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k-Jam not picking up any signal in Europe? Any ideas?

I use my K-Jam in the US normally (T-Mobile is my provider).
I'm in Europe and I'm not getting any signal at all (even when I try and manually select a network I get nothing listed)
Has anyone seen this problem before?
Anyone have any ideas of what to do?
Is there something special to do to put it in quad-band mode?
Thanks.

dfoody said:
I use my K-Jam in the US normally (T-Mobile is my provider).
I'm in Europe and I'm not getting any signal at all (even when I try and manually select a network I get nothing listed)
Has anyone seen this problem before?
Anyone have any ideas of what to do?
Is there something special to do to put it in quad-band mode?
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maybe you don't have roaming service enabled with your operator?

That's not possible since even if he doesn't int'l roaming activated, his K-JAM should still display a list of networks. dfoody, have you tried another SIM card? I'm not too familiar with the K-JAM's setup concerning the possibility of manually selecting bands. Very few PPCs have this ability, the only one I know of that had this option was the Siemens SX56.
You might try another SIM card first to see if that is the problem. You might also need to consider a soft reset to ensure your K-JAM isn't somehow stuck. This works wonders sometimes and then the PPC works like a charm.

The problem is on the US provider. If your sim is not enabled to roaming it will not work and will not display local providers.
I tested this when i traveled to brazil using a mexican sim (giving me your problem), changed with my italian sim (enabled to roaming) and the local providers appeared when searched.
Wizard switch automatically the radio frequencies.

True enough, when I went to Germany, I had to call T-Mo first and activate international roaming. But only the first time, it always grabs a signal before I land now.
TRIBAND: Mein Deutsch ist schlecht, aber wie es in Koeln geht? Ich könnte über für das kommen INTERMOT, International Trade Fair for Motorcycles and Scooters, October 6 to 14, 2006.

Problem resolved
Thanks everyone. I tried a friend's T-Mobile US SIM and everything worked fine.
I talked with T-Mo customer care, and my account was already setup for international roaming (and I had been using it in Canada a lot), but apparently there was some discrepancy (which the rep didn't detail).
Once he corrected that, the k-Jam picked up the signal almost immediately.

Good to hear, enjoy your German roaming experience

At least it works the other way round. When landing in the states, my phone grabs a signal in seconds

Battery / Accu drain when using ActiveSync Push from Exchange 2003 SP2

Hello All,
I'm having the oppertunity to try before buy a HTC MTeoR. I'm using a Flatfee FairUse T-Mobile UMTS subscription. Last night I've installed Several Smartphone apps and was amazed by the speed en buttons! Good Job.
The MTeoR was empty when i went for bed and i placed it on the charger for the whole night, This morning it is full. Now, 5 hours later, the battery is 15 %...
UMTS sign is on all the time and it keeps synced (HTTP Push Based) with an Exchange 2003 SP2 server. I've also installed a Hotmail account, I'm unsure if the Hotmail account is synced as well on Push or Pull basis.
Is it normal that the Battery drains just by lying around on my desk, I haven't placed any calls, it's only lying.
Regards Tom from Netherlands

Hallo,
Even in het nederlands, is wat simpeler.
Het beste is, als je geen umts sim heb, je telefoon op gsm netwerk te zetten.
Ik heb gelezen dat , wanneer hij constant naar umts netwerk zoekt, de batterij snel leeg is.
Verder zet ik hem altijd in de "blokkeer toetsen", daar het scherm dat donker is.
Die je bovenstaand niet zal de batterij het geen dag uithouden !!
Ik sync ook met een exchange server maar dat maakt weinig uit.
Succes.

Hoi JHWO
I Will answer in English thanx for your info, I;m curious if you still know the website or forum which desribes the UMTS drain. I think it's rediculious that UMTS drains... I have T-Mobile and they allow UMTS speeds (it's limited to 64/kb - 64/kb) of available in the area, it will switch back to GPRS when UMTS is not available.
So I should perform a test with the MTeoR with GPRS only and check if the battery still drains.
I;m unsure what you mean with : " Verder zet ik hem altijd in de "blokkeer toetsen", daar het scherm dat donker is. " The screen and particulary the Keyboard light go off real soon allready.
"Die je bovenstaand niet zal de batterij het geen dag uithouden !!" I try to interper this as, UMTS and Exchange Push, will not give good battery results.
As reminder, If you have the website or forum which describes the UMTS 'search' problem which cause Battery drain I will like to see it
Regards Tom

I can only concurr. I normally use my MTeoR in Sweden and using UMTS I get almost 1 day of battery life if I don't talk or sync. I I do that I need to load the phone at work. Now when I have been down at Fuerteventura and only been able to run GSM/GPRS I get atleast 2 days battery time. A huge difference.
One strange thing with this is that if I compare to a Samsung 3G phone I have it always gives me longer batterytimes and also better reception on the same network.

