Getting new voicemail notification, but phone never rang?

[klittle81]

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[Jshakour]

you could be in a dead zone (doubtful) or through Verizon you can send a "backdoor" voicemail, in which the caller calls into his/hers voicemail and can deliver a message to you without your phone ever ringing.

 

[atlas9171]

Have an issue with my incredible. Sometimes I get a notification that I have a new voicemail, but the phone never even rang to let me know i had an incoming call. I check my voicemail and it is indeed a new one, but the phone never rang. I have never had this issue with any other phone.

is this an issue with the incredibles poor reception? my phone shows 1 - 2 bars when this happens so i dunno whats going on.

anyone else have this happen?

I have, but can't confirm what my signal was because I wasn't looking at my phone when it happened. Also I know the person who called didn't go directly to voicemail intentionally since I highly doubt she would know how. Weird little quirk to say the least.

 

[Saiyajin]

Oddly enough, this used to happen once in a while when I had my iPhone. So aside from dialing directly to voicemail, I can't even say that it's related to one network, let alone one kind of phone. Like was said above, it most likely happens in a dead zone.

 

[klittle81]

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[rickjs]

Oddly enough, this used to happen once in a while when I had my iPhone. So aside from dialing directly to voicemail, I can't even say that it's related to one network, let alone one kind of phone. Like was said above, it most likely happens in a dead zone.

Has happened to me on rare occasions on both the Storm and Storm2. Say what you will about the Storms but reception never was a problem for me. Chalk it up to an IFM (it's a (badword) miracle).

 

[GrimeTime]

Before the HTC Incredible, I had the Verizon Motorola Razor, and this has happened to me in my office but nowhere else. I placed outgoing calls, and got/sent SMS, but rarely received incoming calls - they'd go straight to voicemail as you describe.

I can't help but wonder if all of the building structure or something isn't shielding the phone call frequency from making it to me, but not the SMS and notification frequency? Of course, I have no idea what I'm talking about from a technical standpoint... that was the only explanation that made sense to me.

Outside of my office building, I received 100% of my calls.

 

[RogerThat99]

It could be poor reception at the time the call came in. If the calls are from the same person, they could be using a service like SlyDial.com to go directly to VM (I know this is doubtful, but I thought I would throw it out there).

 

[rpfarrah]

This has happened to me with every phone (dumb and smart) that I've had. I believe it is a reception issue.

 

[holmz1]

Mine had inadvertently had the ring volume low but still on, I guess from my handling it, couldn't hear it ring. More than once.