Galaxy S20 Ringing Randomly - General Topics

So this is a weird situation. My wife and I both have a Galaxy S20 and go through T-Moblie. Just recently, my wife's phones starts to ring as if she is making a call on speakerphone but she wasn't even touching her phone.
After 3 or 4 rings, it clicks and stops. We've checked her call log and there is no record of an outgoing call.
We've restarted the phone. We've checked various app and settings but honestly have no idea what we're even looking for.
When we first got our phones, we notice that they don't make a notification sound for texts unless we set an individual ring tone per contact.
However, we've had these phones for 4 or so years and this just started less than a month ago. As far as my wife recalls, she hasn't had an update and one isn't available. Her last update was May 24, 2023.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

bassue said:
So this is a weird situation. My wife and I both have a Galaxy S20 and go through T-Moblie. Just recently, my wife's phones starts to ring as if she is making a call on speakerphone but she wasn't even touching her phone.
After 3 or 4 rings, it clicks and stops. We've checked her call log and there is no record of an outgoing call.
We've restarted the phone. We've checked various app and settings but honestly have no idea what we're even looking for.
When we first got our phones, we notice that they don't make a notification sound for texts unless we set an individual ring tone per contact.
However, we've had these phones for 4 or so years and this just started less than a month ago. As far as my wife recalls, she hasn't had an update and one isn't available. Her last update was May 24, 2023.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Its very likely that someome has access to your Google account maybe its hacked and the hacker is using Google find my phone service to ring your phone.
Please change your Google account password and sign out of every other device and keep your password in safe place.

