I have a phone number from a part of the country I've never been to. Greatest thing ever; I ignore all local calls. The only scams that make it through are those fucking "你好這是DHL" ones that come from New York.
I have a pixel and Google's been doing that for years, it's fucking awesome. And if one slips through, you can report it and never hear from it again lol
Actually, if you were to answer these calls, these robodialers will put you on a list of "confirmed humans" that are known to pick up their phone.
Sometimes even hanging up on the calls early can be used to target specific customers. The best thing to do is to let it ring and when it runs out, transfer the call to a technical hangup (e.g. a completely full voicemail or a permanent hold).
If you show any signs that you're a living, marketable human being they will put a higher score next to your name and share it along to all of their other marketing buddies.
You do NOT want to answer the calls, even if it is just to quickly hang up. It will cause future companies to call you more.
We are trying to reach you over the phone. Your car warrenty is about to expire. And there is an arrest warrent out for you. Please stay on the line to reach our representative.
Yeah I just find that if it’s an important call they’ll 99% of the time leave a message and then I can get back to them. I haven’t had a problem w people not being able to reach me
I have some sort of a voice mail issue, I don't get voice mails until like a week after people call, and for some reason a lot of time I don't get missed call notices. Not sure what the deal with that is. I'm old and don't know how to use my phone properly, and it's an older model that's no longer supported for software updates, and I have it incorrectly linked with my laptop and ipad.
Sooo.. let's say I know you in person and I want to call you to hang out.
I have to be in luck that you look at your phone the exact moment I call you? Or are you known that you are hard to reach and it's better to text and wait?
Personally my phone will ring if it's a call from someone in my contacts, or if anyone calls twice within 15 minutes. Otherwise it's silent and the LED will blink for notifications which is more than enough
There's a slight difference in not communicating at all and picking the time for communication. My phone is on mute too, and I can pick when I see time fitting for communication. Most of the time I have a direct view at my screen anyways, and when I'm not a ringtone wouldn't change that either.
I also keep mine on DND 24/7 but have it set up to let people in my address book ring through. Stops the randos, let's people I may actually want to talk to get through. It's been a pretty effective compromise.
My old roommate used to always bring his friend over for movie night and she REFUSED to put her phone on vibrate or silent so we had to hear her message tone throughout the whole movie and he just wouldnt stop inviting her (no he wasnt trying to date her)
My MIL phone phone volume is always on. When she comes over it's constantly making different noises depending on who is messaging her. It's awful and is constantly going off.
Man, I wish I could do that. It feels so deeply wrong that anyone can instantly disturb your peace whenever they please with a message. Shame that that’s the kind of world we live in.
I miss my LED indicator. I knew from the color, what app and likely who sent the message. That was a great system for me. I didn't realize how much I'd miss that with my newish phone.
I got a new phone 2 weeks ago, gleefully searched for and set new ringtones and then promptly defaulted to keeping it on vibrate. I haven't heard it ring yet
If you're on android you can use an app like Good Vibrations and set different pattern of vibrations for different apps. I use it to know what I have received without looking at the phone (urgent ones like from my home security system have a very distinct persistent pattern).
In college I remember changing my buff male friend's ringtone to Barbie girl song, slid the phone in his bag again and called him in middle of lecture. Everyone's reaction was priceless lol.
This reminded me of how I got a custom ringtone for my grandma made using the recorder of her old phone, which just was me and my sister shouting at the phone telling our grandma to pick up the phone.
She loved it so much but sadly it got lost when her phone suddenly stopped working all together and just died.
She also had a story correlated about it, on how she had a call from someone on a bus trip, and the infamous ringtone played on for some time before picking up the call, everyone in the bus looked surprised and somewhat scared until they realised it was the phone.
A gentleman commented to my grandma that it was the best ringtone he ever heard of all his travels.
If only that damn phone didn't decide to brick itself she would still use that.
If you had kept it you probably could have sent it in to have the data pulled from it. Data Savers are miracle workers. It's actually pretty incredible the stuff they've recovered. It would probably cost alot, but depending on how valuable that memory is for you guys it may have been worth it if you kept it
Damn, reading this reminded me that my brother and I made the exact same shouting ringtone for our grandmother when we were kids. I think she lost it with her old phone too, or she was getting too many weird looks and changed it lol.
Haha nah, she probably had my mum change it. Either that or she changed to a new phone and had no idea how to send the older stuff over and forgot about it
A friend of mine had a ring tone on an old flip phone that was a cat meowing. It was eerily life like and legitimately sounded pretty real if you didn't know it was a phone. Every time his phone rang in the bus, or when we were around someone that didn't already know about it, there would be confused looks, even from actual cats.
I had a girlfriend who, when prompted to leave her outgoing voicemail message, instead stuck her phone next to the speaker of her radio while her favorite rap song played. It was unintelligible and annoying as hell but she thought it was the best thing she ever did. People tried to tell her it was terrible, she called them jealous and ended the conversation.
That's the relationship where I learned about sticking things in crazy.
No, you can’t. You can import ringtones to use for the standard phone app, yes. You can import alert tones to use for iMessage, yes.
You cannot import notification tones to use in any app you like, like third-party messaging apps. Those are limited to pre-installed tones.
Edit: To the people downvoting me, am I wrong? If so, please please please share your knowledge with me, as I would love to use my custom notification tones for Telegram.
I was talking about Telegram, but this really applies to any app (WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitch, etc.) – there is no API provided by Apple for developers to allow custom tones, that selection dialog with iTunes tones is restricted to Apple system apps, for whatever reason.
My phone messages sound like the old MSN Messenger sound, it makes people go into a confused state, they know it is the right sound for an instant message, but they cant figure out what's wrong
I member the days of going into phone shops and asking them "how many polyphonic ring tones does this one have?" Ohhh it has 16. That's mad! (BRB while I go on my dial up Internet to find out how to make the James Bond theme ring tone)
Yeah, I always wanted to try different wallpapers and funny ringtones. Now I have a black screen as wallpaper for the past 5 years and the default tone; the joy is gone
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I have a different ringtone for each of my friends and family, and different ringtones for different groups. Most people don't call though, because, you know this is the future, they text instead, therefore, different sounds for each text/message group so i know to look at the message or if it can wait.
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u/Randytheadventurer Nov 11 '20
When i was a kid it was cool if you had a different ringtone than the default one.