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BaronGrivet

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#133829 4-Nov-2013 13:41
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I gave my Motorola Defy (Telecom XT) to my partner after rebuilding it using Cynogenmod7 (jordan).

Her phone works fine where we live (Nelson) but when she's travelled to smaller areas (St Arnaud, Turangi) it doesn't connect to any mobile network and completely stops working.

When we were in St Arnaud I installed "Defy Baseband Switcher" from the XDA forums: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052745

By changing the baseband we were able to get the phone to connect and work at St Arnaud - but we then had to change it again when we got back to Nelson.

Turangi/ Taupo has been even more problematic with the phone dropping and picking up networks as she travelled around the Lake Taupo area.

Ideally we'd like a setting that works across the entire 2degrees network. Is that possible?

Here are the available baseband settings the app has:

 

  • South Korea SKT 3.4.2-74 @ 2100MHz
  • China ME722 1.10 @ 850/1900/2100MHz
  • US T-Mobile 3.4.2-107-4 @ 850/1700/2100MHz
  • US T-Mobile 3.4.2-107-9 @ 850/1700/2100MHz
  • US T-Mobile 6.xx.0 @ 850/1700/2100MHz
  • Australia Telstra 2.26.0 @ 850/2100MHz
  • Brazil Claro 3.4.2_107-7 @ 850/2100MHz
  • Brazil Claro 6.14.5 @ 850/2100MHz
  • Brazil Vivo 3.4.2_107-9 @ 850/2100MHz
  • China 2.5.0_2.6.0_2.10.0 @ 850/2100MHz
  • China RT 0.26.0_1.11.0 @ 850/2100MHz
  • International RT 2.5x @ 850/2100MHz
  • Australia OPTUS 3.4.2-145 @ 900/2100MHz
  • Central Europe Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Poland 2.51.x Arabia 2.54.0 @ 900/2100MHz
  • Central Europe Hong Kong, Taiwan, Arabia, France, Nordic 3.4.x United Kingdom 4.5.1-85 @ 900/2100MHz
  • Central Europe RT 2.34.0 @ 900/2100MHz
  • Europe RT 3.4.2-145 @ 900/2100MHz
  • France Germany, Austria, Switzerland RT 2.21.0 @ 900/2100MHz
  • France Orange 3.4.2_164-5 @ 900/2100MHz
  • France Vodafone 3.4.2_164-3 @ 900/2100MHz
  • Hong Kong, Taiwan Optus SEA 2.59.0 @ 900/2100MHz
  • Italia RT 2.51.1 @ 900/2100MHz
  • Poland Orange 2.51.1 @ 900/2100MHz
  • Poland Orange 3.4.2-131 @ 900/2100MHz
  • United Kingdom RT 2.51.1 @ 900/2100MHz
  • United Kingdom RT 3.4.2-117 @ 900/2100MHz
  • United Kingdom RT 3.4.3-3 @ 900/2100MHz
  • United Kingdom RT 3.4.3-11 @ 900/2100MHz
  • United Kingdom T-Mobile 2.21.0 @ 900/2100MHz
  • United Kingdom T-Mobile 2.51.1 @ 900/2100MHz
  • Argentina Claro 3.4.2_107-9 @ 850/1900MHz
  • Argentina Personal 3.4.2_107-7 @ 850/1900MHz
  • Argentina RT 6.14.7 @ 850/1900MHz
  • Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, India, South Africa RT SEA15 3.4.3-331 @ 900/2100MHz
  • New: Brazil RT 3.4.2-107 @ 850/2100MHz
  • New: Columbia RT 3.4.2-107 @ 850/1900MHz
  • New: Brazil Tim 3.4.2-107-9 @ 850/2100MHz
Thank you in advance

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  #926996 4-Nov-2013 13:49
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Ideally you want one with 900/2100 3G, but switching the baseband software cannot change the bands supported in hardware - & IIRC the Telecom Defy does not support 900MHz 3G.




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  #927004 4-Nov-2013 13:56
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If it's not on the chipset then a baseband change is not going to help,

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  #927400 5-Nov-2013 08:45
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Ah - OK, that makes a lot more sense.

Weird that I could get it to connect in St Arnaud (and briefly in Turangi). I'm guessing it must of been picking up secondary/ alternative networks.

Now to work out what phone to get her instead!

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