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Help way too easy to call 911

agent0014 said:
...but I've never felt like being a jerk about it. Good job.
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Lol! Mainly I have the issue when I slide the keyboard in/out right before drawing the pattern. It takes a sec for the orientation to adjust, and the last part of my pattern lies right where the emergency button is when the orientation changes.
 
I bought my moment about 2 months ago and thought I'd never be dumb enough to hit it...until I called by accident last week. :o

I forgot all about it until reading this post and realized I had not seen the button in awhile. I downloaded the DxTop App for my phone and enabled the "slide to unlock" screen to come on before the draw pattern screen and I no longer see the emergency dial button...HOORAY!
 
sbeckom said:
I bought my moment about 2 months ago and thought I'd never be dumb enough to hit it...until I called by accident last week. :o

I forgot all about it until reading this post and realized I had not seen the button in awhile. I downloaded the DxTop App for my phone and enabled the "slide to unlock" screen to come on before the draw pattern screen and I no longer see the emergency dial button...HOORAY!
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Holy crap... you're right! when the DxTop lock screen is enabled, it strips the emergency button from the pattern lock screen. That's pretty cool that there's at least something of a fix for this via apps.

Of course DxTop isn't for everyone... for me it's my favorite home screen replacement though. There are a lot of great hidden features which, when set up, make the phone a lot easier to navigate and use.
 
agent0014 said:
Of course DxTop isn't for everyone... for me it's my favorite home screen replacement though. There are a lot of great hidden features which, when set up, make the phone a lot easier to navigate and use.
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Seriously? GREAT!
What separates it from say... open home?
 
Talon Pro said:
But then i guess im the only person who never loses his phone, or has to worry about anyone other than my wife having access to my phone....?
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Better to make up an excuse about having a lock screen because of people at work than to explain why you have dirty text messages to a co-worker on your phone to your significant other I guess.
 
The biggest difference between DxTop and any other home replacement I've seen/used is the four-homescreen setup. The screens are set up in a "plus symbol" shape, as in there is a top, bottom, left and right screen. To get to any of the other three from the one you're on, you'd swipe in the appropriate direction. For example, if you're on the left screen, swipe down to pull open the top screen, or up for the bottom... and left for the right. The cool thing about this is you can get to any screen with one swipe from the one you're on.

Secondly, there are two tabs at the bottom of the screen. The first is the traditional app listing, the second shows recently used and currently running applications. You can even long click (press, hold, wait for haptic feedback and release) to get to a contextual menu to end the process or get to more options. This works on the first tab as well.

Lastly, if you swipe the tabs left or right, it rotates out into a small dock that can hold any 1x1 icons or widgets for quick access to your top five items. If you've got this open and want to get to the tabs, you can swipe back or long press the menu or back buttons to open the appropriate tab immediately.

Also, I recently discovered the ability to apply labels/categories to all the apps in the app drawer, and then tell it to group them by category. Once I went through and applied the categories, I could easily show only games, or only system tools, etc. You can even create a shortcut on the desktop to open a folder showing all the apps in a category. You can even hide things you don't want to see in the drawer, like icon packs.

There's a ton more this thing does, I think it's completely worth the price of a small starbucks latte, haha. Check out:

DxTop home

androidforums.com - Why Dxtop is the best home replacment.
 
I should mention that the DxTop fix may still annoy some, as you have to swipe to unlock (a la iPhone/iPod Touch) and then enter in your unlock pattern. At least you don't have to press menu first though... so the iPhone swipe would replace pressing menu.
 
sbeckom said:
I bought my moment about 2 months ago and thought I'd never be dumb enough to hit it...until I called by accident last week. :o

I forgot all about it until reading this post and realized I had not seen the button in awhile. I downloaded the DxTop App for my phone and enabled the "slide to unlock" screen to come on before the draw pattern screen and I no longer see the emergency dial button...HOORAY!
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Great Tip!

This is definately not a 100% solution, but it infinately better than anything else I have tried so far. Lock 2.0 is the only other locking product I have tried, but it is thwarted by simply powering off the phone.

I tried pattern locking when I first received the phone. After two accidental 911 calls within hours of receiving the phone, I promptly disabled it.

