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Boesky

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You Can't Answer If it Doesn't Ring

Perhaps the worst of the iPhone's problems is its ability to sit there stealthily and ignore incoming calls. With no ring or vibrate to clue you in, your friends and family are redirected to voicemail… or just treated to silence. If you're in a two-iPhone family, it can be a case of the deaf leading the mute.
 
Boesky said:
You Can't Answer If it Doesn't Ring

Perhaps the worst of the iPhone's problems is its ability to sit there stealthily and ignore incoming calls. With no ring or vibrate to clue you in, your friends and family are redirected to voicemail… or just treated to silence. If you're in a two-iPhone family, it can be a case of the deaf leading the mute.
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Doesn't happen to me. I get all my calls, occasionally it rings for them twice before mine starts, but I still always get the call as long as I have service
 
This has happened to me several times. I can't put a pattern on it and I can't figure out why it happens. It's annoying but it doesn't happen frequently enough to be a real problem for me.
 
This has happened to me a few times. If your surfing the web on EDGE or GPRS at the time of an incoming call, they are re-directed to voicemail. I think its a limitation of 2G technologies in this instance.
 
FXT 1 said:
This has happened to me a few times. If your surfing the web on EDGE or GPRS at the time of an incoming call, they are re-directed to voicemail. I think its a limitation of 2G technologies in this instance.
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That's exactly what it is, 2G phones can't do simultaneous voice and data.
 
psywzrd said:
I know that. My point is that it should only happen when my phone is on Edge and that almost never happens since I'm always on 3G or wifi.
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Okay. Makes sense.

I was replying because your post that I quoted made it sound like you thought you shouldn't be on EDGE because you have a 3GS.
 
Wait - if I'm on GPRS/EDGE and I'm browsing the web, incoming calls go straight to voicemail?!
 
I have had this problem before. I don't think it's the phone as much as it's AT&T. I had one weekend where I wasn't using the phone at all and then all of a sudden I would get a new voicemail. I had 8 calls go straight to voicemail that weekend. I had never had a problem like this before. This is AT&T being lazy with tower overload and rather then connecting your call it just takes a voicemail for you.
 
Doju said:
Unfortunately yes. I've dealt with this a lot.
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Bummer.. I always turn 3G off (poor coverage in Edinburgh, UK) and I check Facebook and use the chat feature when using GPRS. Had no idea all calls would divert to voicemail, that really sucks.

I assume it is GPRS's limitations that cause that?
 
Toadjeep said:
I have had this problem before. I don't think it's the phone as much as it's AT&T. I had one weekend where I wasn't using the phone at all and then all of a sudden I would get a new voicemail. I had 8 calls go straight to voicemail that weekend. I had never had a problem like this before. This is AT&T being lazy with tower overload and rather then connecting your call it just takes a voicemail for you.
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I had this very problem yesterday at work. I was sitting at my desk with my phone in the charger and suddenly I had notification of a voicemail message. I checked the missed call log and there were no calls listed for that day. This was on my work provided Verizon phone. They added a bunch of repeaters in the building too so service is good.
 
Funny. I'm lucky I don't experience this. Sorry to those with poor reception near their area. Hopefully AT&T will work out such kinks.
 
Kilamite said:
Bummer.. I always turn 3G off (poor coverage in Edinburgh, UK) and I check Facebook and use the chat feature when using GPRS. Had no idea all calls would divert to voicemail, that really sucks.

I assume it is GPRS's limitations that cause that?
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I feel for you mate. I was up in Edinburgh a few weeks ago and I was appalled at the bad coverage O2 has up there.
 
This is really irritating. What's more irritating is that you never know when you get a buzz from the phone, see you missed a call because it never rang and lo and behold, there's the "E" in the upper left when, 5 minutes ago and in the same place it is now, it was "3G" with full bars.

Speaking of lousy connections, one day my cable modem connection went down and since I have a voip phone, I used my iPhone to call support. It absolutely would not stay connected more than 5 minutes. I'd go upstairs, turned off 3G and still, after a few minutes I'd get dropped. After a few go-arounds with this, I remembered that I have other phones so I pulled the sim card out of the iPhone, put it in the Fuze, turned it on and called and the call lasted just over 45 minutes (it was a tough problem, according to them) without a problem. Considering my other iPhone and my wife's iPhone have the same problem with being dropped, I'd have to guess that the iPhone has really lousy radio hardware, really lousy radio control software or both and it's not actually AT&T this time. I left the sim card in the Fuze for a couple days to see what would happen and never once saw an "E" on the screen. Go figure.
 
Happens on occasion on my 3Gs. I live near the edge of 3G coverage and watch my phone go from 4 bars to 'searching' from time to time. It often happens while the phone is doing nothing, just sitting in a dock. The latest update helped, but it still occurs and when it does, callers will go direct to VM.

I wonder if it has to do with how many calls are active on the local tower. Our local tower serves the Interstate where considerable traffic passes. There is no second tower in range. The outages appear to occur more often during commute hours.

To me, it is a modest annoyance, one that is overcome by the many other great features. However, I would welcome a solution.
 
Boesky said:
You Can't Answer If it Doesn't Ring

Perhaps the worst of the iPhone's problems is its ability to sit there stealthily and ignore incoming calls. With no ring or vibrate to clue you in, your friends and family are redirected to voicemail… or just treated to silence. If you're in a two-iPhone family, it can be a case of the deaf leading the mute.
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Next time it might help if you provide the link for stuff you copied:

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-hom...Phone-worlds-worst.html?mod=family-love_money
 
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