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I found out an interesting fact after the USA deployed the national "mental health hotline" number. My Android 11 phone refuses to recognize it as a valid emerg
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
I found out an interesting fact after the USA deployed the national "mental health hotline" number. My Android 11 phone refuses to recognize it as a valid emergency number. It has an interface where, if it's locked or SIM missing, it prompts you to dial an emergency number. And you can enter any number you want, but the only number that works is "911". (Perhaps 999 works too, or only in Europe/UK?) But if you dial the "mental health" number, it refuses. I was hoping that an update would address this, but not yet. You'd think this would be something that could be anticipated and deployed ahead of the actual opening of the hotline.
- hakfoo 3y agoI wonder if that had to do with the underlying business arrangements with the telcos. They are probably set up to special-case 911 alone for phones with no service/SIM, and getting them to accept a second number is an entire new set of legal and contract arguments.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoIf you have a SIM in the phone than the only thing what prevents you from dialing anything is the cellular operator itself. If you don't have a SIM than it's more complicated because the phone needs to register somehow in the network and, probably, indicate what it's trying to call an emergency number (so the network would allow both the registration and the call to occur). But my $10 on the dialer app just decline it.