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shopgirl82 · Chanel

Cellphone Question That I Should Know...

Elle · Hermes

Hmmm, when I hit the silence button on mine, it still continues to ring - I just can't hear it! Maybe it's different on different phones though?

shopgirl82 · Chanel

Elle wrote:

Hmmm, when I hit the silence button on mine, it still continues to ring - I just can't hear it! Maybe it's different on different phones though?

i felt like it silenced and then went to voicemail?? anyone know what happens with sprint?

Farrah · Marc Jacobs

When I had Sprint if you silenced the phone it still continued to ring. I think that every phone is different when it comes to number of rings before VM. HTH!

wildflower930 · BCBG

My husband used to do that to me all the time, but he had a nextel and when the phone rang it would give you an option to send the call to voicemail. When he did that it wouldn't ring as many times as it usually did. I called him on it all the time and he finally stopped doing it. But that was with nextel, I don't know if other phones have that option.

shopgirl82 · Chanel

i guess there's no real way of me knowing, but i feel like there's got to be some active attempt to have it go to voicemail after only three rings instead of five. i know it sounds like i am being petty, and i probably am, but i needed to talk to that person and twice the phone call went to voicemail after only a couple of rings instead of the usual number of rings.

Kari · Dooney & Bourke

shopgirl82 wrote:

Elle wrote:

Hmmm, when I hit the silence button on mine, it still continues to ring - I just can't hear it! Maybe it's different on different phones though?

i felt like it silenced and then went to voicemail?? anyone know what happens with sprint?

If a person just silences the ringer, it continues to ring the normal amount of rings...however, if the person hits "ignore", it goes straight to voicemail.

shopgirl82 · Chanel

Kari wrote:

If a person just silences the ringer, it continues to ring the normal amount of rings...however, if the person hits "ignore", it goes straight to voicemail.

my friend and i have the same phone. i think the side button on the sprint phone must be ignore then..... because if you press it once it stops the ringing.

alright, i'll stop analyzing what did or did not happen last night. i'm just a bit annoyed because i'm pretty sure my phone call got shhhed last night.

Kelly · Hermes

When my phone rings, I press one button and it quits ringing loudly but I can still pick it up and answer and the person still hears it ringing - I do that all the time if I'm at someone's house, I'll press silent so my ring isn't annoying while I walk into another room to answer or something.

But if I hit it again, it goes to voicemail right away, so if I do that after only 1 or 2 rings, that's as many as the other person hears before going to my voicemail.

Still, sometimes my service is weird and people say it only rings once or twice before going to voicemail, so I don't think you were necessarily shunned.

-- Edited by ttara123 at 15:45, 2007-02-20

Deuce · Dooney & Bourke

If you have the same phone just do an experiment and call your cell from your home phone or have a friend call you. That is what I would do.
Sometimes if that person is somewhere service is not good this could happen. It could also happen if at that time the cell signal went out. I know sometimes in my living room I will have full services but a couple times a month in the evening it fluctuates and I get very little service and miss a lot of calls that I never heard ring.

luckyclover · Dooney & Bourke

Can you call the provider and ask them how it works? or is it maybe different for every phone as opposed to the provider? Maybe you could read the manual in that case...if you know what phone they have you could probably find the manual online somewhere. A friend of mine had that happen once...her b/f's phone rang lots more than it always does before going to voicemail. I think maybe the phone rings longer if it's turned off as compared to just missing the call. I never paid attention to what happens when I hit the silence button so I'm curious now what you find out if anything.

e_doli · Dooney & Bourke

I have sprint and what i have figured out is:

when you hit the side button to silence the ring on the receiver's end, it continues to ring on the caller's end
if someone turns their phone off, it will ring the normal amount of times when the first person calls them, but after the first missed call it will go directly to voicemail
if someone has had more than one missed call and voicemail and their phone is on (and they haven't done anything to the phone to acknowlege the voicemail/missed call alerts), the phone will sometimes ring fewer times before voicemail picks up

It sounds like in your case it's the last one. there have been a few times when my SO is MIA, and after i call a couple times and leave messages, the phone won't ring as many times (like 3 instead of 7 or something). and what it has turned out to be was that he had gone to a friend's house and left his phone in the car.

Teresa · Kate Spade

okay, when it rings you can either hit answer or silence...THEN, you can hit ignore. Thats what he is doing. The silence doesnt send it to VM, but ignore does.