Gadgetory

hey everybody Josh here from Android Authority and I just wanted to take you all through a quick app that I found called critical you'll see you down here in the bottom left of my app drawer critic Hall is an excellent app if ever you're worried about missing a call while your phone is on silent or vibrate so with that said we'll hop right into it right off the bat you'll notice critical has a really great user interface it doesn't necessarily follow Android holo design guidelines but as it says at the top never missed a critical call again critical overrides your phone's volume settings to always ring when you receive calls from a critical contact now I've got critical on right now you can set what volume control you want your phone to ring at when this critical call contacts you and then from there you can hop straight into the context list it's fairly straightforward you've got your entire context list here and if you merely tap one it says do you want to make this contact critical and you say yes or no now if you want to see how many critical context you have you can just hit the critical context button and you'll see I've added myself there's an alphabetical listing and you can also add groups now I've added myself and from there that's really all you need to do you can hop into the settings menu in the settings menu is fairly simple you can do auto backup so if you flash a new ROM or you get a new phone and happen to transfer SD card data it'll automatically import your old critical context you can set the default call or call setting ringtone for new critical context right now I'm using the sign-in tone because it's very loud and kind of abrasive you can also do this for text messages but because I use Google Voice that won't apply to me anyways there's an auto resume set setting rather that you can choose if you don't want critical to ring perhaps while you're asleep you can exit until to not ring critical calls and then after eight hours it will turn itself back on that's not really an issue for me right now either so you'll see I've got a critical contact listed as myself so from there I'll go back from there I'll exit and then let me go call myself from another phone real quick and you'll see just to double check that my phone is not only on vibrate it is also its own complete silent mode so it shouldn't ring it all be right back I've just dialed myself on my other phone and you notice right there that it was silent for a second sorry about that had to go turn off the other phone right there that you it rings a silent for a couple of seconds and then up here it actually gives you a notification in the pulldown bar that says critical overrode your phone's volume setting so that's how you know that it worked other than that critical is pretty simple I know that it saved me when I was waiting to hear from my new bosses a couple times and I would highly recommend it if ever you find yourself in a situation when you need to receive a call from somebody critical is a mere ninety-nine cents in the Google Play Store so if you need an app like this that's definitely one I would check out