OT: Bizarre mobile phone problem

I have a vague memory that most networks will retry up to 36 hours. Certainly I've had instances where a phone restart (or recharge from dead) has prompted a flurry of texts.

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Jethro_uk
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And how does one determine coverage ? I've had calls drop when the phone is 5 bars up for signal ? Funny you mention Orange. They were the worst. When I was with them, it was 50/50 as to whether I would be connected. I've actually had a voicemail alert when the phone has sat on my desk, with 5 bars up, and the caller explaining it went straight to voicemail.

Reply to
Jethro_uk

Ok.

They do often have these 'super' ideas don't they (which rarely are, or people more technical than them would have probably already come up with them). ;-)

Surprise surprise (not).

Well done.

Or not bothering as they know it's a fools errand?

Bless. ;-)

I was on pager standby a long time ago with another engineer, we to it in turns each week. It seemed that he got the lions share of the actual callouts (for which he got paid etc) but that was just down to 'luck' (the Co we were supporting was in a different country and not privy to the callout schedule).

I got to work one Monday morning and my engineer mate was in a right strop, going on about me 'not responding to my pager and him having to cover me' (which he got paid for etc). Anyway, long-short and working back, the times I was being paged (but didn't actually get the page) was when I happened to be visiting a mate locally who lived on a

*steel* barge, and I hadn't considered that the pager signals may not reach me there (it had loads of windows etc)?

He calmed down in the end. ;-)

So, as you say, unless there is some real bi-directional acknowledgements to any of this you really can't assume the message has got through?

Cheers, T i m

p.s. And this works with wetware as well as the Mrs will often start any important conversation with me with 'Are you in listening mode?' (as I'm probably doing something that will generally be more interesting than what plans she has for me the next day). ;-)

Reply to
T i m

= plenty of power, too many calls online

Funny you mention Orange. They were the worst.

Thats network congestion again, not low signal

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

In message , dennis@home.?.invalid writes

I don't know, I would have thought the phone takes the decision as to whether to send it via iMessage service or the SMS service

Yup, it's basically an iOS version of an instant message service

Reply to
Chris French

Erm! he obviously means *before* he heard it on here in this thread.

Reply to
Bod

I didn't say /it/ added the numbers. I said "for some reason". My wife has a very simple Samsung mobile (definitely not a smart phone!). Somehow, more than once, she has succeeded in adding out daughter's phone number to the block list when reading a text. It's very odd, as (a) she has no other blocked numbers (b) that single blocked number has appeared as the fifth or sixth in the block list (obviously the previous "entries" are blank) and (c) she is a technophobe. I have tried to get the number into the blocklist with only one or two key presses, but have never succeeded - it takes several. So how the number got blocked I don't know. But it /can/ happen.

Reply to
Jeff Layman

As has mine (well, her friend in this case). ;-)

Same as mine. ;-)

She went without getting texts from (just) one of her good mates for some months until I suggested she contact the service provider to see if there was some sort of technical / network reason why it was happening. They talked her through the unblocking process and all has been fine since. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Reply to
T i m

They've always worked for me.

You really don't understand statistics do you? Have you forgotten the number of people in the UK?

I can and have done in the past, and Bod always does.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

That kind of shit only happens when abroad, 10 years ago, in a bad signal area, and it's about 1 hour.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

Have you ever thought of telling your provider to go f*ck themselves?

Reply to
Mr Macaw

I think we've got another Simon Mason on our hands. Reads everything like a computer and follows simple rules to the letter.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

While I can't help you in this matter, I can admire your wisdom.

There is, indeed, some very clever people around here.

It's worth popping in now and then, ..until the handbags begin to fly.

I can't be arsed with that commotion. I'm keeping 'MY' handbag tight to my waist.

...Ray.

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RayL12

Where I used to work, a professor (an old Czech lady) could change almost all the settings in windows in about 3 seconds, just by grabbing the mouse. It was quite amazing, there were things flying all over the screen. It looked like a car accident.

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Mr Macaw

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