• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Making calls by itself

I have had several calls made from my HTC Droid Eris when I have not made the call. The call seems to generate by itself for no reason. Am I doing something wrong ? Is there a way to lock down the 'call' mode so that it can't just make a call by itself. I know it sounds crazy, but I swear that the phone makes calls by itself.

Thanks for your help....
 
are you locking your phone after use? i lock my phone after using it by quickly pressing the physical end key on bottom right corner. nothing will happen until you press this button again and then swipe the screen to unlock. i gotta say, i have used many devices in the past and this is simply the best locking device i have ever used. i leave it in my pocket and have never mis-dialed.
 
Upvote 0
I have had several calls made from my HTC Droid Eris when I have not made the call. The call seems to generate by itself for no reason. Am I doing something wrong ? Is there a way to lock down the 'call' mode so that it can't just make a call by itself. I know it sounds crazy, but I swear that the phone makes calls by itself.

Thanks for your help....


Download an App off the market called "Not Call Log Prefs" and when you download it open it up and set the drop down box to "Home". This has helped stop all my accidental calls. Once you hang up from a call it will take you right back to the home screen rater than the dial screen so you don't misdial the last person you talked to or whoever else. Let me know if this fixes your problem.
 
Upvote 0
Download an App off the market called "Not Call Log Prefs" and when you download it open it up and set the drop down box to "Home". This has helped stop all my accidental calls. Once you hang up from a call it will take you right back to the home screen rater than the dial screen so you don't misdial the last person you talked to or whoever else. Let me know if this fixes your problem.

Thanks. I did download that program and it seems to work. Thanks !
 
Upvote 0
I've had this happen as well, my Eris randomly calls people that are in my contact list - and I am diligent about locking the phone. It'll just be sitting there on my desk with no one touching it (except perhaps a ghost), and then all of a sudden I hear talking coming through the speaker.

I have the silent bug as well, my replacement should be coming Friday - but I'm honestly not hopeful that things will get better since all of 'like new' phones are the refurbs from the folks that have the bugs :)
 
Upvote 0
My phone does this all the time. The main trigger is usually Pandora radio. When I click "next song" it calles the last person I called. It also happens spontaneously where my screen just turns on and I think it is an incoming call until I put it up to my ear and it is actually me calling someone(not a pocket dial, happens when sitting on a desk). I did a hard reset and that seemed to work for now but it has only been a week so time will tell.
 
Upvote 0
I had the same problem. It was calling on its own way to frequently and the bad part was I had a heart attack earlier in the year so it would call and people would answer and I was not responding so they would get worried. Eventually they got use to my invisable calls. I finally installed Not Call Log which helped but was not perfect so eventually added Call confirm and things are much better. Only 13 more months and I get to exchange this phone, can't wait.
 
Upvote 0
I have this exact problem, which creeps in every couple of weeks. I called Verizon to get technical support. The tech could not help me but he said that no outgoing call were made by my telephone. He was supposedly able to view all calls made by my telephone. None of the calls are made to anyone on my People List but to random numbers.

At each occurence, my Eris did not log an outgoing call. The tech said that someone could be cloning my telephone number to hide theirs. Honestly don't know. Running leaked 2.1 V3.

W.
 
Upvote 0
Ya this is definitely an Android issue. i have the Android Dext phone and was baffled by my friends telling me my phone was ghost dialing them at weird hours. Friends I had not called in recent history.

I finally got to see it in action as I was driving and had the phone on the seat beside me. I happened to look over at the phone and saw it was dialing. I hit 'end call', which it did, but then it immediately tried to dial that same contact again. I again hit end call and we went through this 5 times as it immediately then tried to call him again.

I then looked at the outbound call log and saw that every time I hit 'end call' it was then dialing the next number I had for him in my contacts lists. It was dialing his work, home office, fax, home and cell numbers.

I had to kind of laugh because it was like the phone was possessed and determined to get through to the contact no matter what I wanted,

What I can tell you is this is not an issue of hitting redial or anything to do with contact or activity with the phone. Most of my ghost calls are made when the phone is sitting idle for hours.
 
Upvote 0
I am on my third, Samsung Moment, and one even had several hard resets and nothing helped .. I hate this phone but have many months left in my contract. It makes random pocket calls and emails to contacts, never the last calls I made. I just installed Not Call Log -- and noticed Call Confirm was recommended -- has anyone used Call Confirm with Ford Sync? -- I'm not sure how to confirm a call when Sync is used to dial. In addition, Ford Sync seems to take over 10 minutes everytime I get a different phone or hard reset -- its a pain, but is that normal? Or just for Android phones? Thanks
 
Upvote 0
I am on my third, Samsung Moment, and one even had several hard resets and nothing helped .. I hate this phone but have many months left in my contract. It makes random pocket calls and emails to contacts, never the last calls I made. I just installed Not Call Log -- and noticed Call Confirm was recommended -- has anyone used Call Confirm with Ford Sync? -- I'm not sure how to confirm a call when Sync is used to dial. In addition, Ford Sync seems to take over 10 minutes everytime I get a different phone or hard reset -- its a pain, but is that normal? Or just for Android phones? Thanks
Shouldn't it just directly directly dial through the phone? I would think it would bypass call confirm over Bluetooth.

But what do you mean by Ford sync "taking over"?
 
Upvote 0

BEST TECH IN 2023

We've been tracking upcoming products and ranking the best tech since 2007. Thanks for trusting our opinion: we get rewarded through affiliate links that earn us a commission and we invite you to learn more about us.

Smartphones