Pixel Phones Dropping Calls: IMS Bug Explained and Workarounds

Pixel phones dropping calls: IMS bug explained and workarounds Some Pixel owners are missing calls that never ring and never show up as missed. The phone sits there looking normal while the caller hits voicemail. Complaints have accumulated on Reddit and Google's Issue Tracker across multiple Pixel models, with no confirmed cause and no fix, according to Android Police this week. The pattern points toward IMS registration loss as the most plausible explanation, though that hasn't been confirmed. IMS, or IP Multimedia Subsystem, is the layer that tells a carrier network a device is reachable for calls over LTE or Wi-Fi. When it drops and doesn't recover on its own, incoming calls have nowhere to land. No ring, no notification, no missed-call entry. Data and SMS keep working. The phone looks fine. This symptom isn't new territory for Pixel. When Pixel 7 and 8 series users reported calls going straight to voicemail without ringing in early 2024, Google shipped an out-of-cycle OTA within

Pixel Phones Dropping Calls: IMS Bug Explained and Workarounds

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