Currently stock Android provides a feature to block phone numbers and when the person that you've blocked calls, the owner of the phone is not alerted that the blocked person called.
Is there any possible way to see the logs/list of blocked people who called?
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Someone I know is having an issue with someone calling/harassing her and using a Caller ID Faker app so she doesn't know the number its coming from, or setting it to a number of her co-workers or someone important that she should answer. Is there an app, or away to block someone from using something like this to contact her? Is there something that will force her phone to show the correct incoming number? Or a way for her to block calls that are being used from one of these Caller ID Faker apps. I'm thinking that since the the change in the incoming number is happening from the outgoing phone call that there isn't a way. But there are a lot of ppl here that are smarter then me on this topic so I'm hoping for some help.
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With the increasing number of secure and non-secure communications apps out there, and the variety of SMS/MMS, etc available, it would be great to have a way of specifying which app is used per contact entry to use.
For example, if you have a contact in your phone that only knows your Google Voice number, but not your real phone number, instead of trying to remember which number you gave him, you can specify either in an app, or the contacts list, that any time you call or text this person, it will use your Google Voice number automatically. Or, you are chatting with someone online and you want to use WhatsApp to communicate with them instead of Skype, or instead of Kik. Or, you want to have secure communications with a spouse with end-to-end encryption and want to use Signal instead of your default SMS app.
Does anyone know of an application that can do this, or a modification to make?
Hi, it is nice to have the caller name instead of just the phone number. But this requires to have the caller name inside your Android contact list.
Is there a way (app or hack) to have the caller name without having to add it in your Android contact list?
Use case: I am an employee inside a 120 employee company and I would like to get the name of the caller for each employee, but I do not want to have them into my Android contact list, as I only work with some of them and have also friend&family so I do not want my address book to become unreadable because of these 120 employee contacts.
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Actually, my wife just experienced this. She contacted the Disney help desk and got her business taken care of. After that a friend asked us for the number. She went to find it in recent calls and passed by it because their number was listed as "Dumbo the Flying Elephant"
I can't tell you how they did it, but it's certainly possible.
I think your experience with Disney is due to a public caller name. I don't want a public caller name, I just would like a secondary contact address book only used for phone caller naming.
Honestly after about 5 minutes I hated this phone and now 3 months later i'm considering giving up completely as I find it horrendous to use.
I have changed my default Dialler as the standard is horrid yet every incoming call still doesn't use the app I have chosen.
My issue is, if I have a contact saved as ABC LTD, then multiple custom numbers under the contact as Bob Mobile, Matt Mobile, Service etc.. when incoming calls come in it just shows ABC LTD then 'United Kingdom'... I don't care that its United Kingdom I want to know if its Bob Mobile, Matt Mobile etc! I have to take a guess at remembering the last three digits of the mobile or landline number to try and ID who it is.
Do find this such a simple feature yet so annoying it doesn't appear.
If i was to then go into the app I have downloaded for Dialling, then it can show me it was Bob etc... but NEVER on incoming.
If I remember well, my ex Samsung S8+ did the same when multiple numbers are stored into the same contact, only the phone number was displayed, no accessory information or notes about the calling number.
But in my case I'm using the internal phone contact list, not Google's.
I think what you are describing is stock Android behavior and not something specific to Huawei--if you have multiple numbers saved under a single contact the dialer will only display the contact name.
What phone did you previously use that showed the specific caller ID rather than the saved contact? Or were you relying on a third party dialer to perform that function for you?
And if it's so vital that the identity of each number shows up separately why do you have them all saved as a single contact in the first place?
All the Call Blocking Apps I could find seem to only have the ability to block all calls that the number isn't in your contacts list. I would assume (but maybe not) you can create an app that has access to not only read the phone number of the caller but if there is a matching caller ID name. If that were the case, I am perplexed why none of these apps have a feature to block all calls not in contact list *AND* Caller ID Name is blank or has no letters (in case the function returns the phone number) I know many apps keep a black list database but the problem is, many of the Robo Caller farms don't have all their numbers listed in the black list -- they are constantly changing their blocks of numbers they use -- but virtually none of them return a caller ID name. - you just see a phone number. And note, I am not talking about calls marked "Private", most apps block those.
Is this really not techincally possible or are most of these call blocking app developers overlooking this useful feature?
jazee said:
All the Call Blocking Apps I could find seem to only have the ability to block all calls that the number isn't in your contacts list. I would assume (but maybe not) you can create an app that has access to not only read the phone number of the caller but if there is a matching caller ID name. If that were the case, I am perplexed why none of these apps have a feature to block all calls not in contact list *AND* Caller ID Name is blank or has no letters (in case the function returns the phone number) I know many apps keep a black list database but the problem is, many of the Robo Caller farms don't have all their numbers listed in the black list -- they are constantly changing their blocks of numbers they use -- but virtually none of them return a caller ID name. - you just see a phone number. And note, I am not talking about calls marked "Private", most apps block those.
Is this really not techincally possible or are most of these call blocking app developers overlooking this useful feature?
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I think technically they can, but the problems with that are if what happen if someone who just got your phone number call you. All any other services that want to call you in case of an emergency.
i have my note8 setup to send any number not in my contscts to voicemail using Call control. by turning on dnd mode in settings my whitelist and my contacts are aloud .
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