Emergency Calls only on AT&T. - RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My Razr i has been working well for a long time but this morning, I noticed that it had the dreaded "emergency calls only" message.
I tried turning on airplane mode and then turning airplane mode off.
I tried restarting the phone
I tried taking out the sim card and putting it back in.
I tried wiping the Dalvik cache and fixing permissions.
None of this stuff fixed it.
The only thing I didn't try was restoring a backup but I haven't made a backup in a while and really really really really really don't want to because I hate losing my data and having to put everything back on.
Data works but calling and texting doesn't.
I have another AT&T phone (it's not a smartphone) that has service and functions the way it's supposed to. So it's not a problem with the tower.
Help?

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Calls not coming through

Hi, gang. I've been surfing the forum silently for a little while and got my G1 all rooted and hacked the other night. It's been awesome and thus far I've been able to resolve any issues I've had in the process.
This one is throwing me off but I know someone has run into it before. Sometimes when someone calls me, they say that it rings twice and then goes to voicemail. I never get any missed call notification or anything. It's like the call never existed. After testing, I found that data transfer is taking precedence over voice data when they both try to come through at once. It's really annoying!
Does anyone know of a way to reverse the importance of these 2 things? Obviously I want to receive my calls if they happen to arrive when data is transferring. My phone constantly accesses some sort of data throughout the day (only texts and email).
For reference:
- White T-Mobile G1
- ROM: OpenEclair v1.2.1 BACONWEAVE
Thanks in advance.
No one else has run into this? A friend said I could try a wipe and re-flashing the ROM and see if that works. I'm thinking of going back to Cyanogen and seeing if the problem occurs with that.
Roaming in Citrus Springs?
Check Settings/Wireless & Networks settings/Mobile network settings/Data roaming. The choice is to connect to data services when roaming. This should not be selected.
Regards
David,
I totally overlooked that setting. Before my phone was rooted, I apparently had disabled this but failed to do so after modding. I just tested it by loading a website in the browser and making a call to it while it was loading. The call came through without a hitch!
Thanks a lot. I had searched high and low but no one ever mentioned this. I thought I had already tried it actually, but I was wrong. Much appreciated.
Okay, apparently it was only a partial fix. If wifi is enabled, the web browser just defaults to using that (obviously). When I disabled wifi and loaded a webpage while calling the phone, the call went to voicemail after 2 rings and never showed up on my phone.
I've never had this happen before. I've only seen this after flashing everything required to root the phone. It's not a huge deal but it baffles me. I guess when you're not on 3G, it only allows data through if both voice and data are trying to transfer at the same time.

Nor recovering from lost signal

Hi All
I got my Xperia XP for about a month and noticed my phone sometimes does not recover (restore) from lost signal. Further details:
1) Usually happens after bluetooth device connection
2) I did replace a new SIM card but same
3) SIM1 is set to be my default SIM card. When it happens, SIM1 shows no signal but never restores (I once tried to wait for 30mins and took the phone for different locations and still never restores). At that time SIM2 appears to have normal signal, but when I make call from SIM2, SIM2 signal drops to zero immediately and fails to make call.
4) Quick solution is to turn on/off the plane mode or restart
I believe this is a bug and wonder if anyone here has experienced the same?
Thanks - this is very annoying as I will miss important calls while I thought the phone was working.
Ken
Just want to tell you I got the same issue. wanna know from anyone who got the same issue please speak out!!!!!!
Have no this issue. But I've full flashed with all wipes via flashtool.
Desperanto86 said:
Have no this issue. But I've full flashed with all wipes via flashtool.
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Hi Thanks for the advice. I tried but the condition remains.

Cannot make calls but can text

so i originally thought this was a device issue. so i switched back to realme x2 pro instead of my oneplus 7t. the 7t i couldnt even send a text. for this i try to make a call and it wont ring and sometimes will drop. ive tried many things to fix it. reseated sim, reset wifi,mobile data etc, reset apn settings, cleared cache, airplane mode.. but i cannot make a call. Is this a sim card issue do i need a new one? can someone please help me thanks
Edit: found out my phone isnt compatible with metropcs

Device stuck on dialing when calling - SMS/Mobile Data working fine

I flashed different Custom ROMs now. The problem occured out of nowhere, I changed nothing. I was not able to receive nor make calls. Phone app works, but on the call screen it is stuck on dialing. SMS and mobile data are working fine nonstop all the time.
In the current rom I changed some network settings (en- and disabled enhanced 4G-calling, disabling WiFi calling, updating APN manually, choose cellular network manually) and I got it to work 2-3 times randomly inbetween. But when I tried again with nothing at all changed it didn't work again.
Resetting the network settings, the device, clearing cache and dalvik, clean flashing the rom again, or even switching roms didn't solve the problem (did not try it on stock rom though until now! But really would like to also have phone function on custom roms...)
If someone got a solution for this, I'd be happy about some help, phone without calling function is not really useful to me. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I noticed, that when entering *#06# on the numpad I only get a serial number, no IMEI, I don't think that this is normal?

