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Woah: My iPhone just rang, but displayed nothing.

razorianfly

razorianfly

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Oct 16, 2007
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Ok, first of all - I can't prove this, before the 'pics or it didn't happen' crowd come in :rolleyes:, but just now I was minding my own business,
and my iPhone rang. I took it out my pocket to find the screen wasn't backlit, but the phone was still ringing. Eh?!

So anyway, I clicked the home button expecting to find options to answer the call. Nothing. The slide to unlock screen was there.
I was expecting the call, so I knew exactly who it was who was calling, but I missed the call due to iPhoneOS not displaying the 'Answer' 'Decline' calling screen.

The obvious answer would be, "it wasn't a call, but an alert" ...
But it definitely was a call. One, becuase I rang back the person,
and they confirmed they'd just tried to ring me, and secondly, I had no alerts set to go off.

It's a first on me.
Weird or what?!

R-Fly
 
I've had plenty of odd incoming call issues, the most recent being this:

Call came in.
Phone vibrated.
Slid to answer.
Held to ear.
Phone kept vibrating.
Pull phone from ear.
Screen still dark and won't turn back on.
Phone still vibrating.

Had to do a hard reset in order to make it stop.
 
I had this same thing happen to me the other day as well.

I was at work and wife's custome ring(from iTunes) started going pulled the phone out of my pocket to my surprise to a black screen. Pushed the home button and it turned on but no call options, so I slide to unlock and went the springboard with no call options. All the while the phone is still ringing.

I literally had to power down my iphone to get it to stop

This is only two week old iphone and has never been jailbroken and hasn't happened since
 
Happened to me once, i plugged in the headset and could answer. Waited for couple of minutes and phone became normal. Previous day a friend was playing around with the apps and one of the apps hanged i guess.

Oh yeah had received an SMS almost at the same time as the incoming call. So one of these goofed up the phone.

Did a restart when phone came ON just to be sure and nothing has happened so far.
 
Mine has just started doing this, but with SMS notifications. If I don't click close or reply on the SMS notification, but instead just put the phone to sleep, a few minutes later it sounds the SMS tone again.

This didn't happen before and I haven't installed anything recently.
 
DravenGSX said:
Mine has just started doing this, but with SMS notifications. If I don't click close or reply on the SMS notification, but instead just put the phone to sleep, a few minutes later it sounds the SMS tone again.

This didn't happen before and I haven't installed anything recently.
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This is a new feature in 2.1 Operating System. It will notify you up to 2 extra times after the original notification.
 
Kinda reminds me of about a week ago when I was going to bed. I had just set my iphone down and laid down when I heard the text alarm go off. I grabbed my phone and checked it... but it was dark.. I opened it... nothing... I desperately searched for what could have made it go off, but.. to no avail.

I ended up deciding it was too late to care and went to sleep. never to think of it again till now.
 
DravenGSX said:
Mine has just started doing this, but with SMS notifications. If I don't click close or reply on the SMS notification, but instead just put the phone to sleep, a few minutes later it sounds the SMS tone again.

This didn't happen before and I haven't installed anything recently.
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lolz. just to clarify this ISN'T what happened to me with my sms alert mentioned one post above!! :p
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
wait but wasn't this just a one time deal? or every time now?
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The missing a phonecall seems to be a one off, but another problem has emerged, related or not.

Now, when I flick the ringer switch to silent, the phone vibrates? - It's meant to right?
Yes, but now it just doesn't stop. I have to power it down in order to make it to stop.

I think I'll be making a trip to the Apple Store shortly.
Even if it is caused by software, it's unacceptable.

R-Fly
 
razorianfly said:
The missing a phonecall seems to be a one off, but another problem has emerged, related or not.

Now, when I flick the ringer switch to silent, the phone vibrates? - It's meant to right?
Yes, but now it just doesn't stop. I have to power it down in order to make it to stop.

I think I'll be making a trip to the Apple Store shortly.
Even if it is caused by software, it's unacceptable.

R-Fly
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wow that must kill your battery ( good luck with the swap )
 
Nice. I had a weird call issue once, where the call came in, I could see who was calling, but the whole phone was unresponsive. No touch input, no home button response, and no sleep button response. I was waiting at the checkout in the supermarket, and had to let the phone keep ringing in my pocket until the person gave up.
 
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