Disable 3-press emergency dial feature on Nokia G50 after visiting India
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I have recently taken my (UK) Nokia G50 to India for a vacation, and as a result, now any time I press the power button three times in quick succession, it calls the emergency services. This is apparently required by Indian law, and, per both my own experience and the grumbling of people on forums elsewhere, the feature sometimes stays enabled after you leave India.
At least on the G50, it is (absurdly) implemented independently of and in parallel to the normal *Settings* -> *Safety and Emergency* -> *Emergency SOS* feature, which is off by default and uses 5 presses instead of 3. Indeed if I turn that 5-press feature on, then select the "Try demo" option from that settings page, which promises "this is a simulation. No emergency actions will be started.", then three presses into my attempt to try the "demo" the phone *actually* calls the emergency services.
Obviously, I would very much like to turn this stupid feature off; given that I constantly need to press the power button twice in a row in the course of regular usage of the phone (either to open the camera app, or just to turn on the screen to check the time and turn it off again), and that it frequently lags for a second or two in response to such a press and makes it appear not to have registered, it ends up being *way* too easy to accidentally register one extra press and end up calling the cops (and I have been doing so around once a week).
How can I disable the feature? *Can* I even do so, on a G50?
There's a [past question](https://android.stackexchange.com/q/203972/123188) about disabling the same feature on a OnePlus phone, but the answers don't help me with my G50, because one involves OnePlus-specific settings pages that I don't have and another requires root (which I can find no non-sketchy-looking guides on how to get on a G50).
Asked by Mark Amery
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Feb 7, 2025, 12:19 PM
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