Whenever I am in a basement with no cell signal for an extended period of time, even with wifi, I receive a "X new voicemails" notification that goes away as soon as I go back into clear signal. If I clear phone data, the notification goes away, but comes back just as quickly as if I ignore it. I already use a 3rd party voicemail service, YouMail, and turned that off temporarily to verify that my Verizon mailbox is in fact empty. Clearing phone data and switching VM providers were the only suggestions I could find from a decent bit of googling; does anyone know of a way to fix this problem directly, or if not if there is a way to disable voicemail notifications entirely? It's annoying having to put my phone in airplane mode every day so that it doesn't buzz and turn the screen on every 20 seconds.
Phone Info:
Galaxy S4 SCH-1545
Android: 4.4.2 (No Root)
Kernel 3.4.0
Carrier: Verizon
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Hi guys,
I just switched to Bell (Canada) and have a Galaxy S3.
I have noticed in the last day or so that I keep losing the connection with the carrier. I will try to send a text message and it says unable to send right now and the notification screen will not display bell as the carrier. A few seconds later, it will work.
My connection when it is working is quite high signal (max bars)
Does anyone know what could be going on or how I might diagnose it further?
Thanks
I have installed an app called no signal alert and it seems that I keep entering "emergency calls only" mode every few minutes.
I have a Samsung Note 5 from Verizon. My friend has a Samsung S6 from Verizon. We both have issues receiving app related messages in Whatsapp, Line, Kik, and Skype. When the phone, I'm guessing its a sleep mode when you hit the power button when not using the phone, we don't receive notifications of texts until you open the phone and or start the app. It doesn't happen all the time but enough to make you mad. Also sometimes when the phone is even on. I'm guessing its the OS because of my friends doing it also with a different phone. The phones aren't rooted or anything. We are in good WIFI areas and its connected. Also I noticed if I shut off the WIFI and turn it back on the phone it will then receive the text. And no were not on the same WIFI, different states. Has anyone else had this issue or heard of it? Thanks for any help.
Hello,
Recently purchased an LG V10 with 5.1.1 stock, AT&T, and I've done absolutely no modding.
Scenario 1: sending hangouts data messages over LTE (for example; they are quick and easy to test with) work OK from my end. On receiving phone on different carrier, message arrives in about 5sec. Slower than I'm used to on every other phone I've used but not a big deal. SMS are sent faster and arrive in the normal amount of time which is still faster than hangouts.
Scenario 2: My phone is asleep\screen off and hangout messages are sent from the other phone to mine over LTE. My phone does nothing for as long as I let it stay asleep. But Incoming phone calls to my cell number notifies me instantly and
SMS sent to my phone notifies me instantly.
Scenario 1 and 2 are the same when using Wi-Fi, and with other apps that can trigger notifications when the screen is off. Those notifications only appear after I've unlocked the phone, and some appear only after I've opened the app. The notifications will have correct timestamps but the sounds and visuals only happen once I've picked up the phone and started using it; they all flood in at once.
I've made sure that my settings for allowing notifications (priority it's called on the LG ROM) is set to allow everything.
I've done a lot of searching online and people with various phones (Galaxy S6's most recently) appear to have this issue and it also appears to have a history as far back as Android 4.1. They say the fix is an app that changes the checking times from the stock Android 28minutes or something, down to like 5 minutes. I have tried one that doesn't require root and it has not changed any behaviour that I can measure.
My question is, is this a phone problem? Like a bad OS install from the factory (did i just get a bad unit?) or an APN setting issue (haven't messed with it from factory settings) or is it an Android problem that needs a bug submitted since I see it happening on Samsung phones too?
I've had many other phones, mostly Samsung and even a Note 4 with Android 5.1.1 but hangouts and emails and every other notification was practically instantaneous whether on Wi-Fi or cell network.
Thoughts?
So after installing TWRP and flashing a ROM on my phone back in December, I constantly have a notification on my phone from Phone Services telling me I have one new voicemail when my inbox is empty. What's annoying is that it randomly 'refreshes' making the notification noise, so I am forced to keep it on vibrate otherwise I have to listen to that notification going off all day long. I have lived with it for the past 3 months, but have recently realized when I do get voicemails, it never updates the number it always just says one voicemail. It's really frustrating too b/c I live in a rural area where I sometimes don't have reception and if I get a call it never shows up and if they leave a voicemail I'm not notified unless I actually check it.
I have tried clearing data and cache as well as force stopping in the settings and it will automatically come back within a few minutes. I have set the Phone Services notifications to 'Don't show notifications at all', but it completely ignores it. I have tried switching to Google Voice from Sprint Voicemail and it still appears. I tried switching back to Sprint Voicemail and it's still there. I have flashed new builds of the ROM multiple times and it still shows up, usually about an hour or two after flashing. The only thing I haven't done at this point is use the LGFlashTool to completely vert back to factory which I'm avoiding because of the time/effort and the lingering feeling it still won't fix it.
Before going thru that, I was wondering if I could potentially freeze Phone Services with Ice Box and migrate to use Google Voice for voicemail. Does anyone know if this is ok or will it brick my phone?
Any input is appreciate!
UPDATE: On Wednesday I had a random reboot while using my phone and after booting back up I no longer saw the notificiation. It's been several days since then, booth rebooting the phone and using voicemail and still have not got the notification back. Only thing I have noticed is that it no longer gives a notification at all if I get a voicemail, but since I get a text alert I'm not too concerned.
Unfortunately, if somebody else encounters this same issue it's not much help on why it occurred or how to fix it....
Has anyone run into this issue of calls (sometimes, not every call) going straight to voicemail?
I have had Do Not Disturb mode turned off, the phone was on vibrate alert.
Network connection showed all bars, so full (or at least, good) connectivity.
I've noticed this for about a couple of weeks now. Before as well as after rooting.
My first thoughts are around some software issue with the latest firmware/ROM.
Any suggestions on how to debug/fix this issue? SMS Texts seem to get through just fine, always. Pictures sent via messaging sometimes do not get through.