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Q: iphone making random calls

My iphone is making repeated calls to people in my address book. This is not pocket dialing. Today I left the phone on a window sill and it made multiple calls (10 or more to some contacts) to multiple contacts in a 20 minute period. Also does this while in the lock mode.

Has anyone else seen this and found a solution?

Thanks

3gs, iPhone OS 3.1.3

Posted on Apr 20, 2010 6:37 PM

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  • by mikeytwo1,

    mikeytwo1 mikeytwo1 Jul 14, 2013 11:40 AM in response to Julie2805
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    Jul 14, 2013 11:40 AM in response to Julie2805

    have you found out what the issue was, ive had the exact same problem

  • by mgreg16,

    mgreg16 mgreg16 Jul 30, 2013 10:47 AM in response to jessipalooza
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    Jul 30, 2013 10:47 AM in response to jessipalooza

    We have had the exact same problem with my son's iPhone 4.. but we have AT&T, not Verizon. 

    His phone will randomly call our home phone number, as well as several other contacts on his phone, but there is no answer when I pick up.  Then on his iPhone, at the same time his is calling our home line, it says that the home line is calling his iPhone. When HE picks up, there is no one there.  This has been going on now for the past 3 nights. 

     

    Ironically, last night, his iPhone was completely SHUT OFF and it still made 2 calls to the home line!  How is this even possible? 

     

    Please someone give us a clue as to what is happening!  Since it does not seem to matter whether the carrier is Verizon or ATT, I tend to think it is an Apple problem.  

  • by tbarrack1022,

    tbarrack1022 tbarrack1022 Jul 30, 2013 10:51 AM in response to mgreg16
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    Jul 30, 2013 10:51 AM in response to mgreg16

    So mgreg16, you think its Apple's problem that your home phone says its calling your sons iphone? Even when his is calling in? Honestly this sounds like Operator error more than anything, phones dont just make calls unless things such as liquid damage or power surges have occured.

  • by Krishnamaitri,

    Krishnamaitri Krishnamaitri Jul 31, 2013 2:28 AM in response to macnovice1
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    Jul 31, 2013 2:28 AM in response to macnovice1

    Recently in the last few months my phone is actin up too. People call me to say there was a missed call from me where as I never called them. But then two nights ago when we were fast asleep in the middle of the night my phone which was on my bedside called up my hysband's phone and we both woke up to the ring only to find out that the call was from my mobile. Will Apple be able to solve this? It is very embarrasing to say the least.

  • by Lady Engineer,

    Lady Engineer Lady Engineer Aug 8, 2013 4:59 AM in response to macnovice1
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    Aug 8, 2013 4:59 AM in response to macnovice1

    Happened to me last night. My friiedn saaid I called them at 4:15am... I was sleeping...what the heck.

     

    It did appear on my recent list, but I did  not call ANYONE AT 4:15 in the wee hours!!!!!!!!!!!.

  • by Agemegos,

    Agemegos Agemegos Aug 17, 2013 8:32 PM in response to macnovice1
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    Aug 17, 2013 8:32 PM in response to macnovice1

    I had this problem for weeks and found it very annoying and embarrassing, but I think I have found a fix. The problem seems to be that voice-activated dialling by default bypasses the lock. So with the phone in my pocket and supposedly locked, the "home" button is sometimes pressed, and then voice control over-rides the lock and attempts to interpret whatever sounds it hears as voice commands, sometimes getting "dial" and part of a name.

     

    If you go into"Settings", then select "General" then "Passcode Lock", set a passcode, and then turn Voice dial *off* you will still be stuck playing random songs when you don't want them, but at least you won't accidentally make expansive and embarrassing phone calls.

     

    it is not possible to prevent Music Voice Control from overriding security. Apple ought to change that.

  • by mgreg16,

    mgreg16 mgreg16 Aug 17, 2013 8:43 PM in response to Agemegos
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    Aug 17, 2013 8:43 PM in response to Agemegos

    Thanks, Agemegos, but unfortunately, many of the calls were made when the phone was sitting on a desk or nightstand.  There was no way the home button was pressed. 

     

    We actually took it to our Apple Store and they restored it there completely.  Didn't stop it from happening.  We bought a new iPhone, thinking that was the problem.  Nope.  Still kept happening.  So now we think it is the phone number itself.  We have not yet tried to get a new number, but that is our next step.  The random calls are not as frequent, but they are still occurring.  We think somehow a virus was downloaded in some App or something (not sure what) that accessed my son's iPhone contact list and is just randomly calling numbers found there.  The others above may have also inadvertently downloaded the same virus somehow, which is why it is also happening to others. 

     

    Anyway, if we/when we get his phone number changed, we will LYK if that solves the problem for us. 

