My Dash just called itself! Am I in trouble? - HTC Excalibur

Holy moly! My cell just called itself! It showed my number and it said Incoming Voicemail! So, I don't know if I should I have, I picked up and didn't say anything and it seemed like the sound on the "other side" was where I was at.

Think someone needs to go to bed earlier JK
Rather bizzare and never heard of phones calling themself except in rather bizare horror movies.
Could have just been some freak call of nature, could have been a problem with carrier....
If your worried hard-reset device not that i think it will help but may put your mind @ rest, if happens again after i'd phone your carrier to ask why your phones is calling you? "try not to laugh when calling"
I'm sorry to make humour but i just had so many funny visuals soon as read it.
Get some sleep all will be well

I know its funny man but I found this so far.
Seems like other T-Mobile people had this issue.
http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/t-mobile-users/61805-phone-calls-itself-defective-sim-card.html
I told my friend, he started to crack up!

How do you turn off the Paging Notification Options in the Dash? That seemed to have fixed things for these guys.
UPDATE: This is weird. I called the Voicemail, went on my Paging notifications and it says they are turned off. Yet, I still got the call? Anyone...

You remind with my Dash, i have the same issue for very long time, immediatly after reciving a voice mail my phone rinngs twice and stops, recently i flashed my phone to the latest 6.5 WM and i did not see this issue anymore. What causing it??? God knows.

Probably a flashing error with the RADIO. That, or some essential program for making calls is malfunctioning due to a bad flash. I honestly see no other reason for this than a bad flash. The ROMs are designed by our master-chefs to work well. Any glitches that a small percentage of people have are usually flash-related. The solution...REFLASH! I know i have had to do this because I have gotten funky results.
*this also taught me that when they say "Do not touch the link line", they really mean don't touch it at all. I have made a habit of stepping away from the desk when flashing haha, but that is just the very worried me *

I had the same situation long time ago
My excalibur called itself!
It never repeated but it was an unsolved strange problem

I never touched anything when flashing but its weird that its something flash related because everything works fine other than this and I called my voicemail, my paging notifications are off!

So I flashed it back to stock ROM, still getting the calls. I pick up, I say HELLO? And Jigsaw voice from SAW movies says, DIE! You will die in 5 days... or something like that. No joke, I heard that SAW had something on their site to prank call people but they took it down. I wonder if some dumb person I know is pranking me. Anyone had or know about this?

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So I flashed it back to stock ROM, still getting the calls. I pick up, I say HELLO? And Jigsaw voice from SAW movies says, DIE! You will die in 5 days... or something like that. No joke, I heard that SAW had something on their site to prank call people but they took it down. I wonder if some dumb person I know is pranking me. Anyone had or know about this?
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Just feel off my chair you made my day
I so hope that you are providing comedy here and not being a realist
Sorry if i take you wrong way

I am not kidding man. I called my buddy and Googled it, there are many sites that prank call. I also read that the SAw website had something where you could prank people and they to take it down. Guess what! First time I got the call it was Oct 23. Guess when SAW VI came out... OCT 23! So, I hope that is it. I think I know who did it, but not 100% sure. Just wanted to know if you guys heard about these things.

hmm, i think theres a hole in your story... your first post says October 19th not 23rd. haha but funny nonetheless.

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hmm, i think theres a hole in your story... your first post says October 19th not 23rd. haha but funny nonetheless.
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Yep it's just a plug for SAW VI

ah damn i wish i knew about this before the website got closed. lol

What do you mean a plug?
I am pretty sure I got the call Oct 23 because I even circled it on my calendar.
Either way, I am still gonna call T-Mobile.

Capitan Totti said:
What do you mean a plug?
I am pretty sure I got the call Oct 23 because I even circled it on my calendar.
Either way, I am still gonna call T-Mobile.
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A plug is advertising generally dropped in when on different subject. 'google will give a better definition'
Good luck with t-mo and hope they make more sense of it than us, i'm baffled untill today i was thinking same as you linked, now i just got a comedy sketch similar to Crazy Movie in my head

Still alive! Thank God!

