[Q] Incoming and Outgoing Calls - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

Hi all. My girlfriend has the T989 on T-Mobile. Bone stock with 4.04 kernel 3.0.8 unrooted and whatnot. She loves the phone and doesn't want me tussling with it. Here's the problem. Incoming and outgoing calls on both cellular and wifi calling don't work occasionally. All you'll hear on both ends is silence. You know that the received caller picked up because the talk time counter goes until hang up. I think it may be something wrong with the OS installation on the production line. Should I contact Samsung or trying toying with it myself? Thank you for the time if you read this.
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drkPu1se said:
Hi all. My girlfriend has the T989 on T-Mobile. Bone stock with 4.04 kernel 3.0.8 unrooted and whatnot. She loves the phone and doesn't want me tussling with it. Here's the problem. Incoming and outgoing calls on both cellular and wifi calling don't work occasionally. All you'll hear on both ends is silence. You know that the received caller picked up because the talk time counter goes until hang up. I think it may be something wrong with the OS installation on the production line. Should I contact Samsung or trying toying with it myself? Thank you for the time if you read this.
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You could try to flash new radio that might help.
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drkPu1se said:
Hi all. My girlfriend has the T989 on T-Mobile. Bone stock with 4.04 kernel 3.0.8 unrooted and whatnot. She loves the phone and doesn't want me tussling with it. Here's the problem. Incoming and outgoing calls on both cellular and wifi calling don't work occasionally. All you'll hear on both ends is silence. You know that the received caller picked up because the talk time counter goes until hang up. I think it may be something wrong with the OS installation on the production line. Should I contact Samsung or trying toying with it myself? Thank you for the time if you read this.
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The first 2 things I would try:
1. Factory Reset
2. New SIM card
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Hmm... Ill have to check out what's available for radio firmware later as I'm using my phone haha. As for the factory reset and sim card, doesn't work. Data is more stable with the new sim card though. Ill let you guys know what happens with flashing radio firmware. Thank you for the suggestions thus far.
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[Q] No dial tone?

For the past hour, I've been trying to make a call and I can't get a dial tone. I got it to go through once, but no it won't. It just makes a blaring "BOOP BOOP BOOP" sound, idk how to explain it xD,
But has anyone else gotten it? Is it a problem with Sprint, or is my modem broken or something? I have no idea why this is happening.
Thanks.
Come on, someone please respond
What modem are you on?
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Me too!!! I try to call out and after about 20 - 30 seconds I get a fast busy signal. I can receive calls no problem.
I DO have Google Voice active on my account...
EDIT:
Just disabled GV and now it's all good. Google must be having problems.
Sounds like a network problem with sprint. You could try flashing a dif modem or even odining to stock but imo it sounds like a network issue on sprints end. Try calling customer service.
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Wishkah420 said:
Sounds like a network problem with sprint. You could try flashing a dif modem or even odining to stock but imo it sounds like a network issue on sprints end. Try calling customer service.
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Odining?
Hahah, made my day
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A boop boop boop tells me I'm connected to my airave.
Try dialing *99 send
It will either say you are now in airave coverage or this feature code is incorrect if your not.
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Wishkah420 said:
Sounds like a network problem with sprint. You could try flashing a dif modem or even odining to stock but imo it sounds like a network issue on sprints end. Try calling customer service.
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In my case it is an issue w/ Sprint and GV. I disabled GV on my account and presto, I could make calls again.
Of course, this was after flashing a couple of different modems... sigh.
Normally I try not to feed the trolls and wasn't even thinking when I wrote it but I guess it goes to show you can learn new words when trolling other devices forums. Maybe you should thanks me for increasing your vocabulary. ;-)
bruflot said:
Odining?
Hahah, made my day
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bjhill2112 said:
In my case it is an issue w/ Sprint and GV. I disabled GV on my account and presto, I could make calls again.
Of course, this was after flashing a couple of different modems... sigh.
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Hah, that fixed it for me too! I ended up upgrading my modem to ef10 but deleting Google voice worked perfectly.
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I noticed last week some strange things happening with sms and mms with gv so I discontinued it then.
