Hello, I currently have a Treo 650 and use a program called TakePhone to do some very useful dialing tricks. I travel to Singapore a lot from the US and when I am there I use a prepaid sim from StarHub. They have "free" dialing to the US (just pay for airtime) if you dial 018 rather than +1 before any numbers to the US. All of my phone book entries have +1 XXX for US numbers and I need to keep them that way because of auto synchronization. TakePhone can be told that when dialing from country code 65 (don't know how it can tell), replace +1 on numbers with 018 before dialing. It can also dial calling cards for you, etc.
I'll be getting my K-Jam soon and would like to replicate this functionality somehow. Anyone got any suggestions for Windows Mobile software to perform this task? I've never had a Windows Mobile device and hope that this can be done as easily as on the Treo.
Thank you in advance for any help!
bad news
+1 format numbers themselves will cause problems to you
You can not dial them directly from contacts some silly bug stops dialing.
The only solution I could find was to put a space between country code and + like " + xx (xxx) xxx xx xx "
Wonderful.
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need to dial international and domestic call frequently. however, unlike handspring treo, xda did not allow to recall the phone number from contact and then manually add the prefix, e.g. 00986 + city code + number... etc. Any suggestion here?
ultra04 said:
need to dial international and domestic call frequently. however, unlike handspring treo, xda did not allow to recall the phone number from contact and then manually add the prefix, e.g. 00986 + city code + number... etc. Any suggestion here?
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Yes. It'll take some time, but it'll solve your problem for once and all: change all your stored numbers to international format, e.g. +49 (89) 555255 for a number in Munich, Germany. Numbers in this format will work from everywhere in the world (the '+' does the magic here), and of course also from the country or town the called party is in.
It's probably much easier to do this in Outlook, then synchronise the numbers back to your XDA.
Cheers
Daniel
tks for your advice. however, in hong kong, we have many IDD service providers while if using "+", it will choose the most expensive service provider which i don't want to. well... i am always travelling around between hong kong and china and i have to add both local dial prefix and IDD dial prefix for each tel number, both office, mobile and home. you know, this is really really annoying and time wasting. hope there will be some temporary solutions here including some charged software solution.
There a way I can intercept outgoing calls, for example I made a call from a contact that are stored like "+55 41 3338-6556" and before the phone start dialing I want change it to "014 41 3338-6556", just parse the world format number to another number, if this is possible I can do a program to use many operators or calling cards...
Any idea or a piece of source code?
Thanks
Arnaldo.
MagiCall can do this:
http://www.magisoftwarehouse.com/index.html
Any idea how to make it?
Dial patterns for Brazil
Hey, I have opened a thread on that on the HTC Wizard. I am widely interested in having such a solution because of the Brazilian networks. I keep switching between my 2 SIM Cards (Claro and TIM) and have to use different operator dial codes for each SIM card. It is a pain in the neck.
I am glad someone shares my misery
Please keep me posted if you happen to find a solution.
-Feaps®
giacomitti said:
Any idea how to make it?
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You mean how to get the program to do that?
Just create a New Rule,
filter = Phone - Outbound
Phone # = enter it or select from your contacts
Then go to the 2nd tab (Action)
Action1= Change Number
Call to: enter in New number here
Then on the 3rd tab add your scheduling preferences e.g. only Tuesdays.
I will test MagiCall, but I want to do it in code to make a solution for me, I think my problem is the same of feaps I live in Brazil too, I need to change operator code and if I change the SIM Card I need to change all phone numbers...
Arnaldo.
Feaps,
MagiCall works great!
Try it:
http://www.magisoftwarehouse.com/
My configuration:
-Filter
Rule Type: Phone - Outbound
Filter type: All
-Operation
Action1: Change number
Action2: Do nothing
Call to: 014{phone}[-3,0]
Remember I am at Curitiba, I use Brasil Telecom, 14 is the operation code, I store my phone numbers in the format: +55 41 3338-5665 so when I can MagiCall change it to 014413338-5665, so you can make more than one rule, for each operator (TIM/Claro) and enable the rule you want!
Malatesta, thanks for help!
Giacomitti.
G-r-e-a-t!
WOW, it sounds terrific. I was out and just got back from an Int'l trip. I will give it a try right away!
Kudos to you all!
-Feaps®
Edit after testing: WORKS PERFECTLY!
Feaps,
I had changed my rule to:
Phone Outbound
Specific number
+55*
Change number
014{phone}[-3,0]
So when I dial from dial pad it does not change the number, and I had create another for 0800
Phone Outbound
Specific number
+550800*
Change number
{phone}[-3,0]
Remember put the 0800 rule first... It will work too...
Happy new year!
Giacomitti
More flexible, indeed
giacomitti said:
Feaps,
I had changed my rule to:
Phone Outbound
Specific number
+55*
Change number
014{phone}[-3,0]
So when I dial from dial pad it does not change the number, and I had create another for 0800
Phone Outbound
Specific number
+550800*
Change number
{phone}[-3,0]
Remember put the 0800 rule first... It will work too...
Happy new year!
Giacomitti
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I really like your new approach, 'coz I can then create a rule for international numbers that are not necessarily starting with a + (e.g. 1-800-222-3421) to add 0015 in front of the "1"...
You may say it is easier just to edit these numbers and add a +, but most of them are auto synched via Plaxo or LinkedIn and then I cannot edit them effectively without having duplicates...
Very nice the use of wildcards and so. I will give the help a try.
Have a great 2007!
-Feaps®
New version coming...
Giacomitti,
Please expect a version in Portuguese anytime soon
I am almost finishing it and the folks at MagiCall will recompile it.
This is hell of a great App!!!
-Feaps
Cool! But I use all my apps in english... But it's a nice feature!
