Gazmirr Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Step1: wait until you get a text from any business you may own in game. It doesn't matter which business it comes from nor does the contents of the text matter. It'll say something along the lines of needing more stock or hunting the person who took the weeks earnings down. Step2: make a quick save via your in game phone as fast as possible. Step3: Reload the save you just made and once you load back in wait around 30 seconds give or take and you'll either get another text from the same business or a different one. If you do then once again reload the save you just made until it's the downtown cab co phone call. I got it around my 2nd try reliably but it depends on how many businesses you own and RNG.That's all to it! I think I am the founder as I stumbled upon this on my own whilst scouring the various forums and youtube videos online. None of which showcased this method. Thanks for reading and I hope it helps some people out : ) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djippps Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Hello, I am stuck right now on this trophy. I have finished the campaign but without Lester assassination missions, I have 4 properties (Downtown Cab, The Submarine marina, The Trevor trophy business and the "Tonya" business). Do I have to buy many additional business to get more phone calls ? Let us say, I can call Downtown Cab for instance but no one is calling me for restocks or whatever. Let me know any method which work ! (I have seen also some method on the web telling to go to GTA Online, play an activity, then shutdown internet to come back to the solo part but it did not work in my case) I am a bit surprised this bug is not more dealt with in the current guides ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denizcankaya97 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 8 hours ago, djippps said: Hello, I am stuck right now on this trophy. I have finished the campaign but without Lester assassination missions, I have 4 properties (Downtown Cab, The Submarine marina, The Trevor trophy business and the "Tonya" business). Do I have to buy many additional business to get more phone calls ? Let us say, I can call Downtown Cab for instance but no one is calling me for restocks or whatever. Let me know any method which work ! (I have seen also some method on the web telling to go to GTA Online, play an activity, then shutdown internet to come back to the solo part but it did not work in my case) I am a bit surprised this bug is not more dealt with in the current guides The method above works well. Also I don’t think buying more properties make any differences for chances of getting a phonecall by a certain property Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djippps Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 Hem..which method are you talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djippps Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 I am now 99% and probably closing the 100% today. This trophy seems definitely bugged as hell. I have tried: - to reload a save before buying the cab company (with another business already bought) and buying it => nothing until now - to reload a save before buying the cab company (without any other business already bought) and buying it => nothing until now - trying to switch from GTA online (from an activity or not) and coming back to GTA solo. - I got no text from other business (I bought a bunch ....) , so the method given by @Gazmirr does not work in my case (what business gives text messages? I only received the weekly global recap of the business I own) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boorish Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 16 hours ago, djippps said: I am now 99% and probably closing the 100% today. This trophy seems definitely bugged as hell. I have tried: - to reload a save before buying the cab company (with another business already bought) and buying it => nothing until now - to reload a save before buying the cab company (without any other business already bought) and buying it => nothing until now - trying to switch from GTA online (from an activity or not) and coming back to GTA solo. - I got no text from other business (I bought a bunch ....) , so the method given by @Gazmirr does not work in my case (what business gives text messages? I only received the weekly global recap of the business I own) I had the same issue, and nothing worked for me either. I had to replay the game. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djippps Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 @boorish_brute Have you cleaned all the saves before starting a new game? Do we have to restart from scratch? (Or the save of the new game can "live" with the others) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boorish Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 On 3/6/2022 at 10:39 AM, djippps said: @boorish_brute Have you cleaned all the saves before starting a new game? Do we have to restart from scratch? (Or the save of the new game can "live" with the others) I had my old saves on when I started a new save file. Just make sure to make a manual save before buying the property. Once you get your first call, make another manual save from your phone. Some of the missions are easy to fail. Reload the latter save if you fail, you'll get the call again. The taxi cab trophy is not that bad. It's pretty early in the game. I had another letter scarps bug which locked me out of the 100% trophy. I had to replay the entire game again. Not fun at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djippps Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Thanks @boorish_brute very much for your answer and your indications. Yeah, at least, I got the 100% trophy a few days ago. Only remains for me this taxi trophy. I tried so many things to unlock Downtown trophy with a bunch of saves, Franklin has probably slept 6 months in-game to test some unbugging strategies ?. I already got crazy about this non-sense trophy, R* should have make possible for the player to actually make the call from the phone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djb5f Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 15 minutes ago, djippps said: Thanks @boorish_brute very much for your answer and your indications. Yeah, at least, I got the 100% trophy a few days ago. Only remains for me this taxi trophy. I tried so many things to unlock Downtown trophy with a bunch of saves, Franklin has probably slept 6 months in-game to test some unbugging strategies . I already got crazy about this non-sense trophy, R* should have make possible for the player to actually make the call from the phone. I tried all of the tricks for hours and could not get it a call. Including bouncing back and forth between online/offline, Franklin sleeping non-stop, driving around, and buying properties, reloading