So this morning I'm scrolling through my contacts and I notice a random contact name and number that I don't recognize or remember adding. After Googling the number and looking around, it turns out it's a random person I've never seen or met before that lives hundreds of miles away.
Though after thinking about it over and over, the number does seem familiar, and I suspect it may have been an old phone number of mine from years ago.
Any idea how or why this number would randomly appear in my contacts? As it's puzzling and slightly frightening/unsettling.
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I read something a week ago about someone losing all signal and not being able to call or text in a large crowd. Well it happened to me yesterday in a department store. I couldn't find my 13 year old daughter so I was trying to text and call and nothing would go through, even though I had 3 bars and 3G. I looked around and there was a lot of people and quite a few of them were on their phones in one form or another. This is very disheartening if in fact it is a serious hardware or software defect of the Vibrant.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Its happened to me before
I was at a huge music fest and got separated from my friends
The reason it happens is cause the air waves get over cluttered with wireless signals and it masks other signals
Your phone will show that it has full signal but when it tries to send data or call it needs to cut through that blanket of signal
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Yep. Same problem with different phone, I was at a concert and there were a TON of people on there phones many having the same issue. You could see them holding to there ear then looking at the screen then back again.
The only time this happened to me it was a huge crowd-like 40k people but it was outside. I would think a store with a couple dozen shouldn't be a problem but maybe if you were indoors....?
Hi there; Could do with some help please I seem to have a series issue with my Samsung Galaxy S2 today. It started this morning; I noticed the screen was randomly turning on; for no reason what so ever. It only does it when the phone isn't charging, if the data cable or the charger is plugged in; it doesn't do it.
Its on version KE7. I have tried a factory reset, and that hasn't sorted the issue. Therefore I seemed to think it was a hardware fault, however with it not being an issue when plugged in I wondered why it might be doing it.
Tap to speak also kept coming up for no apparent reason, I say kept coming up, doesn't happen all the time, but did come up about 6 times today, when I hadn't pressed anything, which would suggest the bottom centre button could be stuck or sticky, however that seems fine; and its not been near any moisture and has been a hot day.
The phone has not ever been rooted; so no issues there.
The phone battery dies very quickly within about 4 hours with the screen turning on all the time; and the phone will randomly freeze up completely, and I have to remove the battery to reset the phone.
Anybody got any ideas? Really could do with some help
Thanks
Rich
Update: It is plugged in charging now; and the MTP Application has come up; like the data cable is plugged in. That seems very odd to me...
Don't be afraid to send it back. These things aren't cheap even if you're paying through your contact, you're entitled to get what you paid for.
Your specific issues may be down to more than one thing. My screen lights up when I've read my gmail on a different device and it needs to clear the notification. Nothing too worrying about that. The other stuff does sound like some sort of shorting though and people have been given replacements for less serious issues.
I'm tempted to get mine swapped because the wifi often won't pick up an IP address and the gps won't get a fix if the phone gets too hot. Relatively minor compared to your issues.
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Yeah I think its going to have to, I've tried playing about with settings, giving it time to cool down; pretty much everything I can think of, I really can't think what it could be, it seems to be many issues rather than just one, with it only being a month old, I expected slightly more.
Love the phone, did brilliantly yesterday; used it for lots of things; then today it just suddenly went, took it of charge, and it played up the whole way through.
Given up with it now, will take it back and see if I can get it fixed, I have 24 month warrenty with my contract.
Thanks
Put your original firmware back on if you can before attempting a warranty claim .
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I'm on my third CLNR Thunderbolt (first one wouldn't hold a data signal other than 1x and the second one had a non working microphone). I was just poking around in the settings menu and I noticed something funny.
The serial number reported by Settings -> About Phone -> Phone Identity and the serial number printed on the sticker under the battery don't match. The one the phone is reporting starts with "MB" while the one under the sticker starts with "HT". The numbers afterward are completely different too.
The phone seems to work fine but differing serial numbers seems a bit fishy to me. Does anyone know a reasonable explanation for this?
