I have a 2010 Volkswagen CC with factory Bluetooth. The EVO pairs fine and I can make/receive calls. However there are a few issues that are bugging me to no end and keeping me from loving this phone.
First, I'm randomly missing phonebook contacts. The car downloads the phonebook so I can browse it on my nav screen or on the instrument cluster display. I have around 250 contacts, most with multiple numbers, so the total visible in the car display should be around 550. With the EVO, many are missing. This never happened with any of my iPhones or BlackBerries. In fact, I even did a test with Gmail sync and deleted a bunch of contacts, leaving only a few important ones. They were still missing.
Second, when I dial a number from the phonebook the call fails. It appears that the phone doesn't like receiving any numbers with punctuation, like dashes. So if I pick a contact with number 123-456-7890 and dial it, the phone actually dials 123569, etc. If I change the entry to remove the dashes or dial it with the car manually it works just fine.
I'm always on the phone in my car. It's against the law where I live (DC) to hold it up to my face and they've been pretty aggressive about it lately. My iPhone 3GS never had a problem with this... I don't know why the EVO does.
Is this Android in general or HTC's implementation of Bluetooth stack? I see a Nexus One user with a similar issue in thread 629677 here.
Fortunately I didn't port to Sprint and am just taking advantage of the 30 days. I've already been through 4 EVO's due to substandard build quality and display issues. I love this phone and the screen but am hesitant to keep it because of the BT issues and the unknown release schedule for 2.2.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
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My phone with no change and with every rom is now doing the following.
1. Instead of alarm going off, it calls back the person that last called me at the time the alarm was sapposed to have gone off... sometimes.
2. Calls last call dialed at random often. No specific time of day or number, it just picks a recently dialed or call recieved number, and calls it.
3. Not sure if it's my cheek, but it looooves to put calls on hold as soon as i anwer or in the begening of the call.
4. Any slight touch or fast movement or large breeze over the bottom buttons (mostly noticed on the 4 way) it will call a person.
5. It can never find a 3g network and wants to know if I would like to make a voice cal instead. That's on any call that's not on my sbp favorites.
I know the answer to many other questions, but these are the ones that concern me most that just started out of the blue and i can't find anything other than the mention of one person here saying his phone calls his wife in the middle of the night. I feel the pain.
Any ideas? thinking of going iphone 2.0. Got most the stuff i use and it's stable. But i LOVE the qwerty and would really rather keep this hermes.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks everyone,
Joe
oh yeah, and the alarm clock, birthdays, and appts change days and times then go back to the correct times and days. Does this about once a day.
Thanks,
Joe
Ref issues 1-4
My guess is a switch on the D/pad is not releasing correctly/fully and is causing an intermittent contact at the slightest movement or sound. I think you guessed that already.
So anyway - to rule out a software fault you could backup and do a hard reset and test before restoring the backup.
If that fails - assume a hardware fault.
Possible things to check - would require dismantling.
remove the d/pad. Cgeck the buttons for visible movement/any sign of poor contact and release.
If all appears fine then re-assembly will automatically have caused the d/pad connector to be re-seated (another possible cause of the issue - loose connection).
If the problem remains, my best guess for a fix would be d/pad board replacement.
Mike
I bought a TP2 a couple of weeks back; first thing I installed was Blackberry Connect (following instructions on this forum). BBC works perfectly, often pushing email out to the TP2 faster than I get it on the desktop. It's a real winner, pushes PIM info out to Pocket Informant 9 very nicely etc etc. I'm very pleased with the whole set-up.
However, I noticed that the TP2 was regularly dropping calls, both incoming and outgoing. What happens is this: when I make an outgoing call, I dial the number, the calling screen (the one with the dark grey "keypad" key and the red "end call" key) comes up briefly, there are often three quiet beeps and the phone reverts to the green phone screen (the one with recent numbers, the dial pad and the "talk" key). On an incoming call, the answer/reject screen comes up for a second or two with a ringing tone, but before I can pick up, it drops and usually goes off to voicemail. A soft reset seems to cure the problem for a short while, but I was ending up doing a dozen soft resets a day to pick up voicemails and make calls.
After BBC I had installed Kaspersky Antivirus, wondered if it was that blocking calls, turned everything off. No change.
I then suspended the BlackBerry service yesterday and used the phone with no problems (switched BBC on and off several times to check). It seems fairly clear that the BlackBerry connection is somehow interfering with the voice calls.
Any suggestions? Searching the forum hasn't produced anything. No-one on either of the two "BBC working/not working" threads here seems to have encountered this. Dropped calls seem to be an issue on some other HTC models, but no obvious solutions, apart from switching to GSM/manual frequencies. I don't know whether that's the issue here.
