Nokia 6230 question (manual operator selection)

When I go: Menu > Settings > Phone Settings > Operator Selection > Manual I get a list of networks. I'm being trying to establish the relative strength of these networks and was wondering if the order has any significance. I'm pretty sure that the first operator in the list is likely to be the strongest, and was wondering if I can deduce if the others are in order of signal strength.
Can anyone confirm this?

not necessarily, it provides you with the list of operators but you can't use all of them, you can only use the provider that you have the sim card for. click on a option from non provider, you should not be able to have any service as your options are dependent on your sim card/opearator/mobile network provider.
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I have an N73 phone. When i am abroad roaming and i use the manual operator selection the phone reverts to automatic operator selection within a minute and overrides my previous manual selection. I find this bug very irritating and i think nokia should post a solution ASAP. Anybody any ideas?
Nik

I did few test with different SIM card from different operator and at least for me seems that only TRE (Italy) and THREE (uk and ireland) are blocking the manual operator selection.
When instead i used TIM (Italy) , or VODAFONE (italy or ireland) the operator selection was stick to MANUAL.
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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?
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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.
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E65 won't remember manual operator selection (roam...

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while roaming, I can't get my e65 to remember manual operator selection, the setting will only last for one call, and then go back to automatic.
My operator(3 Austria)'s service hotline claims that this is an issue in ALL Nokia handsets and can't be solved. I find this hard to believe, as that behaviour oft the phone is clearly a bug. If anything, I could imagine 3 gives out all the Nokia handsets (or not just the Nokia phones, but all of them) with this bug installed to make more money out of roaming fees.
Any similar experiences?
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Hi,
I found something like a workaround for this problem.
here goes:
If you can't disable automatic operator selection, switch the network mode from dual (jumping between umts and gsm) to umts only. that way, in countries that have 3, you will almost always get 3 automatically selected, maybe because it doesn't have a gsm-signal but just umts.
I don't know though about other operators in other countries, probably this method is always going to get you the operator with the strongest umts signal.
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I use international roaming on a daily basis.
I am using a N95, when i go into networks/operator selection/manual selection. I select my network manually and it is fine.
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very strange, when i'm abroad and i loose signal from one operator the phone will prompt to select another, it wont automatically lock on,
does it really matter who your roaming with? so long as u have signal that's all dat matters.
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I have an factory unlocked 3gs and live in an area where the signals from mobile operators from a border country can be picked up. Occasionally, my Iphone changes operator automatically due to it picking up a stronger signal and the problems are obvious (namely that I get charged for receiving calls as I am roaming).
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Turn off automatic network selection. I think it's a case here of you can't have your cake, and eat it

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I have the E71 on the Three network and it allows roaming in this country (something thats usually locked off) to avoid roaming charges I went to change the phones network select option from Automatic to manual, I get the usual pop up to select the network I want to connect to but when I go back to the network options screen it shows as automatic and does indeed allow roaming. How do I actually change to manual network selection.
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I can't believe that Nokia have not resolved this problem.
The problem gives a direct influence on the cost of calls, which is very excessive.
I spent 3 hours on the phone to Three to try to resolve the problem and nothing worked. Tried removing sim card and putting it back in, factory reset and hard reset.
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Quite simply not fit for its purpose. A mobile phone by definition is "a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver provided by a specific network carrier".
Unfortunately the phone does not meet this definition. Under the Trade Descriptions Act of 1968 should be entitled to a refund as customers have been mislead by the sale of the handset. Also the phone directly misleads roaming customers.
Also under the Sale of Goods Act of 1979 the mobile phone should be "fit for purpose". Unfortunately the E71 is not fit for purpose as a mobile phone does not meet its definition and as a customer the network provider does not provide a fair service carried by the network. Most networks are contractually bound to do so.
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PC Suite 6.85.12.0 with a Nokia 6230 Doesn't Sync ...

My phone is a Nokia 6230.
My computer is an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T42 running Windows XP Professional SP2.
I'm using a Bluetooth connection to synchronize the phone with Outlook.
The system info is:
Operating system:
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Build 2600
Service Pack 2
Language: English
Language for non-Unicode programs: English
Locale: English
Input language: English
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Version 6.84.4.0
PC Connectivity Solution:
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PC Sync information.
The mobile phone has not responded.
Possible Solution
Please ensure your phone is in the standby mode, then restart the Synchronization.
If I sync again within a minute the synchronization succeeds. After a minute of no activity the phone displays a message "Disconnected from (computer)" and I am back in the original state.
I can live with this. I just have to hit "Synchronize now" twice about five seconds apart.
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SOLUTION AT LAST!! (as dumb as it may be)
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Hey everyone!
It's been hours of forum searching and reading million of suggestions how to make my 6230 sync with the *several* latest versions of Nokia PC Suite (HELLO! NOKIA ARCHITECHTS! You have some serious recurring problem here! Don't abandon the veterans in your client base, it reflects really bad on you service-wise! At least post an official message that you acknowledge the problem and that you're working on it!)
Seems that tons of people encountered my exact problem:
Connection works, pairing works, file copying works, synchronisation doesn't work.
Well, the forums mentioned that the older older versions of PC Suite had a very quick timeout problem, so one had to synchronise twice, fast, in order for sync to succeed.
Now, it seemed like the timeout was reduced to almost "0", and disconnection immediately followed connection.
So, even though I did not see any second confirmation message (normally the phone shows a request to "connect" and then a second request to "transfer data" ) - I thought maybe it was there only disappearing very fast. So I decided to simply click twice fast, and I mean REALLY FAST, on the main button to accept, hoping that the connection will be kept. And VOILA! The connection was kept, and the sync was successful.
I know it's not a permanent solution, but for me, for now, considering how hard (why is it hard, Nokia??) and annoying it is to revert to a much older version of PC Suite - it's at least a temporary solution that works. And the only one I've found so far.
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Specifications:
Phone: Nokia 6230
Firmware: 04.44, 21-09-04
PC Suite: 6.86.9.0
MS Windows: XP SP2
MS Outlook: 2003 SP3
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I wonder if that would work for everyone.
If so please spread the word, seems that lots of people would like to know that. At least until a decent fix will be released for the PC Suite, that is.
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