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Re: Voice on Nokia 225 no longer working.
My wife had this phone and found it was failing more and more often in the last few months, and when she was last in Canada she could call me and I could successfully text her from the States, but I couldn't call her and no one in the US could either. Tmobile customer service and store staff had no explanation. So if for some this phone is still not working and you can't get 2G service (many areas of the US now can't), consider that most people on this post seem to be using the legacy voice/text prepay plan, as I and my wife both do. This means that since the Nokia 225 has no KaiOS, base open source Android, or other operating system or wifi capability, they can't update the firmware on the phone. The "system reset" that everyone has been talking about about does not update anything. The only way to update the firmware is by having a data plan, a choice which doesn't make a lot of sense for a dumbphone. Fortunately my father lost his legacy Tmobile prepay plan and had to subscribe to one with data (UltraMobile $3/month plan), data that he will never use, so if this phone is still not working I am going to try using his SIM card in her phone and clicking on the software update tab. Interested to know if this works for anyone else.6Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: legacy pay as you go not receiving calls in Canada
She is heading back home now but I was able to confirm she was able to receive and reply to texts from me and others in the States. The only roaming setting on her Nokia 225, if it's like my Nokia 6300, a slightly fancier dumbphone with wireless, is "data roaming," and it was on, though neither of us have data as part of this plan. She can call me from Vancouver just fine but I can't call her. I forgot to ask what roaming partner was displayed on her screen.14Visto0likes0Comentarioslegacy pay as you go not receiving calls in Canada
My wife is in Vancouver Canada and I am in Washington DC. Her T-mobile phone has a DC 202 area code; mine has a Maryland 301 area code. We both have legacy pay as you go plans that are up to date with Tmobile's latest microSIM cards and new 4GLTE/3G/2G capable phones. She is roaming, probably on Rogers, possibly Telus/Bell, and she can make calls to the states and to her family in Canada. However, when I call her phone from a landline in the states, it just rings; I can't even leave voicemail. When I call from my T-mobile cell, again from the US, the line immediately clicks and the screen says "call ended." When I call through my Google Voice number, I get a busy signal. For what it's worth, she has Data Roaming on even though neither of us has data, and I've rebooted my phone in airplane mode. I've talked to several Tmobile reps both by phone and in stores and it sounds as if T-mobile made some changes with their partner roaming companies because their new prepaid plans require international passes even for voice outside of the USA. I'm told there are no such passes available for the legacy plan and this never used to be an issue when Canada still had 2G networks. T-mobile still has 2G in parts of the US but Canada completely abandoned it.