Category: Tech

Anything and everything I write that has something to do with tech. Maybe it’s a post about the time I blew up that server in 2003 because I didn’t know what bridged networking really meant. Sorry Roger!

FIXED: Forwarding All Video Calls

I have had this annoying notification on one of my T-Mobile S7s for the last 3 months, but I haven’t really looked into figuring this out until this weekend.

t-mobile-forwarding-all-video-calls-notification

Attempted all of the following with no success:

  • Basics, rebooting, reseating SIM, etc.
  • Disabling Voice over LTE
  • Carrier shortcodes for disabling all forwarding, requested ISP tech support to remove all forwarding from their side
  • Requested over-the-air SIM refresh from ISP (and rolling my eyes when the tech suggested I factory reset the phone before troubleshooting would continue)
  • Setting SIM in an iOS device and re-running all shortcodes. (Sometimes I really do use iOS)

Upon putting my SIM into another known-good Samsung, and receiving the same annoying notification, it was clear it had nothing to do with my phone.

Took it into the ISP this AM and asked for a SIM swap. Notification now gone.

What’s most interesting about all of this, is it happened after I went on a work trip to a foreign country that is commonly associated with APTs. Potentially just a coincidence, but looking over Google doesn’t reveal any specifics on how this even gets turned on, nor anyone else having better luck figuring it out what caused it.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-7/713205-persistent-video-call-forwarding-notification.html

 

Reading: The End of Big

Nicco Mele; St. Martin’s Press 2013

 

I’m actually rereading it for the second time. I don’t completely disagree with the premise that the Internet is shaking up and in many cases laying waste to the institutions born from previous eras. I do however disagree that this will be the end of all big institutions. Rather I believe that big institutions will come and go at a much more rapid clip than ever before.

Remember Tom?

How quickly did MySpace disappear? How quickly will Blackberry disappear into irrelevance? Has it already happened (hope not… own stock)

Microsoft?

Facebook?

I am surrounded at work and my personal life by people that are searing off FB, logging in once a week instead of once a day. I no longer check my FB Messenger chats, reserving that for odd moments when I can’t get the endorphins rushing by refreshing my email.

At some point the big institutions that have been created will stick around for decades, but we aren’t through with Big yet. There is far too much disruption ahead in all fields to believe that we can accurately predict which companies will or will not be on top tomorrow.