S860 Speaker and signal issues

Pros :
Amazing Battery life and no heat ups
Display is good
Games are clean no lags and hangups
Cons :
No Matter what we do the left speaer does not work
The Signal will get lost all of a sudden ( inspite of keeping all other parameters stable ) the signal has drastic variation
No Accesssories flip covers screen guards etc
Out of blue message that no sim card is detected we need to reboot the phone to get it working again.
( I faced the above 7 times in the last 3 months )
Lenovo Support : can some one in this company take responsibility and write back plz..

No response to these issues even in service center what a pathetic support . if there are problems please acknowledge by remaining silent and assuming that customer will get frustrated and dust of is bad customer policy

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Part Description                                           Symptom
IMAGE                                                             Replaced due to engineering change
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Otherwise, I liked the Airport Extreme, and I'll consider buying it again when and if they address this VPN issue. I work at home so its obviously a "deal breaker" for me.

The only time the sound/speaker and mic don't work is when I answer or make a call

The only time the sound/speaker and mic don't work is when I answer or make a call. They both work fine for everything else. This has been going on for over a month. AT&T said it's Apple and Apple said it's AT&T. I've been around that cycle twice.
When I dial a call, I can see the status words on the screen but can't hear the ringing. If the person I'm calling answers, my screen will show the call was connected and the call timer will begin but I can't hear anything and they can't hear me. If one of us doesn't end the call, the timer keeps going and I'm being 'charged' for dead air. (Of course, one of us disconnects so mins/cost isn't an issue, I'm just adding the info in case it helps solve the problem.) If they don't answer, the call will go to their greeting but I can't hear it and wouldn't be able to leave a message anyway because my voice isn't going through. However, they will get a voice mail alert and see that I called but no message was recorded.
If some one tries to call me they will hear ringing but when I answer, they can't hear me and I can't hear them. If I don't answer, they will hear my greeting and can leave a message. I can retrieve and hear my voice mail. Trying speaker phone and headsets didn't change anything for calls out nor for calls in.
I have 4.3.3 and have synched, reset, rebooted, turned things on and off and off and on and took the SIM card out of the phone and out of it's tray and put it back in. I've done all that several times in just about every combination and order possible.
Hopefully the following will provide good clues: On only about three of the many attempts I've made to get it to work correctly that included taking out the SIM card, I could make and/or get one or two calls with no trouble but then the problem comes back. Also, when I swapped the SIM card with another iPhone4 on my plan, the other phone would work with my SIM card but my phone still would not work with the other SIM card. The last fact makes me think it is an Apple issue. I'll go to an Apple store (genius) this weekend. Will I be wasting my time and gas? Anybody have any experience with this problem?

Let me try and address some of your questions. I'm only on a pc, so a few of these answers might be slightly different on a Mac, but not too different (such as control click rather than right click).
First, when you buy something on your phone, be it apps or music, it's transferred from your phone to your Mac when you sync your phone. So those apps should now be in you iTunes library. ( IF for some reason you can't find them there, you should be able to download them again, either onto your phone or through iTunes. On your phone, go to the App Store > Updates and you'll see a "Purchased" link at the top of the page, you can view all purchased apps here and redownload them. In iTunes, you can go to Store > Check for available downloads. )
Whenever you plug your phone in, it should create a backup of everything you have on the phone. This is how, provided restoring your phone as a new device doesn't fix the issue (more on this later), you can put all of your music and apps onto the new phone. You can always plug your phone into your Mac and the first thing it should do when it syncs is create a backup. If you want to be sure, you can right click on your device in iTunes (on a pc) or I assume control click on a Mac and select "backup".
The genius will take care of the sim card and setting up your phone, however you will have to put all of your music and apps on it, unless you ask the genius, I've never bothered since I know how to do this.
You should have no problems restoring from a backup if they give you a new phone. However, it's probably safest to try and create a backup of your last phone backup before you restore it as a new device. I suggest you refer to http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414 for more information about that.
I've had no problems with my new phone so far.
I'll try to keep checking this thread if you have any other questions or need more clarification.
Edit: I should say we never did figure out what exactly was wrong with my phone. The only thing I can think of was that it got a lot hotter than the phone it replaced, and also the phone I just got yesterday to replace the malfunctioning one. But otherwise they saw no problems with the hardware, but acknowledged it must have been the hardware since we tried everything else. Also I would go with a list of all the things you tried with this phone, for your own reference and the genius's, especially if you're not confident in your tech skills Showing the genius that you've tried: different sim cards, updating the software, restoring it from a backup, and now restoring it as a new device, should convince them that you've done everything you could, and the only other answer is hardware problem.
Also if you don't already have one, make a genius appointment ASAP. Most stores are very busy and their appointments fill up fast. I always suggest making an appointment as early as possible, hopefully before the retail store hours when they've only got techs there because they usually are less stressed and have a bit more time to spend with you. The easiest way to make an appointment is to download the Apple Store app. It detects the closest Apple store from you and makes it quite easy to schedule a genius.
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Wireless-N hardware and software issues