It's the best app I had in my pocket.
Hi All,
Great site!!
I have 2 questions:
1 - When I use smart dialing from my hermes I use the direction arrows once I have found the contact and choose the work number of a contact that has an extension as +1 (999) 999-9999 x 9999 I then get a dialog saying "Invalid entry, please try again."
This same entry dials fine from speed dial or dialing from contacts, any suggestions, it's a real pain to manually dial the whole number.
2 - I have my numbers in outlook 2003 and they are formatted with the +country code format, so all numbers have a + in front of them.
When I smart dial, I can't see the last number of the phone number it only shows
+1 (xxx) xxx-xxx
Again it's really annoying as the only way I can find the number is by dialing and I usually use the smart dial to find a phone number when I am looking for someone's phone number.
BTW I have tried to edit the number and remove the + but outlook put's it back. This is actually good when travelling.
Thanks in advance,
I apologise in advance if this information is somewhere on the site, I am not lazy and I did read quite a bit before posting.
ROM version: 2.15.502.3
WM5
on my outlook, I have the phone num , ext and the phone will dial and wait for pickup before dialing the ext.
of course, i am not using the country code feature, so...
I would be happy with that behavior.
If I could change the font to be smaller in the phone application at least I could see the whole number.
Thanks for sharing.
Hello,
I often use an access code to dial internationally, and once I am connected to that access number, I have to enter the number of the person I am calling.
I have an HTC Touch HD with WM6.1pro and cannot find a way to do it. If I connect to the access number, then at the prompt go to my address book and dial a second number, it assumes I want to have two separate calls and puts the access code on Hold... which is not what I want! I do not remember all my friend's numbers, so I do have to use the address book.
With my old nokia n95, once connected I could go to the menu and say I want to dial a DTMF which is the tone you hear when dialing a normal phone. This allows me to follow on with calling the number I need while connected to the call.
Is there a way of doing this on WM6?
I have a kind of work around. I edit my international friends phone numbers as a "car phone" and the numbers look like this
02081802828 p 0027115555555
the access code, then I add p to pause then their number.
The HUGE problem is that when I dial any of my international contacts, the phone displays the same person... so no matter who I call internationally, it always shows a photo of my friend Ian, and displays his name instead of the person I am actually speaking to. I think this is a bug where WM6.1 only looks at the first 11 characters of a number, but the problem is, all my intl numbers have the same first 11 numbers.
Help MUCH appreciated, thanks,
Mark.
livegod said:
Hello,
I often use an access code to dial internationally, and once I am connected to that access number, I have to enter the number of the person I am calling.
I have an HTC Touch HD with WM6.1pro and cannot find a way to do it. If I connect to the access number, then at the prompt go to my address book and dial a second number, it assumes I want to have two separate calls and puts the access code on Hold... which is not what I want! I do not remember all my friend's numbers, so I do have to use the address book.
With my old nokia n95, once connected I could go to the menu and say I want to dial a DTMF which is the tone you hear when dialing a normal phone. This allows me to follow on with calling the number I need while connected to the call.
Is there a way of doing this on WM6?
I have a kind of work around. I edit my international friends phone numbers as a "car phone" and the numbers look like this
02081802828 p 0027115555555
the access code, then I add p to pause then their number.
The HUGE problem is that when I dial any of my international contacts, the phone displays the same person... so no matter who I call internationally, it always shows a photo of my friend Ian, and displays his name instead of the person I am actually speaking to. I think this is a bug where WM6.1 only looks at the first 11 characters of a number, but the problem is, all my intl numbers have the same first 11 numbers.
Help MUCH appreciated, thanks,
Mark.
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Don't know if it will work... but you coud try (using Advanced Config) to increase the number of digits used to "match" the numbers in the contacts... for example to 18 or 19 numbers... but I cannot immagine what other "consequencies"could happen...
Let us know !
Regards,
K
Hi Kostas
It seems that the problem is actually with spb Mobile Shell and not windows mobile.
When I dial using the windows mobile dialler, it gets the name and picture right, but when I use spb's dialler it shows the wrong person and name...
I will chase it up with them... and thanks for the good idea, unfortunately the Call ID Match does not help the problem.
Efgaristo!
Mark.
Hi there,
I have a Moto Q11 from Vivo (Brazil) and it came with wonderful little app called "EP", which does a simple yet awesome thing:
It will replace (or add) as a prefix, the operator code I choose. No matter how the phone is stored in phonebook (already with the operator code, city code, or just the number itself) it properly adds or alters the phone when I dial it.
You may configure it with the operator of your choice, and change it as you please. For example, let´s say all my phonebook entries are with "015" as the long distance operator code (eg. 0151121342213). If I configure the app with another operator (let´s say, 031), when I hit dial, it will in fact dial 0311121342213. The actual phone in the phonebook is not altered. If the phone number is stored as 1121342213, it will add the 031 as well.
I really need such an app in my Rhodium and Kaiser!
Does any1 have any idea of an app that would do this ? Tried copying the executable from the Moto Q11 to my Kaiser and it didn´t work (it says the app is not for that platform)...
Tia!
I was not able to find a program that would do it. I have found that the EP stands for Easy Prefix, and googling it gave me the impression that this app is standard for Motorola phones.
Any further help would be appreciated...
I got same issue, bro
Can anybody help people like us ?
TA
Just fyi, so far no luck
Have you tried Magicall? ( http://www.mobiion.com/magicall.html )
It can change any number you dial, based on rules. I think this would work for you (so, for example, if you dialed anything starting with 789, it would replace that with 123.
I use it for ADDING numbers to the start, so that certain numbers get dialed using a calling card, but I'm pretty sure you can replace digits as well
-Steve