accidental 911 call? - Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers

is there any way to accidentally call 911 on android pie with the pixel 2 xl? long story short i found a 911 call was placed for roughly 5 minutes on my phone while i had it on me last week, but i don't remember making this call. 911 called me back after but my phone was on silent. no message, they didn't call back again and several days later and nothing came of it, but it is concerning. i've heard this happen on oneplus and samsung phones, but not pixel. i even tried on the lock screen and if you hit emergency dial you still have to type in a number, so unless there is a way to press the power/vol in some sequence to auto dial 911, i think you'd have to be pretty deliberate about it otherwise.

Try disabling On-body Detection in Smart Lock (Settings > Security & location > Smart Lock). I ended up "butt dialing" a friend of mine in Nevada at 7am my time because of it being on.

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Disable screen wakeup on incoming call

The reason for this is when I am in the car and am using the bluetooth to answer the phone is in my case on my belt. When I get a call the screen comes on and even after the call is completed it stays on for 2 minutes. I then end up calling someone in the last called list if the screen bumps the case. I don't notice because my dumb car always wants to download the phonebook after every call and the stereo doesn't connect the outgoing call. Then someone tells me that they got 2 minutes of my music on their voicemail if they didn't answer. Ended up being very embarrassing when call went out and I made some comments that "someone" was not supposed to hear.
I looked with the advanced config tool but could not find anything.
Any ideas appreciated.
Tks
Perhaps stopping the screen from waking is too drastic. This means you effectively disable caller-id. I would suggest looking into installing a screenlock tool.
I am trying pocketshield for now. I was going to look at su2u but I was told that incoming calls still turned the screen on. Will see how this works for a few days.
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Well I tried pocketshield and it doesn't really do what I need. It still lets the damn phone call after I have hung up. It leaves the screen on and at the lasted called screen. bump the screen and it calls one of my last called list. Going to try Touchprolock now and see how that goes...
I have "locked" (AT&T stock ROM - using long press end key to lock) my device and then hit the power button momentarily.
This turns off the screen. When an incoming call hits, screens lights up. After call is terminated, screen turns off.

[Q] Self Dials last number and Voice commands turn on - Spooky

TP2 - WM 6.1 - T-Mobile
Self Dials last number and Voice commands turn on - Spooky
About a week ago I started noticing a microphone (ala Larry King) in my notification area at the top of my home page. I would come and go and make a small beep sound. Finally realized it must be voice commands. Well I keep turning voice commands off but they keep turning on. I have loaded no new software in the last week. I have never used voice comamnds.
Also about a week ago - and it is getting worse - after making a phone call and hanging up, my TP2 will start dialing the last phone number out of nowhere. It usually happens when I am on my home screen and I now move the phone. TP2 is my first touch phone and I have always had a lot of fat finger dials. I always assumed it was something that I did. But now out of nowhere, I am on the home screen, the phone starts to dial. If I pick the phone up and shake it, it will start to dial. this will happen a couple of times and then it stops. thinking that it might be related to the voice commands, but not sure.
Any help or ideas?
OK, still baffled. I do have a voice mail notification and voice commands are turned off. If I pick up my phone kind of rough and shake it a bit it starts to dial my last phone call consistently now.
Please someone help me. My friends are hating me.
OK, so it is definately related to having the voice mail notification. If the voice mail notification is present, then picking up my phone, kind of like tossing it in the air a couple of inches and catching it, will make it start to dial my last call. Once I listen to the voice message (and the notificaiton is no longer there), picking up the phone roughly does not make it dial.
I do remember that about 10 days ago I uninstalled T-Mobile visual voice mail. Then I kept getting a text message and had to call T-Mobile to have them do something on their end.
Still I need help to understand how to stop it.
yea my phone was doing the same thing recently but it was only when i had it plugged up to my car charger. I assumed it had something to do with the charger but im not sure if thats the real problem
It may be that mine only does it when it is plugged to charge also. At work, where I have really begun to notice it, my phone is always plugged into a split that has a charger and headphones.
Sounds like your talk/phone button is getting stuck. On most roms if you press and hold it it initiates voice comm. Pressed once brings up dial pad, twice calls the last number, press and hold is voice comm. So most likely its the hardware. Either that or paranormal activity. Set up a camera to catch it in the act.
I was starting to wonder if it was hardware, because if I shake it it dials. The phone button getting stuck makes sense. I did not know that click twice would dial last number and click and hold would turn on voice commands. Thanks for the info - exactly what i was looking for. Luckily I bought additional coverage (I have a six year old that likes to play games on my phone). Love the keyboard of the TP2, but would really like to get an android os. We will see.
Thanks again.

