INCOMING FORWARDED CALL ALERT IN IPHONE 4S

eckndu wrote:

Regardless of the carriers' setting, most of- if not all- cellphones since dump phone

You are simply wrong. Not a single one of the phones I've had in the past 16 years (and for about the past 10 I've had both a work and a person), which includes phones by Nokia, Motorola, HTC, LG, Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, Kyocera, Palm and probably some I've forgotten, have had this feature. So, either I've had the only 25 or so phones in the world that don't have that feature or, it's carrier related.

Like Meg, I've owned many cell phones, from many manufacturers, with numerous carriers in the past 15-16 years or so and I have never seen this feature on any of them. Never had it with Sprint, Alltel, NTelos, Nextel, or AT&T. Nor have I known anyone with a cell phone with this feature.

I really do not think it is anywhere near as common as you seem to think it is. And if it is so necessary, why is the this the first thread I've ever seen about it here, in years of posting and reading posts here?

it has to be a carrier + phone feature. just like visual voicemail.

now its very possible that some phones read the "forwarded" flag transmitted by the carrier, and some don't. if its not a basic spec, then its optional. maybe apple chose not to implement it.. dont be surprised - they havent implemented many things thought to be "basic" for sime feature phones - like grouping of contacts, a simple indicator in the status bar indicating if the mute switch is ON, etc.

trouble is, many other issues share the same key words when you try to google, so it is really hard to filter through.

if you try to google iphone forwarded call indicator or alarm for example, there are many people asking the same questions all over, but rarely lead to any solution.

here is one of them showing what im talking about:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25904975-iPhone-can-t-indicate-forwarded-calls-

that is a motorola dumb, looks like a razr2.

razr v3 can do it too.

nokia s40 have this feature, so is s60. but they only show at the begining of the ringing.

sony ericsson phones too.

those are all dumb phones

i dont know about blackberries. but android can do it also. now some say it is rom related/specific, well they still exist. im using android now just because of this. it's too important to me.

if both of you really get many forwarded calls to your cell but don't get to know it before you answer, you are missing out guys...

i only wish meg switched to he(r?) current carrier that doesn't support such feature, hope she enjoyed such feature in the past...

Hi,

Yes this is very annoying problem. If you have your own number as primary and your company's number fowarded to iPhone. Then you should know how to answer.

In Finland case is that iPhone is the only phone which does not show any sign of incoming fowarded call...

When using same numbers and sim-cards any other phone then everything is working fine.

In Finland problem is iPhone.

Some other countries is might be iPhone and carrier? I don't know.

List your country here where this feature is working every other phone than iPhone and countries where it is also disabled by carrier feature.

Then we know how common it is. 🙂

Thanks!

eckndu wrote:

that is a motorola dumb, looks like a razr2.

razr v3 can do it too.

nokia s40 have this feature, so is s60. but they only show at the begining of the ringing.

sony ericsson phones too.

those are all dumb phones

i dont know about blackberries. but android can do it also. now some say it is rom related/specific, well they still exist. im using android now just because of this. it's too important to me.

Yes, you should use the device that works for you. But, just so you can possibly understand, I have an Android phone, a Samsung Galaxy S4, one of the most current Androids. It DOES NOT give any indication of forwarded calls on my carrier. And yes, I use call forwarding every day as I have two phones and switch back and forth between the two of them.

You keep saying none of your phone ever had such feature*.

*With your carrier :)

Lets say it is related. Some providers let you know it's a forwarded call. Some don't. Some you have to ask them to enable it for you. Etc. if your provider doesn't have such alert or have it disabled, then none of your phones gonna show any alert, even if it's capable of.

Then there are the rest of us, that post in different forums all over the web, asking hey how come when I had my previous phones I can get an alert when it's a forwarded call and now I'm with a more expensive iphone and it doesn't show any? For us, we already know that our provider had it enabled, and is sending a signal for forwarded call alert, so to us, the carrier part is really not the issue, We have already singled out the culprit.

So now you admit that the feature is carrier related? Earlier, you insisted it's not.

Perhaps your carrier is unusual in offering this feature and therefore.

Regardless, you've been given direction how to proceed.

This is a problem for me too.

I have a office and a personal phone number.

As I am not often in my office, I forwards calls from work to my personal phone.

Few weeks ago I was on a HTC Hero (old android phone) with a cyanogenrom (not related to the carrier) and when the call was from work, it was written "appel transféré" (forwarded call in french) under the number or the name of the caller.

This information was also provided on my other phones (classic samsung F300 and windows mobile 6.5 phone HTC Trinity)

This is very convenient as it allows me to not answer professional calls when I don't want.

On a other side, it allows me to filter unknown callers when it is directly on my personal number.

I switch to an iPhone 5S few weeks ago with the same carrier and the same number.

And now, I don't have this information anymore.

For the record : I'm in France, my carrier is Free and this don't work on iPhone but with all the other phones.

Please Apple, bring this information to iOS else I will have to bring an other phone with me...

Hi,

What to do then?

I think we should spread the word...

The more people are needing and askin it the more Apple will pay attention to it.

How to do it? I don't know? Apple feedback is onw way but i think it's the hard way?

Some Apple engineer should need this feature and then it might get some boost? 🙂

Hopefully someday it sees the daylight...

The problem is phone related. Every digital mobile phone carrier essentially uses the same transmission protocol. When a mobile phone initially receives a call, a string of data bits is transmitted that contains call related information. One of the bits transmitted indicates if the call is forwarded from another phone. Many phone manufacturers chose to ignor this data bit and effectively throw the information away. In theory software can read this information off the phone because it is still received by the phone, but it will require something like an app.

Hi all...

I think it might help. More we talk and more people are seeing this discussion... i think more people are giving feedback to Apple about it. When they get enough feedback about this then they will do something...

So let's do this together.... feedback... feedback... 🙂

And link this discussion to every site... spread the word

Thanks!

I ve send feedback 2 times. iphone users want their live aslo easyer right? Its not nice when iphone user uses second phone ''classic nokia" in the street 🙂. Does not look cool 🙂

I dont want to buy htc one dual sim.

Jernej Bergman wrote:

Extra on that you also can't see if you are on call waiting if you call someone who's already talking.

Does it really matter why they don't answer the phone? They either don't want to or can't talk to you. Knowing why doesn't change that.

I agree in most cases its irelevant but sometimes it comes in handy, specially in business situations. I don't miss the feature greatly but I do hope they add at least the feature for incoming calls sometime soon...