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Both my wife's and my phone are doing the same thing. I spent a good 30 minutes on the phone with customer support. Interestingly, I was able to get it to work for about 5 minutes by dialing *740 (but not pressing talk) then rebooting the phone. The CS rep said it had something to do with "call forwarding being enabled" for whatever that's worth. I immediately asked if it was related to the GV integration being setup on both lines and she said no (but in my head I'm thinking, yeah right).
I did notice that my PRL was the "older" one and I just did a PRL update on my phone, but that didn't fix anything.
If you disable GV integration, can I just re-enable it later when they fix this? Is there any delay in switching GV on/off the account?
It worked instantly for me. As for turning it back on, I've done it a few times in the past.
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Well another issue came up for me. I can send texts but I can't receive them. Any ideas?
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Is it one of those things where you reboot or change airplane on and off and then they arrive or do they never arrive?
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The Root said:
Is it one of those things where you reboot or change airplane on and off and then they arrive or do they never arrive?
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I don't think they ever do.
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[Q] What do you think??

Here's what has happened....
I purchased my SGS2 Saturday April 14th, I rooted it same day, I flashed TDJ Warefare. I noticed on the 4th day after getting my phone my calls started to drop like crazy. Like every other call was dropping or they couldn't hear me. So I called Tmo they walked me through troubleshooting, that didn't help. Took it back to the store where I purchased it this past weekend the sales rep said it sounds like it's a bad sim card. Ok so they changed my sim (of course I rooted again tried Jugganuats this time) and the phone was working fine until yesterday it starting dropping calls. SO I took the phone back and they switched it with a new one.
I would like to know from you all should I try rooting again?
Please don't flame me for asking this question or if it's in the wrong section of the forum.
I would just like your honest opinion as to what If I should or not and if I do, is there a solution to the dropped calls????
Thanks all
Rooting has nothing to do with your dropped calls. your first phone was defective.
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Android_Monsters said:
Rooting has nothing to do with your dropped calls. Make them give you a new phone.
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I did I have a new one now. I was asking should I root again? I just don't want my calls to start dropping again.
Let me ask you since it's not the rooting what do you think it could be??
Did you do a factory reset before taking it back?
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Rooting will not affect the signal or radio. Would suggest that, stay on stock ROM for a week or so and see if you get drop calls. If not, then try another ROM and if you get drop calls after that so it has to do with the ROM.
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Did you do a factory reset before taking it back?
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Yes I unrooted, factory reset and format internal sdcard just to be on the safe side. I didnt any personal stuff on there.
I had the same issue. Did the same thing you did step for step and rooted my new gsII and no problems. Musta just been a defect
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OnceUponA 0829 said:
I had the same issue. Did the same thing you did step for step and rooted my new gsII and no problems. Musta just been a defect
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Ok I will give it a try again because I really like my phone being rooted
Definitely root you get more pleasures of the phone that way but drop calls I would have changed roms to test another ROM out
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"Turning Wi-Fi on..." continuously displaying

Hi all,
I know this seems to be a wide spread problem and I've read through several threads hoping to fix the problem but nothing seems to be really working for me :/
This first happened while I was running 4.0.3. Wifi was working fine. Then one day when I went to switch it on like I normally ever would, it seemed to get stuck at the "Turning Wi-Fi on..." message. Reboots didn't help anything.
So I decided to upgrade to 4.1.1 thinking that doing a factory reset and flashing a new ROM would fix things. Flashed Paranoid Android ROM with no problems (wiped data, dalvik cache, etc etc) and saw the same problem with wifi when I tried turning it on. Reboot did nothing. Tried flashing the boot.img manually and that did nothing. Tried flashing Trinity kernel and once again nothing.
Can anyone help me out? This is really killing me and I think it's also destroying my phone's battery life as well
My Galaxy Nexus is GSM yakju if that helps out at all.
Thanks!!
This was also my problem... except my phone rebooted every 2minutes... I just flashed stock everything and then sent it to Samsung
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Bump.
So any other suggestions other than dead wifi chip?
