I just switched to my Moto G5 Plus from the BLU HD R1 about a week ago.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to assign a unique text message notification tone to a contact. I am pretty sure it wasn't this complicated with my old phone.
I would prefer not to use a 3rd party app to achieve this if I can avoid it. It's a pretty necessary functionality for me, though. I'm a substitute teacher and frequently get requests for jobs via text.
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Does anyone know how to get this to work?
It can be found in Start - Settings - Phone - Advanced Tab
Mine is ticked but doesn't seem to do anything when I choose Ignore to an incoming call (i.e. the caller is not sent a text message saying the above)
Any ideas
I have wondered about this for a long time, but haven't come up with anything to make it work, sorry.
I usually disable it sooner or later, just in case.
K_Hismoom said:
I have wondered about this for a long time, but haven't come up with anything to make it work, sorry.
I usually disable it sooner or later, just in case.
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I have unlimited text messages so charges isn't an issue for me.
All I can find is the option to send a text message when a call comes through, but nothing to automatically send a text message on an ignored call.
Hm, I think it's like this. Someone is calling you and if you wan't to ignore/reject the call, put your phone upside down on a table(with screen to the table), the call will be automatically ignored and I think THEN the message will be sent try it, not sure
I think, I have figured it out.
On an incoming call, you have the option to click on "Send text" in the lower left corner. The call is then rejected and you can compose an SMS to send to the caller.
I use an app called SMS Minder to do this myself, and I'm quite pleased with the results. You can have it respond to all missed calls/texts (select BLACKLIST & leave the field blank) or only to missed calls from certain numbers (select WHITELIST & add the numbers you want to respond to).
I've been using it for several months and it makes my work so much easier. I'm a cabdriver, and when a call comes in & doesn't get answered for whatever reason SMS Minder sends a message that says "I can't talk now, please text me".
For the longest time I didn't really trust Texting that much, but it's become an integral part of my work now. So much easier to read&reply to an SMS (10 to 15 seconds tops) than it is to dial voicemail, listen through the prompts & recital of the phonenumber, then listen to the message...and finally after all of THAT is done, then return the person's call. Texting is just that much easier.
Especially if I use a program like this to automate my responses...and a program on my desktop to send other text messages just like they were an email (it's got an interface similar to Outlook). I plug the phone into the computer & tuck it away...then any interaction I have with the phone is done by using Jeyo Mobile Companion (SMS interface with additional cool features) and/or MyMobiler (fully manipulable screen-shot of the phone's screen) on my desktop.
Of all the apps I've tried and/or discarded, these three have become almost indispensable to my work.
Use QSMS To Buddy:FullFeatured Free app from android market
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i believe, given the age of this thread, that it is about the native windows mobile feature to reject calls with an sms and there was no need to bump the thread with an app for another operating system. also, on android, depending on your phone and rom, this feature might also be pre-installed and available from stock, w/o the need for a 3rd party app.
Hi,
I've developed the app Group to Voicemail for Android and have come across an interesting issue that only occurs on HTC phones (from what I've heard):
When I programatically send a Contact to voicemail (using the SEND_TO_VOICEMAIL field for ContactsContract.Contacts), it works as expected. However, when I set that field back to '0' (to not send that Contact to voicemail anymore) the check box is unchecked for that Contact in the UI, but calls that come in still go to voicemail. The only way to actually put the change into effect is to reboot the phone (obviously not an acceptable solution for users)
Anyway, I've only seen this happen, and had reports from users that have HTC phones (Incredible and Evo). It works fine on the Motorola Droid as far as I can tell.
Based on some other tests, it seems to be directly related to SenseUI, and not the hardware itself. So, that begs that question, is there some other step that's required on the HTC phones but not the others? Or, is it required on both and I can just get away with not doing it on the Motorola phones, etc?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Matt
Is there an app that will forward my text notifications from my Droid X to my Xoom?
Use Google Voice? I intend on doing it that way by just installing the app.
You can't install Google Voice on Xoom yet as far as I can tell. It doesn't show up in the market app and the webstore says the Xoom isn't compatible.
Like the guy above me said, I'm out of luck with Google Voice. I was thinking of something else though.
I know there are a few applications that backup text messages to an email address. Would creating a separate email address (so my phone wouldn't get the notifications) and automatically backing up incoming messages to the new email address be a ghetto workaround? You could add the 2nd email address to the tablet and turn off the forwarding on the phone at any given time.
