Cellphones at Mass

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Don’t worry. We’ll be EMP’d soon enough and life as we know it will cease for decades 🙂
 
There’s already a feature that is supposed to unlock your phone at certain gps coordinates. I have it set to the coordinates to my apartment. So far, it only works when I’m standing directly to the left of my dresser.

I really don’t think a gps app would help just yet.
 
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I am always worried it will go off regardless of what mode I set in, lol. I am not a first responder or anything like that where I have to have it on me so I just leave it in my truck.
 
I use my cell phone with headphones to listen to Praise and Worship music at times during Eucharistic adoration when I am able to make it.
 
Several years ago I had the gphone/G1, the first android phone–before it was called that.

I always powered it down when entering a courtroom.

It turned out that it could crash during shutdown.

Unfortunately, this didn’t fully stop it (multitasking OS). When this happened, if it were to get a call before the battery ran out, it would ring–and there was no way to shut off the rig.

(gee, see where this is going? 😦 )

So one day, of course, this happened in court. I had shut it off and put it in a pocket when I entered. It never occurred to me to check on it (to this day, I’m not sure if there was any way I could have).

So when it went off, the judge glared, and I lifted it up to pull it apart and yank the battery as theatrically as I could . . .

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I’d really recommend a smartwatch that will buzz, or there are even bluetooth buzzers that you can clip onto your watch or belt or wherever.
 
This happened at mass this morning for us too. Quite frustrating I agree but you do have to be tolerant about these things and you can’t stop going to mass because of that!
If it’s a real problem as it sounds like, have a word with your priest and ask him to announce it or if he doesn’t feel he can or will, then you ask if you can and get up before or after mass and make an announcement, hopefully once ought to do the trick. It may also help to ask your parish secretary to put up signs on the church doors asking people to turn their phones off and to put a note in the newsletter periodically to remind people.
Occasionally people need their phones on if they are on call or if they have family obligations but they should sit near the door and leave if they need to answer the phone and do so as quickly and quietly as possible. It should be a rare thing though not everyone needs to do this, mass isn’t days long it’s just half an hour for week days and an hour for Sundays…most things can wait except real emergencys.
Some people follow mass on their phones, that’s up to them but I’d have thought any text or message would distract me, still it’s their choice.
 
DarkLight said:
So far, it only works when I’m standing directly to the left of my dresser.
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And that’s not helpful for you? 😆😆😆😆

You know, we support an international space station and can put a missile through the bad guy’s front door and never touch the frame (true story, by the way)…you’d think we could build a GPS app that turns your phone off. LOL.
 
People are starting to fight back on using cell phones in improper locations, they are hearing your call.

Judge Mariani gave a man 10 days in the local hoosegow here in Pittsburgh for using a cell in his court room.

Really, I agree that its beyond the pale for anyone to use a cell phone in church, regardless of whether Mass is being celebrated or not.

www.post-gazette.com

Allegheny County judge orders probation officer to 10 days in jail over using cell phone in court

Judge Anthony M. Mariani will allow Sheldon Arrington to appeal the order after holding him in contempt for an April 13 incident.
www.post-gazette.com www.post-gazette.com
 
Good.

It’s sad when you live in a world mostly populated by mostly reasonable adults, yet you have to put signs all over the place reinforcing good etiquette. We have them up at customer service points - medical records, the pharmacy, the check-in desk…and these are people we’ve handed weapons and aircraft to…

I forget what clinic it was I worked at that there were signs in the exam rooms telling people to put their phones away.
 
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FrancisPio said:
This is very unusual. I have only heard a cellphone go off a few times a year…Not every mass. Is it the same person?
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I agree. I hear a phone once in a while but it is not a regular occurrence. Usually the person who it happens to is very embarrassed and rushes to turn off the phone.
 
Remember your gps is better then civilian applications. Yes we get to use it but it’s a downgraded signal for us. That’s why even though we use rnav gps based navigation and ads-b gps based radar tracking we still are required to have terrestrial based back ups. @mikeinVa the Apple Watch has helped immensely I just have to remember to silence that one. But I can feel that one better then a phone vibrating.
 
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Dhc8_Type said:
I just have to remember to silence that one.
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I forgot about that. I use a Pebble watch which doesn’t make any noise. My wife uses an Apple watch and every now and then she forgets to silence it!
 
Forgive me for asking…

Do you live in an area where cell phones have only recently become common? …because where I live this kind of thing was common 10-15 years ago but is fairly rare now since ten years is enough time for most people to figure out how to put phones on silent.

Or maybe more people are using their phones as missals?
 
I wasn’t referencing phones being used as missals, but them going off during Mass. It’s a combination of people forgetting to turn them off and others who apparently see nothing wrong with it, even answering the phone and having a conversation during Mass.

Some people have said just ignore it, it’s your problem not theirs. Was that Jesus’ attitude toward the money changers?
 
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Remember your gps is better then civilian applications.
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Serious question: really? (not smart, I promise)

GPS was invented by the military, yes, but I was more or less talking about apps.

I think they’ve blocked it (I was told the DOD banned the use as well), but not too long ago there was a running app that tracked users globally. (I’m not into that sort of thing, so I honestly don’t remember which one it was or what company it was affliated with.) You could literally look at the view over Bagram Air Base on line and see how many people were running the perimeter at any given moment - you could surmise the track, the size of the base, the number of personnel. No kidding. And that’s a civilian app.
 
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