Solution to delayed ring.
 

hi guys, nice forum here. I am a new owner of the Mogul, and one issue I dont seem to see from a lot of people is the delayed ringer. When I dial my phone, the phone will ring two times before it starts physically ringing the phone. I do recall reading something about a delay, but I have no idea where I read it or to where to find it.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Look in here under Registry Tweaks which is a little ways below where it says "Search Before starting a new thread"

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=5091


Here's what I got when I did a search for "slow ringer"

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/search.php?searchid=322012

Then when you open a thread if you go to the top right corner you can do a search within just that thread even if it is many pages long.

I had to set mine to 0 to get it to ring right away.

Welcome to the forums :)

how does setting it to 0 affect your battery life?
I might try 0 too cuz the improvement seem not enough for 1.

Setting your SCI (Slot Cycle Index) to 0 eats a little more battery...but it's not that bad. I'm running on 0.

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19-FIX THE SLOW RINGER

To do this, you will need your MSL, which only Sprint (or your provider) can provide you. Open up the phone app and dial ##778# (PST). You will be asked to enter your MSL. Enter it, and you will be brought into the provisioning of your phone. From the top left, select Modem Settings. On this page, your Slot Cycle Index (SCI) is how often your phone polls the tower for incoming calls, etc. This value is 1.28 seconds multiplied by 2^value (i.e 0=1.28 secs, 1=2.56secs) with 0 fastest, 7 slowest. The default is 2, but lowering it to 1 hasn't noticeably affected my battery life, and roughly 2.5 second (SCI 1) response time is far more reasonable than roughly 5 seconds (SCI 2)

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Yes, I did search, however, I tried the words "delayed ring" instead of "slow ring". Thanks for the welcome, but I have a lot of experience at various message boards :) (probably > 12k posts aggregate)

Anywho.. thanks for the welcome and the thread! :headbang:

Yep I have had mine set at a couple settings and 0 doesn't seem to noticably eat more battery.

Yeah Supadawg hope you don't think I was trying to be a jerk or anything just trying to keep ya from being harshed by any of the search fanatics :)

i've got sampsons rev 00 rom installed and it doesn't seem to let me go into ##778#, it must be the dialer skin, are there any dialer skins that allow me to change these settings for the mogul?

Thanks

If yuo are using an alltel base or another base try ##778<Send>

thank you that worked, thanks for the superfast reply!

Oh by the way, this did help me a little. Phone went from ringing after the 2nd ring to ringing now right after the first ring. I set it to 0.

Thanks

i did this and noticed that i was getting more signal fade drop calls. I turned it back to stock and the problem went away. did anyone else notice that?

Never noticed it.

only used for one day, but haven't noticed any dropped calls...

Rock on, thanks man. :)

Dude I HATE people like you, you all dont think people search first they do, but use different words, thats how i found this, thanks for the link, but dont be so harsh, thats just mean!

Re: Solution to delayed ring.
 

I set it to 0 and sometimes the phone would not ring at all. Sometimes I would receive a voice mail couple hours later. Same goes for text messages. Sometimes it comes right away, but sometimes it takes a while.
So I tried setting it at 1 and the problem went away. Anyone experience this or is it just my phone or my service area?

Re: Solution to delayed ring.
 

Ok, and for those of use that don't have the MSL?!

Re: Solution to delayed ring.
 

Let's all try to refrain from calling anyone out or complaining. We're all geek brothers and sisters here...so let's remember to show a bit of class and respect.

Thanks for your understanding and remember to drink plenty of water!!!:thumbleft:

late,
Coz

Re: Solution to delayed ring.
 

Good luck with your battery life!

Re: Solution to delayed ring.
 

I won't link to the thread, I'll just tell you how to do it.

Dial ##778#
Click View
Copy down your ESN (Hex).
Download Get SPC to your phone.
Run Get SPC and enter your ESN (Hex).
Copy that number down, which is your MSL.

Done.

Re: Solution to delayed ring.
 

ive tried dialing ##778# ##778 and ##<MY MSL #># none of those work with my sprint touch :( I even hit the TALK key & got a recording that "the # or code dialed is incorrect.... " I did get it to bring up the page you are all talking about once BEFORE I got my MSL number of course. Could it be a dial skin or program I am using that is blocking this hack from working?? help please it drives me crazy when everyone asks me "what took you so long to answer"

Re: Solution to delayed ring.
 

fora nyone who cant get the dialer codes to work i have attached a zip file containg regular shortcuts to all the dial codes, you can just click them to launch the program. THe one you need for this operation is PST. Good Luck!

Re: Solution to delayed ring.
 

Is my MSL invalid? When I run the PST, it asks me to enter an, "unlock code." When I enter in my MSL, it tells me that the code was incorrect, and for me to try again.

I have an Altell HTC Touch running Dette's M2D Diamond edition v2.3. Any ideas?