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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
knigitz said:
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...
ccrows said:
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?...
Greetings to everyone
I have question about security. I have to know what options are there to find out sms conversation. I use Handcent sms in which I use privacy box with one person to determine that noone else except me would know what we are texting about. But one thing happened. Third person know what exactly we are texting about, even if I constantly deleted sms everyday. I can't imagine the way how he find out this.
I study software development so about security I know something. I know that handcent saves database of sms even if they are deleted or not. I used sqlite to find out what is exactly in the db and find out, that this is not right way how he find out. I also find out that in handcent autobackup option was checked, but noticed that when you delete sms, backup file changed and there were only sms i intented to be there. I also tried antivirus programs to find out if there is some kind of malware or trojan, nothing found.
So my question is: what options of finding out sms conversation are there? Even if third person can access mentioned mobile phone or not?
I will appreciate any good advice
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Greetings to everyone
I have question about security. I have to know what options are there to find out sms conversation. I use Handcent sms in which I use privacy box with one person to determine that noone else except me would know what we are texting about. But one thing happened. Third person know what exactly we are texting about, even if I constantly deleted sms everyday. I can't imagine the way how he find out this.
I study software development so about security I know something. I know that handcent saves database of sms even if they are deleted or not. I used sqlite to find out what is exactly in the db and find out, that this is not right way how he find out. I also find out that in handcent autobackup option was checked, but noticed that when you delete sms, backup file changed and there were only sms i intented to be there. I also tried antivirus programs to find out if there is some kind of malware or trojan, nothing found.
So my question is: what options of finding out sms conversation are there? Even if third person can access mentioned mobile phone or not?
I will appreciate any good advice
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Was it a known person? Or a random person? If he was a friend/person you know, then he either heard through the grape vine or got your phone or the person you were textings phone. I dont think there is a way to "hack" your phone from a computer and view the texts you sent. Unless he got them from your carrier.
elesbb said:
Was it a known person? Or a random person? If he was a friend/person you know, then he either heard through the grape vine or got your phone or the person you were textings phone. I dont think there is a way to "hack" your phone from a computer and view the texts you sent. Unless he got them from your carrier.
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Yes, it was person we both know. He had access to the phone, but with deleted sms with no backup.. It's possible to get this informartion through mobile operator?
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Yes, it was person we both know. He had access to the phone, but with deleted sms with no backup.. It's possible to get this informartion through mobile operator?
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Yes it is but would need to go through tones of red tape and have to be a Cop of some kind.
Most likely it was who ever you were texting. There are also other ways that it could happen. Apps that forward all texts to another number used to be a big one back in windows mobile days. Not sure if there is an app like that for android
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zelendel said:
Yes it is but would need to go through tones of red tape and have to be a Cop of some kind.
Most likely it was who ever you were texting. There are also other ways that it could happen. Apps that forward all texts to another number used to be a big one back in windows mobile days. Not sure if there is an app like that for android
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It's probably the problem that this person has a friend which works for vodafone which this phone uses. Forwarding all texts is not possible i think, because this person would catch up on this earlier..
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It's probably the problem that this person has a friend which works for vodafone which this phone uses. Forwarding all texts is not possible i think, because this person would catch up on this earlier..
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There used to be an app that could be installed that did all this with the user even knowing about it. Once installed it was hidden away and it never showed that the messages would be forwarded. It was a proof of concept app that someone made for learning. If they had someone working for the company it would have to be a higher up to have access to the cached data bases the company keeps which are encrypted.
I have a feeling the OP was ratted out by the one they were texting.
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There used to be an app that could be installed that did all this with the user even knowing about it. Once installed it was hidden away and it never showed that the messages would be forwarded. It was a proof of concept app that someone made for learning. If they had someone working for the company it would have to be a higher up to have access to the cached data bases the company keeps which are encrypted.
I have a feeling the OP was ratted out by the one they were texting.
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Ok, thank you for your advice. So if there is hidden app registered as service it can be seen through logcat when I intent to send sms, am I right?
About the company, this person works here on higher places, dont realy know what is his position some kind of IT specialist, gonna investigate this..
Searched around and found other people with the same issue, but no solution. Basically, on either my daily driver (Ineffablis 1.0) or any other ROM I flash, Google Voice no longer functions properly. I can install the application, but when I go to make it my voicemail provider, it tells me that my carrier (Verizon) isn't supported and that I will need to configure manually. I've done the *71, *90, and *92 routes to try and get it to work, and it just doesn't. Has anyone else experienced this, and has anyone found a solution?
I don't think you can set up google voice as default voicemail on verizon phones period because I have this problem with my incredible and had it with my Rezound
Edit: never mind lol
I had google voice on my incredible for over 2 years, and recently the same here on my Rezound, but I apparently something has recently broken...
I have also used Google Voice on Verizon, almost from when it first came out. I have no issues, but I haven't changed anything in awhile.
Been using it since the Incredible, never had an issue
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partizan1981 said:
Searched around and found other people with the same issue, but no solution. Basically, on either my daily driver (Ineffablis 1.0) or any other ROM I flash, Google Voice no longer functions properly. I can install the application, but when I go to make it my voicemail provider, it tells me that my carrier (Verizon) isn't supported and that I will need to configure manually. I've done the *71, *90, and *92 routes to try and get it to work, and it just doesn't. Has anyone else experienced this, and has anyone found a solution?
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When you get that message just back out of the app, then go to to VM settings on the phone and press my carrier. It will let you change it to GV and you'll be good to go
Pm me if you can't get it I'll walk you through it
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jaysckap said:
When you get that message just back out of the app, then go to to VM settings on the phone and press my carrier. It will let you change it to GV and you'll be good to go
Pm me if you can't get it I'll walk you through it
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Thanks jaysckap, but I actually managed to figure it out! I tried your idea but it kept giving that same error regarding the carrier not supporting automatic configuration. Ultimately I found somebody on arstechnica who had the same issue and said that they just went into the Verizon website and forced call-forwarding there instead of trying to use the application. Once I did that I was good to go, Google Voice is back in business!
