My iPhone thinks it's a Road Runner.

June 21, 2009 5:03 PM

My iPhone has started beeping before incoming calls. What's this?

I have a 16 GB iPhone, freshly upgraded to 3.0. (I'm in the US, on AT&T). My iPhone now beeps before incoming calls, even when it's on silent mode. If it makes any difference, the battery is pretty well-charged, so it's not a low battery thing. Not sure what's up there, or if there's a setting on the new system I don't know about, but I can't have it beeping in class when I'm the teacher and I have a silent cell phone policy!

posted by lleachie to technology (3 comments total)

Are you sure it's the iPhone beeping and not some other device that's nearby? My iPhone causes some pretty loud interference on anything with a speaker, and I have heard in some cases the interference happening just before an incoming call or text. Almost sounds like morse code: dit dt dit dt dit dt...
posted by steveminutillo at 6:18 PM on June 21

No, my iPhone ALSO does that to a speaker. This is clear, loud, beeping, and has happened several places (home, car, etc.)
posted by lleachie at 6:31 PM on June 21

I solved the mystery--for some reason my iPhone now sets off my wireless thermometer alarm when it rings... Just weird.
posted by lleachie at 8:57 PM on June 21