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Call forwarding from landline to XDA

I need to forward a land line rom my home to my XDA1 occasionally. It is a standard PSTN line.
On my Nokia the calling number comes up as number>, indicating a forwarded call, and on Motorolla the calling number comes up as forwarded call - number
Onthe XDA there is no indication that the number is dialing the XDA direct or dilaing the landline number and being forwarded.
Is there a fix, or a way of indicating a forwarded call?
Thanks. BB

MAN! you should ask your local landline phone company to enable "call forwarding" feature!
it is nothing about your XDA!

cgigate, i think you totally misunderstood the poster. if you ever used the call forwarding feature, you would notice on most normal mobile phone, the would be indictaors like ">", "->", "Call Divereted" displayed before the incoming number, so that you would know that a call that comes into your mobile phone was in fact a forwarded / transfered call (from another landline or mobile).
i have the same problem as well. it seems like this is a Phone Edition feature (or lack of feature), it doesn't support showing the call origin indicator. or maybe the Microsoft developers have just discarded this and therefore never bothered to programme to display them.
it's really a hassle as I now have no way to tell if a call was made to my mobile, OR a call was made to my office but transfered to my mobile.

chriswo said:
cgigate, i think you totally misunderstood the poster. if you ever used the call forwarding feature, you would notice on most normal mobile phone, the would be indictaors like ">", "->", "Call Divereted" displayed before the incoming number, so that you would know that a call that comes into your mobile phone was in fact a forwarded / transfered call (from another landline or mobile).
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Yes, I misunderstood it.
I'm using call forwarding every day.
"Call Divereted" displayed before the incoming number, actually it is very hard to notice , even it is Nokia/SE/Mot phone.

it's mobile phone dependent feature actually.
My last Siemens phone display a small arrow in front of the number like -> , and the little arrow stayed there as long as it's ringing, but disappeared when you look at the call register later.
I'm hoping somewhere along the line, maybe developers of Caller ID alike could pick this up and add to the feature.

chriswo said:
it's mobile phone dependent feature actually.
My last Siemens phone display a small arrow in front of the number like -> , and the little arrow stayed there as long as it's ringing, but disappeared when you look at the call register later.
I'm hoping somewhere along the line, maybe developers of Caller ID alike could pick this up and add to the feature.
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XDA always missing some good features as a phone

Anyone has any suggestion?

There is no solution yet.

Not solution yet?
Now we have Wm2k3SE. Is there any solution for bbourke's problem.
I do really miss this feature, because I use dual sim adapter and sometimes call goes to "inactive" SIM and is forwarded to active SIM...

does anyone know how to discover calls comming from forwarded lines?

missed call notification app for windows mobile smartphone

OK, Any one has noticed that Windows Mobile 6.1 makes a threaded history for each contact / number in your call history?
Also i don't know why its sorting out contacts by name rather latest calls first.
When i was asleep, i got two missed calls. When i woke up, I couldn't even find those numbers who made the missed calls. How pathetic, I figured that out 30 minutes later after going through my entire call history of almost 150 numbers, which persons were calling me while i was asleep.
Is there any tweak that I can sort out calls as "Latest first" in my call history rather showing contacts in a descending order and make me play hide and seek for another hour?
PLEASE NOTE THAT ITS WINDOWS MOBILE 6.1 FOR SMARTPHONE
I know this feature is in WM6.x for pocket pc

Android App to Block Unknown Callers?

So I keep getting calls from auto-dialers coming as "Unknown" on Caller ID.. I answer and it's that 5 second delay then someone in a foreign country asking me to sign up for a newspaper or refinance. I want to ELIMINATE these calls. I have a block list that works good in Android, but it doesn't allow me to ass Unknown to blocked calls... I saw some posts from several years back, but nothing recent. Is there anything good out there today that I can install to block unknown\unavailable calls from coming through to my phone?
Thanks!

Mr. Number, available in the market for free
works every time

gray bishop said:
Mr. Number, available in the market for free
works every time
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Yeah I saw that but the screen still flashes on and shows the missed call, even when I click delete it from call log. I wish there was one what didn't even process the call, like the built in blocker.

This should be an advanced feature of Google Voice as well. Anyone been getting calls from 0000123456 recently? Haven't been able to pick up yet, but I have missed two calls from this number now. Saw somewhere it might be skype caller. Wonder what could be done by porting Asterik into the Android kernel and having some nifty virtual PBX features built in!

