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Andycox6321
Active Contributor
Active Contributor
July 3, 2025
Question

Emergency calls only in certain areas

  • July 3, 2025
  • 18 replies
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Hi All,

I travel around the country for work. Noticed in the last few weeks that if I go to the west midlands or the north east my Samsung S21 completely loses signal and displays emergency calls only. Tried the suggested troubleshooting tips and reset network settings which didn't resolve. If I switch on airplane mode and switch it off again it connects with good signal and 5g for a minute or so and then drops off again. It stays like this until I've travelled out of the area and either restarted the phone or used the airplane mode toggled off and on. 

Does anyone have any experience of this? It was working fine before. 

Many thanks. 

    18 replies

    Tyler C
    iD Mobile Employee
    iD Mobile Employee
    July 5, 2025

    Hi there ​@Andycox6321, I obviously can’t advise on other customers, as I can’t say what’s been reported to us or not from other customers, although you’d expect that to be the case, yes. However, as your phone works fine everywhere else, then that does indicate more of a coverage issue in the area, opposed to a device or SIM issue. Of course, we can drop you a PM and investigate further if you’d like, and raise to our technical team?

     

    Thanks,

    Tyler

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    Andycox6321
    Active Contributor
    Active Contributor
    July 5, 2025

    Hi Tyler,

    Yes, please raise with your technical team to investigate.

    Many thanks,

    Andrew Cox

    Tyler C
    iD Mobile Employee
    iD Mobile Employee
    July 6, 2025

    Hey there ​@Andycox6321, we’ll shortly send you a Private Message to your Community account so we can discuss your issue further.

     

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    Thanks,

    Tyler

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    New Contributor
    October 7, 2025

    The same thing is happening on my phone it started in July the problem being it does not reconnect to the network like before I have to turn on airplane mode then turn it off in order to reconnect, the problem being I miss loads of calls it I don't keep checking the signal. I have read that the SIM setting should be set in 4g lite but all that shows on my settings is 2g/3g/4g auto, the phone is not 5g .

    My phone is TCL 40se.

    In anticipation

    Mick

    Tyler C
    iD Mobile Employee
    iD Mobile Employee
    October 7, 2025

    Hey there ​@ss1, unfortunately, we don’t officially support the usage of this device on our network, so you may have issues using calls and texts with our SIM card. Please see approved devices below:

     

     

    Thanks,

    Tyler

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    New Contributor
    October 7, 2025

    Well thanks for your prompt reply. So you have just decided to turn volte off for Tcl 40se phones, but my phone as been working well for the last year!?

    It seem a nice touch on your part😭 looks like you will be losing me along with a lot of other customers.

    THANKS 

    Tom
    iD Mobile Employee
    iD Mobile Employee
    October 8, 2025

    Hi ​@ss1 

     

    We didn’t actively decide to switch off VoLTE for these devices, but we don’t officially support it, it might work but similarly it might not work, I’m sorry to hear your device no longer works.

     

    Tom

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    New Contributor
    October 8, 2025

    What do you mean? You didn't actively decided to switch off VoLTE for these devices?

    Thanks