iPhone 5S possessed - not making/receiving calls - VODACOM

[Cassady]

Greetings.

From about lunch-time onwards, my 5S started misbehaving. SO couldn't reach me on the phone. Didn't think much of it, since hers often battles with reception.

But then I tried phoning my phone with the landline. 1st time, reached voicemail - even left a message, with my iPhone in my hand - and nothing happened. No call came through - nada, zip. No missed call notification either. After that - every time I tried, either straight to engaged, or immediately to rapid beeping.

Tried the Reset - had it plugged in to my MBP at the time - funny message flashed up about a factory reset, and something about my Software needing to be updated - which is strange, since I did that a few weeks back. Regardless, started the download, since my phone was bricked (had the iTunes logo and cable on the display).

300-odd mb's into the 1.8GB download, and the phone switches itself on again, without me doing anything? :wtf:

All appears right as rain - whatsapp working etc., emails coming through - but still nothing in the form of calls in and out.

Phone Vodacom - who tell me they know of nothing wrong with the network -- reset blah blah..
No joy.

Trying a restore from backup now, to see if that does the trick.

Any other suggestions?

 

[Sakkies]

My guess is the do not disturb mode turned on by mistake. Pull up the bar from the bottom and check if the icon that looks like a moon is highlighted , if so turn it off. That is all I can think will cause this problem.

 

[Cassady]

My guess is the do not disturb mode turned on by mistake. Pull up the bar from the bottom and check if the icon that looks like a moon is highlighted , if so turn it off. That is all I can think will cause this problem.

Sorted now. Still don't know what did the trick.
From Restore, still battled.

Switched off wifi and cellular several times - but then finally waited until No Service was shown, and then switched everything back on again. Message from my initial voicemail popped up - and then everything started working again. :shrugs shoulders:

Definitely not DND -- would've spotted the halfmoon.

An afternoon spent Resetting; removing sim-card; restoring from back-up etc., and nothing made the slightest difference - until it figured it felt like working again. Weird. Must be that time of the month.

 

[mak2000]

Most likely a network issue.

 

[FHTheron]

Mine had no signal for the afternoon as well (iPhone 4S). When I turned on 3G it was fine again. When 3G is off, it shows all empty circles instead of No Service, which is weird. Usually I get No Service when 3G is on at home, so I turn it off and just use ADSL-wifi.

There has to be something weird that happened.