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Call blocking

I am looking to block contacts and add some sort of blacklist program. I have downloaded a number of apps off the market place. But, unlike my old samsung phone which done this like a charm.
When the blocked person calls the phone will ring once and the blocked person phone will 'bring' once. Is there an app that will go straight to answerphone no rings and no brings, like my samsung did.

If you just want the person calling to go straight to answer phone then you can set a hero up to do this without any additional programmes?

crash_194 said:
If you just want the person calling to go straight to answer phone then you can set a hero up to do this without any additional programmes?
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mind telling us how exactly?
afaik the app "aFirewall" does exactly this.

I know if I edit my contact there is an option at the bottom, that allows calls from that contact be sent straight to voicemail.

Try Gblocker

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I know if I edit my contact there is an option at the bottom, that allows calls from that contact be sent straight to voicemail.
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wow, you are correct! nice feature, never noticed it. probably not as comfortable as a designated app for this, but at least it is a built-in feature

Callblocker does this.... but you need root.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-ap-callblocker-zwpz.aspx
Comments say it doesn't work on Hero but it does on mine. The people who complained probably didn't root their phones.

Hi,
i have tried both gblocker and afirewall and they all ring once then block the call. Even the in built feature.

Search "SPC" on Market. I'm using it.
SPC - Super Private Conversations

Google Voicemail problem

I use Google Voice for my voicemail. I have a colleague who does the same, with her Blackberry. We both are on Sprint.
Our calls aren't going to voicemail. I went into Google Voice on my desktop and see that my last voicemail was 12-23. I had my phone with me over the holidays and was on vacation for a week, so not getting a voicemail didn't really stand out.
When I try today, I get this message "We could not complete your call. Please try again."
Any ideas on where I can look before I give them a call? I am running Ultimate Droid and was sure if they would ask questions about my phone being rooted or instruct me to go to certain menus that may or may not be different.
I could get her to call later tonight if it is a Sprint thing but wanted to see if one of you smart folks might have a quick answer.
Thanks.

I also run UD2.5 and I have no problems using Google Voice as my voicemail provider. So you can probably rule out Sprint as being the problem.
You do need to make sure that Google Voice is set as your voicemail provider. Go into settings > Call Settings > Voicemail Service.
It should say Google Voice there. If it says My Carrier. That may be your problem.
If that says Google Voice, then you know you are least half way there. On your computer, log in to your google voice account, and click on settings in the top right corner. It should show your cell phone number as a forwarding number. Then to the right, it should say "deactivate Google Voicemail on this phone?"
If it says "Active Google voicemail on this phone?", then you haven't activated it yet. Click the hyperlink and it should give you a short code to dial on your phone to set up Gvoice as your VM provider.
If it says "deactivate" and you still aren't getting it to leave VM's. Then try clicking "deactivate", then activate again. It should walk you through the set up again.
Last but not least, you can check to see if it is initialized as your voicemail by calling your own cell phone number from your own phone. Gvoice should recognize this and take you into your Gvoice mailbox.
I hope at least one of those steps works. If not, you can try to PM me with your results, I don't know how much more I could help, but I don't mind if you do.

I really appreciate the help but no luck. Everything is showing like it is working but calls are still not going to google voice.
My GVoice Inbox is still showing all of my old messages (been using gvoice for about a year with no problems). Call Settings menu is showing google voice as the carrier.
The Voice app is working fine. I did go in and force stop it and cleared data to see if it would help. Doing that kicked me back through the setup process that I had already went through a few times.
I'm really hoping for an "Ah-ah" moment that makes me feel like an idiot...
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J_Bone said:
I really appreciate the help but no luck. Everything is showing like it is working but calls are still not going to google voice.
My GVoice Inbox is still showing all of my old messages (been using gvoice for about a year with no problems). Call Settings menu is showing google voice as the carrier.
The Voice app is working fine. I did go in and force stop it and cleared data to see if it would help. Doing that kicked me back through the setup process that I had already went through a few times.
I'm really hoping for an "Ah-ah" moment that makes me feel like an idiot...
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Did you actually try dialing the *28 followed by your google number just to reactivate conditional call forwarding?
Evo Sent

