Can someone explain to me how I can get a voice mail on my cell phone w/o having it ring?
I understand if I'm in a remote area and have no service, etc. but at home with the phone next to me?

Android.

Yup, I've had this happen to me as well on my Android phones.

Yeah, with Android phones, several things can cause this...

If you have Voicemails you haven't listened to, an incoming call will kick over, I guess thinking you're busy?

Also, if someone forwards you a VM....

And then, of course, sometimes for no reason....

I think maybe it's a tower-to-phone delay....

Everybody forgets that VM is a mailbox that your phone fetches from.

You can send that mailbox a message. Then the phone fetches it.

ATT customers. On your cell phone, dial your number. It’ll go to your VM mailbox. Enter your PIN (if you remember it), and listen for option #2.

Rick, I was just messing with you. It happens with my iPhone sometimes too, and it’s irritating as hell.

That's sort of what I was getting at about the tower, where it may 'ring' 5 times on the caller end and your VM box end, but your phone didn't ring at all, or maybe only once....

I didn't say it very goodly, though...

Silly Fancy gadgets....

Not to Hijack Ricks question but....

My bran new 5se wants to do a software update.

Its three frikken days old. Should I

It was way easier when we all had land lines and tape recorded message machines.





Maybe we need a dedicated My Fone Sux thread.

Yeah, probably you should. Despite it being just 3 days out of the box, it’s been sitting in that box in a warehouse since maybe before the actual release date back in 2016. Current IOS interface has many bug fixes since then.

Keep in mind I’m no techie type either. That’s just my general understanding from owning 2 different SE’s. All these damn smart phones are designed obsolete anyway. The forward operational ability of a 2 year old design is gonna be that much less. The SE was released with the iPhone 7 if I’m not mistaken. What’s that...3 generations ago? I think that’s why most carriers are offering them as the freebie.

Could be on your blocked caller list.

If it is blocked, how did they get through?

if you block a number they won't be able to call you or text you. but, they are able to dial your #, it just sends them straight to voice mail, so that's probably how that happens

When a call is dispatched to a cellphone, the cellphone must respond within a certain period of time that it is alive and can accept the call. If no response is received by the network the call is shuttled to voicemail. Network congestion on the control channels can (and do) cause the time threshold to be exceeded. Even a brief service interruption - one you might not even notice - will cause this as well.

People forget this radio, and signals can be blocked, attenuated and interfered with. We've all become used to a very high level of service.

Your probably Verizon?