3gs, iPhone OS 3.1.3
I think I found the problem. First off, I rarely use bluetooth headset with this particular AT&T phone. But though none active, I have several paired up with it. Last night while the random calls were happening, I deleted all recent calls from the phone except my home phone number. I turned off the phone went to bed. I turned on the phone in the morning, sure enough within 5 minutes it started calling my home phone. I look at the iPhone, it showed no bluetooth connection icon, while I was looking at it, it made another call to my home phone while the previous call is still active. While I was fussing with the iPhone to figure out what's wrong, I received a call, while I was on the call, the iPhone put that call on hold and started calling my home phone again. While it was doing all that, it revealed that there is a Bluetooth connection with a VOX headset. I gathered all my Bluetooth headsets both from the house and from the car, all of them were either dead (no battery juice) or completely off. So, for some strange reason iPhone thought that I was connected to a Bluetooth headset that is not even on, and not only that it thought I was actually pressing the dial button on that ghost Bluetooth headset. In order to be 100% sure that the issues are not caused by an actual headset, I looked at my other iPhone to see if I ever paired this VOX headset with it. As it turns out that I had, so I tried to connect to the VOX headset with no avail. So, I am sure that the iPhone was connecting to a ghost headset.
How I solved it: I removed all paired Bluetooth devices from the affected iPhone. That’s it. Hope this would help someone.
Paulrigby may have something there in regards to the Voice Activation feature as a possible suspect. My wife's 4 makes random calls, but my 3Gs has not. Has anyone had success with turning off the Voice Activation? I'll try that on my wife's 4 when she comes home.
i have replaced my iphone4 3 times for dropped calls, tommorow replacing it for the 4th time for the dropped calls and randam calls.
everytime i told apple that its hardware problem but they kept sating its network problem. i sometimes did belive that it might be. but now random calls cannot be a network issue. dont know whta other problems we are going to face in furutre?
I have resolved this issue many times by saving up data and restoring as a new device. This problem can also be caused by a defective SIM card and if restore does not fix then SIM needs to be replaced.
I was waiting for a tube yesterday when my iphone4 decided to play me a song from my itunes. When I looked at the phone it had dialled a random number. Half an hour later it decided to play me another song - could have been very embarrassing as I was just about to go to a meeting. I turned if off completely. When turned on again it began to make random calls again. It won't restore on itunes and just hangs so it looks like a trip to the shop. Daren't have it switched on at night in case it wakes friends up. Can't believe that there hasn't been a fix for this yet.
My iPhone 4 with the latest iOS 4.3.3 just started doing this yesterday. The Iphone was in my pocket and It just made a call on its own. This is very disturbing since it was very late at night. I hope Apple can address this issue and offer a solution. This used to happen with earlier version of the OS. It has been going on for a long time when is it going to be fixed? I tend to keep the phone switched off when I am not needing it which is hardly a solution!!!
I have an iPhone 3 and it started doing this today. I was literally sitting there watching my phone press random buttons on its own!! It would select the phone from the home page and then it would call anyone on my favourites list. I would end the call and it would call them again and again. Then it would select edit in the corner of the screen and almost delete some contacts. If I tried to use the phone, it would exit the screen I was using and go back to the main screen. Also, for some reason now the "a" on the keyboard does not work. My phone has not been dropped or water logged. Very creepy! Like there is a ghost in my phone! I am going to try a restore. Otherwise my phone is completely useless!
My wife and I still have the first generation iPhones and two days ago they called each other at the same time. I thought my wife butt-dialed me and I thought it was funny. But she was sitting on the couch and her phone was all the way across the room. We are visiting my mom right now and her phone just called my phone again. Her phone is at our house.
It's kind of creepy.
Angela I wish I could talk to you.... my phone is similar and it has nothing to do with the model, the service, or who is in your contacts or who yu called last. (There are some technical problems with last calls being repeated, buttons too senstive- those are purely technical). But the other strange events- one can find references on the web - that happened to others, esp. more often in Feb 2006, summer 2008, Dec 2008, and now this past summer, these are something else entirely. Please be open and ask.
I haven't had this happen on my iPhone (touch wood) but I have seen an iPad do similar crazy things such as Angela (3 up) and UpInTheHills (above).
1) Make sure bluetooth is off if you don't need it, and
2) Keep it away from stray electrical charges.
The iPad in question, when it was near a particular type of monitor, the keys on the keyboard would just start typing for no apparent reason. Move it away from the electrical interference, and it was fine. Another iPad, same model in the same location had no issues.
my iPhone4 is doing this. The difference with mine, is that it is calling numbers not in my address book, nor have I ever called them. completely strange #'s. It called one of the numbers twice in 2 weeks for a business that makes water pumps for large commercial applications. I guess maybe I really need that fire engine grade water pump to water everyone's lawn!
I have just had this happen to me on my iPhone 4s. I've recently upgraded to the updated iOS 5.1 and have woken up to find that my phone has made 5 outgoing calls to 2 different people. I do work for myself and one of the calls made was to a customer that is probably wondering why someone from my company is snoring at him down the phone. This really needs an answer from an Apple representative with a viable solution as for this to go on for so long without a fix is unacceptable. I am now wondering whether to go and get an Android phone as I have never experienced anything like this on that operating system.
Hi, I wrote the previous message and the first response I have had to it was an email today stating that someone had replied to the thread. I'm not sure if Apple reads/responds/cares about these forums but I have had no solution and am resigned to the fact that it seems to be such a random problem that Apple cannot invest the time to research why it is happening to people. I'm sorry if this is not what you want to hear but on a plus side I will also add that it hasn't happened to me since and I have had no updates or even changed the positioning of where I leave it on the bedstand when I sleep. I'm not exactly happy with the iPhone and I'll probably have to get rid simply because I don't like the idea of Russian Roulette. If you do stumble across a fix/solution to this problem please post here as I'm sure there must be other people that have either given up on iPhone or are not happy with the solutions (or lack of) posted so far. All the best, Paul.
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Kriaze wrote:
I'm not sure if Apple reads/responds/...
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No, basically they do not. As was explained in the information when you signed up and created your account, this is user-helping-fellow-users forum, NOT an offical Apple Corporate Support forum. If you need technical support from Apple, you need to telephone them.
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