weird phone problem - possibly barred

savemejebus

Hey, I've got a second hand phone and i think it may be barred but am not sure because it works some of the time.

Long story short, bought the phone off a legit guy, used to be a company phone but when i tried to use (call and text from the web) with a backup sim it it didn't get the texts and just gave me a weird 3 beep tone that led me to think "crap tis barred".

Tried a couple of different sims but nothing, then tried a german sim and it worked. So i figured , "definitely barred on irish networks" but when i put back in my backup sim the phone received my texts from the day before. So i tried calling from it and it worked perfectly.

Was chuffed and figured the phone was working, so went home but when i got there it was back to the 3 beeps and no texts. Now this morning i'm driving through town and it starts working again, but stopped after a couple of hours.

Is this normal behaviour for a barred phone, or could it be that it's not barred but the aerial is frigged

hoursey

it could be the antenna of the phone or a software problem, what phone is it?

wolfman

savemejebus wrote:

Now this morning i'm driving through town and it starts working again, but stopped after a couple of hours.

When you say it started working again this morning, had you switched off the phone and switched it back on again???

Sounds very like a barred phone to me. Best thing is ring the network and they will tell you fairly quick, but sounds like a barred phone. Sometimes a barred phone might make 1 call or possibly 2 when you switch it on, bbut once the network sees it back online, it will block service to it again

savemejebus

sorry for the lack of reply, was unable to access boards last week.

It is a weird problem. When i turned on the phone in the morning (in my house) it didn't work but I left it turned on and put it in my car intending to bring it to a phone shop. Then as i was driving along, a couple of hours later, it started working.

I'm figuring it's barred though and was maybe just going out of range of one phone mast and into another. will just get my money back

Thanks for the help though

MarkR

Is it a 3G phone by any chance, with a meteor sim?

savemejebus

no, just a normal mobile, using an o2 sim.

Random

From what you say it sounds like it's blocked ... your best bet would be to ring your network and check. They should be able to tell you if it's blacklisted.