You’ll need to shortly replace Microsoft Teams for those who’re an Android cellphone person. According to former XDA editor-in-chief Mishaal Rahman, Microsoft has fastened a Teams bug that led to failed 911 calls on units utilizing Android 10 or later. Reddit person KitchenPicture5849 discovered that having Teams put in, however not signed in, would forestall emergency calls from going by means of. The cellphone would say a name was energetic and ring as soon as, however by no means correctly provoke the connection — name logs would present nothing.

Rahman and pal Kuba Wojciechowski pinpointed the trigger. While all Android calling apps will attempt to create a PhoneAccount class occasion within the working system, Teams was creating situations each time a person began the app “cold” — that elevated the possibilities of a sorting downside that stopped calls from going by means of.

Google talked to the Reddit person and revealed that each the corporate and Microsoft have been planning fixes. In addition to the Microsoft patch, Google is delivering an Android platform replace on January 4th that ought to handle its facet of the issue. You can delete and reinstall Teams to clear any extra PhoneAccount situations, and staying logged in ought to forestall any mishaps.

Google stated this solely affected a “small number of devices.” The concern, nevertheless, was the severity. This may have blocked somebody from making a life-saving name by means of no fault of their very own.