and trying again. Finally, out of nowhere (and so many hours later) I got a call as I was driving around aimlessly. It was towards the left side of the map, near the coastal highway I think. I read driving around the Airport can trigger one of the calls but it never happened for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispy_Oglop Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Have you tried sleeping in a bed multiple times to advance the in-game clock forward by a week? Requests like the private fare will usually only pop a little while after the regular weekly Taurus earnings email gets sent to your phone.I missed the first private fare call because I was at the bottom of the ocean in a submarine doing the nuclear waste disposal mission but the following helped me beyond that: Head to a safehouse bed and repeatedly sleep in it until 7 days have passed and you are on the 8th day. If the Taurus email doesn't appear, walk out of the bedroom and around the area for a bit. If you still don't get the Taurus email, try sleeping for one or two more days. Once you have the email, leave the bedroom and drive or walk around outside for a bit and a call should come through. The first time I did this, I got a call from the car crushing company saying they were under attack. The second time I did the steps I got another car crushing company call. Third time I got the private cab fare. I was actually dreading trying to get this one based on the issues people were having with it - but once I realised the business calls were related to the weekly earnings email, the process worked perfectly for me so hopefully it will work for everyone else One thing I will add is something seemingly obvious but based on all the forums and sites I researched it's happened to a few people - and that is - make sure you are actually playing as the character that owns the business when you do this - e.g if you want to get the cab company to call you for a private fare - you have to be playing as Franklin to get it. I think most people realise this though, so I just wanted to throw that in there, just in case 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post djippps Posted April 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 18, 2022 I investigate the issue and I finally got a solution without replaying the whole game. So I am going to put here my solution. In my opinion, the bug is strongly linked to the tow company. In my case, I got the random call for the taxi a few seconds after buying the tow company.. I guess it is due to the quests corresponding to the tow company are given by the phone, which is the same way that calls from the taxi company (Raul) are also given from the phone. Here is what I recommend: 0. You need a save before buying any property. It is not necessary to replay the whole game with a fresh save. 1. Don't buy any property before Paleto Bay heist. After Paleto Bay, Franklin should have more than 350 000$. This amount corresponds to the cumulated money required to buy both the taxi company (200k $) and the tow company (150k $). 2. At this point, you can complete the sidequest given by Tonya. After completing it, you will be able to buy the tow company when you want. Don't buy the tow company for now!!! (because it can lock the random calls for Raul) 3. Make a save now since you have now everything to get the trophy. 4. Buy first the taxi company and go to sleep at your home so that the current day is the following Monday. The reason is Franklin receives a weekly resume of the business financial every Monday at 0am (when Sunday finishes in other words) AND normally you receive one random call from the taxi company per week. 5. We distinguish now two cases : If you receive the call, just play the mission and your game has not the bug, you are lucky mate! Just play the mission If you do not receive the call, go to the tow company and buy now the tow company. A few seconds later, you should receive a call from Raul. I warmly thank @ziggurism for giving me the idea to buy the tow company in the comments section of the PS5 guide here. If @dalailama1989, @Trozenator2 wish to use the method above to update their guides, I strongly believe it would be helpful for other players which also experienced this bug. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ__Beatroot Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 @djippps Thanks Mate for the info. Had a big problem with this one on the Xbox, and now that I'm over with PSN, didn't want to go through the pain of this trophy again. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITALUKE Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Nothing is working for me. What is the offline/online trick? Can somebody explain so I might try that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djippps Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Have you rigorously tried my method with a good save? @ITALUKE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITALUKE Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 I couldn't do it your way because I had already done some things, like buying properties before the Paleto Bay heist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djippps Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 @ITALUKE I am convinced the bug is linked to the tow company. If you have not finished this side quest and have not bought the taxi company in a save, I believe you can adapt my method Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITALUKE Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 I had finished that side quest, but it happened that once I finished the story I resumed playing and as soon as I was using Franklin I got a call from the cab company. So in the end I got the trophy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS2in1 Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 I was doing other collective stuff and denied all calls from businesses i bought earlier in game. So they stop calling. I think the phone automatically goes in "sleep mode" then without you seeing it on phone screen. I went into phones settings and turned sleep mode on/off and after a few seconds cab company called me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mina Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 27 minutes ago, DAS2in1 said: I was doing other collective stuff and denied all calls from businesses i bought earlier in game. So they stop calling. I think the phone automatically goes in "sleep mode" then without you seeing it on phone screen. I went into phones settings and turned sleep mode on/off and after a few seconds cab company called me. That’s actually hilarious, I did not realise that was a thing 😅 Sleep mode makes the game go on standby mode so all calls and messages are disabled. Definitely worth a try for anyone not receiving calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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