Not receiving incoming calls on Your Cingular SmartPhone?
All week long, I have received no incoming calls or voicemails on my Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone, on the Cingular network. I was beginning to believe myself to be as unpopular as I sometimes feel. During this time, I made multiple outgoing calls...
This morning, I looked down at my phone to discover that I had 20 voicemails in my Inbox. Twenty (20)! All at once.
It suddenly occurred to me that my phone has not been receiving incoming calls for a week. I did the logical thing: I shook my SmartPhone. Unsuccessful, I did the rational thing:
- I tried to connect to a new network, without luck.
- I re-booted my device, without luck.
- "Flightmode" appeared at the top of my display, after re-boot. Interesting...vexing...
- Knowning that it's impossible to connect to a GPRS network while in flightmode, I tried to disable "Flightmode" by tapping my SmartPhone's power button and clicking "Flightmode Off". No luck.
- I re-booted my device again. No luck.
- I surrendered and dialed up... Cingular.com/support.
- I searched for "flightmode" using their self-help utility and JOILA!
[https://www.cingular.com/support/knowledgeBase.do?content=KB35451.html]
"If phone still displays flight mode even when flight mode is turned Off in the "quick list":
- Manually deactivate Bluetooth while flight mode is on.
- Once Bluetooth is manually deactivated, go through "quick list" and deactivate flight mode again.
- Power cycle device.
- Attempt to reconnect."
Note, around the time when my Windows Mobile 5.0 SmartPhone stopped apprising me of incoming calls, I was attempting to sync my phone with my new TabletPC, over bluetooth, for the first time. I am running Windows Vista. I do not know if this activity occasioned the wierdness described above but it's awfully suspicious.