• ☆Luma☆@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    My touch screen randomly disabled itself and when I attempted to shut my phone off, it instead triggered a 911 call.

    The only way to stop it? Swiping right on the touch screen.

    I was just a bit frustrated and had no idea 5 taps triggered emergency calls. What a terrible event. Q.Q

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      1 year ago

      I too was having screen issues. Once i had accidentally started the call, I waited for them to answer, explained what happened, and apologized. I then stopped fuckin’ around with my broken ass phone.

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    1 year ago

    Something that makes “accidental” emergency calls should have been caught in quality testing and should never have shipped.

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      Meh, it’s probably phones with very loose power buttons who are the culprit. I don’t think my current phone has gotten its power button accidentally pressed even once and I keep it in my pocket pretty much 16/7 [not while sleeping tho].

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        1 year ago

        I use my pockets to hold stuff. That stuff has triggered emergency mode on my phone at least five times so far this year while driving. You know, the one time I shouldn’t be futzing with a phone to turn off the blaring alarm to avoid calling five-o

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    1 year ago

    Good, this happened to me! I had my phone in the cup holder of my car while driving down a dirt road and bumps pressed the power enough to make it emergency call 911. It scared the shit out of me cause the phone also starting make a horrible alarm/siren sound.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, accidentally got the alarm too. I think it started a countdown to actually dialing 911, but didnt make it to 0 before i cancelled it. Well, I hope thats what it was anyways. Freaked me out.

      Then I started thinking about if it did that when I was actually in trouble. I mean, if i was being held at gunpoint, I don’t think I want a giant alarm going off. I worry that would be a great way to get myself shot.

      But, then I was ultimately thankful for it, in the circumstance at least, cause then it definitely would have dialed 911 and wouldn’t have known…

      I still wish there was a way to call silently though. Or, maybe there is, but im not gonna purposefully get to the point where I could find out.

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      It happened to me but I was in the shower. My power button jammed. 911 attempted to even call me back, I feel sorry for wasting their time.

  • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I triggered it while driving when I tried to increase volume on my phone through the pocket. Accidentally pressed power button and almost shat myself due to rhe 911 call and siren sound through the car radio.

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    I understand that perfect detection isn’t possible, but I’m not sure that I like that the fix is to increase the amount of human interaction required during an actual emergency.

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      1 year ago

      I’m sure my phone dialing 911 four times by itself from my pocket while working isn’t a good thing either.

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    1 year ago

    I keep my phone in my back pocket. I wear a shoulder bag. Sometimes when I’m walking start hearing dialing noises as my shoulder bag bonks against my butt. I pull out the phone and find it at the emergency dialer.

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    1 year ago

    Just reloaded a phone with Lineage, and it lows you to disable this nonsense.

    I get the idea behind emergency call feature not being behind the lock screen, but pretty much everyone has their own phone these days (or two). I’m not likely to need to grab someone else’s phone to call 911

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    1 year ago

    Samsung allows turning the countdown into a simple slider (eg press 5 times then slide right to call 112 and send sms with your photos and location to all of your relatives)

    • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
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      I mean if it was intentional. I don’t think a single person out there is actively and purposely trying to code 911 not working.