[jbeachy]

My Verizon signal has been flaky tonight, often showing no signal at all. I hope it's the carrier and not the BlackBerry. (WiFI works fine.) Connection status for phone = "Unavailable." Yes, I did a battery pull.

At some point I noticed a red "SOS" in place of the normal signal bars. It was there only for a few seconds and then disappeared.

What is that?? Signal available for 911 only, perhaps? Mystified here…

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[Super_Mario]

My Verizon signal has been flaky tonight, often showing no signal at all. I hope it's the carrier and not the BlackBerry. (WiFI works fine.) Connection status for phone = "Unavailable." Yes, I did a battery pull.

At some point I noticed a red "SOS" in place of the normal signal bars. It was there only for a few seconds and then disappeared.

What is that?? Signal available for 911 only, perhaps? Mystified here…

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Your phone may be in GSM mode. Go to manage connections >mobile network options and put it back to CDMA. See if that fixes it.

[dictoresno]

it also happens when you current network goes down however you may be roaming on another network for emergency calls only. if you had zero signal, not even enough for a 911 call, it will just say searching for network indefinitely.

most likely a network issue or a tower went down in your area.

[jbeachy]

Thanks for the replies. It's ok this morning. I was pretty sure it was a carrier or tower issue, I'd just never seen "SOS"on the screen. Signal read 3G so I knew it hadn't switched to GSM; signal level was -156 dBM (I think when there's no signal it goes to -256 dBm, right?).

The "roaming on another network for 911 calls" concept makes sense, I think.

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