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Please Help!! Desire is driving me crazy!!!

viv

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Hi Guys

Hope you don't mind me posting, I'm new to this forum as well as Android, and HTC! Anyways I've had my Desire for about a month now, and its starting to really irritate me. Its a great phone for everything apart from calling and sending texts.

People seem to constantly be directed to my answerphone even when I have full reception. Its not always the case but it does happen frequently and I am missing important phone calls. Also on occasion it seems to take 10-15 seconds to connect to a call (even when I have full reception) and does often fail to connect at all. Its extremely frustrating. I am also having problems sending texts (once again I do have reception) as the phone tells me it is unable to send the message and keeps retrying and eventually when it does send people receive multiple copies of the same text.

Please please help, its driving me crazy and I need to sort it out quickly as I am missing too many important calls!

Thanks, your help is most appreciated.
 
As I've said in this thread:

I experience the same messages on O2.

As previously mentioned, when using 2G / GPRS you can't use voice and data at the same time. So if your phone is using data, e.g. background stuff like the weather app, this will cause issues like someone calling you going straight to voice mail without your phone ringing.

All GPRS networks have this limitation.

With 3G networks this problem is solved and you can download and accept calls at the same time. If the status bar at the top shows a large G then you are using GPRS and will encounter this problem.

If you're desperate and it's a problem then turning off Internet while in a GPRS area is the only way to fix this problem. I think connecting to a home Wi-Fi network may also solve the problem.
 
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Hi Guys

Hope you don't mind me posting, I'm new to this forum as well as Android, and HTC! Anyways I've had my Desire for about a month now, and its starting to really irritate me. Its a great phone for everything apart from calling and sending texts.

People seem to constantly be directed to my answerphone even when I have full reception. Its not always the case but it does happen frequently and I am missing important phone calls. Also on occasion it seems to take 10-15 seconds to connect to a call (even when I have full reception) and does often fail to connect at all. Its extremely frustrating. I am also having problems sending texts (once again I do have reception) as the phone tells me it is unable to send the message and keeps retrying and eventually when it does send people receive multiple copies of the same text.

Please please help, its driving me crazy and I need to sort it out quickly as I am missing too many important calls!

Thanks, your help is most appreciated.

Try switching to GSM only for a few days and see if the issue disappears (as it did in my case) - obviously make sure there's no data use going on either overtly or in the background.
 
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