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How can I increase the number of phone rings during a call?

How can I increase the number of phone rings during an incoming call?
I just feel that 3 rings is sometimes too short to grab your phone, open it up, and decide if you are going to answer it or not.

call your phone company, they can do it for you immediately over the phone. some have a keypad phone combination that you can use, but they vary, call the phone company make them work for the money

Try this: Settings/phone/services. If you have "call forwarding" as an option then click on that and set the time before the call is forwarded to your voicemail

Thanks guys. I'll try it right now.
I tried it under settings. The longest phone ring they have is 30 seconds. I think it it too short, so I guess I'll give them a call.

I called Cingular (USA) customer support. Sadly the longest they can offer is 30 seconds. The only way I could think of is to disable my voicemail, and that should make my EXEC ring a lot longer. But can't, I need my voicemail.

O2 EXEC, slow to respond to incoming calls

HI all
Hoeping some one can help me,,, If my xda exec is switched on and an incoming call comes in it starts ringing stright away as you would expect. However if the xda exec is in standby mode, it takes 3 or 4 rings before the xda wakes up and starting to make the ring tone sound. Is this a "design feature" or is there somthing i can do to resolve it, As most people seem to hang up after 6 rings and my xda only rings after 4 I am missing lots of calls.
Hope you can help
Paul

You can try and install the Radio Upgrade 1.06.00. It doesnt require a hard reset (loss of all data), and appears to fix up that problem from everyone who has tried it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=38954

You can alter the duration the phone will ring for before it goes to voice mail or divert (depending on how your set-up is arranged) Go to Settings/ Phone, select the "Services" tab, highlight Call Forwarding, then press get settings, the phone will retrieve the data, in the midle of the screen is "Forward after" and a drop down box set this to "30 Seconds" - you might find it rings for longer now as the default is 10 seconds I think - Mike

Thanks for your replys, I have already put the 1.06 radio upgrade onto the device..
I will change the voicemail pickup time that should help thanks
I have found that if i turn of the power management settings so that the device does not go to sleep after 3 minutes then this problem is fixed, Calls come though to the xda within 1 ring,,, However I dont know if this is going to cause the battery to drain to quick, as the screen is on still (although backlight goes out)

isnt there a registry hack for this?

Redirect a incomming call to the mailbox?

Hi,
Can someone tell me how a can redirect a incomming call to the mailbox when I don't want to answer that call?
I only can decline the call and then the caller gets a busy tone and know that a pushed the call away....

Settings>Phone>Call Forwarding>Get Settings...
Make sure "No Answer" is ticked and diverts to your mailbox number.

elyl said:
Settings>Phone>Call Forwarding>Get Settings...
Make sure "No Answer" is ticked and diverts to your mailbox number.
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Thanx for your help, but that one I know... :lol:
What I want is to stop the phone ringing and push it to the voicemailbox!
Now I have to wait 30 sec before the call is redirect to the mailbox...

In conjunction to "elyl's" suggestion, if you don't want to hear the phone ring, then turn the volume off. Otherwise you need a 3rd party software like Phone Alarm.

zerimar said:
In conjunction to "elyl's" suggestion, if you don't want to hear the phone ring, then turn the volume off. Otherwise you need a 3rd party software like Phone Alarm.
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but sometimes you just don't wanna talk to a person that is calling you... and I don't mean because I'm busy or something just push it away to the voicemail.
I use Phonealarm but it didn't give me the option when the phone rings (with a certain person I don't wana talk to) push it to voicemail!
So now I leave it ringing and then it goes to the mailbox at last.

I've just tried it on my Magician. If you press the red/end button right after it ring then the call is redirected to the voice mail.

hmmm, when I push the red button it gives a busy tone to the caller...
Thanx for trying

do you have the other call divert (when busy, when out of range, etc.) functions active?

Must be an operator-dependent thing then, cos when I reject a call it gets sent to the mailbox. Dial into your mailbox and see if you can change the settings.

