Is AT&T rebooting your phone and draining your batt?

The N82 doesn't support AT&T 3G so it wouldn't be able to log into the network for you to see the issue. BTW, lock that thing into GSM mode for increased battery life. As to the N78 I doubt there is any support to address the reboots on that device. It might just be a little too old.
 
Yes, later version of the E71 firmware addressed this for me and the E72 never had the issue to begin with. However, older handsets may be outside the support timeline and may not see any updates to address this.

What version of firmware is the N78 running and which model is it? RM-? Latest version I see for RM-342 is v21.
 
my n78:
Software Version: 21.002
Date: 10-03-09

Custom Version: 21.002.215.6
Date: 18-03-09

Type: RM-342

No updates are available according to the phone.
 
I have only noticed this week that I was having no bars on my N95, NAM. I tried switching it off and it would stick doing this, pushed the power button again and it would turn off. With no bars I would try again and again and it kept doing this so I backed up my phone, took battery out and still the same thing. I live in a 3G area with full signal all the time but something is happening now. I did do a firmware update recently after loading Nokia Suite onto a new computer. Possibly this screwed things up. I was editing the contacts. This phone has been an excellent functioning phone. It is unlocked. Any ideas to get it back to full signal showing?
 
Interesting. I usually keep the n95 on gsm to save battery and 3G it when tethered. I changed settings to 3G and got full bars. Change to dual mode, nothing, change to gsm only and nothing, back to 3G and get full bars. It appears that ATT is messing with the network.
 
" It appears that ATT is messing with the network" - Pugers2
--- I wouldn't be surprised - that's what started the whole 'rebooting' issue to begin with. AT&T 'messed with the network" by adding a 3rd carrier frequency, to accomodate more (iPhone/iPad?) data traffic...thus necessitating Nokia firmware updates in order to make our phones (mine's an N95-4 8GB RM421) not reboot in (mostly urban) areas with this new '3rd carrier frequency' network signal. (You can tell that I'm no expert, but I've read many bbs's and 1/2 understand this info.) --- For the last months, I'd been living in GSM-land (3G turned off on my phone), but last weekend I decided to 'risk' the firmware update - because 2G (GSM) call quality has seemed to be deteriorating significantly for me. That would correspond to your experience - if AT&T is devoting more towers to 3G, and to do that they may be switching over some of their old 2G (GSM) towers to 3G. Less 2G towers => less bars?
Incidentally, overall I'm very happy with v.35.2.002 (I assume there's a similar firmware update for your N95-3) - the only problem is I have to be careful if I have an app open that is using the N95's wifi and the wifi signal strength drops below a certain (80% I hear) level - the phone can freeze up. But I opted for better call quality as a trade off for that problem. (NYC area.)
 
Well, they are taking away more spectrum from GSM, and shifting it towards 3G. More channels means more spectrum in use by 3g which in turn gives us more capacity and throughput. The Nokia rebooting bug is stupid and shouldn't be there anyways. Mind you that 3G is to replace GSM, and you are witnessing that transition.
 
As GSM is used worldwide and I live at Disneyland's doorstep, it seems strange they would cut GSM in this area. But the world's phones have always been better than ours. I guess I should have my sites set on upgrading sometime in the near future. 3G conversations on the N95 get hot!
 
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