08-30-2007, 04:55 PM
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Join Date: 02-06-2004
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Location: Clearwater, FL
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Originally Posted by DiamondGCoupe
Just this weekend I had to dial 911 from my cell phone and incase some of you don't already know, once you "dial" 911 whether you complete the call or hang up the phone, it becomes locked and you must reset it (not sure if the Soft reset works or if you have to remove the battery). You cannot dial any other numbers OR call 911 again!! This is a very bad feature seeing as I needed to dial it several more times and I didn't exactly have time to go through the reset process. Does anyone know how to disable this or is it automatic from Sprint/911? I am also told it tracks your location and there are several beeping sounds every few seconds after you end your call.
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I did extensive tests with 911. The old/actual TOUCH dialer would break the 911 function on these phones, as the old TOUCH skin used a .dll that tried to contact 911 over GSM, which obviously it didn't support and the whole phone just locked up, coordinates never got sent, soft reset required, also takes 30 seconds for it to even connect to a 911 operator, etc.
With this compatible version of the skin, 911 does work, coordinates are sent, and when you dial 911 a new button pops up on the dial face that says "Exit Emergency Mode". You hit that button and your phone goes back to normal operation. <--Still haven't skinned the new Exit button, so it will not look good with the theme, but it works and who cares about looks when you are talking to 911.
You can feel confident that it will work with this skin. It ensures the Sprint version of the .dll is installed that handles 911 correctly on a Sprint network.
I have not tested this outside of Sprint and wouldn't recommend it for any other carriers at this time.
-Paul __________________
Spcs 6800 - Touch modifications
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