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Caller-ID displays "Unknown"?

When I first got my MDA the only contacts I had in the phone were from my SIM. Calls I got from those people displayed as I expected but calls from others simply showed as Unknown in the call display, even if the call was from a number that sent caller ID. I know this because I called it from my home phone -- a number that sent caller id info but wasn't on my SIM. Now, I've searched through the forums and haven't found anything about this. Did I miss something? I'd at least like to be able to see the calling number. I'm running the stock MDA.

I have had this problem on certain phones (not PPC phones) It was ALWAYS cingulars fault, they disabled caller ID on "accident" every time. It only happend when I would go to get a new phone.
Hope it helps, Later; Lew

My other experience is that it only sends the numbers, even on our phones. No Names. This could be Cingular, IDK, but that is my experience.

Yeah, well, so far it looks like I'm getting the numbers transmitted to the phone because everybody on my contact list shows up OK whereas those not on my contact list show up as "Unknown". The other annoying things is that there is NO record (as far as I can find) of what number originated the call. Seems to me it might be an option somewhere but I can't find one.

Nobody? Anybody?
Just occurred to me that I could call T-Mobile support and see what they say. 'll do that shortly and post what I get.

short/y said:
Nobody? Anybody?
Just occurred to me that I could call T-Mobile support and see what they say. I'll do that shortly and post what I get.
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I've called twice and both times have gotten answers that were decidedly not useful. It sounds, though, like the phone app just won't tell me who's calling if I don't have them in my contacts. Does this strike anyone else as dumb?

harassing phone calls blocked numbers

before i start i guess i should say that i'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but since most of the HTC dream users are t-mo customers i wanna know if this has happened to anyone else or if there is a way to stop this from happening.
i got my phone and not a few days later i started to receive calls from verizon wireless asking to talk to a certain person and i repeatedly told them that i did not know this person and i wanted to be removed from their calling list. i called t-mobile about the issue as well as verizon and no one had any help and they all said that my number was not in their database as a valid number and that i was not receiving the calls. t-mo actually told me that the signals were getting crossed in the air and somehow ending up at my phone rather than the intended person's phone. after several calls to t-mo and verizon and altell(and wasting over 300 of my minutes) i was told that my number had been removed and i would not recieve the calls again, but if i did t-mo offered to change my number. i didn't want to change my number since i have had to change it before because of a crazy ex, so i decided to wait it out. nearly a month went by and i started recieving the calls again so i got my number changed two nights ago.
ten minutes after i got my number changed i started recieving blocked calls from someone asking to talk to someone completely different than before, this was a company and i know this because it was always a different person asking to talk to the same person. i was wondering if anyone else has had this issue, and if there is an app for android similar to callfirewall on WM that would allow me to blocked all unknown numbers. or even better i would like to get the number that is calling me and i would prefer to do it without the police(i don't get along well with them).
quite frankly i would like to be able to forward all calls from the unknown number right back to the same number since they are likely to have different lines and then i don't have to deal with the number calling me anymore. if anyone has any idea how to get the number please let me know, i asked t-mobile and they refused to release the number to me and said that they had no way of getting the number for me.
thanks in advance for your help.

T-Mobile do re-issue numbers fairly quickly, atleast they do in the UK... I changed my number a little while back, less than a fortnight later someone spoke to me saying they'd tried to contact me but got someone else...
I don't think it is possible to do any form of subscriber lookup with software as the number is not available at point of contact with the handset. In the UK reverse lookup and subscriber lookup isn't possible at all for the average Joe, but not sure on the laws within the States...
Re aborting "unknown caller" calls, there must be a developer out there that can knock something up, as the capabilities are on the handset for known numbers by editing the contact and ticking the send to answerphone...
If you do get something, please post the details on here, as I would like to have the option to refuse with-held and unknown callers also.
Cheers!

tubaking182 said:
if anyone has any idea how to get the number please let me know, i asked t-mobile and they refused to release the number to me and said that they had no way of getting the number for me.
thanks in advance for your help.
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TMobile will not help you with this. I'm sorry but that's the case. The only thing they can do for you is, as you already mentioned, change your number.

Today is your lucky day:
Google "TrapCall" There is a free trial for their premium services which will not only tell you what blocked number is calling, but also release all the billing information/address for that blocked number. You will never be harassed again! I use it all the time! Let us know what you find out!

TrapCall looks impressive, if only it were possible and legal to use in the UK! lol

jmdrizen said:
TrapCall looks impressive, if only it were possible and legal to use in the UK! lol
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Ah, I'm not too sure about that... I live in the US so it works fine here.
As I said, I highly recommend it for people living in the US, try it out on your friends, and see how it works.

when i attempted trapcall, i did the programming my phone step and it gave me an error, something about an unexpected response from the network, or something about not being able to set up call forwarding. i assumed it was something i did wrong and didn't work too much on it last night, but i'm gonna give it a second look today to see

tubaking182 said:
when i attempted trapcall, i did the programming my phone step and it gave me an error, something about an unexpected response from the network, or something about not being able to set up call forwarding. i assumed it was something i did wrong and didn't work too much on it last night, but i'm gonna give it a second look today to see
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Yeah, it can definately be a little difficult to set up at first.. just have it forward to the number they give you. I actually did it on my ATT phone I had. When I bought an ADP1 and put the SIM card in there. It still kept the data. This is probably something stored on the SIM card.

i did finally get it set up, hopefully they call soon so i can forward them to another person that's harassing me, harrass them both by making them call eachother. fun for me

Can the Xoom phone number be used for anything?

