Answer Phone Call

[pusskin]

Just recieved my first phone call from my son. (Samsung )

Have had new mobile for week or two and just had my first call.
i pressed green to answer and phone cut off. He tried again, same thing.
i rang him and all was well, so why cant i answer a call from him?

[sunny-dave]

If it's a Samsung Galaxy (or similar) you have to slide the green icon from left to right across the screen - it's a pain to get right at first.

You can also program the phone so that pressing the central (physical) button at the bottom will answer a call.

[Baldric]

What model Samsung do you have?
some answer buttons slide rather than push.

[pusskin]

Slide across? Omg, didnt have a clue. Will get o/h to ring my phone now to test it out. many thanks x

I have Samsung galaxy

[SlackAlice]

Mines a Galaxy Ace 2 and mine works as sunny-dave explains. Just put your finger on green icon and slide across to unlock phone and answer.

[Baldric]

When the phone rings, you will see a green circle and a red circle. To answer, drag the green circle over the screen to answer. To reject, drag the red one.
If this is a hassle, you can also set it to use the home button at the bottom to answer calls. To set this up, go into phone (as if you were making a call) and bring up a menu by pressing the left hand corner button (next to the home button,) and select call settings from this pop up menu. Select Call answering/ending and select Answering Key. This will mean you press the home button to answer calls instead of swiping.
You can also set the power key to end calls here if this suits.

[pusskin]

Yo ho ho, thanks to all your replies. CRACKED IT.

Didnt dream in a million yrs that is how it worked.
Another problem solved by you very helpfull abers x

[Old_Geezer]

It's such a pity Samsung didn't supply a user guide with it ;-)

[VHG]

I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini and have had a number of calls where I swipe on the green circle but it does nothing and I have missed the call.

In the end I changed my settings so that pressing the "home" button answers it. This is easy to change in the settings.

[Baldric]

///It's such a pity Samsung didn't supply a user guide with it ;-) ///

They've put it on line.

[B00]

For weeks i didn't know that's how you answer these phones. I kept telling folk I couldn't get to my phone quick enough to answer it when they rang, in reality I'd no bloody idea how!

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds a poor design. Not untypical these days.

[pusskin]

Glad I'm not the only one Boo. I'm just not up to these modern things but i will beat it to keep up with the younsters. lol.
Now I'm waiting for another call but no-one seems to ring my mobile!
Next thing is to get f/book and email on my phone.
I hope pigs can fly?