Re: Phone usually doesn't' work

From	micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
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Subject	Re: Phone usually doesn't' work
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In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 7 Jun 2025 15:19:24 +0100, Brian Gregory
<void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:

>On 06/06/2025 04:37, micky wrote:
>> Any idea what's going on here? A Xiaomi phone with Android 14 iirc.  I
>> picked a friend up at National Airport.  She had called me yesterday on
>> her cell.  She had called me today to my cell to tell me she had landed.
>> But then her phone stopped working.  She had to get some stranger to
>> call me the next time.   Later her son called her and that worked fine
>> for 10 minutes, and then she called her friend to tell her she landed
>> and would be coming soon and that worked fine, but then her phone
>> stopped working again.
>> 
>> When we got to the friend's, I saw that she had 5 bars, but when I
>> tapped on any of the people she had previously called, it immediately
>> displayed the dialing page and immediately reverted to the list of prior
>> calls page.  I called the other 2 numbers, the same thing happened.
>> 
>> This was probably when I noticed she had no bars, though I hadn't moved
>> from my chair.
>> 
>> I reset the bluetooth, wifi, and mobile connections.  The bars did not
>> come back.
>> 
>> I rebooted the phone, the bars did not come back.
>> 
>> I turned on airplane mode, then turned it off.  The bars came back.
>> 
>> I made a phone call and instead of revering immediately, it took about a
>> minute before her phone hung up.
>> 
>> I called someone else.  The bars were gone and It reverted immediately.
>> 
>> I turned airplane mode on and off. the bars came back.  Repeated 2 steps
>> before this with same results.
>> 
>> Used airplane mode to bring the bars back again and tried to bring up a
>> webpage.  Got a negative message about not being online, or something.
>> 
>> Connected her to her hostess's wifi, web browser worked fine.
>> 
>> I called her cell from my phone. Got some negative message about her
>> being unreachable.
>> 
>> Called again just now from my phone.  Displays message immediately "Call
>> ended" and reverted to contact list after 7 seconds, each time.
>> 
>> What's wrong.  How do I fix it?
>
>You should consider reverting to factory settings and re-setting up the 
>phone again leaving off any dodgy looking apps. Which can be a real 
>PITA, especially if you don't use a Google account.

Yes, she has lots of stuff in her phone, a long contact list and I don't
know what else but she only has 2 gigs empty out of 64 or 48 iirc. 

She'd have to backup all this stuff, and I'd have to show her,  And I
don't remember how either.   That would be a separate thread, but I'm
tired of this.  

She's sick. She's an American covered by medicare but living abroad and
she's here for medical treatment. I picked her up at National Airport in
rush hour Thurdsay to take her to Baltmore, 1:30 each way. 

That night I learned about wifi-calling (which would help when she could
connect to wifi) and that she had to implement it, and learned about
VoLTE**.  I did talk to her on the phone and she couldn't find that
option and her phone is newer than mine so maybe on her phone it's
always on. Is that typical for newer phones, VoLTE is always on? 

the description on my phone is "Use VoLTE to improve the quality of
voice calls" because, I think, at the time the phone was made, 5 or so
years ago, 3G was everywhere, and now it's nowhere, and now the phone
doesn't work at all unless you turn on VoLTE.  Did I get that right? 

She'd pressured me to take her to the Boost Mobile store, but we didn't
agree on when, and I went over Friday and she and her hostess were on
their way out and she wouldn't even let me look at the phone during the
5 or 10 minutes when they weren't leaving yet.  I like her and she's in
her 80's, but she gets on my nerves sometimes.  

Now I have to take her to a doctor in Rockville on Monday and a doctor
in Baltimore on Tuesday.  She did say she'd take me out to dinner on
Monday evening but I don't have time to go. 

> But it also might be 
>a hardware fault.

Yes, a bad connection that goes in and out, maybe.

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Phone usually doesn't' work  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-06-05 23:37 -0400
  Re: Phone usually doesn't' work "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-06 10:15 +0200
    Re: Phone usually doesn't' work Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-06-06 10:07 +0100
    Re: Phone usually doesn't' work Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-06-06 12:17 +0200
    Re: Phone usually doesn't' work "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-06 12:54 +0200
      Re: Phone usually doesn't' work "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-06 22:18 +0200
        Re: Phone usually doesn't' work "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-06 22:50 +0200
  Phone usually doesn't' work Oleg Nazaroff <Oleg_Nazaroff@p700.f700.n50.z2.fidonet.org.ru> - 2025-06-06 12:22 +0300
    Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-06 22:19 +0200
      Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-06-06 21:29 +0100
        Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-06 22:53 +0200
        Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-07 13:22 +0200
          Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-07 14:38 +0200
            Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-06-08 11:44 +0200
              Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-09 21:13 +0200
          Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-06-07 19:14 -0400
            Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-08 18:14 +0200
          Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-06-08 04:08 +0100
      Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] Oleg Nazaroff <Oleg_Nazaroff@p700.f700.n50.z2.fidonet.org.ru> - 2025-06-07 00:58 +0300
        Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-06-07 02:51 +0200
        Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-07 03:08 +0200
        Re: Phone usually doesn't' work [OT] "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-07 13:23 +0200
  Re: Phone usually doesn't' work knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-06-06 06:47 -0400
    Re: Phone usually doesn't' work micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-06-06 12:24 -0400
      Re: Phone usually doesn't' work knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-06-06 12:46 -0400
  Re: Phone usually doesn't' work Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-06-07 15:19 +0100
    Re: Phone usually doesn't' work "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-07 18:53 +0200
    Re: Phone usually doesn't' work micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-06-07 14:22 -0400
      Re: Phone usually doesn't' work "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-08 21:51 +0200
        Re: Phone usually doesn't' work micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-06-09 00:39 -0400
          Re: Phone usually doesn't' work micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-06-11 07:14 -0400
            Re: Phone usually doesn't' work "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-12 10:11 +0200
              Re: Phone usually doesn't' work micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-06-12 13:20 -0400

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