Re: How to send the person calling a busy signal.

On 2/20/2025 6:38 AM, micky wrote:

In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:38:05 +0000, Java Jive
<java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-02-20 11:46, Andy Burns wrote:

Jeff Layman wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

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

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

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

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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...