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  Looking for a _free_ ICE app "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-08-10 21:04 +0200
    Re: Looking for a _free_ ICE app "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-08-10 21:26 +0200
    Re: Looking for a _free_ ICE app Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2015-08-10 21:09 +0000
      Re: Looking for a _free_ ICE app The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 14:34 -0700
      Re: Looking for a _free_ ICE app Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-08-11 14:03 +0000
        Re: Looking for a _free_ ICE app "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-08-11 19:02 +0200
        Re: Looking for a _free_ ICE app The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 10:17 -0700
      Re: Looking for a _free_ ICE app "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2015-08-11 19:03 +0200

#21927 — Looking for a _free_ ICE app

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. It has an interesting option: you can
place contacts in a ICE (In Case of Emergency) group and people can call
these numbers, even if the device is locked. Simply press emergency call
and then press the button in the bottom left corner:
<http://oi59.tinypic.com/3151gz5.jpg>

Now, my godchild has a Huawei P8 Lite and it doesn't seem to have this
option. There's isn't even a ICE - emergency contacts group to begin
with. So now I'm looking for a free app to install on his phone.

I've been searching on Google Play and there are several ICE apps, not
all of them free, and they all need permissions which IMHO they don't
need. I'm not looking for an app that includes all his medical data. I
just want an app that enables a person to call emergency contacts.

-- 
s|b

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#21928

On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:04:01 +0200, s|b wrote:

> I've been searching on Google Play and there are several ICE apps, not
> all of them free, and they all need permissions which IMHO they don't
> need. I'm not looking for an app that includes all his medical data. I
> just want an app that enables a person to call emergency contacts.

This one looks promising:
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icedataprovider.blacksmith_software>

-- 
s|b

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#21932

On 2015-08-10, s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
> I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. It has an interesting option: you can
> place contacts in a ICE (In Case of Emergency) group and people can
> call these numbers, even if the device is locked. Simply press
> emergency call and then press the button in the bottom left corner:
> <http://oi59.tinypic.com/3151gz5.jpg>
>
> Now, my godchild has a Huawei P8 Lite and it doesn't seem to have this
> option. There's isn't even a ICE - emergency contacts group to begin
> with. So now I'm looking for a free app to install on his phone.
>
> I've been searching on Google Play and there are several ICE apps, not
> all of them free, and they all need permissions which IMHO they don't
> need. I'm not looking for an app that includes all his medical data. I
> just want an app that enables a person to call emergency contacts.

Way back in the olden days when mobile phones weren't smart and didn't
even have 'features', the advice was to create a 'contact' or 'address
book' entry with ".ICE" as the name (omit the quote marks but not the .
as that ensures that this item will be sorted to the start of the
contacts list).  Emergency personnel (medics fire-fighters cops
coastguard etc) were instructed to look for the .ICE contact.

Smartphones tend to lock the contacts away behind something secret, so
perhaps the smartphone version of the .ICE contact is a sheet of rugged
paper with the emergency contacts info written or printed in waterproof
ink and glued to the smartphone case or sleeve or whatever.  Or even the
sort of ID bracelet or locket that we used before we had mobile phones
at all.

-- 
-- ^^^^^^^^^^
--  Whiskers 
-- ~~~~~~~~~~

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#21933

On 08/10/2015 02:09 PM, Whiskers wrote:
> On 2015-08-10, s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>> I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. It has an interesting option: you can
>> place contacts in a ICE (In Case of Emergency) group and people can
>> call these numbers, even if the device is locked. Simply press
>> emergency call and then press the button in the bottom left corner:
>> <http://oi59.tinypic.com/3151gz5.jpg>
>>
>> Now, my godchild has a Huawei P8 Lite and it doesn't seem to have this
>> option. There's isn't even a ICE - emergency contacts group to begin
>> with. So now I'm looking for a free app to install on his phone.
>>
>> I've been searching on Google Play and there are several ICE apps, not
>> all of them free, and they all need permissions which IMHO they don't
>> need. I'm not looking for an app that includes all his medical data. I
>> just want an app that enables a person to call emergency contacts.
>
> Way back in the olden days when mobile phones weren't smart and didn't
> even have 'features', the advice was to create a 'contact' or 'address
> book' entry with ".ICE" as the name (omit the quote marks but not the .
> as that ensures that this item will be sorted to the start of the
> contacts list).  Emergency personnel (medics fire-fighters cops
> coastguard etc) were instructed to look for the .ICE contact.
>
> Smartphones tend to lock the contacts away behind something secret, so
> perhaps the smartphone version of the .ICE contact is a sheet of rugged
> paper with the emergency contacts info written or printed in waterproof
> ink and glued to the smartphone case or sleeve or whatever.  Or even the
> sort of ID bracelet or locket that we used before we had mobile phones
> at all.