I have only had the application installed a few hours, but I am liking it. That d*med EMERGENCY CALL button is gone!!!...Mostly. The only caveat - If you power off your phone completely and then power it on, it takes a minute for DXTop to load. During that time, the 911 speed dial button will reappear until the app fully loads. Other than that as long as you can be patient when powering up your phone... 911 speed dial will be gone and the phone locked!!! :D:D:D (although I still find myself hesitant to slide my finger over that beautiful gaping black spot where Emergency Dial used to be)

I still hope that a better way to implement 911 dial is in the works. From other posts, it sounds like the promised 2.0 upgrade may fix the way the phone handles locked 911 calls. I would also like to see a user selectable password timeout (5 minutes, 15 minutes, etc.) that is NOT linked to the display timeout (my motorola Q9c worked this way) as well as the ability to use alphanumeric passphrases instead of the pattern screen.
 
you know, I wonder how cool the DxTop dev is... maybe someone could request that they share what their lockscreen does that ultimately suppresses the emergency call button on our phone. Maybe they could add a checkbox to to suppress the emergency button without enabling the lockscreen. Just a thought.
 
Before I upgraded To Samsung Moment i had my Samsung M800 Instinct and when i had that locked one time i called the police by mistake and i did not known it into i pull my cell phone out of my pocket. I must have hit Emergency call button by mistake and when i called back i was asked to call another number and they answer i explain what happen but they still sent a officer to be on the safe side.
 
I can't find alock, so i guess its not out yet. But it didnt look like there were any codes/sequences you could use to secure your phone.

I was wondering if maybe that emergency call was an app that we could delete now that we have root.
 
Don't you have to hit END then MENU to get to the lock screen that has the emergency call button just like normal unlocking but with an intermediate screen?
 
Yeah, I know what you mean. I had to completely rid myself of the whole connect the dot security anyway because when it's active, I can't use the media player in my car. Now, at least, I just have to hit a button, feel for the middle button, hit right above it and then, using the widget, hit Next on the screen.

The 911 thing was just friggin annoying. Once it wouldn't leave the notification bar saying "Recall Emergency" or something and I couldn't get out of that mode.
 
caspertodd said:
And this will end up starting a new thread "way too hard to dial 911"...
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Should have it give a math problem inorder to dial 911.. that way we can put a lower limit on the IQ of who can call 911 (darwinism in action?)...

Note: This is just a joke.. please don't take it in an offensive manner
 
dkjones96 said:
Don't you have to hit END then MENU to get to the lock screen that has the emergency call button just like normal unlocking but with an intermediate screen?
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Normally, you hit End, then Menu to get the pattern unlock screen. However, if you accidentally (or purposefully) open the keyboard, (while locked or after clicking the End button) it immediately displays the pattern screen with emergency button.

I haven't accidentally dialed 911 yet (fingers crossed) but I can see how it might happen to me if the keyboard slides out unexpectedly.
 
I've had the same problems, I think I've made about 15 calls already to 911. It's not that I'm in a hurry or anything when using the swipe motions to unlock my phone, I've called while getting in my car, or just putting the phone in my pocket. I put the phone screen side out and it seems to make little difference. I agree with AndroidSPCS tho, if you take little extra time you won't dial on accident. I do how ever like the Lock 2.0, its made a big difference for me. I use both Pandahome and the regular home screen, It keeps telling me i have been warned when going to Panda not sure whats up, that was after lock 2.0 was installed tho...To each his own, i shelled out the 2 bux for the app. Then again, its my cheapest cell phone purchase in years lol.
 
shawn_hall said:
Normally, you hit End, then Menu to get the pattern unlock screen. However, if you accidentally (or purposefully) open the keyboard, (while locked or after clicking the End button) it immediately displays the pattern screen with emergency button.

I haven't accidentally dialed 911 yet (fingers crossed) but I can see how it might happen to me if the keyboard slides out unexpectedly.
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m'kay, so I thought I was being so good and never hit that button, but then i was in vegas this past weekend and drunk dialed 911, oops.

did anyone else hear about the new CL14 update coming from samsung/sprint? One of the upgrades is: "Change to Emergency Dial on lock screen" but I haven't read anywhere what these changes look like.

For now, you have to go into the Sprint store to have the upgrade done, but they are working on a download for next month, apparently.
 
So just to confirm for those who found it difficult before. The update fixed this. If you hit the emergency call button now it takes you to the dialer. Hope this helps everyone who was having issues. I liked that it takes you to the unlock screen with the password on when you slide open. I didn't know that before. I didn't use the password though before either til people started liking to play with my phone at work.
 
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