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Fuze doesn't receive calls

I've been having a problem with my Fuze randomly not being able to receive text messages or calls.
Sometimes when people call, they say it rings twice and goes to voice mail. All the while, I never hear anything or get a notification. This happened once after I texted someone to call me when they get a chance. They tried 3 times and then texted me back to say that they were getting sent to voice mail. I didn't get notification for either until after I called this person myself 20 minutes later. Right when the call connected, I got notification of a new text message.
Another time, somebody was calling me for 3 days. I didn't know he was trying to reach me until he finally left a voice mail and I got the notification for that (no missed call notifications).
I called AT&T and their tech support did some tests (called my phone) but since it isn't reproducible 100% of the time, they couldn't offer any explanation.
This isn't a bars/signal issue either as this is occurring in the same spot where my Tilt would always receive calls fine.
Has anyone else seen this?
I had the exact same problem with my Sprint Touch Pro & ended my contract early & switched to at&t. Hopefully it's not a fundamental hardware problem.
8notime said:
I had the exact same problem with my Sprint Touch Pro & ended my contract early & switched to at&t. Hopefully it's not a fundamental hardware problem.
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Did you get a Fuze when you switched? Has that worked better for you? I'm still within my 30 days, so I'm debating exchanging it or just returning it and giving up.
I'm having the same problem. I did a quick search and found this;
This AT&T Forum Post
I tried the workaround and haven't had a chance to really test it yet though. I also noticed a few other settings in there that might have accounted for it.
One selection inside the phone settings had to do with whether calls went to voicemail when you're "Unavailable" or "Busy." I'm not familiar enough with the phone to know when it might tag me as either one so I unchecked both and I'm going to recreate my missed calls this morning.
Someone called after the phone had been sitting on my desk all night so I thought maybe it thought I was "Unavailable" due to inactivity (I dunno, I'm winging it) so I'm letting it idle for a few hours and getting a call later to see what happens.
Incidentally I have the exact same problem, no call coming in, but then I get the voicemail message after I try calling someone.
Unless I'm misunderstanding your point, "Unavailable" just means that your phone is switched off or out of signal, and "Busy" means you are already in a call. It's nothing to do with the behaviour or features of the phone.
Cheers,
Steve.
Yeah, I'm wondering if the phone is becoming "Unavailable" for some other reason than me being out of range. I have full bars in the house and that's where this all happened.
I've noticed, too, that I didn't get any email (I have it set to check every hour, even hit send/receive after someone told me they sent me something and it still didn't find it until I sent a second email to myself from another address)
Again, I don't know much about phones but it almost seems like the phone has bars but drops off the network for accepting calls/messages until you do something to activate the system again... or something. I dunno, just speculating.
Last week I went in and exchanged my Fuze for a new one since it was still within the 30 days. Up until tonight, I thought the problem was fixed. I was chatting with my wife over IM and she told me that she tried to call but that it just went to voicemail. I asked her to call back and leave a voicemail to see if it would notify me. I also asked her to send me a text. I didn't get notification for either. I checked my data connection by starting up Opera and going to a few sites. So I know that I had a verifiable connection to the network. I called my voicemail and checked the message I knew that she had left. Only after I made the call did I get notifications for the text messages I had missed. I never got any notification for the voicemail or missed calls.
Unfortunately, it seems this is a problem that isn't related to individual hardware as this is my 2nd phone with the same problem. I've also replaced my SIM card since a salesperson at an AT&T store suggested that it might help. I'm running the stock AT&T ROM minus the bloat, so it's not a custom ROM issue either. At this point, I'm not sure what I should do.
The only other thing I can think of that makes me unique is that I currently reside in Washington state but my number is one that I had ported from California. Is there anything about you're (skyau) situation that makes you unique?
Well the same thing happened again tonight. I received text messages 10 minutes late and I didn't get a voicemail notification until I initiated a call. As much as this sucks, I'm hoping it will stay this consistent so that I can have tech support replicate the problem and then try and fix it.
You may have a problem with your phone number. I'd try changing it.
Have you had experience with a problem like this? Is the phone number really the issue?
If that's what the problem actually is, I'm willing to get a new number. But I don't want to change it just to check and see if that fixes it.
same problem! Really pissing me off I just lost a important job because of this issue a few moments ago! Is everyone running a stock rom? I tested a few, now back to stock no apps nothing trying to find this gremlin WTF!
I'm running stock ROM without the bloat.
I exchanged my Fuze (I'm now on my 3rd) on Saturday and changed my phone number yesterday. I'm waiting to see if the issue happens again. If it does, I'll probably do stock ROM, all the bloat, no apps. If there are still problems, I'll probably try different ROMs.
I was able to get AT&T tech support on the line when the problem was occurring luckily. We went through his battery of tests and he verified that there was a problem. It would seem that the phone forgets/loses it's connection to the towers/network. Notifications (calls, texts, voicemails) aren't received until after the phone remembers/reconnects to the network. It remembers/reconnects when you initiate a call or send a text (essentially require the phone to use the network).
The tech told me that as far as he could tell, it was a hardware issue and that I should exchange my phone. So I'm on number 3 now and hoping for the best. I changed my number because I've been in a different state for 2 years and I had no ties to previous area code. So I figured now was as good a time as any to get a full fresh start (phone/number/SIM).
That sucks about losing the job.
Bump, I just realized a few moments ago that my phone rings once and then it says missed call, i always assumed they called me and then hung up after one ring in case i was in class or i was busy so that i could call them back. this is not the case? Also a few cases a call will drop every now a then... is this due to the radio rom i flashed? typical symptoms of a incompatible radio for a specific location? I'm using the .25.35 blackstone radio in ithaca, ny.
Having the same issue. Phone is asleep, then alerts me to a VM. Missed call doesn't show up in missed call list.
Really pissing me off and I think is responsible for my issues with Slide2Answer somehow.
The only time I have missed calls is because of MSVC. If someone calls and it is private or unknown, it will not ring. If it is somebody in my phone book or who doesn't have a private number, the phone will ring.
So I turned MSVC off and the private callers and the unknown callers will ring in.
it happens to me sometimes as well sometimes the d pad area will flash but i cant answer and it wont appear on screen then it wont say missed call.
sometimes if i try to hit the dial button it will also drop connection and instantly pick it up again
annoying but not a huge problem for me
and of course not on stock rom

