Calling '911' is always the best first step in emergency situations when your safety or health is threatened. Even if you have limited service, the call may go through.
) to record a new greeting — all before their phone reached 0% battery life — the person could perhaps receive help due to the advice outlined in the viral post.
So, if a driver with a dead phone and broken vehicle had access to a landline, for example, they could follow the advice in the viral copypasta. It was also true that"voicemail still works" when phone batteries die, in the sense that callers can hear greetings even if phone owners can't turn on their devices due to a lack of battery power.
That is not true. In general, no one without service can change their voicemail greetings unless they have access to Wi-Fi, a landline, or another cellphone on a different wireless network, according to spokespeople for the three main carriers."While you can dial *86 or change your voicemail greeting with visual voicemail if your battery was dying...you would still need cell service or a data connection of some sort in order to allow that new greeting to update on our servers.
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