What audio tones could I expect to hear on BT land...

Subject says it all really. But in the interests of clarity: I subscribe to no caller id, caller waiting or other such services but more and more often my phone calls are interrupted by pairs of identical audio tones approx. 0.5 seconds apart and repeated at, perhaps, 20 or 30s intervals. Not having a frequency meter I can't determine the actual tone frequency but it is a low to medium frequency rather than high - not a whistle. The other party's voice is cut when the tone is present but they cannot hear the tone. The common factor is my line - not who I am speaking to. And I can't remember if it occurs only when I have initiated the call. TIA Richard

bfg wrote:
Hi Strugglin,
I would want to rule out my phones from causing the noise (is it like the dialling tones for a particular number?) i.e ayour phone dialling a number during the call.
Erm, thanks for your reply Bfg. I had hoped that my description was adequate. The noises - sounds really - are pairs of mid frequency tones separated by about 0.5s repeated at about 20 or 30s intervals. They are what I would expect to hear if I had call waiting or BT Answercall or any other 'add ons'. They are not unlike the call waiting signal on a mobile telephone. They are not the sound of pulse or tone dialling superimposed on a voice call.
I'm not sure that I can bear the thought of logging a fault with BT.

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This code shows how to generate and play a simple sinusoidal audio tone using the javax.sound.sampled API (see the generateTone() method for the details).
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import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem;
import javax.sound.sampled.SourceDataLine;
import javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException;
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import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JSlider;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
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import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder;
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Audio tone generator, using the Java sampled sound API.
@author andrew Thompson
@version 2007/12/6
public class Tone extends JFrame {
static AudioFormat af;
static SourceDataLine sdl;
public Tone() {
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            SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this);
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            System.err.println("Internal Look And Feel Setting Error.");
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    sDuration.setMajorTickSpacing(200);
    sDuration.setMinorTickSpacing(100);
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    sVolume.setMinorTickSpacing(10);
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@param addHarmonic Whether to add an harmonic, one octave up. */
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JLudwig wrote:
Any reason why you call getSourceDataLine() twice? ..Oh wait, I know this one (..snaps fingers. yes) it is because I am a mor0n, and forgot the class level (static) attribute declared earlier in the source when I (re)declared the local attribute and called getSourceDatLine (which was redundant, given the next line, which as you point out also called getSourceDataLine).
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1) Remove the class level attribute and the second call.
2) Remove the local attribute as well as the first call (all on the same code line).
Method 1 makes more sense, unless you intend to refactor the code to only instantiate a single SDL for however many times the user presses (what was it? Oh yeah..) 'Generate Tone'.
My 'excuse' for my odd programming is that this was 'hacked down' from a longer program to form an SSCCE. I should have paid more attention to the fine details (and perhaps run a lint checker on it).
Thanks for pointing that out. I guess from the fact you spotted it, that you have already corrected the problem. That you thought to report it, gives me confidence that you 'will go far (and be well thought of, besides)' in the open source community.
..This is quite handy, thank you.You're welcome. Thanks for letting us know about the error (OK - the pointless redundancy). Thanks to your report, other people who see this code later, will not have to wonder what (the heck) I was thinking when I did that.
Another thing I noted, now I run the source on a 400MHz laptop (it's hard times, here) is that the logic could be improved. At the speeds that my laptop can feed data into the SDL, the sound that comes out the speakers approximates the sound of flatulence (with embedded static, as a free bonus!).
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