Miss phone calls on the ppc 6700

[blockburner28]

Is it something you have to set to get phonecalls on the ppc. I'll call on another phone but the call never go through. Sometimes it do go through but by that time is on voice mail.

[nuguy]

Sounds like you have your ringtones on your SD card, or you need another hard reset.

[blockburner28]

K thanks for the info you were right man

[Nikkirox_1]

This has happened to me. In fact it happened last night. I just installed BadSector's IDTransfer program and was testing it out. So I had someone in the room with me use the landline to call my handset and the call rang on their end but never on my PPC. It ended up going to voicemail. Whatever is causing this would explain why there have been calls I haven't received but only knew about because people left messages. Does anyone know what is causing this?

[Nikkirox_1]

Originally Posted by nuguy

Sounds like you have your ringtones on your SD card, or you need another hard reset.

So you are saying that the mere fact that I have the ringtones on the SD card would cause the phone not to ring sometimes and other times it would ring? Do you know why that might be?

[schettj]

The card takes a while to "power up" - coupled with the generally slow response from the phone (couple of reasons for that) it sure can happen that your phone gets the wakeup call from the tower and...

tries to power on, lumbers along for at least 2 rings, or if you are unlucky 3 rings on the other side ( you might have missed 1 ring just getting to the cellphone tower!! )... then finally does get powered on... only to have to wait...

up to 2-3 seconds for the SD card to power up, so it can open the sound file which, if it's a large file (say, 100KB or more...)

reads the whole sound file into memory (yes, we could be talking another second or two, and finally....

Oh hey, the call went to voice mail - never mind


You want to keep your phone lean and mean - your phone should just "pop" on when you press the power button - if it does not, start by seeing what you can do to speed that up.

Next, keep your ring tones on internal memory, and keep em small - a few KB, a few 10s of KB is fine. 100s of KB bad.

Lastly, test it - call your phone from a landline, count the rings until your phone actually rings in your other hand If its very slow, try a soft reset and test again - if its faster right after a soft reset then you're probably low on program memory too.

[Nikkirox_1]

Originally Posted by schettj

The card takes a while to "power up" - coupled with the generally slow response from the phone (couple of reasons for that) it sure can happen that your phone gets the wakeup call from the tower and...

tries to power on, lumbers along for at least 2 rings, or if you are unlucky 3 rings on the other side ( you might have missed 1 ring just getting to the cellphone tower!! )... then finally does get powered on... only to have to wait...

up to 2-3 seconds for the SD card to power up, so it can open the sound file which, if it's a large file (say, 100KB or more...)

reads the whole sound file into memory (yes, we could be talking another second or two, and finally....

Oh hey, the call went to voice mail - never mind


You want to keep your phone lean and mean - your phone should just "pop" on when you press the power button - if it does not, start by seeing what you can do to speed that up.

Next, keep your ring tones on internal memory, and keep em small - a few KB, a few 10s of KB is fine. 100s of KB bad.

Lastly, test it - call your phone from a landline, count the rings until your phone actually rings in your other hand If its very slow, try a soft reset and test again - if its faster right after a soft reset then you're probably low on program memory too.

Thanks I will try your suggestions out.