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In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 7 Jun 2025 15:19:24 +0100, Brian Gregory
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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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