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iPhone X Bug Leaves Some Users Unable To Answer Calls (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: A number of iPhone X users are complaining about a bug that leaves them unable to answer incoming calls. Reports of the bug are spreading through Apple's support forums, and the company says it is looking into the problem. People who are experiencing the bug say that when they receive a call, their iPhone X rings, but the screen does not wake up. While the problem has been around for a couple of months, complaints seem to be growing in number at the moment.
>> a bug that leaves them unable to answer incoming calls
Can I get this ported to my Android phone please? 85% of my inbound calls are from spammers looking for truck drivers. (Thanks, someone who once used my number in a form somewhere.)
Who needs buttons, all I/O can be performed by touch screen digitizers, we'll do anything to claim the phone has a 20-inch* screen
*diagonal**
**through all three*** spatial axes
***actually through a significant 4th one because the measurement we'll use on the CES posterboard (and consequently tech articles from journalists who held it for 30 seconds) will be made near the edge of a gravitational singularity
I think phones have been on a steady decay of actual performance as a phone ever since they stopped using sensible antennas. Not to worry, I'm sure those people were just answering it wrong...
sometimes my iPhone 6s does neither ring, nor show a call, I only know I have a missed call when my provider sends me the voice mail memo, ... :-/ 2018 - when even phone calls do not work reliable anymore, #peakbugs :-/
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Probably because the features that a handheld computer with 24/7 radio communications to the Internet offers is a total paradigm-shift over using something roughly the same size for simple voice communications.
Mind you, it's a pretty miserable failure for the device, first and foremost thought of as a phone, to fail to function as a phone.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
The iPhoneX needs to be touched in its special place to respond. Not all fanbois have ever touched a phone like that.
What's going on, how come that one of world's biggest companies can still afford to produce such buggy software? It is not like they cannot afford enough software testers.
I don't think that they don't care either, maybe don't care enough anymore after somebody who really cared has died..
Has the phone function of smartphones been relegated to a secondary tier of performance and quality? I mean, who releases a phone that doesn't do phone calls? Really.
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Apple needs a control freak boss in charge to shout at people during the production of its gizmos. Once Jobs died they couldn't find someone to make it all work, so it's all becoming sloppy.
It's like Microsoft started to go down the tubes once Bill Gates stepped down.
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It's not like these things are really used for phone calls.
This iPhone is for the cool kids, who use it to be in touch using many ways of communicating. Even when they want to speak they would rather speak into a whatsapp voicemail app. The idea that you need to speak out a reply because there is a person on the other end, monitoring you in real time hearing you speak and is waiting to respond as soon as you finish talking is unnerving to the younger generation. Asynchronous communication, send out a message, even a multimedia message containing your voice, and give the other side enough time for think, look at a cat video, organize the thoughts, check the twitter feed, formulate a response, check the facebook page, type out/speak out a response, check snapchat, and send a reply, that is the way to do it. In the mean time, instead of monitoring the other guy in real time, you get to check your twitter, snapchat, facebook feeds and look up amazon order status too.
The bug reports are sporadic mainly because very few youngsters actually call each other to talk in real time.
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Sometimes I've gotten a phone call, and that bar that says "Slide to unlock" doesn't work. I can still answer calls on my iPad or iWatch, but it's definitely a glitch.
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You mean, like a voice call? Like somebody punched in my phone number?
How quaint!
Ditto. Also, I notice a preference for people nowadays to *not* use phones as a phone.
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The only good phone is a land line, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite!
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Our phones and tablets are all Apple. I'm not a raging fanboi, but I prefer the vastly larger base of apps that Apple has to offer. We've been generally happy with them outside of some performance issues which we now know were batterygate. I like being able to treat my phone like an appliance and not be thinking about it much since Apple does a seemingly better job of keeping out the abusive apps than Android has.
That said, there's a definite feel of decay going on. For the first time, I no longer am willing to apply Apple updates until after they are in the wind for a good while. The latest IOS has a number of what I feel are poor decisions.
I would find it difficult to believe that Jobs would have allowed the iPhone X's indented top of screen.
I disapprove of the "we'll just turn your buletooth back on when we feel like it" feature.
Apple maps is still significantly inferior to Google maps.
High contrast/vision impaired features are poor
I get momentary lockups/pauses where it's unresponsive, particularly when a call comes in.
iTunes on windows is a masterpiece of bloat and slowness.
I'm not saying that Jobs was a saint or anything, but I think that if he was around and ran into these or any of dozens of other oddities, he'd have gone straight to the source and when he was done it would be fixed.
My confidence continues to dwindle under Cook. He may be a fine CEO, but he's not running the product focused shop that made Apple what it is/was.
We just got new 8s. When these are at the end of their lifecycle, unless things have turned around at Apple, we may be getting Androids next. It'll hurt to cut the cord on the many existing apps we have, but I need to get a sense of focus on quality from them to keep my business.
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Then they would have no problem answering the call. They wouldn't even have to pick the phone up. Maybe there will be a class action and the affected users will all get 10% off their iWatch.
It's just slang, Grandpas don't know that hip jive talk these days.
I would find it difficult to believe that Jobs would have allowed the iPhone X's indented top of screen.
Funnily enough it recently occured to me the LG V20's always on dual screen is a much better way of dealing with the problem of needing a cutout for the cameras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Of course the V20 was mostly ignored by the idiot tech journalists who raved over the iPhone X. Shame really, it's a great phone, if you can still find one.
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