8100 Digital Roaming Odd Behavior

[Peter Shifrin]

I've been travelling a lot lately into areas where my 8100 has gone
into digital roam (upstate NY, maine and WV.)

At a given moment, I might have 4 bars of signal. I go to place a
call and either:

1) The instant I press the talk key, the bars drop to 0, stay there
for a second go back up to 4 and the call goes through.

2) The instant I press the talk key, the bars drop to 0, and it
switches into Analog Roam and the call goes through.

It's about 50/50 in the same locations.

Also, sometimes when roaming on Analog on parts of I-87 (north of Lake
George, NY) i get a message that says "Verizon can't authenticate my
phone"

Any ideas? I'm on F&CA fyi.

Thanks!
Peter

[Jack]

Craig wrote:

> Peter -
> We've all experienced this. When the phone has full digital roam
> signal and then drops to zero after you press "talk", then returning
> to full digital roam signal and allowing the call to go through is
> most likely a last second attempt at aquiring a sprint signal before
> making a call. The signal goes to zero because the phone is "scanning"
> for another signal. The programming of the phone probably dicates
> this, just as a another attempt to stay off roaming at the time the
> call is made. The reason why you may receive an analog signal after
> it drops to zero from full digital roam signal is because after it
> fails to find a SPCS signal at the time the call is attempted, it may
> aquire an analog signal first. As far as authentication is concerned,
> this is another issue and has to do with roaming agreements. Hope
> this helps
The authentication issues could have to do with a roaming partner removed
from a new prl and the partner removes access to sprint. Also an ESN swap
is known to cause problems. Finally the PRL could just have an oops.
>
> Craig
>
>
> (Peter Shifrin) wrote in message
> >...
>> I've been travelling a lot lately into areas where my 8100 has gone
>> into digital roam (upstate NY, maine and WV.)
>>
>> At a given moment, I might have 4 bars of signal. I go to place a
>> call and either:
>>
>> 1) The instant I press the talk key, the bars drop to 0, stay there
>> for a second go back up to 4 and the call goes through.
>>
>> 2) The instant I press the talk key, the bars drop to 0, and it
>> switches into Analog Roam and the call goes through.
>>
>> It's about 50/50 in the same locations.
>>
>> Also, sometimes when roaming on Analog on parts of I-87 (north of Lake
>> George, NY) i get a message that says "Verizon can't authenticate my
>> phone"
>>
>> Any ideas? I'm on F&CA fyi.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Peter

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