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Does anyone know of a good call usage monitor. I use to have Phone Dashboard but I can't add this to the HTC Homepage. The call timer in Windows Mobile only monitors all calls not just outgoing calls, as far as I can see. Any ideas

pda-prof said:
Does anyone know of a good call usage monitor. I use to have Phone Dashboard but I can't add this to the HTC Homepage. The call timer in Windows Mobile only monitors all calls not just outgoing calls, as far as I can see. Any ideas
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Ummm....have you checked under the call history button on the dialer? When you launch your dialer, click on the call history button. If its showing you all calls click on menu-->filter and select only outgoing calls. It should show you only outgoing calls now as well as durations for each. At least that's how it is on WM6....I don't know if they've changed if for 6.1

Nope. You can view only the duration of the calls when you open Call History and select specific person in it. Or through Contacts -> Click contact -> Menu -> View all calls.
It is very disappointing, because at least I want to know the duration of the last call. Doesn't matter if I end up the call or the other party. This dialer doesn't show last call time!

Thanks [email protected].
However, the Call History lists all the calls made or have come in via the filter. However, I want to know how many minutes a month I have used and unless I try and add all the outgoing message together, I'm stuck.
Under Call History there is a button called menu which gives the option "Call Timer" but if you click on this it gives you the total number of calls made since last hard reset (I assume) and the number of minutes used since last reset. Most people, I would think, with a contract want to know the number of outgoing minutes since last reset (with reset being since the last cut off date for calls on their contract). This appears to be missing. Can anyone help or know a program that does this that could be intergrated with the HTC homepage.

pda-prof said:
However, the Call History lists all the calls made or have come in via the filter. However, I want to know how many minutes a month I have used and unless I try and add all the outgoing message together, I'm stuck.
Under Call History there is a button called menu which gives the option "Call Timer" but if you click on this it gives you the total number of calls made since last hard reset (I assume) and the number of minutes used since last reset. Most people, I would think, with a contract want to know the number of outgoing minutes since last reset (with reset being since the last cut off date for calls on their contract).
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I'll second that, any way of\software for knowing how many minutes have been used in the monthly bundle?

Try Home Screen Plus
Have you guys tried Home Screen Plus? Its a great piece of software...and If I'm not mistaken it does have a feature to track call timers etc. Give it a shot. Its free Make sure you download the latest version. I know of a lot of other older versions floating around.

that is a real cool app but also a little heavy just for the calltimer. Anything with a small footprint out there?

Thanks Guys. However, I want to keep the HTC homescreen but I don't think you can add bolt ons to it, so any homescreen add-on won't work. I need a program that runs on its own that monitors the minutes and then being able to access it via the programs tab.

Found - LCMinutes
Not the easiest to configure, but once you grasp the concept it's a doddle (and elaborate).

LCMinutes :X
so i played around with LCMinutes and all it did was give me a headache! lol
i found this and wanted to share:
hxxp://www.hudsonmobile.com/products/phodash/index.html
is very very neat and a very easy to configure
ta

I had heard it didn't work on the HD but if it does, how about sharing it on the wiki

Can anyone comment if this works with TF3D?

Call timer on Dutty´s Touch HD 2.1 is missing?
Hi there!
Anyone having problem with a missing call timer on Dutty's 2.1?
Or should I do a hard reset?
Thanks!

I am using phone dashboard which I find is very good and should suite your needs. Without Today screen it is a pain to use but still possible. Goto settings->Today then highlight the plugin and options. There is one tab which shows you the usage. But you have to "regenerate" the data before viewing.
Alternative, why dont you just run TouchFlo + Today screen (using TFD or SecondToday).
I know phoneAlarm also have a call duration tracking but phoneAlarm is just too much of hassle to configure.

Missed calls from my self? 2-3 times a day!

I'm not exactly sure what or who the culprit is here.
Phone is rooted with JF 1.42,
but 2-3 times a day, my phone would ring once and when I look, it's a missed call from my own number!
Anyone else have this issue?

i myself havent had this problem but a friend of mine has said the same thing. i was like lay off the feel good smoke. but i guess he was for real. does anyone know what could be causing this?

Either you need to stop hanging up on yourself, or someone is spoofing the callerID.

n19htmare said:
I'm not exactly sure what or who the culprit is here.
Phone is rooted with JF 1.42,
but 2-3 times a day, my phone would ring once and when I look, it's a missed call from my own number!
Anyone else have this issue?
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could it be an app? use advanced task manager to view running apps and services running, and use it to close the apps you dont need, see if it continues, im also using rooted jf 1.42 rc33 and ive never had this issue, give us a list of your apps, there is also a program available that gives you a log of what the apps are doing that you cant see, that might help as well if you narrow it down.
if you cant fix it this way maybe downloading bratags call blocker and adding your own number to it would work, its kind of a cheap way to get around it, but if all else fails then...

