Hello everyone,
A friend of mine wants to temporary block all communications on his phone (from receiving incoming calls and messages) except from one number.
Is it possible? Does he need any application?
Thankfully,
Pedro
From my understanding (non expert) the SIMs phone number is stored at your carrier's server (and yes you can change your SIMs phone number). When someone calls your number it first connects to your carrier and then your carrier connects the caller to your SIM (phone). With this view, it is your carrier that can decide whose call you can or can not receive, but I don't really know.
wrt54gs7 said:
From my understanding (non expert) the SIMs phone number is stored at your carrier's server (and yes you can change your SIMs phone number). When someone calls your number it first connects to your carrier and then your carrier connects the caller to your SIM (phone). With this view, it is your carrier that can decide whose call you can or can not receive, but I don't really know.
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Well, in my Arc S, when I'm storing a contact I have a option which says: "Send this contact directly to voicemail" - And it could be a possibility. Is this present on Xperia Mini Pro?
Yes mini pro also has an option to send call directly to voicemail (contact option). Sending caller to voicemail could work.
wrt54gs7 said:
Yes mini pro also has an option to send call directly to voicemail (contact option). Sending caller to voicemail could work.
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Is there an app to do it on all contacts? Doing it manually is quite hard. I've tested Mr. Number, however, even blocking calls on my Arc S, the phone rings for like a second or a bit less than that.
I've just found this. It could be what you need.
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hi all
we have just got our O2 XDA back from the repairers, they ended up sending us a new phone, and now we get to use it finally...
but we have a problem with sending SMS messages, the XDA gives the generic message "sms message cannot be sent, contact customer service center for more information" every time we try to send one
we can make and recieve phone calls and can recieve SMS messages
we have tried 2 different sim cards, both give the same results, though both are from the same network
does the phone number NEED to be in the international type with country numbers?
what are we missing?
thanks
MADMAX
does the phone number NEED to be in the international type with country numbers?
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if it does then it would be pretty easy to test
in my settings
phone
services
i have an option on the list called Voice mail and SMS
if i pick get setting i get a phone nr from the network
try looking if you have a nr there too
so the phone needs a special number to send SMS messages?
I have been into services before, it showed a sms phone number, but it was different to ours so I thought I had to change it to the XDA's mobile number... was this incorrect?
cheers
MADMAX
my number in what it call
sms service center
is most surdenly not the same nr as my phone nr
and i never messed with it
yep you were right,
I needed the correct service center number, it must have been the one I replaced with our phone number... a silly mistake....
its taken me quite a while to track down any info about it....
thanks mate
MADMAX
hello all
i am curious to know if there is a way to make my phone number private for certain contact. is there an app that makes my outgoing calls private? other than adding *67 to each contact.
i have a work phone that forwards all the incoming calls to my personal phone. there are times that i have to a followup call and i use my personal phone number. i have change my number 3 times in the past 4 month. any suggestion will be appreciated. thank you.
*67 then number you want to dial for example *67-(555)-555-5555
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bluediablito said:
hello all
i am curious to know if there is a way to make my phone number private for certain contact. is there an app that makes my outgoing calls private? other than adding *67 to each contact.
i have a work phone that forwards all the incoming calls to my personal phone. there are times that i have to a followup call and i use my personal phone number. i have change my number 3 times in the past 4 month. any suggestion will be appreciated. thank you.
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Have you tried Google Voice? You can call clents from that number and control access on how and when it can notify(I love the call block feature) you.
I believe the phones also have an automatic prepend feature (normally adds the +1 for dialing) I think you can change it to whatever you want (e.g *67)
The only thing I know to do is either, add *67 each time or change their contact information to include it.
Alternatively you can have it added to your phone at the Sprint level. It unfortunately is not select-able and will make all calls private. The problem with that, I found, was MANY people won't answer blocked calls.
so they advertise you can call without using minutes with this app...im wondering if when you call someone when they see you calling what number will appear for the caller id? will your cell number appear or does it route it through another number and has that one show?
thanks
My Galaxy Note II can receive and send phone calls, I can use data over the 3 network and I can receive texts, but I cannot SEND texts.
My Note II is rooted, unlocked and running Jelly beans rom V5 on the 3 network in Scotland on a pay as you go SIM card. The SIM card works in my other UK phone (unlocked Nexus S), i.e. I can send texts when it's in the Nexus.
I have never been able to send texts with the 3 SIM card in the Note II, (as in this isn't something that was working and stopped, it never worked). My note II was able to send texts when it was on the Verizon SIM in the states.
After I send a text, the "view message info" screen show it as sending to a +44 number and says sent. Several hours later (after the recipient in question never receives the text) I get a text from +441144 (then recipients number) with a message stating " Your text - to - speech message to 01144 (number of recipient) has been rejected by recipient phone."
