active GPRS, calls don't come in!

[mgolanlan]

I've doubled checked with different SIMs/providers,
and both 1.03 and 1.60 versions....

Going into explorer, activating GPRS, downloading a large page,
and calling my phone from another cellular, I get "no answer"
and the XDAii never rings!

Has anyone experienced this?
Any solution?
Clearly, Voice should override Data according to GPRS standard,
and it did work for me on Treo 270 and Treo 600. But not here?!

[Revd Cherrycoke]

tmobile does this to me with an XDAI running 2003 from yorch, the basic rom, not the tmobile version.

A little useless to have gprs on all the time if you can't get calls, no?

[mgolanlan]

well in my case:

GPRS is on, but no data in the last few seconds: calls get in

GPRS is on and data "active": no calls get in


So, it is a problem of being "active" and not just "on" for me.


Like I've said, two different providers (900 & 1800) and both SIMs
worked correctly in a TREO 270/600.

[bodstrup]

In my case, running an Orange M1000 with a version 1.52 ROM, the call gets through even if I have an active mail sync running using a VPN client and GPRS.

The VPN connection however is killed, but GPRS is re-enabled once the call terminates. The VPN client apparently does not re-connect automatically as it should, but this is not an M1000/XDA II problem.

This is how it is supposed to work, I believe.

Regards
Michael

[bodstrup]

In my case, running an Orange M1000 with a version 1.52 ROM, the call gets through even if I have an active mail sync running using a VPN client and GPRS.

The VPN connection however is killed, but GPRS is re-enabled once the call terminates. The VPN client apparently does not re-connect automatically as it should, but this is not an M1000/XDA II problem.

This is how it is supposed to work, I believe.

Regards
Michael

[chix]

Yes, same problem here. If IE is loading a page, the calls go to voice mail. The phone does not even ring.

How can we get around this?

[mgolanlan]

Come on people, now I'm pretty sure this is not related to
my locale (hebrew support) and is a global problem with the XDA II.

I can't believe someone else haven't checked it yet?
It is annoying to look something up on the net only to miss a call...

Some other people, please confirm this?
load a big www page in PIE and dial your own number.

[Southern_Man]

Ummm....

Try doing this with a P900, Nokia 6600 etc...

I think you'll find this is a 'feature' of GPRS - when GPRS is actively transferring data, the phone bit doesn't work and calls go straight to vmail.

The dual bit - voice calls + downloads - is called 3G

[yann]

Strange,

when i sync my email with active sync over GPRS the incoming call goes thrue but if i download a page with IE the call gets directly to the voice mail
any ideas??

regards,
Yann

[chix]

My understanding is that there is nothing you can do. If GPRS is dl'ing, most calls will go to vm.

Should not matter which phone you have.

[manimal666]

i'm pretty sure i have seen this confirmed in the documentation for my XDAII that whilst actively browsing using GPRS you cannot receive an incoming call as its downloading data, whether it just be page data or a file download. To recieve an incoming call GPRS can be connected but not active.

[darkdragoon]

Yes, same problem here. If IE is loading a page, the calls go to voice mail. The phone does not even ring.

How can we get around this?

it happened to me when i click on save password everything i enable gprs.
to deal with it u need to either uncheck the save password or delete your previous setting and add a new one. now this time DO NOT check on save password when connecting to gprs.
hope it helps.