Call forwarding with Tmobile

I have a Galaxy S7 edge on Tmobile.
1) Is there anyway to decrease the 30 seconds to a minute it takes for forwarding to turn on after Bluetooth disconnect?
2) When forwarding, My S7 will still ring a bunch of times before the call is forwarded. Anyway for the call to go directly to the Gear S3?
kronium said:
I have a Galaxy S7 edge on Tmobile.
1) Is there anyway to decrease the 30 seconds to a minute it takes for forwarding to turn on after Bluetooth disconnect?
2) When forwarding, My S7 will still ring a bunch of times before the call is forwarded. Anyway for the call to go directly to the Gear S3?
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I have the same setup. I don't believe there is a way to change this at this point. There will be a delay
Gratchf703 said:
I have the same setup. I don't believe there is a way to change this at this point. There will be a delay
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Yikes, it makes it virtually unusable as the caller has to wait almost ten rings before you pick up on your watch. Most people would hang up by then!
I'll have to look into Google Voice to see if there's a quicker solution.
kronium said:
Yikes, it makes it virtually unusable as the caller has to wait almost ten rings before you pick up on your watch. Most people would hang up by then!
I'll have to look into Google Voice to see if there's a quicker solution.
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I have a solution that uses a 3rd party program. It is a program called "Automagic" for your android phone. If you are familiar with "Tasker" it is similar. Automagic runs in the background on my phone. I have 2 "Flows" set up in the program. The 1st one looks at the BT connection between my phone and the S3. As soon as the connection is broken (I walk away from my phone), it automatically has the phone dial call forwarding and turns it on. I have it set to dial the number for instant call forwarding so all calls to my phone are instantly forwarded to the watch number (there are usually 2 types of call forwarding on the different carriers, one for instant transfer of all calls, and another for allowing the 1st number to ring a few times before forwarding). A caller never knows they are calling my watch. The first ring happens instantly on my watch. If I call someone from the watch they will see it as coming from my watch number (numbersync doesn't do this)
I have the 2nd "Flow set up to watch for BT re-connection with my watch (when I walk back within BT range of the phone). It then has the phone automatically dial to turn off Call Forwarding.
Check with your carrier to see what numbers need to be dialed to turn on and off call forwarding. Also remember there are usually 2 types of forward, an instant, and a delayed. Post back in these forums if you try Automagic. I can share the "Flows" I set up to work with call forwarding. There is a free version of Automagic that allows you to have a couple flows. I ended up buing it since it worked so well and I wanted to support a developer.
ScottyKnox said:
I have a solution that uses a 3rd party program. It is a program called "Automagic" for your android phone. If you are familiar with "Tasker" it is similar. Automagic runs in the background on my phone. I have 2 "Flows" set up in the program. The 1st one looks at the BT connection between my phone and the S3. As soon as the connection is broken (I walk away from my phone), it automatically has the phone dial call forwarding and turns it on. I have it set to dial the number for instant call forwarding so all calls to my phone are instantly forwarded to the watch number (there are usually 2 types of call forwarding on the different carriers, one for instant transfer of all calls, and another for allowing the 1st number to ring a few times before forwarding). A caller never knows they are calling my watch. The first ring happens instantly on my watch. If I call someone from the watch they will see it as coming from my watch number (numbersync doesn't do this)
I have the 2nd "Flow set up to watch for BT re-connection with my watch (when I walk back within BT range of the phone). It then has the phone automatically dial to turn off Call Forwarding.
Check with your carrier to see what numbers need to be dialed to turn on and off call forwarding. Also remember there are usually 2 types of forward, an instant, and a delayed. Post back in these forums if you try Automagic. I can share the "Flows" I set up to work with call forwarding. There is a free version of Automagic that allows you to have a couple flows. I ended up buing it since it worked so well and I wanted to support a developer.
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Hey, thanks so much for writing that up. I may check it out in the future. I called T-Mobile up and they reduced the 30 second forwarding lag to 5 seconds on the their end. That was the lowest they can go, but I'm able to answer the Gear by the 3rd ring now, and it only rings once on the phone.
kronium said:
Hey, thanks so much for writing that up. I may check it out in the future. I called T-Mobile up and they reduced the 30 second forwarding lag to 5 seconds on the their end. That was the lowest they can go, but I'm able to answer the Gear by the 3rd ring now, and it only rings once on the phone.
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I didn't know you could have T-Mobile adjust that, thanks for the info. I may also try the 5 second delay.

