Phone hangs while dialing and often cannot complete call

[Karmashock]

It's happening all the time now. You'll key in a number, press the call button and then it will just sit there for 3 minutes "dialing" when it used to progress to the "connected" mode almost immediately.

Often after a few minutes of "dialing" it will disconnect and I'll have to try again which may or may not work. Calls into the phone don't seem to be a problem. It's just the calls out that seem to fail.

The phone's antenna can be turned off while it's "dialing" and that won't interrupt the process. However, I cannot re-enable the radio until it's given up. Further the phone configuration page under settings is not editable while the phone is in "dialing" mode. Also it seems to disconnect and reconnect from the phone network constantly. I have full bars when it's connected so it's not a signal strength issue. I've also had the problem all over town so it shouldn't be a cell tower problem... and no one else seems to have the issue.

I've noticed some other issues with the phone among them that some settings in the phone configuration page won't stick. Among them changing Hybrid to EVDO or 1X doesn't work. It just stays at Hybrid. There are some other settings in there that seem to be stuck.


What do I do here? I'm using an old beta version of the WM6 OS that was published on this site ages ago. It worked fine for me until now so I just left it alone. But now I'm wondering if I can go back to the default sprint WM5? Just to see if I can get this thing to work properly.


If anyone knows how to fix this, please help. Also, if you can point me towards where I acquire all the files needed to flash my PPC back to spec that would be helpful.

Thanks in advance.