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Phone randomly not receiving phone calls

I'm experiencing the issue as well. No ring, just a straight voicemail notification.

Also, has anyone experienced their data connection freezing up? Every once in awhile, my data won't load anything and the signal indicator always shows one circle and LTE. A quick switch to airplane mode and back fixes the problem. Full bars and working data again. Strange.

Verizon iPhone 5
 
Yes I did a fresh restore from Beta 2 install file and then restored from the cloud from my Beta 3 back data back up with no issues all my apps and data are fine.


Jeff
 
PNutts said:
For the folks having the problem, try removing everyone from your favorites (so your favorites list is blank).
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Any idea as to what role that might play in relation to this? Just curious.
 
I removed all my favourites and then had someone call me and I had same issue it did not fix it.

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Restoring to beta 2 on mine and my wife's phone had no issues. I now get my calls again and I will update when Beta 4 is out.


Jeff
 
jshear said:
I would go down to Beta 2 until Beta 4 comes out in 2 weeks. This was the way I fixed the problem of not getting some calls. Unless someone figures out a fix I will stick with my solution for now.


Jeff
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It could be something like 3 weeks (if not more) until the next beta as well. Hard to really know for sure.

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seinman said:
It isn't only Verizon. Sprint iPhone 4S here, running beta 3, and a lot of my calls (at least half) are not coming through.
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Perhaps CDMA carriers in general then?
 
Ok but I cant live with not being able to receive phone calls on a consistant basis I will have to live with beta 2 for now unless someone figures out a fix.

Jeff

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I have the phone call issue on Rogers in Canada which is GSM.


Jeff
 
jshear said:
Ok but I cant live with not being able to receive phone calls on a consistant basis I will have to live with beta 2 for now unless someone figures out a fix.

Jeff
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That's definitely understandable. It's been a bit better on my end in the last day or so, although I still had a couple of undelivered calls yesterday. None of the things I've tried really seemed to have any effect so far--just going to keep an eye on it some more, and probably end up going back to iOS 7 beta 2 if it becomes bad enough.

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PNutts said:
Unfortunately, no. I'm seeing in another forum that resolves it and hadn't seen it mentioned here. Strange.
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Most things are definitely worth a try when it comes to an issue of this type. Too bad it doesn't quite seem like anything (so far) is resolving it for sure.

Out of curiosity, where else have you seen a discussion about this--I've tried doing a quick search yesterday (to see if there might be any other possible fixes) but can't say I found much about it anywhere except mostly in these forums and this thread in particular.
 
C DM said:
Out of curiosity, where else have you seen a discussion about this--I've tried doing a quick search yesterday (to see if there might be any other possible fixes) but can't say I found much about it anywhere except mostly in these forums and this thread in particular.
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I don't mean to be secretive. The dev forum. People get freaky so I didn't volunteer it. :) I didn't include two threads where no solution was acknowledged. There may be more but it's lunch time!

https://devforums.apple.com/thread/195296?tstart=60
https://devforums.apple.com/thread/195111?tstart=90

Edit: Two Verizons and a Sprint. One person removed everyone from their contacts and that resolved it for them. But like here, removing favorites doesn't work for everyone.
 
Went back to beta 2 and restored my beta 3 backup. Missed call issue went away. I could have probably dealt with the issue, but the lingering thought of "What if they don't leave a voicemail?" was starting to get to me. :eek:



Also, I have no one in my favorites, so that workaround doesn't really apply to me :/
 
Kohkane said:
Went back to beta 2 and restored my beta 3 backup. Missed call issue went away. I could have probably dealt with the issue, but the lingering thought of "What if they don't leave a voicemail?" was starting to get to me. :eek:
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I'm actually using Google Voice for my voicemail, which has missed call notifications as well--meaning if they get to voicemail but decide not to leave one there's still a notification that gets sent for a missed call (without a voicemail). That at least mostly helps with an issue of this type.
 
C DM said:
I'm actually using Google Voice for my voicemail, which has missed call notifications as well--meaning if they get to voicemail but decide not to leave one there's still a notification that gets sent for a missed call (without a voicemail). That at least mostly helps with an issue of this type.
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Hmm, and I can still use my mobile number for Google Voice correct? I just need the missed call notification, and if that fulfills it, I don't mind using that as a workaround for the time being.
 
I know this probably is going to be frowned upon. But for the heck of it when I decided to go back to beta 2 I clicked option update instead of restore and it installed beta 2 fine and was much less of a hassle. No issues and the call receiving problem hasn't happened at all (tested it periodically for the last day)
 
Kohkane said:
Hmm, and I can still use my mobile number for Google Voice correct? I just need the missed call notification, and if that fulfills it, I don't mind using that as a workaround for the time being.
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You basically can use a Google Voice number just for voicemail (missed call) purposes--people call your regular mobile number and when they would normally go to voicemail it would go to the voicemail provided by Google Voice instead of your provider or another service. http://support.google.com/voice/answer/164648

Similar thing can be done with a service like YouMail as well (http://www.youmail.com/). These services can basically be used as alternate voicemail providers (and also can provide missed call notifications, among other things).
 
C DM said:
You basically can use a Google Voice number just for voicemail (missed call) purposes--people call your regular mobile number and when they would normally go to voicemail it would go to the voicemail provided by Google Voice instead of your provider or another service. http://support.google.com/voice/answer/164648

Similar thing can be done with a service like YouMail as well (http://www.youmail.com/). These services can basically be used as alternate voicemail providers (and also can provide missed call notifications, among other things).
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Thank you! I'll check those out when I get home. :D
 
Kohkane said:
Went back to beta 2 and restored my beta 3 backup. Missed call issue went away. I could have probably dealt with the issue, but the lingering thought of "What if they don't leave a voicemail?" was starting to get to me. :eek:



Also, I have no one in my favorites, so that workaround doesn't really apply to me :/
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Good to hear; I'm going back to B2.

Edit:

Stupid question, did you do a restore to Beta 2 to do an 'update' to Beta 2?
 
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Hate to say it cuz beta 3 was the most stable for me so far, but I just reverted back to beta 2 because of the not receiving calls issue. I'll be anxiously awaiting a fix or beta 4, whichever comes first :D
 
Kohkane said:
I restored to beta 2.
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I must be doing something wrong, or am confused..

I did a backup to my computer, did a restore to beta 2, and when trying to restore from my beta 3 backup, iTunes is telling me it cannot restore the data :(
 
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