Mobiles Phones which ring out accidently...

jetsonx

How many times has your phone rang up people without you knowing...
i.e. accidently dialed out while in your pocket.

This has happened two times to people I know. I got a phone call all I could
hear was static and them talking in the background...but they did not know
there was someone else listening in....

Not being a nosy person I just listened for a while and then hung up but I am
sure this has happened to many more people....or has it?

ps: I know Nokia are the worst for this kind of thing happening.

steveland?

It happened loads with my old Nokia phone but I've got a motorola flip phone now...

Main problem is i never feel it vibrate or hear it ring and you can't make them both happen at the same time... pretty crap phone imo

But yeh it actually happened yesterday my dad rang me by accident twice...

Blisterman

Yeah, polyphonic ringtones aren't as easy to hear as the old ones. If i'm on a busy street I can't hear it. Also I can't feel it vibrate if i'm moving.

luckat

Brother of a friend dialled New York for four hours while at a party - his jeans dialled the number as he bumped his arse off the wall while chatting and excuse-me-ing.

Victor

I dialled either 999 or 112 with my phone turned off in my pocket. Then I heard this low voice in the middle of the meeting going "Hello ... Hello ... Hello ..."

Stephen

If people would set their phones to auto-keylock, this could all be avoided

Victor

Stephen wrote:

If people would set their phones to auto-keylock, this could all be avoided

It was. 999 bypasses both PIN and keylock

Stephen

eh... how the hell does it bypass the keylock? Keylock = keys don't work until you unlock them (usually by pressing something like * + some other key), not some pin/password system.

Victor

The phone was off. 999 bypasses everything on my phone.

irishgeo

if you are in an emerengy the last thing you want to have to do is to unlock the keypad.

Try it yourslef. If you enter 999 or 112 it will bypass the keypad lock, you type anything else but 9 after the first 9 it will come up with the keypad lock error.

steveland?

112 does it on nokias

Does 999 come up aswell?

Makaveli

No, only 112, well on my 8210 anyway.

jetsonx

"auto keylock"

How do you activate this? what makes have do u know?

ExoduS 18.11

You wanna her a really wierd hpone story...
My da was in the pub. He had his phone on phone lock. I get phonecall at home and pick up the phone.. it seems as if he didn't have keylock on, so i hand up. But, i still hear him talkin when i pick back up the phone. I could hear everything he was saying and when i disconnected the line and replugged he was still there. Freaky.

Makaveli

That's because you can't terminate a received call from a regular house phone.

stagolee

anyone have one of those phones where you say the persons name and it rings them up? always thought that was a dangerous idea , for instance if you said
"dont worry (insert girlfriends name here) will never find out about us"
it would then phone her up so she could listen in :eek:

secret_squirrel

jetsonx wrote:

"auto keylock"

How do you activate this? what makes have do u know?

Most nokias do - although there was a phase around the 8310 era where they took the auto lock feature away....

Personally I think its a no brainer to do the manual lock any how - mine is always locked unless Im making a call

sceptre

Makaveli wrote:

That's because you can't terminate a received call from a regular house phone.

Really? That's interesting now.

Creamy Goodness

on my 6600

999
911
112

all pass the keylock feature.

Mercury_Tilt

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Healio

has anyone heard of the new service where you can block out numbers of people you fear you mite call when you get drunk for twelve hours?

NotMe

Stephen wrote:

If people would set their phones to auto-keylock, this could all be avoided

Well I keep key lock on all the time when my phones in my pocket but I still manage to press unlock then * then dial a number without knowing.

count_me_in

I am FOREVER getting calls from friends accidentally cos my name being adam i tend to be first in most peoples phonebook, so whatever happens i always get called! Nokia 3510i works with 112 and 999.

Anyone have the Sagem my X5-2? tis a pain cos to turn it on you dont actually have to hold the on button, you just need to tap it, so it turns on really easily in your pocket, like in the middle of class and whatnot, very annoying!

otron

I receive and (accidentally) make pocket calls all the time, despite using auto lock in the latter case.

Funny thing happened a while back. I was going out one evening, so was at home tying my shoelaces obviously crouched over. I must have accidentally placed a call, and hit the speaker phone button. So I'm off in a world of my own and suddenly I hear "Ah, How's it going?" out of nowhere ... it took me 2 confused, freaky seconds to figure out what was going on. Funnily enough it was someone that I had intended to call, but had forgotten.

feylya

I have A in my phone book with no number so I can't easily ring people.

Lump

On my nokia if the key pad is locked you cans till can 999


John

bkehoe

For some reason on my nokia 6230, 999 doesnt work, only 112 and 911 work!

MrVestek

Healio wrote:

has anyone heard of the new service where you can block out numbers of people you fear you mite call when you get drunk for twelve hours?

Looks like somebody's been listening to Spin 1038. That's only happened in Australia so far, wont happen over here for a while.

samo

it is a condition that every phone in the world is able to access the 112 which is the international emergancy services number. apparently even an internal phone that doesnt dial out must be able to dial 112 and if you stuck in the middle of antartica (wouldnt like to rely on it though!) a phone is meant to be able to dial 112.

So if you phone is sim blocked or anything blocked once it has power it should connect to 112 - there you go a bit of useless info I learnt during Meteor Customer care training!!

Dont know how accurate it is but thats what they trained us on!!

Also be careful dialling (I think this is the number) 110 or something like that as links up as an operator assisted call and got many a customer who was charged a mysterious €6.50 for this!!!

MrVestek

Sorry... you 'learned' something in Meteor customer care? That's interesting, pity they don't teach you how not to treat callers like absolute retards in those call centers, especially when you call up asking them to do a simple thing for you and you know what it is that you're talking about, and yet they still treat you like a newbie user. 'Ok ok so... the phone IS turned on right?' 'Listen you just send me out my gprs settings and be done with it, b!tch...'

NotMe

feylya wrote:

I have A in my phone book with no number so I can't easily ring people.

Yeah me too and a Z.

Tivoli

for some reason 08 unlocks the keypad too

Stark

Used to always happen on my 3310 even with the keylock (for some reason whatever way it used move around in my pocket, menu and unlock would get pressed, then the first or second person in my contacts book would get called. Used to put stuff like "AAA - 0000" in my phone book to stop it. Noticed loads of other people did it as well).

Luckily I don't have the problem with my 7650.

My old Motorola Phone (the ugly green/blue thing) was very bad for it as well. Once accidentally rang up my parents while we were pissed in the pub, had them complaining about our bad language the next day.

Phones are more liberal about ringing 112 than 999 btw. For example my 3310 allows you to dial 112 without a SIM card but doesn't allow you to dial 999.

samo

Achilles wrote:

Sorry... you 'learned' something in Meteor customer care? That's interesting, pity they don't teach you how not to treat callers like absolute retards in those call centers, especially when you call up asking them to do a simple thing for you and you know what it is that you're talking about, and yet they still treat you like a newbie user. 'Ok ok so... the phone IS turned on right?' 'Listen you just send me out my gprs settings and be done with it, b!tch...'

you must have never had the priviledge then of dealing with me when you rang meteor!!!!

I dont work there anymore anyway, I took all that experience of dealing with such lovely customers and am working somewhere else now where i can pass on the benefits of my wisdom and skills! :rolleyes:

briano

This is getting a bit silly now: 000 should unlock it too (emergency number in australia I think)

Stark

Just checked my 3310. 112 unlocks it(but if you type another digit after the 2, it locks again). 999, 911 and 000 don't unlock it.