I will try that. It did give me a link to call during the activation that began with *28 but the rest of the number was not my google number.
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Still no luck. Had my hopes up on that one.
I still get Sprint voicemail when I call myself and I get 'Call can not be completed as dialed' when I call from my wife's phone.
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That's weird, so you did try it WITH your google number? I'm not sure why it would give you a different number. You also logged into google voice with the proper gmail address? If you go to settings in google voice does it show the proper phone numbers? Under "this phones number" is your cell number and under google number you see your actual google number? This is a really weird situation.
You can call Sprint and have them completely disable voicemail on your account but I don't think that will actually help.
Evo Sent

I did. I am not having much luck with Google this week. Can't purchase Root Explorer because Google checkout says my zip code is bad (apparently a known issue that only effects some merchants with some customers).
Anyway. When you call your google number from a different phone what SHOULD it do? From my wife's phone, it goes straight to my Inbox. That sound right? I have only used gvoice for voicemail and not a number I use for any calls, in or out.
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It will only go right to the inbox if you have it set up that way. Of course calling your google number should go to Your inbox not your wifes, unless her account is the one it is associated with. Basically when somebody calls your google number it will ring whatever phones you have it set to forward to. If you have forwarding off then it will go straight to voicemail. If indeed calling your google number goes to your wifes inbox then her gmail address is the one associated with that account. Thus you will have to go into google voice app and log out with your gmail and log in with hers. If you need more help I can be found on yahoo chat under ifly4vamerica, might be easier to help you through this issue.

Its got to be something stupid.... Probably you didnt set something up right. I have 2 google voice numbers one for business.. and one for my voicemail...
I have Never had a problem unless I didn't
1. *28 google voice number ( have to do this after flashing anything or restoring anything)
2. Did not refresh the gv app on my phone. ( after flashing or restoring)
3. Make sure you gmail accts are synced... that way you will get a transcript of the vmail and a link to audio
Its gotta be a miss step somewhere.
I have no probs as long as i do all these things. I flash crap on my phone all the time.
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tim

I have tried to start over a few times and each time I click Activate in the Settings menu it gives me a two step process: 1) Type this number from your cell phone *28{followed by a number that is NOT my Google number}. 2) Press Send.
This doesn't work. So I hit *38 to try and clear it back out (just in case).
I also get directed to that same *28 number when I go through the Call Settings>Voicemail>Voicemail Settings menu on my phone. It refers to it as a carrier configuration. I have GV selected as the carrier in the menu above.
I have also tried to use my Google number after the *28, which is apparently what you are supposed to do and yet again it doesn't work.
When you guys click activate on the GV Menu page does it suggest *28 with your g-number or something different?
What is really bugging me about this crap is that I have been using GV on multiple phones for more than a year (on the EVO since Aug) with no hiccups and it "breaks" out of the blue when I made no other changes to my phone or service.
I did try Sprint last night and the rep there said he fixed it but when I got off the phone and tested it, same result and I decided to go to bed as I value my TV and I was about to throw my phone through it. Gonna try and see if a different rep know more.
Thanks again for all the suggestions.