UMTS is 2100 MHz, GSM 900 or 850 or 1900 but in all cases lower frequency
Lower frequency = higher power drain, so UMTS should cause your battery to work longer standbys and talks
DATA on the other hand is rather demanding on 3G networks, so you can expect it to drain the battery in a metter of hours if constantly used

jsp_m said:
UMTS is 2100 MHz, GSM 900 or 850 or 1900 but in all cases lower frequency
Lower frequency = higher power drain, so UMTS should cause your battery to work longer standbys and talks
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I would have said the opposite. The higher the frequency, the more the radio waves behave like light - goes in straight lines and can be blocked by objects. The phone needs to compensate by increasing the power.
My own experience is that even with the phone on standby only, the battery times is significantly longer on GMS.

staffann said:
I would have said the opposite. The higher the frequency, the more the radio waves behave like light - goes in straight lines and can be blocked by objects. The phone needs to compensate by increasing the power.
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I said the correct thing, and this opposite does not hold the water, but should have been clearer:
the higher the freq, the tighter the operator's BTS grid should be, therefore, less stretching for the phone... Im not making it up, it a common knowledge..

3G on Telfort / KPN

Hi all,
Did anyone get 3G (HSDPA / UMTS should be both supported on these networks!) to work on the Telfort / KPN (Dutch) network?
It seems with the default network settings it does not pick up 3G, only GPRS / EDGE?
Regards,
Nika.

I've got no problem using both 3g and HSDPA. The connection is called GPRS though, maybe that's the confusing part. When using them, there are symbols 3G and H in the top of the screen. Good luck

I am sure you know this, but nevertheless: if you do not take out a data subscription, KPN/Telfort have disabled UMTS; you will then ONLY get gprs.
nikagl said:
Hi all,
Did anyone get 3G (HSDPA / UMTS should be both supported on these networks!) to work on the Telfort / KPN (Dutch) network?
It seems with the default network settings it does not pick up 3G, only GPRS / EDGE?
Regards,
Nika.
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You also need to request a new UMTS enabled simcard.

check you rom version, if it does not depend on your provider
So far 3G for works for me only with Radio rom at least 1.27.12.17 and OS >= 1.56.406.5.
Have run Radio rom 1.27.12.11 for a long time and no 3G connection @ all regardless of data or voice.
With radio 1.27.12.17 some calls on 3G were possible, but still more outages then connections.
Now I tried the french OS (1.56.406.5) together with radio 1.27.12.11 and for 4 hours 3G is stable. This is not very mature, but it is a tendency that it is not the radio rom only that trobles the 3G connections.

@all: Thanks for the tips, yes, UMTS/HSDPA needed to be enabled (remotely) on the SIM (even though I had enabled Max Online on my subscription).
@dauphinas365: Does this unstable 3G connection mean that you are unreachable when 3G is connected (which is the case on my Kaiser)?

How can I check what kind of connection (GPRS / UMTS) has been setup?
Mobile: Tytn II (Kaiser)
Provider: Telfort + Surf&Mail

3G connect with KPN on my phone.
And gsm connect wiht Telfort on my phone.
So i have:
3G KPN NL TELFORT NL. :S

xmoo said:
3G connect with KPN on my phone.
And gsm connect wiht Telfort on my phone.
So i have:
3G KPN NL TELFORT NL. :S
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Yeah, same here. But officially you should be able to be called during 3G, but in my case the caller gets a busy tone...
Can someone reach you when you're on 3G?

nikagl said:
Yeah, same here. But officially you should be able to be called during 3G, but in my case the caller gets a busy tone...
Can someone reach you when you're on 3G?
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Havn't tried it yet.

The magic H

Despite I`m in an area where HSDPA is provided my Kaiser shows only a 3g not a H - but when I go under data connection the H is shown !
On my Tytn I had a ROM where the H was shwon without a data connection !
Does anyone know how to solve this ???
Thanks
myrin

You dont want it to be fixed. The H should only show when there is data transferring and the cell you are in is using HSDPA to send packets to your device.

Yes but at some german Kaisers you can see the H but mine doesn`t show it ???

need to enable it
i used kaiser tweak...see the stickies in this forum.

peter7 said:
Yes but at some german Kaisers you can see the H but mine doesn`t show it ???
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You said it shows it when there is data flow. That is the correct behaviour.

no, because others do have the H before connecting to the data connection - I assume it is a matter of ROM

There are reg tweaks where you can change the icon for "3g" to "h" but that doesn't mean that you are actually in a HSDPA enabled cell - it just means that you are in a 3g service area.
Personally I prefer having 3g, and it changing when I am getting H throughput.

