why is my number a random 9 digit number?

[Android Central Question]

I was trying to check my voicemail, so scrolled to my own contact and clicked it. instead of it displaying my actual 10 digit number, it was showing a completely unknown 9 digit number under my name.

i managed to copy the number down. when i went back later, the number under my name had changed back to the usual 10 digit one. I called and texted the 9 digit number and got a strange enough error message both times, but the numbers did work. any idea what the hell thats about?

 

[Laura Knotek]

Welcome to Android Central.

What phone do you have and what carrier do you use?

Please register as a member so that we may further assist you. https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154&p=3754645&viewfull=1#post3754645

 

[mustang7757]

What phone ?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Are you using a VoIP service like Google Voice?

 

[asdfghgfdsa]

samsung a10e and simple mobile. no voip. no google voice

 

[mustang7757]

samsung a10e and simple mobile. no voip. no google voice

Hi welcome to AC!

Thats usually a carrier thing, but now it's been good?

 

[mustang7757]

[Moved this to s10e Forums for specific traffic]

 

[B. Diddy]

Probably just some glitch -- it seems unlikely that the 9 digit number would've been a phone number, since it's normally 10 digits. Where did you tap your own contact -- in the Contacts app, or the Messages app?

 

[asdfghgfdsa]

tapped it in the contacts app. heres a double weird thing, some calls have lost quality lately. a few friends have gotten robo calls when i call them, thats def out of the ordinary. the phone acts up too. ive lost a few texts. ones i never wouldve deleted. one for work that almost cost me my employment. ive missed texts too, incoming anyway.

 

[B. Diddy]

Are you saying your friends get a robocall right after you call them, or that their phones treat your call as a robocall?

Is there anything else unusual going on, or is it just with texts?

Try wiping the cache partition: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/de...a10e/wipe-cache-partition-samsung-galaxy-a10e