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do you have the other call divert (when busy, when out of range, etc.) functions active?
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Yes when I don't pick up or when the phone is off it go's to the mailbox.

this is for you......good luck trying to get it to work....i didn't have much time (spend about 1hr trying to get it to work)
http://www.winmobileapps.com/device/pocketpc/csb/csb.aspx

Finaly it is working!!
I just re enterd the voicemailbox number and send it again to the telecom provider.... :?
Thanx again for your help and testing...

great to know that you have it finally working

One day I learned (by accident), that if you use the hardware volume button while the phone rings, it will mute the ring tone. That way, you can let it "ring" in silence for the duration of the 30 seconds before it forwards to your voice mail.
I use the vol down in these situations, but I think it also mutes on vol up.

Mad Mad Ring time

Am i missing something here,..?? I have set a MP3 as my incoming ring tone and the file lasts for just over 1 minute but when it is assigned as my incoming ring tone it will only ring for no more 12 seconds before registering a missed call, is there a way to increace the ring tone time before going to missed call, the damm thing has me running like mad around the house to answer before it rings off

I am sure there is a simple answer to this,,,??

As part of the phone settings there are settings for what happens after your phone rings for a length of time and also for how long your phone should ring before being diverted.
Take a look there and see if it solves your problem!!
Matt

The only options in here are "Answer incoming calls without pressing" which is not ticked and "Talk after" and i have set it for 10 rings. But because the tone is a mp3 song, it does not seem to go on for more than 10 seconds, is there another way or am i looking in the wrong place

Start->Settings->Phone->Services->Call Forwarding->"Forward phone calls only if"-> "No answer: voicemail number, Forward after: 30 seconds"

ahh man, thats great...sorted out fine..but what a daft place to put it. Would have thought it would be something obvious....must be my age..hehe Cheers

If youre device has video calling/receiving - theres a similar option accessed from the phone pad, under video call settings.
Matt

why ringtones only ringing for 17 secconds

no matter what ringtones i use they only ring for 17 seconds is there a setting or way to alter this.
and how can i silence an incoming call. id like the option to answer the call or press a silence button so the other caller still
thinks the call is ringing and that the call has not just been rejected.
thanks

lancsuk said:
no matter what ringtones i use they only ring for 17 seconds is there a setting or way to alter this.
and how can i silence an incoming call. id like the option to answer the call or press a silence button so the other caller still
thinks the call is ringing and that the call has not just been rejected.
thanks
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Sounds like your calls get diverted to voicemail after 20 seconds (takes approx 3 seconds for the phone to ring on an incomming call). Setting your divert can be network dependant, but if you go into phone settings, there is an option called "divert" which yoy can change. Be warned - if on vodafone or other similar networks, the network handles the call diversion. However if you change this, you may be charged for the phone diverting calls to voice mail.
To mute the phone on incomming call, simply turn the phone face down on the desk. This should mute the ringer. If this does not work, you need to install HD Tweek or similar to set this option.

yes mate your right my phone does get divertd to voicemail but i was getting 29 seconds i think it was on my nokia n95 when that was set to divert. on orange you cant set divert on or of by the phone you have to ring the network but cancel divert.
as for the silence calls on flip if i have the phone in my pocket and someone calls the flip does not work as i have no surface to lay it flt on i just tried it .
so if anyone else has no solution the only thing i can think of is
1 cancel call divert with my network and hope there is a third party software that can manage my voice mail . any recommendations ?
2 any recommendations of any software to silence calls by press of a button ?
thanks

ok i managed to get the ringtone to ring longer before it goes to voicemail .
the settings for that are acually in the phone ardsar says but how can i get the
phone to silince callls without turning the phone over .
im looking for a press of a button method.
thanks

Press one of the volume buttons when your phone is ringing

blimey so easy eh when you know how .
cheers mate appreciated

or you can dial this number
**61*insert your voicemail number here*11*30#
if you then hit the call button and enter this your phone will ring for 30 seconds before going to voice mail.
cheers