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1st August was not only "Hello August" (cf. previous post),
but also an "Hello? Hello? Helloooo?" kind of day for me...
I got a phone call
from my brother, who rang me on my "landline" number (nowadays
on fiber cable broadband) to inform me that he was unable to get through to me
on my mobile. At his end everything just went black and silent (no way to leave a message) - and at
my end there was no indication whatsoever that anyone had
been trying to reach me, or that anything was wrong...
While still on the cable phone to my brother, I tested making a call from my old spare mobile to the new one, and the same thing happened. No call came through. I then tested the other way round - and that worked just fine! So I could make calls, just not receive any... That made it even harder to guess how long it may have been like that. (Could be a few weeks without me having wondered about it, as I wasn't expecting anyone in particular to call, and I was still able to make calls myself.)
What did come to mind was that at the beginning of July I had changed from "cash card" to a monthly subscription. I know I made some outgoing test calls after that change, to check that everything was working. But I'm not sure it occurred to me to also test the other way round - as I've never heard of a phone only working in one direction...
After having finished talking to my brother, I googled "no incoming calls" and found that obviously, the situation must be more common than I thought - as I easily found various tips on things to check if this situation
arises.
I followed a number of them - starting with restarting the phone, and then following a list of different settings to check. The last thing I did was to reset my "phone network" settings, and after that, it was working again. (At least I can now call myself from my other two phones, so I assume others can as well.)
If it was about the phone network settings, it still mystifies me how I was able to make calls, just not receive any... And I still don't know if it was caused by some automatic update gone wrong, or something I happened to do myself... Ah well. I suspect I'll be calling myself a bit more often in the near future, just to make sure. ;) (And I think I'll be keeping my two extra phones as well, although I'd been thinking of giving up at least one of them.)
As you can see above, I asked Bing for an illustration. Below are some more, just for your entertainment. Obviously Bing is still having serious problems with arms, hands, legs, people holding things - and even defining what a "phone" is... (My basic simple instruction was "woman waiting for phone to ring"...)
10 comments:
Perhaps all humans will soon have extra arms, legs and fingers. Who knows what's in store???
Some of these are scary!!
Anyway, well done for fixing your incoming calls problem.
JC, I suppose an extra arm could come in handy sometimes... Not so sure about the usefulness a third leg, though! ;-)
Meike, it seems to me that modern phones have about a million settings I have no idea what they're really for - and it's also probably easy to hit one of them by accident...
i like the one with 3 legs. i have not tried asking for illustration, guess what will be coming soon to a blog near you. LOL... bing does well when asked for a photo except of course hands and feet.. that is really crazy. i now wonder how often it happens and we don't know. what if you did not have another phone? he could not call to tell you. also could he text you or was it just not call you? very strange. now i am thinking THEY have made us so dependent on the traveling phones, and eveyone is giving up the land line, so there may come a day when we go back to horse and buggy days and can't call in or out
We have had that happen. And we also had it happen once where it was set for the wrong network!
Sandra, I don't know if texting would have worked (I did not think to check that until after I had already fixed the problem). Email would have worked, though. Or Messenger. So I think any personal friend of mine who really wanted to get in touch would have succeeded some way or other. (The incident does strengthen my opinion that it's good to have options, though.)
Thanks for that info, Ginny. Seems to support my theory that the problem may have been in my network settings (however that happened!)
How long before future generations are born with built-in phones!
Not being technically minded, I just pray that nothing will go wrong, and my phones, landline and mobile, work every time I need them.
Carol, one has indeed become increasingly dependent on a functioning mobile (smartphone) for all sorts of things these days - not just phone calls!
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