The reason for the ambiguous "is this a question or an explanation" tone here is that my Droid X apparently has bugs with every application that I wanted to try this out with. I'm going to check out the Droid X forums, but I thought I would bring it up here.
Yep, it's a free app and it works great - Remote Web Desktop
Since I bought my Nexus 4, rather than moving my number to tmobile and running the risk of one day losing my number, I decided to use Google Voice, instead....I love the call forwarding feature that can make multiple phones ring all from one phone number!!! It's so nice to have one number to give out, rather than 3 (work, home, cell).
The problem with this, though, is text messaging. While it works great and I never miss a text (even if I've forgotten to pay my bill :laugh I can't keep the conversations sorted properly. I easily have at least 5 conversations for each contact in my list, and I can't figure out for the life of me how to merge them or stop a new conversation from starting. I like having one conversation thread per contact so that I can easily flip through and reference my old messages in the event I need to find, say, a phone number or address one of my contacts may have sent through text. On multiple occasions I've had to ask people to resend something because I can't find it in the chat log, and it's starting to get a little frustrating. Does anyone know of any way of keeping the conversation list better organized? Or is there maybe another app out there I could use for sms that will keep my conversations better organized until google fixes this?
Google probably won't fix it until after the merge with Hangouts, which does behave like what you want.
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Yeah, hangouts is really nice!! Conversations work much better, and I hope either the app merge or gv fix come soon, because it gets pretty frustrating.
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Google probably won't fix it until after the merge with Hangouts, which does behave like what you want.
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The way GV conversations are sorted isn't a bug though. Most people hate it but it is the way Google wants it to work. Google hasn't really done anything to the Google Voice app in years other than a few minor updates. Hopefully they will merge it with Hangouts since they are actually developing that app.
Hi guys,
I've got the V10. I genuinely like it a lot. In fact, one of the better phones I've had in the last several years. There are a few things I don't like about the phone that seem to be present in the V20 too.
My #1 complaint in the V10 is the inability to block callers from the phone. Sure there are apps that can do that, but they're not really blocking the call, only the notification that a call is in progress and that caller can still leave a message. I'm getting several messages a day from Spammers ... and the time it takes to filter Voice Mail is a F*%ing pain in the ass.
---- Does the V20 now have the ability to block callers altogether, or is it like the apps where a blocked caller can still leave a message?
#2. Different notifications for e-mail, texts, etc ... off the stock apps. The stock V10 (Verizon) doesn't allow different notifications for these services. I'd like to be able to set up different notification sounds on the V20 without using alternative apps. (If there's a way to do this on the stock V10, please advise)
#3. Is anyone having problems with the sides of the glass activating touches to the screen like the Galaxy Note Edge's do? I had a ***** of a time with all the "Edge" phones picking up touches off the edge of the glass by the way I held the phone. I'm also apprehensive about having the edges of the glass exposed like they are on the V20 ... I know the weakest point of glass is the edge and the slightest tap to an edge of glass will easily break it - much more often then the same tap to the surface.
Thank you in advance for all your help and answers.
Hello you can block callers if you click on the number in your call list, then the three dots, block this number. (Thought it was on v10 also)
No problems for me with touching the screen like on my Note 7
And as far of notifications go I dont think you can on either at least that I could not figure it out
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On my TMO V10 I can go in the settings of the messaging app, gmail and stock email to set their own tones. Call blocking has never worked the way your expecting on any of my HTC's (3) or LG's (2), yes I have a call reject option but it still sends them straight to vmail, most of my spammers just don't leave a message.
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On my TMO V10 I can go in the settings of the messaging app, gmail and stock email to set their own tones. Call blocking has never worked the way your expecting on any of my HTC's (3) or LG's (2), yes I have a call reject option but it still sends them straight to vmail, most of my spammers just don't leave a message.
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Thanks SkyWlkr - you're confirming something I suspected. Verizon is locking down the stock text and e-mail notifications to only one sound, while other networks leave it open for customization/preference.
And I agree, most spammers don't leave a message, but some of the Robo-Dialers hear the voice of the system and start their Robo-Pitch.
I could've beaten Trump and Hillary if I ran with the one agenda of; No more Robo E-Mails, Phone Dialers, Text Msgs or Spoofed Caller ID.
I use light flow for custom notifications
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