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I am ofishalay weedtaded

Might be the extra good that im toookin or lack of poopin im not shootin but, damn, seriously someone just hit me with a tard of the week class or something.
I have booted andy on my tp2 before and prefer it over WM... sometimes... but for that i am barely holding on to I can't seem to remember what the hell I did to my startup txt and cant find the damn thing anywhere. I might be over looking but have tried here, there, overthere, and even at my grandmas house (she doesnt even use a computer. that is how confused I am).
So for my sake, can someone PLEASE shoot me with the startup txt that is working for them on a TMO TP2. or at least the kb settings.
why not just use the .cab with the startup tool and have it do everything for you automatically?
I was thinkn the same thing ;-)
i did... but i think it is cheating
did last night. gave up and just decided to go with the .cab and have some 2.1 fun but, I feel like I am cheating on WM when I see the android chilling in the start menu. It is like cheating on my hardtail when I use a full squishy when I travel outside of texas.
damn that was a bunch of Ieyezzz. lol
anyways, downloaded the updates and everything is fine. came across data problems but figured it out right before the wife told me to hit the sack before i call in to work. =)
I like this thread, you are funny.

[Q] Pissed off!!

To make a long story short, I was viciously text bombed by a friend of mine and it caused a lot of problems for me. I was driving to a meeting 3 hours away from my house and I started getting text bombed. I didn't have directions so I was using my GPS to get me there. You see the problem here. My GPS force closed and it basically heated my phone up to the point where it just kept boot looping. It caused me to be late to my meeting because I had to guess my way there. You can say I was pissed. Well I want to get revenge now. I downloaded a SMS bomber app from the market but when it gets to the 100th text message, it will start having a notification pop up that says a large amount of texts are being sent out and then for any more texts to be sent out I have to manually press okay and it's very frustrating. I was wondering if there was any way to modify this in terminal or remove the cap so that it doesn't warn me anymore. Thanks
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If you guys can recommend a better SMS bombing app that I don't have to worry about the notification, that would be great too
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To make a long story short, I was viciously text bombed by a friend of mine and it caused a lot of problems for me. I was driving to a meeting 3 hours away from my house and I started getting text bombed. I didn't have directions so I was using my GPS to get me there. You see the problem here. My GPS force closed and it basically heated my phone up to the point where it just kept boot looping. It caused me to be late to my meeting because I had to guess my way there. You can say I was pissed. Well I want to get revenge now. I downloaded a SMS bomber app from the market but when it gets to the 100th text message, it will start having a notification pop up that says a large amount of texts are being sent out and then for any more texts to be sent out I have to manually press okay and it's very frustrating. I was wondering if there was any way to modify this in terminal or remove the cap so that it doesn't warn me anymore. Thanks
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If you guys can recommend a better SMS bombing app that I don't have to worry about the notification, that would be great too
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You can DL handcent and blacklist (long press on his name for the option) him as soon as he starts it or use panda firewall set it to Filter SMS and throw the number in there...then simply turn it on when he starts...Good luck My friend finally realized that he can't effect my phone so he stopped being a douche...
I've found that an aluminum baseball bat upside the head is a really effective form of revenge.. At least the other party will think twice about doing dumb stuff the next time around.
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kf2mq said:
I've found that an aluminum baseball bat upside the head is a really effective form of revenge.. At least the other party will think twice about doing dumb stuff the next time around.
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I stick with the traditional wood bat, but to each their own.
Considering the aluminum baseball bat idea, however he is my best man in my upcoming wedding so I don't know if I want to do that quite yet I've already protected myself from that ever happening again and made it clear that I was ****ing pissed at him.
What happens when you take him out of tge blacklist? Do all the texts come to your phone (the ones that have been blocked)?
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Pulling the battery would have reset your GPS . But yea I agree an ass kicking is in order
some place in the world !!!!
apristel said:
I stick with the traditional wood bat, but to each their own.
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Not that I have anything against wood. It's just that aluminum is easier to clean afterwards.
I had a friend that used this technique once, post his number to some celebrity gossip board making the claim that the number is a celebs.
Granted, he'll probably have to change his number after that, so keep that in mind.
I knew someone that used the aluminum bat method. He is doing life in prison cuz it killed the guy. Bats are no joke lol. Me and my friends refer to him as Batman! of course, whenever we are making fun of him for being an idiot.
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Pulling the battery would have reset your GPS . But yea I agree an ass kicking is in order
some place in the world !!!!
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No because they are delivered at that time they just don't annoyingly show up....its also a work around for the voice mail notifications on ASOP ROM's
hooover said:
No because they are delivered at that time they just don't annoyingly show up....its also a work around for the voice mail notifications on ASOP ROM's
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search the app market for anti sms bomber (no joke it works)
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I knew someone that used the aluminum bat method. He is doing life in prison cuz it killed the guy. Bats are no joke lol. Me and my friends refer to him as Batman! of course, whenever we are making fun of him for being an idiot.
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You could allways do this.
"That was pretty funny,what app did you use to send all that stuff? Oh,thats pretty sweet,let me see." Take phone,drop on floor,grind boot heel into screen,laugh a little more and say "that was pretty funny too,now your phones even more jacked up than mine was,think about that next time you want to f&^% with me on the way to an important meeting!" ,then get in your car and leave.