Brother labeling devices make pretty nice-looking labels.

My phone isn't locked.  Why bother?  I suppose people could change all 
my google, facebook, etc. passwords just to annoy me, but who would do 
that?  If somebody wants to keep the phone then I'm out a phone and have 
to deal with installing my old apps on the new one, another nuisance.  I 
have my bank account on the phone so I can deposit checks without going 
to the bank, but I think you need to give a password anyway.

Might be worth signing up for a "if I lose it, wipe it" service, but so 
far even that is too much trouble.  Besides, how trustworthy are THOSE 
employees?

-- 
Cheers, Bev
============================================================
Brian (Talking to crowd): You need to be independent minded.
Crowd: We are! We are!
Person in crowd: I'm not!                    -- Monty Python

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#21953

On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:09:46 +0000, Whiskers wrote:

> On 2015-08-10, s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>> I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. It has an interesting option: you can
>> place contacts in a ICE (In Case of Emergency) group and people can
>> call these numbers, even if the device is locked. Simply press
>> emergency call and then press the button in the bottom left corner:
>> <http://oi59.tinypic.com/3151gz5.jpg>
>>
>> Now, my godchild has a Huawei P8 Lite and it doesn't seem to have this
>> option. There's isn't even a ICE - emergency contacts group to begin
>> with. So now I'm looking for a free app to install on his phone.
>>
>> I've been searching on Google Play and there are several ICE apps, not
>> all of them free, and they all need permissions which IMHO they don't
>> need. I'm not looking for an app that includes all his medical data. I
>> just want an app that enables a person to call emergency contacts.
> 
> Way back in the olden days when mobile phones weren't smart and didn't
> even have 'features', the advice was to create a 'contact' or 'address
> book' entry with ".ICE" as the name (omit the quote marks but not the .
> as that ensures that this item will be sorted to the start of the
> contacts list).  Emergency personnel (medics fire-fighters cops
> coastguard etc) were instructed to look for the .ICE contact.
> 
> Smartphones tend to lock the contacts away behind something secret, so
> perhaps the smartphone version of the .ICE contact is a sheet of rugged
> paper with the emergency contacts info written or printed in waterproof
> ink and glued to the smartphone case or sleeve or whatever.  Or even the
> sort of ID bracelet or locket that we used before we had mobile phones
> at all.

On my phone the lock screen allows a banner. In that I put my name and
my wife's phone number.

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#21958

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:03:11 +0000 (UTC), Joe Beanfish wrote:

> On my phone the lock screen allows a banner. In that I put my name and
> my wife's phone number.

I can do that as well and I /have/, but it's not your wife's phone
number. <g> I'll check if my godchild's Huawei has a similar option.

-- 
s|b

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#21960

On 08/11/2015 07:03 AM, Joe Beanfish wrote:

> On my phone the lock screen allows a banner. In that I put my name and
> my wife's phone number.

"For a good time call Joe and Jessica at ..."

I don't think that's the same thing :-)

Do you ski, perchance?

-- 
Cheers, Bev
==========================================
If god had wanted me to bend over he would
have sprinkled the floor with diamonds.

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#21959

On 10 Aug 2015 21:09:46 GMT, Whiskers wrote:

> Smartphones tend to lock the contacts away behind something secret, so
> perhaps the smartphone version of the .ICE contact is a sheet of rugged
> paper with the emergency contacts info written or printed in waterproof
> ink and glued to the smartphone case or sleeve or whatever.  Or even the
> sort of ID bracelet or locket that we used before we had mobile phones
> at all.

Going old school. Great, but it's not an app...

-- 
s|b

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