Can anyone help with advice or an application for the following (if it doesnt exist it should-but it probably does!):-
I do some newspaper work and hence my phone number is in the paper every week. Im reviewing and it leaves me open to abuse and i occasionally get a mouthful from HIDDEN numbers.
It means that i now just dont answer any hidden numbers, which im sure several of which are genuine.
Is there an application/ way that i can make ALL incoming calls that have their number hidden IMMEDIEATLY go to a specific voice mail? (e.g. "Hi, this is **** ******. Hidden numbers are not accepted on this phone. Please ring from a revealed number, text or leave a vociemail and ill get back to you").
Have i any specific options???
GOOGLE AND INSTALL MAGICALL - it does everything you have asked for and more its awsome this is 100% the answer to your issue.!
An alternative may be is to call your mobile phone operator to see if they have a "block-the-blocker" (that's what it's called where I live) service: if the caller blocks/hides his/her phone number intentionally or by default, s/he is greeted by a system recording saying blocked ID calls are not accepted (followed by with instructions on how to unhide ID).
I think call firewall will do what you need, good luck.
Sounds like you may want to check out Google Voice.
Basically, you get a free phone number that forwards to the phone(s) of your choice, along with extensive call filtering options and a lot of other cool features.
It won't help you with the people who already have your number, but Google Voice allows you to set up call filters so that you can send unidentified callers straight to voicemail or reject them with a "hidden numbers are not accepted on this phone" message.
If you have a Google Voice number and a Windows Phone, you can get apps for dialing out through Google Voice so your GV number shows up when you return a call.
If you go this route, you'll want to check out the following apps:
iDialer (Google Voice version) - This program can be used to dial out normally through your cell phone, or initiate calls through Google Voice.
iContact - This program integrates iDialer with your phone contacts.
Green Button (sets up your phone's green "call" button to open iDialer instead of the default dialer)
Google Voice Easy SMS - sends texts from your phone through your Google Voice number.
I have this set up on my Tilt2, and I'm very pleased with it. Feel free to message me if you need any questions answered.
Geekaholic said:
Sounds like you may want to check out Google Voice.
Basically, you get a free phone number that forwards to the phone(s) of your choice, along with extensive call filtering options and a lot of other cool features.
It won't help you with the people who already have your number, but Google Voice allows you to set up call filters so that you can send unidentified callers straight to voicemail or reject them with a "hidden numbers are not accepted on this phone" message.
If you have a Google Voice number and a Windows Phone, you can get apps for dialing out through Google Voice so your GV number shows up when you return a call.
If you go this route, you'll want to check out the following apps:
iDialer (Google Voice version) - This program can be used to dial out normally through your cell phone, or initiate calls through Google Voice.
iContact - This program integrates iDialer with your phone contacts.
Green Button (sets up your phone's green "call" button to open iDialer instead of the default dialer)
Google Voice Easy SMS - sends texts from your phone through your Google Voice number.
I have this set up on my Tilt2, and I'm very pleased with it. Feel free to message me if you need any questions answered.
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Anyway u hook me up w/ an invite? i remember when Gmail frst came out they had this invite only thing and the people who have been invited can invite like 50 something people! Could you do that too? if yes, plzz could i get an invite! ... If yes.. u can PM me and i will give my email!
Thank youu
There is a service called Trapcall, google it. when somone calls you from an unlisted number all you have to do is press the call reject button then it will ring back with the callers unmasked number, and the caller never notices. its not an app and free.
I've been using the app "voice choice" and it manages a contact list for google voice. basically it manages which numbers are connected with your real # and which numbers are connected using google voice, so I actually have 2 lines.
Problem is, after I installed CM7, Voice Choice doesn't work. Default setting used to be that when I dial out it would be my google voice number always. But now everytime I dial any number, it constantly asks me to choose, it's so f'in annoying.
Is there an updated form of this app or a different one that works better??
Something seems to be causing Google Voice to not function with my S5 from Verizon.
I restored my wife's phone to defaults, installed just the current GV app, and despite picking either 'use google voice for this call' or 'use google voice for all calls', the phone directly dials the number rather than google voice. behavior on every other android phone is that it pulls the GV alias number via data connection and dials that.
End result is her vzw phone # gets exposed to numbers she calls, instead of the caller seeing the desired google voice # on their caller id.
I tested earlier versions of GV app, tested my GV account, and tested all of her stuff with another new in box Galaxy S5. still no luck.
For the time being I moved her back to a Droid Maxx and GV works fine.
Does anyone else have this issue? Or a workaround?
theres a screen during installation config that you select "this phones number" make sure you are doing that correctly. the more current versions dont dial out on data, they dial out on a google number then connect the call. make sure you are downloading google voice from play store not trying to use some current version from when google used a single number to call out on.
first, I have been a Google Voice Voive mail for my cell phone user for years and recently the Android google voice app would not switch from Verizon to Google, I changed the setting in the phone settings on my cell and it still wouldn't send calls to google voice..
Here is what I did to fix this:
I assume you have it setup in your web (online) google voice setting, if not go here https://support.google.com/voice/answer/165656?hl=en .
After doing these settings it still didn't work for me so I went to the manual setup for Verizon users below. It works now! Hope it helps someone!
If you're a Verizon Wireless
If you are having trouble configuring Google Voice as your voicemail service on Verizon you can make the switch manually by dialing these three activation codes:
From your Cell phone do below (*71 worked for me)
*71[Your Google Voice number]
*90[Your Google Voice number]
*92[Your Google Voice number]
rsalas187 said:
first, I have been a Google Voice Voive mail for my cell phone user for years and recently the Android google voice app would not switch from Verizon to Google, I changed the setting in phone setting on my cell and it still wouldn't send calls to google voice..
Here is what I did to fix this:
I assume you have it setup in your web (online) google voice setting, if not go here https://support.google.com/voice/answer/165656?hl=en .
After doing these settings it still didn't work for me so I went to the manual setup for Verizon users below. It works now! Hope it helps someone!
If you're a Verizon Wireless
If you are having trouble configuring Google Voice as your voicemail service on Verizon you can make the switch manually by dialing these three activation codes:
From your Cell phone do below (*71 worked for me)
*71[Your Google Voice number]
*90[Your Google Voice number]
*92[Your Google Voice number]
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Thank you I forgot the numbers to forward the voice-mails to my Google voice. Maybe no voice mails is a good thing.... Hahaha
I have a Nexus 6P running the latest version Android 6.0.1. However, it is very odd that I never had this issue with my Nexus 6.
I have a car that just has a simple phone button (Bluetooth) to press which makes a sound and at that point I can simply say something like "Call Tom Brady". The phone usually uses my Verizon network to call the contact without any problems. I have been noticing that for a lot of my contacts 'Google Now' is trying to call them via Google Voice. The phone literally says calling so and so via Google Voice and then never connects. I don't know if this is because these contacts have a Gmail account or what, but it is very annoying and it never ends up connecting.
I bet if I uninstall the Google Voice app everything would work, but I need it for my visual voice mail.
One thing I have already tried is in the Google Voice App settings change it to 'Do NOT use Google Voice for any calls'.
This did not fix the issue.
Is there any Google Now settings or Google Voice settings that anyone can think of that might help me here?