I know the Xoom can't make/receive phone calls but it DOES register when you call the number. There is a missed call log and it will appear in there when you call the Xoom. I also noticed my notification light sometimes flashes while I am calling the Xoom. I was wondering if this could be used for anything like maybe texting? I have Google Voice app set up on my Xoom linked to my reguilar cell number. Has anyone gotten Google Voice to work with their Xoom number? I tried it but it says 'number could not be verified.' Also...logging on to My Verizon, I can switch the info screen to my Xoom number to see my data usage. I also see under the text message usage menu that I received one text message. Somehow the Xoom can can receive messages, at least, from it's assigned number. Just don't know how to display them.
Mike

If your notification light is actually blinking when you call the Xoom number then the possibility is there to use the device as a phone. The light blinking could be coincidence though right? Have you been able to reproduce this without failure?
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA Premium App

I have noticed that when i am trying to call my xoom that the 3g turns off, as soon as i stop calling it the 3g comes back on. Reproducible indefinitely.

It's coincidence. Tried multiple times with mine, and there's no light, no missed call. Though it does definitely have a phone number. Tried to sign up for My Verizon, no dice. They send you a confirmation code via txt...which we can't get.
In the eRoes system (authorized retailers' system) it auto-adds a block text feature when you activate the Xoom...hopefully this will change in the future.

BTW, once you sign up for a my verizon account, and the system detects the text can't be sent, they will snail mail you a password. Its a very stupid system.

What does this have to do with Developing?

i think the original question was asking if someone had been able to make this work with google voice. implying that there may be a way to make it work with software. I.E. development.

Moved. Please post in the correct section. Thank you.

Phone randomly won't make calls

Lately my phone is randomly not receiving calls and it won't let me make calls either. What will happen is I'll make a call and I'll hear a beep giving me directions on how to make a collect call.
Anyone know what could be going on?
I'm running Bonsai 4.1.3, but I've been using this flash for a couple months.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1231613
See my last post. Thought maybe just in case you're using that feature, one remote possibility.

Thanks for the tip Droid Apprentice, but there's nothing listed for blocked calls on my account. How likely is it that it's related to a ROM?

Do you have an Airave? If so reset it. Sprint screwed them up a week or so back. You may have a tower down in your area.

No Call Notification

Haven't had a lot of luck with questions here for the last little while, but maybe someone has an idea as to why this would happen. My wife tried to call me 6 times yesterday. Not a single call came through or registered on my S7 Edge. She said all calls immediately went through to voice mail. When she got home, she stood right beside me and tried again and again, I was not notified of the call and it went right through to voice mail.
The phone had recently been rebooted. DND was not on. All sounds were on. The phone is not rooted and no apps like Greenify or anything like that running. After her last unsuccessful call to me, standing right beside me, I called her and it went through without an issue. She then tried to call me back and it worked. A minute or so later I received notification of her 2 voice mail messages from her previous calls. It's like the phone was in an extreme deep sleep. Which is pretty annoying considering I use the phone as a phone and I need calls to come through when they are made.
I took the phone into my carrier and they gave me a new sim card to try. I didn't have any issues with the previous sim card other than the issue from time to time of the first call I place being dropped and then the second call going through without issue. The signal is not fantastic in our condo, but I've never had someone tell me they have tried to call me and simply gone to vm before, so I don't know of any time of this happening previously. My wife had never had problems calling me before at all.
Anyone know what might have caused this?

No answers to this post,. Guess no one knows. Just another bizarre Samsung issue. Had it happen again today. My wife had to send me a Whatsapp message saying she couldn't call me. She said she called over and over again. No voice mail, no nothing. Never rang on my end or registered a call at all. Phone just didn't work until I called her and then she called me back and it worked. So sick of this thing working when it feels like it. Checked signal Not great, but no better than her signal and she never has any issues. She said she would call, it would just drop. No ringing, no voice mail, no nothing. Just call and then drop sound. Over and over again. Good thing this phone is only a $1000 device. Works great.

I don't have a solution for your problem, but had a similar issue when phoning my wife. It would ring on my side, but not on her side, then goes to voicemail. 2nd or 3rd time the call would go through to her to answer. Her phone wouldn't show any of the other calls. She was with a specific service provider and I moved her over to my provider. That is when the problems started as she was ported over to my provider. In the end it was on the provider's side where the problem was. They made some changes on her number profile and she could receive all calls and not random ones. Don't know the technical side of what the provider did, but they did admit they created her "call profile" incorrectly. Perhaps it's the same with you, that there is a setup on your profile that is not correct.

Thanks for the post, but I have contacted my provider. We use the same provider. Same settings. They reset everything for my phone and I reset everything on my end too. Still no solution. She does not have the same issues. Same phone. Same provider. Just sucks when you don't know if someone is trying to call you or not and if the phone actually works or not. I just want a phone that works all the time without having to worry about it. At the end of the day, that's all this is....a phone. If people can't call, well, that's an issue. I'm currently looking for work so it's even more important now than it's ever been.

Sorry to hear that you went the route of the provider and still no resolution. Maybe someone else can give light on the subject...

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wtwo2 said:
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Huh?
No it isn't.

TheIgster said:
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No it isn't.
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Sorry..solved my problem by flashing stock..first doesnt work..but now all is good

wtwo2 said:
Sorry..solved my problem by flashing stock..first doesnt work..but now all is good
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OK...What does that have to do with this thread that I created about my issue? I feel drunk...I think I need another drink. WTF?

What do you want? I had the ****ing same issue..solved it and deleted my message..
Try to flash some stock firm with Odin.. solved the very same issue for me!!!

So why did you delete the message then?