Orange 3G reception
 

Orange 3G reception is poor!

Never able to get a signal and im in Central London,anyone else experience this?

Re: Orange 3G reception
 

I cannot get a strong signal in my home 3G or other on Orange.

My T-mobile had full bars across the board.

I'm in CM20.

Re: Orange 3G reception
 

Every now and again I notice 3G becomes available on my Orange phone for about 5 seconds and then buggers off again.

Re: Orange 3G reception
 

It's probably your phone hopping between strongest signal transmitters and your local, strongest one maybe doesn't support 3G yet

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If it's just a signal problem and you don't actually need 3g then you can turn it off on your phone so it goes back to 2g. When a mast went down near my house i did this and got my signal back until the mast was repaired.

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How do I turn it off. I have the Samsung F480

Re: Orange 3G reception
 

Google is your friend ;)

Goto Settings -> Network settings -> Network Mode, change from Automatic to GSM 900/1800

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Thank you very much

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Thing is, I need 3G to use video calling and download content such as music!

Otherwise looks like I might need to unlock my phone and switch to Hutchison 3G(3 mobile) that gives good 3G reception.

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orange are funny blighters. I have to set my phones up to manually select the 3G network

Re: Orange 3G reception
 

3G and 3G+ reception is also known as UTMS
2G and 2.5G is also known as GSM
1G was basic Analogue mobiles I think and they are long gone!

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Oldham OL4 area, T-mobile gets 1 bar max, O2 is sporadic, Voda works on 2 bars 2g only, 3 gets nothing, Orange gets HSDPA without problems.

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HSDPA, whats that? If you have 3, then switch on GSM(2G) instead and it will use Orange's reception.

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HSDPA = 3.5G or about 2mbit / second downloading via mobile. (High Speed Data Packet Access)

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Oh now I understand lol Orange call this 3G plus