Anyone know how to clear the voicemail notification on my notification bar? I have tried every possible thing to get rid of it and it does not to go away. I have checked in the voicemail and they I have no new messages or saved messages.
Thanks,
Jdom58 said:
Anyone know how to clear the voicemail notification on my notification bar? I have tried every possible thing to get rid of it and it does not to go away. I have checked in the voicemail and they I have no new messages or saved messages.
Thanks,
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i read that someone had same problem and someone else said leave yourself a voicemail, listen to the whole message and that should clear it
kyle51 said:
i read that someone had same problem and someone else said leave yourself a voicemail, listen to the whole message and that should clear it
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Yeah that's a good idea.
Also I had similar problems with my VM...Honestly I hate checking my VMs because of the tedious procedure that T-Mobile Voicemail hotline forces you to do. Before my Vibrant went Vibroke I switched to Google Voice. It's badass. In most cases it transcribes your Voicemails to text and let's you listen/delete all of your messages without being forced to listening to a stupid robot lady. Definitely worth trying out.
Thanks I tried calling myself several times left a vm then deleted them and still didn't work. I checked all settings in menu/settings/call hoping to find a clear option and nada, nothing, even looked through Root Explorer but didn't know what half the things were I was looking at.
Maybe I can have T-Mob reset msgs, not sure.
Joy Visial Voicemail is great for checking your VM, don't need toi call in at all
Yes, if all that you tried before didn't work you should call up TMO
Visual Voicemail doesn't work for me because I have an older unlimited plan that was grandfatherered into my current contract. I had it before though, and I still prefer Voice over that.
I love this community, I had the same issue and one search of xda and problem solved.
Thanks guys
kyle51 said:
i read that someone had same problem and someone else said leave yourself a voicemail, listen to the whole message and that should clear it
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yeah, this just worked for me. 'preciate it!
Recently I've been getting tons of phone call spam, and it's getting outta control.
Basically I'm seeing numbers like:
7829105866
7436694122
ETC...
No messages left, and when you pickup the phone there's nobody on the other end.
Honestly I don't know what caused this. I do light surfing on my phone. (no porn, casino, ETC...) I usually install apps that I only pay for from the Market, and I usually only install what I need. I do have an unlocked BL & rooted Atrix (currently on stock 2.3.6).
I'm getting somewhere between 3-10 calls a day, and it's getting frustrating! I've been dabbling around lately with call blockers, but will probably need to spend more time researching them.
Anywhoo... Anybody else here dealing with the call spam as well? If so how much, and what are you doing about it?... (Call Blockers?, Antivirus?, Firewalls?)
No messages left, and when you pickup the phone there's nobody on the other end.
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Is it really spam if it leaves no message?
knigitz said:
Is it really spam if it leaves no message?
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It is when your phone keeps going off at work. I'm almost at the point of getting a new phone number it's that bad...
ccrows said:
It is when your phone keeps going off at work. I'm almost at the point of getting a new phone number it's that bad...
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Probably a better place to take this inquiry is to your provider. An app on the phone would not fix the underlying issue.
You could try Root Call Blocker.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.rootcallblocker.beta&hl=en
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Probably a better place to take this inquiry is to your provider. An app on the phone would not fix the underlying issue.
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I'm with AT&T. To my understanding, they can block numbers but these numbers are coming totally random so I'm not sure if there would be a limit or not or even if that's possible...
Cryingmoose said:
You could try Root Call Blocker.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.rootcallblocker.beta&hl=en
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I've been picking away at different call blockers, but striking out since calls are still getting through. All this BS shortly happened after I rooted my phone, (needed to use a new root method) and it appears that these calls are coming from India.
So I'm not sure if I should stay rooted, unroot, or find a new root method?...
Simple in cm7 settings there is an option to block number so no more missed calls and **** (i am sure there is an app for that too) and for sms spam.control install go sms and block the numbers there too, i am sure u just block numbers and soon they will run out of numbers
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I get a few spam calls each month. All from a cruise company. To combat it, I created a spam contact and add all spam calls to that contact, then just ignore calls that show as that contact. Pretty easy.
xateeq said:
Simple in cm7 settings there is an option to block number so no more missed calls and **** (i am sure there is an app for that too) and for sms spam.control install go sms and block the numbers there too, i am sure u just block numbers and soon they will run out of numbers
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Thanks... Haven't gone the CM7 route yet. I'm not sure if flashing CM7 would be a solution to me though, since each one of these calls has been from a different number. I don't know if it's spoofed or what, but I don't know if these numbers are ever gonna run out.
The only thing I got to work is using a 3rd party app to "somewhat" block calls not in my contacts list. Phone still rings first. Unfortunately I still need to receive calls outside of my contact list for work. Probably the only "solution" that would work for now is if I could block out any call outside of the US, and also not ringing my phone when blocked. (since these calls seem to be coming from India on Google searches) I'm not sure if such a solution exists...
