this app tells you

A dangerous error related to emergency numbers affects Android phones, as specified by Google itself: the phone can be locked just when it’s needed most, in an emergency. The bug is related to applications that abuse the registry as phone clients. And PhoneAccount Abuse Detector does exactly what it says: detect if your mobile might be experiencing the dangerous error.

“Bugs” or errors in code are common in all types of software, including operating systems, like Android. Regardless of the stability of an application, game or system which does not prevent failures in really concrete situations

; As with the emergency calls error if you are on Microsoft Teams mobile without the session started.

PhoneAccount Abuse Detector, an application that prevents emergency outages

Google and Microsoft have reported the issue and it is in the process of being resolved. In reality, Teams are now corrected, so it should not influence emergency calls. However, this is not the only application that can affect the error since it relates to the abuse of a specific instance: PhoneAccount.

Since PhoneAccount is tied to phone calls on Android, any app that offers calls, whether through the phone or through an internet connection, can create an instance of PhoneAccount to become the default app for the user

. If the phone has too many such apps, with its own instance of PhoneAccount active, Android may be reluctant to use one app or another at a critical time, such as dialing an emergency call; that leads to a mobile crashThe emergency call number does not matter (112 in the case of Europe).

To find out if an Android is at risk for the Linux Emergency Calls error, a well-known developer who usually publishes their work to XDA Developers, created an app that scans the phone to detect if apps are abusing the PhoneAccount instance

. If necessary, identify the application so that the user can uninstall it.

The application in question, PhoneAccount Abuse Detector, is developed in open source, can be downloaded from the linuxct GitHub and, after starting it and giving permission to access the phone (necessary to identify applications that abuse PhoneAccount), PhoneAccount Abuse Detector will analyze the mobile to check if it is clean or there is software that could block the phone when calling emergency numbers.

With the information offered by PhoneAccount Abuse Detector, we can know if our Android is safe or, on the contrary, there is an application installed that could block the phone during an emergency call. It is better to uninstall these apps directly.

More information | linuxct
Via | Android Police