Last resort before I return my S2..

I surely hope this topic hasn't been made... I don't want to be that guy.
Short and sweet... I'm rooted (that MAY not have anything to do with it)
I got this phone launch day... It worked perfectly. Not saying this is the reason why but as soon as the Iphone 4S was released my phone started failing.. Essentially what it does is give me a fast paced busy signal when I try to make a call. Sometimes I have to attempt to make a car 15 times or more. Of course that is annoying but people also get the same signal when they try to call me. Since I'm in sales that is a huge problem.
I called Sprint, the local store. The lady told me that while OG EVOs were having that issue I was the first SII. She said sprint was currently upgrading (and I read stuff in the news to back that up on a national level).
So after receiving no help from the local store I called the 1800 sprint1 stuffola.. They had me go through the whole ##xxxx## stuff. After doing that and it not fixing the problem they suggested I go to a sprint store and have my phone replaced. Now I, don't want to do that. I really don't want someone else’s phone and I just have this thing.. Where I don't want another phone (even though it will be an SII).
Now, I have an airwave at the house and I have absolutely no problem there. Calls come and go as they please. Which makes me feel like it isn't my phone. Is there anything I can do before I go and replace my baby... I really don't feel like going through the whole unrooting process and getting rid of the triangle before I go in there...
I've done PRL updates so that isn't it.
Not sure, but maybe try flashing the new modem...
Bobby O'S Epic Touch..
I had issues with busy signals and calls not going through also....until I turned off Google voice from my computer. I was using Google voice and groove ip to make calls over wifi and once I turned wifi off my phone was useless. If you aren't using GV then I have no clue lol.
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Odin this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
Be happy
It was google voice!
Thanks a lot for your help guys.
Hey Poppy, want to know what makes your answer that much more freakish... I live in Chambersburg, Pa. I work in Greencastle. Small world. Thanks again.
Glad you figured it out!! Dealing with Sprint exchanges are a pain in the ass... :/
I was going to say there is a root that wont affect your counter or add the yellow triangle.. But it's moot now haha
tuna-83 said:
It was google voice!
Thanks a lot for your help guys.
Hey Poppy, want to know what makes your answer that much more freakish... I live in Chambersburg, Pa. I work in Greencastle. Small world. Thanks again.
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Wow just saw this post after all this time....I worked at Jerr-Dan for almost 3 years. Very small world.
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4th nexus same issue

