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Receiving no calls or texts, but am able to send

  • December 1, 2025
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Joined about a week ago and have discovered I am receiving no calls or texts yet I am able to send them to other people.

I am in a fully 5G covered area according to the checker on this very website.
I can not switch to a 4G signal on my phone.

My handset is a relatively new handset - Samsung S25 5G, sold by yourselves (iD mobile), so should be perfectly compatible with your network/masts.
Please fix my issue. I am missing multiple very important calls, because so far, your network is atrocious…

To add to the mystery, barely 30mins after posting this I receive the ONLY text I have received in over TEN DAYS, from iD Mobile themselves, clearly from your own network, not an outside one like EE O2 etc.
So I asked a friend to quickly try sending me a text, thinking it was working. Clearly not.

As far as I can tell my handset, your network and masts are compatible but aren’t ‘listening' to other networks.
I can get data, which has no contact with other networks, only the internet.
I can send texts and make calls to other networks.


Yet other networks can’t contact the iD network with calls or texts...

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  • iD Mobile Employee
  • December 1, 2025

Hi ​@DarrenSm 

Please check the below:
Settings > About Phone or About Device > Status > My phone number.  Some Android phones will have SIM or SIM card status listed within Status.  This is how you will be able to find the number you are using on your phone and sim. if using Message App,  Change the phone number associated with the Messages app:  Open the Messages app.  Tap More  then Settings  then Advanced  Select Phone number  then edit the number to the correct phone number associated with your SIM card.  Tap OK.    If still have issue, remove the SIM and reboot the device.  Then re-insert the SIM and check if its updated the correct port number in Phone settings.    Still have the same issue after rebooting  then advise try the SIM once in different device and  see while sending text does it shows temporary number or port number.


  • Author
  • New Contributor
  • December 1, 2025

Already tried all this and tried them again after reading this post. Still nothing.


  • Author
  • New Contributor
  • December 2, 2025

And it gets worse! Tried to call them to hopefully speed the process along a little. Unfortunately, trying to speak to an actual living person at iD is harder than drawing from a stone. Wasted around an hour trying to figure out how to get hold of someone, told them my whole story and that I’d spoken with an online chat representative yesterday, who informed me someone would get in contact with me, within 48hrs. Having to wait this long alone is absolutely atrocious and just a delaying tactic to make it harder to cancel your contract! Other companies can have you talking to tech support with 5-20 MINUTES! Never mind 48 HOURS!

Also, all this information has been forwarded to OFCOM.
After the situation was explained, she then went on to tell me, that the wait time for my issues to be resolved was 74 HOURS! Bearing in mind, this was 24hrs after my first contact! So, for those keeping track, there should have only been 24hrs remaining to wait! Now it’s 72hrs - or cumulatively 96hrs! FOUR DAYS! OFCOM needs to shut this company down!

And I’m not done yet! After being informed of this new wait period, I requested to speak to a supervisor, was told “none available” - classic bad-callcentre tactic, I’ve worked in more than a few that falsely claim this and inform their staff to tell the customers this. I asked again and she decided to hang up the call on me! If I’d have hung up on a customer, I would have been sacked on the spot! This was the complaints line! Hanging up on an already frustrated customer, without their consent!


  • Author
  • New Contributor
  • December 2, 2025

And the abysmal customer service continues. After speaking to them yesterday midday and being told I’d be contacted in 48hrs, I decided to call them by phone to try and speed things along - I’m missing very important calls! Explained all the above and was told I'd have to wait another 72hrs! Told them this was unacceptable and wanted to speak to a supervisor/manager, at which point they went silent and hung up on me!

I should also point out I tried to post this a few hours earlier, but apparently their moderators like to censor any signs of complaint, they can’t deal with… Unlucky for them, this whole message is copy/pasted in a notepad and all other social media channels.