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Strange Behaviors when Calling 911 (US Emergency Number)
So, twice in the past two months I have had to call 911, the emergency number for the United States. Both times, I get an error message about how the call could not be connected, but I am nonetheless connected to 911 and can speak to dispatch (though the phone shows nothing and I cannot control the call at all). 911 doesn't show up in the call log either.
Version 5.6.1 Android 10 armv71 kernel 4.9
I mean, because of the nature of emergency numbers, I have not tested this, however, there is another similar issue mentioned in the subreddit periodically of people having the same issue.
So, twice in the past two months I have had to call 911, the emergency number for the United States. Both times, I get an error message about how the call could not be connected, but I am nonetheless connected to 911 and can speak to dispatch (though the phone shows nothing and I cannot control the call at all). 911 doesn't show up in the call log either.
Version 5.6.1 Android 10 armv71 kernel 4.9
If by call log you mean that it's not present after you've called it's not a bug but a feature. Android was made to not include emergency numbers in call log. But I can confirm that the error message is present when calling emergency like you've said. I've tried it on android emulator (SDK33) but it worked there so I don't know where is the problem.
Hello, hit this issue when trying to call ambulance to a person on street, luckily other person was passing around and their phone just worked (tm). Tried to understand what is happening. I am not an android dev, but ... it seems to be related to Android restriction on calling emergency numbers. At stack overflow they explained it is related to CALL PRIVILLEGED permission which might be granted only to certain app. As the post on SO is dated I hope there were some new way introduced in the mean time that would allow 3rd party dialers to work, that some of you android devs would know. My issue might have been related to stock phone app being disabled. One way or another dialer that will not allow calling emergency number ... seems like a really dangerous idea, there should be at least some warning when installing the app.
My issue might have been related to stock phone app being disabled.
I also had stock app disabled so it might be it. Sadly I can't test it on emulator because it doesn't let me disable phone app. But it probably can't be fixed at least in Play Store because "Not for use by third-party applications." source