Hi all. I have an HTC HD2 in the UK on Orange which gives me billions of free minutes - great for me to use for my business calls. At least it would be if it wasn't for the pain of having to read every number from Outlook or my browser and punch it into my phone by hand.
Is there a bit of software out there that will allow me to dial through my usb or BlueTooth connected phone from my Win7(32) PC? Perhaps from the clipboard or a context menu. If it uses my PC mic/speakers as a hands-free that's also a bonus, but not essential.
All my searches on the subject return info on VOIP etc, which I'm not looking for
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Cheers!
835Rocks
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Does anyone know of a prog to divert calls?
I do understand that you can set up one divert profile with the operator, but being awkward I would like to set up more than one.
Don't know if there is a utility out there to do this.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Lee
You mean as in to forward your calls? Go to Start>>Settings>>Phone>>Services Tab>>Click "Call Forwarding" then "Get Settings" Button and adjust from there.
EDIT: You want to be able to change this easily using "profiles"? A option would be to use a marcro recorder or a script editor and give each macro/script/profile its own icon, so that when you click it it does the above. I used the program MacroRecorder when I had a smarphone, it may work on our OS too, I'm not sure. You could also download MortScripts if you'd prefert to write a script.
Hi thank you for your input.
You have got the idea exactly, got a new car with a "stupid" car kit built in.
The car kit takes a sim card... never heard of bluetooth!!!!!
O2 say they don't (and never have) offered a "dual sim" option. I was hoping to switch the phone off when I got in the car.
So the next idea is to put a pay as you go sim in the car kit and diver all calls from the main number to the car kit.
I already have a divert set up when I cannot take a call, and being lazy I suppose would love a little utility that swaps the divert between the two numbers.
Probably not upto writing scripts or macro as i don't want to mess up my phone
But once again thank you for your help
Not a tool but....you may check out *# codes (aka "GSM codes"), compose the one you need and create a phonebook entry. To run the network service you may put this entry to a speed dial button and activate it manually when you enter the car. Means you run a call to this "number". That's how I forward all calls from my private phone to my company phone: in the morning: call **21*mynumber# and to switch forwarding off in the evening: call #21#. Works pretty good.
http://www.hackcanada.com/blackcrawl/cell/gsm/hashcod.html#divertno
Cheers,
Derek.
Thank you so much
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You are welcome...
btw: you will most likely be charged for call forwarding between different providers. At least in Germany they do it.
The coolest thing for you would be T-Mobile-like "Multi-SIM". IMHO the best Multi-SIM implementation ever as you can leave both phones switched on and none of them is kicked out of the network. They just ring both and both present the same number to the far end.
It's a shame that O2 doesn't offer something like this...
Luckily O2 offer unlimited O2 to O2 calls so with luck the divert will be included.
The lady on customer support was quite useless (as per usual) didn't know if it was or wasn't
Can't use T-Mob no reception at home
Going to try and block/bar own number on the pay as you go sim so I can make outgoing calls without confusing people too much.
I blame you Germans - thought Porsche would have a bluetooth PCM - Land Rover have for about 3 years as standard!!! lol
Thank you again for all your help, hopefully a German car will be more reliable than a Land Rover
Porsche? Great! At least it will have better brakes than a Landy
There is also a program "PhoneAlarm" which can be used to divert calls. You can feed 4 or 5 numbers to which you would like your calls to be diverted. From the Today Screen Plug-In of phonealarm you just need to press and hold and you would be presented with a list of numbers to select the one you currently want the calls to be diverted to.
Regards
thanks so much. it worked on my diamond. Indian model.
Has Microsoft (or anyone else, for that matter) ever published a book, whitepaper, or anything else that actually explains how the various components of WM5/6 actually "work" in a real PDA phone?
I've seen various scattered documents at MSDN that tell how to write applications for phones running WM5/6, but I've never been able to find anything that coherently explains how a PDA phone running WM5/6 actually HANDLES incoming/outgoing phone calls -- the apps and DLLs involved, points where you can wedge your own handlers into the event chain, etc.
