Why wont my cordless phones work in my house anymore?

Question

Please reade my statement so you dont reply with things I have already done to try and fix it.

I have been puzzled for 5yrs now. No one can figure out what the problem is.
I was using a cordless phone for many years. One day, it just stopped. When I would pick it up it would beep like 3 times and say "Out of range" or "Try again". Even though I was in fact right next to the base. So I decided to just buy a new battery. Didnt help. Then I decided to buy a new phone. Well it did the same darn thing. I took it back since it didnt work for me anyhow. Some time went on and I decided to buy another cordless phone to try again. Same errors. A friend let me borrow her cordless to try. Still no fix. This is 4 cordless phones now with same issue and all different brands (all 2Ghz and up to 5Ghz. Tried using different areas of the apt. to plug into. I took all the cordless phones to my workplace to try them. Every single cordless phone, including my original worked fine. Took them home and still had the error. I do not have a wireless router, nor have any new/different electrical devices. Thought maybe a neighbor did or something, but I have seen all of them come and go throughout the years and nothing has changed. Now, my regular corded phone works, but what a pain to talk on it when your busy about the house. Can anyone help? My phone company said it was my phone and blew me off.

Answer 1

It may be that your apartment is "flooded" with radio from a strong local source such as a wireless CCTV or badly performing electronic device that is not designed for radio emission.



Try this:

get some aluminium foil and make a little tent with the phone and base station inside it. Ideally try to earth/ground the foil. This should shield the phone from external signal. Try the phone.

If this works then you are being exposed to unwanted radio signal and should call in some experts to trace the source.









Edit:

Al foil = Reynolds Wrap / cooking / tin foil

look at Faraday cage

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I would be looking at checking the electrical outlet for power, if you know that the phone jack that you are plugging into works with a corded phone, then the outlet that you plug the phone into is likely the cause...



also, lots of consumer electronic devices operate in the 900Mhz, 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz range not just routers, but wireless security cameras, baby monitors, garage door openers, car alarms, etc.... so it still may be possible although rare, that there may be too much radio interference for your phone to make a connection to the base... a DECT phone, which operates in the 1.9Ghz range would eliminate this problem....



but being you have tried multiple phones I would assume that it is the phone jack, or the electrical outlet (if the outlet is not loose or defective, make sure the outlet is not controlled by a light switch)

Answer 4

I unplugged my 2 nonworking cordless phone bases for about 30 minutes and then plugged them back in and they had reset themselves.

Answer 5

Have you or a neighbour got a wireless router? when I first got a wireless router my wireless phones stopped working but I changed the channel on the router config page and it has been working since.