Help! Incoming calls are audible via earpiece b4 answering!

[Guest mpx4ever]

I have a moto mpx200 flashed on t-mobile. When anyone calls in from any phone, I can actually hear the call before I accept or open the flip to start the conversation. So basically, I hear any background noise or conversation on the other end even if I don't accept the call?? I tried it with silent, normal, and meeting profiles, all of them except the headset profile experience this. When I have the headset plugged in, incoming calls work perfectly?? Has anyone experience this ANNOYING problem?? Any registry tweaks out there not to turn on the earpiece when an incoming call comes in? I need to know if this is a hardware issue with my phone, I 've been troubleshooting for weeks now?? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

I've never heard that before and it's technically not possible :?

unless the accept button is being activated or the flip switch is faulty.

Have you tried with the flip answer deactivated?

[Guest bearlobo]

I have had the same thing happen to me a few times also. The other person does not hear you and voice mail will eventually pick up. It is really wierd.

[Guest mpx4ever]

Yes, I tried with the flip answer off as well. I'm happy to hear I"m not the only one experiencing the problem. All my incoming calls are experiencing this problem, you really don't notice unless the calling party has any background noise or happens to be talking before you pick up the call. Any other suggestions out there?

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Just a few questions,

To hear this I presume you have your ringtone to silent,

What does your network say about this?

[Guest mpx4ever]

No, the ringtone can be set to any ring, between the rings you hear the background voice. I haven't talked to tmobile about the issue, do you think it could be a network problem?

[Guest lmatherne3]

Same here ! You are not alone !

[Guest jbrare]

Did ne1 see the spy piece on Koffi Anann on the news lately? You know, the guy who runs the UN?!? We are supposed to have bugged him before the Iraq war. Well, a security expert on Sky news AND BBC news (different guy buy the way!) said it was possible to bug someone with a digital mobile phone providing it's on and in range of a transmitter. He went on to say - Our MI6 and American intelligence (and others probably) know how to decode the security algorhythems that mobile phone companies use to encrypt phonecalls whilst being transmitted through the airwaves. I thought "big deal" we all suspect they can do this....."so what!" I thought, reaching for another pringal and having a swig of mmmmm sweet Stella! Well he then went on to say that it's also possible to listen in on people talking even when no phone call has been made to the cell phone doing the eves dropping. When asked by the reporter how is this possible, he replied (and this is where I find it a bit hard to believe)"Cell phones are in constant touch with a base station and transmit all the time, what they are transmitting can be changed by technology in the network normally used to monitor call and signal quality to send back direct talk back from the handsets microphone. This can even be done without the knowledge of the network. An instruction is sent to the handset to send to tell it to send "talk back" from the microphone instead of a data packet just simply saying "Im still on the network". Find it hard to believe myself but It could be possible. By the way I'm not saying you guys are being spied on but if it is possible then maybe a network fcuk up has given your phone some dodgy instructions...

The truth is out there!!!!!!!!

JB

[Guest Will]

there used to be a 'james bond mode' you could enable on nokias that froze the screen, and autoanswered the call, so you could leave phone in a room, ring it, and listen in.

tools required : a paperclip!

Will