Unfortunately, your phones WiFi chip is dust! Same thing happened to me! Did some research and found out that its a known issue! Sent mine in and received a new Gnex four days later!
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zombierockstar said:
Unfortunately, your phones WiFi chip is dust! Same thing happened to me! Did some research and found out that its a known issue! Sent mine in and received a new Gnex four days later!
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How does this work exactly? Do you need a receipt or anything? I'm guessing I need to flash back to stock rom and unroot? And probably call or talk to Samsung to get it set up? Any other details I'm missing?
Thanks!
Tripod87 said:
How does this work exactly? Do you need a receipt or anything? I'm guessing I need to flash back to stock rom and unroot? And probably call or talk to Samsung to get it set up? Any other details I'm missing?
Thanks!
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Just call Samsung.
Or Verizon/Sprint if your a CDMA variant.
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If I have helped you.... hit that sexy thanks button. ^_^
My friend is having the exact issue. He has had the phone for less than 2 weeks. Hes also having a hard time getting help from Samsang. Did you guys just call Samsung? Or go through Google?
Tripod87 said:
How does this work exactly? Do you need a receipt or anything? I'm guessing I need to flash back to stock rom and unroot? And probably call or talk to Samsung to get it set up? Any other details I'm missing?
Thanks!
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Well for me, I bought GNEX from someone else and I had to ask the guy to give me the receipt cuz Samsung wouldn't take it unless I show proof that the phone was from Canada (I live in canada)
Also I would recommend flashing to stock uprooting and re locking... Just in case
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Hmmmm...I got my phone for free cause a friend works at Google and they all got the phone for free and he just gave it to me lol...will see what I can do I guess.
Tripod87 said:
Hmmmm...I got my phone for free cause a friend works at Google and they all got the phone for free and he just gave it to me lol...will see what I can do I guess.
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Well I guess you have to contact your friend. Also, if you can't get a support from Samsung (I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't help you...) I guess you have to go to any repair shop, since it looks like a hardware problem.
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no sound on call with the new UVLH1

i'm sorry but anyone noticed the issue of the new UVLH1 update or i'm the only one? when i make a call i have no sound on the phone neither to know that i'm connected with the other side nor to hear him?? even if it's not all the time but it's annoying sometimes to make 3 or 4 call to have one!! anyone have the same issue or a solution please?? i'm on UVLH1 rooted
Might be a bad install. Try wipe cache and fix permissions
That will do. If not reinstall and so the wipe again
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I had this problem when using my Plantronics Voyager Pro. To fix it I wiped data from all system apps involving blue tooth.
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still nothing
i tried almost every thing, i tried to wipe cash, to do a factory reset, to reinstall the rom, still the same problem
This problem happened again for me as well, but only on cdma. Try switching your phone to gsm only and see if it functions. That is what seemed to fix mine. (I know, not really a fix. I am just curious if the problem is a bug in the new radio.)
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im haveing the same prob as well. it takes 3-4 times b4 the call will work and the same on incoming as well..talked to tmo and well waiting on them to send me replacement its on back order. on a side note i had this prob on a rooted device running uvlh1
That post perfectly describes my device. Now, try going to Wireless Network settings and select Gsm only and see if it stops hanging on connect.
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Xeder said:
That post perfectly describes my device. Now, try going to Wireless Network settings and select Gsm only and see if it stops hanging on connect.
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i prefer not to do that, i'll lose my fast connection, i prefer to downgrade to 4.0.3 rather than to do that, but only i'm worried if that will happen to me again when i do that
I just hoped you might try it to see if it was a viable workaround.
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mayloVIP said:
i'm sorry but anyone noticed the issue of the new UVLH1 update or i'm the only one? when i make a call i have no sound on the phone neither to know that i'm connected with the other side nor to hear him?? even if it's not all the time but it's annoying sometimes to make 3 or 4 call to have one!! anyone have the same issue or a solution please?? i'm on UVLH1 rooted
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Try a different radio towle has a mirrors thread in the stickies somewhere in the tmo sgsii forums. I think most of them have the RIL removed but check to be sure.
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I found LH1 to be a superior data radio, but with poor call performance.