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I'm with AT&T. To my understanding, they can block numbers but these numbers are coming totally random so I'm not sure if there would be a limit or not or even if that's possible...
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You have to pay for blocking with AT&T, and then its limited to only a few numbers. They wont arbitrarily block numbers. I would google the numbers. If they're spam you'll find threads about them. There are apps which block numbers not in your contact list and don't ring 1st. That would work for you for time being. You probably signed up for something where you input your number without thinking. I will try to find app I know about when I get home.
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Search Mr. Number in the market. It has the option to send all non-contact calls straight to voicemail (and many other options). So long as you make sure your voicemail notification is silent, you should be set. If these spam calls are conistently blank, I assume they won't even leave a voicemail.
This is what I used to block my ex-wife!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greythinker.punchback&hl=en
Don't use it anymore, so forgot this is what I used previously.
ccrows said:
Recently I've been getting tons of phone call spam, and it's getting outta control.
Basically I'm seeing numbers like:
7829105866
7436694122
ETC...
No messages left, and when you pickup the phone there's nobody on the other end.
Honestly I don't know what caused this. I do light surfing on my phone. (no porn, casino, ETC...) I usually install apps that I only pay for from the Market, and I usually only install what I need. I do have an unlocked BL & rooted Atrix (currently on stock 2.3.6).
I'm getting somewhere between 3-10 calls a day, and it's getting frustrating! I've been dabbling around lately with call blockers, but will probably need to spend more time researching them.
Anywhoo... Anybody else here dealing with the call spam as well? If so how much, and what are you doing about it?... (Call Blockers?, Antivirus?, Firewalls?)
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I've been getting a lot of calls recently from random 877 and 360 area code numbers...not sure why but it's pretty annoying
I've gotten all kinds of calls from political candidates to timeshares calls. I have had this problem for a while so I started adding all those numbers to a generic contact (I called mine "Bad People"). I tried all kinds of apps but none worked well. I found that right in the Android contact list, there is an option to send contact straight to voice mail. I can confirm it on both CM7 and CM9, pretty sure blur had it but not 100%. I'm on CM9 right now and when you select the contact that option is available when you hit the menu button, it is not available when you are editing the contact.
Additionally, I was getting calls from "Unknown" callers which is also very annoying, to beat this I added a contact with the name "Unknown" and selected the option for that contact to go straight to voicemail and that has seemed to work. It went from 3 or 4 unknown calls a day to 0 and if it was a real person, they could always leave a message.
As a heads up, I had over 120 numbers on my fake contact and my phone was having a lot of trouble (adding, syncing and blocking), so I broke that one contact into 3 fake contacts, 50 numbers per fake contact seems to work pretty well, just make sure you send all 3 voicemail.
Also if you flash a new rom to your phone, you will have to go to the fake contact and check the box to send them back to voicemail, but that's easy to do.
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FuzeLearner said:
I've gotten all kinds of calls from political candidates to timeshares calls. I have had this problem for a while so I started adding all those numbers to a generic contact (I called mine "Bad People"). I tried all kinds of apps but none worked well. I found that right in the Android contact list, there is an option to send contact straight to voice mail. I can confirm it on both CM7 and CM9, pretty sure blur had it but not 100%. I'm on CM9 right now and when you select the contact that option is available when you hit the menu button, it is not available when you are editing the contact.
Additionally, I was getting calls from "Unknown" callers which is also very annoying, to beat this I added a contact with the name "Unknown" and selected the option for that contact to go straight to voicemail and that has seemed to work. It went from 3 or 4 unknown calls a day to 0 and if it was a real person, they could always leave a message.
As a heads up, I had over 120 numbers on my fake contact and my phone was having a lot of trouble (adding, syncing and blocking), so I broke that one contact into 3 fake contacts, 50 numbers per fake contact seems to work pretty well, just make sure you send all 3 voicemail.
Also if you flash a new rom to your phone, you will have to go to the fake contact and check the box to send them back to voicemail, but that's easy to do.
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Just verified this on Nottachtrix. Long press contact, view contact, menu, options, send straight to voicemail option.
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CaelanT said:
This is what I used to block my ex-wife!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greythinker.punchback&hl=en
Don't use it anymore, so forgot this is what I used previously.
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That's the one I've been trying out right now. The jury is still out about that one, since the only way that it works well is if I block all numbers not in my contacts, but that isn't doable for work.
The frustrating part is that I am not getting the same number, it's "random" numbers and no number is the same when it calls. They all appear to be coming from India. If I can find a program that blocks all calls outside the US, it would be perfect...
Great solution actually.
Do you think the block list size caused problems?
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I had a similar problem, but I just ended up calling AT&T and asking them to change my number, stopped all my problems
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Alcapone263 said:
I had a similar problem, but I just ended up calling AT&T and asking them to change my number, stopped all my problems
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How much did that cost you? & Did you have to do a new contract?...
