We all develop habits for the most common things we do in the course of our day. For me, I always walk when I get a phone call — always. I usually always get a fine cup of Tim Horton’s coffee for those long calls, giving me a wonderful sense of pleasure.
Those are just two of the habits I’ve developed over the years. A new one I started is accidentally hitting the mute button on the iPhone — this leads to people hanging up on me.
I use a Bluetooth headset with my iPhone, so I hold the phone in my hand. The way I carry the phone — and have always carried the phone — doesn’t work so well with the iPhone. My palm touches the screen and taps the mute button, so all of a sudden I hear, “Hello, Jim are you there?”
Now that I know what’s going on, I’m trying to correct it, but if you find that people can’t hear you, check the mute button.
I learned you should be able to short click the sleep/power button. This will lock the phone without disconnecting the call.
I believe if you are on the wired headset or bluetooth or speakerphone it will not hang up the call but just lock the phone.
My wife had been using the bluetooth headset and putting the phone in her pocket where the hang up button kept getting pressed. In the Apple discussions, a person responded to my query with this solution.
Jim,
I'm confused, because isn't the phone up to your face while you are talking? And Apple designed the phone so that the screen would go blank and touchless when the phone is at our face, so how does this happen to you? Or are you talking on Bluetooth and so it isn't up to your face. Please elaborate. I'm confused. I have never, ever had that happen to me.
'kito
My apologies, I should have mentioned that I am using a Bluetooth headset. I'll add that right now.
Now there is a great solution Keith. I just figured that would hang up the call -- great to know. I'll give it a try and if I hang up on someone, I'll blame you :-)
The sleep/wake button usually just powers off the screen without shutting down the iPhone if you're doing other things like listening to music or on the phone.
I sometimes get less battery life than I'd expect, and I suspect it is because I've powered off the screen, but somehow, some other activity that eats a lot of juice is still running.
This is only half on topic, but your comment reminded me of a story.
Last week, my wife got on my 8 year old's case for walking around while he talked on the phone. He would leave the room, walk up and down the stairs, etc.
Later on that day, I realized where he got this lame habit: me. I found myself walking the same path he did while talking on the phone. He must have been studying me.
I'm glad you found the solution to this quickly (it was the first one that came to my mind before I read Keith's confirmation that this would work).
I was just about to unpack my Plantronics headset and set it up--however, I've been wondering if I should wait for the Apple headset and return this one. Any news on that? How it will be more "Apple" esque?
At any rate, I had a similar problem with the mute button holding the phone to my face. The touch screen did not shut down with its proximity sensors. I have since determined that it's because of one of your advertisers' prodcuts-the CaseMate iPhone case. It seems that using this and talking on the phone prevents the proximity sensor from working 100%, and therefore my face kept turning on the mute button. I am pretty sure this is the issue and it's not the iPhone. But I will keep testing.
In the meantime, any news you have on the Apple headset would be appreciated (rumor or otherwise). Do we know anything? I already spent $100 on the Plantronics (recommended), but I'm willing to fork out the extra $39 to get the Apple if it's better designed like most everything else they design.
HELP! Anyone?
I am ALWAYS accidentally hitting the mute button when talking with the iPhone to my face. I'm not sure how it's happening because I attempt to do it on purpose by tapping it against my cheek but it never works that way. I only hit it while telling a long story or while on important business conversations...then I start hearing, "hello?"
Its soooooo anoying, maybe it IS due to the case (one of those rubber ones with DLO in the bottom left corner).
Anyway i would love to know how to avoid this...any advice is appreciated!!
my send button on my iphone isn't working..
it's constantly opening up the P or O as is i'm selecting that instead..
anyone have this problem ever???
j
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