The Phone Bug

[BauerHaus]

So I just got this game, just found out the phone not working is a bug not something the DLC quest does (I thought it happened when I accidentally started it). Did some googling and this bug has been around for years I guess?

It's a little unclear because there are so many posts about it, is there a way to fix it if you've saved with it?

I can reload to an older save, I'll just lose a bunch of progress. I was hoping there might be some other fix, like a console command or something?

[craigsters]

I read so many topics on it, like fast travel out of the City, fast travel to China town, skip time, sleep and manually save and even load a previous save

[BauerHaus]

Right, none of the in-game things have worked for me, I have a previous save I just didn't want to replay a bunch of the game.

[Graf Erik]

Not sure what exactly your problem with the phone is, but there is indeed a console command to reset the ingame phone.

First download and install cet (make sure that it runs, if it asks you to define a hotkey at first startup its working)
https://wiki.redmodding.org/cyber-engine-tweaks/getting-started/installing

Then enter the following
Game.GetQuestsSystem():SetFactStr("holo_force_reset", 1)

(credits for this goes to reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/16ym3qi/fix_for_the_phone_bug

Cant tell you if that helps, cause I never had problems with the phone

[BauerHaus]

My exact problem is the phone is red on the ui, when I try to use it, it says you can't do that right now.

I had assumed it was because I was entering dogtown or something because it happened right when I got the first quest from songbird, so I played for a while, now quests are asking me to use my cellphone, which prompted me to google and see that this just happens sometimes?

Either way, thanks for the heads up I'll see if I can get that to work.

[BauerHaus]

Well, I thought it had fixed the issue but it made kind of went wild and played all the stacked up calls from Hands and Reed at the same time.

Turns out if I force ended Songbirds call, Hands and Reed played normally, phone works now, thanks again!!

[TigerKhajiit]

I had a weird phone bug that played two convos at once plus a NPC standing next to me talking as well. I have no idea wtf any of them said... pretty sure it was Hands and Judy on the phone and Alex next to me. So I thought it was FIA hacking my head to listen in. But when I replayed the game it didn't happen again.