Update
Still a little confused here but now have it working. Still interested in the 'Why' side of things in case it were to happen again. Was on with a Sprint rep, for over an hour, who seemed to know his stuff and was a GV user himself.
My tries last night were from home where I use an Airrave (older model) for coverage. My tries this morning while talking to him were from my office where the signal is bad. On a couple of occasions I got connected to Verizon. There wasn't a roaming icon on my phone. Maybe Ultimate Droid doesn't show the icon? Not sure there.
He felt like the issue was connecting with Sprint and said that while the Airrave SHOULD work it could still be part of the problem. We finally stopped and he recommended I go to a Service Center, where we would be guaranteed to have good coverage and try again.
After we hung up, I downloaded the Stock 3.70 Rom and wiped everything (data x 3, cache and davlik) and flashed the new stock Rom. I wasn't expecting much as it smelled like a system thing with forwarding calls from Sprint to Google.
In Menu>Settings>Call>Voicemail Service I noticed I no longer had the option to choose Google Voice. I downloaded the GV app. I then went outside, stood on one leg with my socks off and my shirt unbuttoned to make sure I had a good signal, and followed the app's suggested setup, which included the *28 with the number that is NOT my GV number. Now it works.
Should I be worried about restoring my nand backup I did before the wipe? I'm thinking no but I also didn't think the reflash of the Stock would work. I am guessing the unawared roaming was prbly the biggest culprit.
Sorry for the length. Just trying to get all in here in case someone else has a similar issue.

Removing Phone Svc / Keeping Data? [$50 Bounty]

I use a mobile application on my Incredible for work, and have no use for the phone number. I figured that by not giving the device's phone number out, this would result in a peaceful state where I could work without being bothered.
Unfortunately, I get about 3 calls (wrong numbers) a day, which cause me to escape out of my business' application.
Is there some way to disable the phone capability, while retaining the ability to use Verizon's mobile data network?
In other words, I'd still be using Verizon's network, I just don't want the phone-call feature. Neither for incoming OR outgoing.
I've searched but cannot find anything.
Thank you in advance!
-RKM

Added $50 Bounty for any suggestions that do the trick.
We have an in-house app running on DInc's and we desperately need this because .. wrong-numbers keep disrupting our user's workflow.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/mr-number-call-block/com.mrnumber.blocker
http://www.appbrain.com/app/blacklist/org.baole.app.blacklist
Would either of these apps work?

Switch the device to a data only plan maybe?
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Thank you for the reply.
@Andassaran - There does not seem to be such a thing as a "data only plan" with Verizon, according to them. They claim I have to maintain phone service as well.
@cuban11182 - As far as an *app* that stops calls, the best we've found is "Call Blocker Elite"; however, this still really isn't an ideal solution because it breaks the user out of their app.
Ideally... I would like to have a script that disables the phone-related apps, or does something so that incoming calls cannot come through, while leaving everything else in a working state.
If this is possible using a script that can be run on ROOT'ed phones to disable or "freeze" certain things, that would be fine too! Currently ... We run Titanium Donation on all phones, and I could freeze something if I knew it was not going to cause other problems.
Thank you again for your suggestions!
-RKM

Your best bet is probably to crack open the phone.apk and see if there's a line of code dealing with this in there. I'm pretty sure there is, just can't remember where exactly and I don't have my laptop with me.

PonsAsinorem said:
Your best bet is probably to crack open the phone.apk and see if there's a line of code dealing with this in there. I'm pretty sure there is, just can't remember where exactly and I don't have my laptop with me.
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PonsAsinorem - This is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for, would be happy to send the bounty if you can help me follow this to find a working solution.. Just one question to get started:
(1) Where do I get a source-code version of phone.apk for the DInc? And, do I have to be sure I'm using a special version based on my radio version?
Thank you,
RKM

Phone.apk is a file in your system/app directory. Based on, or in rather, your ROM, not your radio. It's been a minute since I've tweaked it, I'm almost useless right now at walking an inexperienced person through it without my laptop. Ihtfp69 is a lot more experienced at this, he just might help you if you ask nicely.

Pons- I'm sorry, I don't think I explained properly.
I'm aware of Phone.apk and its location, no problem there.
I was asking about (and am confused on this point): That .apk files are binaries that I cannot modify, and I have no idea where I'd get a source-code version of Phone.apk?

Within the apk itself is a classes.dex file which you use smali and baksmali to compile and decompile. So yes, you can modify it, but it does take a little effort. The hard part is figuring out what line does what.

if you have Titanium Backup Pro, use the freeze function to Freeze Phone.apk/Dialer.apk, this should work. If it stops working, flash back to a nandroid backup, which you should make before trying this.
Swyped from my HTC Desire running AuraxTSense 8.2 with Tapatalk.