I guess what I'm really looking for right now is some guidance about where to even LOOK for that info... the official library/object name(s), the proper phrases to google for, etc. I have a hunch that what I'm looking for is NOT in the MSDN documentation tree for WM6 Professional PDA Phones, and is hidden somewhere else in the hierarchy... but finding anything at MSDN feels like searching for a needle in a haystack unless you already know exactly what you're looking for and what it's officially called ;-)
For what it's worth, I want to write my own replacement handler(s) for voicemail notifications. I can't stand the way WM6 stupidly makes me swat away the notification that I have voicemail, and decline to listen to it, then swat away a second notification that I have a missed call before FINALLY letting me know whose call I missed (and by extension, who left the voicemail message). I want to write a handler that shows something like:
Missed Calls:
Joe Smith @ 3 minutes ago (italics = left voicemail)
Jenna Ho @ 2:27am
Matt Johnson @ yesterday 11:52pm
Matt Johnson @ yesterday 10:23PM
on the screen instead.
Also, I use my cell phone as my "real" phone, and have an AT&T cordless phone that pairs with it via bluetooth. Unfortunately, it doesn't notify me of voicemail or received SMS messages, and I can easily go for HOURS without noticing (say, if I'm outside when someone calls, and they leave a voicemail message... until I physically happen to wake up the phone and look at the display, I'll never even know someone called). So... I want to build a circuit using a BlueSMIRF bluetooth-uart module and a microcontroller that toggles an input on my home automation/burglar alarm system (triggering a voice announcement over the loudspeakers), and have my handler app on the phone connect to it and trigger that notification every few minutes until I notice. I also wouldn't mind being able to make the phone go crazy vibrating in response to a received sms/voicemail message, so if I'm somewhere like a noisy nightclub wearing loose jeans and don't notice, it will keep vibrating and making noise until I do.
99.999% of the business world puts their dial-in conference call numbers in the subject line of invitations/calendar appointments.
However, Windows Mobile doesn't look for phone numbers in this field, which I consider basic functionality for a business OS. This means you can't dial from the appointment and must either memorize 9-digits plus the conference code number, or frustratingly switch back and forth between screens.
You can't even copy text out of the invitation header, to do that you have to edit the appointment and ever-so-carefully select/highlight, copy then paste the number in short, simply not worth the trouble and impossible if you're not stationary and in a good position to futz with the phone with precision.
This is bewildering, because it was present in the PPC Smartphone OS edition which has long since fallen the way of CE. It was so simple to dial a meeting, just a couple down-jogs to the phone number, green button, you're done.
So when did Apple win the day and all of a sudden everyone to sees a phone as just about ANYTHING other than a dialing device to easily speak with other people?
A $500 business-oriented phone using a 3rd generation OS on today's hardware should be able to make dialing about as close to telepathy as possible, and this abomination called 6.5 is absolutely pathetic.
Yes, it's just one feature, i know. When was the last time you bought a car without a steering wheel? I bet it has a *****in' stereo, though, right?
end.rant
Gentlemen,
I am opening this point because I have the issue with the making of the calls due to my disability. Simply you can imagine me as the guy without hands sitting on the wheelchair.
I am owner of Samsung Galaxy S3 and I need to find a way how to make a call without touching of my device outside of my house. I know that the phone has the application called S Voice which can be used when I am at home in the quiet environment with the access to the Internet. But this application does not work without the access to the Internet and in the noisy environment outdoor.
A few years ago I had a mobile phone based on Windows Mobile platform and all my issues of this kind has been resolved thanks to the following application: Vito Voice2Go
This application has been using "magic word" for the starting of the voice recognition and the voice tags for the selected contacts. It was a big advantage because when I have set the voice tags only for a few contacts then there was a very high percentage of the correct recognitions.
Unfortunately I cannot find any similar application for Android and I would very appreciate if you can advice me some solution. But please keep in your mind that I cannot use my hands so Bluetooth solution is not a applicable.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Gentlemen,
I am opening this point because I have the issue with the making of the calls due to my disability. Simply you can imagine me as the guy without hands sitting on the wheelchair.
I am owner of Samsung Galaxy S3 and I need to find a way how to make a call without touching of my device outside of my house. I know that the phone has the application called S Voice which can be used when I am at home in the quiet environment with the access to the Internet. But this application does not work without the access to the Internet and in the noisy environment outdoor.
A few years ago I had a mobile phone based on Windows Mobile platform and all my issues of this kind has been resolved thanks to the application which has been using "magic word" for the starting of the voice recognition and the voice tags for the selected contacts. It was a big advantage because when I have set the voice tags only for a few contacts then there was a very high percentage of the correct recognitions.
Unfortunately I cannot find any similar application for Android and I would very appreciate if you can advice me some solution. But please keep in your mind that I cannot use my hands so Bluetooth solution is not a applicable.
Thanks a lot in advance.