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Is it working?
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Posted: 2014-12-06 22:16:51
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No yet
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Posted: 2014-12-10 23:35:47
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Hi friends, I've been using the Ericsson GH172 as a daily cellphone for a while now. I like a lot its signal strenght (it gets signal in places where a more modern cellphone won't), and the audio quality is very good. It even reads the modern 128K SIM cards with the small chip!

However, I have some questions about it. First, the CLI. When someone calls me, I just see "Call" on the display, without seeing the number. Is it possible to activate the Caller ID feature on the GH172? I recently got a GH198 which has a similar software and is able to display it...

Second, now that I have four of them, I noticed that two models don't have a loud ringtone, unlike the other two. Could it be a ringer problem? And in that case, is a spare part still available? And the last question is about the "Multi" charger. With the first refurbished battery, it charges fine until the green light appears, meaning that it's charged, while the other one, after the charging cycle, the light will become green for a while, then it turns off. The charger works fine though, since it charges and discharges. Thank you again for everything.
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Posted: 2014-12-20 12:04:21
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Selling most of my collection.

You can find 2 topic about it in the for sale section here on Esato
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Posted: 2014-12-22 15:37:52
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Hehe, I managed to buy a GH172 for my collection, D2 branded,its not in mint condition, but it's working good. Ringtone is loud, signal reception excellent and sound quality good as well. This one as well does not have caller ID,but I think it is normal for such and old phone.
Probably I will refurbish a battery to test in all the the phones at normal usage.
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Posted: 2015-01-07 14:26:29
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Congrats Marius! The GH172 is a great phone. Since when I received it, I'm using it as my regular phone and I'm very satisfied by it, especially about the signal strenght. And the most important thing, it's a telephone that does the telephone, rather than all the fancy things that modern smartphones do.

In the meantime (a bit OT) I'm in the process of reviving an Alcatel 9109 HA, which has more or less the same age of the GH172, except it reads only SIM cards with the big chip (which I managed to find, hopefully it will work) and needs a quite beefy battery (7.2V) to work properly. I managed to find both of them, I have to keep the fingers crossed though, as I don't know if the new-old stock battery I bought still has juice or not.

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Posted: 2015-01-07 22:20:16
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Here is a few of the latest devices in my collection.

First TH688 limited edition GSM and DECT.


Then a A2228z that looks very much like a R300z. 1900 MHz GSM phone


The SF888 is not very common. Wonder if that is not the pre-design of I888.


Finally T61lx a late phone for AT&T

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Posted: 2015-01-13 16:43:01
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These are nice specimen, I quite like the SF888. Is it a prototype?
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Posted: 2015-01-16 12:01:16
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Today I restored too a battery for GH172 with modern eneloop cells, 1900 mah. Works fine for now, let's see how it performs in the real world and how much of a difference does it make from phone to phone, like GH 197 and 198 which are supposed to be better from energy consumption point of view.
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Posted: 2015-01-19 22:03:37
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It sounds really good, too wonderful!
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Posted: 2015-01-22 03:36:00
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