  • by mgreg16,

    mgreg16 mgreg16 Aug 17, 2013 8:45 PM in response to tbarrack1022
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    Aug 17, 2013 8:45 PM in response to tbarrack1022

    You clearly have not been reading the rest of the posts here.  My son is not the only one this is happening to.  If you do not have an answer or helpful advice, then please keep your comments to yourself.

  • by Agemegos,

    Agemegos Agemegos Aug 17, 2013 11:18 PM in response to mgreg16
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    Aug 17, 2013 11:18 PM in response to mgreg16

    It might be worth a try switching off voice dialling anyway, if you have not already tried it. You might be getting your iPhone activated a different way but have the same "feature" leading to the phone calls.

  • by jakebreezewood,

    jakebreezewood jakebreezewood Aug 22, 2013 7:14 AM in response to Agemegos
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    Aug 22, 2013 7:14 AM in response to Agemegos

    This happened to me last night.  In the middle of the night, my iphone 5 called my office at 1:30, a colleague at 1:35, our house at 3:30am, and my parents at 3:50am.  It was under my bed charging, and those numbers are not contiguous on any favorites or recently called list.  I am totally baffled why this happened.  None of the above suggestions would explain it.  AT&T said "they've never heard of this problem".  Right.  Any better ideas?  My kids have been playing with my phone so maybe some obscure setting?  there was no noise, no animals under the bed.  Maybe some of the pocket dialing i've been accused of is really ghost dialing.

  • by Ripple32,

    Ripple32 Ripple32 Aug 27, 2013 10:07 AM in response to macnovice1
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    Aug 27, 2013 10:07 AM in response to macnovice1

    Having the same problem with my wifes phone but more now.  Phones calls are cutting out and then doing an auto redial but trying to facetime and different person in her address book.  Very odd all of it.  AT&T says they have not received any complaints about any of these posts...  Wish there were some answers...

  • by HateAppleWithAPassion,

    HateAppleWithAPassion HateAppleWithAPassion Nov 12, 2013 5:26 AM in response to Ripple32
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    Nov 12, 2013 5:26 AM in response to Ripple32

    Yep, we also get the problem here in London on Vodafone network. At least two people are having this issue: myself and a colleague (we are IT boffs).

     

    We were on the phone to each other last night, we finished the conversation, hung up. Then separately, BOTH our devices independantly and randomly called people in our address books! So it happened AFTER a phone conversation. Both devices were on our desks and not in pocket. Also, we implement an immediate screen lock policy.

     

    Other users may think they "pocket dialled" by accident so are probably putting it down to themselves making the error.

     

    Apple - SORT THIS OUT.

  • by djsnonni,

    djsnonni djsnonni Nov 12, 2013 11:28 AM in response to HateAppleWithAPassion
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    Nov 12, 2013 11:28 AM in response to HateAppleWithAPassion

    My iPhone 5 started taking pictures, videos, and sending text messages on its on but only after I plugged it in at night to charge. One night after I texted my daughter and said good-night my phone sent her a random (no real words) I found that there were also videos of taken - several minutes of blackness and the sound of our white noise machine. It launched a you tube video on another occasion.  This may be a coincidence but I was using a non-Apple charger and when I stopped and started using an Apple charger the problems stopped as well.

  • by Kriaze,

    Kriaze Kriaze Nov 12, 2013 10:05 PM in response to djsnonni
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    Nov 12, 2013 10:05 PM in response to djsnonni

    if Apple managed to work it so their **** does that when it's not original hardware used then they're way ahead of the game lol

  • by Leveneficus,

    Leveneficus Leveneficus Nov 20, 2013 11:25 PM in response to macnovice1
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    Nov 20, 2013 11:25 PM in response to macnovice1

    I have two iPhone 5, one on Verizon and one on AT&T. This started happenning to me tonight on the AT&T network. The phone is not paired to any bluetooth device, it was sitting on the dining table facing up next to the other phone. My wife and I were chatting when we heard a call being made, and then heard someone's voice mail greeting. I got up and looked at the phone, the screen was completely off, but I could hear the greeting. I hung up the call and looked at the recent calls, the phone made 4 phone calls to this number in my recent calls list. But the number was not the most recent.

     

    I removed the app that I installed today: Microsoft Lync, and upgraded the phone to IOS 7.04. I performed one extra reboot after the IOS 7.04 upgrade. I got both phones and placed away from each other scrren side up flat on my work desk (thinking one might have interfered the other). About an hour later I hit the Home button to see how the phone was doing it indicated "MULTIPLE CALLS", It called another recent number from the list twice, and one was going on for about 26 minutes.

     

    There were absolutely no indication that the calls were being made. The screen was completely off. If I didn't hit the home button, I wouldn't have known that the calls are being made.

     

    This is beyond annoying and it is a security issue. I haven't had this problem until the IOS 7. Something is seriously wrong with this OS.

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