Emergency Button
If you or a loved one ever walk through a dark alley, travel abroad or just need to alert someone of your whereabouts
- this button will simplify explaining exactly where you are. Help can come faster and within GPS accuracy.
Emergency Button will only work if you're in a place with reception to at least send the SMS text message or email.
The widget can be added to your homescreen by home->menu button->add->Widgets->Emergency. The widget has 2 buttons and you have to press both within 5 seconds to make the app fire the distress signal. The double button is designed to minimize false positives.
None of your information is stored or saved by Andluck. This project is open source (BSD) and hosted on google code: http://code.google.com/p/emergencybutton/ so you can see exactly what's inside if you wish.
Disclaimer: this app is presented as is with no guarantee whatsoever. It won't work without reception or connectivity. You must make alternative communications arrangements to ensure that you can make emergency calls if needed. Please remember that Emergency Button by itself doesn't do emergency calls to any type of hospitals, law enforcement agencies, medical care unit or any type of emergency services.
Please feel free to email your thoughts, problems, ideas, etc to [email protected]
Category : Communication
Reviews (27)
Should definitely bring back the previous version of a two button tap activation, that version had the right design as the idea is to be able to activate quickly during an emergency - this new design has too many prompts (before sending a message) which defeats the purpose of an emergency button altogether. The two button design was what made it better than other emergency apps available, this new design has lost that advantage and has made it just like all the other apps. The screenshot still shows a two-button activation widget - which is misleading.
In Case of EMERGENCY CONTACT as no need to use contact list, quick and easy one touch.. Also good as can speak to doctors or people with you, and explain what they need to do to make you better., and treat you. However option to add extra Alarm number/contact don't work.
It works but I am unable to add more than one contact, I need to add multiple contacts. If this was an option I would pay for it.
Great. A two-click widget for my wife to use in a crisis. It satisfies the golden rule of KIS (keep it simple).
SERIOUS ERROR The time is local, not UTC as stated. OTHER Like many others, I would like to be able to send the message to more than one destination. John
Can't read text message after it is entered. The text box window is less than one line tall.
I just wish it'd send it's messages without me needing to go through prompts. I want to hit one button once & that's it.
Hope to never need it, but what a great little app. Tested it and it works great. I would highly recommend this app.
Great app. I do miss the simple two button push from main screen... New confirmation pop up takes too much time. Update was downgrade IMO.
Tested and works. Wish it was a one press button.
Easy to use and functional!
I is so stupid
Is the SMS free of charge
Nice idea, but the sending itself seems to be too slow, due to delay spent on "Do you want to enable GPS?" and its powering on. I propose to send email/SMS twice: first time with approximate coordinates (based on cell stations) - this should take not more than 2 seconds, second time with real GPS coordinates (takes up to 30 seconds on my device). Or at least make this behavior tunable. 10x
Great app to have
Needs more than one contact to send message to (at no cost)
best
Seem to work fine. One click functionality is great. I wish the two widget buttons were a single larger button, and could indicate a message in process.
I've got a pregnant girl and now I don't have to worry about her trying to play with her phone to get ahold of me she can just hit a button and I can find her
This is a really cool idea... Women should definitely have it! Samsung Infuse.
Does what it says!
This is great.can't afford any other device. Due to my health I need something to get help. Wish I could notify at least 2 in case one is not availabl
Every phone should have this app built in... great job, would be nice to be able to add multiple numbers....
I would need to send a text to more them one email and number please add
Worked great when I pressed the button. I feel alot safer having this app on my phone. The only thing is I wish i culd add more #'s
I need to be able to set sender email address instead of using application's email. It is a privacy issue. Hope you understand.
only 1 email address and 1 sms alert for free is NOT ENOUGH (there re plenty of other apps out there with more than that for free). Keeps on running on the background consuming RAM. GPS address wrong by 500 mts. what about giving me emergency numbers of different countries and alerts also for g+, facebook, twitter, etc.