We are so sorry to not have reacted any sooner. Are you still having those problems ? In my case, this also happens sometimes.
What I do is during the time that the device tries to make the connection is press "HANG UP" for 6 seconds. This will kill your GPRS connection and mostly the device reconnects just fine.
Please report your findings, we MUST get you on track :)
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