[bushmonkey22]

Hey guys. I have Bold 9790. And this is my story. I bought this phone from WIND Mobile in Canada and since day 1 i've been getting SOS mode when i'm at home. I was convinced it was just WIND's service. My brother who has WIND as well, has no complaints using a Huawei phone. I tried talking to WIND but got nowhere, obviously. So, still convinced it was WIND and not getting any help from them, i got my phone unlocked and went to Fido. Now i have gotten a Fido SIM card, and i'm back to square one. Always SOS or Searching for network. But just as well as when i was with WIND there are certain spots of my room (orienting the phone in a certain way, whether leaning up or resting against something) that i can get signal. But this is useless to me since whenever i leave my room, i'm stuck with SOS.

PLEASE, please please please somebody help me. I have had to pay off WIND for the phone- a sum of $350. That is A LOT of money considering i'm a student with NO income. I don't want to believe that i've wasted that money for a dumb little brick.

Also, i'm CERTAIN its not the SIM card as it works perfectly fine in my Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro. But i dont want to go back to using the Vivaz Pro, I wanna use my blackberry as it clearly has many advantages over the SE. Please help me, somebody, i'm frustrated and going crazy.

I was thinking- would my phone get screwed up if i used RIM's software for Fido 9790s?
The Fido 9790s have OS7.1 whereas the WIND phones have OS7.0

thanks for listening to my problems..

[barbarianthemadserb]

I think it would be oki doki to get that 7.1 OS. Install it and see. It will not mess up your phone. In fact, I would look for the latest version OS for the 9790 which is 7.1.0.714 here on this site. You can always downgrade back to the original 7.0 . I bought a Wind BB9790 for use with Tmobile here in the USA. It came with 7.0. I upgraded to 7.1.0.714 and it works like a charm. These newer OS's work better than the older ones for signal locking as the radio files seem to be much better.

[o2qc418]

Fido use 850/1900 MHZ for 3G ... Wind use 1700 MHZ for 3G ... the phone is not compatible with fido sorry ! There two model of 9790 !
Just bad !

[faceless_el]

cedqc418 is correct however if you still want to use it with Fido you can but only Edge/2G
Anyway Wind is one of the cheapest carriers however their coverage is not the greatest.

[sacrdandprofne]

Is there any way to fix the SOS issue? I'm on WIND and at home in range (my wife's android has service) but suddenly I'm in SOS.
Running .746.

[sacrdandprofne]

Hmm, working now. I guess WIND was doing work on my account.



[Sent from my BlackBerry 9790]