ICE - In Case of Emergency

x3ja

I have a Nokia 5100 and if I add the same number under two contacts it then doesn't recognise them when people ring or text me. Silly feature, but it means that whoever I store as my ICE number won't be recognised... which is the person that text/rings me most often!

Oh, and I tried having 077... on one and +4477... on the other and it's clever enough to know they're the same and still does the same.

Any suggestions? I reckon I need a new phone (please tell my fiancee / ICE contact that I do... sounds like a good excuse!)

jessleski

I've just done all my ICEs now (as ICE plus the name so I don't have to double up the contact number). But I've just had a thought - has anyone suggested using 1CE instead of ICE so that it's the first number in your contact list? Unless of course you can reorder the list but I'm not sure my phone can do that and if it can I don't know how. Does anyone have any ideas on that one?

The_Machine

Originally Posted by x3ja
I have a Nokia 5100 and if I add the same number under two contacts it then doesn't recognise them when people ring or text me. Silly feature, but it means that whoever I store as my ICE number won't be recognised... which is the person that text/rings me most often!

Oh, and I tried having 077... on one and +4477... on the other and it's clever enough to know they're the same and still does the same.

Any suggestions? I reckon I need a new phone (please tell my fiancee / ICE contact that I do... sounds like a good excuse!)

See my earlier post.


I had the same problem with my Nokia 6230 and came up with a workaround. As your phone is fairly new, I'd imagine it'd work on yours too.... so sorry, no new phone yet!

gnasher

x3ja wrote:

I have a Nokia 5100 and if I add the same number under two contacts it then doesn't recognise them when people ring or text me. Silly feature, but it means that whoever I store as my ICE number won't be recognised... which is the person that text/rings me most often!

Oh, and I tried having 077... on one and +4477... on the other and it's clever enough to know they're the same and still does the same.

Any suggestions? I reckon I need a new phone (please tell my fiancee / ICE contact that I do... sounds like a good excuse!)

anyone having this problem:
why don't you just amend the name of your existing entry in your phone book to "ICE - (whoever)"
Then you only have one contact, and your phone doesn't get confused?

Ayesha

I don't know if there is any truth in this but I recieved the following email yesterday from a colleague:
_____________________
I received this yesterday

This seemed such a good idea - I was on the verge of doing it, however, this warning came today from the chief business manager of a very large telecommunications firm, who is a friend of mine and to whom I sent this last night - this is a legitimate warning. If you've already put this on your phone - take it off pronto.

Somehow identifying an emergency contact seems a good thing to do
though, no?

________________________________________________________________________
Be very careful with this one - although the intention is great it is unfortunately phase one of a phone based virus that is laying a path for propagating very quickly. Passing it on is part of the virus interestingly, such is the deviousness of the people who write these things. We have already seen the "second phase" where a program is sent as part of a ring-tone download that goes into your address book and looks for something it recognises - you've guessed it, an address book entry marked "ICE or I.C.E." or whatever. It then sends itself to the "ICE list", charging you for the privilege.

The_Machine

gnasher wrote:

anyone having this problem:
why don't you just amend the name of your existing entry in your phone book to "ICE - (whoever)"

Of course, that would work perfectly well too. However, call me fussy, but I'd prefer not to have "ICE" flashing up on the screen whenever a loved one calls.

Incidentally, if Ayesha's warning turns out to be true, not having a number saved against ICE would prevent any virus from propogating itself further.

worldtraveller

Ayesha wrote:

I don't know if there is any truth in this but I recieved the following email yesterday from a colleague:
_____________________
I received this yesterday

This seemed such a good idea - I was on the verge of doing it, however, this warning came today from the chief business manager of a very large telecommunications firm, who is a friend of mine and to whom I sent this last night - this is a legitimate warning. If you've already put this on your phone - take it off pronto.

Somehow identifying an emergency contact seems a good thing to do
though, no?

________________________________________________________________________
Be very careful with this one - although the intention is great it is unfortunately phase one of a phone based virus that is laying a path for propagating very quickly. Passing it on is part of the virus interestingly, such is the deviousness of the people who write these things. We have already seen the "second phase" where a program is sent as part of a ring-tone download that goes into your address book and looks for something it recognises - you've guessed it, an address book entry marked "ICE or I.C.E." or whatever. It then sends itself to the "ICE list", charging you for the privilege.

Please see following release from East Anglian Ambulance yesterday:



http://www.eastanglianambulance.com/content/news/newsdetail.asp?newsID=1121256619

yorkshire_flyer

I have a friend with a personal contact with Orange - the mobile phone company.
Whilst understanding what lies behind this campaign they do not support it.
The huge number of mobile phones that are lost or stolen means that this personal information can easily fall into the wrong hands.
You may have seen recent television programmes related to information theft.
In the UK it is fairly easy, through mobile phone records held in confidence by the mobile phone comapnies, for them to respond to a legitimate police request for details of next of kin as and when required. They prefer this to having an ICE entry on the mobile phone itself.
Just another view of this idea.

Karb

Hmm, I have an acquaintance who I met via a messageboard, who's saved under his board name of Ice.

I guess I'd better alter my phone, else he'll be getting the call in an emergency, but he doesn't know any of my family.

Trix

I agree with not wanting certain people called in emergencies. All my in-laws are very....how can I put it...highly strung! They are the sort of people that go into a blind panic in emergencies. My family however are very calm and can deal with situations easily so my hubby would use my mum rather than his mum as the person to contact.

Simple way to stop ICE flashing instead of someones name when using the same number - when storing the number under ICE, add a zero to the end. The number is still usable as the zero is just ignored when calling it, but as a zero isn't really on the end of the number, the usual number under someones name is the only one that will display. Does that make sense?

Still a bit hesitant to use the system at the minute due to issues raised but will look into it a bit more probably do it. If anyone gets your phone and wants to play silly bu**ers with it they will regardless of if a number is under ICE or not.