I received a call with a recording of my girlfriend and I talking...

I received a call while I was working, I could not answer. I could not answer because I was busy working. I didnt want to answer because I did not know the number. Not being able to answer, the caller left a voicemail. Which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because Im still able to listen to it via voicemail. If I were to have answered I would have thought someone butt dialed me and thought nothing of it and hung up. But after listening to it, I realized that it was my voice and hers.
At first I thought maybe my girlfriends apartment was bugged for whatever reason. The people shes renting from are very reputable. So we went and checked everywhere. Nothing. However, I thought to myself how would they get MY phone number if it is not affiliated in any way to her apartment or where she lives.
So that leads me to think that something may be on my phone. I have since factory reset my phone. The crazy thing about this whole situation is that the conversation that was recorded was from TWO DAYS ago. Who has my number? How are they able to record me? Do I just wait to see if I receive another call? I wont be putting any sensitive information on the device for fear of it being compromised. If I do get another call, Ive already decided Im destroying this one and buying another phone.
I never opened any weird emails. Never downloaded any weird apps. Never opened any links in any received texts. Im on Android 10 on a One Plus 7.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
here's a possibility - you and your girlfriend were talking and then you butt-dialed someone and it went to their voicemail. That person decided to call you and playback the voicemail. Look in your call log for an outgoing call that you don't recognise at the time of your conversation with your gf.
lightstream said:
here's a possibility - you and your girlfriend were talking and then you butt-dialed someone and it went to their voicemail. That person decided to call you and playback the voicemail. Look in your call log for an outgoing call that you don't recognise at the time of your conversation with your gf.
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I hadnt thought of that, I checked the records, and there was no butt dial. I called the number that called me and it said it was no longer in service. Looking at the records on my cell providers site and there was no record of that number ever calling me. Which leads me to believe it was spoofed.

Question S21+ Ringtone annoying problem.

Anytime I get a call, the sound cuts out in the beginning. I've included a video of the issue.
https://youtube.com/shorts/GefkuTMKwl4
The way for me to replicate the issue is when I recieve any phone call fron any phone number. It doesn't matter what ringtone I use. If I ring my device using phone locater or google device manager, it rings normally. The issue as seen in the video is the two pauses when the ring starts to play. I've tried to call the phone when the phone is both sleeping or unlocked and it's always the same thing.
Be advised that I had this exact same problem with my previous S10e phone the last month that I owned it. I am wondering if it is linked to the android 11 update but can't be sure. The phone number in the video doesn't need to be censored as it is a public number I believe. I am in the US and have an s21 + with the snapdragon cpu on Sprint. I've already submitted a ticket.
I've edited the post to add more details and a video of the issue.
must be your phone all my ring tones and music play great.just got mine yest. t-m

Why does my Pixel 3a disconnect my outgoing call after 5 rings?

Does anyone know how to stop the Pixel 3a from disconnecting outgoing calls after 5 rings? My mother recently changed her answering machine from turning on after 3 rings to 5 rings. So now when I call her and want to leave a message I'm not able to because after the 5th ring, the call disconnects. I tested my SIM card on my older Nexus 4 and I don't have this issue. My other family members and her friends can also get her answering machine from their phones after the 5th ring. So I ran another test. I called a local company that was closed today. I know they don't have an answering machine. And sure enough, after the 5th ring, the call disconnected. I put the SIM card into my Nexus 4 and called the same company. And the phone kept going even after the 20th ring.
I tried looking into my Phone settings but could not find an option to change this. It can't be my carrier because the SIM card in a different phone does not have this issue.
Can someone help me out with this?
Thank you.

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