As of now I'm on my 4th Gnexus and once again I'm being plagued with the same issue I have since my first one back on launch day. Loss of voice during a call, high pitch noises, (think scratching on a chalk board) loss of sound on all key press as well as numbers when dialing.
I have called about this issue. First time around Verizon said take it back get a new one. So I did that and so on happened 2 more times same issue same results. Now on my 4th one its starting again. So verizon said it was Samsung and Samsung said Verizon.
So I was hoping for some input on what direction I should go now.
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After so many replacements, I can only imagine that this is happening because of your location?
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My wife has the same phone and she has not had any of these issues. On the other had she doesn't use her phone as much as I do! I'm pretty much on mine all day and she maybe looks at it once a day.
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srh21 said:
My wife has the same phone and she has not had any of these issues. On the other had she doesn't use her phone as much as I do! I'm pretty much on mine all day and she maybe looks at it once a day.
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This is an obvious case of user-error. The odds of getting a defunct phone that many times in a row is about like winning the lottery, literally.
srh21 said:
As of now I'm on my 4th Gnexus and once again I'm being plagued with the same issue I have since my first one back on launch day. Loss of voice during a call, high pitch noises, (think scratching on a chalk board) loss of sound on all key press as well as numbers when dialing.
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when you said high pitch noises, do you mean that during a call you can hear a buzzing sort of noise when people speak? I get that on my nexus too, it's slightly irritating but I'll live with it, better than spending time to unroot it, go back to stock and then waste a whole week in the service centre.
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This is an obvious case of user-error. The odds of getting a defunct phone that many times in a row is about like winning the lottery, literally.
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It's obviously not user error.. If you read a bit you'd see there is a very lengthy thread about this very issue.. It's called microphone cutting out during call or something like that.. You can replace your phone as much as you want, it's not going to change it. the cause is unknown but I believe they have at least determined it not to be hardware..
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Powell730 said:
It's obviously not user error.. If you read a bit you'd see there is a very lengthy thread about this very issue.. It's called microphone cutting out during call or something like that.. You can replace your phone as much as you want, it's not going to change it. the cause is unknown but I believe they have at least determined it not to be hardware..
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That is correct. Audio outbound gets garbled and then lost completely. This is the worst bug of this phone. I can't count how many phone calls where I'd have to hang up and redial because the other person couldn't hear me anymore.
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I'd blame the carrier, as i'm on Orange UK, and I use T-Mobile UK as well, and call quality both ends, is excellent
Your wife may not have the issue but are y'all talking on the same tower when the issue arises? I'm on Verizon as well and never had this problem. That said, I don't talk a lot, maybe 400 minutes a month - mostly to my boss that has an iPhone so half the time I can't hear crap anyway due to that fact.
I will say, as a recent T-Mobile transplant that has used Verizon off and on for several years with work phones, Verizon doesn't seem to have the same call quality in general terms. Maybe it's just my ear, but even back in the day I owned some Motorola claim shells that sounded pretty muddy.
Have you tried to replicate the problem on a completely stock phone with no 3rd party apps? I wonder if there's a conflict somewhere.
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This is an obvious case of user-error. The odds of getting a defunct phone that many times in a row is about like winning the lottery, literally.
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Not sure how it could be user error as well. This isn't my first phone.
srh21 said:
Not sure how it could be user error as well. This isn't my first phone.
