We have 2 mytouch 4g's. Both of them have problems when making or receiving calls. The calls keep breaking up and therefore we cannot understand what is being said. It seems that the problem is happening when the phone is set to WCDMA or auto GMS/WCDMA. I've also noticed that when I set the phone to GMS only, I get more bars then on either of the other 2 settings and the call problem improves. This problem happens at both my house and also my wife says at the place she works, which is 3 miles from the house.
Anyone else having this problem and any fixes known
I've had a strange long-term issue where the phone will ring for the party calling in, but won't ring on my end. No missed call shows up. It occurs about half the time with or without WiFi calling on. This issue has plagued me since my Verizon Note 4 with Verizon service, my T-Mobile Note 4 with T-Mobile, and is still occurring on my T-Mobile Note 5.
The only way I know I've missed calls is that I use YouMail's email notification service which lets me know that someone got to my YouMail voicemail even if they don't leave a message.
I thought it had to do with my poor (1-2 bar) service in my rural area but I've had WiFi calling on my past two devices, WiFi always on, and it still happens frequently. For example, I got three calls from my girlfriend while I was home today. Full WiFi signal strength the whole time. Her first call came through fine but the following two I never received any missed call for. The only reason I know she called was because of the email notification I received from my YouMail voicemail service. I have a new SIM card through T-Mobile so I know it's not that as it previously happened with my Verizon SIM and Note 4 while on their network.
Very frustrating. Any idea what is going on?
I can say that T-mobile wifi calling is not stable. It got so bad I had to turn it off and just deal with poor signal.
I am experiencing what I can best describe as "choppy" call quality on my Google Pixel. I have been using Verizon for over a decade and I've never had any problems with their reception on any phone, and I've owned quite a few (Motorola and Samsung phones). I purchased a Pixel from google webstore and I've been using it for about a month. Since I've owned it I noticed that I will randomly get instances where during a call the reception will become choppy, I'll only be able to understand every other word the person says. The people on the other end of the line also have the same problem hearing me. During these calls I noticed that the reception is fine according to my cell phone bars. I also noticed that the call almost never drops, it just becomes choppy. I'm relucant to blame this on Verizon because I've never had any problems with them. The reception in my area is great with Verizon (I've been at this address for years). My questions are; Do any other Pixel owners on Verizon have this problem? If so how do you fix it? I've tried several useless tips that I found on other websites, things like, "try restarting your phone" or "try specifying your preferred network as CDMA/LTE". None of that makes this go away. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Is it possible this is your first experience with HD calls? Poor reception on HD calls sounds different than on regular calls much like how analog TV static on analog broadcast was replaced with pixelated images with digital broadcast in poor reception areas.
cntryby429 said:
Is it possible this is your first experience with HD calls? Poor reception on HD calls sounds different than on regular calls much like how analog TV static on analog broadcast was replaced with pixelated images with digital broadcast in poor reception areas.
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I don't know if this is my first experience with HD calls. How do I find that out? My previous phone was a Samsung S4 Mini, it was a 4G LTE phone. I never had any problems with that phone.'
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Okay, found the setting. In the Pixel it is called Advanced Calling. It was on. I'll turn it off and see if that helps.
It's only used if you're calling another Verizon customer who has a capable phone with the feature enabled. The dialer app says "HD VOICE CALL" or something similar once the call is underway.
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It's only used if you're calling another Verizon customer who has a capable phone with the feature enabled. The dialer app says "HD VOICE CALL" or something similar once the call is underway.
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Okay, I've had this feature disabled for over a week and I haven't had any of the choppy call quality that I was seeing. Your solution seems to have worked. I'll keep this feature disabled for a bit longer and report back.
That's great that it helped but a bummer that it doesn't work well for you. I've found the few calls I make that are able to use HD voice are quite a lot clearer.
Many of you have seen the multiple threads on multiple forums about the call quality issues with the Pixel 3 and 3XL, so I won't dig into that any further. Instead, I am asking if those who have issues can list the signal strength as reported by your device in the area where the call issues occur?
For example, my wife and I only had call issues at our house, where both of our devices registered -115 dBm of signal strength. This was not a problem for our Pixel 2's. When calling from my job, the issue was far less frequent and the signal strength is approximately -100 dBm. Finally, we received a signal booster from our carrier for the house and the call issues went away completely, measuring -80 dBm.
Based on this, I can only assume the Pixel 3's hardware is not holding on to signals as well as other phones and I need your help determining if the problems go away above a certain signal strength threshold.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Open the stock phone dialer app
2. Enter the test menu by dialing *#*#4636#*#*
3. Select "Phone Information"
4. Find the "Signal Strength" line and report the value you see.
Once again, please only list yours from an area where you experience consistent call quality issues.
Hi,I'm having call quality issues on my Pixel 3 with -108 dBm of signal strength
My third pixel xl. All 3 of them never had call issues. Other issues yes. Thankfully calling is good
Semi-related question. I'm on Project Fi. When I check the Phone Info "wifi calling provisioned" appears to be off and greyed out. When I check Settings it's enabled. My wifi signal is very strong, I'm sitting about 10 ft from the router. Not sure how to interpret that "provisioned" status. Also, wifi calling could theoretically mess up the stats from your cell signal strength data.
I have had my pixel 3xl for a week now,
And I must report that for me there have been no call quality issues whatsoever.
I'm on 3 (UK)
Signal strength: -84 dBm to 56 asu what does it mean?
