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mwr2410

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#322889 3-Oct-2025 20:30
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hoping for some advice, I recently had my spark number transferred from a spark corporate account and put on a personal account (pay monthly) when the transfer happened something went wrong in the background and my sim went dead and I could also no longer access my spark account and was met with an error. I went into a spark store and got the account rebuilt and I could access again, I also started receiving SMS messages and could use 4G/5G without any issue. However when it came time to make phone calls I was met with the following message for any number I call; “Welcome to Spark Mobile, the number you are calling is not currently allocated, please try and call again later” followed by a call failed screen.

 

the strange part is I can receive calls just fine so I know the SIM card isn’t dead, but something weird has happened here and spark chat is next to useless and you get a different person every time, and of course I am unable to call the 0800 number and escalate that way? All they’ve told me is that the voLTE is possibly misconfigured and needs fixing, the next person I spoke to said it’s fine and gave me troubleshooting tips which I have tried to no avail.

 

is there anything I can do or do I need to just wait? It has been 3 days now since this issue started, and I am considering going to a spark store to try and get it fixed however I doubt this will help me as I assume all the high level fault team are web-based?

 

Any advice is helpful please…


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  #3421234 3-Oct-2025 20:47
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@mwr2410 I take it you have power cycled the handset since the number was migrated / transferred?




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  #3421235 3-Oct-2025 20:49
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@gajan can you add any value here?


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  #3421238 3-Oct-2025 20:53
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Hey there, yes I have power cycled many times as well as a few other steps;

 

  • Shutdown phone, remove sim, wait 5 minutes, power on phone and reinsert sim.
  • try another device 
  • try and force voLTE on by using 4G only
  • toggled wifi calling

Spark did give me a ticket number to track the issue but upon entering it to their issue tracker it comes up as not found. 

 

 




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  #3421240 3-Oct-2025 20:55
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The person I have tagged in above is best to look at this issue


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  #3421243 3-Oct-2025 20:57
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DM me some details (ticket / ref), but I can only follow up on Monday when I’m back in the office. 





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  #3421246 3-Oct-2025 21:06
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Have shot you a DM, thanks!


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