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Your wife may not have the issue but are y'all talking on the same tower when the issue arises? I'm on Verizon as well and never had this problem. That said, I don't talk a lot, maybe 400 minutes a month - mostly to my boss that has an iPhone so half the time I can't hear crap anyway due to that fact.
I will say, as a recent T-Mobile transplant that has used Verizon off and on for several years with work phones, Verizon doesn't seem to have the same call quality in general terms. Maybe it's just my ear, but even back in the day I owned some Motorola claim shells that sounded pretty muddy.
Have you tried to replicate the problem on a completely stock phone with no 3rd party apps? I wonder if there's a conflict somewhere.
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I pretty much tried everything. New sim cards, using it with nothing installed (stock) I'm super bummed I been waiting on a nexus device to hit Verizon for a while now. I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to put up with this.
What about rolling back onto 3G? Are you on the fringe of LTE connectivity at all?
I know a lot of people talk about call quality. Frankly, I haven't experienced any issues and no one has told me that it sounds like crap (and believe me, I have friends that would mention it, we're a HARSH bunch). I don't doubt they exist, and you certainly don't sound like 3/4ths of XDA that are overly dramatic whiners. Out of curiosity, roughly how many minutes a month do you talk? Any chance that it's just an issue where, well you know, the more you do something the more opportunity to experience something that goes wrong? I used to talk a ton for work, like 3000+ minutes a month. I had a lot more dropped calls then than now, know what I mean?
You know what I'd do, which Verizon would HATE but, hey, you are the customer. I'd take you and your wife's phone into Verizon, and have them flip the numbers around. Keep EVERYTHING else about the phones the same. Her apps stay, your apps stay, just swap the numbers around and try her phone with your regular use for maybe 3 or 4 days. If you can replicate the problem while she doesn't experience the issue at all on your phone, then you can probably narrow it down to either the tower your on, or maybe the phone really is just buggy after you've been on it for a while.
Every so often I'll have a long conversation and a call gets dropped, but I've never not been able to hear someone or them not be able to hear me. Like, they're the typical issues that you could assign to either being a tower pass off problem or the nature of LTE long before the phone (on either my end or the other person's end). But, like I said, that's a rare occurrence for me.
What version of ICS are you running? I had this same problem, specifically and most frequently the one where the audio cuts out of a call, sometimes it'd do it and force me to re-call my girlfriend as many as 3 or 4 times in an hour.
What fixed it was flashing ICS 4.0.4 released from Google themselves (if I waited for Verizon to do it I'd probably be single by now). This fixed it for me immediately right out of the gate. I've had the other issues you spoke of every so often but the audio cut out was constant. This fixed everything. Been running for a while without problems (month or so maybe?).
Eh...you didn't flash it straight from Google. At best, you flashed it straight from the Verizon/Google ota server the test ota is on
I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044
Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.
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I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044
Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.
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From here?
http://android.clients.google.com/p....signed-mysid-IMM30B-from-ICL53F.659e0a8f.zip
try a different SIM/Network. you'd be suprised
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try a different SIM/Network. you'd be suprised
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What network do you suppose he would try?
Sounds like the phone is doing you a favor. If I had to talk to my girlfriend for an hour a day I'd want my phone to kill itself.
lblacklol said:
I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044
Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.
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Did not fix the microphone going out issue for me :-( I just flashed the 4.0.4 leak on Tuesday hoping it would alleviate this problem, but I had the mic go out about 15 mins into a call last night. Same story as with stock, had to hang up and re-dial to continue the conversation.