I went to verizonwireless.com and choose change plan, then they had a messaging only plan. It was a plan just for unlimited messaging, don't know if you could add data to it, you would still have a phone number,but I don't think you can get calls, just txts.

@Pons- Perfect, thank you. I've tried Baksmali in the past, but the results were pretty obfuscated and I could not make sense of the output.
BTW - something just occurred to me ... will something other than phone.apk be responsible for receiving/fielding calls, then running phone.apk upon the "new call" event?
In an ideal world (if I'm going to be modifying apk's rather than simply enabling/disabling a setting), I'd like to only disable incoming calls. But.. It occurred to me the simple phone.apk mod would be in exiting/disabling outgoing calls.
@BodenM - I'm a bit sketchy about freezing phone (mentioned earlier), and was hoping to only use that in a worst-case scenario. If I cannot determine how to properly alter Phone.apk, I'll look for phone.apk again under Titanium (didn't find it the first time).
@TNS201 - That's an interesting idea. Perhaps there is a way of having a phone number, yet not receiving calls. If Pons idea doesn't work, and Titanium doesn't work, this will be my backup-plan. Thank you!

if you can't find phone.apk, try looking for "Dialer" or something similar.
Swyped from my HTC Desire running AuraxTSense 8.2 with Tapatalk.

Forward the VZ phone# to a bad phone number. Then callers will hear a carrier error. I believe this also keeps your phone from ringing, even keeps it from ringing once.
Your airtime on forwarded calls would be miniscule.
How to Use It
To Activate:
Press *72. Enter the phone number where you want calls to be forwarded. (e.g. *72-908-123-4567).
Press SEND and wait for confirmation. You should hear a confirmation tone or a message.
Press END.
To Deactivate:
Press *73. Press SEND and wait for confirmation. You should hear a confirmation tone or a message.*
Pess END.
Call Forwarding
Description
Forward your calls to another phone number, including your home or office number. Your wireless phone will not ring until you deactivate the service. Airtime applies to forwarded/transferred calls even if you send the call to wireline telephones. When forwarding calls to phone numbers outside your local calling area, you'll be billed for any toll, long distance, and airtime charges incurred. Additional per-minute charges may apply to all forwarded calls. This feature is also known as "Immediate Call Forwarding".

exactly what I was going to say
luvit said:
Forward the VZ phone# to a bad phone number. Then callers will hear a carrier error. I believe this also keeps your phone from ringing, even keeps it from ringing once.
Your airtime on forwarded calls would be miniscule.
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Exactly what I wasx going to say. If you don't wan't calls and don't give out the number, just have all calls FWDed to another #. No?
http://support.vzw.com/clc/features/calling_features/call_forwarding.html

UPDATE:
Regarding a "Messaging Only" plan.
With 3G "Smartphones" (eg Android handsets), Verizon *only* available if medically Deaf or Mute, and they require a doctor's note.
Regarding the Fowarding. The first Verizon rep I had spoken with (about a year ago) claimed it was an extra cost. I just tried the instructions available on the web and so far it seems to be working. I wonder if this will remain active permanently without resetting itself. If so, this may be the best solution, despite being the most obvious..

Your forwarding wil utilize air time, which you have a set amount if minutes anyway. You will not exceed these minutes, so it wil l not cost you anything more than you are already paying. VZ does have an unadvertised plan of $50/mo, maybe even lower unadvertised plans, today.
This wil be awesome for you.
I'm luvit and I endorse this message.

How do I go about locating the "unadvertised" plan?
The reason I ask, I searched the 'net and spoke with 3 different Verizon reps today, and not one of them gave me any option for a data/messaging-only plan.

Another way you could do it, is use do not disturb call forwarding. It on your line already you just call VZW and have them enable it. I did this for one of my kids phone . The silence was bliss. Anyway just a thought.
Edit: sorry the last few post didn't load so I miss this already being discussed.

