On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:46:03 AM UTC-4, Gz wrote:
wrote:

On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:56:49 -0400, wrote:



On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:22:29 -0700 (PDT), "

wrote:



"Smartphones of the missing aboard Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 are

still ringing according to reports



As many as 19 families of missing passengers have claimed to be

connected - and airline says they have rung crew's phones"







These are just people who do not have a clue how phone systems work.

You can take the battery out of your phone and anyone calling it will

still hear it "ring".



That signal is sent to you from your provider, not the phone you are

calling.

If a CELL phone is turned off it will NOT ring. You will get a "phone

out of service" or "customer not available" message. If the phones are

under water or wet they fail and also give an out of service message,



I'm see them going to voice mail immediately if off or out of range. If the

batteries die,, that should end th ringing.



Greg

Cell phones don't behave any differently when off then they do when
the battery is dead. And as I reported earlier, if I dial my cell
phone from another phone, I hear it ring 5 times before going to voice
mail if the phone is on. If it's off or the battery is dead, then
I only hear it ring 1.5 times when I've called it. Some cell phones
I've called in the past, if the phone wasn't there, it would either
behave similar to the above, would go straight into voicemail without
me hearing a ringing sound, or I'd get some kind of "not in service"
message.