All new phones from Verizon have a 911 alarm.

[Sprint_Tomas]

A very poor design decision if the "911 Alarm" is not easily defeated by the customer.

More often than not, the overall experience of calling 911 will NOT be enhanced in any way by an alarm indicating to the perps that you have done so. *sigh*

I detest calling 911 to verify whether my phones do this, but if I am not able to get a solid answer from my carrier (or the manufacturer), I may have to.

If the phone alarms on a 911 call, and this is not something I can kill (I find no options), I will file a formal complaint.

Tom

[BlackBerry]

Wow, wasn't aware. I'm in agreement--seems like it would be counterproductive.

[MountainBikerMark]

anybody try putting their phone on "silent" or "vibrate only"? it works on my 9400.
btw my LG 4400 and 6100 didnt sound an alarm when I called 911 but WOULD DO A TERRIBLY LOUD RINGBACK once every minute after hanging up for 5 minutes. I HATED that.
I use #77 here in Va. its a state police one that routes to the local since so many times Ive been near a city limit , seen an accident, call 911 and get the WRONG locality and have to go through that whole ordeal to get an ambulance or police to the scene.
I saw one the recently. I come up a hill see car "a" on wrong side of road coming toward car "b" in front of me and BWHAM car stuff all over the place. call 911 get another cities dispatcher. I said frag it and called #77 and they routed it to the right place

[Domain]

Doesn't work on the 8300 or 8600. Screeches regardless of ringer setting. On my Motos, it went with the level of ringer but it still beeped quietly on the vibe only/silent functions.

[markj73]

Your fix didn't work. I followed your instructions and removed 911 from my list of emergency numbers. Then I dialed 911. When I hit send, the alarm still went off.

Thanks for the suggestion. But it doesn't disable the 9-1-1 alarm on the gZone type S.

Weird, did it still display Emergency Before you pressed Send?
I never tried actually dialing 9-1-1 on mine but geez I hope the V isn't the same.... as the S....

[GVLakers]

Now this is scary!

Anyone know of a list of phones covered?

I know my old LG 8100 and now my LG EnV both produce this "harp" type sound when dialing 911. It also locks the phone in "EMERGENCY MODE" and does not allow any other keys to be accidently hit or dialed while in this mode.

[burtot]

Your fix didn't work. I followed your instructions and removed 911 from my list of emergency numbers. Then I dialed 911. When I hit send, the alarm still went off.

Thanks for the suggestion. But it doesn't disable the 9-1-1 alarm on the gZone type S.

Worked on my Samsung A870. I added 611 to the emergency list, and it started beeping and had the alert icon on the display. Removed 611, and 911. Neither displays alarm icon, or starts beeping. The only downside, if you have GPS enabled ONLY with emergency numbers... then it will not work if you ever really need 911+GPS for help. You would have to enable GPS all the time then.

[Domain]

Even if you had location on, how would the phone know to activate the AGPS? I don't believe the PSAP has a magic request location button, does it?

[areusche]

Treo 650 goes into an Emergency Mode, but it won't beep or make any sort of noise.

This is a joke. A really bad joke.

[burtot]

Even if you had location on, how would the phone know to activate the AGPS? I don't believe the PSAP has a magic request location button, does it?

It is either always on, or set only to activate when dialing emergency #s. The cell knows it is an emergency, because the # is in the list. It is meant to allow 911 operators know where you are when a 911 from a modern cell call comes in. There has been stories of people in a car crash dialing 911, but help could not find them. (police, EMS, etc) People calling 911 after driving off the road and banging their head often do not remember or know where they were right before the crash. If you remove 911 from the list, Location (GPS) 911 will no longer work if your local 911 service has the feature.

[akhbwagner]

Same thing on my new BB. Loud as hell. What is the point? No blind person is going to use my phone. Unless they came with a braile Blackberry. Its annoying as all hell.

[MassMike]

Is there any other number you can dial to see if your phone has it built in? Besides 911?

[burtot]

Is there any other number you can dial to see if your phone has it built in? Besides 911?

My phone says "Emergency" at the top of the screen as soon as I type 911 on the pad. I do not have to hit "Send" to know it will make a lot of noise.

[Steve.G]

Ok, on my older LG's I could change the ICE list, which came in handy because I could lock my phone and still call a few numbers without unlocking it. Anyhow, my 8300 does not APPEAR to have this as an option that I can changed. I checked all the phone menus, SVC menu, I've snooped in QPST and LG Download and still came up empty handed. Does anyone with a VX 8300 know how to disable this "feature"? It seems to me that if 911 was no longer an "emergency" number, we would no longer get an alarm.

Incidentally I heard an article on the news this morning where someone's E911 wasn't working and thus he had to deliver the address info to the regional 911 operator, who then incorrectly relayed the info to dispatch. This resulted in a death because the ambulance didn't get there in time. Nice. I wonder if this was another HoFo subscriber who disabled their 911 alarm.

[C DM]

Same thing on my new BB. Loud as hell. What is the point? No blind person is going to use my phone. Unless they came with a braile Blackberry. Its annoying as all hell.

Yes it is. Welcome to the legal system where you can get sued for not following obscure yet established government agency policies that were put into place to "help" a smaller group of people but sometimes at the cost of being useful (and in fact the opposite) to the rest.