iPhone/Blackberry or any phone unable to receive call when using EDGE connection
Have people been telling you that they always go directly to your phone voicemail box? You probably have been using the unlimited EDGE data a little too much and need to lay off it a bit.
For some basic/end-user, they have no idea about this limitation over the EDGE connection. Many of my friends who using Blackberry/iPhone asking me the same questions, why they unable to receive call sometime?
About EDGE limitation
The problem is that iPhone or any mobile phone can’t always receive incoming calls while it’s transferring data over the EDGE network and EDGE can’t be accessed while on a voice call–depending on which network you’re on that is.
What about 3G/3.5G/4G?
3G or above network is fine, the channel are different, it won’t interrupt your voice call network when you using it. But when you are not in 3G/3.5G network coverage area, your phone will automatically switch to EDGE mode. So even you have a 3G enabled Phone with you, if you are under EDGE network coverage, you will never able to receive voice call.
Solution to fixed this
- If you are using iPhone, find an App that can turn off your EDGE connection when you are not using it. Im not sure anything like that in App Store, from Cydia (Jailbreak), you can use SBSETTING to turn that on/off.
- For other mobile phone, always make sure your phone EDGE network is not active when you are not using it, usually you can check that from the standy-by screen. If you are in EDGE connection, there will be some “E” icon around and active with “arrows” (Depend which model you have), to turn it off, long press the “hang-up” key will do.
- If you are not in 3G coverage area, turn off any “push” feature, example iPhone “Push Notification” feature, “Push notification” will use your existing network connection to query the data from server. That may cause your phone unable to receive voice call, as it may using EDGE network when you are not in 3G coverage area.
- This might a little bit silly if you want to do this in your “SmartPhone”, but if you do not want any data connection in your phone, except WiFi, you can remove the GPRS/3G setting or configuration from your phone, but it also stop you to use MMS.
Hope you find this info is useful.
I remember one of my friend said : “Phone is a phone, camera is a camera, PSP is a PSP, PDA is a PDA, laptop is a laptop, i rather bring all of them out, and only use them when i needed, not everything in one phone.”
Some people just don’t interested with all-in-one stuff, you have to admit it.