ThePitboss said:
This should be an advanced feature of Google Voice as well. Anyone been getting calls from 0000123456 recently? Haven't been able to pick up yet, but I have missed two calls from this number now. Saw somewhere it might be skype caller. Wonder what could be done by porting Asterik into the Android kernel and having some nifty virtual PBX features built in!
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The one that drives me nuts is the calls from Indian telemarketers.... US telemarketers are required by law to send ANI with their calls, but calls coming from outside the US don't have to comply, or aren't able to be enforced. I say if someone doesn't present their #, I ought to be able to reject them from getting through to my phone.

We in India are also facing major trouble with telemarketing calls & after being put to notice by the supreme court they have now started sending text sms, the best defense I have found against this is "Extreme Call Blocker Droid" this can block all private numbers or you can specify a list of starting numbers eg. block all numbers starting with 800
*Hangup mode block voice mail
*Block anonymous/private/unknown/blacklist calls
*Block unknown/blacklist SMS,
*Built-in private SMS mail box hide private txt msg
*Schedule on Google calendar to decide when to block.
*Hide private number calls in/out, no call log.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/extreme-call-blocker-droid/com.greythinker.punchback
You can customize it to your hearts content & have a peace full day.
To trace the callers we have a site in India which you can use for tracking all kinds of numbers & text IDs.
http://www.indiatrace.com/index.php
then there are free apps too like blacklist-free & many other with similar features.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/blacklist-free/vc.software.blacklist

The one I use is called Easy Filter Call blocker. It can block calls and sms messages, including unknown numbers. You can set it to block them without notifying you if you want it to.
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Telecom New Zealand

Block unknown Callers
You can block unknown callers by using some advanced phones.
in these phones you can either blacklist some selected numbers or reject all unknown mobile numbers (numbers which are not added in your SIM / phone's phonebook will get rejected).

Root call blocker pro. Its in the market.. Works great and doesnt show the caller, it just rejects it right away in the background and you can have notification of when calls are blocked. Also has sms block
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I'm using droid blocker
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[Q]Receive High Volume SMS Inbound

Hello,
I know this isn't the right forum for my question, but it is still related to phones/network/sms and maybe you could help me.
We want to be able to receive SMS of high volumes through an SMS Inbound service from all over the world and transfer the user phone number in our database. With high volumes I am talking about up to 50,000 SMS/minute per long number.
I found this definition:
Long Number: A long number is a phone number connected directly to a SMSC (a SMS Center, the servers used by mobile carriers to manage SMS) and is, therefore, able to manage a high number of SMS (similar in terms of capacity to a short code). Caution: some providers are just using a SIM card in a modem and selling this as a “long number” but a SIM card has limited capacity. Try to receive 100 SMS in less than one minute on your phone; you will understand why there is a difference. Long numbers are usually reachable from other countries. For example, Spanish Mobile user can send an SMS to a UK long number. Sending a text to this UK long number will cost the same as sending a text to a UK mobile user (standard international rate).
Now we have several questions:
1.) What is the usual maximum of receivable SMS we can expect from a long number? Can they catch up with our requirements?
2.) Do the network operators have somekind of a SMS anti-spam protection? Will we trigger it?
3.) Is it true that a long number can be reached from any country or are there limitations?
Can you recommend any SMS inbound provider?
Your help will be grately appreciated. Thank you.

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How can I receive calls and make calls on my local number while international?

1. How can I receive calls and make calls on my local number while international? When I leave the states and I'm working in a foreign country, when someone calls me on my normal cell phone number, I want it to ring on my cellphone no matter where in the world I am. It does not need to go through the PSTN where I located, but I would need to be able to return calls to US destinations, which would require going through the PSTN for US destination calls, without having it cost an arm and a leg.
2. Random thoughts I have are call forwarding from the local number to..., a Skype $60/yr. phone number, SIP somehow, calls made by MagicJack to the US or Canada are free. MagicJack to MagicJack calls are free no matter where you are, etc. Maybe to return calls, one of the dial-a-number first plans, which are as low as 4 cents a minute, etc. I'm trying to stitch together anything that be free or inexpensive. I'm interested in your thoughts.
3. Unrelated question: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Signal app on our phones simply initializes a session with Whisper System's Servers across the Internet. Your phone number is simply a handle so when Signal users call each other, Signal knows which handles to pair up for their peer-to-peer session. Because it is done across the Internet, there is no concept of PSTN countries, area codes, etc., and where either user is located at the moment is irrelevant as long as they both have a data connection of some kind, it doesn't change how they dial, and the cost of the call ranges from free Wi-Fi, up to the cost of the small amount of cellular bandwidth consumed by the calls. Moreover, when you change SIMs and thus your phone's telephone number, the Signal telephone number remains the number that you initially set up Signal on.