No offense but what is the reasoning behind using a blackberry without the e-mail and other advanced features? You have the wrong phone. Find someone that'll buy that one and purchase one that meets your needs.
I can't sell a phone that can't make a phone call.... The offense was taken to being made into a crook for trying to fix my own phone. I'm getting over it though. I'm in hopes that I'm clear about my intentions. I want to fix my phone and use it.. Legally.
I have a phone with web based applications that I do not need. I don't need ATT navigator so that ATT can charge me for my phone to act as a GPS nav unit.. I don't need it to connect to a server to identify the song playing in front of it. I have intentions of having a data plan in the future but that is of little relevance. As far as "modifications" I have upgraded and downgraded OS versions that are available to anyone through ATT and RIM. Again, nothing illegal.
What I mean by "won't broadcast"; over the area on the screen occupied by my signal meter, the phone will indicate a transfer any time it is broadcasting to the network. Now that it is malfunctioning, It continually shows the upward facing arrow as if it is trying to broadcast to the network. It may be a case that it will not recieve a protocol over the network. That's why i'm here, I don't know these things. Maybe the phone is broadcasting but not recieving? I don't know.
The phone Stopped being able to place calls and SMS. It will show a signal meter, identify which network it has available to it. (depending on the presence of a sim card and signal strength) Occassionally it will display GSM, sometimes just Bars, sometimes SOS. The phone will not recieve network time. I don't have a way to view what radio band it communicates over, although it should be quadband. Sometimes, it will show 5 bars for about one minute while displaying the "upload" arrows, and then after about a minute will kick over to SOS.
This weekend, I put it back together, and traveled to my home 2 hours from here, with the SIM in. 70 miles into the trip, the phone recieved a text message. I picked it up, in amazement, and called voicemail. It worked. I called my home. Clear as a bell. The phone handed off to towers for the next 90 miles, with no obvious gap in service. Once home, I hooked the phone to my laptop, hoping that it had remedied itself, and loaded my phonebook into the phone (one reason I have it) and one theme that was gone after the last wipe and OS upgrade. The phone restarted after I loaded the theme, and that was it. I'm back in the same boat with no reception.
Why would the phone lay useless for 6 weeks, work for two hours, and then stop functioning again?
If it can see the network then it can obviously send to the network as it requires two way authentication to connect.
This is the kind of information I need, limitedly. As I said, I talked online with a rep from ATT. He couldn't fix my problem. It seems logical that the problem I have was caused by a bill not being paid on time and a stop in service. The bill was paid immediately (literally 20 minutes after service was cut). I didn't know about it. My wife screwed up the online bill paying, I didn't even see a gap in service that day. She told me 3 days later. All of the other phones, and my BB 8100 work fine. Why wouldn't the rep have suggested this if it were the problem, and corrected it?
Why would the phone lay useless for 6 weeks, work for two hours, and then stop functioning again?
You can also download viruses to your phone, remember seeing an article about that a year or so ago.
If there is someway to do a hard reset, and revert to the original firmware, it should update to the current accepted firmware, and you have what you paid for.
I have done hard rests, and upgraded and downgraded the OS' provided on ATT's website. Unless RIM/ATT wrote something into the software, ALL security feature in place before still are. I shouldn't have recieved a virus since I don't use web based data transfer, and even so, i've wiped the handheld a few times since.
Gentlemen, This phone was literally laying on my toolbox, after having functioned on my way to work, and stopped functioning over the course of that day. That's the end of anything I played a part in to CAUSE the problem (short of my wife not paying the bill on time). If you believe it is a provider Issue, I will rehash with them. The man I spoke to seemed to believe that it was not on their end. So, in order to tie up any end I might have, I wanted to make sure whether I have a network issue, or a hardware issue.