX56 in South Africa
Thanks guys for the advice
But alas no joy with reseting to GSM and a Cold reset it STILL says NO service when I look at the connectivity bar and not able to find a network when searching for it either
I guess it's cause I upgraded to the wrong Radio Stack (4.21.00) version last week. Which was a bit silly on my part. I guess that there is no turning back to another Radio Stack?
Pity I was really forward to using the GPRS - in RSA
Just to be clear, I have a rom kitchen 1.2 rom, and an o2 uk xda. When I switch to 1900 nothing happens? In fact, none of the three bands work?
I did a search on this and it says that an international call bar has to be lifted by o2 to enable calls from usa on their sim, they give this
number to call to check if this is enabled, might help. 0870 860 860
xda band switching tool
My Simm card works in other tri band phones here, so the ban has been lifted, any other clues?
Have you tried changing bands using the bootloader method? Dont know if that will help but it is worth a try.
I don't know how to use the bootloader method? Can you tell me how?
Press the stylus into the reset button on bottom left (screen facing you) of the xda, while holding down the on/off key, this will put you in bootloader mode, then press the right hand key pad at the top of the screen, choose from there. You will see all the options gsm900 gsm1900 gsm900/1800, hope this helps.
I have done that and still nothing. However, i don't know how to exit the mode properly, all I do is reset the phone again, is their a proper way to exit this tool?
From this site.
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DEBUG/CALI.
GSM TURN ON
GSM TURN OFF
GSM RESET
GSM 900
GSM 1900
GSM 900/1800
GSM RFCAL
GSM NORMAL
Now these look a lot nicer than they may be. We still haven't tested whether the device is actually a tri-band phone that is just software-limited to being a dual-band phone, but postings on the net seem to indicate that it is not actually a tri-band phone. But even though we think we know, we still need someone with access to a European phone in the U.S. or vice-versa to test this. We haven't tried, and we strongly advise against trying "DEBUG/CALI.", "GSM RFCAL" and possibly even "GSM RESET", unless you really don't care about the device. Options like these are used in factories where they have lots of expensive RF equipment to calibrate each individual phone. If you don't listen and still want to try these options, make sure you keep a good log of what happens, and please do tell us!
Over the next menu, this time after starting the bootloader and pressing the 'Action button', which is the center of the rocker key below the screen. This time, it quickly reports the GSM was already on, and then displays:
Hej there,
i am using a htc tytn/herm200, after upgrading to wm6 i noticed that my vodafone sim only accepts UMTS(2100) ????
Reception is really poor here on umts so there is actually no use for me to have UMTS on.
When i try to set network type to GSM it does not find any network and i have to soft reset (goes back to G3)
the only setting on the gsm/umts-band which works is gsm(900+1800)+UMTS(2100). If try to set it to gsm only (network type) then it finds nothing so i come to the conclusion that only umts(2100) works.
Tried several roms and radio's but the same problem exists..
My tytn is not stolen (checked it), anyone got a clue?
orange and tmobile cards do work fine in the tytn, kpn does not find anything?
thanxssssss
At work we have a Vodafone SureSignal as the normal mobile reception is rubbish. SureSignal has been working fine for some months with all phones including my HD2, but the box packed up last week. We have been sent a new box which was not picking up my handset. I phoned Vodafone and was advised to change the band selection from 'Auto' to 'UMTS(2100+900)'. Sure enough my phone connected to the device.
However, I understood that that would mean it would only connect where there is a 3G signal, so I tried selecting GSM(900+1800)+UMTS(2100+900) and that worked. But now that doesn't work and I can only connect to the SureSignal by selecting UMTS band only.
Does this mean anything to anyone, and can anyone advise whether there is anything I can do that means I don't have to keep changing the band selection on my phone manually every time I enter / leave the office? Is the box not doing something which is why my phone isn't picking up the 3G signal (I have no problem with 3G elsewhere)?
Thanks.
Cut a long story short, got a new Z2, could not get 4G, so being inquisitive dialled *#*#4636#*#*, got into the tesing menu, went to phone information, set radio band and set it to the only option available, USA band (Set GSM/UMTS band)...and as a result I have a red x on top the signal bars...
I hope some one can help me rectify this.