Is there an app would make my blocked / Reject phone number go away and not show up on my "always on" - "locked screen" - "Home screen pull-down" screens as a missed call. What is the point of blocking/rejecting a call if they keep showing up on my phone??? The only thing I want showing up on my "always on" & "locked" screens is text messages. I'm really hoping I don't have to root to do this. I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
Well, I know macrodroid app won't work. Just got this from them:
I assume you are talking about a notification. You can use the clear notification action if you want to clear it, but MacroDroid cannot stop your system or other apps from creating notifications.
Not sure what you mean, when I actively reject a call, there isn't any notification, for me it's gone for good and if I want to review it I have to take a look at the call list.
What settings did you use to do that then? On my S7 Edge, once I put a number on rejected list, if they call back again, the little icon still shows up on my "always on", "locked" & "Home pulldown" screens.
I figured this xda forum would have a solution? Guess not...
Have you tried True Caller? Free 3rd party app for blocking unwanted calls, you can blacklist number, you can also block all blocked number, and they maintain a list of spam callers you can automatically block. You can choose to have notifications or no notifications.
I will give it a try!
I emailed truecaller with some questions. Not so sure after seeing one of the reviews:
Please revert back to previous version Double notification for missed call it pathetic for me. I don't want truecaller to handle my call the way it is now. Please revert back to previous version. It was definitely a 5 star application. I don't like truecaller to give me missed call notification. All the android phone by default gives it. Duplicate notification is not at all desirable.
I use Blacklist, does what I need it to do. I don't even notice when the NRA calls me 10 times a day for donations anymore.
You don't get any missed calls notifications on your "always on" , "locked" , "home pulldown" screens?
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it is irritating to have every text msg popped up. and I do not feel secure to have the msg shown there for few seconds. so just wondering is there any way to shut that pop-up off ? TIA
sounds like you have women problems
mazdaspeed said:
sounds like you have women problems
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lol~ not really...just wanna shut that off for not exposing my so called privacy
unicorn129 said:
it is irritating to have every text msg popped up. and I do not feel secure to have the msg shown there for few seconds. so just wondering is there any way to shut that pop-up off ? TIA
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settings\sounds & notifications\notifications tab
select Messaging: New text message from the "Event:" drop down menu
uncheck the "Display message on screen" tickbox.
click ok.
go have a beer and chill for a minute or two and voila! it bloody works!
I feel you
I would also like to know if it's possible to turn SMS *receiving* off completely (i.e. so that the phone will "refuse" to accept SMS messages but will continue to receive regular voice calls).
Any suggestion?
Cheers!
Dan
leo-chan said:
settings\sounds & notifications\notifications tab
select Messaging: New text message from the "Event:" drop down menu
uncheck the "Display message on screen" tickbox.
click ok.
go have a beer and chill for a minute or two and voila! it bloody works!
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hooray...works perfectly...thanks a lot man
turn SMS *receiving* off completely
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dan74 said:
I would also like to know if it's possible to turn SMS *receiving* off completely (i.e. so that the phone will "refuse" to accept SMS messages but will continue to receive regular voice calls).
Any suggestion?
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You could just call your carrier and tell them to turn off sms on your account.
Blowfish64 said:
You could just call your carrier and tell them to turn off sms on your account.
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sure , but then again for voice you have unconditional voice forwarding that you can control yourself, whereas for SMSes you have... nothing!
i guess it would be easy to hack the phone to report something like "memory capacity exceeded" when the network tries to deliver a short message and you don't want to receive any messages, but want to still be able to receive phone calls. that would make the network store your message(s) and try to deliver later. i also guess that would be much easier than waiting for your operator to implement something like "unconditional sms forwarding"
regards,
dan
There are plenty of applications that will block SMS's. Photo Contacts Pro, SmartBlock, EasyHelper SMS, etc. A simple search would have turned up a ton of them.
If you go into the phone dialing app and go into options, there is a tab for "services" that is listed in there. It give you a number for the "text message service center" - you might get what you want by changing that to 0 or something. Not sure.
But yea, you should be able to call your carrier and have them turn this off. Since they charge you for incoming texts usually, they should have a way to opt out.
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If you go into the phone dialing app and go into options, there is a tab for "services" that is listed in there. It give you a number for the "text message service center" - you might get what you want by changing that to 0 or something. Not sure.
