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On 2025-06-07 16:19, Brian Gregory 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. But it also might be
> a hardware fault.
Maybe a non default dialing app. But that would not affect the number of
bars.
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