VX6100 Question
In my moms house, her VX6100 gets like 3 bars of signal, but it fluctuates...goes down to 1, then up to 4, then 2 etc...It seems she can still make and receive calls fine though, she's really only cut off on me once, and she said the battery on it was low at the time too...Well, yesterday morning she woke up and it had full signal on her phone, but instead of the "1X" it had an "A". The retail rep at the store told me analog would be indicated by a triangle icon, so what is the "A"? If need be can you make the phone manually select that to get a stronger signal??
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The rep is wrong, the triangle is the roaming indicator, the A is indeed for analog,
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I own the XV6600, but I have never seen the "A". The quick reference guide does mention the Triagle as the Roaming indicator, but nothing about Analog.
I didn't think the XV6600 was Analog capable. 😕
I didn't think the XV6600 was Analog capable. 😕
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yes indeedy-do....theoretically a tri-mode phone (which is what the 6100 is) picks up whichever signal is strongest. as far as signal in a house goes, it is extremely aggravating because there is such a high possibility of interference, that you may just not get a good signal in your house. "A" indicates analog, "1X" indicates enhanced features, like txt pix and get it now.
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The "A" does mean analog. You can force the phone into analog using the service menu, but if you are seeing the "A", you're there already.
I had a 6100 for 9 days and it was truly awful. The signal indicator fluctuated all over the place, it went into analog and wouldn't come back into digital mode unless I rebooted the phone, and it dropped calls all the time. This was in the middle of NYC - hardly a low signal area. The 6100 is a dog but as I read the forums, RF does not seem to be an LG strength.
I had a 6100 for 9 days and it was truly awful. The signal indicator fluctuated all over the place, it went into analog and wouldn't come back into digital mode unless I rebooted the phone, and it dropped calls all the time. This was in the middle of NYC - hardly a low signal area. The 6100 is a dog but as I read the forums, RF does not seem to be an LG strength.
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The beauty of having a tri-band phone is that you can often get reception in areas that you can’t always receive digital service. The phone is set to switch back and forth as needed. I really wouldn’t suggest analog service all of the time since it would drain your battery very fast.
As far as the signal indicator fluctuating that just shows that the system is making adjustments as needed. Thanks to an advertising campaign by a certain company everyone now thinks that if you don’t have five bars you don’t have reception, which is simply not true. I have had many phones from six different manufacturers and the LG 6100 is just as good as any. It out performs the Motorola I just switched from.
We have about 60 people in our office tha...
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As far as the signal indicator fluctuating that just shows that the system is making adjustments as needed. Thanks to an advertising campaign by a certain company everyone now thinks that if you don’t have five bars you don’t have reception, which is simply not true. I have had many phones from six different manufacturers and the LG 6100 is just as good as any. It out performs the Motorola I just switched from.
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My experience as an early adopter with the phone was not a question of having 2 bars vs. 5 bars. It was continual fluctuation from 5 bars to bars the back to 5, not to mention 1X to analog and then getting stuck in analog. All of this while sitting next to a window in a good coverage area is a sign of something terribly wrong with a phone. There should be no good reason that the 6100 is the only phone that goes to analog all over midtown Manhattan.
This fluctuation problem was verified in a call to LG tech support as "something that we are starting to get complaints about". In fact, it was an LG tech support rep who advised me to return the phone while I could because they could not guarantee that this would ever be fixed. (And it appea...
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This fluctuation problem was verified in a call to LG tech support as "something that we are starting to get complaints about". In fact, it was an LG tech support rep who advised me to return the phone while I could because they could not guarantee that this would ever be fixed. (And it appea...
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