Hey everyone,
I just tried to contact my country’s social health insurance system via phone, and to not have to pay in queue you have to request them to call you back. For some reason they don’t get my number automatically and I have to type it in.
So, what’s the problem? Well, my phone won’t allow me to press “+” while in a call, which is required to type in the country code.
I was able to make the call by waiting in queue but I have to pay a bit of money for it. In case I have to make more calls, it would be nice to know if there was a fix for this.
Dialer is the default one (Google?), phone is Oneplus Nord 5, up to date in updates (software version CPH2709_16.0.5.1002).
I hope someone knows a fix for this. I can type in the plus symbol just fine outside of calls by long pressing “0”, but it just won’t work in a call.
I can’t tell is this is a joke or not
why would it be a joke?
if the solution is that obvious, feel free to elaborate.
some helpful people have already suggested possible workarounds, which i’ll try the next time i have to call them
The '+’ means ‘add your international calling prefix’.
For example, here in the UK the prefix is ’00’. So if I was calling the US, +1 becomes 001.
The wikipedia article will tell you what the prefix is in your country.