Question S21 Ultra sometimes doesn't show that someone is calling me

Hello,
For many months I have had a strange problem with my S21 Ultra, namely it does not seem to show me at random times that someone is calling me, no matter if via the cellular network or some communicators, it simply does not show notifications that someone is calling no matter how is calling. I often have it that only when I pick up the phone, unlock it and check something on it, suddenly messages come that someone tried to communicate with me, and only from then on I can answer calls until I hang up the phone and in an hour or two the same problem - over and over again. I have such an impression as if the phone itself went into some hibernation after putting away, although I have no indications that something like this is happening, because everything looks normal. The phone has the latest update, and I have restarted it several times with no effect.
I would like to add that this happens both in an apartment where I have wifi turned on (I do not use lte calls), and when I am outside while walking in the city.
Is there something I can do to fix this?
This is a very strange issue indeed. Have you checked if your phone has cell coverage when the screen is off? Did you try calling yourself from another phone and number? If the answer is negative to either question, I would suggest resetting your network settings. If that fails, try a factory reset which should solve any issues. If the issue still persists, it could be hardware related and you might need to take the phone to Samsung centre to get it checked.
I don't have a second phone to call myself. Friends say that on their end it sounds like I am not answering the call (i.e. they have a call signal, but just nobody is answering). They have no busy or unavailable signal. What exactly do you mean by a network reset, what would I exactly have to do? I was thinking about a factory reset, but I'm afraid that I will lose all my data and application settings. I do not know if it matters, but I have been using this phone since the premiere of the S21 Ultra, and when I bought it, I transferred all data via the data migration service from the previous S10+ phone, to which a few years ago I similarly transferred data from the S9+, to which I transferred data from S8 + earlier
Maybe you have the "do not disturb" option on? When I have this on, I can't see who is calling me.
I checked, unfortunately it's not that, if it were, I would never see someone calling, but my problem seems to be random.
Sierra76 said:
I don't have a second phone to call myself. Friends say that on their end it sounds like I am not answering the call (i.e. they have a call signal, but just nobody is answering). They have no busy or unavailable signal. What exactly do you mean by a network reset, what would I exactly have to do? I was thinking about a factory reset, but I'm afraid that I will lose all my data and application settings. I do not know if it matters, but I have been using this phone since the premiere of the S21 Ultra, and when I bought it, I transferred all data via the data migration service from the previous S10+ phone, to which a few years ago I similarly transferred data from the S9+, to which I transferred data from S8 + earlier
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u need to go to settings>general>reset and there tap reset network settings..
Hi,
I experience very similar problem. I tried to reset network settings, "hard" reset the phone, playing around different mobile network settings... nothing helps. I'm not sure if it is phone hibernation issue or kind of removal of the phone from cellular antenna.
I have another phone I use to watch this s21ultra issue. Practically each day it happens that the s21 ultra does not react to my call, of course most of the time it works properly, but there are some tries, when it fails. In such case on the phone I call from I get a message "user is not available". But then, leaving the s21ultra untouched for 10 minutes I get SMS saying that someone tried to contact me, so it is not obvious that the phone hibernated.
I was not able to reproduce the problem on the other sim card put in s21ultra (the carrier is different). I was not able to reproduce the problem on the other phone and the sim card from taken from s21ultra. In my opinion it is related to "weak" mobile signal and kind of "sensitivity" of s21ultra to low signal quality.
I reported the problem to my mobile network provider, but I'm still waiting for the answer. Anyway, I'm going to do the following:
- ask for sim card replacement (cheapest option),
- (if above does not help) go to samsung service and ask to check the phone - I hope they have some diagnostics tools,
- (if above does not help) install the second sim card (from different provider) and configure redirection of calls in case of "user unavailable" - I know it is "stupid" solution - but at least one of the carrier should work
- optionally root the phone - Can anyone confirm if it may help? At least I could enable toggling airplane mode each minute

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