Calling my +44 contacts works just fine.
I have no idea how to fix this issue. Does anyone have any ideas/ similar issues with their Verizon note II abroad ?
Thank you for your help and time
Using rooted Verizon phone to text on UK three network
I had the exact same problem, three network, using a Verizon S3 with synergy ROM and a hacked APN (as Verizon would not allow APN to be added), I guess you figured that bit out? Using APN Manager Pro running as a system app as set by Titanium Backup Pro.
You also have to make sure you have all the right APN settings, this was done to make DATA work on the phone.
Now the problem you describe is exactly what we had, it's the format of your phone numbers in your contact list, for UK numbers while in the UK, you DO NOT use the +44 or 44... just enter the number as normal 0745 xxx xxx etc... and that fixes the problem. Btw It's quicker to log into your gmail account and edit all of your phone numbers in there, presuming you use Gmail to sync your contacts and not verizon backup as that won't work over here when off their network.
This does cause another problem though, if you happen to use Viber, then viber will not see the contact, so what you do for that is add ANOTHER entry in the same contact, so I use the WORK field, and you enter +44 745 ... you must have the + in there and you must drop the zero, this way normal text works using the MOBILE entry in UK format, and Viber can see the contact in thge WORK entry... all appears to work doing this.
I know it's off topic and you may not use viber, but if you do, then your USA contacts would have to change your phone book entry to +44 745 xxxxxx again including the + and international country code and they can then see you as a viber contact. To see my USA contacts I changed my entries to +1 xxx xxx xxxx, so an orlando number might be +1 407-999-9999 then Viber can see the contact, just use multiple entries within the same contact, there are plenty of fields available.
Hope all of this helps, took some time to figure it all out
Mark
Melian06 said:
My Galaxy Note II can receive and send phone calls, I can use data over the 3 network and I can receive texts, but I cannot SEND texts.
My Note II is rooted, unlocked and running Jelly beans rom V5 on the 3 network in Scotland on a pay as you go SIM card. The SIM card works in my other UK phone (unlocked Nexus S), i.e. I can send texts when it's in the Nexus.
I have never been able to send texts with the 3 SIM card in the Note II, (as in this isn't something that was working and stopped, it never worked). My note II was able to send texts when it was on the Verizon SIM in the states.
After I send a text, the "view message info" screen show it as sending to a +44 number and says sent. Several hours later (after the recipient in question never receives the text) I get a text from +441144 (then recipients number) with a message stating " Your text - to - speech message to 01144 (number of recipient) has been rejected by recipient phone."
Calling my +44 contacts works just fine.
I have no idea how to fix this issue. Does anyone have any ideas/ similar issues with their Verizon note II abroad ?
Thank you for your help and time
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I'm having this problem too, on a Samsung Galaxy Stratosphere 2 that I imported from America (it's got a slide-out keyboard, we don't have them over here), also rooted and running on the three network.
I've changed all my +447 contacts to 07 but texts only send successfully when I start a new conversation and pick the 07 recipient. When they text me back the number at the top changes to +447 again and I can't reply without starting a new conversation.
Any tips?
possible workaround
I've installed Handcent to replace the stock sms app and it seems to be working well so far. As far as I can tell, replies are successful and the number doesn't default to +44
I want to know if there is an app or any other way to block all incoming calls on my HTC Desire V phone. (Rooted and stock ROM)
My requirement is to block only "Incoming" calls from a list of pre-selected numbers but I would like to allow everything other then incoming calls.
I am using my phone's default way to reject all calls, but any time someone calls they hear a small ring and then operator message saying
"The Number You Have Called Is Busy...", So the caller understands that I am rejecting the call and expects a call back.
If the message after rejecting a call is like "Switch Off" or something else I am fine.
If somebody can help with "Incoming Call Barring" that will be great, because I spoke with my operator regarding incoming calls barring password but I was told that it is phone feature so I needed to contact handset manufacturer for this and I got the same answer from HTC that it is a network feature so I need to contact service provider.
Please Help.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flexaspect.android.everycallcontrol ?
es0tericcha0s said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flexaspect.android.everycallcontrol ?
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Will give it a try... But I doubt it will fill my expectations...
As I don't want get charged for VMB services...
Anyways thanks for the suggestion...
EMRAAN_47 said:
Will give it a try... But I doubt it will fill my expectations...
As I don't want get charged for VMB services...
Anyways thanks for the suggestion...
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Try doing a quick search in google play like: Call blocker
You should find some apps, would do it myself now but i'm in a bit of a hurry
Tried such kind of call rejecting apps from play... They just simply reject the call after a small ring; hence operator message is heared by caller saying no. is busy...
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