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  2. 999 phone charging myth - Wikipedia

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    The 999 phone charging myth is an urban legend or myth that claims that if a mobile phone has low battery, then dialling 999 (or any regional emergency telephone number) charges the phone so it has more power. This was confirmed as untrue by several British police forces who publicly cited the dangers of making such calls. [1]

  3. Phantom vibration syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Phantom vibration syndrome or phantom ringing syndrome is the perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating or ringing when it is not. Other terms for this concept include ringxiety (a portmanteau of ring and anxiety), fauxcellarm (a portmanteau of "faux" /foʊ/ meaning "fake" or "false" and "cellphone" and "alarm" pronounced similarly to "false alarm") and phonetom (a portmanteau of phone ...

  4. Silent call - Wikipedia

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    A silent call is a telephone call in which the calling party does not speak when the call is answered. Most such calls are generated by a cold call telemarketing operation's dialer software, which makes many calls automatically and sometimes does not have an agent immediately available to handle an answered call.

  5. Pocket dialing - Wikipedia

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    To make matters worse, some phones make it easier to call the emergency services when the keypad is locked than it would be otherwise. An example of this is a soft key programmed to make an emergency call when the keylock is set. On touch-screen phones, passcode screens often include a single button that, when touched for just a few seconds ...

  6. Silent mode - Wikipedia

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    Silent mode is a setting available on mobile phones and pagers that, when activated, disables the ringtones and, in some cases, also the vibrating alerts or alarm. Unlike the airplane mode , the silent mode still allows the device to receive and send calls and messages.

  7. Ringing tone - Wikipedia

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    When the call routing is successful and the receiving telephone is not already in a call, the destination telephone receives an electrical signal, called power ringing, or the ring tone, to alert the recipient of the incoming call. During this period of alerting, the caller also receives a distinctive signal, audible ringing, also called ...

  8. Overview of the updated AOL app experience for Android

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    Once signed in, click on Options in the upper right corner. Select Mail Settings. On the general settings tab, in inbox setting click the radial button next to Use Unified Inbox Style. Click Save Settings at the bottom. You may need to sign out of the app and then sign back in to reset the app settings. This can be done by:

  9. Silence suppression - Wikipedia

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    (While both parties may sometimes speak at the same time, there are times when both parties are silent.) Silence suppression is achieved by recognizing the lack of speech through a speech processing mechanism called voice activity detection (VAD) which dynamically monitors background noise and sets a corresponding speech detection threshold.