Phone or network problem (Orange M3100)?

I frequently get a problem with this phone whereby I will dial a number
and the phone will start the process only to disconnect itself before
connecting to the other number. Redialling a second time usually gets me
through.

Anyone else had this problem?

me@privacy.net declared for all the world to hear...
> I frequently get a problem with this phone whereby I will dial a number
> and the phone will start the process only to disconnect itself before
> connecting to the other number. Redialling a second time usually gets me
> through.
>
> Anyone else had this problem?

Mine does that when it's about to receive an SMS, but not at at other
time.
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Regards
Jon

"Cheeky" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:59j9dkF2ktc8hU1@mid.individual.net...
>I frequently get a problem with this phone whereby I will dial a number and
>the phone will start the process only to disconnect itself before
>connecting to the other number. Redialling a second time usually gets me
>through.
>

The symptoms sound like something's happening on the signalling channel as
you're about to use it. So as your phone is sending the signalling commands
to setup a call, the network is sending something in the opposite direction.
This could be an incoming text, call, Location Update.....

Redialling the second time should indeed work, as whatever was causing the
"crossed wires" would have been done, and your call setup request would be
succesful.

Regards

Jon.

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Jon Pitts
Email: jon@pitts50.co.uk Attachments: files@pitts50.co.uk

Jon Pitts wrote:
> "Cheeky" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:59j9dkF2ktc8hU1@mid.individual.net...
>> I frequently get a problem with this phone whereby I will dial a number and
>> the phone will start the process only to disconnect itself before
>> connecting to the other number. Redialling a second time usually gets me
>> through.
>>
>
> The symptoms sound like something's happening on the signalling channel as
> you're about to use it. So as your phone is sending the signalling commands
> to setup a call, the network is sending something in the opposite direction.
> This could be an incoming text, call, Location Update.....
>
> Redialling the second time should indeed work, as whatever was causing the
> "crossed wires" would have been done, and your call setup request would be
> succesful.
>
> Regards
>
> Jon.
>

Thanks to you both. It's definitely not just when an SMS/call is
incoming so it must be something else. Happens quite a lot, though so it
is a little frustrating (along with the age it takes calls to connect
and the scrambling of voice calls if it flicks from 3G to 2G which seems
to happen a lot around here).