I’d been noticing lately that at times incoming calls on my iPhone were going straight to voicemail. In fact I’ve probably had more calls missed than have rang and I’ve picked up. At first I thought I just wasn’t hearing the ring or feeling the vibration. But the last couple of days made me thing something was up when I was waiting for a call and having the phone in my hand only to not have it ring but get a notification that I had new voicemail!

This morning I did some tests, I called several times and it wasn’t ringing, it would go to voicemail. Even more problematic was the fact that the voicemail I left was not coming through either. It took an hour for the voicemail to show up.

I turned the unit off and on several times to no avail. I took it down to the Apple Store and a genius there did a reboot of it and I was back in ringing business. I’m starting to see reports of iPhone users not being able to receive calls on their iPhone. These reports are saying that if the phone is retrieving data from the Edge network that all calls will go to voicemail.

I’m not sure if this was something I was running into, but now I know if I’m waiting for a call I shouldn’t be pulling data from the Edge network. I’ll keep my eye on it, but if you run into similar issues give your device a restart (hold down the lock/unlock button on top and the Home button for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo displays.