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Cell phone issues

Poohbear52 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:43:01 GMT

Is anyone with Verizon having issues with making phone calls or texts with their cell phones, on sos mode only? Guess it started yesterday in some states, but our problems started today.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:46:46 GMT

I read online that there is a problem with Verizon today. Didn't bother with details since I'm not affected.

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vegan4ever — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:48:10 GMT

No problems with my Verizon service.

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Poohbear52 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:52:23 GMT

glad to hear that @vegan4ever, hopefully it stays that way for you.

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willowbark — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:54:46 GMT

@Poohbear52

When my cell phone gets glitchy I do a restart and then it's just fine.

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vegan4ever — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:55:36 GMT

@Poohbear52 - This week had technical issues with HSN app frustration 🫤 so definitely understand what you're going through. I'm sorry can't help but keeping positive results for a speedy resolution.

Re: Cell phone issues

Poohbear52 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:05:23 GMT

it's not my problem, it's Verizon's issue. There's a glitch in their system and a lot of people cannot make phone calls, it's in sos mode only. Their engineers are working on the problem now trying to fix it. Until then, many of us cannot make phone calls, only an emergency phone call, but not everyone has that issue. I was just wondering if anyone else had that problem too.

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willowbark — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:26:40 GMT

@Poohbear52

sorry. I never heard of such a thing.

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DottieBlue — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:31:50 GMT

What is SOS mode?

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Deb213 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:38:36 GMT

@Poohbear52 wrote:
it's not my problem, it's Verizon's issue. There's a glitch in their system and a lot of people cannot make phone calls, it's in sos mode only. Their engineers are working on the problem now trying to fix it. Until then, many of us cannot make phone calls, only an emergency phone call, but not everyone has that issue. I was just wondering if anyone else had that problem too.

Yes, my daughter's phone had no service this morning and was also on SOS. Call Verizon. They had to reset the phone remotely and she had to remove her SIM card. There were numerous steps so it's not an easy "reboot" fix. The Verizon rep was able to get it fixed, but be patient as it will take a bit of time. Good luck!

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kze — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:38:41 GMT

@willowbark wrote:
@Poohbear52

sorry. I never heard of such a thing.

@willowbark

When your phone shows SOS mode only it usually means your carrier has an outage. In a case like that emergency calls are routed via any available carrier.

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Lovestheshores — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:57:07 GMT

@Poohbear52 - We had that issue today with our phones being on SOS mode, no calls, no texts. 5G did come back about 1/2 hour ago. The service came back on its' own. Hope it stays that way.

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Poohbear52 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:01:12 GMT

@Lovestheshores, that's great. I think ours is back too. I was able to text my daughter before we had service back only because it was imessage. I'm glad it wasn't for long, I heard there were quite a few that were out longer.

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Lovestheshores — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:10:21 GMT

@Poohbear52 - Glad to hear yours is back as well. 👍

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We rescue cats — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:18:09 GMT

I went into SOS mode last evening for a bit but turned the phone off and back and it seems to not be fine. Since we no longer have non-cellular service that would be a major issue.

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Poohbear52 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:29:58 GMT

thank you @Lovestheshores. I hope everything is fine now @We rescue cats

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foxywoods — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:36:07 GMT

Yes sent some txts yesterday, not received. today its working. verizon