Ever lost your mobile phone and tried to find it by calling it and listening for the ringing to help you locate it only to remember that you switched it to discreet ring / silent mode prior to misplacing it?
Mobile phone manufacturers should add a feature which would enable hapless owners (like me) to remotely switch on the silent phone's ringer to maximum volume by calling the number with an additional suffix code tacked on the end or, probably better than that method, by sending (or asking your network to send) your phone an SMS message like "RINGER MAX" which adjusts your phones ring volume to maximum to help you locate it. And, better still, it would be handy if this feature also selects a particularly shrill and easily identifiable preset ringtone - newer polyphonic ringtones, whilst impressive to show off, can often sound quiet on certain models of phone compared with the old annoying bleepy ringtones.
That kind of feature would be useful.
Mobile phone manufacturers should add a feature which would enable hapless owners (like me) to remotely switch on the silent phone's ringer to maximum volume by calling the number with an additional suffix code tacked on the end or, probably better than that method, by sending (or asking your network to send) your phone an SMS message like "RINGER MAX" which adjusts your phones ring volume to maximum to help you locate it. And, better still, it would be handy if this feature also selects a particularly shrill and easily identifiable preset ringtone - newer polyphonic ringtones, whilst impressive to show off, can often sound quiet on certain models of phone compared with the old annoying bleepy ringtones.
That kind of feature would be useful.