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Thanks jaysckap, but I actually managed to figure it out! I tried your idea but it kept giving that same error regarding the carrier not supporting automatic configuration. Ultimately I found somebody on arstechnica who had the same issue and said that they just went into the Verizon website and forced call-forwarding there instead of trying to use the application. Once I did that I was good to go, Google Voice is back in business!
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I'm on verizon, but don't call anymore for my voicemail. If you go to the PC website for google voice, you can configure the voicemail to be handled by google voice. So, you get voicemail notifications like they would if they called your GV number.
I keep having to login throughout day or after reboot.
Anyone remember if there is a service or something I may of frozen that would cause this? I'm rooted and deodexed.
I'm going to start unfreezing everything tonight in hopes of determining what is causing it.
have a solution for you.
Google voice.
dansan382 said:
have a solution for you.
Google voice.
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This. Works great and it's free.
Is it difficult to setup?
I don't want another phone number; don't want someone calling me through google number.
Is there a way to just use Voice as the voicemail service and still have people call me at my normal phone number?
geswek said:
Is it difficult to setup?
I don't want another phone number; don't want someone calling me through google number.
Is there a way to just use Voice as the voicemail service and still have people call me at my normal phone number?
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not at all.. when i originally got it i just used it for voicemail but later got a number from it but i dont actually use the number. people still call my normal number, nobody knows my GV number at all. i only use it when i dont want somebody having my number (craigslist ad, etc)
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not at all.. when i originally got it i just used it for voicemail but later got a number from it but i dont actually use the number. people still call my normal number, nobody knows my GV number at all. i only use it when i dont want somebody having my number (craigslist ad, etc)
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What app do I use to listen to my voice mails?
geswek said:
What app do I use to listen to my voice mails?
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google voice.
I just set it up. Wow, I can't believe I never tried this before.
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geswek said:
Is it difficult to setup?
I don't want another phone number; don't want someone calling me through google number.
Is there a way to just use Voice as the voicemail service and still have people call me at my normal phone number?
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Yes that is an option I use GV as my voicemail just fine and I keep my same number.
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geswek said:
I just set it up. Wow, I can't believe I never tried this before.
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lol enjoy. make sure like the screenshots below you set your voicemail settings in the phone to google voice.
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lol enjoy. make sure like the screenshots below you set your voicemail settings in the phone to google voice.
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I did; tested it from office phone and it went right to it.
I love how I can listen to my messages or read transcript from web or phone.
This is awesome.
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I'm loving the Google voice. The only issue I have is that transcript is not instant. I have to click on VM and wait for it to load. I'm going to probably disable it because it's not very good. I don't really care for it. Overall this is awesome. I can't believe I never used it before.
I have an AT&T G4 running Lollipop. I keep missing calls and voicemails and unlike any other phone I have owned this one will not notify me again that there was a missed call or that I have a voicemail, or text message that I haven't acknowledged. I have checked out a couple of apps in the play store and the reviews by G4 owners says that they don't work on the G4. Does anyone have an app that will remind me every 5 minutes that I have a missed call, message, or VM? I have tried searching but the Missed Call Reminder are all very generic terms that bring up all sorts of results and Google seems to gladly ignore the variable "LG G4".
Thank you.
mattbatt0 said:
I have an AT&T G4 running Lollipop. I keep missing calls and voicemails and unlike any other phone I have owned this one will not notify me again that there was a missed call or that I have a voicemail, or text message that I haven't acknowledged. I have checked out a couple of apps in the play store and the reviews by G4 owners says that they don't work on the G4. Does anyone have an app that will remind me every 5 minutes that I have a missed call, message, or VM? I have tried searching but the Missed Call Reminder are all very generic terms that bring up all sorts of results and Google seems to gladly ignore the variable "LG G4".
Thank you.
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Try '' Alert me " from Play store.
This one seems to be working for me. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dan_ru.ProfReminder&hl=en
mattbatt0 said:
I have an AT&T G4 running Lollipop. I keep missing calls and voicemails and unlike any other phone I have owned this one will not notify me again that there was a missed call or that I have a voicemail, or text message that I haven't acknowledged. I have checked out a couple of apps in the play store and the reviews by G4 owners says that they don't work on the G4. Does anyone have an app that will remind me every 5 minutes that I have a missed call, message, or VM? I have tried searching but the Missed Call Reminder are all very generic terms that bring up all sorts of results and Google seems to gladly ignore the variable "LG G4".
Thank you.
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I wrote a simple opensource tool to remind periodically about missed notifications with the selected sound. You can select any applications which should be monitored.
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.missednotificationsreminder
httpdispatch said:
I wrote a simple opensource tool to remind periodically about missed notifications with the selected sound. You can select any applications which should be monitored.
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.miss​ednotificationsreminder
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Your link isn't working for me.
mattbatt0 said:
Your link isn't working for me.
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Sorry, here is the fixed one play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.missednotificationsreminder
httpdispatch said:
I wrote a simple opensource tool to remind periodically about missed notifications with the selected sound. You can select any applications which should be monitored.
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.missednotificationsreminder
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Using it on my Realme C3 and loving it. I preferred sound/audio reminder over screen flash or camera flash type apps. Thanks for the app, Eugene. Saving me pulling my hair out after buying the phone and realized it does not have notification reminder function built in like the Samsung!
Note: if the app doesn't work, or stopped working after a while, it's most likely not the app's fault but some power saving or optimization app in your phone is killing the app's background processes. Find it and it'll work properly.