Since updating to 4.0.4 I cannot dial pass 10-digits

Sorry if this has already been posted, I did a search and couldn't find anything.
Anyway, this is a new issue for me as I didn't have this problem before getting my OTA of 4.0.4 last week. When I was on 4.0.2, I didn't have this issue - but I do now that I am on 4.0.4.
My phone will let me dial the area code + 7 digits, but if I am required to input numbers after the call is connected (like when calling your credit card company) the dial-pad screen and phone shuts off as soon as I click the 1st number.
I then have to turn on the phone, swipe to unlock, go back into the phone dialer and do this for each number input.
Anyone else having this issue? Any ideas/and or suggestions how to fix, or at least a workaround until Google gets it fixed?
Not sure if this matters, but I am stock GSM/T-Mobile.
Thank you.
Bmerz said:
Sorry if this has already been posted, I did a search and couldn't find anything.
Anyway, this is a new issue for me as I didn't have this problem before getting my OTA of 4.0.4 last week. When I was on 4.0.2, I didn't have this issue - but I do now that I am on 4.0.4.
My phone will let me dial the area code + 7 digits, but if I am required to input numbers after the call is connected (like when calling your credit card company) the dial-pad screen and phone shuts off as soon as I click the 1st number.
I then have to turn on the phone, swipe to unlock, go back into the phone dialer and do this for each number input.
Anyone else having this issue? Any ideas/and or suggestions how to fix, or at least a workaround until Google gets it fixed?
Not sure if this matters, but I am stock GSM/T-Mobile.
Thank you.
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This happens to me, however I only have to pull my hand away from the phone to bring it back to the dial pad.
I am guessing you have your phone set to lock "immediately" when the screen goes black (I have mine set to five seconds, so this does not happen to me)
What is happening (in my case at least) is an overly sensitive proximity sensor. It catches your hand, thinking you're putting the phone to your face, and darkens the screen. I have to be careful where I place my hand when I use the dialer after I am on a call (say, checking voicemail and entering password)
If your phone is set to lock immediately, try setting it to five seconds, and see if that helps.
This also happened on my GS2..
ingenious247 said:
This happens to me, however I only have to pull my hand away from the phone to bring it back to the dial pad.
I am guessing you have your phone set to lock "immediately" when the screen goes black (I have mine set to five seconds, so this does not happen to me)
What is happening (in my case at least) is an overly sensitive proximity sensor. It catches your hand, thinking you're putting the phone to your face, and darkens the screen. I have to be careful where I place my hand when I use the dialer after I am on a call (say, checking voicemail and entering password)
If your phone is set to lock immediately, try setting it to five seconds, and see if that helps.
This also happened on my GS2..
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Thank you, I will look into my settings and change it. But as for the other thing, one has to have their hand on/near the dialer in order to input more numbers. Perhaps I can angle the phone and my hand in a way that the sensor doesn't see my hand over the dial pad. (What a PITA! lol)
Nonetheless, thank you for chiming in!

[Q] 911 ass-dialing?