Not receiving incoming calls. Big problem!!

Having a very strange problem with my S3. I've noticed it at home more than anywhere else but basically what happens is that if someone calls me, the phone doesn't ring on my end but I do get a voicemail notification after they've left a message. Then when I talk to them, they tell me that on their end my phone rang once or twice and then went straight to voicemail. And my phone doesn't show any missed calls so obviously, my phone never detected that there was an incoming call.
BTW, it doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes the calls come in just fine.
I've checked my signal strength and it's always between 3 and 5 bars. I've missed more calls than I can count because of this. Some of them were important calls.
And I don't have any problem making outgoing calls or using the data connection for anything.
Any idea what's going on?
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Having a very strange problem with my S3. I've noticed it at home more than anywhere else but basically what happens is that if someone calls me, the phone doesn't ring on my end but I do get a voicemail notification after they've left a message. Then when I talk to them, they tell me that on their end my phone rang once or twice and then went straight to voicemail. And my phone doesn't show any missed calls so obviously, my phone never detected that there was an incoming call.
BTW, it doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes the calls come in just fine.
I've checked my signal strength and it's always between 3 and 5 bars. I've missed more calls than I can count because of this. Some of them were important calls.
And I don't have any problem making outgoing calls or using the data connection for anything.
Any idea what's going on?
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Is it just certain contacts? You may have them set to go directly to voicemail by accident. I can't find where the list is in the phone though ahah, I can see how to add them to reject list though.
EDIT: Found it go to dial-pad and hit menu and then call settings and you will see call rejection see if you have anyone in there.
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Is it just certain contacts? You may have them set to go directly to voicemail by accident. I can't find where the list is in the phone though ahah, I can see how to add them to reject list though.
EDIT: Found it go to dial-pad and hit menu and then call settings and you will see call rejection see if you have anyone in there.
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Nope, has nothing to do with who's calling. Sometimes a call from the same person will come through but ten minutes earlier it didn't.
Ive had similar problems in the past. Turned out the phone signal was going up and down. When it was up, calls came through. And down, well duh. Either way, try a new radio. Maybe it'll hold a signal better. I've heard people complaining about H1, but cant say either way myself. Just a suggestion.
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Ive had similar problems in the past. Turned out the phone signal was going up and down. When it was up, calls came through. And down, well duh. Either way, try a new radio. Maybe it'll hold a signal better. I've heard people complaining about H1, but cant say either way myself. Just a suggestion.
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how can I try a new radio?
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how can I try a new radio?
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there's a thread in development. some people call em modems, but its the same thing. Choice of 3 i think.
Having the exact same issue is your phone always in lte while this happens?
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Having the exact same issue is your phone always in lte while this happens?
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As far as I can tell.
stay away from LH1 modem it's trash....
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As far as I can tell.
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stay away from LH1 modem it's trash....
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My baseband version is UCLG1.
btw, I never had this problem with my iphone 3GS which I had for almost 3 years.
I have to say that even though on paper the S3 blows the iphone out of the water, for pure functionality without problems, the iphone is definitely way ahead of the S3. I'm pretty much stuck with it for the next two years but I have a feeling that if things stay more or less the same in the cellphone market, I'll probably be switching back to iphones after my contract is up. The S3 is very cool but I've just had way too many problems with it that I never had with my iphone. My iphone just..........worked. With my S3 calls don't come through, I'm constantly having to force stop apps so my battery doesn't drain all the time (and even then, half the time the battery drains like crazy no matter what), the visual voicemail is sketchy as hell and doesn't work right half the time, the data connection even when it shows a strong LTE signal is often very slow and times out a lot, and a bunch of other misc. annoyances that I never had with the iphone. I wouldn't say I'm sorry that I bought the phone because I wanted to try out the latest and greatest but when my friends and coworkers have asked me about it, I've been telling them they'll be better of waiting for the iphone 5. Sorry to vent but overall, after having it for almost two months, I've concluded that I'm very disappointed with this phone. Sure, I can do things with it that I couldn't do with the iphone but f*ck me, at least with the iphone I could do basic sh!t like receive phone calls and check my email without the connection timing out all the time.
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My baseband version is UCLG1.
btw, I never had this problem with my iphone 3GS which I had for almost 3 years.
