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If it's possible the power button is getting bumped repeatedly in your pocket. You could search your Android settings, and make sure "Emergency SOS" is turned o

If it's possible the power button is getting bumped repeatedly in your pocket. You could search your Android settings, and make sure "Emergency SOS" is turned off.

mkl 3y ago
I don't see a way to turn that off. I could sort of do it using the option to change the emergency number.
MereInterest 3y ago
It’s also possible that there’s a hardware failure that is making the power button erroneously report button presses, leading to the Emergency SOS. This happened to me on a Pixel 3, which resulted in repeated calls to 911 with no user input. * Can’t power it off for the night, because the flaky power button turns it back on. * Can’t pull the SIM card, because emergency calls don’t require a SIM card to connect. * Can’t consistently use the “slide to cancel” option, as the phone was also trying to initialize the camera at the same time. (IIRC, 3 button presses for the camera, 5 button presses for SOS. The flaky power button managed to trigger SOS while the camera was still initializing the GUI, so the camera GUI took focus.) * Can’t access the settings, because the flaky power button either turns the phone off, opens the camera, or sends an SOS faster than I could search the settings. This all started at about 10 PM. So, instead of going to sleep, I needed to spend the next two hours baby-sitting my phone as it mostly was repeatedly rebooting, with occasional calls to 911, until the battery finally died.
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- leesalminen 3y ago
  That would be the point where I take a hammer to the phone.
  - MereInterest 3y ago
    Believe me, if it hadn’t been for 2FA tokens that I needed to get off of it, I would have been dropping cinderblocks on it to get it to stop.
    - freedomben 3y ago
      Aegis Authenticator has been a lifesaver for me: https://getaegis.app/ https://getaegis.app/

If it's possible the power button is getting bumped repeatedly in your pocket. You could search your Android settings, and make sure "Emergency SOS" is turned off.

mkl 3y ago

I don't see a way to turn that off. I could sort of do it using the option to change the emergency number.

MereInterest 3y ago

It’s also possible that there’s a hardware failure that is making the power button erroneously report button presses, leading to the Emergency SOS. This happened to me on a Pixel 3, which resulted in repeated calls to 911 with no user input. * Can’t power it off for the night, because the flaky power button turns it back on. * Can’t pull the SIM card, because emergency calls don’t require a SIM card to connect. * Can’t consistently use the “slide to cancel” option, as the phone was also trying to initialize the camera at the same time. (IIRC, 3 button presses for the camera, 5 button presses for SOS. The flaky power button managed to trigger SOS while the camera was still initializing the GUI, so the camera GUI took focus.) * Can’t access the settings, because the flaky power button either turns the phone off, opens the camera, or sends an SOS faster than I could search the settings. This all started at about 10 PM. So, instead of going to sleep, I needed to spend the next two hours baby-sitting my phone as it mostly was repeatedly rebooting, with occasional calls to 911, until the battery finally died.

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leesalminen 3y ago
That would be the point where I take a hammer to the phone.
- MereInterest 3y ago
  Believe me, if it hadn’t been for 2FA tokens that I needed to get off of it, I would have been dropping cinderblocks on it to get it to stop.
  - freedomben 3y ago
    Aegis Authenticator has been a lifesaver for me: https://getaegis.app/ https://getaegis.app/