Call blocking yourself. I laughed at the most rediculious things!

wootroot said:
could it be an app? use advanced task manager to view running apps and services running, and use it to close the apps you dont need, see if it continues, im also using rooted jf 1.42 rc33 and ive never had this issue, give us a list of your apps, there is also a program available that gives you a log of what the apps are doing that you cant see, that might help as well if you narrow it down.
if you cant fix it this way maybe downloading bratags call blocker and adding your own number to it would work, its kind of a cheap way to get around it, but if all else fails then...
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You are absolutely right. I noticed it and I found some of the calandering apps that I downloaded for testing are periodically accessing the phone, I don't know why and I could not figure out which because I had a lot of apps installed for testing. So I decided to uninstall every 3rd party app and see and that did the trick.
--Ram--

I don't perticularly have that many apps installed. I also don't try and uninstall a lot of apps.
These are the apps I have:
Hot Giggity!
Alkaline
Pkt Auctions eBay
Bubble
Astro File Manager
ShopSavvy (with the location thing turned off)
Finance
FastBright
AK notepad
Txtract
Labyrinth Lite
PapiJump
Task Manager
Ringdroid
Video Player
ApkInstaller
I didn't have any missed calls from me yesterday, but i had one already today.
Then the strangest thing happened.
My number is 733-xxxx
After the missed call from me... a second later i got a call from a number that also started with 733.... ... I answered and no one said anything...and then i called back and said I got a missed call from this number and the lady said wrong number.
how does phone number spoofing work?

n19htmare said:
I don't perticularly have that many apps installed. I also don't try and uninstall a lot of apps.
These are the apps I have:
Hot Giggity!
Alkaline
Pkt Auctions eBay
Bubble
Astro File Manager
ShopSavvy (with the location thing turned off)
Finance
FastBright
AK notepad
Txtract
Labyrinth Lite
PapiJump
Task Manager
Ringdroid
Video Player
ApkInstaller
I didn't have any missed calls from me yesterday, but i had one already today.
Then the strangest thing happened.
My number is 733-xxxx
After the missed call from me... a second later i got a call from a number that also started with 733.... ... I answered and no one said anything...and then i called back and said I got a missed call from this number and the lady said wrong number.
how does phone number spoofing work?
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if im correct its VOIP, but not from your phone, the way SPOOFAPP works is that there service calls you, using VOIP (which can be set to display almost any number) and so your phone rings with the number you wish to have your phone call as, then when you answer and press 1, it then confrence calls another person, also displaying the number that called you, since its the service making the call (your phone never makes a call, you only answer a call and are connected) and then the person on the other end sees the incomming number as what the service says it is, and it stays muted while you talk, making it appear as if your phone number isnt what it is, when really its the service who is calling not you
if someone is using this app, they can NOT call your number from your number, the app wont allow it (ive tried), i can not call 555-0123 as 555-0123, nor can i call as 911 and so on
not to say that other companys out there wont do this, but spoofapp will NOT

Gimpeh said:
Call blocking yourself. I laughed at the most rediculious things!
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well how often do you call yourself from your own phone number? the only time youd do that is to take the long way to your voicemail
therfor the only other time a incoming call would be YOUR number, is when there isnt supposed to be a incoming call
therfor, callblocking yourself, would work imo
such a difficult concept

ok... weird
just had 4 missed calls from a 733-xxxx number and 1 from 733-yyyy number..... and one from myself.
What gives.... calling t-mobile but not sure what they're gonna say or do.

someone must be using an app called spoof123

Oh i know why this happens! You have the Voicemail callback service enabled!
Normally, when someone leaves you a message, all you get is a text message. Now, the voice mail computer calls you, you pick up and it'll tell you how many voice messages you have.
If you don't pick up, you have a missed call from your own number.

its so freaky =..=

Google voice and EVO

i installed google voice signed up and all
i had the settings ask me everytime i make a call to select cell service or google
well i make calls and it does not ask me what to do
i also changed to google only still every time i make a call its shows its sprint
is there a setting im missing?
mt

mtgmt said:
i installed google voice signed up and all
i had the settings ask me everytime i make a call to select cell service or google
well i make calls and it does not ask me what to do
i also changed to google only still every time i make a call its shows its sprint
is there a setting im missing?
mt
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Can you at least make this readable with punctuation or something? I can't understand what your trying to say.

