Re: is my phone ON or is it OFF?

Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:

bad sector, 2024-04-30 13:21:
 

On 4/30/24 05:57, Frank Slootweg wrote:

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   Are these scenarios even possible?
>
   (AFAIK,) For a still active phone call: If the remote party 'hangs
up', the connection is terminated and the local phone will be 'on hook'
again.

 
Once (when we were all driving used Chevvy-II's and Pintos with babies
in cribs or child seats) my sister-in-law got a call from her dad
telling her that they were welcome to visit any time (he lived on the
coast). She and her husband were very happy to hear that. But the old
fart kept failing to hang-up so several minutes after that call one of
them picked up the phone only to hear him say to someone physically
beside him "the Rockafellers are coming visiting".

 
When they did not hang up, yes then this is possible - otherwise not.

  But that was a scenario with a normal (not mobile) phone with a
seperate handpiece/receiver (we Dutch call it the 'hoorn' (horn). As I
mentioned, (AFAIK, for the reasons I gave) such a scenario is not
possible for a smartphone (and probably also not for most 'dumb'/feature
phones).

  My take is that 'bad sector' just wants to ramble/vent.