Automatically Send Emergency Messages Using Samsung Galaxy S4
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You can set your Samsung Galaxy S4 to automatically send a custom emergency message to a predefined set of contacts. By pressing the volume up and down buttons for three seconds, your phone can send an emergency message that contains your Google map location link and you address based on phone's GPS. To learn more about the feature, read on.
- 1 Turn on Emergency Message Mode on Samsung Galaxy S4
- 2 Trigger an Emergency and Send an Emergency Message on Samsung Galaxy S4
- 3 Take note
- 4 Questions and Answers
- 4.1 Samsung S4 helping an older person to send an emergency SMS with GPS fix?
- 4.2 Don't have "safety assistance" under "my device"?
- 4.3 My S5 mini just sent an emergency contact to everyone with an audio recording labeled EMERGENCY - then it took pictures from both front and back cameras and sent that out too. Why is it doing that?
- 4.4 I got an 'I'm OK' message from an anonymous telephone #. How do I find out where the map location is?
- 4.5 Today at 12.08 PM while my phone keypad was locked, and my phone securely in my hip pouch, three of my Contacts received multiple Emergency help messages from my phone. Can you please explain?
- 5 Comments
Turn on Emergency Message Mode on Samsung Galaxy S4
- 1Go to your home screen by pressing on the middle-right button (home button) of your phone.
- 2Once you are on the home screen, perform a dragging gesture from your phone's notification panel to the lower part of your screen.
- 3Check on the gear iconThe Notification panel will open.on the upper-right part of the touchscreen. That is the "Settings" icon. Tap on it to go to settings menu.
- 4Tap on the second tab, "My device"On your phone's settings, you will see four tabs.to see the sub-menu under that tab.
- 5Once you are on the My device tab, scroll down and tap on "Safety assistance" to open the Safety assistance page.
- 6By default, it is set to OFFOn the Safety assistance page, tap on the switch on the upper-right part of the page., and tapping on it will allow you to turn it ON
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- 7You will be shown a description, capabilities and limitations of the application.
- 8You need to check every one of them to be able to proceed with the next step.Scroll down to see three check boxes.
- 9After understanding and confirming the check boxes, tap on "OK" to proceed.
- 10Safety assistance mode has been activated.You will now notice that the switch has been switched to ON.
- 11You can customize your own emergency message by tapping on "Edit emergency message", or set how often you want your emergency message to be sent to your desired recipients by tapping on "Message interval", or by tapping on "Emergency contacts", to set the pre-defined contacts that you want to send your emergency message to.
- 12Edit the emergency message to your preference and tap on "Save" when you are done.Tapping on "Edit emergency message" will allow you to edit the emergency message.
- 13Once, Every 10 minutes, or Every 20 minutes. You will be charged for each message the same rate per message as you would with any normal SMS/GPRS charges, depending on your subscription.Tapping on "Message interval" will take allow you to choose between these intervals:
- 14Tap on "Add contacts" to add a contact to your emergency message.Tapping on "Emergency contacts" will allow you to add contacts to the emergency message recipients.
- 15For this example, we will tap on the second option.Tapping on "Add contacts" will allow you to choose between entering a number manually or selecting it from your phone contacts.
- 16Tap on the check box beside your desired recipient to choose it and tap on "Done" when you have checked all your desired contacts.
- 17You will now see that the selected contact has been included on the list of emergency contacts.
- 18You are done with activating emergency mode on your Samsung Galaxy S4.You can tap on the home button to go back to your home screen and use your phone normally.
Trigger an Emergency and Send an Emergency Message on Samsung Galaxy S4
When you feel that you are in an alarming situation, you can easily trigger an emergency message to your emergency contacts by following the procedures below:
- 1Press and hold the volume up and down buttons for three seconds.
Take note
- Emergency mode is not a substitute for calling the police or the local emergency numbers.
- This mode will only serve as an additional protection and assistance.
- This mode requires you enough credits to send an SMS or use the GPS functions of your phone.
- This mode is network dependent and may not work if you are on a location with no signal.
- Make sure that you already briefed your emergency contacts on the next steps to follow whenever they receive an emergency message from you.
Questions and Answers
Samsung S4 helping an older person to send an emergency SMS with GPS fix?
I am an owner of a Galaxy S4 and am thinking of buying one for my father so he could amongst else send an emergency predefined message (SMS) with location as attachment preferably directly from the screen in case he is not feeling well since he was born in 1931? Thanks for your kind answer...Best regards.
This is exactly the sort of scenario that Emergency mode was designed to be used for. It will not replace his ability to make an emergency call, but in the absence of him being able to do that, he can use emergency mode to notify you and two other persons. Each of you will then have the ability to respond and or answer, and take action.
Don't have "safety assistance" under "my device"?
I have a Galaxy 24 but don't have safety assistance.
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My S5 mini just sent an emergency contact to everyone with an audio recording labeled EMERGENCY - then it took pictures from both front and back cameras and sent that out too. Why is it doing that?
My S5 mini just sent an emergency contact to everyone with an audio recording labeled EMERGENCY - then it took pictures from both front and back cameras and sent that out too. Why is it doing that
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I got an 'I'm OK' message from an anonymous telephone #. How do I find out where the map location is?
I got an 'I'm OK' message from an anonymous telephone #. How do I find out where the map location is?
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Today at 12.08 PM while my phone keypad was locked, and my phone securely in my hip pouch, three of my Contacts received multiple Emergency help messages from my phone. Can you please explain?
Today at 12.08 PM while my phone keypad was locked, and my phone securely in my hip pouch, three of my Contacts received multiple Emergency help messages from my phone. Can you please explain?. I think it was caused by: No apparent cause. That's why I'm contacting you.
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