I've had this happen occasionally. It's not all the time. I even lowered my slot cycle, but it didn't matter.

 

I lowered the slot cycle on mine and it made all the difference in the world. It's now on one, and I get two rings max on the other end before it rings on mine. I highly recommend doing that to see what happens. If you don't know how to do it, it's:

##778, call
Choose Edit Mode
Password 000000 (6 zeros)
Then choose "Modem Settings"
Slot Cycle Index is the first choice, click on it, and change it to 1
Then hit Menu, and select "Commit Modifications"
If you don't do that, it won't change anything.
The phone will restart, and you're done.

BTW, I did this when I was on 2.1V1, then V2, and now V3, and I didn't have to change it again, it stayed the same.

 

I started another thread on this last night and I have changed my slot cycles and it still doesn't help....think it has to maybe deal with voicemail settings?? I'm about ready to take my Eris back...

 

Anytime. It helped me, so I'm passing it along. It also worked on the wife's Incredible.

 

I just realized I had this problem starting the other day. Well, the other day is when I changed a few ringtones. I'm wondering if you'll have this problem if you switch back to default ringtones. I'm going to try it, too.

 

What do you guys mean by "lowering the slot cycle" ?

 

It means decreasing the time your phone takes polling cell towers for a call

 

I should have just searched. Lol. Well, now i know and i've changed the setting.

 

did it work??? anyone did this work for you guys?

 

Worked for me, YMMV.

 

any disadvantages to lowing your slot cycle?

 

None that I've noticed, my battery life wasn't affected if that's what you mean. I do know that it takes one or two rings now before my phone rings, whereas before it was 5 or 6.

 

I have KayosFroyo v32 and when I dial ##778 it rings and I get a verizon message saying that the number is not valid. Did you do something different?

 

No, I just did that on the 2.1 leak, but there's an issue with Froyo roms that won't allow it to work. I'm on KaosFroyo too, and it won't work for me either.

 

Thanks for the quick response. yeah, I just read that there isn't an EPST.apk that works on Froyo yet, so the programming codes do not work.

about to flash v35.1 ... see what happens.

 

You'll like 35-1, and if you're coming from V34 you don't have to wipe your phone, I didn't and I'm not having the issues that everyone else on XDA seems to be having.

 

I'm coming from v33, works great. No wipe needed.

For anyone who isnt using KayosFroyo here is the link... You'll have a new phone after flashing.

[ROM]KaosFroyo V35 [09/17] [FROYO] - xda-developers

 

Yes, it truly makes it a new phone. There's some minor issues, but it's working just fine for me for daily use.

 

Do a Nandroid backup of Kaos Froyo, flash (or do a Nandroid restore of) one of the 2.1 ROMs - Plain Jane, say - and do the programming there. Then Nandroid restore back to Kaos and the slot cycle programming will stick.

 

Hell of an Idea!