when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

i'll not be able to help anyone here, but i'm curious (and don't understand): what do you mean by "waiting" in this context? is this a non-standard network feature? a device feature? in other words: what would you *expect* the n900 to do? (i got interested because i see this question being asked more than once now and i have no clue what people are talking about.)

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

i am not sure if i understand that either, but what i think you refering to is a network feature for example if you call some one who has verizon, and that person is talking to someone, you hear a tone like you have a tone from call waiting.

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

I've never heard of call waiting being 'shown' in some ways to the other caller...

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

@benny1967 he would mean call waiting the network feature i presume as i haven't seen anything else on the phone? not sure how the phone could manage it otherwise as you're limited to 1 concurrent call without call waiting.

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

heyy i mean (when you are trying to call someone and this person is on a call with another one your mobile tell you that this person is in a call waiting with someone) my n73 and all the mobile phone i used before tell me this .... but why the n900 don't tell me this ..... the n900 missed many features !!!!

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

some of the nokia phones showed on their display that you call was on waiting, i.e. the person you had called was already on a call. i believe it is a network feature and possibly a phone feature too but havent been able to test it yet on n900...

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

Sounds like yet another feature the phone app is missing.
Can't say if I have ever seen this feature on the N900. Also if you are the one on a call and someone else calls you, do you get the beep in your ear to tell you someone else is trying to call you.

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

i think there is no sound but when someone call me and i'm waiting with another one the mobile tell me this on the screen that there is someone on waiting

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

really i miss this feature :@ :( :( really really n900 missed many many many things :( :(

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

let me get this straight. when you are talking to someone on your phone, and someone else calls you, you phone is not showing that you have incoming call?

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

no no no i mean that (when you are trying to call someone and this person is on a call with another one your mobile tell you that this person is in a call waiting with someone) the call waiting is working good but this is not working :( :(

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

Yes, you do - Inbound call waiting works fine, when you get an incoming call the phone speaker beeps, and you get a little image for the waiting call in the top left of the screen (below the status area) which lets you switch between calls by pressing it.

The OP's query is about outgoing calls to someone else with call waiting enabled though, which is not something i've tested. I'm unsure exactly why the OP needs any kind of notification on the display that the call's waiting (on hold) rather than ringing or being answered though, surely you can hear that perfectly well.

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

my n900 does this. If i call somebody who is already on another call, my phone flashes a "call waiting" message on the screen and continues to ring until they either answer or it goes to voicemail. maybe its a network thing but this deffinatly works on my n900

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

Is there a phone that does this? If so, which one?

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

no i think it's not work with me :( i try it on my n73 but on my n900 it don't :( and i try it on many mobile phone

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

the n73 tell me the call is waiting and n70,n71,n72,n73,n79 ..... all the mobile phone

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

can you tell us what is your service provider and where are you located

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

What's the significance of this behaviour?

Shouldn't you be able to tell by listening to the different tone? (And that's more practical, since you don't have to look at the supposed screen message)

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

Place your SIM in another of your N series phones and ckeck that call waiting is setup on that phone. As it is a network setting when you transfer the SIM back to your N900 the setting should remain.

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

Thanks everyone. i think i understand now what the phrase "call waiting" in english means. of course we have this too - at least i can choose to activate hearing a signal when i'm in a call myself and somebody else calls me.

i'd bet, though, that this calling person wouldn't be told that his call is waiting. he'd hear the normal signal and would assume i didn't hear the phone if i don't answer after a while. on the other hand - nobody i know (including myself) has call waiting activated, so that could have changed and i'd never know. ;)

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

heyy i try this with all my nokia mobile and it works with me but on the n900 noo !!

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

thats not true!

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

tested the feature of being notified when you call someone and your call is on waiting. there is a hildon notification which shows your call is waiting, and is active for a couple of seconds or so. have to test the other feature of getting beeps when you have an incoming call on waiting...

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

Well, I tested it now.

When they call and you are in a call, it works, beep and everything.

When you call, there is no indication you are waiting. This stinks.

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

Seems like a carrier setting to me...

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

It's an old problem, seem that only sonyericsson is able to manage those network messages.

Most of nokia phone doesn't, almost all recent american smartphones doesen't.

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

the call waiting notification is a network feature, and has to send out a specific tone to the phone to 'tell' the phone that the other party is in an existing call.

My N900 does that, and I'm on the O2 network in the UK, but I have heard that certain networks are not capable of sending out notifications...

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

But

a) my old phone did both, not a network limitation. All my old phones did.
b) the setting either to have call waiting or not, the other party waiting notification is not an option.
c) I have call waiting and it works.
d) Could have sworn it worked before. Really. The label that say s"calling" said "Waiting" at some point. Can't get it to work again. PR breakage?

Re: when i call someone on my n900 and this person i'm trying to call is waiting with someone my n900 don't tell me that the call is waiting !!! why ???
 

well as far as i know, there are two different things.
1. Incoming call waiting notification : If activated, when you are in a call with someone and at the same time someone else calls you, you will hear a beep to get notified that, there is another person calling you. then you can answer or reject the 2nd call or also you can put them into conference.
2. Outgoing call waiting notification : when you call someone and s/he is already in a call talking to other person, you will either hear a beep or will see an on screen message to get notified that the person you are calling is already in a call.

now these days all operator support this feature (at least in my country Bangladesh) but some cell phone support only the first one.
my iphone 3g does'nt support outgoing notification but my N900 supports both.