I can't get a signal half the time in most locations. I just ordered some goofy $5 add on that's suppose to help, for some reason I'm not thinking that's going to do it.

Should I just dump Nextel/Sprint ? If I purchase a new Nextel phone, their asking me to sign a two year agreement!! There's gotta be a better way.?

Or is there someway to tell what service works best in your area before hand?

 

FWIW, we all carry quad phase phones down here. I use anybodys towers, Sprint, Cingular, T-Mobile, and some of AT&T. I'm rarely out of range of any tower. Our service is thru T-Mobile. Might see if quad phase service is available in your area. And I can assure you, I'd do without cell phone before I'd ever subject myself to Sprints crappy service and lousy billing. They rank as the worst corporation in the US.

 

is it one of those thin little clear plastic thingies that looks like a circuit board if so it is you may have well place a $5 bill in behind the battery it would have worked just as well

 

- Yea , it snaps in behind the battery

I did attempt "googling" this problem. T-Mobile came up more than once as the service of choice.

A repeater system for the house or vehicle which aren't very cheap came up allot. I'll look into that quad phase service. Sounds like the way to go.

 

I have verizon and it works everywhere except inside my house I have to go stand on the front porch to use my phone but it works fine in much more rural areas than where I live

 

Try this....
http://www.buy.com/prod/arc-wireless...204715853.html

 

Well with Nextel phones, you take the antenna out, bite on it, and put both your arms out like you are a tower. What do you get? More service!

A chick told me that one.

Oh brother, if that don't get yuh thinkin

 

R U Serious ? Does that work man ?

Here's the list for my model - http://www.cellphonemall.net/wireles...sories_366.htm

 

Ditch it and get another provider, that's how you improve the signal. When I had Nextel, I could walk to different spots in my yard and drop calls, or walk into my workshop and drop calls. I got Verizon and haven't had a problem since.

 

Idk if it works or not.... I have Verizon and never have a problem... but i was going to give it a try, it not too expencive and theres not much to lose... let me know it you get it, i have heard good things from it online...

 

and really unless you have a external antenna jack on the phone sadly lacking on most now a days none of this stuff works MU pos samsung like i said only drops calls inide the house but it has no antenna port so im kinda screwed

so in short all the repeaters antennas blah blah blah would be more expensive than just breaking contract and switching carriers

 

Our city bought us Nextels because of the push to talk feature. They suck. Half of our county has no service at all.

 

Sorry, but there's no such thing as a "quad phase phone" that gets all those carriers.

You have a QUAD BAND GSM phone. It's called "quad band" because it picks up and operates on all four of the GSM cellular frequency bands that are in use worldwide.

As a GSM phone, it is NOT compatible with Sprint/Nextel or Verizon, both of which are CDMA carriers (iDEN for Nextel). Your phone will operate only on ATT & T-Mobile (plus any regional carrier that might also use GSM) towers. For anyone who is not going to travel internationally, a dual band (850 & 1900 MHz) phone is all that is needed in the US since neither the 900 or 1800 MHz bands are used in the US.

Nextel-compatible repeaters are not cheap. However, if your current handset has an external antenna port, a decent external antenna will help tremendously. The drawback is that you have to remain tethered to the antenna to keep the signal.

The stick-on "boosters" are a scam.

Steve

 

i had sprint and left it for verizon. im much happier know

 

x2 you beat me to it...