diff --git a/src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx b/src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx
index 0660d27e8..17e054da5 100644
--- a/src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@ import {
   toRem,
 } from 'folds';
 import {
+  ClientEvent,
   EventTimelineSetHandlerMap,
   EventType,
+  SyncState,
   RelationType,
   Room,
   RoomEvent,
@@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ import { useSetting } from '../state/hooks/settings';
 import { useCallPreferences } from '../state/hooks/callPreferences';
 import { settingsAtom } from '../state/settings';
 import { getStateEvent, getMemberName } from '../utils/room';
-import { isRingableRoom } from '../utils/callRing';
+import { declinedRing, hasActiveCallMembership, isRingableRoom } from '../utils/callRing';
 import { StateEvent } from '../../types/matrix/room';
 import { getPowersLevelFromMatrixEvent } from '../hooks/usePowerLevels';
 import { getRoomCreatorsForRoomId } from '../hooks/useRoomCreators';
@@ -596,11 +598,50 @@ function IncomingCallListener({ callEmbed, joined }: IncomingCallListenerProps)
         refEventId,
       };
 
-      setCallInfo(info);
+      // [Gitea #312] Don't ring for a call that is already over or handled: after
+      // a reload the first sync replays the ring together with the caller's
+      // hang-up and our own decline. Check the room STATE (not the possibly
+      // stale RTC session). The caller's membership can arrive just after the
+      // ring, so an absent one gets a short grace period before giving up.
+      const myUserId = mx.getSafeUserId();
+      if (declinedRing(room, refEventId, myUserId) || hasActiveCallMembership(room, myUserId)) {
+        return;
+      }
+      if (hasActiveCallMembership(room, sender)) {
+        setCallInfo(info);
+        return;
+      }
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        if (Date.now() >= senderTs + lifetime) return;
+        if (declinedRing(room, refEventId, myUserId) || hasActiveCallMembership(room, myUserId)) {
+          return;
+        }
+        if (hasActiveCallMembership(room, sender)) setCallInfo(info);
+      }, 4000);
     },
     [mx, directs, callEmbed, setToast],
   );
 
+  // [Gitea #312] A catch-up sync (after a reload or reconnect) can replay a
+  // call's join and leave in one batch, and the RTC session may keep the join
+  // (stale "1 Live", call screen instead of chat). Once sync is live again,
+  // recompute every active session from the room's current state.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const onSync = (state: SyncState, prev: SyncState | null) => {
+      if (state !== SyncState.Syncing || prev === SyncState.Syncing) return;
+      mx.getRooms().forEach((r) => {
+        mx.matrixRTC
+          .getActiveRoomSession(r)
+          ?._onRTCSessionMemberUpdate()
+          .catch(() => undefined);
+      });
+    };
+    mx.on(ClientEvent.Sync, onSync);
+    return () => {
+      mx.removeListener(ClientEvent.Sync, onSync);
+    };
+  }, [mx]);
+
   useEffect(() => {
     mx.on(RoomEvent.Timeline, handleTimelineEvent);
     return () => {
@@ -629,7 +670,10 @@ function IncomingCallListener({ callEmbed, joined }: IncomingCallListenerProps)
       const { memberships } = session;
       if (memberships.some((m) => m.sender === myUserId))
         dismiss(); // answered elsewhere
-      else if (memberships.length === 0) dismiss(); // caller gone
+      else if (memberships.length === 0)
+        dismiss(); // caller gone
+      // [Gitea #312] The session can be stale after a reload; the room state isn't.
+      else if (!hasActiveCallMembership(room, callInfo.sender)) dismiss();
     };
     const onTimeline: EventTimelineSetHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Timeline] = (
       event,
diff --git a/src/app/utils/callRing.test.ts b/src/app/utils/callRing.test.ts
index 22a5c0c1d..ac96ae3ee 100644
--- a/src/app/utils/callRing.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/utils/callRing.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { test } from 'node:test';
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import type { Room } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
-import { isRingableRoom } from './callRing';
+import { declinedRing, hasActiveCallMembership, isRingableRoom } from './callRing';
 