Hello, my Girlfriend has an admirer which started out as a good friend. He confessioned his love for her some time ago and started to become more and more aggressive while being rejected. He recently started to show some stalker like behavior and started to appear near her flat at late nighttime.
He also hinted, that he always knew when she was chatting with my through Whatsapp. I'm therefore afraid that he might have installed some Spysoftware on her Android-Phone (HTC One X+)
TL;DR
Is there a way to identifyWhatsapp Spysoftware and to remove it?
Unmensch said:
Hello, my Girlfriend has an admirer which started out as a good friend. He confessioned his love for her some time ago and started to become more and more aggressive while being rejected. He recently started to show some stalker like behavior and started to appear near her flat at late nighttime.
He also hinted, that he always knew when she was chatting with my through Whatsapp. I'm therefore afraid that he might have installed some Spysoftware on her Android-Phone (HTC One X+)
TL;DR
Is there a way to identifyWhatsapp Spysoftware and to remove it?
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i doubht theres any such thing but if u feel that freaked out just backup contacts and other stuff to google and do a factory reset lol.
if your serious apps arent important.
Unmensch said:
Hello, my Girlfriend has an admirer which started out as a good friend. He confessioned his love for her some time ago and started to become more and more aggressive while being rejected. He recently started to show some stalker like behavior and started to appear near her flat at late nighttime.
He also hinted, that he always knew when she was chatting with my through Whatsapp. I'm therefore afraid that he might have installed some Spysoftware on her Android-Phone (HTC One X+)
TL;DR
Is there a way to identifyWhatsapp Spysoftware and to remove it?
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There is a messaging app called whatsapp, I've never used it so I don't know how she could remove him as a contact on there or just get rid of the app.
Personally I use lookout mobile security for virus/spyware. But a scanning app may not flag messaging apps as spyware, no matter how flexible it may be with its users info.
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While this can be done. I doubt he has the know how on how to pull it off and is just making noise. Worst case would be to catch him doing it and call the cops.
She would have to remove him in her contacts list for the app
Wayne Tech S-III
do a factory reset. just to be safe.
Also format sdcard for make sure.
Run ruu. Burn phone. Buy new one. All good answers
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try this
about whatsappp it's indded simple to know when sbody is chatting, on every messaging window just under the contact name there is the last contact log, if in chat says online, even if chatting with another one... so maybe no spyware on her phone, just a smart stalker, but she can freeze him simply long press on stalker name in whatsapp contact list and block, also in android contact add him and from menù choose "send all call to voice box" or similar after choose a fake number as phonebox, doing this her phone is virtually not reachable from the stalker
plus add his number in a black list, you can find a lot of call blocker app in the market
and last but not least call the cops
How to turn off broadcast messages completely ?
anyone ?
eh, sorry, what is that "broadcast messages"?
Use titanium backup or something else to freeze or uninstall the program called CMAS Alerts. It's something like that CMAS something. I uninstalled it don't remember exact name.
Tablechair said:
Use titanium backup or something else to freeze or uninstall the program called CMAS Alerts. It's something like that CMAS something. I uninstalled it don't remember exact name.
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you actually not answered his question "what is broadcast messages?" Do you recieve any local area/tower specific mobile popup messages (also called USSD messages) or scrollers like place name, mobile offers, etc?.
I never received such messages on any of Android I used till date. Used to recieve such scroller messages on Nokia, around 10 years back.
In US we have this crap. http://www.fema.gov/commercial-mobile-alert-system
Tablechair said:
In US we have this crap. http://www.fema.gov/commercial-mobile-alert-system
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oh. strange and new thing for me.
Tablechair said:
In US we have this crap. http://www.fema.gov/commercial-mobile-alert-system
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Hmm, I am on Tmobile with CMAS still enable, but i haven't got anything like this yet. Bet it is not a very frequent message then. Why OP want to disable it anyways?
its off now in my mobile. In stock rom you well get a application name "cell broadcast" dont turn it on you will get junk from operator
hi, i know i can back up and manually upload to another phone but what im looking for is keeping texts constantly in sync. the idea being that i want to use one phone most of the time but for some occasions id like to swap the sim cards over into the other device.
i am aware that supposedly this functionality is baked into google voice but since im not american it doesnt work and hence not an option.
so is there something that would do this?
mark2410 said:
hi, i know i can back up and manually upload to another phone but what im looking for is keeping texts constantly in sync. the idea being that i want to use one phone most of the time but for some occasions id like to swap the sim cards over into the other device.
i am aware that supposedly this functionality is baked into google voice but since im not american it doesnt work and hence not an option.
so is there something that would do this?
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Maybe try this.
jakuburban said:
Maybe try this.
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hmmm, app looks interestying but the website for the company doesnent even mention it and seems to be very comercial, i think they want to then charge you per redirected text which isnt really what im after.