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Spooderbab
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Hi there,

I rejoined O2 earlier this year and after a rather tedious process of having my number ported over (this failed several times and I was left without a working phone during a house move) I now have phone service. However, since the number port was fixed, all incoming calls show as either "Unknown" or "Private number" - Even calls from existing contacts.

I did contact O2 via Facebook chat several times and they suggested this was a known issue affecting multiple users, but they had no fix at that point in time and couldn't provide any kind of incident ID with it being a master incident.

I've thoroughly checked that my phone is configured how it should be, and research has lead me to believe that the caller ID info is something which passes through the carrier and has to be enabled at that end for me to see it, so I think some kind of a reset is needed in order to resolve the issue. I also can't access voice mail as it tells me it doesn't recognise the 901 number.

Please could I get some assistance with this? It has been having a huge impact as far as my safety on the phone and being exposed to spam callers, fraud attempts and other unwanted calls... My Pixel 7 Pro has features to combat these issues such as call screening and spam filtering, though this is rendered useless without caller ID info. The entire situation has left me feeling vulnerable throughout the process of moving house and up to now, any help would be hugely appreciated.

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O2Sarah-
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Thanks for the tag @Boothy 

I will send you a private message so we can look into this 

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@O2Sarah- Hi Sarah. I’m having this same issue. Can you help? I’m getting missed calls and not knowing who their from and answering scam calls in case they are a contact. It’s really annoying me. Thank you 

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Cleoriff
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@MMcK  Sarah isn't on today, It's @O2Ryan from 8am. I've tagged him to your post.

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gmarkj
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Unfortunately there are no longer any o2 community advisors @MMcK .

https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Welcome-News/O2-Support-advisor-update/m-p/1634920#M40122 

You will now have to either message o2 on social media, or try calling them.

Call them on 202 or 0344 809 0202 if you were pay monthly, or 4445 or 0344 809 222 if PAYG (or use 0800 032 1402 if you have no other line, and you can use Skype for free - Guide: A Guide to Skype ).

Alternatively you can message on social media: 

Facebook ( https://o2uk.co/O2CFB) , Twitter ( https://o2uk.co/O2CTW) or Instagram ( https://o2uk.co/O2CIG)

 

Please note, this is not customer services and we cannot access your account. Do not publish personal details (email, phone number, bank account).


Link to our guide on how to contact them can be found here

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Did anyone get a solution to this? I am on a 3rd SIM trying to fix it. Nothing works and for some reason it takes half an hour to explain the problem to the (business) support centre.... 

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gmarkj
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See the image in the post I am linking to @jj9ray 

https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Pay-Monthly/Caller-IDs-all-unknown/m-p/1684073#M269234 

o2 have developed this as a way to force the unknown caller issue to be fixed.

The alternative to this is to get your account completely rebuilt - so deleted and re-made...

Please note, this is not customer services and we cannot access your account. Do not publish personal details (email, phone number, bank account).


Link to our guide on how to contact them can be found here

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