5230 manual operator selection problem

Hi,
I recently detected that the manual operator selection does not behave as intended with my 5230 (Software release 20.0.005). I wanted to manually select "tre" in italy because I'm "drei"-customer in austria and 3 has this nice 3LikeHome feature where you have no roaming costs when you use a 3 network in a foreign country. So I switched the operator selection to be manual and after the nework search I selected 3 as provider. But as soon as I was out of the reception range of the selected network the phone automatically selected another network although the user manual says that if the connection to the manually selected network is lost, the device sounds an error tone and asks you to reselect a network. Can anyone confirm this behaviour?
Thanks,
Gerhard

Sim card are activated only for one particular operator provider, selecting the other only means that the sim is not for the other one. In locations where there are plenty of providers you'll find as many as there are & being in manual you have to be certain which one. In automatic mode, it queries one after the other in round robin fashion until it gets an access. I've noticed that too, that different models of Nokia phone have diferent strenght of radio signals transmit/recieve. It's not surprising to to see one model have more bars (signal strenght) than others.
Message Edited by android on 29-Aug-2009 02:14 PM
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