<story><title>Some Pixel owners still can&apos;t dial 911 during an emergency</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emergency-calling-issues-3362990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkagerer</author><text>Jeez - can&amp;#x27;t dial 911, randomly dials 911.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand why these devices can&amp;#x27;t even do the most &lt;i&gt;core&lt;/i&gt; feature of a phone properly.&lt;p&gt;This will sound crass but the development teams (right up to CEO&amp;#x27;s) should be dragged out to the gallows and flogged.&lt;p&gt;If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping, and not rested for a minute until any bugs were solidly quashed - up to and including recalling all sold units and overhauling the flakey architecture if needed.&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;i&gt;life safety&lt;/i&gt; we&amp;#x27;re talking about, not only for their users but also everyone else impacted by their blatent abuse of the emergency services system.  Would we tolerate bridges that collapsed with equally ambivalent consequences for those who engineered them?</text></item><item><author>lopkeny12ko</author><text>Funny, because I have the opposite problem. My Pixel dials 911 out of random and I always have to race to disconnect the call.&lt;p&gt;Just last night my Pixel Watch started ringing out of random while I was eating dinner and it said it was dialing 911. I saw a phone call pop up on my Pixel 6 phone but fortunately canceled it before it connected. My watch didn&amp;#x27;t even tell me &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; it dialed 911, and once I disconnected the call it just disappeared from my watch. Totally useless!&lt;p&gt;There should really be a hard-to-accidentally-accept confirmation dialog for any kind of automated emergency dial feature. This is ridiculous because this is probably the 3rd time this has happened to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guraf</author><text>In any other field, engineers would be held responsible and after so many &amp;quot;mistakes&amp;quot; they would lose their license.&lt;p&gt;Software engineers will fight tooth and nails to keep their privilege is being called engineers whilst having none of the responsibility when it comes to the harm they&amp;#x27;re causing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Some Pixel owners still can&apos;t dial 911 during an emergency</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emergency-calling-issues-3362990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkagerer</author><text>Jeez - can&amp;#x27;t dial 911, randomly dials 911.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand why these devices can&amp;#x27;t even do the most &lt;i&gt;core&lt;/i&gt; feature of a phone properly.&lt;p&gt;This will sound crass but the development teams (right up to CEO&amp;#x27;s) should be dragged out to the gallows and flogged.&lt;p&gt;If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping, and not rested for a minute until any bugs were solidly quashed - up to and including recalling all sold units and overhauling the flakey architecture if needed.&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;i&gt;life safety&lt;/i&gt; we&amp;#x27;re talking about, not only for their users but also everyone else impacted by their blatent abuse of the emergency services system.  Would we tolerate bridges that collapsed with equally ambivalent consequences for those who engineered them?</text></item><item><author>lopkeny12ko</author><text>Funny, because I have the opposite problem. My Pixel dials 911 out of random and I always have to race to disconnect the call.&lt;p&gt;Just last night my Pixel Watch started ringing out of random while I was eating dinner and it said it was dialing 911. I saw a phone call pop up on my Pixel 6 phone but fortunately canceled it before it connected. My watch didn&amp;#x27;t even tell me &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; it dialed 911, and once I disconnected the call it just disappeared from my watch. Totally useless!&lt;p&gt;There should really be a hard-to-accidentally-accept confirmation dialog for any kind of automated emergency dial feature. This is ridiculous because this is probably the 3rd time this has happened to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LinuxBender</author><text>&lt;i&gt;If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, every telco switch upgrade I performed &lt;i&gt;ages ago, early days of GSM&lt;/i&gt; the first number I tested was 911.  I made sure the dispatcher could hear me.  I don&amp;#x27;t know whats going on with the phone development side of things.  That seems like a QA and customer feedback review problem.  It probably also does not help that wireless vendors are slow&amp;#x2F;hesitant to update phones.  There is a fear of bricking phones and customer support nightmares &lt;i&gt;their words, not mine&lt;/i&gt;.  I could flash update a phone over the air but this was in the 90&amp;#x27;s.  No idea what that process looks like now.  I assume they stage an update on a CDN after hopefully testing it extensively.  Do all cell phones have two boot partitions in the event the upgrade process &lt;i&gt;is sub-optimal(c)?&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>