Anyone take the subway on a regular basis?

[freebie]

Originally Posted by railslave

i run a train on a regular basis. does that count?

Sweet, could you please install a cell booster and that would solve problem. lol

[pistol44]

Originally Posted by freebie

I havn't noticed any problems leaving it in home only, but if you do notice any signal loss I would just switch back. I leave it on home only so I dont roam onto US towers while close to border.

Maybe I'll just test it out and remind myself if I ever travel outside Canada to switch it back or maybe in areas where I'm not getting great reception. Should be ok though since I live pretty much right downtown Toronto.

[Huggybear]

Originally Posted by pistol44

Maybe I'll just test it out and remind myself if I ever travel outside Canada to switch it back or maybe in areas where I'm not getting great reception. Should be ok though since I live pretty much right downtown Toronto.

You won't have to remind yourself....if you travel outside of Canada with you phone in Home mode only, you'll get no service.

Consider that to be the proverbial string on your finger.

[izuzu]

Originally Posted by pistol44

Maybe I'll just test it out and remind myself if I ever travel outside Canada to switch it back or maybe in areas where I'm not getting great reception. Should be ok though since I live pretty much right downtown Toronto.

Try updating your phones roaming list from Telus.

All you have to do is dial *22803 on your handset and than pick option 2 to update your phones roaming list. This should solve your problem, so you can stay in standard mode and not have to switch to home only mode.

[briggs]

Originally Posted by pistol44

I only remember the ones with the 2 guys. One guy struggling to find service then another guy with no problems. Then the other guy watches him in envy.. Is that the one??

Anyway I'm not wondering how to solve service issues as I don't have problems with that. I'm wondering if there is a workaround to perhaps disable roaming.. I don't know if that's the best solution but it's all I can think of.

A little off topic but, my buddy from high school IS that Roger's guy, haha. Excellent individual.

[pistol44]

Originally Posted by izuzu

Try updating your phones roaming list from Telus.

All you have to do is dial *22803 on your handset and than pick option 2 to update your phones roaming list. This should solve your problem, so you can stay in standard mode and not have to switch to home only mode.

But do you think this will solve my initial problem? The problem being the phone lagging (due to roaming I assume) so much that it's barely usable in the subway?

[izuzu]

Originally Posted by pistol44

But do you think this will solve my initial problem? The problem being the phone lagging (due to roaming I assume) so much that it's barely usable in the subway?

This shouldn't be causing your lagging. I would start off fresh by doing a hard reset. Test your phone out without installing anything and see if there is a difference; if it's working fine than you know it's something you installed that made it lag.

[pistol44]

Originally Posted by izuzu

This shouldn't be causing your lagging. I would start off fresh by doing a hard reset. Test your phone out without installing anything and see if there is a difference; if it's working fine than you know it's something you installed that made it lag.

Hard resetting doesn't help. It happened on my Diamond and my TP2. Only lags horribly when I'm in elevators or the subway or basements with no service. It's as though searching for service when there is no service causes the phones ram to sky rocket. I know that's not actually the case but that how it reacts.

But I did try putting the phone into Standard Mode and that actually resolved the subway lagging entirely.. strange.

[Slevin]

I ride the metro in D.C. every day, and I don't have an issue with service. There used to be only Verizon repeaters in the tunnels, as of Oct.16, 4 major carrier services (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-mobile) are getting installed at 20 metro stations. We'll see, but as of now, I have no probels and have roaming turned on and Don't Ask.

-Slevin

[pjsnyc]

FWIW, I ride the NYC subway everyday to work and never noticed any lag while down there.

I never changed any of those options (home only, etc) and just kept it at default. The only thing I've noticed in terms of lag is an occaisional hiccup when listening to music using S2P.