Why Samsung Phones Are Failing Emergency Calls in Australia
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·November 19, 2025danishSuri1994
nomel
What's the difference with emergency calls? (I know nothing of this.)
pta2002
Namely the fact that emergency calls can be routed through other networks that aren’t your own (in fact, you can place an emergency call without a SIM).
testing22321
You can also make emergency calls when you don’t have enough signal for regular calls.
It forces it through
asdefghyk
on a side related issue , there was much criticism of the 3g shutdown in Australia. including lack of preparation - google words - criticism of 3g shutdown in Australia
ChrisArchitect
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45981608
I’m curious whether this is an RRC/IMS stack issue on Samsung’s implementation or something carrier-side in Australia’s 000 routing setup.
Emergency call handling tends to expose edge cases that normal calls never hit. Would be interesting to know if this affects only certain models or firmware branches.