Yep the 300N gear goes back to BBuy tomorrow. I purchased a V1 of the wrt54G hardware almost 3 years ago, it died last week. Figured I’d buy the latest and greatest and be all set for another couple of years.
Well I’ve had similar problems as the posters above have mentioned. I have dug a little deeper into some of my problems. I have 2 issues that are shows stoppers that are causing the returns. I purchased all 3 devices in the last week. WRT300N (router), WPC300N(notebook card), and WMP300N(PCI card).
The first issue has to do with DHCP. In the web admin application of the WRT300N take a look at the Status page - Local Network then click on DHCP table. When first plugged in the wrt300n shows the clients that have received DHCP addresses. After a while the WRT300N stops displaying the DHCP clients and their addresses, the WRT300N loses track of the DHCP addresses reservations. The WRT300N even started to hand out duplicate addresses on my network, causing some of my systems to not work on the network.
The second issue has to with wireless connectivity. I have a dell laptop with the 1350 WLAN card. The 1350wlan card has the Broadcom chipset, the same family that the WPC300N uses. I updated to the latest driver and utility from Dell for the 1350wlan card. I opened the status meter and leave it open so that I can watch the status as I work. I also start a continuous ping to the router. As I work I notice that I lose my connection to work, the problem is that the wireless network keeps dropping out. The ping to the router times out and the status meter shows disconnected. A way to verify if this is occurring to you that I found is to look in the event viewer(start -> run -> eventvwr) in the system log. Look for Tcpip source events repeating over and over. The message in the event will read like "The system detected that network adapter \DEVICE\TCPIP_{A4EAF2F4-B001-4635-86C4-703EFAB3C925} was connected to the network, and has initiated normal operation over the network adapter” These events were occurring to me every 10 to 20 minutes.
I will say the range with the wireless-n stuff is really good. I went and got another WRT54G router, it is version 6 of the hardware. The WMP300N has a much better connect and signal strength than the WMP54GS that I had.
I did come across 2 problems with the WMP300N. The first problem I found is with the utility that comes with the WMP300N. The wmp300n process bounces the CPU every second. Every other second the wmp300n process causes the cpu to spike to 80% or more utilization. This is just unacceptable in that it ruins performance. If you just install the wmp300N without using the software setup utility, and select the driver from the windows installation wizard the card works fine. You must manually configure the wmp300n using the windows wireless configuration utility though. The other problem involves the Broadcom wireless utility and the “SPROM validation format” the Broadcom wireless utility gets installed with the WMP300N software from the CD, it can be found in control panel. In the Broadcom wireless utility there is a diagnostics sections. When you run the diagnostics test, they fail every time for the “SPROM validation format”. I’m not sure what the “SPROM validation format” does, but it appears to not be necessary as the card works fine other than this.
As far as I can tell the WPC300N seems to have worked fine. It tested out OK when the WRT300N did not drop the wireless network.
One big note, when I bought my first wrt54g in august of 2003 it was version 1 of the hardware. It did not even have a version number listed, this is how you can tell version 1 hardware. In the 3 years of ownership I installed updated firmware 11 times. The first firmware version I updated to was v1.30.7. This was the 4th firmware release. It had a few issues at first also.

Searching my pants of and finally finding an issue that might solve the problems with the WPC300N let me share the info. In some thread there was mention of an older driver that solved problems with the wmp300n, I have ventured replacing the ar5416.sys driver with version 6.0.1.4, 1.015.808 bytes, 6-7-2006 that you can find here http://www.campbells.org/Download/wmp300nar5416.zip
And low and behold this one does the business, no more CPU spikes, no more excessive DHCP renewals, the speed is nearly always 300 (wrt300n v2 antenna's in 45 degree angles) and the link is really stable.
Ofcourse this only works if you have the Atheros version.
Replacing the driver is simple,
1. disable the LAN connection
2. stop the WPC300NSvc service3. copy /b %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\ar5416.sys %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\ar5416-old.sys
4. copy ar5416.sys %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers
5. enable the LAN connection
6. start the WPC300NSvc service

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