Apart from BBC, Kaspersky and PI9, I'm using the machine pretty much as it came out of the box: ROM is 1.19.401.1 (51489) WWE dated 22/6/09 whatever that means. I downloaded a Hotfix from HTC to correct issues with using + in SMS messages. BBC is v.106. I'm on a UK o2 corporate tariff with data and BlackBerry service.
I'm not sure if this properly belongs as a new thread - it doesn't seem to fall within any existing thread, but Moderators please move it if there's a better home.
Thanks very much.
Hi,
I have received my Rodhuim last Wednesday.
From Wedneday to yesterday, I had not problem with phone calls.
I have installed BB connect yesterday evening so I'll let you know if I have the same problem or not.
Murcielago said:
...I'll let you know if I have the same problem or not.
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Thank you. Judging by the lack of replies, this doesn't look like a widespread problem.
For the past couple days i have noticed that there are outgoing calls listed in my call log to numbers i don't know and for calls i didn't make. Anyone else have this issue? When I call the numbers back they say they can not be completed as dialed.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
Item one: if you've downloaded any less-than-reputable apps, delete them. Also run a malware scan. Before you diagnose your call log, make sure nothing's hijacking your dialer.
Do you by any chance use bluetooth earpiece? My mom's NS does that sometimes and I think it's cuz her bluetooth gets accidentally activated in her purse and it picks up voice dialing or what not.
Could be malware too tho... but I'm not really sure since my mom rarely installs any apps on her phone. I'm the one that does the installing and only thing she has that I don't have is some Chinese keyboard to type in Chinese. I've installed way more junk on my phone and I've never experienced that random dialing before.
What's a good malware scan app? Any particular recommendations?
http://androidforums.com/droid-supp...0284-my-droid-randomly-dials.html#post1837674
Someone says it might be a busted bluetooth headset.
Guys, I need some phone buying advice.
I don't use it much so I don't need all the latest things but I do have a few requirements.
The last one I bought and the one I have now is the Nexus One. I got it when it first came out
I like it but the touch sensitivity is crap and I'm tired of having to click 5-10 times sometimes.
Also, speaker volume is not enough and the speaker quality is so, so.
Camera quality is $HIT!
Here is what I need. Note, I DO NOT want an iPhone in case someone was going to recommend me one.
Size about the same as the Nexus one. I need a decent size screen as my eyes are bad. I do NOT need a bigger phone.
Android so that I can pimp it with an app that will let me make ALL the fonts bigger.
Crisp and bright screen.
Good touch sensitivity.
LOUD speaker and good quality. For voice only, not much need for music.
I would like to be able to use this with voice dial for future use with headset and hands free in my truck.
Something cheap that I can buy right now and I would consider used or even something directly from one of the chinese
sites, as long as it does what I want.
UNLOCKED for use with my own sim card. I DO NOT do contracts.
Good quality camera.
I'm not sure how a dual sim card phone works but IF it's possible to have one phone that I can have two numbers on and be able to answer any of those numbers, WITHOUT having to power down and changing to a different number, then I would really like that.
Also, I have another question. I have two google voice numbers but they will only let me forward calls to ONE cellphone number. Ie, I have a google number ending with 1111 and I can forward it to my cell but I cannot forward the calls from google number 2222 to my cell.
They will however allow me to forward calls from both google numbers to my home number...?
Is there a way around that so that I can answer calls from BOTH google numbers on my phone?
I don't do facebook or twitter or stuff like that and I only do a few minutes a month on my phone. ALL I do is make calls
and the occasional browsing and checking out youtube videos.
Thanks
George
so i have a few issues with my unit. nothing major, but more of an annoyance.
when i get a notification my music stops or is interrupted briefly when paired on Bluetooth. -- there a way to fix that?
steering wheel control interegreation -- i have a 07' cts base and i dont know if i have analouge or digital ones. do i need the pac control unit like i did to keep door chime and onstar?
beeping from what i can tell i can fix, i'd like to get that fixed (i have the ROLLUP and the other threads up right now)
is there a way i can read and send text messages?
i know i have it wired correctly, but i noticed it wakes up super quickly to the point where i'm not comfortable, i'm just more worried about a dead battery. does anyone know the power draw by chance? and if i dont drive it for a few days is that an issue?
i think those are my only issues, i love this damm thing so far!!! much nicer than my AN21
the notification issue is from your phone. Find a way to mute the volume of your notifications on your phone, it varies by phone.
Reading and Sending text messages can't be done unless you use some type of app. T-Mobile now has DIGITS which would do it. I think if you have a data source, then Verizon has their Messages+ app
waking up quick is how it should work. Many people have tested the Dormancy and no one has really had an issue with it. If you are not going to drive for weeks at a time, then maybe turn it off