On my Android phones, I seemed to have an issue when I would be on the phone and a second call would arrive triggering the call waiting notification. However, when I wanted to put my first call on hold and answer the second call I would get the following message on my phone:<\/p>\n
“Unable to switch calls.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ultimately, this left me in a scramble to wrap up my current call, hang up and then answer the second call. Not the most ideal situation particularly when I found out that the second call wasn’t terribly important compared to the first call.<\/p>\n
Now, I had already enabled call waiting both on the phone and also online in my mobile account and done the obligatory disable and re-enable of call waiting to make sure nothing was stuck in the various systems on the mobile network – no dice. So, I ended up calling Amaysim to see if they could help me out.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the fellow who answered at Amaysim turned call waiting off and on again and asked me to wait five minutes before rebooting my phone and giving it a shot. However, during the course of the conversation, we discussed both “call waiting” and “call conferencing”. Call waiting was as I understood it: being able to receive a notification of a second phone call and being able to answer or switch between calls. Call conferencing allowed you to merge two or more calls into the same call.<\/p>\n
Out of curiosity, I asked the representative on the phone to submit a request to enable\u00a0call\u00a0conferencing on my service which would take time to go through as it was a manual process. Anyway, after twenty four hours, I was able to use call waiting as intended presuming that my request for activating call conferencing went through.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, if you get the error message “Unable to switch calls” then give your carrier a call and, if they have the capability for call conferencing, ask them to enable it and it could fix this problem for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On my Android phones, I seemed to have an issue when I would be on the phone and a second call would arrive triggering the call waiting notification. However, when I wanted to put my first call on hold and answer the second call I would get the following message on my phone: “Unable to … <\/p>\n