[Q] Voicemail Won't Pick Up

I've been having trouble with my VoiceMail. I'm running CM 7 and using the Sprint VVM 5.1.4.8 and the Voicemail will not pick up. The phone just rings and rings. I disabled Google Voice and did *38 to stop call forwarding and it still won't work. I can go into the app and hit "compose" and record a message to myself and send it and it shows up fine. But when I use another phone to call my phone, it just rings on and on and the VM never picks up. I could really use some help!
Thanks

I gotta say i have not a clue how to fix that. I have called people that had that same problem on different phones but not happen to me. Btw you should post this in q/a not the dev section. You will probably get an answer sooner
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I usually try not to troll... But why in the bloody hell would you put this in this section? This is so blatantly unrelated to development its insane.

I apologise for posting in the wrong forum. I've been sort of scattered since this problem started. Mod's, will you please delete?
Thanks

chrismgan said:
I've been having trouble with my VoiceMail. I'm running CM 7 and using the Sprint VVM 5.1.4.8 and the Voicemail will not pick up. The phone just rings and rings. I disabled Google Voice and did *38 to stop call forwarding and it still won't work. I can go into the app and hit "compose" and record a message to myself and send it and it shows up fine. But when I use another phone to call my phone, it just rings on and on and the VM never picks up. I could really use some help!
Thanks
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I think i had the same issue a few months ago, what i did was log into my Google Voice from my home PC and go into Phones settings and make sure forward calls to Mobile (Sprint) is unchecked and save settings and that should take care of it. What happens is when you finish flashing a new ROM and your phone boots up for the first time and it gets to the Google login,skip the migration to Sprint to your Google Voice because it causes this problem.Hope this helps! Peace!

Not Receiving Texts

AFter I did this I cannot receive text messages unless they are sent to my google voice number and my google voice account is active. So I tried to deactivate it, but that doesnt do anything whatsoever. I even deleted the phone completely from google voice, but as for now, using my google voice number is the only way I can receive texts. So I end up sending texts with my sprint number and then the recipient would have to respond to my google voice number. This is not acceptable. My temper is getting the best of me and I am seriously going ballistic. Its been doing it since i used the method here, so I tried to update the radios to the latest version (don't worry I know I'm doing this right), and I did, but it did nothing to help. I have the latest amon_ra 3.11 and Im running the Anthrax test kernel plus MikG 3.0, however ive also tried AOSP roms with AOSP kernels and its the same effing deal. I've also tried updating the PRL and the Profile, but NOTHING CHANGES. Ugh, I really need the texting to work because I live in a 3G weak area so google voice is not reliable. Thank you in advance... ill answer any questions you guys have.

I haven't used Google voice, but from what I've read I hate it and it takes over your phone. If you go to the webpage for googlevoice, I know you can configure it better, or get out of it altogether. I know in the AOKP thread, someone recently posted a link to the googlevoice site for customizing. Maybe check last few pages if interested. On mobile now and its kind of a ***** to go back and look up and copy to you. Good luck.
And for vmail , I'd suggest youmail, it doesn't take over all your sh1t.
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Again, I deleted my phone from google voice. It is COMPLETELY removed from it as far as I know.

You have to go one Google voice site from the PC and change settings to get your texts to go to phone again just deleting the apk doesn't do anything cuz Google voice is a effing plague I used it once it took me almost 3 weeks to get my phone back to normal, your other option is to port your sprint # to google voice so u recieve the GV texts on your phone number I did that til I found all the settings to get rid of it
We are legion, for we are many

Again, I did do that from the online google voice via my PC.