But yea, you should be able to call your carrier and have them turn this off. Since they charge you for incoming texts usually, they should have a way to opt out.
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changing the service center no will not prevent your phone receiving short messages, it is only used when you send them.
over here operators don't usually charge for incoming text messages (unless it's from a special service). i remember that on the other side of the atlantic things are quite different
if you go to to phone and go to settings theres an option to select
incoming call popups which will display oncoming call popup when an app is in use.
the phone stock comes with it selected so
i unchecked it so that if im using an app the incoming call popup wont show
but i still get the incoming call taking over the screen..
anyone have any issues with this?
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if you go to to phone and go to settings theres an option to select
incoming call popups which will display oncoming call popup when an app is in use.
the phone stock comes with it selected so
i unchecked it so that if im using an app the incoming call popup wont show
but i still get the incoming call taking over the screen..
anyone have any issues with this?
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Only thing unchecking the pop-up does is disable the small answer/decline tab that drops down from the notification bar, it then defaults to the stock Android answer screen which I guess is what u are seeing. Otherwise how u gonna know who's calling?
I don't get what you want to accomplish?
do you not want to see who is calling?
yeah i was hoping if i was in the middle of an app it wouldn't take over the entire app maybe like just the top notification bar would light up
I want to know if it is possible to force a ongoing call/dialer app to be on top for the duration of the call. The reason for this is because on my carrier, MTN in South Africa, has a really neat deal. When making calls I get a certain percentage discount from call charges. It depends on how far I'm calling, whether it's to the same network etc. This information is shown as soon as the call connects. I've attached a screenshot of this message.
This message minimises the dialer and goes to homescreen, then when I want to end the call, I have to pull down the notification bar, select the ongoing call entry to get back to the call, then dismiss it. It's really quite annoying, so my question, is there a way to block this little message? An Xposed module maybe..? I don't know much about this kind of hacking but if someone who knows how could help me I'd be very grateful. If you need the phone.apk I'll provide that also.
This question is not specific to the Nexus 6P, but that is the phone I carry.
I add 2 or 3 phone numbers (telemarketers) to my blocked call list every week. When a telemarketer calls, I (1) hang up, (2) go to the call log, (3) tap the call record to expand it, (4) tap "call details", then (5) select "block number." That's all very simple.
The issue is that now that I have dozens or hundreds of blocked numbers , when I miss a call, there's no easy way to see if the missed call was from a number on my blocked list. A missed call from a blocked number looks the same as a missed call from an un-blocked number (unless they're in my contact list).
I can scroll through (but not search or sort) my blocked call list by (1) opening phone app, (2) tapping "Settings" in the primary menu, then (3) tapping "Call Blocking." This presents a list of all of the numbers that I've ever blocked, but I can't search it and I can't sort it.
In a perfect world, the Call Log would somehow show a flag for missed calls from blocked numbers so that I don't have to search the list to see if the number is blocked. In an even more perfect world, a tap on that number would take me to a detail page showing all the times that number has called and been blocked. Finally, the blocked number list would be both searchable and sortable.
I think that most/all of this could be accomplished by a 3d party app - for which I'd gladly pay five bucks. There are lots of call blocking apps on the market, but they all appear to operate separately from the Android native call blocking function.
Q. - Any suggestions on how to make this better?
if you miss a call using stock dialer.app call blocking, and the number is on the block list, there is no record of it in your call log.
The whole point of blocking the call is so there is no trace of it.
>>> The whole point of blocking the call is so there is no trace of it.
I disagree. The whole point of blocking is not to be interrupted by a call from an unwanted caller. The point of a log is to make a record of incoming and outgoing call - and attempted call - activity.
then in that case you should use do not disturb.
call blocking is just that, blocking a call.
Agreed. Don't ring the phone, but I would like to see a log of the blocked calls, so I can tell how persistent a spammer is.
Hi, I believe since nougat update I Only have the notification telling me that I missed a call on my lockscreen, but not the name of the caller. This was definitely on there before. Which setting is it to show that again? I figured it could be some kind of security setting, privacy wise to hide the id of the caller on lock screen but I couldn't find anything like that in settings. Anybody have an idea? Thanks!
Maybe: if you go Settings - Notifications - Advanced - Show System apps - Phone you can select what is shown on lockscreen.
No that's not it. Under device Security, notifications on lock screen, show content is active. And I also see like text previews from WhatsApp. But when someone calls it only says missed call.