I don't really have any call issues but my signal is 115-118 inside my house
If you're in an area with poor signal and you're using VoLTE the static noise/buzzing will occur . It's been pinpointed as a baseband/kernel issue the version on the 3/3XL's are incompatible with certain towers. In areas with good signal the buzzing/static won't be there over cell. If you're in an area with poor/mediocre service turn off VoLTE and to make calls on 3G and there will be no buzzing. Sadly the issue still persists with WiFi calling though.
I have more drop calls on this device then any other. Mostly driving, gotta be tower issues. My other phone didn't have this issue, but I'm with Verizon now I was with Sprint.
Tmobile -109 no bad call quality and decent data when not in super old building.
-105 for me
happening on BOTH pixel 3's on verizon. had pixel 1's before and NO issue. other users, including samsung and iphone on same plan, no probs. signal at -95 and -93 in 2 locations that I have had problems. I don't believe just signal strength, as both have good strength (tried both cdma and lte) and still issues. not all the time. funny thing, I was on conference call with both verizon and google when audio on my end just dropped, I could not hear anything and they could not hear anything but calls still connected. another time was on phone with verizon and she said (yes..she said) was very choppy. that was 1/9/19. called back 1/15, "John" then scheduled him self to call me back 11am yesterday (never called), now back on phone with verizon and she just had me fact reset phone. she said next step, new sim cards (I had not thought of that) and then replacement. Hate to say it, almost ready to go iphone.
Idk still no issues here
dinothong00 said:
Signal strength: -84 dBm to 56 asu what does it mean?
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Is that the approximate signal strength you have where you experience call issues?
yanowman said:
-105 for me
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Are you experiencing call issues?
mrbobo999 said:
happening on BOTH pixel 3's on verizon. had pixel 1's before and NO issue. other users, including samsung and iphone on same plan, no probs. signal at -95 and -93 in 2 locations that I have had problems. I don't believe just signal strength, as both have good strength (tried both cdma and lte) and still issues. not all the time. funny thing, I was on conference call with both verizon and google when audio on my end just dropped, I could not hear anything and they could not hear anything but calls still connected. another time was on phone with verizon and she said (yes..she said) was very choppy. that was 1/9/19. called back 1/15, "John" then scheduled him self to call me back 11am yesterday (never called), now back on phone with verizon and she just had me fact reset phone. she said next step, new sim cards (I had not thought of that) and then replacement. Hate to say it, almost ready to go iphone.
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This is a very similar experience my wife had with T-Mobile. I have the same phone but don't have the problems, so it isn't a network issue, but the problem did go away once we started receiving a stronger signal with the booster.
Keep working with Google and they'll send you a new device, unless you purchased from Verizon and they'll make you jump through hoops.
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Hi,I'm having call quality issues on my Pixel 3 with -108 dBm of signal strength
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I have it on my Pixel 3 expecially in my office where the signal is not good. I did some test and I've noticed that the problem goes away if I switch to 2g (maybe for the better signal quality) but after 5/8 minutes the audio goes away, the other person doesn't hear me while the call stays open.
While testing I've also noticed that leving the phone in LTE with low signal in 4 hours (with podcast listenig and varius phone calls) I lost 40% of battery, in 2g I lost 20%.
My thought are that the device has a radio problem, high battery drain and call noise with low signals
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This is a very similar experience my wife had with T-Mobile. I have the same phone but don't have the problems, so it isn't a network issue, but the problem did go away once we started receiving a stronger signal with the booster.
Keep working with Google and they'll send you a new device, unless you purchased from Verizon and they'll make you jump through hoops.
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Update: 1/24/19. After fact reset and new sim card still same issues. Verizon sending out 2 "like new" pixel 3's. I read one post where user and wife both on 5th! RMA pixel 3 and same issue! I mentioned to Verizon rep and questioned option to switch to iphone if happens with "new" phones, she said not normal but there can be exceptions. Hope I don't end up blue in the face.
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Update: 1/24/19. After fact reset and new sim card still same issues. Verizon sending out 2 "like new" pixel 3's. I read one post where user and wife both on 5th! RMA pixel 3 and same issue! I mentioned to Verizon rep and questioned option to switch to iphone if happens with "new" phones, she said not normal but there can be exceptions. Hope I don't end up blue in the face.
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Good luck to you!
Guys can you boot into safe mode and see if the callaudio problem goes away?
My girlfriends Pixel 2 has been having audio problems on Three UK recently, during a call the audio cuts out and she cant hear the person on the other end (silence), but they can usually still hear her.
Its been doing it on and off for 6 months usually 5 or 6 minutes into a call. One of the symptoms is the Signal bar drops to empty immediately on answering a call (which sounds fine for the first few minutes even with 0 bars) It returns immediately on disconnecting the call to full.
We live very close to a 4G tower and get a great signal, as well as having tried a three home boost device to triple check the signal. And when hers drops the signal to 0 mine is always full (and looking at the actual signal strength.. its fine before and after on hers, and all the time on mine)
Google replaced the phone on Warranty after confirming the issue, and the replacement does the exact same thing.
I'm wondering if its something to do with VoLTE.. as I noticed when her SIM is in my phone (Pixel 3) VoLTE works.. but in hers its showing not provisioned. (I check this because it started happening not long after my phone became VoLTE enabled on Three)
Anyone got any other ideas or any similar experiences with Three? (It never did it on Tesco Mobile which was her old network.. and didn't do it on three immediately on changing to 3.)