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Stop dangerous GOMO Cross-Border Alert Texts 🚗

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭KildareP


    I think a "no notifications" alarm app is also needed here



  • Administrators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,983 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Big Bag of Chips


    You are not pulling over to read the text! You're not fooling anyone. Just uninstall the stupid app and look at your phone when you've reached your destination.

    Or activate DND. It will stop any messages coming through until you get where you need to go.

    An app that continually beeps at me until I interact with it would be the very first thing to go if it was on my phone.

    Why do you have it set to 3 minutes? Why not set it to an hour? That way if you haven't looked at your phone in an hour and miss an oh so important text you'll be notified it's there waiting for you.

    3 minute reminders?! And you think we're all the ones who are slaves to our phones!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭Notmything


    Says the poster who installed an app so they never miss a notification.

    Who is complaining that the same app is a driving hazard.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭the_amazing_raisin


    That sounds like the most annoying idea for an app ever created

    You're literally making every annoying notification more annoying

    Anyway the answer to your question as others have said is to turn the stupid anxiety causing alert app off while driving

    Some phones have a Do Not Disturb mode where it won't even ring or show a notification. I'd suggest turning this on while driving to prevent distractions

    "The internet never fails to misremember" - Sebastian Ruiz, aka Frost



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 236 ✭✭User567363


    "Hay google read my messages"

    It will play across the cars bluetooth

    If you find my comment funny, useful, interesting or even annoying then please like and subscribe to boards.ie


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    You don't need them to stop playing, but if they could all refrain from scoring goals, you'd be able to recommend the app to all of your friends as well as strangers on the Internet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭beardo81


    This is either a wind up or someone trying to promote an app.

    Stop taking the bait, you are all better than this 😅



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭greenpilot


    Folks. Look at how the OP worded the title of this "discussion". It's clearly a young one from the North trying to flog a phone app, but hasn't realised the importance we place on road safety here the South.

    She has failed spectacularly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭greenpilot


    So, you're selling a GOMO app Annnnndd a MyTuner Radio App?

    What's next? The MyAvoid a Crash-while-I-Check-My-App app?

    Isn't that what Lane Assist is for? :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭mckildare


    Have someone else drive so you can actively deactivate the activation of the 3 minute timer, thereby deactivating the danger.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,296 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Just wow.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,752 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    This reminds me of homer Simpson invention of the everything is OK alarm. A loud alarm that goes off constantly

    Marge: Turn it off Homer

    Homer: You can't Marge. It's goes off when something is not OK.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭Deub


    OP would have more chances to ask the company that does the app to have an option to disable the reminder for specific phone numbers than GOMO to stop sending the text.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,133 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    part of me thinks this thread is a wind up. Op could get a smart watch and then maybe they wouldn’t miss all the important notifications they are worried about missing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭scrabtom


    This is some of the daftest shite I've ever heard 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,963 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    It's so outrageously, ludicrously daft that I have come to this conclusion too.

    But just in case, I'll be keeping my eyes extra peeled when I cross the border twice tomorrow…… (OP any chance you'd let us know where you cross over???)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭eirman


    Typical Scenario: My mobile is in the office and I leave the office for 20 minutes and return.

    Without the app - I would have look to at my screen display to check if I missed a call or text.

    With the app - I do not touch the phone. If I missed a call or text, I will hear a Ding-Dong within 3 minutes or less. (The 3 minutes is programmable).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,192 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    From my time working in Tech Support, I suspect this is not a wind up. People get new technology and dont quite know how to use it and teaching themselves how to use it or get the most of it, results in some crazy and sometimes hilarious results. Like the woman who wanted to tidy up the hard drive and deleted all the files she thought she didnt need (including .sys and .dll files). Or the person who got really angry with me when I couldnt get his email to work for him because builders next door had cut through his phoneline. "So you're saying email needs the internet?? Thats horse sh!t! You just don't know how to fix it etc etc". I have a cousin who used to say good night and good morning to Facebook. Facebook was her first introduction to the internet and she thought she was being polite.

    I think the OP needs to get a qualified IT Consultant to help him with his phone usage. And by qualified consultant I mean, find a teenager, explain his problem and get them how to show him what other people do.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,963 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    But the problem is, he doesn't seem to realise he has a problem…..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,192 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Or you could just look at your phone when you get back to your desk. Mine I just lift it, the screen alights and notifications are displayed.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,777 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Normal people - check the phone after the 20 minutes.

    You have the problem here, not everyone else.

    And your "with the app" scenario has you touching the phone, when driving, for unimportant content.



  • Site Banned Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭Yvonne007


    lol.

    Really?

    Typical Scenario: My mobile is in the office and I leave the office for 20 minutes.

    Now if only the mobile phone was…you know… portable.

    And in the event that you accidentially forgot to bring it with you for any amount of time. A quick look at the homescreen would have you up to date in a milisecond. You're ding-dong could take anything up to 2mins 59 seconds.

    It really is the one of the worst ideas for an app ever concieved.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,002 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The real question here is around point 2, 'without the app'. Why do you have to check your phone when you return after your 20 minutes away?

    Why can't you just leave your phone with calls and messages unanswered and get to them in your own time?

    I regularly leave my phone down places not on my person and don't check it for hours. There's no need to unless you're waiting for something.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭eirman


    "Normal people - check the phone after the 20 minutes."

    Think about what you said …. That's a strange normalisation.

    So you think that people who do not check their phone several times an hour are abnormal!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,777 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I think someone who has admitted suffering from FOMO for text messages and has their phone alert them constantly if they haven't checked something is abnormal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,963 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    They check the phone after THE 20 minutes - the 20 minutes where the phone has been out of their sight/earshot and some message or call may have come in.

    You don't even have to touch the phone, the screen will display an icon to say if you've missed something.

    Anyway, this is now clearly a wind-up, so I'm out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭maconof


    One of the best trolling threads I've read on here for a long time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,002 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    As much as I want this to be trolling for the sake of my own sanity, I fear it may be serious 😮



  • Administrators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,983 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Big Bag of Chips


    How important are you that all texts and missed calls need to be seen immediately?

    My phone is on my desk. On silent. I have children and get messages through various apps, emails etc from various clubs. I do not want to be disturbed and I certainly don't want to have to open every single text until I am ready to open it and respond of required.

    So my phone remains on silent and I look at it occasionally. I may have 5 or 6 texts and a missed call. But I see all that by looking at my phone ONCE. Whereas you will need to look at each individual text. Every time you get one or else your phone will torment you with dings.

    Terrible, useless, pointless app. You have absolute FOMO. So much so that you need reminders every 3 minutes to check your phone. Some days I have gone from 8-5 maybe just checking my phone at lunch time!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭eirman


    I typically pick up my phone 2-5 times a day when I'm at home …. and I never miss a notification!

    Most people know to contact me on my VOIP landline number. Quite a lot of people that they have home broadband, don't use their free VOIP number for receiving high quality calls.



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