[ale] OT: plethora of cell phones

[mpdickens at tlanta.com (Marvin Dickens)]

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 05:19, J.M. Taylor wrote:

> Also, if any of you tinkerers out there want an ericson t-68 (not a
> t-68i), let me know. I need a good home for one I have, that seems to have
> some sort of short preventing it from reliably making calls (recieves
> calls and does everything else just fine, afaik).  I have no clue about
> this...if it were a PC I could fix it, but phones are well beyond my
> scope.  It's my preciousss, but alas I cannot fix it nor find anyone who
> can, and I just betrayed it and bought a new one. :|

That particular ericson phone drops it's firmware for some reason and
the symptom your describing is what happens when it does it. I had one
just like it and the provider must have flashed the thing for me 3 times
before I traded it in (I Had as much fun it as I could stand.......)


Best regards


Marvin Dickens 

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