Yes I know and I`m in a HSDPA cell but it is only shown when I`m connected ....not before - before there is just the 3G

peter7 said:
Yes I know and I`m in a HSDPA cell but it is only shown when I`m connected ....not before - before there is just the 3G
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As mentioned above by unwired4.. this is the default behaviour!!!

Disable Telfort Roaming Icon.

To all the Dutch Telfort / Diamond users: I have a roaming Icon on my screen permanently. I would like to get rid of it but so far I could not find out how. I have one last idea what might cause the roaming icon to apprear but for that to be confirmed I need your input.
So please be kind and let me know the following:
1: Do you have a SIM card that is from before the Telfort-KPN migration? Or after?
2: Do you see a little triangle in the top bar on your screen? (this is the Roaming Icon)
I appreciate your help. I will let you know if my idea was correct if enough data on sims and triangles gets in.
Thanks,
Chris

1: I have a SIM card long time before the Telfort-KPN migration?
2: And also have the Roaming Icon all the time!

Thanks!!!
Any Telfort users from the Post KPN migration era???
Chris

Come on, there must be more Dutch Telfort people here???

I have a Telfort SIM card from Oct '09 (after the KPN-Telfort migration I believe). Unfortunately I'm also stuck with the roaming triangle icon on my kaiser... would love to get rid of it! Any solutions?

I have a sim from sept 2006.
Always have the roaming symbol.
Did notice that i am roaming since i have the Touch diamond.
I am not able to auto sync my mail because of this! Very anoying!

If you hate the icon so much you can hide it by edit/create
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL "DisableRoamingIndicator" to 1

Söderström said:
If you hate the icon so much you can hide it by edit/create
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL "DisableRoamingIndicator" to 1
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Thanks for your kind answer, had no such value in registry, created it, but no luck.

Same problem here....
1: I have a SIM card long, long time before the Telfort-KPN migration
2: And also have the Roaming Icon all the time!

I have done some extensive research on this topic. It turns out that CDMA phones can get rid of their Roaming Icon by tweaking the registry. That is because the phone contains a list of "freindly networks" and roaming is controled in the phone itself.
GSM phones do not have this database. Their roaming is controled by the provider. Therefore the registry tweak does not work. It is for the CDMA phone.
I have also contacted an unoficial "telfort forum" where a Telfort developer told me that Telfort can not fix this problem on their side. Old SIM or new SIM does not make any difference unfortunately.
The only chance that is left is if someone can find in the registry or somewhere in the phone software the exact place where the phone decides if it is roaming or not and change that in some way to make it think it is not roaming.
Too bad, I hate the stupid Roaming triangle.

Chris thanks 4 the effort! indeed very annoying the Roaming all the time..keep us posted if you find some solutions!

Thanks for this clear explanation Chris, i just started to hate this yellow thingy when i stumbled across this taskbar which makes the icon much nicer and less 'present'
BTW i'm using the Gen.Y D2 R2-Rev.Z NLD ROM on my Diamond which is based on WM 6.1
Credits for the taskbar go of course to Tsowen

To Nirak...
I don't think it solves the issue with the roaming icon. It only makes the icon looks nicer and less present..but I don't like it for example that when i want to send/receive mail i'm given a notification that i'm roaming and if i wish to continue..

Enable email during roaming.
For those of you having problems with email:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings
ShowRoamWarning REG_DWORD 0
And within the ActiveSync Settings:
ActiveSync -> Menu -> Schedule -> Enable "Use above settings when roaming"
Works perfectly on my Benq e72, TP1 and now Omnia Qwerty. (Direct push mail send throu a MS Exchange 2003 SP2 box.)

Thanks a lot SMILEX!..
this string didn't exist, but I created it and it works perfect!!

All those solutions help, but the real solution is still not found I guess. Hope the "list" which triggers the icon will be found one day.... Because it's still quite annoying.

Hey all:
I just switched from Ben to Telfort. I don't get the roaming icon, but I do get an annoying warning every time I start a data-intensive app on my HD2. Telfort says there's nothing that can be done, but Ben is able to use T-Mobile's network without all the roaming warnings. Why can't Telfort use KPN's network without these warnings? It's obviously possible.

I have the same problem with Telfort but on HTC Touch HD
I don't want to get rid only from icon, but also from that my phone think that it is roaming, but it is national roaming, which should be handled the same as home network.