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Originally Posted by Grizzly_Addams
**WARNING**
I could not make an emergency phone call from my phone using the ROM! (23003)
I flashed this ROM to my phone earlier today. I was driving down a street in my city about 20 minutes ago and p a s s e d (sorry, forum filtering edited out the real word!) by a building on fire. Noone else was nearby and I attempted to dial 911, but instead of entering emergency mode and calling 911, the phone froze for about 90 seconds before kicking me out of the dialer. Even after soft resetting twice, I was still unable to place an emergency phone call. Luckily after about 5 minutes another person came by and was able to call in to report the fire. But 5 minutes can be a lifetime (or a life!) in an emergency.
I did not make *any* changes to the ROM. Like I said, I had just flashed it earlier, and did not even change any preferences in the settings menus! Not even so much as the theme. Of course I was able to place a normal phone call, which is obviously all I had tested at that point.
So I don't know if it's the dialer, or the build, or if any other wm6.5 chefs have even tried to place an emergency call with a recent build, but I would say it's worth looking in to.
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This is something I personally tested but not with any of the current releases.
The problem is that when you place a 911 call it does not dial like another number would. Before it connects with any dispatcher, the cell tower will attempt to get a gps lock on the device causing a lag of up to 3 min. Makes you think that the device is locked up(I reset the device 3 times during the test cause I thought it was locked up). It will close the dialer and all but then make the connection. This is not a good design. I was getting ancious just testing this. But I will test this again cause it is something that needs to work. I had tested this before in February or March.(tested with 6.1 and 6.5)
Thank you.
WIll test this again over the weekend. I am real good friends with the system here.