How to send the person calling a busy signal.

Post by micky
I have an 84-year old friend who lives in another town. Now that he's
moved, he only has a cell. Today I called him and after a few rings,
he seemed to anseron hut I only heard a couple "uh"s and then got a busy
signal.
What can the person receiving a call possibly do to give me a busy
signal once he has answered, or even before he answers???
With a cellphone or, for that matter, if it had been a wired phone?
I hung up and waited 5 minutes to give him a chance to call me, but when
he didnt' I called and there was no answer. 90 minutes later I called
again and it was like the first time, but with even less noises at the
other until I got the busy signal.
Disregarding the busy signal, whose ofigin I could not fathom, I
envisioned him answering the phone but unable to bring it to his mouth.
He's had a lot weakness lately. And I called his son who lives nearby
to alert him. His son writes that he talked to him and he's fine. So
what accounts for all this including the busy signals??

Bad network.

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Cheers, Carlos.

micky

2025-02-20 21:25:47 UTC

In comp.mobile.android, on Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:58:58 +0100, "Carlos

Post by Carlos E.R.

Bad network.

You might be right I thought I hear human sounds before the busy
signal and waited until I could talk to my friend, but he didn't
remember ir he'd answered the phone yesterday or not. The neurologist
also couldnt' find anything wrong him so he still doesn't know why some
days he's so tired he has to rest after going to the next room. And
other days he can walk 2 blocks.

Andy Burns

2025-02-20 10:37:36 UTC

Post by micky
What can the person receiving a call possibly do to give me a busy
signal once he has answered, or even before he answers???

Depending on phone model, either swipe down to reject call instead of
swiping up to answer

Or press the red hang-up button instead of green answer button.

Jeff Layman

2025-02-20 11:16:39 UTC

Post by micky
What can the person receiving a call possibly do to give me a busy
signal once he has answered, or even before he answers???

Depending on phone model, either swipe down to reject call instead of
swiping up to answer
Or press the red hang-up button instead of green answer button.

Which could be an issue if your eyesight isn't good enough to read the
text on the buttons and you're red-green colour-blind.

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Jeff

Andy Burns

2025-02-20 11:46:50 UTC

Post by Andy Burns
Depending on phone model, either swipe down to reject call instead of
swiping up to answer
Or press the red hang-up button instead of green answer button.

Which could be an issue if your eyesight isn't good enough to read the
text on the buttons and you're red-green colour-blind.

Indeed, the ageing friend may have fumbly hands, I remember people here
not understanding you have to slide the button to answer calls ...

Java Jive

2025-02-20 12:38:05 UTC

Post by Andy Burns
Depending on phone model, either swipe down to reject call instead of
swiping up to answer
Or press the red hang-up button instead of green answer button.

Which could be an issue if your eyesight isn't good enough to read the
text on the buttons and you're red-green colour-blind.

Indeed, the ageing friend may have fumbly hands, I remember people here
not understanding you have to slide the button to answer calls ...

Yup, guilty as charged, I found that *really* confusing at first.

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Carlos E.R.

2025-02-20 12:46:38 UTC

Post by Java Jive

Post by Andy Burns
Depending on phone model, either swipe down to reject call instead of
swiping up to answer
Or press the red hang-up button instead of green answer button.

Which could be an issue if your eyesight isn't good enough to read
the text on the buttons and you're red-green colour-blind.

Indeed, the ageing friend may have fumbly hands, I remember people
here not understanding you have to slide the button to answer calls ...

Yup, guilty as charged, I found that *really* confusing at first.

Same here. The first time I got a phone call on my first smartphone from
a friend I could not answer it. Then I phoned him and asked.

The idea is good, of course, it impedes the phone from answering inside
the pocket, but it is not trivial to understand it.

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Cheers, Carlos.

micky

2025-02-20 13:38:26 UTC

In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:38:05 +0000, Java Jive

Post by Java Jive

Post by Andy Burns
Depending on phone model, either swipe down to reject call instead of
swiping up to answer
Or press the red hang-up button instead of green answer button.

Which could be an issue if your eyesight isn't good enough to read the
text on the buttons and you're red-green colour-blind.

Indeed, the ageing friend may have fumbly hands, I remember people here
not understanding you have to slide the button to answer calls ...

Yup, guilty as charged, I found that *really* confusing at first.

I think when I got used to that sliding metod, I either changed phones
or I was in a different part of the same phone, and the method was to
tap the red or green box. It's really a bad time to learn this when one
is driving. (And the first time was a doctor I really had to talk to,
and I was on a bridge -- no shoulder -- when the phone rang. I missed
the call but reached him a couple minutes later by calling him back.)

AJL

2025-02-20 14:56:29 UTC

Post by micky
In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:38:05 +0000, Java Jive

Post by Java Jive

Post by Andy Burns
Depending on phone model, either swipe down to reject call
instead of swiping up to answer
Or press the red hang-up button instead of green answer
button.

Which could be an issue if your eyesight isn't good enough to
read the text on the buttons and you're red-green
colour-blind.

Indeed, the ageing friend may have fumbly hands, I remember
people here not understanding you have to slide the button to
answer calls ...

Yup, guilty as charged, I found that *really* confusing at first.

I think when I got used to that sliding method, I either changed
phones or I was in a different part of the same phone, and the
method was to tap the red or green box. It's really a bad time to
learn this when one is driving. (And the first time was a doctor I
really had to talk to, and I was on a bridge -- no shoulder -- when
the phone rang. I missed the call but reached him a couple minutes
later by calling him back.)

I have my Samsung Galaxy S10+ phone set to answer and disconnect a call
by using its its physical buttons only. No screen needed. Pushing the up
button answers a call and pushing the on-off button disconnects the
call. It also audibly tells me who's calling if they're in my contacts.

A very handy setting IMO. Dunno how many other phones have the
capability but if you hate the hassle of screen answering as I did give
it a look-see...

Arno Welzel

2025-02-21 08:22:58 UTC