Has anyone else had a problem with the Optimus G being more prone to accidental 911 calls so far? It's happened to me three times in the last week, more than my Galaxy S2 did in 2 years.
Obviously somehow the power button is activating the screen, and then pressure on the screen is activating the Emergency dial key. But why this phone and not the S2 or my Nexus One before? I've asked nottach if the emergency dial key can be changed from single button to something else in The Base ROM, but I suspect this is hardcoded.
I have never ass dialed anything in ever. With any phone.
I opened a text message by accident when the phone was in my pocket. Now I disable screen wake when receiving a text. The phone was in my front pocket. This is the first phone to do this. Probably because when I used iPhones I had to slide to open things and not just tap.
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I have never actually had a 911 call placed, but i have noticed that on a number of occasions the standard lock screen buttons disappear (the call, text, browser, camera ones at the bottom of the screen) and are replaced by the dial emergency button. I have yet to figure out what causes this to happen or found any way to force it to happen.
Fission_Chipz said:
I have never actually had a 911 call placed, but i have noticed that on a number of occasions the standard lock screen buttons disappear (the call, text, browser, camera ones at the bottom of the screen) and are replaced by the dial emergency button. I have yet to figure out what causes this to happen or found any way to force it to happen.
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The only time i have ever seen emergency dial on any phone is from no service. Is it possible youre losing signal or your sim is not fully inserted?
Never happened to me.
Please ask all questions in Q&A. Thread moved there.
Isn't emergency dial the only other button available on the pattern lock screen when the screen wakes up?
I've used pattern lock for my lock screen since the Nexus One and never had a problem with accidental 911 calls before.
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Call answering bug

When somebody calling me and I pick up, I can make conversation but phone is stuck on ringing mode, and after few moments hang up phone call, and I have missed call...
Somebody else have this problem? How can I fix this?
I dont have this problem.
pogano_celjade said:
When somebody calling me and I pick up, I can make conversation but phone is stuck on ringing mode, and after few moments hang up phone call, and I have missed call...
Somebody else have this problem? How can I fix this?
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That's weird, I did never face this issue but my A2L is relatively new (1 week only).
I'll try to phone to my own A2L using different devices to see if I face this issue.
lbsilva said:
That's weird, I did never face this issue but my A2L is relatively new (1 week only).
I'll try to phone to my own A2L using different devices to see if I face this issue.
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Yes, it is very weird and annoying. Not happens every time, but sometimes... ?
This happened to me yesterday for the first time, but I thought that was a problem of the person that was calling me.
It was a number I didn't have in my contacts, and after the bug I immediately called back that number, but it was not available.
I thought the person that was calling me had a very low battery charge and while calling me his phone turned off, causing the bug (because immediately after the bug it was unavailable).
To this date I still did not have this problem.
Me too, i cant answer and reject calls when i upgrade to android pie
Solved: Screen not turning on with incoming calls
Step 1: Go to Dialer or Phone app settings. To do so, you can either go to main settings, then open ‘Apps’, and then scroll down to Dialer or Phone App.
You can also access App Info page by long pressing the app icon, and then tapping the App info option or the small ‘i’ icon in the corner.
Step 2: Now select “App notifications” option and turn it "on"
Step 3: Now if App notifications are turned off, your display won’t wake up when someone calls you. Also if only the “Incoming calls” permission is off, your screen will not light up with incoming calls. Make sure required permissions are turned on and your issue will be fixed.
Xiaomi Mi 2 Lite. I cannot get incoming calls to show on my screen, so I can't answer. Tried switching notifications off and on again, tried forcing stop. Two days ago I did a factory reset and was OK for 2 days. I think this is since latest Android update about a 10 days ago.
Call answer bug
I have similar issue on Mi A1, been going for a while. Sometimes, call comes in, the answer key cannot pick and cannot reject the call. This happened after a certain update I just dont know which. I have noticed that this mostly happens at some particular GSM antennas, sometimes, just by moving away from that antenna (that's when in a car) solves the problem. But as long as I remained in that location at that time, i cannot pick or reject calls, I also can't make calls, I get the promt, network problem, even though the service bars r showing. And in some cases the people calling will tell me, that calls to me are not going through.
This is driving me nuts. When I get a phone call I get a bar at the top of the screen with two buttone, one saying Decline and the other sayng Answer. I can tap on it like a demented woodpecker, but nothing happens. If Itry to swipe it, the two buttons just disappear into a void and the phone keeps ringing with no way to answer. Very, very occasionally I get the normal notification that I can swipe to answer, but I have to phone nearly everybody back.
PeterSharpe said:
This is driving me nuts. When I get a phone call I get a bar at the top of the screen with two buttone, one saying Decline and the other sayng Answer. I can tap on it like a demented woodpecker, but nothing happens. If Itry to swipe it, the two buttons just disappear into a void and the phone keeps ringing with no way to answer. Very, very occasionally I get the normal notification that I can swipe to answer, but I have to phone nearly everybody back.
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Clear data and cache of the "phone" App and if necessary reinstall the application

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