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Calls going directly to voicemail

I've been having an issue where my incoming calls are sent directly to my voicemail. It happens about 70% of the time, and its incredibly frustrating. I went into a Sprint store and they performed a firmware update, and it seemed to fix the problem for a couple weeks, but its back again. I've tried searching but havent been able to find anything.
A Sprint employee told me that Android phones require a couple seconds to "completely" hang up. Not sure that the issue though. My area is 1x, phone is in Hybrid Mode and the feature to automatically send to voicemail is disabled.
Any ideas? Anyone else having this problem?

I am having the exact same issue; and I've noticed it has gotten worse over the last week. I'm not in a 3g area, and I notice it happens more frequently if I've been surfing the web or using data.

do you guys/gals experience this in one particular area? meaning it o only happens at home? seems like your phones might not be getting service and the calls get sent straight to voicemail.

Since CDMA cannot handle voice and data at the same time you may notice calls going straight to voice mail if you've been browsing or using data. The call may never come through if you happen to be using data at the exact time a voice call is coming through...

check settings/call settings and make sure DDTM mode is not checked

booyakasha said:
I've been having an issue where my incoming calls are sent directly to my voicemail. It happens about 70% of the time, and its incredibly frustrating. I went into a Sprint store and they performed a firmware update, and it seemed to fix the problem for a couple weeks, but its back again. I've tried searching but havent been able to find anything.
A Sprint employee told me that Android phones require a couple seconds to "completely" hang up. Not sure that the issue though. My area is 1x, phone is in Hybrid Mode and the feature to automatically send to voicemail is disabled.
Any ideas? Anyone else having this problem?
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yea this happens to me too, but, more importantly, I like the ali g reference in your user name
ali g is where it's at

srkmagnus said:
do you guys/gals experience this in one particular area? meaning it o only happens at home? seems like your phones might not be getting service and the calls get sent straight to voicemail.
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mine seems to be more or less random. I usually have solid signal; and I've had people tell me they called four or five times and the first ones went right to voicemail and then one randomly gets through. In these cases I KNOW I haven't moved my phone...

coldsweat said:
Since CDMA cannot handle voice and data at the same time you may notice calls going straight to voice mail if you've been browsing or using data. The call may never come through if you happen to be using data at the exact time a voice call is coming through...
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This is true, however, the device is smart enough to know when to cut the data connection if a call is coming in.
I got a replacement device yesterday, seems to be working fine now.

riotkid976 said:
mine seems to be more or less random. I usually have solid signal; and I've had people tell me they called four or five times and the first ones went right to voicemail and then one randomly gets through. In these cases I KNOW I haven't moved my phone...
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This is exactly what I was experiencing, also in solid 1x coverage. I would recommend going to a Sprint store and asking for a replacement. They replaced mine with no questions asked when the Rep tried to place a call to my phone unsuccessfully in the store.

thedudejdog said:
yea this happens to me too, but, more importantly, I like the ali g reference in your user name
ali g is where it's at
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wiggity check ya self before you wreck ya self
respekt

booyakasha said:
This is exactly what I was experiencing, also in solid 1x coverage. I would recommend going to a Sprint store and asking for a replacement. They replaced mine with no questions asked when the Rep tried to place a call to my phone unsuccessfully in the store.
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maybe i'll pop down to my sprint store today then...

Had my s3 since Monday, old inc just rang

Weirdest thing just happened..... I'm playing on my s3, expecting a phone call. I get the call and not only is my s3 ringing but my old incredible on desk?? So just out of curiosity I answer my incredible, it works and I'm talking. A second after I answer my inc, I answer my s3, it connects to the call as well and now I'm talking on both phones at the same time.... Didn't think that was possible lol... I had the person call me back again but the inc didn't ring.
Then I realized my inc said I had missed calls yesterday. Yesterday I had tried calling someone and my s3 would not dial. So I tried calling it from a friends phone and my work phone but my s3 wouldn't ring. (Turns out those calls were going to my inc which was home) I pulled and re-seated the battery and sim on the s3 and tried again and it worked. Throughout this whole thing my data (3g) was working just fine on my s3. (No 4g where I'm at)
Sorry if this is confusing. Has anyone had something like this happen? If so, how did you fix it? Any suggestions?
btw: it doesn't happen all the time (only twice)(just now and yesterday for the ten minutes I was trying to call my s3) and I'm with Verizon.

Completely normal when porting numbers over, usually it only happens in the first 48 hours but it could take up to a week do update across the board. Give it a few more days and you should be alright.

Alright will do...happened again today, had one call I missed on my gs3, had two missed call on my Inc when I got home
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As alexmason said it is normal during a porting process, but if I understand correctly you're not porting out of Verizon right? This is very strange if you've been on Verizon the whole time (I should specify on the same account as well).

