About this app

BASIC FUNCTIONALITY
• Alarming in case of emergency (via phone call and SMS with a link to Google Maps)
  - No Internet required, i.e. no need to purchase data packages for alerting
   (neither at home nor abroad).
   - Location of the mobile phone even without ➀ GPS (less accurate)
• Speed dial and alarming from the lock screen
• Alerting of incoming alarm SMS, even in silent mode
• Eases finding the mobile phone in close proximity, by making it ring through an SMS command, even in silent mode
• Facilitate the location of the mobile phone in case of theft by reporting its current position:
   - in response to a SMS command
   - when the SIM card is changed ➁
• AutoSOS alerts when alarm SMS is received from burglar alarm systems, even if the mobile phone is muted

➀ For this purpose AutoSOS must also be installed on the alarm receiver side.
Please note: The alarm emitter must have "Location" enabled under Android. This is the only way for apps to get access to "location sources" (GPS, cell phone masts, and WLAN). Cell phone masts and WLAN are used by AutoSOS for location if GPS reception is missing. The "Android location" is mandatory, not only for AutoSOS but for all apps that offer position finding. (See: Location / GPS And Battery Consumption With Android)

➁ only works with Android versions < 10


RAISING ALARMS

The alarm can be raised:
• by clicking on the SOS button
• by pulling the earphone plug (Hint: Cut the cord of an old earphone and make a loop or knot)
• by the absence of significant motion
• by holding or clicking one of the volume buttons several times
• by pressing the power button several times
• by pressing a Flic button ➂ (to be bought separately from www.flic.io)
• by using Bluetooth remote controls
• when the battery is low of charge

➂ Both new Flic2 and older Flic buttons are supported.


DETAILS
See AutoSOS - The Android Alarming App: https://www.autosos.org/p/autosos.html


PRIVACY POLICY
See AutoSOS - PrivacyPolicy: https://www.autosos.org/p/autosos.html#PrivacyPolicy


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New features

IMPROVED
• The alarm triggered through volume buttons works normally again with Android >= 13 as if worked with Android < 12.
• The pre-alarm dialog (the screen that counts down before an alarm is triggered) has been improved.
• Libraries used internally have been updated.

PLANNED
• Introduction of a new SMS command:
#1234#BLINK#
The LED and the cell phone screen will blink for one minute.
• Continuous motion monitoring and if possible also fall monitoring with the help of the Mi Fit band

App Permissions

Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Marker permission for applications that wish to access notification policy.
Allows the app to answer an incoming phone call.
Permission an application must hold in order to use ACTION_REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.