You were the first as far as I have ever seen to pick up on this, so cheers! I'm not sure why Nel did not just explain this to the court and everyone else during testimony about the phone.
But I researched the DND application on my iPhone and found that it can be configured to keep out email, text, and phone "notifications," but the phone is still free to receive calls and texts from people that may need you in an emergency. So the GPRS is still active in DND mode; I assume, just from reading about how it works.
What OP did IMO was he simply went to settings and switched on the airplane mode, that locks out all potential connections and kills his ability to use the telephone, text, and Safari. When he woke or turned off airplane mode at ~1:48 the phone reconnected to GPRS and received the data, texts, and telephone calls that were waiting to be received.
So Airplane mode not Do Not Disturb mode. The DND mode is more complicated to configure anyway and OP is not the brightest bulb in the box. Check it out and let me know if you agree.
There are many DND apps out there… I've read up on it and found many that can be easily configured to do the following :
- Preset start and end time of DND e.g. from 11PM to 5AM DND mode automatically turns ON
- Stops all incoming 'stuff' i.e. incoming phone calls, SMS, emails, 'everything' including automatic updates… phone is basically in airplane mode for all intents and purposes
- If user touches the phone during preset DND schedule i.e. makes the phone get out of sleep mode… this indicates that the user wishes to use the phone, DND mode automatically turns OFF
- If the phone goes back into sleep mode during preset DND schedule i.e. user is no longer using the phone… DND mode automatically turns ON
- Many additional features e.g. block everything incoming except from girlfriend and/or best friend and/or mom and/or security
Sam Taylor stated that OP always took his personal phone with him wherever he went, even to the bathroom.
Sam Taylor stated that OP always charged his personal phone in the bedroom
We all saw the tell-tale white Apple charging cable dangling from the amplifier in OP's bedroom
When OP got up to investigate the noise RS had made downstairs in the kitchen, he unplugged his phone and took it with him… this made the DND app believe OP wanted to use the phone so it automatically turned OFF the DND mode.
This was at 01:48:48… since the phone had not received anything incoming for the past 3 hours because DND was active, the server dumped everything it had in its queue for OP's personal phone at that time… this explains why the GPRS connection lasted so long : 5 minutes 9 seconds… there was a lot of things to transfer.
OP did not use the phone at that time… that's why no calls were logged and nothing appeared in application data as being sent by OP.
OP just put his phone in his pocket… after a few minutes of inactivity by the user, the phone went back into sleep mode and the DND automatically turned back ON again.
…. arguing with RS between 2AM and 3AM…. OP shoots RS
Now OP wants/needs to call someone… so he reaches in his pocket to grab his phone and starts looking in his contacts for Johan Stander's number...the DND app saw OP wanted to use the phone so it automatically turned OFF the DND mode.
This was at 03:18:45...the phone had not received anything incoming for the past hour… again the server dumped everything it had on his phone… since there wasn't as much the GPRS only lasted for 1 minute 15 seconds.
OP found Johan Stander's number, he dialed it and the call began at 03:19:03… this means it took approximately 18 seconds for OP to get his phone out of sleep mode, access contacts, find Johan Stander's number plus the phone to dial the number and connect the call.