 const fakeRoom = (opts: { callRoom?: boolean; joinRule?: string; spaceParent?: boolean }): Room =>
   ({
@@ -27,3 +27,43 @@ test('space channels, public and restricted rooms do not ring', () => {
   assert.equal(isRingableRoom(fakeRoom({ joinRule: 'public' }), false), false);
   assert.equal(isRingableRoom(fakeRoom({ joinRule: 'restricted' }), false), false);
 });
+
+const stateRoom = (
+  members: Array<{ sender: string; content: Record<string, unknown> }>,
+  timeline: unknown[] = [],
+): Room =>
+  ({
+    getLiveTimeline: () => ({
+      getState: () => ({
+        getStateEvents: () =>
+          members.map((m) => ({
+            getSender: () => m.sender,
+            getStateKey: () => `_${m.sender}_DEV_m.call`,
+            getContent: () => m.content,
+          })),
+      }),
+      getEvents: () => timeline,
+    }),
+  }) as unknown as Room;
+
+test('hasActiveCallMembership reads the room state: joined vs left (#312)', () => {
+  const room = stateRoom([
+    { sender: '@bob:x', content: { application: 'm.call', call_id: '' } },
+    { sender: '@carol:x', content: {} },
+  ]);
+  assert.equal(hasActiveCallMembership(room, '@bob:x'), true);
+  assert.equal(hasActiveCallMembership(room, '@carol:x'), false, 'left = empty content');
+  assert.equal(hasActiveCallMembership(room, '@dave:x'), false);
+});
+
+test('declinedRing finds our own decline of that ring only (#312)', () => {
+  const decline = (sender: string, rel: string) => ({
+    getType: () => 'org.matrix.msc4310.rtc.decline',
+    getSender: () => sender,
+    getRelation: () => ({ event_id: rel }),
+  });
+  const room = stateRoom([], [decline('@me:x', '$ring1'), decline('@bob:x', '$ring2')]);
+  assert.equal(declinedRing(room, '$ring1', '@me:x'), true);
+  assert.equal(declinedRing(room, '$ring2', '@me:x'), false, "someone else's decline");
+  assert.equal(declinedRing(room, '$ring3', '@me:x'), false);
+});
diff --git a/src/app/utils/callRing.ts b/src/app/utils/callRing.ts
index c705a3df8..adbdd5e42 100644
--- a/src/app/utils/callRing.ts
+++ b/src/app/utils/callRing.ts
@@ -16,3 +16,37 @@ export const isRingableRoom = (room: Room, isDirect: boolean): boolean => {
   const isSpaceChild = getStateEvents(room, StateEvent.SpaceParent).length > 0;
   return !isSpaceChild && room.getJoinRule() === JoinRule.Invite;
 };
+
+/** A call-membership state event that is still "in the call" (left = empty content). */
+const isActiveMembership = (content: Record<string, unknown> | undefined): boolean =>
+  !!content &&
+  (typeof content.application === 'string' ||
+    (Array.isArray(content.memberships) && content.memberships.length > 0));
+
+/**
+ * [Gitea #312] Whether `userId` is in a call in `room` according to the room's
+ * current STATE. After a reload the MatrixRTC session can be stale (a join and
+ * leave replayed in one catch-up batch), but the state is right.
+ */
+export const hasActiveCallMembership = (room: Room, userId: string): boolean =>
+  getStateEvents(room, StateEvent.GroupCallMemberPrefix).some(
+    (ev) =>
+      (ev.getSender() === userId || ev.getStateKey()?.includes(userId)) &&
+      isActiveMembership(ev.getContent()),
+  );
+
+/**
+ * [Gitea #312] Whether we already handled the ring `refEventId` points at:
+ * declined it (our own RTCDecline relates to it) — e.g. replayed together with
+ * the ring in the first sync after a restart, before any dismiss listener.
+ */
+export const declinedRing = (room: Room, refEventId: string, myUserId: string): boolean =>
+  room
+    .getLiveTimeline()
+    .getEvents()
+    .some(
+      (ev) =>
+        ev.getType() === 'org.matrix.msc4310.rtc.decline' &&
+        ev.getSender() === myUserId &&
+        ev.getRelation()?.event_id === refEventId,
+    );