Thanks for the links but since I am at work I will not be able to look at any of them.
The reason I asked which regulation is because someone mentioned that there was one. Usually when you talk about something you have the facts behind it to back it up.
its only copy paste people.
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Verizon has better service almost everywhere. AT&T has better service in my house and I get the iPhone. Sorry Verizon, should have fixed the service in my area! Because "marginal" is good enough for you, I'm out! Peace!
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I don't' have to sell it so why the hell would I use it? Duh.
Thanks for the links but since I am at work I will not be able to look at any of them.
The reason I asked which regulation is because someone mentioned that there was one. Usually when you talk about something you have the facts behind it to back it up.
its only copy paste people.
The regulation was mentioned in the article that basically started all of this (which was also, at least partially, reproduced in a post on one of the last few pages).
Is there any way to remove the "In Case of Emergency" (ICE) contacts from your contact list? It's pointless, I don't use it, and it's just taking up space...
I'm using the Chocolate VX8550.. Any one have any ideas?
Is there any way to remove the "In Case of Emergency" (ICE) contacts from your contact list? It's pointless, I don't use it, and it's just taking up space...
I'm using the Chocolate VX8550.. Any one have any ideas?
It's really there in case someone finds your phone or something like that. It doesn't really take up much room or anything, but it is there nonetheless, and I don't think there's a way to remove it.
Actually the "ICE" entries are recommended to help emergency workers contact next-of-kin or others who may be able to grant them permission to save your butt when you are in deep trouble... or to let them know they found your body.
Even before they search your wallet for ICE contacts, many emergency responders these days grab the person's cell to see if there are ICE entries to get rapid contact.
The space taken is minimal - especially since you would have those numbers in your phone already, anyway... Just put THOSE people behind an ICE label.
It really can help in an emergency situation. The only thing I don't like is that those contacts need to be regular names, otherwise they will not know who it is. If you have your wife as sweet cheeks they won't know who they are contacting or who to ask for if they need to call. If they had a further identifier that would let you put in wife, mom, dad, kids or something like that to save your contacts too, that would help.
Don't mean to bump or anything, but I remembered seeing this topic awhile back and tonight I actually had to call 911, and my phone made no such audible tone or alarm when I dial it. When I hit send, instead of saying "Calling <enter # here>" it said "Emergency Call."
I have a Moto V8 Razr2, flashed with USC Firmware of course. Is this a Verizon UI only thing?
Your phone may be older, or it may not be from Verizon.
The alarm is on all new Verizon phones purchased since the end of September. It was being phased in before then, but Verizon says that all of their phones purchased after September will have the alarm for sure. It's also on some (maybe all) new Sprint phones as well.
Upstream in this thread, someone said that if 9-1-1 is removed from the list of emergency numbers in the cell phone, the alarm will not sound. So I removed 9-1-1 from the emergency list in my phone (per the original poster's excellent instructions).
The alarm sounded loud and clear the next time I dialed 9-1-1.
So Verizon was right. The alarm can not be disabled.
Not all phone models have this "feature" included.
I contacted the manufacturer of mine and the response from their technical support folks was that my unit does NOT make a peep when calling 911. (Sanyo SCP-7050)
It does seem a broad range of current handsets from many manufacturers provided by/to many carriers do have this misguided feature.
Ok, so I just saw an accident. A Ford Explorer plowed into a building for no apparent reason.. nice, huh? Well, I remembered this thread and it looked like no-one else was calling 911 so I went ahead and dialed. The phone went into emergency mode and made "the sound" which turned out not to be all that bad. It's a few bells chiming, which sounds similar to the voicemail tone. It wasn't bad at all, but I can see how it would be really bad if you were hiding in a closet from some psycho with a gun. Afterwards, the phone stayed in emergency mode until I hit the softkey for "exit".
So it's not a loud alarm noise like has been described in this thread, but yeah, I can see how it would be bad in a situation where silence is needed.
Your phone may be older, or it may not be from Verizon.
The alarm is on all new Verizon phones purchased since the end of September. It was being phased in before then, but Verizon says that all of their phones purchased after September will have the alarm for sure. It's also on some (maybe all) new Sprint phones as well.
Upstream in this thread, someone said that if 9-1-1 is removed from the list of emergency numbers in the cell phone, the alarm will not sound. So I removed 9-1-1 from the emergency list in my phone (per the original poster's excellent instructions).
The alarm sounded loud and clear the next time I dialed 9-1-1.
So Verizon was right. The alarm can not be disabled.
Haha I would say we simply have not figured out a way to disable it YET. Nothing is impossible.
My Samsung flipshot doesn't have an alarm. When I called 911 to try it, I got the red light, a few beeps that weren't all that loud and that was it. Nothing like the alarm on my U540.
If I have to call 911, and the noise of the alarm alerts the bad guys, and they kick my behind, I guess I could sue VZW for wrongful injury, or my family can sue VZW for wrongful death. VZW probably has deep pockets.
If I have to call 911, and the noise of the alarm alerts the bad guys, and they kick my behind, I guess I could sue VZW for wrongful injury, or my family can sue VZW for wrongful death. VZW probably has deep pockets.
As much as I agree, VZW can and probably would say it's the FCC that required it (which it basically did, just in no clear terms), so then it would be about suing the FCC, and that's government, so that's basically not going to get far.
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