You need to put in an area code for it to ask which you want to call with, my guess is that's your problem.

mrono said:
Can you at least make this readable with punctuation or something? I can't understand what your trying to say.
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i installed google voice signed up and all (end statement )
i had the settings ask me every time i make a call to select cell service or google ( end statement )
well i make calls and it does not ask me what to do ( end statement )
i also changed to google only still every time i make a call its shows its sprint ( end statement)
is there a setting im missing? ( this is a question )
as far as i can tell this is perfectly readable.
i make the statements of what i did and have done with a question following, enough that poster 3 hit the nail on the head, that was what i was missing!
mt

06ms6 said:
You need to put in an area code for it to ask which you want to call with, my guess is that's your problem.
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thanks so much, looked all over the google site and not one mention of an area was absolutely needed, works great now!
mt

you know....
when you use google voice you use your anytime minutes up.
Even if it is a cell phone or withing your night minutes.
I would not use google voice to make or receive any calls, or you'll be going over your minutes.

mtgmt said:
i installed google voice signed up and all
i had the settings ask me everytime i make a call to select cell service or google
well i make calls and it does not ask me what to do
i also changed to google only still every time i make a call its shows its sprint
is there a setting im missing?
mt
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Try opening the program--->MENU---->SETTINGS---->MAKING CALLS----ask everytime i make a call.

kthejoker20 said:
you know....
when you use google voice you use your anytime minutes up.
Even if it is a cell phone or withing your night minutes.
I would not use google voice to make or receive any calls, or you'll be going over your minutes.
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Your minutes will only be used if you begin the call through GV. If a call comes in to your phone and you have it set to show their actual mobile number instead of your GV number, Any Mobile Anytime goes into effect and minutes will not be used.

Call Center app ?

Hi guys!
I just saw this new app/service called CallControl available in Sweden right now:
http://www.ain.se/en/products/callcontrol
This uses the "call forward" to forward rejected incoming calls to their service.
But, wouldn't it be possible to have it all locally in the phone?
When you reject an incoming call, the phone/app actually picks up and plays some prerecorded messages to the caller, right from the phone:
"Hi, I can't pick up now. Press 1, if you want me to call back in 10 minutes. Press 2 if you'll call back tomorrow. Press 3 if you're trying to sell me stuff I don't actually need"
*presses 2*
"Ok! I'll wait for your call tomorrow! Bye!"
This shouldn't be impossible to make, right? Or is there such an App already?
/E

Good idea, although I'm no developer and probably can't help coding this...

there also a service called youmail (google it) you can set #'s up in there and give personilzed messages for it. i use it and it works great,

S4BRE said:
there also a service called youmail (google it) you can set #'s up in there and give personilzed messages for it. i use it and it works great,
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Yea it looks like Youmail is the same kind of service for USA as CallControl is for Sweden.
Not really what I'm after here.

Problems with Sprint number and GV integration that you should be aware of

There are two problems I have discovered with GV and Sprint number integration that you should know about before you switch, because it's a pain to turn this feature off (as I just did.)
If you need to use any service that must call you, and you must enter digits on the phone, it won't work. There's a problem with GV where if the other person starts the call to you, DTMF signals from your end are too distorted to register with any equipment that reads them.
Second, GV has a call record feature that is toggled by hitting the number 4. When it is toggled it announces to both you and the other person that the call is being recorded. This doesn't sound like a bad thing at first, but note that it can be triggered accidentally depending on you or the other person's voice through a phenomenon called talkoff. Talkoff is when a human voice mimics a DTMF signal for a very short time, but long enough to trigger some equipment to interpret it as a key press. The equipment that google uses is susceptible to this. When it is accidentally triggered, have fun explaining to the other person why they just heard the message "this call is being recorded."
More information about this problem can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=7e30f066f09baf68&hl=en

Curious as to what you mean bye your first point... could you give an example of what kind service would cause this..
Sorry if this is a dumb question lol
Chad

Chadk881 said:
Curious as to what you mean bye your first point... could you give an example of what kind service would cause this..
Sorry if this is a dumb question lol
Chad
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Like say you need an online bank to verify your phone number, they'll have an automated system that calls you, and then has you input a number to verify you own the phone number, when you do this it won't be able to recognize the numbers you key in.

Rakeesh_j said:
Like say you need an online bank to verify your phone number, they'll have an automated system that calls you, and then has you input a number to verify you own the phone number, when you do this it won't be able to recognize the numbers you key in.
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This call record feature... this works at any time by hitting 4? How does that work if you are navigating a DTMF menu?

From the linked forum post it looks like the call record feature does not activate if you call out so hitting 4 in a calling tree would allow you to navigate. Haven't tried it myself but from reading the link it looks to be true.

Rakeesh_j said:
Like say you need an online bank to verify your phone number, they'll have an automated system that calls you, and then has you input a number to verify you own the phone number, when you do this it won't be able to recognize the numbers you key in.
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That's odd, I have had to do this with several companies and never once had a problem..