Additionally the MEID the phone is self reporting and the IMEI number on the sticker in the battery compartment match with the exception of a trailing digit in the IMEI.
Don't know what that information is worth, but I thought it might spur some thought as to how I ended up with mis-matched serial numbers.
Just throwing thoughts around.
Could it be that they chopped up several thunderbolts and gave you a FrankenBolt? They could have just switched a fried motherboard and forgot to change the sticker.
Just picked up a new HTC Titan at the AT&T store on Thursday -- now unlocked and using it on the T-Mobile USA network. The phone is a fair amount larger than my previous device (LG Optimus 7), but I have to say....I'm really liking this phone....
...except for one thing: this phone is dropping calls like crazy.
Honestly, it appears to be a "death grip" sort of issue. I'm in the same areas, talking to the same people, and mostly not walking around. I'll be talking to someone (even when I'm standing still) and all of a sudden I'm just talking to myself. The bars are usually "high" -- like 4 or 5 bars -- but the call drops without warning. I've dropped 5 calls within the past two days, and I typically have NO DROPPED CALLS during a normal week. Something is wrong.
I've also used the phone a fair amount with my bluetooth headset, but it's never dropped a call when I'm using that.
Is it the back cover? Do I need to bend some contacts in the phone somewhere? Do I just need to swap it out at the store??
Help!
yipcanjo said:
Just picked up a new HTC Titan at the AT&T store on Thursday -- now unlocked and using it on the T-Mobile USA network. The phone is a fair amount larger than my previous device (LG Optimus 7), but I have to say....I'm really liking this phone....
...except for one thing: this phone is dropping calls like crazy.
Honestly, it appears to be a "death grip" sort of issue. I'm in the same areas, talking to the same people, and mostly not walking around. I'll be talking to someone (even when I'm standing still) and all of a sudden I'm just talking to myself. The bars are usually "high" -- like 4 or 5 bars -- but the call drops without warning. I've dropped 5 calls within the past two days, and I typically have NO DROPPED CALLS during a normal week. Something is wrong.
I've also used the phone a fair amount with my bluetooth headset, but it's never dropped a call when I'm using that.
Is it the back cover? Do I need to bend some contacts in the phone somewhere? Do I just need to swap it out at the store??
Help!
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If it's when being held then... It's probably a bad back cover or contacts. Give htc a call and see if they'll replace it or swap it at the store.
You could mess with the contacts but then you might brake them if you lift it to far or mess with it too much.
The contacts at the bottom are the Cellular ones unless I'm wrong, but then again the FCC requires all Cell Antennas be away from the head so bottom being most likely with Wifi up top
Thanks, Tachi. I guess I'll contact the AT&T Store first, since it's less than one week old. I'll see what they have to say...
It's interesting that some users have reported "low signal", but not so much "dropped calls" like what I've seen. Actually, I've witnessed low signal locations as well -- and even worse at my house than my previous phone -- but these "dropped call" scenarios have been in high bar locations mostly. DEFINITELY seems like a hardware issue.
Can't remember the last time I had a dropped call in the last decade on Sprint. I've had 3 since December with my Titan. All have happened inside my 100 year old brick home. Fortunately, they were all just random, meaningless calls. Any thoughts on building penetration...AT&T vs. Sprint? ...or is the phone the primary suspect? I have previously owned a Mogul, TP, TP2, EVO, and Arrive with no issues. The Titan does average 3 bars where the others always averaged 4.
Not sure if this belongs here, but here it goes.
About a few weeks ago, I started getting text messages from my boyfriend, but they were cutting off after around 160ish characters. The second text box was received was empty. I've included an example in the picture attached.
No one else texts me that much other than him, so I am not sure if it is just his number causing me this.
A week after this started happening, the problem got worst on my phone, when the stock messaging app, started crashing randomly. Later on, I would get the same message received, double.
T-mobile released the phone, saying they had received there were problems with a small number of S5.
I got the replacement phone yesterday. I was texting my boyfriend last night, when the message got cutoff again.