My Droid X, putting off X band

**Camthedew** · 07-22-2011, 06:27 PM

I did a search before I posted this. Just curious about what happened. Ok so I have had my V1 for a long, long time. I live in a very rural area with no falses within a 10 mile radius if not farther. I was almost home and was messing with my phone, texting and driving is bad but that is what was happening. My phone wouldn't send the message, kept failing. Don't know if that had anything to do with it but my V1 started alerting to X band, I didn't have a clue why and the last thing I figured was my phone. But I noticed the closer my phone got to it, the stronger the alert.

- I pulled my phone way back, and it was only on the first dot, got closer and almost a full X band alert... Of course the rear arrow light was on. I then moved my phone to the front of the RD and it switched arrows and gave a really strong alert to X band. I then turned my phone off, and back on. CAN NOT get it to duplicate this whatsoever.

- I have a Droid X

- Has anyone experienced this? This X band alert was 100% caused by my phone.

**OldGoat** · 07-22-2011, 07:53 PM

I have the same combination and haven't had anything like that.

an old AMPS phone[Moto V-276] I had would cause a weak X-band alert when it lost connection to the network. I live in the boonies too, so it happened a lot. Seems like your inability to send that text might be related.
Now if you could only re-create that

**kpatz** · 07-22-2011, 08:07 PM

It's very simple. You have a Droid X so it set off your V1 on X band.

If you had a Droid K or a Droid Ka, it would alert on those bands.

tee hee...

I've heard of this happening in the past with other phones.

**NormSky** · 07-22-2011, 08:08 PM

Lol @kpatz!

My old Palm Treo used to also to X.

**Frenzy** · 07-22-2011, 08:41 PM

Try turning it on Airplane Mode and sending a text. It is like having sending a message with no wireless communications. Just a thought. I also know with Verizon I can't receive a msg and send one out at the same time. The send fails, I cancel it, receive the text, and re-send. Follow what I said?

**Camthedew** · 07-22-2011, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by Frenzy

Try turning it on Airplane Mode and sending a text. It is like having sending a message with no wireless communications. Just a thought. I also know with Verizon I can't receive a msg and send one out at the same time. The send fails, I cancel it, receive the text, and re-send. Follow what I said?

I follow exactly what you said, I have to do this all the time when a message fails due to an incoming message. Also, yes, this was only happening when the phone was trying to send a message but couldn't just kept failing due to bad service or something.
- Sometimes my phone will go out of wack and not get service in a place where it should, and it takes a re-boot to fix. This was one of those moments, except I was getting X band alerts from my droid X haha.

**kpatz** · 07-23-2011, 07:15 AM

In Airplane mode the transceiver is turned off completely, so it's not going to set the V1 off in that mode.

Some phones on some carriers generate certain harmonics when scanning for a tower that can cause RD falses. That's probably what happened in your case.

**comno6** · 07-24-2011, 08:50 AM

Uhhh.. I think you were more on track with the Droid-X thing

But in all seriousness, that sounds very logical.

Originally Posted by kpatz

In Airplane mode the transceiver is turned off completely, so it's not going to set the V1 off in that mode.

Some phones on some carriers generate certain harmonics when scanning for a tower that can cause RD falses. That's probably what happened in your case.