Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: knuttle Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: how to reach someone who makes it h ard to reach him. Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 21:43:44 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 01:43:46 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="48b513a3009fc9eb3a7789d25790554b"; logging-data="3274804"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+DHs4dSergCysHW88Zy4A" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:EoIyJZur2IPE42fy5aB4tFVeOTA= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2362 On 04/07/2024 6:25 PM, micky wrote: > > My brother, who has been sick and I'm worried about him, is usually > impossible** to reach. It rings 5 or 6 times and goes to voicemail, > which is almost always full. I visited two weeks ago and found he had > it set on DND. I turned that off, but today it did the same thing. > > If his phone were off, it would go to voicemail right away, right? or > almost right away, no 5 rings, Right? > > Is there any other way it could ring 5 times and go to VM other than > DND? > > Maybe he sets it to DND when he's sleeping and forgets to change it > back. Is there some other settting he could use instead for sleeping? > > Or a way that I could get it to ring aloud for me, even when set on DND? > > **Except I can text him, but he doesn't usually notice texts either. > > Is there a way to keep the text notification on top until he clicks on > it? I seem to find that they display for a second or two and then all > there is is the badge on the text icon on the homepage. That is one of the reasons that I don't like smart phones. With the old telephone, when you called a home a person would pick it up; unless the person lived alone. With a cellphone everyone lives alone in their own isolated little world.