These being *phones*, I flashed back to the LE1 radio.
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kentfor said:
I found LH1 to be a superior data radio, but with poor call performance.
These being *phones*, I flashed back to the LE1 radio.
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Same problem. I get sms from places where there was no reception before but call quality sucks. some of my friends couldn't hear me aside from the no sound calls.
Might revert back to LE. Using TDJ's cm10 rom.
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kentfor said:
I found LH1 to be a superior data radio, but with poor call performance.
These being *phones*, I flashed back to the LE1 radio.
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1+ for sure. Went back to the le1 radio. Had nothing but issue with the other radio. Data was great on the new one though. Calls and speaker phone calls sucked
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I've noticed the same problem, but I can deal with it, as I text/surf more than I call. It usually fixes itself on the second attempt of a phone call for me, though. Don't wanna downgrade radio since I love my ROM.
Sent from a long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away.
List of devices I've owned
iPhone 3Gs(2xAT&T, 1xT-Mobile)
HTC Hero(Sprint CDMA)
T-Mobile G2
Nokia Lumia 710
HTC One V(Virgin Mobile CDMA)
Samsung Galaxy SII T989
Devices I've hacked
LG Marquee(Boost CDMA)
Samsung Replenish(Boost CDMA)
Samsung Galaxy Prevail(Boost CDMA)
HTC Evo 4G
Motorola Droid 2 Global
Motorola Droid X
iPhone 3G(4xSimple Mobile)
iPod Touch 2nd gen
Samsung Galaxy S 4G
HTC One X
HTC One S
kentfor said:
I found LH1 to be a superior data radio, but with poor call performance.
These being *phones*, I flashed back to the LE1 radio.
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And how do you just flash the LE1 only? is this considered Rooting?
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mayloVIP said:
i'm sorry but anyone noticed the issue of the new UVLH1 update or i'm the only one? when i make a call i have no sound on the phone neither to know that i'm connected with the other side nor to hear him?? even if it's not all the time but it's annoying sometimes to make 3 or 4 call to have one!! anyone have the same issue or a solution please?? i'm on UVLH1 rooted
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You are not alone my friend...I am having the same exact problem with 2 of my Galaxy S2's on TM....
Use the UVLE1 radio. I haven't used one ROM thats worked well with UVLH1.
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Homeuser66 said:
And how do you just flash the LE1 only? is this considered Rooting?
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You need a custom recovery and you need to know how to use it (the recovery you have).
Again, towle has a sticky with mirrors MANY helpful downloads. a flashable zip of uvle1 radio was in it the last time I checked.
If you don't know how to check if a flashable radio has a ril then flash the radio, THEN your ROM. Custom ROMs tend to have custom rils and it is best not to overwrite them.
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As an end note, I'm using lh1 and have been on every ROM I've used (tried too many to remember), not everyone has issues; it may depend on the area you are in.
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I have same prob with 3 phones aways on uvlh1 tmo answer take this htc one s.so i think its a prob with minor diffs in the chips .and samsung answer send in to us let us reflash it for you...thats what odin is for...so i think we need to do is call tmo everydaybtill that give us a real fix.im sick of wipeing my phone resetting it and tryingbto call sum1 6 times b4 ut goes through
kitila said:
I have same prob with 3 phones aways on uvlh1 tmo answer take this htc one s.so i think its a prob with minor diffs in the chips .and samsung answer send in to us let us reflash it for you...thats what odin is for...so i think we need to do is call tmo everydaybtill that give us a real fix.im sick of wipeing my phone resetting it and tryingbto call sum1 6 times b4 ut goes through
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I agree!!!!
I just Re-flashed both my phones to GINGERBREAD 2.3.6 UVLDE That I got from Here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=4798 using the ODIN software and a great walk though found Here: http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s2-t-mobile/628449-how-odin-any-stock-rom.html
So far, we haven't had any calling issues as of yet....Plus, the phone is super fast again!! I noticed that with ICS on the phone, and Factory Reset with nothing on it, My RAM was tipping between 500-600 MB of use!! and now that we are back to Gingerbread, it's at 295-340MB....Which is a HUGE difference!!!!!
