Frequently when placing outbound calls, no ring indicator is audible to me. Then, after a few moments of silence, someone answers. So the call is being placed.
The call recipient obviously hears ringing on their end. Because, they answer, and we have a conversation. However, I heard no rings. I simply had to wait through the silence.
Occasionally, I do hear ringing when placing calls. But most often, I do not. Currently I still do not know whether this issue relates to the recipient network (i.e whether it’s Verizon users, or whatever).
This occurs whether I’m using my wired headphones, or not using them.
Aside from the absence of the ringing, the call proceeds as normal, decent sound quality, and I’m happy. But it’s a minor issue and I just thought I’d report it here.
Depending on where you are in the world, disabling VoLTE may mean you are disabling all calling. I’m fairly certain that all major carriers and thus all MNVOs in the USA have stopped 3G service, and 4G calling is always VoLTE.
@pureosuser, Maybe we can identify the problem with more info. Who is your cellular carrier?
When you make a phone call, does the 2G/3G/4G indicator at the top of the screen change?
Is it different when using cellular data?
What Linux kernel are you using? What cellular modem?
Was there a fix for this? My phone had the constant ringing problem with the 44 update. Not the “No ringing on my end” problem. That was working fine. I reverted back to 43 to help with the constant ringing problem. That’s when this problem started. I wasn’t too concerned because It was just annoying, the calls still went through. I thought the new update would fix whatever I did when reverting back to 43. It didn’t. Just looking for some suggestions.
For the record, many phones have been shipped with VoLTE enabled by default, and I’m pretty sure that includes all phones shipped with AweSIM/SIMple.
The issue of no calling tone on outgoing calls has nothing to do with Calls and its version. It’s between the network and the modem. If your network does not provide calling tone in VoLTE, you may still hear it in cases where the phone drops to 3G or 2G.
Be glad that VoLTE is working for you, which is what sounds like is happening because the call setup seems to be happening immediately which means it’s probably a VoLTE call. The ringback tone though probably sounds like something with the carrier.
I experience this behaviour too. No signals heard at my and then suddenly, the call is connected and I hear the person at the other end going “Hello, hello…?”. It is like I miss the first greeting phrase from the receiving party. I get the same experience with or without VoLTE enabled.
I turned VoLTE off on my phone, and now I hear ringtones when placing outgoing calls. So it seems related to VoLTE, but the more annoying thing than lack of ringtones is that I seem to not here the answering phrase of the receiving party when I have VoLTE turned on.
It also seems VoLTE on the L5 have the effect that calls to some numbers get disconnected directly then the receiving party answers. That has been a recurring problem for quite some time now when I was calling my spouse. You could have thought that maybe she had put me on a block list, but no, without VoLTE she can answer without the call being terminated.
I have the no-ringing problem too. I think it started after I flashed the latest firmware to the modem in order to enable wake-up-from-suspend and VoLTE.
Can’t do without them.