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Re: Looking for a _free_ ICE app

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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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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

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