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From: knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: how to reach someone who makes it h ard to reach him.
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 21:43:44 -0400
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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.