Missed calls. Please help with your 2 cents.

[mikenerd]

Trying to figure out the solution to this:

I seem to miss about 1 call per week (1 in 30 calls) on my TP (Sprint) in my house. There is no ring just my voicemail indicator coming on. I get the voicemail indicator within seconds of the caller leaving it. I don't feel like I ever look at my phone and see that I am out of range but the number of bars does fluxtuates quite a bit. Also, I have never dropped a call in my house. I have tried setting to automatic and sprint only and increasing my polling interval without any change. I called Sprint and they say all the towers are working in the area. Does this sound like a radio or network issue? Should I try flashing to a different radio? I have not flashed a radio before but have read the main TP radio thread. Any advice would help. Thanks

[dan-htc-touch]

Originally Posted by mikenerd

Trying to figure out the solution to this:

I seem to miss about 1 call per week (1 in 30 calls) on my TP (Sprint) in my house. There is no ring just my voicemail indicator coming on. I get the voicemail indicator within seconds of the caller leaving it. I don't feel like I ever look at my phone and see that I am out of range but the number of bars does fluxtuates quite a bit. Also, I have never dropped a call in my house. I have tried setting to automatic and sprint only and increasing my polling interval without any change. I called Sprint and they say all the towers are working in the area. Does this sound like a radio or network issue? Should I try flashing to a different radio? I have not flashed a radio before but have read the main TP radio thread. Any advice would help. Thanks

this sounds like a random issue, any fix suggested, may or may not help, updated radio's, better roms, try what you are willing to try, but don't expect results, just hope

[mikenerd]

Originally Posted by dan-htc-touch

this sounds like a random issue, any fix suggested, may or may not help, updated radio's, better roms, try what you are willing to try, but don't expect results, just hope

Just hope....

I guess it is an excuse to try some flashing! I'll give it a shot.

[Rusty Duck]

The same thing happens to me at work where I have great reception. I just blame it on Sprint...

It might be the CDMA gremlins....

[bkhoste]

Is there a way a caller can just leave a voice mail without your phone ringing? Kind of like a *69 to avoid caller id? Just a thought.

[Unknown Zone]

Originally Posted by bkhoste

Is there a way a caller can just leave a voice mail without your phone ringing? Kind of like a *69 to avoid caller id? Just a thought.

yes just dial 11 before the number as in 11-123-456-7890 and it go straight to v-mail I use it on my gf all the time, she works for the school district and is a nice way not to disrupt the office, she is also on sprint....i believe it is only for sprint to sprint.

Edit: voicemail will still say the number that left the message as normal unless it is a "unknown/private" caller.

11 is not a caller id block it is just a bypass to v-mail w/o the phone ringing.

[Rusty Duck]

Originally Posted by Unknown Zone

yes just dial 11 before the number as in 11-123-456-7890 and it go straight to v-mail I use it on my gf all the time, she works for the school district and is a nice way not to disrupt the office, she is also on sprint....i believe it is only for sprint to sprint.

Thanks for the new tool... I guess one could use the 11 when they want to avoid a long conversation.

[UBERG33K]

I was having the SAME thing happening to me all the time. I receive quite a bit more than 30 calls in a week but was missing about 10% of them. That was until I updated my PRL (Preferred Roaming List) to the latest version.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...ight=prl+60750

I have noticed the Update PRL feature doesn't update you to the newest version.
Since updating I receive ALL of my calls.

Hope this helps.

[Anonymatt]

I also notice a lot of missed calls when I'm at work. I tried switching radios, didn't really help. There's talk of using the stock dialer, since the HTC one supposedly is a bit slower, but that's not my problem (if I call, after the first "fake" ring, my phone will light up and start vibrating, then ringing, which is fine for me). I changed my SCI slot index (polling interval) and my priority #. Nothing seems to work.

I then looked at the ##DEBUG# info and saw that my signal will vary wildly, where my Rx power varies from -89 (good signal) to worse than -100 (poor signal), and I've also noticed that when my signal is worse than -100 I won't ever receive calls (even though it still reports a bar of signal), and when this happens, even after the signal improves to -90 or so (3 bars), calls still won't come in for a while (up to a minute after the "bad" signal, sometimes).

Someone mentioned that the Rx Ec/Io value (representing signal noise?) also needs to be low, and usually when I'm missing calls it is this value that is high (even when my Rx Power is decent)

[kidmet]

Originally Posted by Anonymatt

I also notice a lot of missed calls when I'm at work. I tried switching radios, didn't really help. There's talk of using the stock dialer, since the HTC one supposedly is a bit slower, but that's not my problem (if I call, after the first "fake" ring, my phone will light up and start vibrating, then ringing, which is fine for me). I changed my SCI slot index (polling interval) and my priority #. Nothing seems to work.

I then looked at the ##DEBUG# info and saw that my signal will vary wildly, where my Rx power varies from -89 (good signal) to worse than -100 (poor signal), and I've also noticed that when my signal is worse than -100 I won't ever receive calls (even though it still reports a bar of signal), and when this happens, even after the signal improves to -90 or so (3 bars), calls still won't come in for a while (up to a minute after the "bad" signal, sometimes).

Someone mentioned that the Rx Ec/Io value (representing signal noise?) also needs to be low, and usually when I'm missing calls it is this value that is high (even when my Rx Power is decent)

I have similar things happening in my house. What PRL are you on? I just updated to 60750 and we'll see if it fixes anything like the post above claims. I miss texts also (come WAY late),