Hey,
Yeah to fix that google voice issue you have to use the sprint google voice integration which uses your sprint number as your google voice number and it works for me, I just like it for backing up my text and sending text via 3g and wifi when I got bad cell signal.
Alright to disable GV you need to log into your google voice account as it looks you did and completely disable your phone and that will kill GV.
Now if your text still arent working there is several reasons that could be
1. you have sprint, many text and calls go missing due to "the other service provider" as they say...but yeah okay they just have an outage and dont want you to doubt their service..
2. you have low memory on your phone in which case it is closing the messenger app before it registers the message, get an app in the market called ghostly sms to prevent that!
3. I know I had some issues with radios and roms, many times they are not compatible or there is glitches which cause them to not work right . This option is a pain in the butt and takes a few minutes but It was the fastest fix to my issue. I downloaded a RUU *one that can be rooted again of course* plugged my phone in as the instructions say and ran the program. and after that of course took the necessary steps to get my root permissions again and it cleared up the issues with my phone!
If you do decide to go this route here is all the tools and info you need
http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showt...-to-stock-and-S-ON-for-HTC-Evo-4G-Gingerbread
Thats my two cents and I hope you can figure it out,
I hope I helped If I did please hit the Thanks button!
Stevo

thank you guys for posting that are more familiar than I.
sent from AOKP heaven

Ok, Ill try the ruu, but which one is rootable?
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I RUUd, and no, no change. It seems like ill be stuck using google voice. I even called sprint and they "provisioned" my phone, but nothing changed

RUU and reprovision will not help is Google still has control of your messaging. I've never used it (because of so many stories like this that I've read), but I still would be convinced you're missing some option in Google voice. Like, go to Google voice on desktop, pull up account. Make sure everything IS coming in through Google voice, then go thru all of Google voices settings, and determine which ones to disable first (i.e. in what order).
Sorry, but it just sounds like Google voice has been disabled properly/fully. Good luck.
sent from AOKP heaven

Hey,
That's strange cause It can't be a phone issue if you did all that, interesting. Alright um have you tried logging into Google voice to see if it were still getting text? I would at this point send a email to Google and ask them to make sure your number is completely off the system maybe the issue is somewhere in there
Keep us updated
Stevo
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I've narrowed it down to only Tmobile numbers. I can get texts from Sprint, ATT, Verizon, just not Tmobile, which sucks because my significant other uses Tmobile... Ill take the phone itself to sprint tomorrow, but I know those bastards are just going to be like "We'll hard reset it". Here's more details to the issue, I had just gotten my phone fixed from Sprint and they gave me a refurb, so who do I text first? My significant other, being the good guy I am and I got responses, then I rooted it using the method i linked to in the OP, I then flashed AKOP and the problem started to happen, so then I figured, well it must be the radio since I did downgrade it, and did not upgrade it immediatly, so the next day when I realized i wasn't receiving texts I updated it... but that changed nothing. Idk how that helps or not, but well there you go. Also I tried syncing my phone completely to google plus, but in the setup screen on the phone within the app, whenever I say i want my sprint number to be the number I use, it gives me an error, and all I can do is press cancel... This is some mysterious stuff.

Double Post. Right now to get around this, I am stuck using my google voice number (not the sprint one) on my phone. Of course i get delayed notifications and this makes conversation really difficult, especially since i am on call...
I attatched what my settings are in Google voice right now. Notice how it says sprint integration is disabled. I cannot press the delete button because Google then gives me an error saying "You must have at least one physical phone associated with the account" or something like that

Hey,
so did you go into google voice settings and disable the number so it completely un-linked you from any account? & I have had it happen before where it decided to get text from any phone except my better half to, and it was working I was just confused. But after a few days all her text decided to come through at once and sprint says it wasnt their fault but yeah okay I dont believe that. So it was just one of those weird things I wont even question just beacause it ended up working!
stevo

I would suggest REenabling your number to Google voice (as I stated before), THEN, make sure you disable it by first disabling text notifications, THEN calls , THEN your number completely. I'm just going by crap I've read about Google voice. Wish I could help more.
sent from AOKP heaven

I did try to contact google, but they do not have a support service (WTF GOOGLE!) I read from the forums i posted on that there is another guy that has the same problem as I.