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Problem with phone signal

Hello!
I spent last week in France and I had a lot of problems with GSM signal. Phone sometimes can't connect to operater. When I looked in settings menu I saw only ''searching'' and nothing happend. Then I just click on ''Find network'' and after some second everything was OK.
For me is this a big problem because I must be reachable all the time.
What could be wrong and how could I solve the problem?
Bye,
Borut

I'm on radio 1.38.00.11, and I have the same problem too... sometimes it does not even get any signal after trying to "find network". When I disable the phone and enable it again (flight mode and back) it will get full signal, I'm at the same spot for the whole process so its not the reception of the location.
Any idea?

I sent also an E-mail to HTC support team and still waiting an answer.

I got this answer:
Good Afternoon,
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Unfortunately this can happen sometimes when roaming, especially if the SIM from your network does not have the preferred roaming partners programmed into it.
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What tends to happen is that as the phone is switched on in the new country, it will automatically search for all networks in range and then systematically attempt to register and connect with all of them one by one.? Sometimes, depending on the speed with which the networks respond to the handset's requests to register, this can take a few minutes, especially if there are many networks in range.? It can also happen as the signal from one network disappears and the phone must begin this process again.
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One thing I would suggest would be to contact your Operator and ask them for the name of the preferred roaming partner of the country you are travelling to and upon arrival in the country, you can manually select the network to connect to.? this should then tell the phone to keep with that network until it loses signal, but it should automatically return when the signal is found again.
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Thank you for your enquiry, Should you have any other problem, please do not hesitate to call us. Your Local number can be found at http://www.europe.htc.com/support/csbyphone.html
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Best regards,
Pete Whiteley
HTC Europe

Roaming icon, but I anin't roaming

Ok, so you know the roaming icon, appears next to WiFi, looks like an upward arrow, a point, a steep mountain if you will.
Well, I'm in norway, on a norwegian SIM, but the roaming icon still is constantly on?
And, my MMS is set to "recieve automatically in home network", obviously I'm not in my home network then, because I have to manually confirm and download mms'es.
Any Ideas?

No worries, I figured it out.
Turns out the Norwegian operator Tele2(which is swedish originally) has it's central in Sweden, so although I'm on norwegian network, all traffic is routed via sweden. No extra costs though, only "problem" is the roaming icon, and no use of "automatically in home network"-setting - if anyone else has similar issues

I have it to,
My profider is Telfort which uses the network of KPN Netherlands.
Because of that i'm always roaming in Holland to but without extra costs as in roaming in a foreign country.

WM: Manual network selection not working

Hi,
I got a problem that makes me crazy.
I leave in Switzerland, near the border with France.
As in Switzerland GSM transmitter have lower power than in France, my HD2 switch very often to french network and don't come back to home one (even when home network is stronger than french one).
In phone settings, I set "network selection" to Manual.
But phone seems to ignore this settings, and as soon as home network is unavailable, it switch to roaming, without asking ... And never come back to home network till roaming network is unavailable too (which is rare, due to stronger power).
Any one got an idea why manual network selection is not working ?
For your information, I always had this problem since I got a HTC with WM5/6
(got it with my Touch and my Diamond)
Another option could be to completly disable roaming (any way can be used), and when travelling, I can switch roaming back on.
Is this possbile ?
Thanks
my configuration is in my signature

[Q] Home PLMN selection

Hi,
I have an issue with O2 in Slovakia - they have national roaming with T-Mobile SK.
My HD2 ignores that O2-SK is the home network and after switching off/on the phone it always connects to T-Mobile SK.
I do not want to switch to "manual" network selection due to travelling.
Does anyone know how HD2 radio or WM select the priority network for SIM registration?
According to GSM it should try the home network FIRST.
thanks
KJ

SGS2 is auto switching network operator

I have the choice of being on either the Orange network or T-mobile network here in the UK due to their signal sharing deal. My native network is Orange.
On the SGS I was able to set which network I wanted and my phone would stay on it and it would not change. Alternatively I could set it on "select automatically" and it would switch between them when the one it was on drops or it thinks the other signal is stronger.
Now I have a SGS2 and it no longer does this, it automatically switches between the networks even if I have selected the one I want manually. The problem is at my home and where I work the Orange signal is too poor to make calls so I want to keep it on t-mobile. Problem is it keep switching back to Orange and then I go to take a call but the signal is so bad I can't hear the other person!
This issue could potentially be a huge problem for me. Is there anyway round this?