I pre-ordered my s3 for the same line I had my incredible on. I got it Monday and activated it that night for that line. Same number, same everything. So it wasn't anything other then a normal activation.
The incredible is only receiving some of my calls, you can't call out and it doesn't have 3g. On my s3 some call go to it only, some calls go to both phones, some go to just the inc. It has 3g all the time and works, but when calls are not going to the s3 (only) I can't call out from either phone.
Earlier, all calls from my house to my cell, were going to my inc and not my s3. So i pulled the battery and sim on the s3 and re-seated them and called from my house again and it rang my s3 so it worked. But I've done this before when i had trouble dial out of my s3 at work.

[Q] G2X with Cyogenmod 7.2 not able to receive calls

Hey everyone.
My LG G2X is running Cyogenmod 7.2.
Just last week my phone apparently started to not be able to receive phone calls. I called T-mobile and told them about the issue, however they tried calling me and it went through without an issue.
I am lost for words, i've had people from AT&T and Verizon try to call me and no calls go through.
Any ideas?
Kind Regards,
Jordan

What baseband are you on? If you're on a baseband that is not supported by the ROM then you may need to flash one of these zip files to make your phone capable of making calls. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1776843

chowdan said:
Hey everyone.
My LG G2X is running Cyogenmod 7.2.
Just last week my phone apparently started to not be able to receive phone calls. I called T-mobile and told them about the issue, however they tried calling me and it went through without an issue.
I am lost for words, i've had people from AT&T and Verizon try to call me and no calls go through.
Any ideas?
Kind Regards,
Jordan
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If test calls come through, and calls from other t-mobile phones come through, then it is clearly a t-mobile problem, NOT a phone problem. There is nothing ON your phone that rejects only calls from specific carriers.
You will need to call them back with specific examples of people (phone # and carrier) who cannot call you. Perferably you will also have some examples (landlines, other carriers) who CAN call you.
You also need to make sure to have more than one example, otherwise it could be on the other person's side.
Armed with that information you can prove a pattern and that it is not your phone.
On the other hand, if it is random as far as whether a call comes through or not, then it could be either your phone or t-mobile. A pattern is what you're looking for.
Source of information: I was once a T-Mobile Tier 2 PDA Tech.

my phone wont call one PARTICULAR number

Hi. I have noticed a weird problem. I can call anyone and everyone can call me. But i have this particular number which my phone wont call. It starts ringing but after about half-second it cuts and tells me that the number is not available. But the number can call me. And i also noticed that when i have both these phones next to each other, the other one turns on its display as soon as my phone dials it, but wont connect, because my phone cuts it...
What kind of problem could that be? I tried removing the contact and adding it again, as well as rebooting my phone.
P.s.: the irony is that the particular number is my gf's lol

Call your phone company
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Maybe the person accidently barred your number from calling them?
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Well too strange that it started happening after i changed my phones (very old nokia for this new moto g)

Yeah thanks, the operator told me that this is usually bcause of banning the number from the other phone..
And yes, somehow my number was on the black list of my gf's phone, though she's not much into setting anything in her phone, so we dont know how did i get there
Thanks everyone

Ghost called me?

Today I received an incoming call from a known number (my friend) and when I accepted the call (slide to the right) the timer started counting and I was hearing the sound that you hear when you dial somebody. Because, it was, in fact actually dialing that number. My friend didn't pick up her phone (busy or something) so I got the message "please leave a voicemail..."
And that happened about 4 more times, one of those time she picked up the phone and asked why I called her. I said I didn't call her. I received an incoming call from her. And after that until now I keep receiving a notification saying "new voicemail" and there are new voicemail. And these voicemail are the sound mentioned above (the sound you hear when you dial somebody).
So what happened? How can an incoming call when accepted call back? And who made the calls? It appeared that my friend had access to her phone, not like it was stolen or something.

It can possibly be the network provider (yours or your friend's carrier) acting up. That issue doesn't sound like its the actual phone. Have both you and your friend call both of your carriers and ask them to reset the network. Explain the situation to them. Maybe they were doing some testing/maintenance and it interfered with the service.
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Call the police
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dicecuber said:
Call the police
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NEVER call police!!! :good:

Valentines day is close and that friend:cyclops: maybe....cupid did it?

Google's algorithms have determined that you two really need to talk.

I followed dicecuber's advice and called 911. I was told that this was done by the NSA.
Just kidding
Now things seem to be peaceful. No more calls from my known-but-unknown friend. I now have 6 voicemail like that though. Wasted about 30 minutes to listen to those voicemail, and I'm using T-Mobile $30 100-minute plan.
I thought of the possibility of an app on my phone doing this and am considering doing a factory reset, but I'm not sure if it's even possible for an app to do that. Not to mention I believe I don't have any malicious apps on my device.
- If I do a firmware restore would I need to calibrate the battery?
- Do you add an "s" after "voicemail" to make it plural?
For those that are wondering, this is absolutely not a trolling post nor a joke.