Team-BHP - The Windows Phone Thread

GAH! a two new (perhaps interlinked) observations/issues now:
1. Whenever I restart my phone, the phone starts with "Airplane mode" (I can see the icon), then "no signal" and finally it catches the signal.

2. There are intermittent periods when my phone shows absolutely no signal. I cannot dial anyone. Anyone else calling me doesn't get any conclusive message (like out of reach etc) - just plain silence. I use Airtel, but the funny thing is that all the other people around me HAVE full Airtel signal in the phones. How is this possible?

Today, just a few minutes ago, I faced this problem again.
On a hunch, I went to settings, switched on airplane mode, and then switched it off.
Full signal immediately!

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Originally Posted by alpha1 (Post 3161720)

Ah! And i thought it was the hardware issue. Which handset is yours. I do have similar and other signal related issues on my samsung focus S. A few more problems made me move to the 920.. starts with the airplane mode, no signal, signal.,

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Originally Posted by MindSpeeDs (Post 3162144)

I have Lumia 520.
OS version: 8.0.10211.204
Firmware rev no: 1030.6408.1309.0002

I don't really have an issue with Point 1, as long as it doesn't affect the working.

However I did manage to pinpoint the problem of point no.2
Here is what goes chronologically:
1. Airtel signal drops out completely (pretty usual, nothing extraordinary).
2. Phone display no signal icon.
3. Airtel signal comes back (I know, because I tested point no 1 by going into a location where airtel is not able to reach, and at point no 3: I am back to location where I have full Airtel signal)
4. The phone still displays no signal icon
5. There is indeed no connectivity, the phone sits deaf & dumb, you cannot make calls, send sms, browse internet, cannot receive calls ...
6. Restart the phone.
7. Same status as #4 and #5
8. Go to settings, turn flight mode ON, and then OFF
9. Presto! You get full signal (in fact you can ignore #6 and straightaway jump to #8)

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In the other news, I have one more issue, till date I have not been able to "find my phone". Looks like it is disabled for India (?)

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Originally Posted by alpha1 (Post 3162638)

1. Airtel signal drops out completely (pretty usual, nothing extraordinary).

Earlier when I was on Vodafone, it didn't happen or I never noticed it. But after I moved to airtel, I have seen this happening. Looks like this is airtel specific.

Also, does any Windows Phone support any of Indian languages? I mean reading non English content in the built-in browser.

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Originally Posted by alpha1 (Post 3162638)

Indeed, there is a problem of the phone latching onto signal when the signal is actually back! I face this in my Lumia 820 as well. Especially gets annoying while travelling, when you wake up in the morning at your destination and find out its still shows out of range only!

But I simply go tot the Network settings and ask it to search for available Networks and then select Airtel there, instead of switching on or off. Please try that, until Microsoft fixes this.

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Originally Posted by msdivy (Post 3162653)

Airtel is extremely pathetic and horrid.
But I expected all the service providers to be same ... your post gives weight to my complaint registered with Airtel!

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Originally Posted by aravind.anand (Post 3162654)

It is highly irritating and inconvenient since unless I look at my phone, I never come to know that it has not managed to "regain" the connectivity!
Any way to register this with Nokia/Windows?

In your scenario, you expect the signal to be blank because your traveling and hence take corrective action, but imagine if this happens when you are just sitting in your office/home!

I tried the "search for available networks", didn't work out for me.
That's when I chanced upon the "airplane mode" method.
(The phone restart thing was just there to illustrate that even restart doesn't sort the problem)

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Originally Posted by vikram_d (Post 3152915)

Because they are no official native Google maps clients for Windows Phone. GMaps and the other clients that you talk about are not native apps and they don't have offline navigation and sadly Google refuses to release any official apps for the WP OS.

Edit: Oh and Here maps does have Jhumri Tilaiya. :)

LOL, yes I understand. But scroll to the bottom of my post for a nice discovery!

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Originally Posted by amitpunjani (Post 3153003)

Do you have any clue for the mapping business or you are just trying to prove point about that Google maps are superior.

The areas which you have marked are highly sensitive. All the maps before being used for commercial purposes have to be approved by Survey of India. Survey of India has detailed list of buildings and areas which are not supposed to be included in the map database.

Whether its Google or HERE or MapmyIndia or TomTom maps can never be accurate in a country like India. I can show you thousand of flaws in Google navigation especially when it comes to routing.

Google map shows all your designated "sensitive" places. I can see you didn't check the attached pix in my post.
And if you talk about routing, even Here maps routing is nothing less than absurd (in spite of using fastest instead of shortest routing)

I don't have to prove that Google maps are superior. Anyone using it will know that Google maps are miles ahead of Here maps in India.

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Originally Posted by msdivy (Post 3153028)

POIs are limited, actually same as MMI PND. Hence search for names isn't as good as in Google Maps. House numbers are visible in full zoom for most places in Bangalore.

You have a good tool now for Windows phone:
"Google maps"
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/st...d-d980a3927148

It uses the downloaded offline Here maps and overlays it with Google map's data (traffic, places etc)
Best of both worlds!

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Originally Posted by radek (Post 3162828)

Same problem with my Lumia 800 + Airtel. Restarting the phone solves the problem. But some times you do not realise that your phone is not on network. Other people keep complaining me that my phone is not reachable.
Anyone with non-Airtel provider facing same problem?

Same problem I've faced, when using Vodafone. Though the phone is a samsung focus with windows 7.5. Also, apart from the network disappearing the phone kept loosing the data connection.
In either case, restarting the phone didn't help had to manually search for the network and choose vodafone, and that worked 2/5 times. Replaced the sim card with a new one as the old hutch one was 9 years old but the problem persisted. Saw a similar problem with my cousins Lumia running windows 8, so I switched to android.

Have been using the phone with idea sim since, and surprisingly haven't faced any problem either with the network or data.

Edit: have faced the network problem with data switched off too.