Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: is my phone ON or is it OFF? Date: 30 Apr 2024 14:01:50 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net MKM7gF35Y3Q1ytBx+rrAWAxnUk/97Os73/SuxflvjTY5ZLRk6a X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:xbTJrssNCBArRkDv/O/wgf6YzbQ= sha256:3BHmGqPcvstSIrqQiP4+S52G5l0IvGvmxPAzanZ3pdM= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2333 Arno Welzel wrote: > bad sector, 2024-04-30 13:21: > > > On 4/30/24 05:57, Frank Slootweg wrote: > [...] > >> Are these scenarios even possible? > >> > >> (AFAIK,) For a still active phone call: If the remote party 'hangs > >> up', the connection is terminated and the local phone will be 'on hook' > >> again. > > > > Once (when we were all driving used Chevvy-II's and Pintos with babies > > in cribs or child seats) my sister-in-law got a call from her dad > > telling her that they were welcome to visit any time (he lived on the > > coast). She and her husband were very happy to hear that. But the old > > fart kept failing to hang-up so several minutes after that call one of > > them picked up the phone only to hear him say to someone physically > > beside him "the Rockafellers are coming visiting". > > When they did not hang up, yes then this is possible - otherwise not. But that was a scenario with a normal (not mobile) phone with a seperate handpiece/receiver (we Dutch call it the 'hoorn' (horn). As I mentioned, (AFAIK, for the reasons I gave) such a scenario is not possible for a smartphone (and probably also not for most 'dumb'/feature phones). My take is that 'bad sector' just wants to ramble/vent.