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Re: Phone usually doesn't' work

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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. But it also might be 
a hardware fault.

-- 
Brian Gregory (in England).

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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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