cant make or recieve calls

johnny bravo

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Hi Got a HTC one x plus 32 gg versioni, was brand new sealed andon o2...been working fine for a,few months, but noticed that in the,Last few Weeks or so..i c ant dial out or,recieve incoming calls.... i can dial a number, but after About 7 secs... i get network busy error message then nothing, This is happening more and more , i can get the phone to work normally by rrmoving the sim and putting it back in....Will work for a few calls then it will stop working again..its not the network as it works fine in anothetr phone...havnt tried factory reset yet....any ideas?
 
yep or when connected to wifi see if there is a system update waiting for your device..
 
I had a similar problem on a vodafone Samsung. The factory (hard) reset sorted it.
 
might try the hard reset first...trouble is missus has lots of apps on the phone and it takes ages to put them on again..
 
tbh i think there are network issues as well.. im on giffgaff mussies on o2 ( same network) she a galaxy 3 me a iphone 4s

and we both have had text delays or call issues intermittently...

this is down on the SE coast ... perhaps its samsung and apple and HTC way of saying we need a new phone ????? lol
 
no i dont thick its network issue, my phone is on 02 as well, mine works fine but missus phone has the problems...it has the latest update and no further updates available , will try factory reset...found this though, qlthough its american may fix my missus phone..

The HTC One X+ is my favorite smartphone (for the time being). It's an incremental improvement over the One X (which as previously noted I am a fan of), and it is fast, and lightweight, the screen is perfect, the battery life is good, HTC Sense is useful and lightweight ... all in all it really is a superb phone.

It's also been a source of frustration as of late, in that every once in a while it will stop receiving phone calls. And although in truth I am using my phone less and less as, well, a phone, not being able to receive calls is a problem.

And in case anyone else is running into the issue, here's the scoop:

The problem I (and others) have run into (and since reported to AT&T) is that after a few days of normal operation the phone will just stop receiving calls. Outbound calls work, texts work inbound and outbound, all data works, everything works except for the ability to receive calls. Without warning or apparent trigger, callers will either hear endless ringing but no voicemail, or a few rings followed by a busy signal, or a couple of rings followed by a network error message. Nice, huh?

This first happened within days of receiving the phone, and AT&T replaced the SIM and things seemed to work, for a few more days. They next played with network settings which appeared to fix things at the time but in reality didn't. I then took the phone out of the country for 8 days and it worked flawlessly, until I returned to the US that is. The very next day it happened again. This time AT&T replaced the phone and the SIM, and this time the phone worked for two days, and then more of the same.

Over the past 5 weeks I have tried 3 different HTC One X+ devices and 4 SIM cards, and lots of other devices thrown into the mix for testing, and can I state unequivocally that this has nothing to do with specific phones or SIM cards.

The problem appears to be the phone falling off the right LTE bands. I can't figure out what triggers this, nor have I determined if it is the phone or the network (there seems to be a large number of complaints in the Metro Detroit area, so it may indeed be a local network issue), but what is happening is that the phone is switching from US LTE bands to international LTE bands (which explains why it worked perfectly outside of the country).

The fix is irritating but simple:

On the keypad enter *#*#INFO#*#*
Select "Phone information"
Click on the menu and select "Select radio band"
Click on "USA Band"

That will fix it. Until the next time you fall off the network, that is.

Unfortunately there is no way to know that your phone has gotten into this state until someone lets you know that you are missing calls. But, when it does happen, this will fix it.
 
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