Let's hope, that maybe it might be defective SIM cards or chips like you said, but I am also tired of wiping these phones and starting all over again!!! I think Im gonna stay with GB for now......It's woking as intended anyway...
I'm having this issue where when i make or receive a call at times there is no sound and either party cannot hear. This happened to me on GB too. After monitoring it for a long time, i figured that it only happens when inside home where i get poor reception and not outside or places with good reception.
When i'm at home i usually get 1-2 bars of signal. Often, when i get a call and i don't get any sound, i look at the signal strength and it is at 4 bars but as the call disconnects it drops back to 2 and then if i make or receive the call then it goes fine.
I searched around the net i see this issue is with S3 users too, when they have poor reception they do not get any sound on call. I'm thinking that it has to do something with the radio hardware or holding reception in low reception areas.

Can't call the wife after odin to Jb

Last night i decided to odin to stock Jb because I had read that you should do this to ensure all partitions were flashed. I had already flashed new frosty rom with official jb base and everything was fine, but now for some strange reason my phone will not call my wife. As great as this sounds it is a problem as I do need to call her from time to time. She is not on the blocked call list and I have tried 2 different roms, frosty and infamous and both have the same result. It will start the call and get to half a ring and then hang up. I have wiped and re- wiped( getting sore from wiping so much) sorry couldn't resist. Any one have a clue how to fix. I have deleted her as a contact and tried dialing direct and nothing works.
Please help
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Is it just her you can't call? Do text messages work?
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i just posted something similar to this is your phone charging?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005340
vopezy said:
Is it just her you can't call? Do text messages work?
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Yes I can call everyone else I have tried. I can text her and Google talk with her. I think l can even call her while on wifi calling but not regular cell call.
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tw39515 said:
i just posted something similar to this is your phone charging?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005340
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Not quite the same. I can't call her at all, charging or not. And it is only her number. Just tried to odin back to stock and still not working. Phone is charging fine.
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Strange. I can't even think of ideas for you to try. Her phone works right?
Can her phone call you?
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vopezy said:
Strange. I can't even think of ideas for you to try. Her phone works right?
Can her phone call you?
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Yes, her phone works. She can call me and I can answer her call fine. I'm also lost on this one. I've gone back to stock completely with no root. Going to take phone in to T-Mobile.
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Maybe she blocked your incoming calls? Lol
Have you tried a reset after Odin?
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Crisisx1 said:
Maybe she blocked your incoming calls? Lol
Have you tried a reset after Odin?
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I wish she did block me then she wouldn't complain about me not calling her.
I did odin back to JB stock with no root. And did a reset. First time I've had a phone without root for more then a few hours.
I went to tmobile and got new sim and still same problem. I can call her if I dial *67 first but dont want to do that.
Going to try to wipe her (my old) GS2 and see if that fixes the issue.
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Some phones can set numbers to be blocked (accidentally) if you hold the end call bottun it can set that number to be blocked... check to see if she did block you...
nelomen said:
Last night i decided to odin to stock Jb because I had read that you should do this to ensure all partitions were flashed. I had already flashed new frosty rom with official jb base and everything was fine, but now for some strange reason my phone will not call my wife. As great as this sounds it is a problem as I do need to call her from time to time. She is not on the blocked call list and I have tried 2 different roms, frosty and infamous and both have the same result. It will start the call and get to half a ring and then hang up. I have wiped and re- wiped( getting sore from wiping so much) sorry couldn't resist. Any one have a clue how to fix. I have deleted her as a contact and tried dialing direct and nothing works.
Please help
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Your post made me smile. I have no idea how to help you, but it is a rare day when a post on a tech site makes me laugh. Good luck my friend.
have u tried swapping sim cards? not sure if it would answer anything but just trowing my 0.02 out there
Shoot man. Phone did you a favor.
Sounds like it is your wifes phone and not yours. The timing might have been coincidental.
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Sounds like it is your wifes phone and not yours. The timing might have been coincidental.
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"You're a detective now, you're not allowed to believe in coincidence"
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