I have to say that even though on paper the S3 blows the iphone out of the water, for pure functionality without problems, the iphone is definitely way ahead of the S3. I'm pretty much stuck with it for the next two years but I have a feeling that if things stay more or less the same in the cellphone market, I'll probably be switching back to iphones after my contract is up. The S3 is very cool but I've just had way too many problems with it that I never had with my iphone. My iphone just..........worked. With my S3 calls don't come through, I'm constantly having to force stop apps so my battery doesn't drain all the time (and even then, half the time the battery drains like crazy no matter what), the visual voicemail is sketchy as hell and doesn't work right half the time, the data connection even when it shows a strong LTE signal is often very slow and times out a lot, and a bunch of other misc. annoyances that I never had with the iphone. I wouldn't say I'm sorry that I bought the phone because I wanted to try out the latest and greatest but when my friends and coworkers have asked me about it, I've been telling them they'll be better of waiting for the iphone 5. Sorry to vent but overall, after having it for almost two months, I've concluded that I'm very disappointed with this phone. Sure, I can do things with it that I couldn't do with the iphone but f*ck me, at least with the iphone I could do basic sh!t like receive phone calls and check my email without the connection timing out all the time.
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All of the issues you listed are not really S3 specific because I have had none of them and have had my phone since release. Apart from the video voicemail which I can't comment on because I have never used.
BonesHopkins said:
My baseband version is UCLG1.
btw, I never had this problem with my iphone 3GS which I had for almost 3 years.
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I've had my I747 since release in June and not experienced any of these issues. Over the years with Blackberrys and the Galaxies I found most problems result from variances in the network. Signal strength, carrier software and even where the phone is in the house. I dislike much about the iPhone (I do have a 4th gen iPod) and much prefer the openness of the Android OS and NO iTunes. Hope things with S3 get better for you.
Still having the problem. It seems to happen most often when I have LTE enabled. I disabled it using the method mentioned in another thread where you remove the sim then enter a code which takes you to the menu where you can choose what to use.
When I had LTE disabled, it didn't seem to miss as many calls. But when LTE is on, I miss a crapload of calls. I'd leave LTE off but for some reason it keeps re-enabling itself every few days so it's turning into a massive pain in the ass.
Any suggestions?
I have the same issue as you, but I'm on Wind Mobile. This issue happens intermittently anywhere between 1 to 2 days, my phone will stop being able to receive calls. It's very frustrating and Samsung is really no help. After two attempts on trying to "repair" my phone, they have failed each time. The only thing they did was they ran a "RF Test" and everything passed, they said. So they re-flash my phone with the same ROM - again and again.. I told them, "This is my second time sending it in, and you guys are redo'ing the same steps as the first repair. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know this, but wouldn't you think when you send me back the phone - the issue is still going to be there?!" ... And sure enough, when I got the phone back, I was still unable to receive calls..
So I took matters into my own hands - I flashed it with a older release stock rom and I tested it for 2 weeks, and it was able to receive calls. When I flashed with the earlier release, it also flashed the baseband. Either way, I should not be prevented from using the up to date software! This is a Samsung issue but if you ever tried dealing with them over the phone, it's painful. They said they would send me a REFURB replacement - (believe me, I tried fighting for a brand new phone, since I paid for a brand new phone and this issue came straight out of the box - it's not even my fault to begin with!) it's been 3 weeks and I still don't see any phone replacement nor did I receive any mails from Samsung.
Btw, Galaxy S3 is the phone I have.
If you discover a permanent fix for this issue, please let me know. I've been searching but no luck.
Thanks!
UPDATE: it's been over a month and I still don't see any phone replacement nor did I receive any mails from Samsung. So I called Samsung today after a month and 2 weeks. They said my replacement have been cancelled. First they said it's approved and requested me to send in my receipt for the phone. I had done the the very moment I hung up the phone from when they told me my replacement was approved (that was over a month ago). They want me to sent it in again to Samsung so they can "test". This is just ridiculous and getting out of hand. Does ANYONE have a fix for this????
Other forums are saying this is a wide spread issue...
are u missing imei, or just the problem you descibe... try flashing the latest modem... maybe yell at it while it flashes...
Nope, just having the issue I described... IMEI is exist and is valid.
aftershocks said:
Nope, just having the issue I described... IMEI is exist and is valid.
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There's some newer modems out you could try but it still sounds like hardware...
Not sent from your phone...
Sorry for the late entry here but I'm also having the issue. aftershocks, and anyone else having this issue, open battery stats - what does your "mobile network signal" bar look like? Mine is mostly tan except for when I make calls, which then it goes green. I also have an HTC One X (AT&T model) and the bar's mostly green on the HOX.
I've flashed back to the original modem (UCLEM) to see if that helps and I'll move forward from there if not. UCDLK3 was the modem I was originally on when I noticed the missed calls. Here's the thread with radios: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831898.

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